The Dress and the Story pt. 6

So after taking a break once again I introduce you to my new and glorious found on ebay! It is just a hell of a relieve if you unpack something and it just suits you so well you don't want to take it off anymore. So from unpacking it and putting it on I went straight to the city to watch the Facebook-only exlcusive free-entry Neo Rauch exhibition at the Museum der bildenden Künste. To be honest, I didn't quite know before if I like his pictures or not. After the exhibition I know now that I like them. Though on the first glimpse it is sometimes just too much to see, but when you take your time you can find some really awesome spots on the canvas, like the setting sun over the mountains or a ray of sunlight that comes through thick red clouds. These details give a lot, definitely. Also it is really about the feeling you have when you look at a picture. There are always pictures who catch your attention, if it's for the colours or the scenery or all at once. I think with his pictures you can choose and you don't have to like them all.

So thanks, Museum, for this short, but lovely little evening.

Anti-WGT-factory-party

This weekend there was the Wave Gothic Treffen in Leipzig, an annual festival for the dark scene of the world. As always at this weekend, the weather was brillant and a friend of my boyfriends organized a little Anti-WGT-meetup for people who like/do noise music. It was located at an empty factory in the north of my city and it ended up really fine. My boyfriend had a little performance (third picture), as well as HGB-student Viktor (last picture), who was actually officially performing a night later at the WGT. This night really had a special charme, as I do love abandoned buildings. We even got to see an even more bigger factory that was around the block and which was huuuge. Next time I got to take my camera to this one, too.

Either way, the night was long and we really got tired some time around 2-ish, which was kind of lame, but oh well, I think we grow older. But I do hope that there will be a second chance for an evening like that as I really really liked it.

Pip Studio

Let me introduce you to the sweetest dishes I've seen in a long time! I know it's pretty housewive-y, but I was really delighted when I stumbled across Emil and Paula, a little cute site about interior items, where everything is just really adorable! There I found Pip Studio, a label that focuses on colours and materials and just gives you a lot just to be inspired. Of course all the other things this site offers are worth for a glance. Unfortunately I will have to wait until I am grown up and earn enough money to buy all this sweet stuff!

The Dress and the Story pt. 5

I have been neglecting my little series, but now it goes on! So this week I have to recall my last weeks of 2009. I had a 6-weeks-job at a drug store, in the perfume section. The first day at work (I was a cashier) I wore something really colorful and jeans and my red Dr. Martens. Of course, the second day my boss was coming to me and told me that I have to wear something more elegant for this section. Oh well, so I was forced to do shopping (yes, that's paradox for a woman, but to be honest, I don't like to "go" shopping, I rather do online-shopping) and I found this piece. Of course I wasn't really fond of spending a lot of money for this, but H&M is perfect to find cheap and elegant clothes. The trousers I got from Zara and I wore them 3 exactly times (the other days I always wore leggins or stockings). Because those clothes remind me so much of this horrorful job (I had to stand for 8-10 hours a day, the colleagues weren't really nice because they had to do this for years, whereas I was just there for a few weeks and was free to do anything what I want after it and - on top of it - because it was Christmas, every customer was just really stressed and unkind and some of them even tried to fool me), I haven't worn them since then. Too bad.

hello Berlin, it's me

Last week we have been in Berlin for two days. Since we always came to Berlin to go to a concert (this time it was just the same, we saw The Residents), we spend little time to discover the city. Well, this time we tried and at least I am now a little sick of Berlin Mitte. We had a great breakfast at "Zur Rose" which is on Weinbergsweg. And we found a funny backyard-gallery on Oranienburger Strasse - I am sure that people who live in Berlin already know about this gallery, but I really liked this old building where the Tacheles gallery was. So in the backyard they made figures, animals and people out of steal and other metal things. It was quite impressing, but also really.. depressing. So real they looked, so dead their were when you got closer.

When we walked further (I had actually no idea where we were walking, but luckily we always ended up on Alexanderplatz) I found a lomography store!! I just freaked out and we had to spend there a bit. Unfortunately the prices for the cameras were insane (hello? it's plastic!) and I have to get my first lomography camera from somewhere else (amazon has them for 30 euros less (!!)). Well, but it was a firework for my eyes and I was really happy to have found this store.

Frühjahrsrundgang Baumwollspinnerei

Last weekend Leipzigs famous Baumwollspinnerei, place for upcoming and already successful artists, invited the ordinary people for the annual Frühjahrsrundgang (there is a Herbstrundgang, too) to look what they did, painted, built during the depressing months of winter.

I love that Rundgang not only for the art I can see there - sometimes I find installations more fascinating than paintings - but also for all those other quirky people who are running around this place, which I could never see on street. Well, that's maybe a bit exaggerated, but if you do have a place where everyone is cumulating, then you just feel like you will never meet those people at a gate on the main trainstation.

I am still fascinated with those old factory buildings and I can't wait until this years F-Stop-Festival (photography), which I really hope is located here this year. Last year the location was transmitted into the city center, but the year before the exhibition was at the cotton factory! I remember the one building which used to be the building where the employees lived and it was really torn down and old, but you could still find their old furniture and kitchen tables. The rooms very messy and cold and grey from those old times. But the walls! There was floral wall paper and they were taped with hundreds of photographs of old people who lived their sunset years in one of these depressing concrete apartments. Skinny people, sick people and dead people. The creeping thing was - the photographs were randomly shot, so actually did not belong to any history of the factory itself - that this morbid feeling crawled all over you while walking through debris of former times looking at pictures of people nobody knew and who were already dead. It still freezes me, thinking of it.

Unfortunately, I got a bit negligent with my thursday-dress-story-thing. The reason is that I have been awfully busy those last weeks and tomorrow I am going to be in Berlin, the weekend is also already planned, so I hope that I can get back to it next week! And I think I should start to prepare those kind of things when I am in the mood for it. Sometimes it just seems like a homework to do on Wednesday nights and it gets a bit forced, but oh well, who am I telling this, blogging should be fun, so my next motivation bite won't be that long :).