Melt! Festival 2009 in Ferropolis, Grafenhainichen, close to Dessau.

Few people know that Ferropolis/Graefenhainichen is located in a former coalmining region, Wittenberg, and during GDR years the nearby chemistry industry caused remarkably severe pollution.
This area was known as Bitterfeld. Nowadays, the environment seems natural and clean, a lot has been done to make it a surrounding worth living in. Lakes, woods, leasure sites, you can all find it here. Regarding to the press, the industry focusses on solar engineering and renewable energy.
We also find a very high unemployment rate and vanishingly few young people – They all moved to the cities or to the western part of Germany.
Naaaah, talking schmalking: It still is a nice place. You got the picture.
Here are the photos:

Click here to open the Melt! 2009 set on Flickr

Melt! Festival July 18th – 20th, 2008 in Ferropolis, Grafenhainichen, close to Dessau. Remarkable setting and mind blowing acts: Goldie, Whitest Boy alive, Booka Shade, Roisin Murphy, Mode Selector, Gus Gus, Hot Chip, Björk and many many more.

Click here for the whole Flickr Set and higher picture quality.

It was a strange mix of sunshine and thunderstorm, but though a lot of fun. We were privileged to camp directly on the festival site, the permanant beats in our ears. I had a flu and a sore throat – but it was worth it after all.

Enjoy for the moment.

Snoop Dog made it. He has now become the reincarnation of German Folk singer Roy Black:

And here is a bloke who tried that in 1971:

Grimes: That should better be posted in German. It might work in english, too: Anybody who happens to be in Cologne from April 06th to 13th:
Look out for this cosy venue: The Motoki Wohnzimmer. Motoki will provide us with some happy days during the TRIMM-DICH-TAGE.

Motoki Kollektiv is a bunch of creative blokes and girls who want to share their knowledge, space and time with others. Here’s a panoramic view of the site, if you like that click here for more photos and info. I don’t know if religious habits are part of the program. I will judge for myself because I will attend some of the events. Hope nobody is offended by my name though ;).

The Motoki living room is located in the heart of [Cologne] Ehrenfeld, in 500m distance from Ehrenfeld station and close to Venloer Strasse.
The name Motoki “living room” puts a deeper meaning in the purpose of our place. It is social core of the Motoki collective. We invite friends, neighbors and visitors to events and activities here.

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Bienvenidos a Colonia, Welcome & Alaaf,
on the First Holy Day of Carnival: Weiberfastnacht (untranslatable) there will Beer & Champagne: Come here and sing along:

I will be spinning some Bastardpop and trashy 90s tunes.
You are not in Cologne? Shame on you!

Decisons made easy: I was pregnant with thoughts of switching my blog to english language for half a year. There is a german post on this, too). So after 6 month of not being able to make my mind of I came back home realizing that it’s just about time to do it.

I hope the teutonic scent on my english smells sexy to you. So enjoy my blog telling wordbits of Cologne, Germany and whatever is happening on that Top Level Domain.

Heute morgen erreichte mich eine Mail. Die Regisseurin Christine Wernke sucht noch Sponsoren für Ihre Produktion Grenze: (Arbeitstitel)

• Hier gibt es ein Booklet zur Produktion
• Ein Preview wird in Kürze auf der Website zur Verfügung stehen
• Dort gibt es auch die Möglichkeit, kleine oder grosse Beträge zu spenden. Bequem via Paypal

Ich war leider nur am Samstag da, aber es hat schon ordentlich gerummst.

Hier noch mehr Fotos bei Ipernity, mit bmxmasters getagged. Und hier die grössere Auswahl bei Flickr [sic!]

Wer meine Bilder vom letzten Jahr noch nicht kennt: Bitteschön. Nur ein kleines Best Of, ich hatte keine Lust, nachträglich alle Fotos zu Ipernity hochzuladen.