You can still see them here in this video (on youtube, external website so you´re leaving the cookie free sector if you click on this link) 😇 there is a little video about that day - and people wearing that sticker as a pin and you can see it on those bags. Love how the people came together.
And who knows - JOHN DEERE is doing that all over Germany in all their factories giving back to DIE TAFEL foodbanks.
Maybe you help your local community with something alike too? Just go for it.
Memory to my very first encounter with SKIMBOARDING – A tiny moment from the EUROPEAN SKIMBOARDING CUP 2025 in Berlin - there is a video about it on my VIDEO page here on this website
:: There is a video about it on my VIDEO page here on this website :)
:: MORE about the EUROPEAN SKIMBOARDING CUP - euroskimcup.com (external page)
Memory to my very first encounter with FIBA3x3 Basketball during the Germany tour 2022: The game was set up straight at Alexanderplatz Berlin right next to Rotes Rathaus. We got into a heavy summerrain and had lots fun anyway with all the cool new talents. Also: FIBA WOMEN′S BASKETBALL WORLDCUP comes 2026 to Berlin!
:: There is a video about it on my VIDEO page here on this website :)
:: MORE about the FIBA BASKETBALL on www.fiba.basketball (external page)
From a publication supported by DIRK NOWITZKI FOUNDATION with several of my photos. The report brochure is on on impactful sports projects changing lifes for the better. The legend himself later held an XXL sign for press photos with all the awarded sports projects that I gave into production. THIS: I was taking part in a running event in Berlin and took some of the photos I used for the layout of the report along the way.
Not just a single sundog shining over Berlin June 2026 but a full circle sunhalo in the hazy sky. Sadly you can´t make olympic rings from them since the maximum number here is five, sometimes even six, if under special conditions a second full halo ring forms around the first one. Sometimes you also have some arcs or rings more - one below, one on top and another 2 left and right - they kinda add to each other but don′t form that sign - but actually it′s the most close resembling you can get from mother nature itself in the skies and beauty created with just our atmosphere and lots of water moisture, icecrystrals and the sun in the right angle.
Read that again. Her name was Mary Elizabeth Anderson (external website) - she was pretty busy caring for a cattle ranch, a vineyard and later even property business - a true entrepreneur or businesswoman by the means of our times. She was born too early to sing about her homestate "sweet home Alabama" or later in life about Tennessee drinks but right on time when actually the market wasn′t decided for the next 120 years between electric and fossil fuel driven vehicles. Ford as a car manufacturer hadn′t even started production when she filed her patent for her windshield wipers idea. The article states that is was actually carmaker Cadillac integrating operational windshield wipers in 1922 into production models.
Her model was the first one to be prooven effective. Others had ideas too, but none of them made it into the future of mobility. Simpleminds of her era called the idea not useful (sounds familiar to clever ones?). More about her in Wikipedia - and hey, tell someone about her next time you′re on a roadmovie roadtrip :)
We owe cool female engineers tons of clever solutions. I also had the honour to layout and illustrate several publications on STEM / MINT ngo projects for new talents - not carmaker Ford yet but supported by the likes of SIEMENS Foundation & Robert BOSCH foundation, both founded by family members of just those iconic brands. Both also care for more girls and women in tech and the next generation creating a future in science, math, nature science and tech. I also had the pleasure to present a few years ago a logodesign for a project successfully directly to one of the owners of BMW (btw. there is also an BMW i8 here on this website seen 2026 on the streets of Berlin). She is an entrepreneur too. Add passion, education, a cool Good cause. And tell a friend about that invention that made traveling by automobiles a pleasure even in the rain. Just add some words by the Ford Company founder himself:
"A business that only makes money, is a poor business"
Henry Ford
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Grammyawardwinning music legend Robin Banerjee of Amy Winehouse′s "Back to black" album during a gig with singer La Rony. One of the most beautiful ways to support the next generation of artists: When MUSICLEGENDS like him perform with them together and give direct feedback. Real moments, real humans, no algorhythm inbetween, just us in the crowd in awe for both - their phantastic concert and musichistory in real time. Thankful for AWSOME concert moments :) More soon.
