So here we go with the promised pics from Biesenthal (Ex-Goldmund, Exex-Camp Tipsi, … etc.)
I created 2 Flickr Albums so its easier to download the pictures for anyone that´s interested.
So feel free to do so via Flickr…
Thanks to everyone who made this event possible !!
See you again next year…
Ole
This years pics
Last years pics:
Just came back from beautiful Biesnthal Sommerfest (formerly known as GOLDMUND) , a yearly little festival about 45 min away from Berlin.
Since i promised some people i would put the pics up here i already give a a sneakpreview to make sure you come back and check out the rest.
Already looking forward for next year…
A little preview from the results of a little CRE8 Workshop at Spielraum.
/// A COLLABORATION BETWEEN KIDS AND GROWNUPS
For the second time we put up an art exhibition in Rishikesh which turned out be more like an art festival than just a show. People could buy the photos and drawings and by that help the orphanage and CRE8 Foundation. The kids performed a theaterpiece and had a danceshow, over 400 phot…os were up, live music, good food, video, installation, interactive artpieces, lots of smiles and laughter made this a magic day. looking already forward to be back next year !! Thanks for everyone who supported this event !
I put together a Flickralbum that documents the work and i hope you enjoy it …
I am working on a portrait series and i think i already found my personal favourite. I didn´t ask him for his name but his smile still has its spell on me and keeps pulling my own mouth into a humble smile. Love it !
There´s no real word to decribe the experience of walking around KUmba Mela. It definitly did NOT feel like planet earth anymore to me, rather a very very distant galaxis…
The other day i walked down the usual lane i wlak almost everyday and i saw this group of baba´s hanging out there, smiling, wtaching me with my bulky camera with an obvious interest. They were on the way to Haridwar to visit the Maha Kumba Mela and were excited to get there and wanted me to take their picture and this little series came out…
Yeah, i know it´s been a while now since my last update. But Internetconnection is slow here in India and Impressions too many that digesting it and putting stuff up just seems to take a lot longer.But all is well here in Rishikesh. It´s great coming back to a place where you spent so much time already. It feels like a second home India is again giving me a big old warm & crazy hug. Love it or leave it, but i am deeply in love again with this parallel universe…
Here some pics from the last days. I just came back from Maha Kumba Mela in Haridwar which is the biggest spiritual gathering on the planet (also the biggest in general…) and about 80 (!!) Million (!!!) people are expected but to be honest once you start seeing people everywhere it doesnt really matter anyway. Baba´s that usually just hang out in their caves to meditate come to bath in the Ganga and meet and greet with the other fellow babas from the subcontinent. So just relax and enjoy the show.
I am on my way to the Maha Kumba Mela, it´s early morning, my eyes would obviously rather still be on standby.
But as they say here, there´s little less that brings you more luck than stepping into a big pile of shidt. And it might very well be true.
About half an hour later i found 20 Rupees on the ground.
There´s some places where you know you just don´t want to leave to the moment you get there. That happened to me about 4 years ago the first time i visited this little Island. It´s at the very south of Laos just when the Mekong opens up and an area of little islands starts to sprinkle the surface seen as little dots from a birds perspective. One of the dots is called Don Det and i dont know if it was the village life with the fishermen, the ultrarelaxed atmosphere or the kids and pigs running around on sandy ways that caught me. But i am once again in love with this place. Please no one get me out of here. But the moment of truth came today, i picked up my indian Visa (no waiting time!! almost surreal!!) and i am now already on my way to the Himalayas where the next workhops with the kids of Ramana´s Garden orphanage are waiting. Also Kumba Mela is happening and a small amount of indians (aproximatly 80 millionen and with that the biggest gathering on this planet. ) are also on their way up north. There will be no space for claustrophobia i guess. Hmm, trains will probably be full. So how do i get there now ?!
I started a little collection of the everyday visual crazyness you are exposed to over here. This is one of them… 
Christmas was rather unsnowy here in the land of coconuts & curries. Nevertheless i had a beautiful day in Chiang Mai with friends listening to a thai grandpa playing countryversions of western christmas classics. Doesn´t get a lot better than that. Only when Tom rides home and continues singing that song on his moto. I wish you all a beautiful Christmas time. I am making myself on my way to Laos now…
untitled (vagina), 2009
from the series: 1-minute-art-pieces
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