The Reinvention of Terry Miller

Dandelion (radio edit) | The Sophisticated Primates

2012-01-01T17:47:00.001+01:00

Dandelion (radio edit) by Sophisticated Primates

Waiting with anticipation for 2012...

2011-12-31T10:11:00.003+01:00

The Felice Brothers at Batschkapp

2011-12-01T09:25:00.005+01:00

Dont Mean A Thing | The Sophisticated Primates featuring Tara

2011-11-17T09:45:00.004+01:00

Dont Mean a Thing (featuring Tara) by Sophisticated Primates

Images on „Elderly Care“

2011-11-05T11:03:00.010+01:00

The images are part of a larger project on elderly care and will be included in a book project by the Frankfurt agency Heldentaten. There will also be a group exhibition in December in Frankfurt... Details to follow....

Black Dogs (demo version) by The Sophisticated Primates

2011-10-24T13:47:00.002+02:00

Black Dogs (demo version) by Sophisticated Primates

More images from the Wall Street protests

2011-10-11T10:46:00.005+02:00

Faces of Dissent - The 99 Per Cent (part IV)

2011-10-05T16:45:00.006+02:00

Faces of Dissent - The 99 Per Cent (part III)

2011-10-04T14:54:00.005+02:00

Faces of Dissent - The 99 Per Cent (part II)

2011-09-30T20:02:00.005+02:00

Faces of Dissent - The 99 Per Cent

2011-09-30T07:02:00.006+02:00

Today was the twelfth day that some brave protesters hung out on Liberty Plaza in New York, near Wall Street to protest against the greed that prevails on Wall Street and the undue influence that big corporations have on government and society at large, not only in the USA but also worldwide. I will write a more extensive commentary in the next few days but needless to say that I am very, very sympathetic to the cause of these protesters. I hope that this movement will grow and develop into a worldwide campaign and finally change things that have been laid bare so evidently with the financial crisis in 2008 but not been tackled appropriately by politicians.

More information on www.occupywallst.org

These are some of the faces of the protesters. As I said more to come... this could turn into a long term photo project...

Exhibition "Zwischenräume" at Haus am Dom

2011-09-29T14:20:00.004+02:00

I had a fantastic opening night of my exhibition „Zwischenräume“ at the Haus am Dom, Frankfurt/Germany last week. I am very grateful to Caritas to make this happen. The exhibition will be on until 20 October and the images also be accessed on my website.

Photographs of the opening night courtesy of Christine Hartmann-Vogel.

Space Between Us | The Crossover Poets

2011-09-16T12:13:00.002+02:00

The Space Between Us (remastered) by The Crossover Poets

Pre-announcement of exhibition „Zwischenräume“

2011-08-22T22:45:00.003+02:00

I am pleased to announce that I will open my exhibition „Zwischenräume“ of my work with the German charity Caritas on homeless people who have found a temporary shelter in caravans on September 22 at the „Haus am Dom“ in Frankfurt.

The show will be on from 22 September until 20 October and there will be a catalogue available.

All welcome!

Let's catch our dreams before they slip away...

2011-08-18T14:12:00.003+02:00

Opium | The Crossover Poets

2011-07-18T22:21:00.002+02:00

Opium (remastered) by The Crossover Poets

Let It Sleep | The Crossover Poets

2011-07-17T13:27:00.002+02:00

Let It Sleep (remastered) by The Crossover Poets

Out of the Clouds | The Crossover Poets

2011-07-16T17:16:00.004+02:00

Out of the Clouds (remastered) by The Crossover Poets

тем, кто ложится спать - спокойного сна...

2011-07-15T09:10:00.005+02:00

Never too late...

2011-07-13T10:10:00.003+02:00

„It is never too late to be who you might have been...“

George Eliot

The Crossover Poets | Running Away

2011-07-04T01:12:00.016+02:00

Congratulations, Kerstin & Holger... (Part 2)

2011-06-19T12:35:00.007+02:00

Congratulations, Kerstin & Holger...

