Last Sunday (not yesterday, the one before) was confirmation that being back In Germany doesn't necessarily have to mean that my life will be boring from this point forth. By coincidence I had found out about a tiny 'festival' called Sunday?! It's What You Make It at one of my favorite hometown venues, the beloved E-Werk. I had only been home for one and a half days back then, so it was a good first opportunity to meet up with some friends.

So we chilled in the sun, drank beer and listened to relaxing swedish indie rockers Jeniferever. After their set we went on to one of our favorite local beer gardens til late at night. While everyone else went home after that, I returned to the festival to see Bodi Bill, who I had heard only good things about, mostly from my boy Äl. And good they were – great mixture of Electronica, Minimal and... Folk? They had fun – happy to play a rather small crowd after having to please thousands at MELT! – and the crowd had fun at this cozy little outdoor gig.

Almost perfect night, hadn't I gone from full speed to full stop in less than a second with my bike on my way home. I had to do so in order to avoid one of those damn pizza delivery scooters at an inner city crossroad. Result: blood dripping forehead, busted knee, fucked up shoulder and something wrong with my back. Luckily, I crashed right next to a clinic to which a fellow festival returnee helped me find my way. Nothing big in the end, but it still hurt like a mother! Oh well...

Whoopdeewhoop – I've been published again! This time in the very fine Neuland – The Future Of German Graphic Design, curated by Twopoints and published by Actar. Although the work in there isn't exactly my most recent – and most favorite for that matter – I'm still a little proud to be noted alongside such great designers as Pixelgarten, Node or Purple Haze. Also, there is a long list of ex-Mathildenhöhe colleagues and friends like Tobi Becker, Michi Satter, Charlie Hoffmann or John Russo & Gina Mönch presented in there. Heck, with U9 even one of my ex-profs is showcased! Ok, enough with the name dropping, but I guess Darmstadt wasn't such a bad choice after all ;)

Anyways, the custom made font of the book takes some getting used to just as well as the black on silver print of the body text. Also they translated my English 'interview' into german rather stiffly. Nonetheless I think it's great book, delivering a nice overlook of contemporary german design while adding a fun personal note with the casual questionnaires. I'm very happy and honoured to be part of it. Go out, buy a copy and become the giggly little schoolgirl that is me right now :)

Now will you look at that, if it ain't Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biehl grocery shopping last 4th of July. Not interesting you say? Wrong. Cause if you take a closer look, you'll discover that the Prince Of Pop is wearing the same Adidas sneakers I was already sporting over a year ago.

I'm not hip, I'm über-hip ;)

I've been back in Deutschland for almost 5 day now but before I forget, I wanted to drop some quick lines about my last night in Oslo. After already having spent a nice 'last supper' with part of the Bleed crew Wednesday night at Olaf Ryes Plass and the very cozy MIR – the latter of which I sadly had never been before – it was time to say goodbye to my swedish homeboys and -girls. I had originally planned to just have a simple little barbeque up on St. Hanshaugen right next to my apartment. After talking to a couple of the guys though, I found out that they had already made plans to hang at closeby peninsula Bygdøy. After some hesitance – my lazy ass didn't wanna go that far – I gave in. Niklas picked up Fredrika and me, picked up Max and Viktor, made a quick stop at the very chaotic flatshare that he called his home now and off we went to the beach.



After the first Corona and some future fantasizing with Max near the water, we moved on to the beach volleyball court in a park located right next to the shore (really quite pretty actually). Watched a couple of games, not realizing that we had to put a shoe down besides the net to signalize our will to play – and when we finally did, one after the other of 'our' teams got their asses whooped. We settled on mixed teams in the end, made it more even / more fun. As for me, my game hadn't suffered as much as I would've guessed :D



When it started getting dark, we headed back to the city. Not without some bad ass car surfing by Nikke and Olof first that is! Would've loved to join in but I know for a fact that beer and longboarding don't mix well, at least in my case. Anyways, said goodbye to half of the people and drove on to Simon and Johan's place. Unfortunately Johan was still in Sweden and came back a day later – him by far not being the only one I didn't get a chance to say farewell to btw – but at least I had a chance to meet Simon and Hannah one last time. Cracked open a bottle of champagne, had an improvised hot dog dinner, made a lot of 'yo moma' and nazi jokes, started to watch 'Kill Bill 2', fell asleep and called it a night. Basically a very regular evening with the Swedish and therefore, I think, the best way to leave :)

At least half a year in Germany.
:) or :(
I'm not sure yet.