..if you see me in the streets this week – you most likely will catch me in this mood

and thats because

…**

A.)

i have a week full of nice work meetings and i signed a few super nice new projects and lovely jobs…. cant wait to tell you.. soon more.!

B.)

my friend kathi and i will organize our first children book sleep over club this week. bring your pillows and picture books and drink hot chocolate with double cream floats with us.! and lets read and look together at all the best of john burningham, blake, etc…

because that is how we like it!

1.)

an orrery

2.) the cd of james blake

3.) a book about birds

i decided to take part at the boudicca cake competition!

my entry was a cake recipe i made up myself – so lets call it an ” cake experiment”. I enjoy to cook that way but of course you need to take in account that you might end up with a failure.

So my idea was to make a “tahini, honey and thyme cake”.

1.

butter cookie ground
made out of different kinds of cookies and butter
mixed with rosted seeds and crushed pistachio

2.

topped with a tahini cream
a mixture of light tahini, cream cheese, honey and fresh thyme leaves

3.

more honey!

and a finishing of japanese black sesame seeds ( forgot to take a picture of that step!)

so now what i did not wrote yet is following:

i overslept that day so i had to rush out and be very very fast with everything
and in my fastness i bought salty turkish cookies for step 1.!
so it became a really salty cake… well my cake was described as a first sweet honey thyme taste followed by a nut taste and then a very very salty ending.

it was too funny!
but listen if you start something you have to go the whole way.. so i decided to still take part on the competition.

i was entry no. 31.
there been lots of cakes at the competition in all kind of colours and shapes – some very extravagance looking once , some fruity and some with lots of colourful sugar icing.

me and my friend been on the floor laughing ( well i was a mixture between laughing and super red from shyness) when the first jury members tasted my cake.
the first jury members been leila from leilas cafe and a girl called kitty who runs an ice cream cafe.
it was really the funniest thing to watch. leila took two spoons – i guess because she could not place the taste at first or maybe could not believe what she tasted…

a salty cake!

well okay i did not won but i was shocked that a carrot cake and a pear cake won this years competition.

and listen:
sunday was so funny too as i took part of a dance classes which was listed as:
This class is for the serious dancer/student who likes to work, and play, hard.

when all flew elegant like butterflies trough the room – i followed (as the last one)
like a
“stone who tried to fly”

it was really funny too!

…
what a weekend.!!
(but i felt like a winner anyways)

dressed as Freder Fredersen…

Freder: It was their hands that built this city of ours, Father. But where do the hands belong in your scheme?
Joh Frederson: In their proper place, the depths.

so saturday is the B O U D I CC A cake competition and i am still wondering if i should prepare a

* white chocolate and caviar cake
or
* dark tahini, honey and Sage cake

i will tell you all about it on sunday

until then u should press play to hear my new favourite song of “The five Stairsteps” – ooh-oo child and sing a long!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVF4r3fLBrU&feature=player_embedded

Ooh-oo child
Things are gonna get easier
Ooh-oo child
Things’ll get brighter
Ooh-oo child
Things are gonna get easier
Ooh-oo child
Things’ll get brighter

Some day, yeah
We’ll get it together and we’ll get it all done
Some day
When your head is much lighter
Some day, yeah
We’ll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun
Some day
When the world is much brighter

Ooh-oo child
Things are gonna be easier
Ooh-oo child
Things’ll get be brighter
Ooh-oo child
Things are gonna be easier
Ooh-oo child
Things’ll get be brighter

Some day, yeah
We’ll get it together and we’ll get it all done
Some day
When your head is much lighter
Some day, yeah
We’ll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun
Some day
When the world is much brighter

Some day, yeah
We’ll get it together and we’ll get it all done
Some day
When your head is much lighter
Some day, yeah
We’ll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun
Some day
When the world is much brighter

Ooh-oo child
Things are gonna get easier
Ooh-oo child
Things’ll get brighter
Ooh-oo child
Things are gonna get easier
Ooh-oo child
Things’ll get brighter
Right now, right now

mornings:

every morning i wake up excited because i cant wait to check my postbox and see if some letters or postcards has arrive. today i had a very very lucky day. and there is not much more you can ask for then to start your day with a glass of cold soya milk and a nice letter or a postcard.