2011-06-15T20:41:00.003+02:00

Chance encounters in the forest...

2011-06-12T10:38:00.006+02:00

Grant Writing Workshop in Berlin

2011-06-07T11:31:00.005+02:00

Photograph: Donald Weber/VII Network

Learn how to obtain the funding you need and complete the projects the way you want.

VII photographer Donald Weber estimates that he’s won $178,000 through grant funding over the past five years, including a bursary from the Dorothea Lange - Paul Taylor Documentary Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship, amongst others. He’s used the funding to create multiple award-winning projects, on his own terms and own time.

Weber will spend an intensive day examining what makes an award-winning proposal, breaking it down and helping to demystify the process. He’ll examine his own successful grants, as well as other photographers’. Weber will also outline the various funding organizations available to you. These organizations are ready to support photographers providing funding for research, creation, production, travel and living expenses. What’s the catch? Mostly very little to none.

After this workshop, you will gain all the insight you need to know in order to write your own successful proposal.

190 Euro - One day workshop
Thursday & Friday, 21 & 22 July, 10:00 - 17:00
AFF Atelier Freier Fotografen, Kochhannstrasse 14, Friedrichshain, Berlin
Limited 15 Participants, choose your day
The course will be held in English

For more information and to register, visit www.donaldweber.tumblr.com or www.donaldweber.com, or by e-mail:
don@donaldweber.com

istanbul_revisited

2011-06-04T18:12:00.005+02:00

The wonderful Patti Smith @ Mousonturm

2011-06-01T00:01:00.004+02:00

istan_cool

2011-05-30T23:06:00.004+02:00

What a beauty...

2011-05-19T23:31:00.002+02:00

Thomas Dybdahl @ Brotfabrik

2011-05-11T10:42:00.008+02:00

Innocence_revisited vol. 4 | the final part

2011-05-03T23:37:00.003+02:00

Канев | База "Здоровье"

2011-05-01T22:32:00.008+02:00

Where is home? Where my guitar is?

2011-04-20T00:04:00.003+02:00

Ruby Ann Patterson at Ruby Lounge, Manchester

2011-04-18T00:25:00.004+02:00

Foreign Hands at Ruby Lounge, Manchester

2011-04-17T01:07:00.005+02:00

Pete and the Pirates at the Ruby Lounge, Manchester

2011-04-16T12:31:00.007+02:00

Dan Haywood's New Hawks & A Hawk and a Hacksaw at the Islington Mill, Manchester

2011-04-15T10:52:00.005+02:00

It was a Rose | Dead Confederate

2011-04-10T22:43:00.003+02:00

It Was a Rose

Is this thing loaded or is it broken?
Is it ready for the road?
This we’ve encountered, is it a flower? Is it pretty? Is it a rose?
My higher power has counted the hours, in his kingdom bored as stone.
The devils a waiter, he won’t chase you, sits cross-legged, waiting at home.
Waiting at home.
Wait on, wait on for us to
Get gone, to get gone….
I should’ve listened, it was a good one, I was crazy and left alone
What I encountered, It was a flower, it was pretty, it was a rose.
Wait on, wait on for us to
Get gone, to get gone….

(Words and Music by Dead Confederate)

The Head and the Heart & The Low Anthem at Mousonturm

2011-04-05T13:28:00.005+02:00

The Tree is Dead

2011-04-05T10:45:00.003+02:00

The Tree is Dead

A tree will be standing, barren of leaves and life,
Long before you realise that the tree is rotten to the core,
Long before you comprehend that the tree has been dead for ages.
Cling on to this tree, and you cling on to your own decay.
Persist in hugging the dead tree and you suffocate the dreams in you,
Carry on embracing the past and you obliterate what could be your future...

