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Spielsucht

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

It was sunny and clear autumn day with slight chill in the air.
I was at the main square of Graz observing flock of pigeons in front of city council with nobody around me except of two men on ecstasy who just bought their supply and old drunkard stretching on bank in booze doze.
It was my […]

Die Presse

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

Sunday: Putin and company
I dialed many times before something clicked in enigmatic telecom spaces and voice told: “Privet!”
It is always miracle to hear sounds of your own tongue as if after morning cup of Sunday coffee over “der Standard” you make amazing blitz-trip in your past
My Austrian acquaintances demonstrating common competence often talk about countries […]

Sale

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

If you start doing anything seriously, soon you will realize that problems of any contemporary occupation arise mostly at promotion level.
If you cannot market yourself, you can do nothing. In such arts, as cinematography and photography, the more gifted you are the less chances you have to maneuver smoothly
through troublesome process of advertising.
Artistic talent is […]

Imitations

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Great Russian writer Ivan Turgenev wrote that our happiness is usually erected at pedestal of other people misfortune.
Mechanism of reality is so that we can feel good only on expense of somebody else. In ethical sphere it is expressed in emotional vampiring of humans, in social and economic sphere it lays in basement of labor […]

How I got my first camera

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

The moment when airplane takes off and lands is fascinating. There I was again - in the big belly of steel bird landing this time in Stockholm airport.
High speed, vibration and awareness of certain risk- make perception especially sharp.
In proximity of a few seconds you evaluate all your life.
I was invited to Sweden by […]

Mustard

Monday, October 8th, 2007

I was taking a nap on small broken bed of mine in Mehlplatz-1 garret after sleepless night and was galvanized by crashing noise of bottle collector in the yard.
Graz was one of the cutest towns I ever lived in, but to be positioned in old center of it under the roof with unbearable heat in […]

Memento mori

Monday, October 1st, 2007

I have never met photographer who would not consider himself to be genial.
Most of them including those who photograph only for home archives - regard them to be unsurpassed specialists in photography and also consider others species with cameras to be ridiculous. Whenever I meet with next hobby photographer he hurries to give me advice […]

Nude models

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

Today I forced my way through overcrowded Neubaugasse, where autumn flea market took place. For a while I was standing by kiosks with Lagos – fried crumpets with garlic, inhibited by the struggle of motives and feeling overflow of saliva in my mouth.
I heard from older generation that during Second World War at market places […]