Die Gretchenfragen, wie ich sie stellen würde …

Nun sag, wie hast du’s mit der Evolution?
Du bist ‘ne herzlich gute Frau, allein ich glaub,
du hältst nicht viel davon.

People tend to say: “Eiko, it’s so easy to make you happy”, and then they laugh at me.

But they do have a point … eating a pizza will usually make me extremely happy. It is as simple as that. And there are other things.

Receiving beautiful letters, for instance. I haven’t dared to open it yet, but it looks promising.

It’s all in black!!

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“Bei der Balz stört jegliche Art von Würde.”

– L.K.

Worth living for:

• Meeting friends in Paule’s Metal Eck I had not seen for 5 months
• Playing kicker in Paule’s Metal Eck, which I had not done for a year
• And in case you haven’t guessed already: Paule’s Metal Eck. Oh yeah.

I finally bought a new camera, a Canon 5d Mark II. It’s big and black and heavy and metally, and quite worth the price, I think. If you happen to be interested in photography, you can find a very detailed analysis of the camera on dpreview.

I already jumped my first victim yesterday, to see if everything works:

Moreover, I managed to open some photographs a friend of mine shot with her camera when she visited me last Autumn, and spent half an hour to work on this picture:

(RAW by Andrea Friedrich, postprocessing by me)

If you happen to look for a shooting at the moment, or have ideas and projects in mind for which you need a photographer, I am more than willing to devote time and energy. I haven’t taken pictures for far too long really …

One of my photographs made it into the small exhibition “What is post-modern?”, which is hosted by the student organisation “sociae”.

The vernissage of the 17 selected pictures will take place on the 27th of November around 5pm, Konradstr. 6 in Munich (Institute for Sociology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University).

I am indebted to a friend (thank you, crazy bird) who told me about the contest.

Unfortunately, work in Berlin keeps me too occupied to make it to Munich for the vernissage.

chatting with 2 close friends from midnight to 5.30am and having a great time and being told very nice things and fallig asleep within 10 seconds of going to bed in the morning; meeting an actress who wants me to take pictures of her while i was freezing a bit in a nice café and then she was so nice to put half a litre of really cosy warm coffee over my trousers and everything felt better instantly and the breakfast was really good also; being very tired on a saturday afternoon and drinking tea wrapped in blankets on a very sunny day on an awesome roof-deck with a great view of berlin; sleeping on a warm couch on a sunny afternoon in a very warm living room with lots of people around close to a good friend i have not seen for ages; eating pizza in a really great italian restaurant with rocket and ham and parmesan cheese and drinking the best apple juice in my whole life although i’ve been drinking apple juice a lot for over 15 years you just have to try stralsunder mineralwasser bio apfelschorle; eating the best brunch ever with newly wed friends i did not have a couple of months ago with lots of cheese and great swedish dishes and many nice people and also with eating dark chocolate spread for the first time in my life and enjoy myself a lot and also reaching 1650 rated arena ranking

Quite some time ago several people started referring to me as “bear”.

It’s quite closely connected to “beard”, you see – at least if you look at the words from a distance, with eyes nearly closed. I do like beards. This morning my beard was over 3 months old. And it looked fantastic.

I know now how it must feel to lose a child.

Don’t ask me why, because I do not know. But I shaved my beard today. It feels terrible. I feel miserable and depressed.
And with my beard I feel that I have lost my bear identity as well.

“There is beauty in despair.”

I can assure you: no, there is not. No beauty. Especially not in the mirror!

Anyway, I went to a concert today, that’s what I actually wanted to say. And on stage was a great musician and singer with the name David Hope.

This here is David Hope.

He’s quite the bear himself, as you have probably noticed yourself. When I told him exactly that after the concert, he laughed and said to me that he was actually still working on his hibernating techniques.

At home I unwrapped the David Hope CD I bought – he had signed it with:

To Eiko.
Be the Bear!
David Hope

(I want to use this opportunity to say greetings to Australian-Tim-the-bear-I-only-know-from-photographs, I was thinking of you writing this)