The Ice Storm 1973 and the Erlkoenig today
Recently I saw a fantastic theater play “The Erlkoenig”, which was a German adaptation of the movie “The Ice Storm” by the Taiwanese-born director Ang Lee. In the movie 1973, suburban Connecticut, middle class families experimenting with casual sex, drink and drugs find their lives out of control. Both scripts show frequent symbolism and formal...
The magic of outstanding pictures – quality methodology and communication theory
As a photographer, your eye is your lens. This essay gives a basic understanding, why excellent pictures (paintings or photographs) succeed. After you start exploring the world with this mindset, you’ll find that you automatically begin to see things differently. I got the idea from an excellent book of the Swiss photographer Martin Zurmuehle, “The...
Advice to young people.
Patti Smith. Published on Dec 6, 2012 Interviewed in London. “Build a good name”, rock poet Patti Smith advises the young. “Life is like a roller coaster, it is going to have beautiful moments but it is going to be real fucked up, too”. Stay clean, stay healthy there are a lot of challenges ahead. ...