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new thing… set design!  Worked with a friend on a photoshoot last weekend in the French Quarter in New Orleans.  The theme was decadence for a book they are producing at the graphic design studio she works for.  I did my first styling bit (the mantel) …the model was main element.. loved to see how it turned out!  Amazing photographer too..all in all everyone was on!  Was a great day…

Win the car from the cover of the new Black Keys album, El Camino!! For those who don’t know what’s going on in the video and on the site… [1st, click on the photo that will take you to the site] Share the video on fb, then take a screen shot of this, and with the subject “El Camino” email it to social@tape.tv…. then waiting on your luck !  Bon Voyage!! oder Gute Reise!

Win the car from the cover of the new Black Keys album, El Camino!!

For those who don’t know what’s going on in the video and on the site…

[1st, click on the photo that will take you to the site] Share the video on fb, then take a screen shot of this, and with the subject “El Camino” email it to social@tape.tv…. then waiting on your luck !  Bon Voyage!! oder Gute Reise!

ni-zoo Gonjasufi album, MUZZLE, out this Tuesday I believe to get you into being convinced on buying it, download a free single here they’ve released….here  then follow them on faaacebook, twiiiittter, tummmblr, whatever floats your/their boat. He good.

ni-zoo Gonjasufi album, MUZZLE, out this Tuesday I believe

to get you into being convinced on buying it, download a free single here they’ve released….here  then follow them on faaacebook, twiiiittter, tummmblr, whatever floats your/their boat.

He good.

Oh I do really like King Britt… on his site — first, read who he is if you aren’t sure — then he’s got lots of free mixes that aaarree niiiiiiceeee…..

for ex. 420Mix make ya miss (or wanna go to) Jamaicaa a a a

2 new free singles, new guitarist, and “tour”-ish (for you in San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland) the rest of us will just have to listen to these two back and forth and wait…maybe they’ll expand..let’s hope :) ps. Follow them on Twitter!  They sometimes mail out great personal stuff like mixed (cd’s), self designed postcards, hand written essays, etc..who cares..personal mail from cwk?! ;) cool stuff…like that human approach ya know..

2 new free singles, new guitarist, and “tour”-ish (for you in San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland) the rest of us will just have to listen to these two back and forth and wait…maybe they’ll expand..let’s hope :)

ps. Follow them on Twitter!  They sometimes mail out great personal stuff like mixed (cd’s), self designed postcards, hand written essays, etc..who cares..personal mail from cwk?! ;) cool stuff…like that human approach ya know..

› New Andrew Bird single, Eyeoneye

I could listen to him whistle all day.

“As previously mentioned, the album was recorded at Bird’s barn in Western Illinois…”

source: Pitchfork Music


hah… look at the difference

Berlin vs. New Orleans city layout of houses/neighborhood

PRALINES. FUDGE.

best Christmas present from afar ever!

It was really fun(ny) to sign for a hand delivered package of a box of pralines and fudge declared as ‘a box of candy’ at a ‘$20 value’…nooooo shame!!

I had an over hour long talk with my 86 yr old grandmother in Baton Rouge from here in Berlin today. It was so nice…i heard how she and my grandfather met …how they got engaged (and then she had 7 kids)…and how she paid for a cab with her friends every weekend to go dancing by having to pick and sell okra the day before to make her share of the cab fare - 5 cents.  I wished I lived then… and I wished I talked to relatives more often.  It’s a new year…never too late to start 

I had an over hour long talk with my 86 yr old grandmother in Baton Rouge from here in Berlin today. It was so nice…i heard how she and my grandfather met …how they got engaged (and then she had 7 kids)…and how she paid for a cab with her friends every weekend to go dancing by having to pick and sell okra the day before to make her share of the cab fare - 5 cents.  I wished I lived then… and I wished I talked to relatives more often.  It’s a new year…never too late to start 

♦ 4 months ago

I wasn’t sick but bought the cough drops only because I liked the packaging.  Maybe it jinxed it, now I’m sick… and so the packaging isn’t so nice but rather quite ripped open now.. dang.it.

I wasn’t sick but bought the cough drops only because I liked the packaging.  Maybe it jinxed it, now I’m sick… and so the packaging isn’t so nice but rather quite ripped open now.. dang.it.

