christmas, dust & old friends pt.1

issue #17

Helloho. Let's cut it short: new scans, new frames. Covering the time from round about 12/20 to 01/04. These rolls tought me something: never ever ever rely on AF again due to laziness, dust's a bitch and the APX doesn't look that good at 1600 after all... well, who gives a crap anyway. So here it comes, starting with some last pictures from school before vacations.

A crazy, wild mob of people with cameras ambushed me in an old house..

..eager to take as many pictures of myself as possible.

"Why don't we do it in the road?", as John Lennon once famously asked. I drive around a lot lately, so taking some frames while driving should be the insane but logical consequence. (note to myself: less dangerous at 35mm, more dangerous at 85mm.)

vroom, vrooooom.

Mr. D. teaches us photoshop, Here he tries to make love to an adorable G4. ;-)

Michi vs. Imacon-scanner.

Sarah vs. Mac Pro.

Meet Elmar.

Scanframes & asses.

Saraaaah.

Anna & Sarah.

Mohammed Djihad, Durka durka.

jeah jeah....

Michi, going on about new year's eve and how over-rated it is. "... so you think waaay its new year's eve and drink like a madman because, hey, it's new year's eve and in the end you're lying around in some corner at 0:30 AM and can't remember FUCK the next morning so where's the fuckin point..." blah. HEART.

El Tob showed up.

Last frame of the film., last time going through that door for 2 weeks.


The day before christmas, celebrated at my mother's house this year. Took a walk through the snow, fulfilling some family-clichés, but we had a good time.


Mum. could be a 1950's Burberry commercial if it wouldn't be for the dark figure in the background I think.

Mum & little sister.

...walking through a winterwonderland.

We had supper at some small shedlike restaurant in the woods, sister looking "deep".


The next morning my mother woke me up quite early for some very last-minute shopping in Mannheim... So I got dressed, loaded the F80 and of we were. Random tram-street-snapshot.
She was in pain. Toothaches... but she refused to see a doctor because there was so much to do for christmas'eve =/.

Need a bath-robe?

Some idiot in shorts.

Sneakerlove!!!

"just stop it."

Had coffee before returning home.


No frames of christmas' eve. Shot digital because everybody requested the pictures ASAP blahblah.. Borrowed the Nikon 17-35 f/2.8 ED from school for this.. sweet piece of glass, heavy, large, but fast & sharp. After the act 1: family everybody rounded up for act 2-5: getting wasted. The "Badehaisl" was so crowded that you had to"stand in line" (it was more like martial arts.) for about 30mins to get a drink.. they ran out of beer at 1AM, pretty emberassing.. well Sandro and me brought along some beer and jägermeister and had a nice time OUTSIDE of the haisl.

ah, how rude: Introducing; Sandro. And of course white-teethed Christian.

Next day, drove to my grandparents house to.. well.. celebrate christmas.


I think this frame gives you a pretty good impression of the area I live in ;-)

Chill now!

Grampa.

Grampa on the phone.

Cousin, Grandma, Cousin.

Grampa.

Aunt Susanne. Gave me "A Photographer's Life" by A. Leibovitz for Christmas, Her husband was quite jealous. ("WHAT? Why's he getting a coffeetable-book??" "You already have like.. 30 photographer books?" "SO???") :-)

Commander-in-chief.

Later that night.. Storyville. Only had the roll with me that was loaded, i believe Tmax 100 +2, portraits were next to impossible, took this shot at 1/4s.

i still tried. Akey at 1/10s, luckily she usually holds still when she's listening to something interesting.

whoops.

crapper.

"Natürlich gibt es Schöneres als im Storyville zu sitzen..."

Some rolls...

Waaay, Koni returned from Hongkong for the holidays. I think this pose is pretty close to his true self.. mwaha.

I insisted on stopping for some Kebap. The crew remained outside.

Actually we planned on hanging in Koni's place, but arriving there he noticed a) that his big brother was out as well and b) that he left his keys inside. So we were standing there thinking about what to doo what to doo....

That's Koni looking guilty...

The next morning: Koni and me in Mannheim for some shopping.. I finally bought some black cotton carhartt pants that i've been wanting for like 3 or 4 years now.

Koni took his time in the H&M, so i strolled around a bit for some street impressions.

poor Knut, nobody wants his flyers.

uh-hu. bad idea, anyhow.

Koni commented me taking that frame with a disgusted "you are un-be-lievable".

" I like big butts and I can not lie You other brothers can't deny That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist And a round thing in your face"

*grrr*....dust.....

Another night: I had the privilege of hosting a nice evening of music, laughter and drinking.

Graf refused to engage in any conversation and crawled through the web with my macbook.

17-35 f/2.8 wide open at 17mm.. woaah.. wide. expected less distortion though.

Phil, aspiring gay wedding photographer. His trademark: a small golden bell on his D200.

Phil trying to talk Graf into some f**king.

All I want for Christmas is Maddin.

This is so nerdstyle... Powerbook G4, Macbook Pro, Nikon D200.

Maddin, Christian, Judith. (from l.t.r.)

Christian trying to appear serious and sober.. I think he even was sober. Had to drive.

Maddin and Christian exchanging some significant views.

Graf decided that he was hungry. So i made him some raviolis.

Graf decided that he was still hungry, so we devoured yumm yummy tête de môine ( no clue if that's written right, looks cool at least).

Sooner or later someone has the urge to share something cool that he saw the other day on Youtube / Youporn / Myspace / Deviantart .....

Because I'm still in love with my macbook I had to take that shot again with the inevetible apple-focus.

The boys.

Phil, the gay wedding photographer that i already introduced to you making his first move towards Art.

Judith." So...... waaasted......"

*sigh*

close but okey.

Did I do this on purpose? Can't remember.

Next morning. I somehow felt the need to document my bathroom-situation.. well.


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that's about half of the rolls I prepared.. It's 4:15 PM, and I'm still in bed more or less.. Time to get up, get naked, get wet, get a shave, get coffeed up, get GOING.

pt. 2 tomorrow or later today..
take care,
f.