Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

and the most amazing thing is
when that someone
is yourself

i love this forum!

thanks, cecil...

sounds like a blast -
wish i coud've been there!

thanks to mark for the event, and to you, dor, for telling us about it!

i just saw a preview of this existential comedy on the frankfurt book fair (the official release here in germany won't be before february '05) -

has anybody seen it? what did you think?

i had great fun watching it, and also enjoyed to hear it in the english original.

LIFE
ELIF
FELI
FILE
FILLE-d
fille-d
d
d eath -

add a d
to life
and it's filled
full
full-filled

d or a
ad(d)

d and a
dna

and in between
the d and the a
lies the light:

OR
sandwiched between
what's a given.

d or a

dora
greek for gift:

dead or alive -
both is given.

i'll try to be there, too.

my father was born in '32 as the youngest of 5 children in mannheim in the southwestern part of germany, and he was born into a very loving and original family. his mother was the daughter of swiss booksellers at a missionary station in india. she was the youngest of 12 children and was born 1896 on...

my mother was born in '40, in eastern prussia, which today is the area around the northern polish-russian border. her father was an orphan who had been a stableboy on farms all his life, until he ran away at the age of 8 to become a pig's herdman, and then, many years later, a dairy master. her moth...

love it!
how wonderful to see all this evidence of creativity -

thank you, doreen!
(great work)

i love clay, but haven't worked with it for years - here's a small sculpture, about 15cm high, i made almost 20 years ago as a teenager - it survived all my moves, but the father's right hand's fingers have almost all fallen off over the years. father and son, ca. 1985, clay, 15 cm height http://img...

this is so amazing - how the look on our faces is still the same after so many years and experiences and changes! norman, you look so seriously absorbed in... what? life? thought? wonder? cuteness and earnestness are performing quite a dance on your face... soo, you are so totally you, and always se...

glass raised
smacks prepared
love sent

to a special woman.

passion and happiness to you, my dear friend!

glad you're alive.

love
-a

extremeties to paradise is especially beautiful!