limitless.

I know, I announced this regular blog feature "introducing instagramers" and then totally neglected this blog. What a tease! But I really wanna catch up with it, so here's the next awesome instagram photographer.

Today I want to show you some incredible photographs by Evan James Atwood. There is not much I know about him, but the fact that he has a "365 challenge" which obviously seems to refer to the "a-shot-each-day-of-the-year-idea" and those compostions of him are among the most creative ones I have found on instagram. I really love the mood of his pictures, some of them are pretty creepy aswell. But just look for yourselves.

Check out all the other shots by @evanjamesatwood!

itchy feet.

I wanted to do this for a while now: showing you the reason(s) why I am in love with instagram, or more specificly its users. So I collected some pictures from my favourite photographers and I am going to introduce them to you in the following weeks.

The first artist I want to give an introduction about is @miltoncross and he pretty much already delivers what I love about following so many different strangers on instagram: the WANDERLUST. I, myself haven't been able to travel much in the last few years, but I have this constant desire of travelling as many foreign places as possible. My parents never shared this desire, so our holiday trip destinations never went across the german border. (ok, we were in Austria once, but come on!) When I was a teenager, I had the chance to see London, Paris, Budapest and Copenhagen without my parents. But not much has changed since then. I was always so jealous when my classmates in school were talking about trips to Spain, Egypt, Greece a.s.o. But hopefully this is going to change in the near future. Meanwhile I keep enjoying the many terrific moments captured by those pilgramers (as they call themselves) on instagram.

Check out all the other shots by @miltoncross!

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.

lately.

You might have noticed, it has been a bit quiet around here the last weeks. I already mentioned, there soon might be some changes in my life, and to achieve these changes I had to invest some time, but on the weekends I still tried to enjoy my free time. And I wanted to share some impressions with you, I captured via Instagram. 

glow.

Yet, another eventful week has passed, and I am going to share some impressions with you sweethearts. Saturday last week I spent some time with my BFF and her sister again. First we went shopping and afterwards we enjoyed the evening sun at the Isar. We had hoped that not many others would be there, since there was a football game taking place at the same time, but it was crowded as hell, with wannabe vikings singing Manowar songs and other rather unpleasant people. But still it was a nice atmosphere. 

Then on monday I got an invitation for a hiphop show, once again, one of my friends, Laura, won tickets and she asked me if I wanna come. Sure I do! I had lots of fun with the main act, Gonjasufi, the atmosphere was great with all those people celebrating one of their musical heroes which I had never heard of before (shame on me!) But I was even more intrigued by Sun Glitters, the guy from Luxembourg who played as support act. Very nice tunes. But then again, it was rather sad, that the audience seemed not to be open-minded enough to enjoy an artist outside their favourite genre. 

Then, I don't know why, but people keep bringing me awesome foods, like cake and stuff, and I just can't refuse their offerings, can I? Oh, and apparently, right now I am enjoying clumsy times, I'll probably report about a huge mistake I committed, in my monthly review in a few days, but here I show you what happens, when you live in a really small place and have no space to put things, and then you put them in dangerous places and then shit happens. So the only wine glass I had (which I, by the way, stole from a bar that sold me a ridiculously overpriced drink, so I suspected the glass was inclusive, uhmmm yeah) broke into a thousand pieces.   

And here is a picture of a littly buddy, who went astray in my hallway and was my guest for several days. He didn't move an inch the first 48 hours, and I got a little worried. I opened the windows and hoped he would fly away but then he just moved from one wall to another. But finally, today he found his way out. I named him George, by the way. Farewell, Georgie! 

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.

surprise.

Now that I am highly addicted to instagram I want to share some photos on a weekly basis with you.

Up there you see the kitteh of my housemate who visited my apartment because obviously it was no good weather for playing outside.

Also, I ate a lot of cake this week. There was even a third piece I didn't take a picture of. Just for the record, it was a walnut tarte.

On tuesday, I went to the BEAR IN HEAVEN concert, which was, of course, amazing. I must be on a winning streak, I dunno, but again (as for the last concert with OBERHOFER & WHITE ARROWS) I won tickets for the show, very last minute style. More by accident, I found a contest online and wrote an e-mail, and 15 minutes later I got a notification, that I had won the tickets. That's pretty convenient considering all the upcoming shows in june (What's going on anyway, Munich?). So, because I saved some money with the tickets, I thought I could invest in the sweet bag shown above. 

And then yesterday, I had a suprise day off. I didn't know there would be yet another bavarian feast day as there already had been lots of them the last weeks. So I fixed a date with my BFF and her sister, and we spent some time in Munichs famous recreational park, the english garden, with it's surfer boys, some unbelievable red trees and a satisfying amount of FroYo.