Happy Halloween

Converse Goodies

Thanks you for these beauties:
Converse Chuck Tailor 70's and Converse Cons CT x Fragment Design

Letzter Aufruf Tegel

Gestern abend habe ich mit meiner Mutter eine besondere Buchvorstellung 
besucht. "Letzter Aufruf Tegel" ist eine Hommage an den tollste Flughafen 
der Welt. Stilecht wurde der Event über den Dächern des Euopa Centers in
der PanAm Lounge ausgerichtet.
Der Flughafen Otto-Lilienthal aka Tegel scheint in jedem Berliner einen 
sentimentalen Nerv zu treffen. Ich habe dort mein ganzes Leben lang meine 
Mama am Lufthansa Schalter besucht und abgeholt. Mit über 40 Jahren 
Berufserfahrung  ist sie einer der am längsten Angestellten im Hauptstad-
flughafen. Umso stolzer bin ich, daß sie für dieses tolle Buch auch ihren Senf
dazu geben durfte.

Monday Thoughts

Västra Design

Anybody who has been with me a minute or two, knows I am a foodie. 
That's where my gift idea for wooden cutting boards with sneaker 
emerged from 3 years ago. 
Yesterday I got a sweet surprise in the mail. Thank you Västra Design 
for the goodies that bring two passions of mine together.

Jacob Riis' New York

MOMA has a nice little Jacob Riis collection.

In 1870, when 21-year-old Jacob August Riis immigrated to America from 

Denmark on the steamship Iowa, he rode in steerage with nothing but the 

clothes on his back, 40 borrowed dollars in his pocket, and a locket 

containing a single hair from the girl he loved.

Unable to find a steady job, he worked as a farmhand, ironworker, brick-

layer, carpenter, and salesman, and experienced the worst aspects of 

American urbanism--crime, sickness, squalor--in the low-rent tenements 

and lodging houses that would eventually inspire the young Danish 

immigrant to dedicate himself to improving living conditions for the city’s 

lower-class.

Riis wanted to show the the world the dehumanizing dangers of the 

immigrant neighborhoods he knew all too well. He taught himself 

photography and began taking a camera with him on his nightly rounds 

through the slums of New York. The recent invention of flash photography 

made it possible to document the dark, over-crowded tenements, grim 

saloons and dangerous slums. Riis’s pioneering use of flash photography 

brought to light even the darkest parts of the city. Used in articles, books, 

and lectures, his striking compositions became powerful tools for social 

reform.