Red is such an aggressive color.
And red weather makes Eiko a sad panda.

Here’s the probem:

(1) I’ll be in the US from September-January. There will be two periods: (a) working from September-December at University, (b) travelling on my own in January.
(2) When you work at University as a scholar, you have to take the University Health Insurance unless you can proof that your own insurance covers for everything (so-called “waiver”). German international health insurances don’t cover for everything that is required.
(3) When you enter the US, you need to have health insurance which is valid in the US. That means although I will be forced to take University health insurance, I will have to make a contract nonetheless to get international health insurance because University will not insure me before I actually talked to them in person (a few days after I enter the US).
(4) Covering for the first couple of days is no problem and not too costly. The problem is January, when University will not cover for me anymore. It is not possible to get an international health insurance for only that period of time, they force you to take it for the whole duration of your stay (September to January) – so they told me in emails and on the phone repeatedly. Therefor the solution September (German international health insurance), October-December (University health insurance), January (German international health insurance) is not possible.
(5) I cannot afford to pay two health insurances at the same time.

Solution?

I finally managed to get my TheUntappedSource profile up to date. I am currently featured there with over 30 photographs.

As many of you know I will be leaving Berlin soon to live in Ann Arbor for 5 months. I want to clean up my flat, and one obstacle are the prints and frames still standing around from the last exhibition. If you don’t know what I’m talking about: here’s a summary and plenty of photographs of the exhibition.

So, dear people, please give me a hand and take the prints and frames which are still standing around. If you like a print, drop me a request and I tell you how incredibly cheap the photographs are (torvon[AT]gmail[DOT]com). If there are prices listed on the following links, ignore them.

Medium prints (photograph 45×30, black frame 60×45, white passepartout)
(1)
(2)
(3)

Large prints (photograph 60×40, black frame 80×60, white passepartout)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
(9) SOLD
(10)
(11) SOLD

Three Projects (printed on aluminium and forex, sizes between 30×20 to 60×40, details on request)
(12) SOLD
(13) SOLD
(14) SOLD

Prints, passepartouts and frames have an excellent quality. And if you are interested in other photographs than the ones listed here: please, do let me know.

Worth living today:

Thank you for the great weekend!

Pros

• “You look older”
• “You look younger”
• All of a sudden, the daily big question many of us know (“only take a quick shower or also wash your hair”) is really not important anymore
• The combination of “my hat + me” looks much more amazing than before
• Hilarious feeling on the skin
• Apparently I don’t look “dopey” anymore
• I can wear hoodies again
• My haircut finally deserves the name haircut
• No more fights with the hairbrush
• No more hair in mouth/nose when doing sports
• Enhancement of relationship with neighbour (“I don’t have to remove all the blonde hair from my washing machine on a regular basis anymore ♥”)
• I finally have a nickname
• The girl in the bakery looked at me for more than one second for the first time in 19 months

Cons

• “You look older”
• “You look younger”
• Rubbing my head against all kinds of surfaces regularly while rolling my eyes and making funny noises (“aaaah-hmmmmm-aaaaaaah”) apparently makes me look weird
• Headbanging will never be the same again. Actually, I have no clue how to dance from now on
• No more fights with the hairbrush
• The nickname “Chemoboy” sucks a bit
• Losing friends (“If I never see you again, I can pretend it didn’t happen”)

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Many of you wrote me that you would have liked to join, but unfortunately Berlin is not everybody’s hometown. Here is some proof that I didn’t make the whole thing up.

I took some of the shots myself, many of the pictures below were taken by my father and the lovely Andrea though.

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270kg of frames … thanks to Magnus for helping to carry the stuff.

Photographs + Passepartouts + Frames + Perfectionism = quite some work

Finished!

Everything neatly wrapped up again for the transport