Stony shore

A different holiday day and a walk along a different beach...not much more happened. Well, I had coffee and apfelstrudel, alas no picture of it.

Holiday wildlife

These are cormorants...

Also the cormorant was the disguise used by Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost. Satan sat on top of the Tree of Life as a cormorant in his first attempt to deceive and tempt Eve.

Guess we scared them off.

Don't trust what you read on the internet.

On another one of our holidaying days we went to Kap Arkona, they have lighthouses there. Near to those was supposed to be the "traditional fishing village" of Vitt. Or so the tourist information website said. Traditional my ass. Only because they had some thatched roofs and only 72 inhabitants it was nowhere near traditional. When I hear traditional and village in one sentence, I'm inclined to expect something like the wonderful Kerry Bog Village. And that was definitely not what we found there. Motorboats, modern cars parked in neatly fenced in front yards. With ugly new metal fences. A shabby little cafe containing two grumpy employees that probably didn't get any new clothes or style advice since the wall came down and so on. I know moan, moan, moan, but honestly, this was definitely not what we expected.

Day out in Binz.

More holiday pictures, we took a trip on a boat from the small harbour town of Sassnitz to the fairly posh seaside resort Binz. What did we do there? We walked around, took lots of pictures and hand fed some sparrows (photos of these still to come). The weather was not very summerly for a day in Mid-July, but we still had some ice cream.

beach chairs and a girl's bum

more beach chairs

While on holiday...

...I've been annoying people with my camera, of course.

looking at the harbour from the hideous new bridge

running from the approaching storm

You never know whom you might meet in the forest...

...the other day I met a real fairy. To tell the truth...I'm actually related to her.

Beautiful People

This is an outtake. But actually it's the picture I like best of the whole shoot. Afterwards, without full make-up and the necklace that was the actual object of the pictures...

Why you always come back home...

So we were on holiday...and no, the photos aren't ready yet...even though the short trip to the Baltic Sea was more than two weeks ago, but that's not the point anyway, the point is what we found when we got home. Which was somehow what we hoped for, but didn't...at least not to this extent...What am I on about? The incredible best cat sitter in the whole wide world of course...

Nachts im Park

Mein Kollege Ole von lotta sleeps spielt jetzt auch ab und zu mit den großen Jungs, so zum Beispiel Anfang Juli im Lene-Voigt-Park in Leipzig live mit der Liedertour 2012 unter anderem mit Manfred Maurenbrecher, Francis D.D. String, Jörg Kokott, Bastian Bandt und dem Papa.

technicolour dreams

...a couple of months ago I took pictures of the international school staff musical's dress rehearsal...here are some of them....and also most of them reworked in funky videos made by Tommy...

More cats, less artwork

Everyone's away for Easter...so I get to look after their cats.

Zora I

Cats and Artwork

I had the pleasure to be part of a photo series by artist Maeshelle West-Davies this past week and not only did she take some lovely photos of me and my posing partner, but I also had the chance to snap a couple of great shots featuring the more outgoing ones of her five cats...

Shorty contemplating the outside world

Things I do at work Pt. II

Ostern ist gleich vorbei...aber ich lasse es mir nicht nehmen auch noch ein paar Bilder von gefärbten Ostereiern zu posten. Frohe Ostern everybody! Ich hoffe eures war harmonischer als meins...

Things I do at work...

Funny bread faces? Way to mainstream. This is what I made (and what half the class copied of course...)

Also, one of them did a portrait of a teacher. Quite accurate I dare say...

Der Miezenapparat @ Kulturcafé Plan B

Am 25. Februar 2012 gaben sie sich mal wieder die Ehre. Es war wie immer ein wundervoller Abend...

Dirty streets and weary feet

A not so short excursion into London's street art scene this past Monday with London Detours...

Peer Pressure

    
Exactly that...but maybe this will make me work on pictures a bit quicker in the future...hahaha.

I don't want to be a film star...

...and here you can see clearly that I never will be.

How to make a cat happy

Ja wie bloß? Vielleicht mit einem 10kg Sack Katzenfutter? Oder mit 36 Beuteln furchtbar stinkendem super-spezial Nassfutter? Oder den kostenlosen Snacks? Oder gar mit der beigelegten kleinen Spielzeugmaus, die mittlerweile schon jeden Zentimeter des Zimmers kennt?

Nein, die ultimative 'Happiness'-Zutat ist natürlich der Karton!

Look what arrived today...