Random Junk

We made a very special Christmas Present to sell at the markets this weekend. We collected lots of random small things that we had been keeping in our houses - that were waiting to be used or because they were nice - and washed quite some glass jars with lids. We filled the crap in the glass jars doing our best according to our artistic and creative judgement and labeled it: "Random Junk"

We brought the jars to the market, together with other things we had made ourselves and had an interesting time questioning all this selling and buying, art work and trash concepts.

How? Funnily enough quite some people liked the Random Junk jars. When they asked the price, we said, you can say how much you want to give, then we can agree on the price together.

I had a lot of fun seeing people's eyes twist. For the first time I was trying to sell a product that we happily made, but that didn't represent an offense for me if people didn't want to buy it. On the contrary, people would have to make an effort to decide if they really wanted it, and how much money did they think they would be willing to pay for it.

The game was about this idea, that something that appears very valuable for me, should also have a very high price. Or all the concerns that this raised around value, price and quality.

At first they were confused and had a really hard time saying a number. Sometimes they had the feeling that for the value they wanted to give to the jar, they would could not really afford to pay it (because they couldn't justify that they really needed it as one needs food or a place to stay). Other times they would offer a price initially that they already considered underpriced themselves. It was them having a struggle about wanting something and paying for it and me watching their story and their process.

When they said a number and I said, yes, then they were incredibly liberated, feeling that we had reached an agreement.

People here in Europe see a product and ask for the price. The price of the product or service is an inherent quality with a role in the decision making process of whether they want the product or not. In many cases the price is even decisive. This is a lot of the problem about money: if you are buying something you don't think about how much effort it takes to make it, you care about how much is the producer asking for. It's not the buyer's problem, it's the producer's problem. Welcome to capitalism.

Now it was the buyer's problem and I was glad to bring this issue right to the center of the discussion.

On the other hand I do find some of our Random Junk really beautiful - thank you to everyone that loved it as well and bought it :)

A channel

I am sitting here in front of the falling snow, and the tree in front of me has started to revolve my emotions.
I have so much to feel that I can only stay here. I can't start doing something. Right now I feel like I can't have any other life than just sitting and feeling...

Yesterday I showed my documentary and a series of pictures at home on the projector. I felt so amateur. It felt so strong.

The snow is also painting some of my hair white.

It is so difficult for me to not feel your emotions as mine, to separate you from me. I can't manage all this.

I realised that I was trying to decide for myself, to involve the least people in my decision processes so that they wouldn't get my insecurity and also so that they would not unvoluntarily convince me. Now the result is that I left everyone outside and I played with them.

And in the end, the most painful thing, what I want to learn to accept, is that nothing is 100% sure. And that I am ruled by strong emotions, good and bad, and I need to learn to feel them without reacting. Because all the reacting makes everyone's head spin, including mine.

I forget that I am a human, I right now feel just like a channel, connecting with the after worlds. Feeling this 21st of december approach. All humanly tasks seem so senseless. I am not suicidal, but it feels like suicide is the ultimate choice situation. And therefore also life.

interferencies.cc The first CC movie

After biking home, as I got to the door another foldbiker that just arrived there asked me if that was where the library was. "What library?" I asked. "It's a community project where they organise activities, it must be in this street."-"It's not here, no..."-"They are showing a film today, Interferencies", "Oh, I really wanted to watch that film! let me see that place".

As we came in through their door 3 or 4 people were really excited to see us. 10 minutes after someone told me that it was the film director who I'd just met at my doorstep and brought me here. Pablo A. Zareceansky.

I never went back home and 15 minutes after I was watching this film about the reasons for world injustice and local crisis.

As the actors say themselves, there are too many flabbergasting problems to fit them all in one movie but this theatrical work is a very good way to open a conversation about them. Strongly Mediterranean and emotional with text in Catalan and Spanish, all mixed!



http://interferencies.cc

pink baloon on the old airport

Fabio Cirillo left here about 40 pink plastic bags when he left for Wien. They are all taped together forming a big pillow baloon that he inflated it in the nearest gas station to have the result that you can see in this image of the Tempelhofer Feld. One of his art projects, an exploration about people's reaction to an unexpected wind-animated object.
More about Fabio at http://vorset.tumblr.com/

screen printing workshop

Doing workshops together was really great! Now we are going to travel to see parents and Cyclocamp
Hopefully we can do some more workshops, somewhere, someday.

