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One year of hell

2010-01-25T23:27:00.002+01:00

So..that's it. It's over. Was it a good one? No. It had good moments. But it had pretty bad ones too. Will the next be better? No one can say. Everybody keeps saing that it can only get better from now on, that there will be a light at the end of the tunnel, but I'm not convinced. I'll see. What else can I do. The only thing I am shure about is that this life is a long trip, sometimes a good one, sometimes a bad one. Let's handle it like this!

Sometimes you hit the ground quite hard....

2009-11-06T19:43:00.004+01:00

...and so I did. For the second time this year. It's already November, the year has nealy passed and I have to start again. Again. From zero on. Shure I do what I should do, get a job, get a new place to live, but it seems pretty strange at the moment. But now I feel defeat, I'm sad, I'm lonely. Well, at least that's what a game of Tarot told me weeks ago. But I have to keep going, even if I have not much energie left, I have to get everthing in order again. But well, everything has it's purpose, sometimes you need time to see the meaning behind things, sometimes you need time to get it all sorted out. Then new things can happen, and one thing's for shure...they will happen. I hope everything will be good, new, happy, without all the sorrows and problems of the past. And there is this possibility that it will. That way or another...the only thing you have to do is...you better hold on tight!

My travelling friend

2009-08-22T16:09:00.004+02:00

I got a new friend today, to be exact a travelling friend. It's a project from a school here in Darmstadt where studends made little "travelling friends" which were given to travelling people to get as much around as possible. So mine will travel with me to burning man...where I try to pass him to someone else...I'm thinking about Karen ;-)cause he looks like that he wants to visit Singapore! Here's a picture of me and him:

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A Poi break?

2009-08-21T22:37:00.004+02:00

For quite a couple of weeks I don't enjoy Poi the way it was before, so I thought I should probably take a break from it. Why? Hmmm, good question! Well, maybe it's just a period of time that will past when I will have a break...that's what I really hope. Also I changed a bit. Like I was tould that some people gone to Birte at Feuerwelt and asked her why I didn't play Firepoi there because they like how I'm playing...don't understand me wrong, I feel very honored by that, it's really nice to hear when someone likes the ting you're doing, but on the other hand it puts a strange pressure on me. I always have some thoughts somewhere in my head that I have to play beautiful to cope with those expectations. And that's strange. When I started playing poi I always did it for me, and only for me. Maybe I have to find that relaxed attitude again. Then it might work again without thinking "man, that was a really crappy piece of poi-playing" Then I might find the door to the place again that the poi-people call "the flow". I'll work on that. But I'm looking forward to do a video with Karen in SF, and also I will play fire at burning man...nobody knows me there (ok, not nobody) so I can play just for me...let's see if I'll find the flow again! Another strange thing happened also related to poi...a guy talked to me at camp tipsy, he's the one making the glowballs and he wants me to test the new prototypes...nice, I really felt honored then. So I'll do that as well and I'll post my opinion about it here, but at the moment I really think they have the potential to be better than the Ogg-Poi from Flowtoys!

The firefairy

2009-07-27T20:33:00.004+02:00

I made some pictures of a burning can...and discovered that... Doesn't that look like some kind of firefairy with big wings? Am I sounding like a hippie? I think it looks like that!

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Berlin madness

2009-07-27T19:52:00.003+02:00

Berlin a mad city full of mad people, and I might be a part of it. Here are some impressions of the town, just a few, far to less to get a picture of it. But these are the pictures I made the last 4 days, and since I got nothing more intersting to write about... ;-)

Yes, there are dragons in Berlin...as you can clearly see I'm very afraid!
I wish we had such playgrounds when I was a child!

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Aramgeddon-mood near the Mauerpark

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..but if you turn around a nice sundown at the park

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A painting in the entrance of a house

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Lena making soapbubbles

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A little girl with a far to big Hoop...but she did her best

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A old industrial site where I worked at the weekend

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Jamaican ginger beer can contact

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Ok...this post made no sense at all.... ;-)

The spaghetti incident

2009-07-19T18:24:00.003+02:00

Yesterday I've been to Annikas farewell-party, she's going away for quite a while-We all, gonna miss you, have a great time and take care!!! After some tasty wine and when we run out of crackers we found some spaghetti, which can be eaten as some kind of crackers as well...but also used as a perfect toy...so here is what happened:

The non standart use of italian pasta:

1.Use it as a straw (after a few attempts we found out that it isn't working)

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2.Use it as a mustache (Yes, works if you have a superflexible upper lip)

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3.Use it as a balancing toy (Works too, you only have to have a buff scarf do attach them to)

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4.Use them as ear jewelery (Uhhh...how exqusit!)

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5.Soak them in wine and eat them (Tasty, we tryed red wine, but white might do well as well)

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So if anyone else has some ideas what to do with pasta other then cooking and eating...let me know!

Some things...

2009-07-16T00:54:00.001+02:00

...some things make your Universe bigger, some smaller, some things are making you smaller compared to Universe, and some make you bigger. I'm glad those things do exist!