♦ 5 months ago

guess this is going to be about food too… “black rice-seaweed-omelet” ….for lack of creative word… {recipe} So I don’t know exactly how to explain but if you’re tempted (ps. you can use any type of rice too) to try it and see what happens… then. - So while sautéing the vegetables (here, I used: garlic, belle pepper, onion, zucchini, tomato, and spinach) (in that order too… the belle pepper, onion, zucchini and garlic first for a few min— then add the tomato for a few more min — then add the spinach for the last minute) boil your rice at the same time and so it should all be done together. I put some salt and pepper and oregano on the vegetables while they cooked down a bit.  When they were cooked down some and soft and the tomato was squishy (mm strikes an appetite doesn’t it?) then I added a bit of goat cheese (guess other white cheeses would work too?  mozerella (no offense to you) maybe not so good with this combination) (think mozerella + seaweed? hmm.. but why not. who knows.) ANYWAYS… so vegetables cooked, mix up the pieces of cheese with them and then crack an egg into the middle and mix all together, spreading it all out after evenly in the pan.  Turn the heat up maybe a number for the rest.  Before I flipped over the egg, I used some spicy sauce (not Tabasco (no offense, Tabasco) but it could work too?)  and drizzled a bit over the eggs.  Okay so flip em over, cook em, whatever (never turns out like a ‘perfect omelette’ but I like it better this way… maybe biased bc I grew up eating scrambled eggs and (maybe this is embarassing) don’t think I realized there were “OTHER WAYS TO EAT EGGS” until ….later.  Not telling an age.   Anyways… when the rice is done put some in the bottom of the bowl.  Turn off the stove..of course… and since the burner from the rice is still hot roll around (quickly) a sheet of seaweed a bit before to make it crisper and easier to then break into pieces. Place pieces of seaweed strategically, artistically, thoughtfully over the rice.   Then eggs on top. And done!   Sure to give you a good boost of energy.  

guess this is going to be about food too…

“black rice-seaweed-omelet” ….for lack of creative word…

{recipe}

So I don’t know exactly how to explain but if you’re tempted (ps. you can use any type of rice too) to try it and see what happens… then.

- So while sautéing the vegetables (here, I used: garlic, belle pepper, onion, zucchini, tomato, and spinach) (in that order too… the belle pepper, onion, zucchini and garlic first for a few min— then add the tomato for a few more min — then add the spinach for the last minute) boil your rice at the same time and so it should all be done together.

I put some salt and pepper and oregano on the vegetables while they cooked down a bit.  When they were cooked down some and soft and the tomato was squishy (mm strikes an appetite doesn’t it?) then I added a bit of goat cheese (guess other white cheeses would work too?  mozerella (no offense to you) maybe not so good with this combination) (think mozerella + seaweed? hmm.. but why not. who knows.) ANYWAYS… so vegetables cooked, mix up the pieces of cheese with them and then crack an egg into the middle and mix all together, spreading it all out after evenly in the pan.  Turn the heat up maybe a number for the rest.  Before I flipped over the egg, I used some spicy sauce (not Tabasco (no offense, Tabasco) but it could work too?)  and drizzled a bit over the eggs.  Okay so flip em over, cook em, whatever (never turns out like a ‘perfect omelette’ but I like it better this way… maybe biased bc I grew up eating scrambled eggs and (maybe this is embarassing) don’t think I realized there were “OTHER WAYS TO EAT EGGS” until ….later.  Not telling an age.  

Anyways… when the rice is done put some in the bottom of the bowl.  Turn off the stove..of course… and since the burner from the rice is still hot roll around (quickly) a sheet of seaweed a bit before to make it crisper and easier to then break into pieces. Place pieces of seaweed strategically, artistically, thoughtfully over the rice.   Then eggs on top. And done!  

Sure to give you a good boost of energy.  

“Tracing Mobility” Opening (http://trampoline.org.uk/tracingmobility/)

@ the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (http://www.hkw.de/de/programm/2011/tracing_mobility/projekt_detail_53866.php)

What it was all about:

[more: http://trampoline.org.uk/tracingmobility/events/event/exhibition]

“The exhibition, Tracing Mobility: Cartography and Migration in Networked Space, is the final event that completes the Tracing Mobility project; a project which spanned two years and four European countries. The overall project included residencies, workshops, exhibitions, symposiums, and other satellite events that took place along the Croatian coast (north of Split); in Nottingham, UK; Warsaw, Poland; and Berlin, Germany. This final exhibition in Berlin showcases works that were either commissioned specifically for the show or produced in distinct relation to the Tracing Mobility programme. Overall, the exhibition is a continuation and a further exploration of an ongoing dialogue that seeks to descry the cultural aspects of our mobility, the future of our mobility and the new spaces thus created or altered as a consequence.”

today me and my friend Maria (i know it is incorrect grammar…my friend, Maria, and I..ehm) went to some galleries… this exhibit, entitled, Reconsidering Roma: Aspects of Roma and Sinti Life in Contemporary Art, is on (and also some pieces are by) Roma gypsies in Europe. It also speaks on their history, specifically that during the war.  Between 200,000 - 500,000 gypsies were killed during WWII. [click on the exhibit title, they explain it a lot better than I just tried to]

today me and my friend Maria (i know it is incorrect grammar…my friend, Maria, and I..ehm) went to some galleries… this exhibit, entitled, Reconsidering Roma: Aspects of Roma and Sinti Life in Contemporary Art, is on (and also some pieces are by) Roma gypsies in Europe. It also speaks on their history, specifically that during the war.  Between 200,000 - 500,000 gypsies were killed during WWII.

[click on the exhibit title, they explain it a lot better than I just tried to]