I want to be able go somewhere

where I don't miss anymore and I don't want to runaway anymore

#nonosvamos

I'm sitting and reading about the spanish revolution and I'm crying. Here some images http://bit.ly/laxqKH, the propositions from democraciarealya.es http://bit.ly/jXG4rq and a panoramic view of Plaza del Sol on the 16th of May http://bit.ly/j3g90d

I am Lucien

If you still remember Lucien Alperstein, I am sure that he still remembers us. Check out one of the picture blogs that we all keep in the back of our minds.

Tea Bag Glued Family

it's my birthday

and i'm happy of all i lived this year

berlin fast forwarded

Only back in Berlin for about 10 days and life already seems fast forwarded. I was taking pictures at one of my driver's place for a job. I went to a loesje workshop. One of these days when I arrived home I found the ultimate present. It is black and small like me but fast and slim and environmentally friendly. It's called flying fox.
It's late night and I sat all day around my room, trying to give it some life, and trying to come back to myself. Now there is wind inside my room, I promise, although I managed to get 20ºC but I have to cover those air entrances. And burn wood.
I am joining an art studio near the squatted boat by the canal and we have a little presentation exhibition on the 28th of October. And then work, work, work.
I finally sew a hood with a scarf with some old basketball's player sweater.
Life is surprisingly sweet (even though I quit chocolate until my birthday, December 17th)

How do you think peeing outside will change the world?

Imagine that you are in a music festival and, while peeing against a fence in your party mood, a whole film crew gathers around you to ask about your life with 4 cameras and a microphone!

Last month some of my friends and I made a whole film gear out of carboard and hunted people that were peeing on the fields of Roskilde Festival, to interview them about their pee life. The experience was pretty meaningful and there is a lot that you can't see in this video. Like ten people deciding on the spot how to distribute roles for a film crew and how to approach strangers the most comical way and then chasing for 2 hours the most interesting peers we could find. Or like the euphoria and the working together for a real great goal!

activity

When so much of the activity happens in one's mind it's hard to explain what one has been doing.

creatives meeting and alternative reporting and advertising

yatches, the terrace of our house in Cannes and a dog named Beurni

I always wanted to organize a group photo exhibition

and this opportunity was ideal because almost every detail depends only on me. That means I have a lot of freedom but also that I have all the responsibility. The photo exhibition is going to take place at the Road Junky Film Festival the 28-29 and 30th of May in Berlin. In the Betahaus near Moritzplatz.

So far we received over 190 images and we have to choose which ones are going to print and will be exhibited. Because the exhibit space is not very big and the budget is of course nonexistent the pictures can't be printed very big and not many can go to print.

But still, everyone has their space in the online gallery because I organised it so that it would be completely uncensored! I accepted 100% or the submissions! And most of them are amazing.

I am excited about this.

And also somehow misplaced but still engaged with the rest of the work that I am doing for the Film Festival, just because it's obvious that I am the most appropriate person of the crew to do them. Like german speaking public relations, design and photography issues. If I could I would say I'll also bake the cakes!

and yeah, the photo behind the logo is my pic from Teufelsberg :)

At times I still dream of those memories that don't exist anymore

and therefore I am

never said goodbye

my mother said that if we managed to break up and not be very sad, then we were lucky and we did well. but we never broke up. we went away and it became clear that we weren't doing anything together. we never talked about it. we grew apart. we never said goodbye. and when we said hello again we were already someone else. and now we can never say goodbye it seems.

self-indulgent

Imagine you would learn to speak 10 languages. Would that be only self-indulgent?

considerations through chat, about wiki, over a rote beete knackebrot

we use a wiki software now the film festival

maybe i could use that for the house

now I need a complete moral judgement

about what effect will this have on our society

if we start having an online wiki for the mere organization of a flatshare

i am of the belief
that computers are the new 'television'

and are damaging in certain ways

the interaction between people

so to believe that in internet its all true

certified

and everything can be worked out

telepatically

window

im invisible

23:09 - lol, why do you tell me explicitly?

- so you know

that I can be talked to

- ok :)

no, it doesn't always work

but we will see

- if you keep a window open

- YOU keep your window open

23:10 so I can fly in secretly in the night