[From the poem collection „On the Verge of Reality“ by Roman Beljajev | Copyright © 1966]

innocence_revisited vol. 3

2011-03-31T12:38:00.002+02:00

Small premarital skirmishes :-)

2011-03-31T10:12:00.004+02:00

innocence_revisited vol. 2

2011-03-28T08:51:00.004+02:00

Quote from Joan Didion

2011-03-17T18:35:00.004+01:00

"I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment. And if you ask me why you should bother to do that, I could tell you that the grave's a fine and private place, but none I think do there embrace. Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the tidal bore on the Amazon, or touch their children. And that's what there is to do and get it while you can and good luck at it."

Joan Didion

innocence_revisited vol. 1

2011-03-07T20:21:00.005+01:00

Switch on the Light Band at Divan

2011-03-05T23:21:00.004+01:00

Urban Landscapes II

2011-03-01T09:00:00.002+01:00

Urban Landscapes I

2011-02-27T22:48:00.003+01:00

It is not a monocausal world...

2011-02-23T12:46:00.003+01:00

When we look at problems, we often assume that the problem in question has one cause, i.e. is essentially ,monocausal‘ in nature and therefore has one solution to it. We assume that from a range of causes to have brought about the problem, it has to be one of them - and just one of them. Sometimes the more enlightened or experienced among us concede that there might be a cause that they have not looked at yet or that they don‘t know of - chiefly for lack of expertise or specialist knowledge - but - more often than not - the assumption still persists that there has to be ONE cause to the problem and thus this reasoning often leads to the conclusion: one solution to solve the problem.

And even if in more erudite and theoretical discussions, a range of causes are cited, in practical life, my recent experience suggests that we are not very good at dealing with problems that are caused by a variety of factors or sources persisting at the same time... and therefore we often overlook solutions to the problem that might be more elegant and beneficial to us...

Rilke | Die Lehre des Lebens

2011-02-22T21:01:00.002+01:00

Die Lehre des Lebens -

Eins - lernt man in dem Leben doch: entbehren,
und ganz gewiß - ob früher oder spät -
des jungen Herzens ungestümes Gähren vergeht.

Dann sieht man tränenlos auf mancher Bahre,
lernt mählich Teures missen - und versteht,
daß auch der größte Schmerz im Lauf der Jahre vergeht.

[Rilke | Frühes Gedicht, 1894]

Awesome U2 concert in Cape Town

2011-02-19T09:38:00.005+01:00

Tolstoi - and yet more Tolstoi

2011-02-18T09:02:00.004+01:00

If there is one author I can wholly relate to and one book - despite it having been written more than one hundred years ago in a societal context so much different from mine - it is Tolstoi and his seminal book „War and Peace“... I am currently into the second volume of two with together a bit more than 2.000 pages... and I find every bit fascinating... I could extract literally dozens of passages that recite profound wisdom and truth - or at least a „truth“ that I share and can relate to...

On musing about the Napoleon foray towards Moscow he writes - among many, many other things- :“...On the outcome of events, there are always so many speculations that - however it may end up- there will always be people who will say: ,I have already said back then, that it will lead to that‘ and we will forget that among countless speculations there will be many who will be completely contrary to the actual outcome... innuendoes and speculations about outcomes that - since proven wrong - have been forgotten long since then...“ [Tolstoi | War and Peace | Third Book, Part II, Chapter I | my English translation from the excellent German translation by Barbara Conrad].

Haven‘t we seen a lot of books on the shelves and pundits on TV who „always“ knew that the financial crisis we‘re all still suffering from was inevitable? ...Forgotten are now the books which described the financial equivalent of the „End of History“ as Francis Fukuyama wrongly predicted the advent of democracy everywhere. The same way there were many economists who predicted a Dow Jones index of astronomical heights and global goldilocks economies. Long forgotten now...

But that is not even how far I want to go with this short piece... In our private lives, how often is hindsight so futile... „I told you so“ so much of a truism as the events have unfolded already and could have seen a different - if now wholly implausible and long forgotten - outcome? And why is it so difficult to free oneself from regrets over missed chances, alternate outcomes that only with hindsight appear as the more desirable course of action?