Meanwhile she had her own shows, appearances together with Sydney Youngblood ("Sit and wait") and so much more: Singer FANNIE. On the right side some of my fashion favs with her: At the time I was a huge fan of the creations of Hanna Erz of Belier - fresh, lightweight, organic designs, almost hovering over the skin. Fannie was planning a new video. Since there is no budget for things alike I thought I bring the two ladies together. Hanna had a popupstore with her fashion designs at Bikini Berlin at the time, they met and liked each other. And for the filming Fannie could use some of Hanna′s beautiful designs. Me? Thankful. :) Learning: Create together ladies, ideas matter, human talent matters, even if there is no budget, there is always a creative way to shine together (needless to say I support you) :)
:: Happy to say Hanna is back with more BEAUTIFUL fashion: the HANNA STUDIOS - www.hannaerz.de
Highlights among the many years creating content like portraits, musicphotography and musicvideos growing her fanbase together: One of our videos filmed by yours truly just hit half a million views. Congrats FANNIE! Also: The pic with those three stripes in her hair went viral over night - all of a sudden we where in several feeds with 225.000 to 900.000 followers. One of a kind experience since I wouldn´t have expected this from that particular portrait.
:: now just at 500.000 views, it went several times viral, musicvideo filmed by yours truly (external website)
:: More by Singer FANNIE and tourdates: www.FANNIE.ch (external website)
:: Memory to an encounter with FASHION DESIGN ICON Wolfgang Joop. I was at the introduction of his book "Dresscode"" in Berlin and got to talk a few moments with him afterwards. When he came back to Potsdam and opened a shop in the city centre, I was very happy. Knowing he had seen need and needy as a child himself, having memories walking over the Potsdam market for potatoes" fit with memories from my parents (rip) of the same generation. Suddenly that icon was one of the Brandenburgers and Berliners, down to earth and humble to tell stories and also so human. Unexpected and a memory that stays. Btw. he even still draws at his age.
:: The two in bed (!) asked me if they can have a photograph of themselves in that bed cruising Berlin while I was taking pictures rightthere. I said "If I can have a photo of you too?". They said yes, of course, smiled and so this picture came to be :) And yes, you can literally cruise Berlin - among many many other ways - in a bed.
:: See this one in motion and learn more about this special Berlin burger - the "Tiergarten burger" - from WORLD BURGER DAY at the Hard Rock Café on my VIDEO page righthere on this website :)
:: Bananabread above and the breakfast roll with some superfoods in motion: little yummy experiment with both some breakfast and one of my own minibeats,
MORE videos here on my VIDEO PAGE on this website
:: Life8 in Berlin, memory to an awsome day and a historical worldwide concert series. Peace.
Respect true craftmansship, respect humans who can actually create and repair physical instruments: Memory from a visit to a violin and cello instrumentbuilder: Rudolf von Niederhaeusern. I asked if I can take pictures and he invited me for a cup of tea. For me it was the first time to see this craft up close, talk about experience and even back then already the influence of climate change on instrument building: He told me he recognized changing characteristics in the wood due the heatwaves. Properties of the wood had changed over the decades from his youth to the now older man working with instruments.
So here I was, working with my team on state of the art Audio DVDs yet having instruments right before me, that had seen whole generations of musicians, feeling the hundreds of hours of magic from each one of the instruments. The memories stay. And the respect for instrumentbuilders. I take a bow. Thankful.
Jimi Hendrix′ very first electric guitar: A Hofner guitar ... I made a small video about this one recently - you find it alongside the VERY good news about the legendary guitarmakers of Paul McCartney′s Violinbass on my VIDEO page here on this website :)
As a photographer I also had to smile since Hard Rock Hamburg had one of those pictures from the legendary Hamburg Star Club photographer on the wall alongside Jimi′s Jacket, who made those pics of the Beatles in their Hamburg times there too. He was also one of my followers a decade ago on twitter when the platform was habitable. You can see the pic in my video about Jimi′s Hofner guitar too.
Moments from the Basketball HOOPBUS NBA Tourstop in BERLIN after PARIS and LONDON. Amazed crowd - and I was happy since HOOPBUS also quickly asked for my edited videos & footage after the first clip. Happy. To be continued :)
AWSOME: They also stepped in after the hurricane hit Jamaica and joined a fundraiser for victims of the hurricane: Both inspiring the next generation and showing what it means to come peaceful together and help one another.
Since I didn´t went for numbers on my own beats and soundtracks yet, I was happy anyway to have 2025 first time a video for myself with the first time hitting thousand views on a soundtrack created by my own - also one about the HOOPBUS Basketball NBA event in Berlin. Might add it later too. For 2025 I challenged myself to create a few more soundtracks but only hoped to hit 500 plays with one of my selfmade beats. Doubling that is a nice one.