Don’t listen to your friends. Think for yourself. Thinking for yourself sounds both simple and trivial, but in reality it’s extremely difficult and it’s profound (…). And you know what everybody wants to hear? What they already believe to be true. And so the last thing they want to hear is an original idea that contradicts their belief system. So it’s very hard to even bring that kind of stuff up. But those are the things; those are the only things — things that YOU believe, that everybody around you doesn’t believe — that when you’re right that create real value in the world. Everything else people already know. There is no value created. It’s just business as usual. So it’s so important to think for yourself.

I see this in my business every day. My business is that I fund people who have companies. Some of you probably have compan...

may 23 2017 ∞
jun 26 2017 +

choreography

  • the apache relay: katie queen of tennessee
  • bumblebeez: dr love
  • edward sharpe & the magnetic zeroes: man on fire
  • francis and the lights: friends (etc.)
  • jungle: busy earnin'
  • ok go
  • ove: wenn es keine brücke gibt
  • Five O'Clock Heroes - New York Chinese Laundry
  • dance like nobody's watching
jan 25 2017 ∞
jun 26 2017 +

clothing:

artsyfartsy creations:

  • recreate (all/some) own former work, i.e. school work
  • 'me' box (hotel whisky!)
  • start 365/200/2-month/... etc.
    • draw/paint/scrap/photograph
    • write: erkenntnisse, songs
    • picture a day - certain time! (v. important!) - best phone camera
    • ...
    • sentence a day
    • faces (i.e. a day?)
jun 10 2010 ∞
dec 22 2012 +
apr 12 2012 ∞
dec 5 2012 +
  • double exposure 1, 2:
    • dark parts = invsible
    • 100 ISO films -> set to 200 ISO
    • ex.: 100 ISO film -- set to 400 for weak background patterns, to 100 for focus of photo
  • tja: menschen fotografieren. sucks.
  • manipulate film
  • reload (!!) used disposable camera
  • create time capsules now and then
  • darkroom:
    • dark = zu viel belichtet, hell = zu wenig
    • Entwickler: ca. 1.5 Min; Stoppbad: 15 Sek.; Fixierer: 6 Min., Wässern
  • develop (flickr & these people)
    • develop c41 films as if they were black&white
feb 5 2012 ∞
jun 13 2017 +
  • make sth out of felt. headband... yes
  • saw sth
  • embroider
  • picture developing! feet, colors, "siehst du dahinten, wo die lichter ausgehen", some friends
  • great light ≙ photograpy!
  • more bicycling/sportual activity
  • cooking (w. friends?), baking, ...
  • push lisa to get me to the bass
  • be cheery - be stupid - be fun, i.e. take off the importance of everything!
  • bleach
  • geometrical shapessss!
  • klarinette spielen
  • fimo?
  • wuppertal: scala-treppe & schwebebahn
  • pictures!!!1!
    • film
    • develop
feb 23 2010 ∞
aug 11 2011 +

in chronological order

  • america
  • finish school (perfect grades for ego?)
  • volunteer year
    • (or study)
    • or au pair
    • or work & travel
    • or volunteer abroad
  • study? (math?)

_____ to become:

  • photographer
  • director
  • synchronsprecher
  • accomplish utopia
  • brain researcher
  • chef
  • the hotel thingy that gets to travel, meet & help people a lot
  • kriegsfotograf
apr 25 2007 ∞
jan 25 2013 +

2018

  • Andy Schauf
  • Alex Schaaf/Yellow Ostrich/Human Heat
  • Bad Sounds

17

  • lemaitre
  • yo la tengo
  • leif vollebekk

july 15

  • kid dakota
  • bonnie "prince" billy

oct

  • opus orange
  • idiot wind

sept

  • arthur russell

aug

sep 30 2011 ∞
aug 9 2018 +

see [https://www.facebook.com/notes/vegan-mer...]

  • baiser
  • brownies
  • cheddar
  • chicken mcnuggets
  • chocolate chip cookies
  • hefezeug
  • ice cream
  • macaroons
  • marshmallows
  • mayo
  • mazo balls
  • mozarella
  • nudels + ravioli
  • perfect butter
  • pfannkuchen + kaiserschmarrn
  • schokomousse
  • tortengeiligeili
jan 23 2016 ∞
jun 26 2017 +
aug 2 2011 ∞
dec 15 2021 +

movies music

  • The Lucifer effect: Understanding how good people turn evil. + Steven Pinker, Blank Slate
  • Steven Pinker: Gewalt
  • A Streetcar Named Desire, whoever
  • Alice('s Adventures) in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
  • Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer from the fourth part on
  • Fight Club , Chuck Palahniuk
  • Brave New World, whoever
  • "Eine Theorie der Gerechtigkeit", John whoever
  • Faust, Goethe
  • Henderson the Rain King , Saul Bellow
  • Speaking With the Angel /Songbook, Nick Hornby
  • Kids in the riot : high and low with THE LIBERTINES, Pete Welsh; also: Bound together, possibly
mar 6 2007 ∞
feb 27 2018 +

good

  • Alternativlos
  • BBC Everyday Ethics
  • Invisibilia
  • Radiolab
  • Rick Steve's Audio Europe
  • Sanft & Sorgfältig
  • Science Weekly
  • SWR2 Wissen
  • TED Radio Hour

okay-ish

  • Naked Scientist

dunno

  • Robots
  • BBC Bookclub
  • BBC World Service Documentaries
  • Chaosradio
  • Convergent Science Network
  • Fraunhofer
jan 29 2017 ∞
jun 26 2017 +

Lists

Documentary:

Episodenfilme:

  • Pulp Fiction
  • Night on Earth
  • LA Crash
  • Amores Perros
  • Traffic
  • Four Rooms
  • Babel
  • 21 Gramm
  • Magnolia
dec 3 2006 ∞
jan 28 2015 +
  • shoes bought:
    • purple vans, july 14 2010. remember:hurt like hell!stupid buy!
    • april 23 (beige new yorker shoes)
    • dec 2012: leopard fake toms
    • may '13: pastel green new yorker flats
  • haircut: july 22, april 30, nov 2012, july 2013
  • new calculator battery: november 18 2010
  • new headphones: november 18
  • pants bought: cheap monday jeans, december 28 2010 (returned)
  • new tooth brush: 6/14
  • Bluttest: 07/2013
jul 27 2010 ∞
jul 15 2013 +
  • a: arrows
  • b: bodies, bottles, bowls, boxes
  • c: cups, cutlery
  • d: dresses
  • e: ears, elephants, eyes
  • f: faces, feet, firs
  • g: ghosts, girls, glasses, glue
  • h: hands(!), houses
  • i:
  • j:
  • k:
  • l: legs, letters
  • m: mammoths, milk cartons, mouths
  • n: noses
  • o:
  • p: palm trees, pens, presents, pillows, punctuation marks
  • q:
  • r:
  • s: short shorts,
  • t: tables, teeth, tshirts
mar 14 2011 ∞
jan 18 2013 +