illustrative recap

a few weeks ago i went to a wedding in berlin, which was very grand and lovely. but the first thing i did - after stepping out of the s-bahn at alexanderplatz and checking into my hotel - was find my way to the illustrative exhibition at the beautiful old direktorenhaus. it was basically around the corner, but i somehow managed to ignore the way the stickers on the ground tried to show me. following the sunny path along the canal was just too lovely, i suppose. so i got a bit lost, which isn't such a bad thing, especially in berlin ...

as i said, the building is quite old and really beautiful, it curiously sits surrounded by new blocks of houses and offices, like a last bastion of the old berlin. the art inside was all new, of course, here are some snaps of the things i enjoyed ...

agata nowicka created this image of what my bedroom looks like in her pretty, slightly pixelated style

this is a detail of one of tal granot's lovely inky sexy happy paintings of sport clubs

eiko ojala makes pictures that look like papercut silhouettes but aren't (all digital)

out of context #13

our lucky number thirteen on out of context this week is all about doggy style ... or, to quote aldous huxley, "to his dog, every man is napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs" - yes, sir!

first batch

you can now buy some of my postcards at the lovely café ortells in frankfurt, rödelheim! have a coffee or a refreshing currant spritzer and let the charming owner özlem show you all the little handmade goodies and beautiful design knickknacks in store ... then pick a card (or two, or three) to write to that old friend you haven't seen in a while, or to cheer up your own wall, or both!

photo via ortells

out of context #12

"there seems to be no reason why the unicorn shouldn't exist." (from "fabulous beasts" by peter lum)
- with camels, rhinos and anteaters already present, definitely! i came across this gem of a sentence for outofcontext
at my new part-time job: digitising books. everything from freud to bambi ...

i couldn't quite decide on the colours, so here you go ...

but the camel is definitely my favourite, on green and pink - go on, have two (almost) kissing camels! :)

out of context #11

"and because we have nothing but this floating slab of dirt and ice that we cling to, we wish for this, our one life - this fleeting minute in the face of the rainbow spanning the spray and vapor of the abyss - to be a happy one, that we'll be given the abundance of earth, the short time it manages to carry us, the only, if pathetic, mercy we have been awarded." - my translation of this week's sentence on out of context by the great friedrich dürrenmatt.