Remember my last post about developing characters for novels? Well, that one got me into trouble. Because I started thinking about that blog post one evening after dinner with hubby and then started writing. And re-wrote and re-wrote some more and chose all the pictures, then wrote-re-wrote-wrote-re-wrote, finished and then … hubby had gone to [...]
Yesterday, I saw him again. Standing at the window of a camera shop, idly scanning the Leicas – the main character of book No. 2. Well, it wasn’t him, really. But it was a jacket that he would wear and the posture he would take. So again, I found myself staring at a random guy [...]
Sounds a bit like a disease, I do admit. Nevertheless one of Berlin’s most (in)famous boroughs is the place where I have now found a new home, at least professionally. Thanks to the world’s favourite search engine I found out about a co-working space called “Raumstation” (space platform – providing room and roots for free-lancers [...]
Contrary to popular belief I do appreciate that not everybody in this world cares about advertising and its little pitfalls as much as I do. But this one is just too cute not to share:
To make their point of eternal youth, a botox/non-invasive lifting surgery regularly put flowers in their windows. Great idea! As long [...]
Aaaah, advertising. My first passion and guilty pleasure since I started doing “who-can-guess-the-TV-ad’s-product-first” competitions with my brother at the age of seven. Only a question of time until I noticed all these billboards on Berlin’s streets, promoting Austrian brands.
And indeed I think these billboards succeed very much in branding the image of Austrians. As a [...]
Dear Berliners. Don’t get me wrong. Over the past couple of weeks I have met many of you, native or not, who have been nice and funny and polite and outright great people, who were a pleasure to meet.
But there’s this other tribe among you. Hard to detect for non-German speaking Berlin enthusiasts from abroad. [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2010