ascension.

Last week my parents paid me a visit and we literally walked through the whole city. I took some pictures and wanted to share them with you. It actually looks like I've been on holidays, too, right? But the lake on the pictures is actually in the middle of the english garden in Munich.

I am also trying to improve my nutrition-style, encouraged by a friend of mine. Trying to reduce food to veggies and fruits (no raffinated sugar, no bread, ha, but I can tell you the last thing didn't work, yet) So I went to this market selling fruit that has already been sorted out by the supermarkets and bought lots of stuff for few money, and I took some prickly pears, because I never tried them and made the mistake, touching them with my bear hands. Yes I had heard before, that these little bitches sting, when my boss told me a story about plucking them with his bare hands, but I thought, they would be ridded of their prickles before sale, no? That's probably too demanding, huh?! Well, FYI, i can still feel some of them prickles on my hands, and I can assure you, the taste wasn't even remotely worth the pain!!

 In other news: I opened an account on instacanv.as where some of my Photos from Instagram are for sale. I thought, why not try it, and earn some money on the side. Click on the image below to visit the gallery.

hexagons.

What an exhausting but awesome weekend that was! I had been looking forward to this for a while. Been excited since the day I heard of munich's light installation artists from Lunaland, planning their anniversary party in a special location, a factory where sleeping cars once had been built. (Among these, the famous Orient Express!) And I shrieked a little when I heard that ESBEN AND THE WITCH would be the headlining act to play on friday night. Some of you might remember that I declared their gig last year at Atomic Café in Munich as concert of the year.  And with this kind of venue and all the light effects I wouldn't have been surprised if that concert would be even better.

Another surprise was, that the band played lots of new tunes for the first time ever. There were three more bands this evening, all more or less from the shoegazer faction, but my attention was rather limited to EATW, I have to confess. 

While friday was pleasure for your ears, saturday was dedicated to the visuals senses. Next to two dancefloors there where lots of exhibitions by several local artists in the different parts of the factory. Among these were some psychologists who introduced a light therapy that was supposed to dissemble the perceptions of a mind under the influence of LSD. I tried an innocuous demo of 2 minutes (on friday), but I thought it was rather unspectacular. I wanted to try the longer and more intense version a day later, but the room was flooded with people and I couldn't imagine all of them watching while making this new experience. All in all I thought it was more amazing to watch, then to actually sit on the chair and have this extremely bright and flickering stroboscobic-like light on your eyes. And watching other people sitting there with that light just felt like you are right inside of a Lynch movie. Crazy shit. 

On sunday it was time for some music again. A little bit more quiet, this time. The team from innen.außen.raum invited three solo musicians, Woodpigeon from Canada, Halo of Pendor from the Netherlands (former Sweden) and dear Carlos Cipa from Munich. Carlos opened the evening with a simultaneous record release party and was stunned when people asked him to sign their copies. I also thought it was kinda sweet that his parents came to see him play. 

Then the swedish (dutch...whatever) guy played his sad songs, and messed up a little, with his loops but it was pretty easy to forgive him due to his cuteness. ;)

And the canadian guy was a little tired, and I still don't know why he kept checking his iPhone after every song, either was he checking the results of the football game that was running at the same time the concert took place, or he had his setlist on his phone, I dunno, but it didn't make a good impression.

Anywho! Here are some impressions of the weekend. If you weren't there you are probably a square, but at least you can imagine what you were missing! :P

To see more and fullsized images check this. All the images tagged with lunastrom10 are relevant.

interstellar.

It's been a while since my last diy-ish project. But last weekend I tried something new. I always wanted to have a Galaxy Shirt like these, for example, but thought, there must be a cheap way to do it myself, and so I researched the web for several tutorials and then bought the necessary equipment to try it out. Here are some pictures of the process, and I think it turned out quite nice, but especially the blue color could have been stronger. (It's actually paler in reality than on the pictures with the camera filters). Maybe I'll add more color in the next days. I also thought about spicing it up with some glitter or fluorescing color, we'll see!

First I sprayed the shirt with bleach so it turned from black to orange on the chosen spots. 

Then I let it dry and added some blue batic color. I needed two attemps for the color to stay on the shirt. I dunno if the bleach kept the dye from staying on the shirt, maybe?!

The result! I really like the gradation of the colors where it turns from blue to orange. What I don't like are the spots you can see, especially on the blue part. These happened by accident, because the bleach somehow kept dropping out of the spray bottle. I even added more bleach on these parts, but the spots just wouldn't disappear. :( Also, I kinda ruined the back part where the bleach transpired. I used a plastic bag to prevent this from happening, but it didn't work when I added the bleach for the second time. Maybe I can paint it over with some black fabric pen.

And here's me wearing the shirt 90ies style. ;) (I remember I used to wear belly tees when I was twelve or so...today it would probably take 3 glasses of wine to dare..)

new arrival.

i love 'em!

¡Arriba! ¡Arriba!

So yesterday I had a reunion with my BFF and we decided to have some cocktails, because drinking wine all the time is kinda boring, right? So we thought about what we could mix and Tequila Sunrise was the drink of our choice and so it happened that we accidently, without knowing it, celebrated Cinco de Mayo, haha!
Here are some photos from the evening, I wanted to share!

Before...

and after!

And as we both share a certain passion for glamourous cosmetics, we used the evening to unbox both of our monthly glossyboxes (this box full of surprise cosmetics) and of course had to test the goodies immediately. (Prepare for classic duckfaces, bitches!)

Excitement!!

Gracias por su atención! Or..you know, how it might be spelled correctly in spanish. :)

guide to an escape.

Ignacio Torres is the name of the artist/photographer I want to introduce today. I absolutely fell in love with his STELLAR series. The basic idea behind this project is the following:

"This project began from the theory that humans are made of cosmic matter as a result of a stars death. I created imagery that showcased this cosmic birth through the use of dust and reflective confetti to create galaxies. The models organic bodily expressions as they are frozen in time between the particles suggest their celestial creation. In addition, space and time is heightened by the use of three-dimensional animated gifs. Their movement serves as a visual metaphor to the spatial link we share with stars as well as their separateness through time."

But see for yourself:

black diamonds.

Today's post is about a photographer. I guess you could call him a tumblr celebrity. His name is Billy Kidd and I love his expressional work. I think his decaying flower shots are my favorites.

broken faces.

On the second day of art week I present you the japanese artist Takahiro Kimura. Specifically one of his projects called "broken 1000 faces". There is no further explanation on the website, but I suppose, as the name implies, his goal is to paint 1000 different faces over the years. 

pitter patter.

Dear favourite people of mine, yes you, who habitually read my updates. I just made a spontaneous decision. It's art week, and I am going to post some stuff from artists/illustrators I spotted over the last couple of weeks.

I'll start today with Alvaro Tapia Hidalgo (Wow, is that your real name? If so, I am mighty jealous!)

P.S. I have a date on Wednesday!

borealis.

as promised, here are the results of the dyeing experiment. the scarf actually turned out to be the best result, when it actually looked crappy while it was still wet.

afterwards i found out, i would've needed to put a wet fabric into the colorbucket (instead of a dry one, like it did. stupid me, never reading the instructions thoroughly) this would probably have brought the gradient coloring. meh. i still like the result, though, but i'll probably start a 2nd attempt soon with some dark blue or lavender color.

for anyone who would like to try it on their own, i link you to a very good tutorial.