ARCHIVE OF 'life is a bbq'
24 HOURS TO GO
Helloooooo People. This will actually be my last 24 hours as a single man. Tonight I could be wild, an outlaw, a young man hunting for his last experiences being a single, living alone, be responsible only for me. Well, I am in bed already and think about work and scribble some ideas on paper, after I cleaned the room and made the bed for my girlfriends daughter. Pretty wild too he ?! I will probably be something like her step dad now. Or maybe just be the boyfriend of her mum. I don’t really know. I totally forgot to take that class and now don’t really know what first steps to take. Haha. Fortunately, I know her already and it will be a pleasure to live with these people. As already mentioned, this will be a new session in my life. Being a responsible for somebody and soon for even more. The good thing is. I feel good with it. I don’t feel too young, to handle all this, to keep the job, to pay the bills. I don’t feel too young, to not go to discos and clubs, and all this kind of stuff anymore. Still, I like bars and will carry on having a drink here or there, but the time were I just wanted to go out and have party and basically over when I was done with studying. So, anyways. I think its all cool and yeah and kinda like awesome kinda like you know.
Reporting from the travel front, I will now to start reporting from the family front. Maybe even more exciting and DangeRoUs. hehe. Peace.
THANK YOU HARUKI
Today on my bus ride from Guilin to Liuzhou I realized again that many Chinese people don’t read books. Newspaper they do and anything that contains information. But romances, love stories, travel stories, thrillers, fantasy and anything that gives your mind the chance to be reminded of your own life, a chance to dream, to be afraid, to think beyond your daily life, to get ideas, to be sad, to be happy or amused people don’t read about. Of course that’s what I assume. Maybe they read all at home, because the day should be there to work and not to read. I’m sure it has to do with the restriction in publishing books in China, too. While reading a book from Murakami, what makes me think a lot, I asked myself if reading books (as well as watching movies) is one of the reasons, I keep on thinking about my own way in life more. Its for sure not the only trigger for thinking about more abstract stuff, but it keeps your creativity and ability to imagine on a constant level. One of my wishes though I have in life is to live more simple: Don’t think too much about the dos and the donts. Don’t break my head in two parts when thinking about photography and stories I want to shoot. I want to go out and take a picture, whenever something appears to me, to talk to people, whenever i need to would be the ideal state of being. So far, to be thoughtful means to stop myself from transforming my ideas into pictures. To doubt if I am doing the right thing doesn’t transform anything, only the transformation from a full to an empty bottle of beer is for sure. Therefore it would be great to do something, because somebody told me to do so. Because its more simple to create something wonderful out of a small idea than creating something from scratch. Although this way seems to be the best, I can’t deal with it. That’s why I quit working in advertising and online design. I said good bye to this kind of life and welcomed the free spirit in my heart and head. The free spirit though doesn’t have any boundaries and you are able to do whatever your want to. And that’s exactly what stops me from growing: no tasks, no challenges, no problems to solve.
Its time to set my own boundaries to widen them from time to time. Somehow I learned today that its so convinient to do little steps and to go wild within the little frame you set yourself. In the end I am happy the way I am. To be insecure, doubtful and directionless actually goes along pretty well with my passion for photography and ensures me a special and great life. Hopefully interesting pictures as well. A life which is worth to tell others and great to think back. Thank you Haruki.
The beginning of the last season.
I am finally on new roads again. This will be the first time since the beginning of June that I have traveled somewhere new. I will head towards the west of China, Tibet, Nepal and India from North to South with my beautiful travel mate Katja. Exciting, lalala.
By the way, I sold two pictures from my exhibition in Nanjing and got my payment for my photography job in Nanjing for MAP magazin, feels gooooooooood.
down under as a lifestyle
Since a couple of weeks I spend my beautiful life in Melbourne. I came to a point where I am doing nothing and being totally relaxed and not even bored of doing nothing. I don’t go to the happening anymore. The happening comes to me by itself. How awesome is that. I start a job as a buzzy (picking up classes in a club) and I think I never been that hard and fast working as at this evening and really enjoyed it. So I am a little less afraid of coming back to germany and facing the journey. I have to admit that this is my first job since 6 month and I can’t believe that time goes by so fast. What ever I do, if I am working or doing nothing. I am totally relaxed and enjoy life as I never did before probably. So, catch 22.
I had a break from photography for about 8 weeks and getting into it again since a couple of days. I think I definitly needed the break and the time for myself without the camera. Christmas is coming soon and how you could guess, I am probably not writing punctually at exactly christmas’ eve or boxing day. So I wish you all a beautiful relaxing and joyfull time and I kiss you, as I always do. Florian
Tschö McCain
Nun ist das Werk vollbracht. Ich bin nun im Urlaub und nicht mehr bei Mccann angestellt. Ich werde keine Opelblitze mehr bearbeiten. YEAH. Viel habe ich gelernt, viel ertragen und viel Spaß gehabt mit meinen lieben netten Kollegen aus dem Hasenpfad (jaja, richtig gehört HASENpfad). Jetzt muss ich mich neuen Zielen wie Screendesign und äh Jazzband hingeben. Flip, Aline, Kai … jetzt bin ich einer von euch. Und ich weiß noch nicht ob das gut ist oder schlecht. Wir werden es sehen. Die nächste Agentur heisst (kann man nicht auswendig lernen, nur ablesen) GRIMM GALLUN HOLTAPPELS. Eine kleine Agentur mit 25-30 Leuten, die noch Inhaber geführt ist. Wie schöööööön. Neue Stadt, neue Arbeit, neue Kollegen, neue Aufgaben, neuer Beruf, neue Umgebung, neue Sprache… UIUIUI TIFFY
Auf bald
-Flo
Water Resist
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