Get dressed, darling!

Fashion doesn't always mean beauty dolls & satc girlies ;)

No. It is art!




















Found at: http://www.antwerp-fashion.be/SHOW2006/4/MIKIOSAKABE/image.htm#

Share your fears!

Fear Buddies

collect the numbers of anonymous encounters with people having the same fear, insecurity or phobia as you without revealing your or their identity.

You purchase your own fear buddy based on your own anxieties. The upper scale of your fear buddy shows how many people around you are currently suffering from the same phobia. The lower scale counts how many accidental anonymous encounter you've made so far with other people dealing with the same issues as you.

Another nice gadget to share our emotions? Yes, but this time not for lovers, family or friends, but rather for strangers, people sharing same time and location snippets with each other. I think a great idea to create a feeling of not being alone in the huge mass of anonymity and rather connect strangers in a very subtle way while respecting each individual's privacy.

I think best when I am drawing

says Tim Burton.

Conceptual sketches are the first step for Burton on any film project. His characters, and the film's settings, evolve from these drawings. But not just famous Tim Burton knows that drawing can induce processes of creativity but also digestion of problems hidden in the deap worlds of our befoged subconsciousness.. children spend hours drawing and talking about their drawings while being involved within a natural process of dealing with new experiences, emotional stress like fights with parents and friends, or just perceiving and reflecting their picture of a - often very difficult to deal with - world that is surrounding them. Besides evoking creative processes children deal in a natural way with psychological problems - why should we give that up when entering the serious world of the grown-ups? I think we all need childish moments, no.. we rather should listen to our own child inside ourselves and find our way of freeing it, is it drawing, playing games, collecting leaves in fall, chewing straweberry-smelly but after 4 seconds tasteless chewing gum to blow the most perfect bubbles, or whatever doesn't make sense to anybody else but to us..

I found an art installation in Salzburg this weekend, which shows artwork of a bunch of brooklyn/new york artists. I have seen some of their work when I was back in New York last year. Great to see art like this in my conservative home town, even though I got this weird impression that either me or the art work or the environment is displaced while I was glancing at brooklyn worlds in Salzburg's shiny Hangar: HangART7
Check it out!
No matter where presented, and I think Red Bull founder Dietrich Mateschitz is doing a great job in bringing Salzburg closer to a more real and at the same time more dreamy-artsy world, these artists let their child-inside play - and see what you can get while practising it: reach the world of the conservative and let them take part in your game!

My favorites...

Dasha Shishkin:















John Lurie:





















Bradley Castellanos:

Chuck, Daisy, Betti and me in Prag: my big cousin, the cutest dog on earth and two girls discover the better Vienna

What a great city. So close but so far away in the minds of so many Germans. Having the reputation of being the second Vienna, I have to completely disagree: Yes, there are similarities (nobody and nothing, especially not a European city can deny its past). However, Prague is younger and older than Vienna at the same time. While watching the lovely old-european sceneray one gets the feeling of being put into the good old days of "Kaiser, Kornprinz und Dienstmädchen".. however, the people are everything but ancient. The city sings, embraces you - there is no showing-off, no "etepetete-tamtam ;)". It just is: musicians, sun-bathing in gardens & at rivers, spooky night-walks through an old castle, franz kafka's miny house, blechtassen-shops, lithography, old babuschkas and *sigh* ya the dark side: tourists.
A glance in my insights:

My cousin Chuck:

















Daisy in action:





















Betti & me not just once:
















Musicians in our ears and eyes:
















babuschkas on the streets:





















and... tourists - just everywhere, but mainly on Charle's bridge =)