Marruecos

                         

painting in Fes, Morocco, with musical acompaniment.

More Pic´s on flickr

Out of the Absurdity of Life

My flyer for Filastine´s album release in Berlin got featured in the 325-pages book "Out of the Absurdity of Life" from Norient Sounds. Book release is today as part of the NORIENT MUSIKFILM FESTIVAL. Get your hands on it, a must-read about globalized music culture between Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America and the US.

http://norient.com/academic/norientbook012/

Logo Design Workshop

I was asked, together with 4 other artists, to give a logo design workshop for a 10th grade art class in a school in the multicultural neighborhood of Neukölln. The final results will be presented on January 10th, 2013, and the best logo is going to be the logo for the YOUNG ARTS NK art school.

The kids in my class came up with some really good ideas so that it was hard to chose one. 
But this is our final result:

and here are more pics from work in class after the jump.

Meaning of Symbols: Rain

"Rain is nourishment for the earth and is known as the water of life. Rain takes many forms and can be anything from a gentle sprinkling and light watering of the earth, up to a torrid downpour and possible flooding; life giving on one hand and potentially death dealing on the other. Rain is a very serious affair, especially wherever water is scarce and/or crops are growing. A wonderful, (surviving) example of this seriousness is the world famous Native American rain dances, created to induce rain. 

Rain drops can symbolize heaven's tears and the accompanying LIGHTENING can be seen as heaven's anger (for example, thunderbolts were the favored weapon of Zeus, etc.). Rain is a symbol for tears, sorrow, anger, cleansing, renewal, forgiveness and more -- usually on a heavenly, worldly or very large sort of personal scale.