077/101 Doors to my mind

I took this picture in Italy 2005 , 1 hour away from Rome

I love to take photos. I have noticed that it doesn't matter where I go or what country I am in. I am always able to find the secret and hidden places.

I took this picture in Belgium 2009

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less travelled by.
And that has made all the difference.
– Robert Frost

And here is one of my posting from my blog. A secret door. An interesting way to travel via internet around the world.

076/101 We´re all mad here

"We're all mad here said the Cat. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "otherwise you wouldn't have come here."

075/101 Winter story with string

Its snowing in my house. I love winter and snow.
My grandma taught me to do these snowballs long time ago. I was thinking about her while making them. Certain things you will never forget.

074/101 Hairy story

Time for some warm winter tea

This is by the way my own hair. Just a moment I thought about using my cats hair but human hair is so expressive. I was thinking Alice in the Wonderland with this hair theme so my cat fits so well to that. 

073/101 Stories with wire

Snow White

This is a picture I took last summer in Berlin. There is wire among leafs and trees. I named the picture Snow White. The wire is quite common background in Berlin as its growing here like urban jungle. This picture is inspiration to my wire work.

Here is my plan for the mobile made with wire. I need to buy to tools like pliers.

I keep a blog called  www.dayforadventure.com  where I publish this kind of photo stories about the adventures I find near or far. Today I was thinking if I should just try to go to Spreepark for the sake of design101 and take some interesting photos. Its an abandoned GDR fun park in Treptow Park and a bit like zone in Stalker. It would be a challenge to do which I have also thought about earlier. The park is surrounded by wire fence. If I manage to do it I will post some photos and stories about it in my blog. And with picture mobile I can have as well an analog picture library at home.

Ronia the Robber's Daughter

And here is my final project with new pictures from Spreepark. I made the trip there with the same girl that was in the Snow White picture but now the story changed. There is a dog surveillance in the area so we were left behind the fence. But I got the wire I needed for my picture mobile from the fence. Many people had tried to broken the fence and the loose hanging peaces of metal where easy to rip off. So now I have a peace of the Spreepark fence hanging in my kitchen!

Here is my final project with new pictures:

more pictures of this photoshoot can be seen here

072/101 Moving on

These pictures are showing the way from my old house to a new house where we moved in after New Year. There are different kinds of stones in the space between.

First there is an old rolling stone that has always been in our old flat and which will stay there. Its function is most likely that in a case of fire or emergency we can break the windows with it. So far we never had to do that. Instead it has worked for three years as a doorman to our cats who get sometimes crazy during the night. With the help of the stone I can lock them into the corridor to calm them down. You can still see the signs of the struggles on the wooden floor as the cats were pushing the stone.

As I am walking towards my new house I am wondering what kind of stone would be in my new place? Do all Germans have a rolling stone in their house or just the activists?

Stones are always there, everywhere, seasons change, people come and go..

Again some christmas tree thrown out of the door waiting to be eaten by elephants or being pissed on by dogs. Many things are just abandoned and forgotten.

Its not just rock’n roll baby. Things get broken that are not strong enough.

Moving on...and rock’n we roll!

In the new house, there is no stone waiting for me at the door. Is there any rolling stone here?

This place is like its stone. Sophisticated and fine marble.

Actually I would like to have my drink on the rocks. I still have to bring the right kind of glass from my old home!

071/101 Telling stories week

This will be our schedule:

on Tuesday: you will write/design your own story with stones.
Make sure you have a lot of nice stones to play with.

on Wednesday: you will write/design your own story with wires.
Tue with lots of stones, Wed with a lot of wires. Metal ones
are the best.

on Thursday: you will write/design your own story with hair.
Make sure you have a pair of scissors...

on Friday: you will write/design your own story with string.

on Saturday: you will relax, get lost in a dream-like state of
mind or catch up on the week’s homework.

on Sunday: you will relax, explore meanings and metaphors, or
catch up on the week’s homework.

Here is some inspirational photos of different stone gardens from the Berlin Garden of theWorld:

chinese garden

korean garden

korean garden

korean garden

japanese garden