The fake, the future and the finite

I didn't go to German class last Wed. and then class on Thursday was canceled because our teacher was sick...so I opted to go today as my last day of German class. It has been really awesome to take this class and I learned a lot. It has helped me to become more comfortable doing basic things like shopping and traveling around the city. Today I even had a short conversation with a Turkish guy in a local Imbiss mostly in German. I could follow him for awhile for then had to resort to "I am sorry, I only speak a little German"....which lead to where are you from?...which led to a conversation about Bush (as always it does) and me reassuring him there was no way that Bush could continue to be president after this year. We both agreed 'Bush ist schlecht.'

If you have never been overseas it is hard to overstate the role that your country's leader has in how people react to you (once they hear where you are from). For example, 10 years ago I was traveling in Spain during the Monica Lewisky trials . Traveling from (or to?) Bilboa, a bus driver discovered where we were from and proceeded to make crude jokes and gestures referring to Clinton for the rest of the trip. sigh
Well, I digress....

On Friday, R felt better enough to go to a few openings. We stopped by the Glas Pavilion and walked the Brunnenstraße openings. One show stuck out for me at Klemm's, 'Endless Lowlands breaking up - part 2'.


The fake, the future and the finite
(A commemoration of the absolute in the 21st Century)
Part 1: Sun, Rainbow, Arch

I was first drawn in by these rainbow spectrum sculptures. I discovered they were by Alon Levin and looked up the work as soon as I got home. This person (girl or guy?) has great work and it is worth looking through the .pdfs that accompanying many of the projects. For anyone who knows my work, it is pretty obvious why I like Levin's.


Colour Study of Group Behaviour and the Need to Control
Flowers 1 - 100, left to right, front to back

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Yummy brunch pic once again. They changed the menu at Blaues Band and so I tried to try this new option, the 'Interkontinentalische Frühstuck'. It has everything you could ever want for brunch in one meal; an assortment of cheese and meats, bread, a soft-boiled egg, at least 5 kinds of fruit, a pancake with nutella and powdered sugar, and quark (which is kinda like yogurt without the cultures). R's 'Farmer's Omlette' is pictured in the background.