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Milton glaser
“In looking back, I discovered that all the work I had done that was meaningful and significant came out of an affectionate relationship with a client. Affection, trust and sharing some common ground is the only way good work can be achieved. Otherwise it is a bitter and hopeless struggle.”
taken from “This is what i have learned” by Milton Glaser
getting ready…
I don’t have time. no time to write. I am too busy, putting my face in my cats hair, getting all love i can get from them before i leave. Busy taking care of my boyfriend, trying to spend as much time as i can with him before friday. Busy trying to forget that i have to leave, busy trying to not forget anything, busy trying to stay calm but in fact i just cant stay calm, this is not me.
4 days ago i still didn’t knew that i would leave, my head still have to get used to it. More than 2 weeks away from my daily life, away from the balance i found in the last 5 months. I didn’t plan anything, but now its there. I hav’nt work from 9 to 5 for the last 5 months, but i need to rest. No, i didn’t “worked” that much, but my body needs to rest.
Many things happened in those 5 months. I left my “old” life. I slowly got back on my feet, started the best (but not the simpler) work that i ever did, what we could call “a life’s real work”. Yeah, the “real” work. The one which makes your brain and heart goes on, trying to find answers to many questions.
I quitted the fulltime job, started to draw again, started to read lots of “self exploration” stuff, wrote a lot, thought a lot, started to paint again, started to be creative again, in my work and in my life. I stopped and looked at myself. This is not easy work, but the one which fulfills oneself.
In the last 5 months, i found something new, or better, i found someone i missed.
I hope i wont loose touch with this person as i will leave hamburg friday…
montreal!
I hav’nt wrote in the last week, i got suddenly really busy realising that end of may was there and friends and family were waiting for me on the other side of the ocean.
This is totaly me, to tell everyone that i’m going to be in quebec for my birthday, but totaly forget about planning to buy the flight tickets. So yeah, i spent the last days running around trying to find a ticket, and i finaly got one.
So, i will be leaving next week and celebrate my 27th birthday with friends and family. Until then i will have a lot to do to organize myself a bit…
Its really hard to leave without my boyfriend, thats the bad thing about having family oversea… compromises is the word to deal with.
Otherwise, i’ve put online a new painting, star*
enjoy!
May reading list
Im again into reading 3 books at the same time.
I just received
Dorothea Brande - Becoming a Writer, (it seems to be an interesting book about the creative process… was writen in 1932!)
Derek M. Powazek - Design for Community, could be quite interesting, if i find the time to read it…
Shakti gawain - Living in the Light, after creative visualisation that i read slowly over again, this one might be also quite inspiring, will see…
Some painting
I just put online some painting i did over the last months. Yeah, getting back to painting is quite hard. Use the pen, use the brush, no undo key, urg… the worse i think is that you must get directly in touch with yourself, and this can be quite painfull, but also quite exciting, you never know, and that is what scares me the most, to not know!
To not be able to change the bkg color or delete a layer (like in photoshop), but to do something, and having no choice to live with it. If you dont like it, well, or you trash it, or you paint over it and start again. But if you like what you did and think its a good direction, well, urg again… it can be that with one stroke with the brush you destroy everything…
It makes me realize how result oriented my mind can be, even if i try to fight hard against it, something inside me refuse to make mistakes, and its hard to live with that part while trying to paint.
Well, still, i try, and there are some, hm, well, yeah, some results…
Hamburg pictures
Hamburg is really nice right now… and i have some proofs!
Yesterday and today were wonderfull - sunny and warm. I wish this will last forever!
Left picture is took from the backyard, and the other with the view over st-pauli (hip area of hamburg) is took from my nice workplace… 
The Carrer guide for creative and unconventional people
The Carrer Guide for Creative and Unconventional People (like me!)
I found lots of interesting information in this book, I suggest that you have a short look at it if you, like me, wonder if there is place for hm, yeah, “unconventional” (creative, self-expressive, human, extremly sensitive to some things, intuitive, with a excessive need of freedom, …) people in this world. (and yeah, we need those people!!!)
f.e.a.r
Here i post lyrics from Ian Brown last video, if you can see it it gets more impact than just reading, but still, i found those lyrics quite inspiring. Each sentence has a strong meaning, following f-e-a-r letters for each words…
The video is simple…hm.. like someone riding his bike backward, without seeing where he is going, and this last for the whole video. Well, you must see it!
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Björk
“.. the creative process is like a plant. That’s the best thing about creativity. You can’t say, OK, by Tuesday, I want this twig to have grown three centimeters northwest. It won’t do that; it will just go wherever it wants to. The only thing you can do is make it feel good, and make sure you give it the nourishment it wants…”
Björk
Linus Pauling
“Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.”
Linus Pauling
Changes
how to write about all that, about all of what’s going on in my head. I always think ‘i should write about that..’… but everything goes so fast, i cant catch up on my own thinking.
Today, while waiting for the sushi rice to cool up, i went to alex’s site. I remembered a book i saw on her wishlist and i thought i should check for it, but instead, i went to her ‘days’ section and started to read, from the last day she wrote (April 30th 2002) and then going back in time, one year before, April 20th 2001…
* see the comic
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Great weblog
First, if you’r a designer, or someone sensitive to typography, grids, crispy stylesheets and nice content, well, this site is worth a visit: What Do I know
Also, if you want to visit other nice weblogs, i think you might like Witold Riedel’s site , a german guy living in new york. Also check his artwork!
Thats about it for now, i might try to spend some time off the computer (even if its still gray outside hamburg…) …
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