evenings:

lately i enjoy to use the evenings to read one issue of the series of 14teen called : “Great Interviews of the 20th century”. tonight i will read the interview with “Marlon Brandon”.!
you should get the series too – its nice.! and perfect to read at nights. each volume has the exact bedtime story length.

and i tell you:

its nice to have lovely morning,- and interesting evening reads.

yesterday was such a sunny day and i enjoyed my secret journey very much (if you cant remember about my secret journey read the post of the day before.!)…

… to make sure that today will be another sunny day i builded a “Teru Teru Bozu”.

“Teru Teru Bozu” is a lovely doll made of white cloth or a tissue. In japan – kids and adults make it when they wish for a sunny next day because they have a school trip or something else lovely and wonderful planned.

Important the “Teru Teru Bozu” is always display in the window.

“Teru” means: Sunny.
“Bozu” means: Little boy

Sunny sunny little boy.! lets see if you worked.

after reading “it´s a secret” by john burningham.

i decided to get dressed with a paper hat and go on a secret journey myself… i would like to tell you where i go… but… as malcolm the cat in john burningham´s book says: “IT`S A SECRET”!

one day i would like to buy for me and my future family a house in the countryside .
near a river or a lake. with lots of nice plants around… and many puff balls. so i can show the kids how the explode when you touch them. that would be lovely…!
i would organize excusions with the whole family to invented fantasy worlds in the forest.

baking lovely berry cakes and eating them with ice cream while playing nice music in the radio.
dancing madly until late at night and reading stories to one another in self builded blanket tents.
going on insect safaris and going on funghi forays. befriending all the animals in the grass, forest and lake near the house. doing costume parties with great themes…
organizing tea parties in huge trees and all of that… imagine.

oh i cant wait…

one day.!

i am the new photo-editor of the english publication under/current.

we are working with a new team to relaunch the magazine.

the whole new team is working now on the new issue which will be out spring 2011. it will be very nice! ( i mean of course.!)

we will have many of my favourite image makers contributing to the issue… it will be very exciting.
and it´s nice to have the once in the magazine which have inspired me and my own growing and understanding as a photographer and image maker.

and if you would like to show me ur work, please do so: daniel@undercurrentmagazine.com

more soon…

a perfect weekend is a nice happening we easily forget to value sometimes.!
so its nice to remind me how wonderful this one was.!

a wonderful weekend with

- reading my favourite books by john burningham

i, in particular like “Aldo” – its about a very very lucky girl who has a special friend called “aldo” -
not just a normal friend:
a wonderful rabbit friend
and
a secret friend who always comes when things go bad or when you feel lonely.

over the past month, my aldo was enrique…. but he is not a rabbit nor is he a secret. he is just a friend who makes me also a very very lucky boy.

- late night cinema shows until 3 in the morning ( but dont forget to dress warm.!) and get yourself a good amount of coffee or cola so you can take now and then a quick sip during the film.

- meeting up with my friends ana and sebastian and going on a fungi foray! dont forget to wear good boots to take you trough the wild nature of england.

in my pockets i took my loved little wooden knife which i bought in france earlier this year. i like to cut with that knife
….and to carry the knife in my pocket makes me feel very safe.

- riding with your bike trough town and if you ride your bike try out to make sounds while driving. it makes more fun believe me.
when i drive down hills a bridge and if i feel no-one can listen i make sounds such as …

- many dinners and lunch´s with nice friends and future friends such as diego. with whom i ate oven baked mashed potato´s and drank a apple juice.

diego makes nice work such as following.

(if you want to see more of his work check STUDIO FANTASTICO.COM )

- and how nice is a weekend if your book finally goes into print.! it will be in the stores 30/11.!

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what a perfect weekend.!
and the best thing of all is that my weekend is still not over!

its nice to wake up under a japanese embroidery.

one of my favourite japanese saying is:

“Chiri mo tsumoreba yama to naru.”

which means

Great oaks grow from little acorns.