Fusion, Silly Poi Videos, Burning Man and Workshoptour

2009-06-29T14:14:00.002+02:00

Yay! I just came back from Fusion Festival...it was a bit of a last minute decision to go there but it was worth it! And I rediscovered my likes for electronic music...and now I want more! But all the stuff I had was on my old harddrive...and that broke. But I met nice people there, ant the festival itself is soooooo nice. Like intallations everywhere, theaters, cinemas, slacklines, performances...and a nice firespace (thanks Tom)

I also have done a new Poi-Video because Karen asked me...but it went totally wrong and the only thing i could do was making fun out of it, so here it is:

I also decidet to go to burning man! Huzza! So I'm selling my car and my motorbike a base amplifier and a cabinet...if someone's inrested, let me know.

Since I have no job at the moment I think I'll do a small Poi-Workshop tour in germany...but I'm only at the beginning at the organisation, hope that'll work. Thanks to Birte to encouraging me to do it!

German customs suck...and new Poi-Video

2009-06-16T15:25:00.003+02:00

So I finally ordert some Flowtoys in the USA and sending the by priority mail was only 1$ more the normal I did order them that way. So the delivery from the US to Germany took only a few days and I was looking forward to have them by thursday (which is today) but they a stuck in german customs now for two days! :-/ What are the doing with them?

I also posted a new Video on youtube, not a particular good one just from the last spinning meeting in Mainz. But since then I know that I really have to get some light firepoi, it was so much fun playing with Doros poi which were a lot lighter then my superheavy Isis Poi!

Here's the Video:

CaPoiEira goes international

2009-06-04T11:04:00.002+02:00

So my last Blog entry was, as some of you might have noticed in english. This is because some people ask me to write english so the could read the blog too. So here we are! What else is there to say today...hmmm...I'm looking forward to see Berlin again and all the wonderful people living there (Mauerpark here I come!)

Firecircles Weekend

2009-06-03T20:56:00.003+02:00

As some of you know, I spend a Weekend at the Firecirles Convention near Berlin and had a great Time there! So here's a link to Lenas blog because she described it so nice! Thanks Lena ;-)

Frankurt Fire!

2009-06-03T15:10:00.003+02:00

Gestern war ich zum ersten mal in Frankfurt an der Weseler Werft wo sich die Feuermenschen im Sommer treffen. Ich war zwar etwas matschig in der Birne...aber schön war's trotzdem.

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(und wenn ich die Kamera ruhig halten könnte würde das bestimmt noch besser aussehen!)

Web 2.PUHH!

2009-05-30T15:36:00.002+02:00

Mann, langsam wird es anstrengend. Jeden Tag denke ich so bei mir das ich mal wieder etwas auf die Seite hier setzen sollte und was mach ich stattdessen? Ich hänge auf Facebook rum. Das Web 2.0 kann doch anstrengender sein als ich dachte, da kommt man ja garnicht mehr aus dem Haus vor lauter virtuellem kommuniziern. Schlimm eigentlich. Ich denke ich sollte mal irgentwo austreten. Einfach so. Ausserdem ist eh alles chaotisch, daher hier mein Motto für die Woche: "....I think i've gone insane, I can't remember my own name...."

...und ein richtiges Video gibt's dazu auch nicht! :-/

Bali Poi

2009-05-17T18:09:00.003+02:00

Sooo...hier mal wieder ein Video vom Poispielen, genauer gesagt vom Bali Poi Retreat.

Und zurück!

2009-05-15T01:18:00.003+02:00

So...nach langer Abstinenz im Blog bin ich wieder zurück im guten alten Deutschland, wohlbehalten, etwas braungebrannt und müde. Aber es war wunderbar. Die Woche mit Nick und den anderen Leuten aus aller Welt war toll toll toll wie man in diesem Video von Karen (Thank you so much for it) sehen kann:

Playpoi in Bali - April 2009 from iamspidermonkey on Vimeo.

Was habe ich ausserdem noch gemacht? Naja, ich habe natüerlich viel viel Sightseeing hinter mir, aber dafür fährt man ja schließlich in den Urlaub...zum Beispiel habe ich den Vulkan den ich in einem meiner älteren Posts erwähnt habe erklommen:

CaPoiEira

One year of hell

Sometimes you hit the ground quite hard....

My travelling friend

A Poi break?

The firefairy

Berlin madness

The spaghetti incident

Some things...

Fusion, Silly Poi Videos, Burning Man and Workshoptour

German customs suck...and new Poi-Video

CaPoiEira goes international

Firecircles Weekend

Frankurt Fire!

Web 2.PUHH!

Bali Poi

Und zurück!

Eine Woche im Paradies

Vogelbaendiger?

Eine fruehe Rueckkehr?

Ubud...und eine Runde..und wieder Ubud

Volcano & Mother Temple

Karsten und die Super-Honda

und hin und her

Bloss weg hier!

The southern sea temple

Oh manomannomannomann!

Bilder und Telefon

und ausgeschlafen!

Angekommen!

Dann mal los!

Bye bye Berlin!

Die erste Lesson!

Das Glück der Erde...

Berlin, Berlin

Erstens kommt es anders...

Wohin, wann wieso und überhaupt!

Die Welt ist kleiner als man denkt.

Hmmm...poi lessons?

Ein riesengroßes Dankeschön!!!

Und weil's so schön ist...

Karsten goes Youtube!

Und ich dachte immer...

Zeit heilt alle Wunden?

The beautiful thing about ashes

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