Singer | Songwriter Evening @ Zula Sound Bar

2011-02-16T09:35:00.004+01:00

Irvine @ Purple Turtle

2011-02-12T09:32:00.006+01:00

Like Knives @ Mercury

2011-02-11T10:33:00.004+01:00

Makwheru @ The Zula Sound Bar

2011-02-10T09:03:00.007+01:00

Cape Town is my Berlin...

2011-02-05T09:57:00.003+01:00

Rilke | III. Sonett

2011-02-03T12:38:00.004+01:00

Rilke | III. Sonett

Ein Gott vermags. Wie aber, sag mir, soll
ein Mann ihm folgen durch die schmale Leier?
Sein Sinn ist Zwiespalt. An der Kreuzung zweier
Herzwege steht kein Tempel für Apoll.

Gesang, wie du ihn lehrst, ist nicht Begehr,
nicht Werbung um ein endlich noch Erreichtes;
Gesang ist Dasein. Für den Gott ein Leichtes.
Wann aber sind wir? Und wann wendet er

an unser Sein die Erde und die Sterne?
Dies ists nicht, Jüngling, Daß du liebst, wenn auch
die Stimme dann den Mund dir aufstößt, - lerne

vergessen, daß du aufsangst. Das verrinnt.
In Wahrheit singen, ist ein andrer Hauch.
Ein Hauch um nichts. Ein Wehn im Gott. Ein Wind.

Aus: Rilke | Die Sonette an Orpheus, Erster Teil (1922)

Long Conversations @ Nunu

2011-02-01T11:07:00.004+01:00

Amsterdam - revisited

2011-01-28T13:50:00.003+01:00

BLUE VEINS | The Raconteurs

2011-01-20T20:37:00.007+01:00

When I was surrounded by the world
You were the only one who came
And you were the only one astounded
Which kept me grounded
As the other people trashed my very name

Then I looked over
Just in time to see you smiling back at me
And saying everything's OK
As long as you're inside my blue veins
Your blue veins

Yeah and the feeling that you gave me
No matter what I do or where I go
It always will remain
And those who would enslave me to get to me
Must get past you and will have no luck
Cause you'll protect me from all pain

The most beautiful, yeah the most beautiful thing
Cause anything else can't compare
Must be the blood that's running through your blue veins
Your blue veins

Your blue veins

And I know you won't deceive me
Like the rest and there's nothing you need to explain
You always were the first one to believe me
When I said to you
I think it's gonna rain
But I could be wrong

Yeah but all of these things
All these things
They're all truly nice but ain't nothing
Ain't nothing compared to the love
That's running through your little blue veins

Your blue veins

[Blue Veins | The Raconteurs]

What's Next?

2011-01-16T20:06:00.003+01:00

„So what do we do to remain sane and to survive? Filter the overwhelming amount of imagery in such a way that it might be useful, first having decided that usefulness is a priority, as opposed to distraction. If we are, in a sense, in a boat with holes trying to stay afloat (there is no shore), we can either diagnose the problems to try and fix them, or pretend that the holes, and the boat itself, do not exist - or prematurely resign ourselves to our inability to fix anything. In a consumerist society this would be viewed as normal behaviour (just buy another one); last century we would have called it nihilism....“

Fred Ritchin in „What‘s Next?“ | FOAM Magazine

It hurts...

2011-01-14T09:02:00.003+01:00

The uniqueness of your shoes and other sincere and true tales

2011-01-13T22:26:00.003+01:00

С Новым годом 2011

2011-01-01T13:03:00.005+01:00

Vorfreude

2010-12-28T12:38:00.002+01:00

emerg‘e | Onlinemagazin für jungen Fotojournalismus

2010-12-27T22:29:00.004+01:00

My story on the „War in Caucasus“ is now featured in the new online magazine for photojournalism emerg‘e.

