so, I am doing a little stopover in bruxelles, the capital of belgium. visiting friends, enjoying various surroundings and still working for dezeen. so why not traveling as long as I can.. in fact I am here since saturday night - (I’ve spend that night in the ‘famous’ cafe central). but there was no scanner around to make my current stay official. and I still had some meetings with designers from london to post.

I am in london since friday, had a great halloween evening at the no. 5 cavendish square hotel, get to know the cold and rainy british weather and didnt see anything designish worth to post. but I present ‘the diet chip’, an invention of stephan siepermann during the dutch design week.

Erdnussflips — a light brown, peanut-flavored corn snack in the shape of a small pellet

call me crazy or scream at me because I cant stay somewhere for long. but I feel home in different places. sometimes I just think that it is just nicer somewhere else. you learn a lot while traveling and meeting people. that’s what I do. london was good - london wants me back. here I come. lalala

they are maybe famous or know for their furniture, their products and many other reasons: but not for making punk music. joost van bleiswijk, stephan siepermann and jos kranen are a band. but not a regular one. they never do auditions. they think that they call themself ‘4 mouthed barbarelas’ (but they are not sure yet). they perform just once a year, during the dutch design week.

jos kranen

(continue…)

this poster is hanging close to the witte dame, the ‘heart‘ of eindhoven. just a quick post. you will find more tomorrow.

hm.. I should have photoshoped my face into the poster. haha

today I got a hint - “matylda, you do not show much about your private life on your blog… but you should!”

I am still busy with a menu for a restaurant

tongue down means tired

wedding by li qing, 2006

you think that you are going for a nice trip to dublin and it ends up to be a the most expensive, cold and wet weekend of your life. don’t get me wrong, dublin is a nice city but we were not prepared for all this. and I haven’t seen anything I really liked or anything that surprised me in the capital of ireland. but we had 1 great night out and 1 day at the sea. at least we spend the last night at the airport because our flight was at 5.30 am. I always wanted to sleep at starbucks - yeah

irish life - beer, umbrellas, walking around ‘almost naked’ in cold days (english people tend to do the same)

I liked the central post office in the city center

jack walking by julian opie, 2007 moving, digital installation

a wooden house in howth (13km from dublin) looks like a caravan

a deluxe spar supermarket - never seen this before

on friday afternoon I took a flight to dublin, ireland, for the weekend. it’s a short trip from london, takes maybe an hour, but I always like to use my time efficiently. this is my belief of a perfect doughnut. a symbiosis of doughnut and bagle. thank you for the painting book, krispykreme.

before

after

some dancing at the kith-kin pa-ah ty last saturday in covent garden.

pa-ah ty

jochim mayr, derya inanici and marion fussi
- my company for the night

robert andriessen - mr. designguide.tv

rory dodd - one of the temporary hosts of the venue

yesterday I spend the day in brighton. what can I say? of course, london is great, but I am girl that needs some leisure time out of town. It’s good to see something new and it’s good to breath some fresh air. so we went to brighton, an idyllic town on the coast of south england. It even has a little bit southern france charm. but at the top of the list was the recommended dolphin derby. it’s a fairground booth where you try to let a little plastic dolphin ’swim’. 18 people can take part in a game. they sit next to each other and try to get balls rolling which make the dolphin move. lucky me took 2 little dolphins home - maybe a cheap victory but the fun time that I needed.

my new buisness cards arrived yesterday. just needed some new ones with my uk mobile number. I gave one of them to a friend and we replaced his awful van gogh print from ikea with the matandme picture which is taken by lutz caesar. now I am immortalised in a cool london apartment.

yesterday I popped out and went to the butt magazine party at the bistrotheque, east london. butt is a highclass homosexual magazine for and about ‘poofters’. (english people told me that this is the way you call our gay friends) which is published in amsterdam. I have a big sympathy for the magazine. I like the layout, the pink paper and especially the front pages. maybe the guys are gay but they are still man. and after having a look on the invitation with the text: ‘buy your own mug and drink as much beer as you possibly can’ I knew that I have to drop over. it was busy and sweatie and I just saw 3 girls, including myself, who lost their way.

almost the only picture in my livingroom in maastricht, netherlands:
butt cover - issue number 11 - autumn 2004

there is a local cornershop on brick lane, london. they have cctv mugshots of shoplifters hanging at the wall. this shop owner let us know that this girl lives around the corner and since she was longing for some biscuits she never came back again.

the text under the picture: ‘on 30 august, at 11:10 am. the lady above took a packet of biscuit (jammie dodgers) all captured on cctv. she put the biscuit in the bag and left left without paying. thieving is a crime however small it may be. please do not steal, or you will see yourself in print?’

is it worth getting banned from a shop over a biscuit?

maybe it’s not the most exciting thing in the world (especially because it’s the first thing I am posting since I am in london) but sainsbury’s, the supermarket chain, is brighten up their exterior. this is an accessories (yeah, I know - it’s against burglars but still gross) that makes me tremble.

from the evening on I will be available via this number. it’s my english mobile number. my german and my dutch mobile will be switched off.

I am a fanatic in taking pictures of other people. and sometimes I also love to play a role in my photography. yesterday my 3 buddies visited me to celebrate that I am going to london for couple weeks and we had a chance to capture the moment. the titel is ‘me and my bridesmaides’ because they wanna become the bridesmaides.

alex zurek, christian barden, me, oeskan demirdere
in a last supper moment

yesterday I have been close to the ‘apple store’ (may I really name it so?) in maastricht. I was passing by and was thinking about the store in san francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO

saturday - 10 am (they are opening the doors)

MAASTRICHT

thursday - 1 pm (I was standing there for 10 min and saw 2 people on the other side of the street)

it’s 4 am right now and I am at my apartment in maastricht. cleaning my ‘office’ (I use to call it so but it’s just the half of my livingroom) I had some unlabelled cd’s and found this content: lutz caesar (he is the one who took the picture of me you can see above, in the head), sebastian mueller, ulrich bartholomös (camera boy), kolja hebenstreit (sleeping) and me enjoying a sunny morning (I guess it was april 2007, about 8am) on a rooftop in berlin (recognize the main station and the ‘reichstag’). yeah, it was a funny and eventful morning (and night)..

the first scream is mine

while you are studying you meet a lot people who are working in different disciplines. after a while you become a part of diverse projects. here is one of daniel van hauten. and I am the one you shouldn’t argue with. haha

Made in China “Action Trailer” from Daniel van Hauten on Vimeo.

next screening: trash film awards, berlin, 13.09.08