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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. and hey support them becoming olympic discipline :) In Paris at the Olympics they already had a bassin besides the game courts within the event. Now it would be phantastic to have them with their competitions there too :)
:: There are videos about it on my VIDEO page here on this website :) :: MORE about the EUROPEAN SKIMBOARDING CUP - euroskimcup.com (external page) on their official website |
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BERLIN DANCE OPEN 2025 moments. A decade ago I would suppport streetbasketball tournaments along with dancing elements in the sessions. When BERLIN DANCE OPEN appeared 2025 on my timeline it was no question I would sneak into the event and see what dancing has become. In short: AMAZING. Awsome to see the next generation gets off their screens in motion right on the dancefloors - not just one crew but many, Silversurfers as well. Happy the dancefloors of the future are in good hands :)
:: See some of it in motion in their channel (external website) and visit their website too: www.berlindanceopen.de (external website) |
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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) :: MORE about the FIBA WOMENS BASKETBALL WORLDCUP on www.fiba.basketball (external page) |
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THE HOOPBUS tourstop in Berlin after London and Paris prior the VERY 1st official NBA League games in Berlin and London – I made a mini clip about that tourstop in Berlin.
:: Watch it on my VIDEO PAGE on this website :)
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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.
:: You can still see the report directly on the website of the DOSB Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund (German Olympic Sports Union) :). They also supported the publication. |
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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.
:: Search for pictures of the phenomenon with ecosia (and plant a tree same time, external website) |
| Above: The bright dot in the middle is actually the planet Jupiter. :) |
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Grammyawardwinning music legend Robin Banerjee of Amy Winehouse′s "Back to black" album during a gig with awsome 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. BIG thank you also to Dani Musicevents Hamburg for letting me bring my cam after Hamburg in Berlin too! Thankful for AWSOME concert moments, and happy someone shares my passion for new talents. Also: I had my Amy-Album with me, realizing when Robin told us how an acoustic version at the BBC came to be - it is right on this album that I already had for decades. Musichistory and memories for life. :) More soon.
:: You can see him here during "Tears dry on their own" at Glastonbury festival 2007 filmed by the BBC |
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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 |
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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.
:: 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. |
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| :: 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 :) |
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:: 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.
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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. |
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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. |
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One of my followers toured with beloved SEEED: Harvey Thompson of Coldsteel. Peter Fox would found the BÄM steeldrum academy for underpriviledged kids in Berlin after he experienced the awsome Coldsteel drummers and realized we had nothing comparable in Germany. The kids would learn directly from those LEGENDS. And meanwhile over the years the drumkids became a huge success playing from basketball tournaments, the BRASS FESTIVAL a.m.m. to the carnival. AWSOME.
I didn′t knew that in the beginning - I got into Harvey′s music by a BYOS Starboy steeldrum cover. And from there we followed each other. Later realizing he was one of those EPIC drummers in the famous SEEED videos was mindblowing. By time Promark released a drumstickseries with the two cool Coldsteel drummers aka BYOS from that starboy cover - the ones you see here. Initially I bought them and that Gretsch snare for my own beats and made some test video recordings. When Harvey started a drum challenge for his students I turned these testrecordings in support of the drum challenge into a little video. There you are. Much RESPECT to Coldsteel and all the folks making this happen. :: the short video from these photos here on my VIDEO page on this website.
:: a fresh 2026 video by Harvey of BYOS / Coldsteel including the story how the Coldsteel drummers met Peter Fox of Seed (external link)
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| :: The Ghostbusters mobile at a moviepremiere – I made a mini clip about it. Watch it on my VIDEO PAGE on this website :) |
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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. :: MORE sports videos and links to the pages of the orgas on my VIDEO PAGE on this website
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Besides drastically shrinking pollinator numbers over the last 20 years. As someone who knows ALL THREE ways to create a diet - I WAS two times for 4.5 years vegetarian, I WAS 4.5 years vegan and NOW back on beeing a flexitarian but reducing my own meat eating a bit since, well I gained pretty much weight extra - more than a dozen kilograms - by returning to meat: There will be some need to change the diets. For anyone. But don´t worry, we also live in cool times with VERY cool plantbased variations. Like replacing meat here and there with delicious alternatives such as products from mushrooms. Or protein rich lentils (60% LESS WATER NEEDS compared to our traditional crops) - India even promotes them to their farmers since they got hit much earlier than Europe by droughts and given their population size much heavier by the changing weather patterns.
Btw. Lentils are also good for the female body with many many COOL health benefits compared to say wheat (we all know someone with a gluten allergy who won´t touch that cake or delicious crisp slice of bread) from their water needs to allergies and even positive effects on the body itself. You can do a lot to keep our food system stable - even if you keep eating meat - even if you love that steak - well you heard the news: There is not even enough food for cows rightnow.
A bit more about lentils in our food system here on the GOOD FOOD page of the BBC (I´m happy to have the legendary BBC THE FOOD PROGRAMME that once even interviewed Sir Paul Mc Cartney, among my followers) - you find lots and lots of information on the internet about lentils - as a I kid I only knew that lentilsoup with some meat and vinegar but today there are THOUSANDS of yummy spicy receipts for any occasion out there:
:: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/health/nutrition/top-health-benefits-of-lentils (external website)
And if you´d like to try one day less meat for a day a week - well Sir Paul Mc Cartney & friends have something for you:
Meat free mondays https://meatfreemondays.com (external website) - he started it. Many years ago I tried the same - just one day without meat, then one more. For office workers this has another benefit: Most vegetarian lunches won´t make you that tired as a meaty lunch so you can clearly perform better:
:: https://meatfreemondays.com (external website)
Well, you can at least start supporting pollinators. Even in the massive droughts rightnow (you all have seen the images of empty water reservoirs and dry rivers) - since along the foodchain sooner or later this ALSO helps your local farmers.
... More of this little flying busy pollinating fella - lets call it the glitter of a bee ;) and some more flying little acrobats on my VIDEO PAGE here on this website.
Did you know: Up to 80% of the food on your table relies on fluffy little pollinators. Since about only 10% of all the crops and fruits get directly eaten by humans - the rest is for feeding lifestock, fuel, producing constuction material etc. - the current droughts mean it has a direct effect on your plate.
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