Here is the link:

http://www.emerge-mag.com/2010/12/war-in-caucasus/

Bereit | Gedicht von Corinna Felski

2010-12-20T12:55:00.003+01:00

Bereit

Gejagt von den Winden des Tages
Erstarrt im Fett der Zeit
Geduckt vor dem Aufprall der Zahlen
Ich bin noch nicht bereit

Geborgen in den Hüllen
der Wohlanständigkeit
Den Schrank bis zur Neige füllen
Ich bin noch nicht bereit

Wohin wenn die Hüllen splittern?
Wohin vor dem Rauschen der Zeit?
Im Morgen die Gestern verwittern
Bin ich denn dann bereit?

[Corinna Felski, Dezember 2010]

„Every cockroach is beautiful to its mum...“ Neapolitan Proverb

2010-12-19T12:49:00.003+01:00

Wisdom from Lewis Carroll

2010-12-18T17:06:00.005+01:00

Alice: "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"

The Cheshire Cat: "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."

Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll

Unshared Moments

2010-12-10T09:52:00.006+01:00

Unshared Moments

I woke up and saw the first snow today
The flakes descended gracefully
Later the sun kissed the morning fog away
And powdered trees stood proudly in the fields
It elated me and made me beam with happiness
But you‘re not here with me - you‘re far away

It is those days that it hurts to love you
It is those unshared moments that I deplore

Today I saw a little girl playing in the streets
She sang a beautiful tune
of her home in the mountains
She glanced at me, an orchid in her hair
I smiled back but soon I realised
that you‘re still not here with me

It is those days that it hurts to love you
It is those unshared moments that I deplore

And now I am lying underneath the stars
which shine brightly through the night
My bed of hay smells of sweet clover
The air is filled with songs of lust
And soon I will close my eyes
to drift off into vivid dreams
You‘re still far away and not here with me

It is those days that it hurts to love you
It is those unshared moments that I deplore

[From Poems of a „Tortured Mind“ by Roman Beljajev/Роман Беляев; Copyright © 1929 Роман Беляев]

Anka and Oliver at aff | Open Gallery

2010-12-06T11:06:00.006+01:00

Tolerance and Weakness

2010-11-28T23:58:00.002+01:00

"You will become a tolerant person only, if you accept your own weaknesses"
[Johnny Cash]

My Great-Aunt

2010-11-21T23:01:00.004+01:00

"Art cannot be separated from life. We value art not because of the skilled product but because of its revelation of a life’s experience. "
[Robert Henri]

New Book: „7x7 | seven stories in seven images“

2010-11-19T22:08:00.007+01:00

My new book „7x7 | seven stories in seven images“ is now available. The idea is to present seven different reportages in seven images each (or diptychs in some cases). Each story contains a short description as an introduction.

It has been designed and printed at „peperoni books“ and the affiliated bookfactory in Berlin who make and design high quality books in low print runs (1 - 100 copies). The quality is excellent and they can do almost any size, design and cover that you can imagine.

Here is the link: http://www.peperoni-books.de/

And below is a glimpse of some of the pages of my book. It can be ordered directly with me or at peperoni books who keep a few copies in store...

War Or Peace... or not?

2010-11-18T21:01:00.004+01:00

Prince Andrew only shrugged his shoulders at Pierre's childish words. He put on the air of one who finds it impossible to reply to such nonsense, but it would in fact have been difficult to give any other answer than the one Prince Andrew gave to this naive question.

"If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no wars," he said.

"And that would be splendid," said Pierre.

Prince Andrew smiled ironically.

"Very likely it would be splendid, but it will never come about..."

"Well, why are you going to the war?" asked Pierre.

"What for? I don't know. I must. Besides that I am going..." He paused. "I am going because the life I am leading here does not suit me!"

[Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace; Book One; Chapter VI]

Announcement: Opening Night of the "Open Gallery 2010" at the aff on December 4th

2010-11-15T23:17:00.002+01:00

Умань

2010-11-01T12:21:00.005+01:00

Bumazhniy | Paper

2010-10-26T07:06:00.004+02:00

Opening Night of the European Month of Photography at the aff

2010-10-24T22:26:00.005+02:00

From the series „Perturbadora Pasión | Disturbing Passion | After Goya“ (4)

2010-10-17T22:18:00.002+02:00

„Auserwählt ist jeder, der von einem hohen Grad von Vollkommenheit und Selbstgenügsamkeit nach weiterer Vervollkommnung und schärferen Ansprüchen an sich selbst strebt.“

José Ortega y Gasset

From the series „Perturbadora Pasión | Disturbing Passion | After Goya“ (3)

2010-10-15T22:44:00.002+02:00

From the series „Perturbadora Pasión | Disturbing Passion | After Goya“ (2)

2010-10-10T19:11:00.004+02:00

„...It is far less just the financial insecurity that feeds the precariousness of a poet... it is the mere panic that one day the pen runs dry, the paper in front of the artist remains empty, that there is just nothing more to say...“

Rainer Malkowski

From the series „Perturbadora Pasión | Disturbing Passion | After Goya“ (1)

2010-10-09T14:04:00.005+02:00

„I used to think that the worst thing was being alone. Now I know that the worst thing is to be among people who make you feel alone.“

Robin Williams in „World‘s Greatest Dad“.

297

2010-10-08T21:47:00.005+02:00

Was ich Dir wünsche...

2010-10-03T00:10:00.005+02:00

Ich wünsche Dir nicht
alles Glück der Welt,
alles Liebe und nur das Beste!
Auch kein Leben
ohne Sorgen und Probleme!
Doch ich wünsche Dir die Kraft,
um alle Tiefen zu überwinden,
den Mut, immer
nach einer Lösung zu suchen,
die Möglichkeit,
einen Ausweg zu finden!
Möge sich immer
ein Türchen öffnen
und ein helles Licht erscheinen!
Ich wünsche Dir
ein Strahlen in die Augen,
ein Lächeln um die Lippen,
den Wind im Rücken
und die Sonne im Gesicht!
Ich wünsche Dir,
das Du die Hoffnung
und Deine Träume
einschließt und ewig bewahrst,
und auch, dass Dein Herz
Deinen Verstand immer besiegt!

[Gedicht zur Taufe von Gabriella, St. Bonifatius Kirche, Sachsenhausen, Frankfurt]

Leo Tolstoi | Anna Karenina | Fünfter Teil, Kapitel VIII

2010-10-01T21:40:00.005+02:00

"...Wronski seinerseits fühlte sich trotz der vollen Verwirklichung dessen, was er so lange gewünscht hatte, doch nicht vollkommen glücklich. Er hatte bald die Empfindung, daß durch die Verwirklichung seines Wunsches ihm doch nur ein Sandkorn von jenem Berge von Glückseligkeit zuteil geworden war, den er erwartet hatte. Diese Verwirklichung brachte ihm jenen ewigen Irrtum zum Bewußtsein, den die Menschen begehen, indem sie von einer Verwirklichung ihrer Wünsche ihr Glück erhoffen. In der ersten Zeit, nachdem er sich mit Anna vereinigt und Zivilkleidung angelegt, hatte er den ganzen Reiz der Freiheit überhaupt, der ihm bis dahin unbekannt gewesen war, und der Freiheit in der Liebe im besonderen empfunden und war zufrieden gewesen; aber das hatte nicht lange gedauert. Er hatte bald gefühlt, daß sich in seiner Seele sozusagen das Verlangen nach einem Verlangen herausbildete: der Schwermut..."

Leo Tolstoi | Anna Karenina | Fünfter Teil, Kapitel VIII

Kleiner Mann - was nun? | Nach Hans Fallada

2010-09-30T12:58:00.003+02:00

Opening Night of „Nachklang“ at the Europe House

2010-09-29T21:01:00.003+02:00

My Opening Night at the Europe House in Tbilisi earlier this week was a great personal success for me: the turnout was impressive, I had a lot of interesting conversations with visitors that night and might even have opened up some interesting avenues.

I felt privileged and honoured to be able to exhibit at such a prestigious place. The support of the team at Europe House and the Heinrich Böll Foundation was tremendous, I cannot thank them enough... Now I need to come down from this high feeling and descend back into reality... which might bite sooner than one thinks...

Coming back to Georgia...

2010-09-26T21:12:00.003+02:00

Those were the golden days...

2010-09-23T18:25:00.003+02:00

The Blues Brothers - revisited

2010-09-20T18:03:00.003+02:00

Alles Gute zum Schulanfang, Ben!

2010-09-19T20:17:00.004+02:00

Pre-announcement: Exhibition of „Nachklang“

2010-09-12T09:56:00.003+02:00

My work „Nachklang“ will be exhibited in a solo show at the Europe House in Georgia in conjunction with the Heinrich Böll Foundation at the end of September. The opening night is on September 27th.

As you can imagine I am quite excited about this opportunity and being able to bring my work back to the country where I made the series. I am also very grateful for the support of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Europe House to let me exhibit my work at such a prestigious location.

One more snippet of wisdom from Tolstoi

2010-09-10T23:56:00.002+02:00

»Warum vermagst du denn nichts zu leisten? Du hast einen Versuch gemacht und deiner Ansicht nach kein Glück damit gehabt, und nun hast du gleich die Flinte ins Korn geworfen. Wie kann man nur so wenig Ehrgeiz haben?«
»Ehrgeiz«, versetzte Lewin, bei dem dieses Wort einen wunden Punkt getroffen hatte, »was hier der Ehrgeiz soll, verstehe ich nicht! Hätte man mir auf der Universität gesagt, daß andere die Integralrechnung verständen und ich sie nicht verstände, da wäre der Ehrgeiz in Frage gekommen. Hier aber muß man doch zunächst die Überzeugung haben, daß man die für diese Tätigkeit erforderlichen Fähigkeiten besitzt, und namentlich, daß diese ganze Tätigkeit wirklich so wichtig ist.«

[Leo Tolstoi | Anna Karenina, Dritter Teil, Kapitel III]

Summer's (Almost) Gone... | The Doors

2010-09-07T23:08:00.004+02:00

Summer's almost gone
Summer's almost gone
Almost gone
Yeah, it's almost gone
Where will we be
When the summer's gone?
Morning found us calmly unaware
Noon burn gold into our hair
At night, we swim the laughin' sea
When summer's gone
Where will we be
Where will we be
Where will we be
Morning found us calmly unaware
Noon burn gold into our hair
At night, we swim the laughin' sea
When summer's gone
Where will we be
Summer's almost gone
Summer's almost gone
We had some good times
But they're gone
The winter's comin' on
Summer's almost gone

[The Doors]

Buch der Weisheit 9,13 - 9,19

2010-09-05T20:19:00.004+02:00

"13 Denn welcher Mensch kann Gottes Plan erkennen, / oder wer begreift, was der Herr will?

14 Unsicher sind die Berechnungen der Sterblichen / und hinfällig unsere Gedanken;

15 denn der vergängliche Leib beschwert die Seele / und das irdische Zelt belastet den um vieles besorgten Geist.

16 Wir erraten kaum, was auf der Erde vorgeht, / und finden nur mit Mühe, was doch auf der Hand liegt; / wer kann dann ergründen, was im Himmel ist?

17 Wer hat je deinen Plan erkannt, wenn du ihm nicht Weisheit gegeben / und deinen heiligen Geist aus der Höhe gesandt hast?

18 So wurden die Pfade der Erdenbewohner gerade gemacht / und die Menschen lernten, was dir gefällt;

19 durch die Weisheit wurden sie gerettet."

On Betty Ford | Hats | Stolen Bags | And What Really Matters In Life

2010-08-29T13:48:00.005+02:00

Shadow and Light

2010-08-27T13:57:00.005+02:00

"Die ganze Vielfalt, der ganze Reiz, die ganze Schönheit des Lebens besteht aus Schatten und Licht."
[Leo Tolstoi | Anna Karenina]

b_flat

2010-08-16T08:17:00.005+02:00