We’re a bit sad to leave San Miniato again – not only because we know that the weather will be worse up North where we’re headed – but also because we enjoyed the Tuscany life, food, and people so much. It was very interesting to experience life and people in the community of San Miniato. We tried to find out about the ‘slow food’ movement in, which presents itself as a movement back to the roots of healthy and consious dining culture – a counter-movement against globalisation – and in a way it represented the opposite of the idea of … Continue reading →
Relaxed and recharged from our day-off on the Adriatic Sea in Grado between Trieste and Venice we headed west to Bologna where we picked up our volunteer Italian translator and interpreter Irene from the railway station. Our next destination was San Miniato, a beautiful little town between Firenze and Pisa, known for great Chianti and the community being a new official member of the nation-wide ‘slow food‘ movement. Being a ‘citta slow’ means that local gastronomy, food, and delicacies producing businesses devoted themselves to purchasing and selling only goods from the area and educating people in becoming more conscious about … Continue reading →
Now is the time where we really need to talk about our digital navigation-system. Before the trip we did some research on different GPS navigators and eventually bought the one that ranked best in Germany’s leading consumer product tests ‘Stiftung Warentest’ (rated ‘good’) – the ‘Falk Navigator’ F3… Not only is ‘user-friendliness’ completely absent on this device, starting from the confusing icons that are quite opposite of ‘intuitive’, also the actual ‘navigation’ from A to B doesn’t work most of the time. Constant reminders to ‘please turn around’ where we are on the right way or asking us in its … Continue reading →
After a quite bumpy ride on roads across the north-east Croatian countryside we hit the speedway somewhere near the Bosnian border and rode Frida westwards to the capital, Zagreb. We arrived at Medika in the early evening, a squat industrial area in the city center with artist ateliers, cafeteria and concert rooms for alternative culture events. We were allowed to park and sleep there for one night in return of presenting our video installation. After a walk through the old city center with our local host Maja, across the marketplace and into the cathedral, we had dinner and returned to … Continue reading →
After a great week in the beautiful town of Vukovar we’re back on the road – to Zagreb – our heads filled up with images, sounds and emotions from the last days. The initial reason why we chose Vukovar as one of our destination was the fact that it is symbolic for the most recent dark chapter of Europe’s history. Less than two decades have passed and we wanted to explore how people nowadays cope with the traumatising legacy of their hometown that was totally destroyed to the grounds. We wanted to see how the multi-ethnic community of Vukovar rebuilt … Continue reading →
*beauty from ashes In the last two days Vukovar has caught us completely. It’s an incredibly diverse city engulfed by disturbing and dramatic history on almost every street-corner. Coming from Berlin, we are used to living in a place shaken by wars and ripped apart by political ideologies throughout the last century – but it always seems far away and surreal – unlike here, where the streets are still covered with provisorically tarred craters of grenade explosions, buildings bestrewn with hundreds of holes from bullet and shrapnel impacts and some completely destroyed houses, desolated and reclaimed by nature. Some people … Continue reading →
some video impressions about travelling with our 1977 Mercedes caravan… » more photos of Frida in the slideshow
After a good night at our new home-base in the house of the “Youth Peace Group Danube” of Vukovar we went with our unbelievably helpful host Saša for a nice introduction-round through Vukovar. The prayers for better weather helped and we had quiet good conditions to shoot our first pictures of the city. Vukovar was completely destroyed in the Yugoslavian War in the early ninties. Today in 2010 this city is still rebuilding itself. You can see a lot of demolished houses and signs of wartimes everywhere. So we went to a destroyed chapel on an old German cemetery, to … Continue reading →
arrived in Vukovar, finally the rain stopped. We heard, also the rain in Poland is over now. We are happy for all our new friends in Krakow. And a little sad. Because we would have liked to stay. And because we would have liked to see your beautiful city in the sunlight. We will come back. So now, Vukovar. We took the 2 day trip to Croatia as a possibility to finally sleep more than 5 or 6 hours a night, also to go through all the material we shot and to perfect our technique to shoot while driving (which … Continue reading →
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*jazz, pope, steel, and dada Morning time: sitting in front of Fabryka, enjoying the rare sunlight, our Filmcrew interviewed Jacek about his Kraków’s life, his passion for old cars and the various mad scientist machines he invented. Then, off we went, with Frida, to Nowa Huta to capture the gigantic steel city of Huta. Unfortunately the gates are closed to the public, but nonetheless we were able to make some nice shots there. Meanwhile Flux was in downtown Kraków to meet Elwira and Popesz again – on the roof of their beautiful appartment with nice view across the city. He … Continue reading →
Frida’s position is tracked via GPS and the position data will always be updated to our Map when we find cloud access. Our points of interest and the locations where our Installation is being presented are marked on the map too! Follow us virtually on our trip!
Dear friends in Poland! Come to Fabryka/ Krakow tonight! We will be setting up our installation here around 9pm. There will be a party and DJs inside and the MishMashMe Mobil outside. We are looking forward to see you there!! Sorry, due to the bad weather conditions, the presentation of our installation is CANCELLED for tonight. Maybe tomorrow? We’ll keep you informed. Pocałunki z Krakowa!
Our mission today was setting up the installation for the first time. For this purpose we chose the district of Nowa Huta, a famous neighborhood from the socialist era. We drove around large squares and through wide alleys framed by communist house blocks and eventually stopped at the Ronalda Reagana square (!) to capture some panorama shots of the wide street circle – from Frida’s rooftop. At some point two cops came over and ordered us to leave the spot because we were blocking a pedestrian crossing. We took off and parked the caravan on the other side of the … Continue reading →
After a short but deep sleep we enjoyed breakfast on the camping site in Thräna and soon hit the autobahn to Poland. It was a long ride. The first 250km were quite sunny and Frida rolled under azure summer skies but the closer we came towards Krakow the more grey it got and the second half of the seven hours trip we fought our way through pouring rain. We arrived around 20:30 at Fabryka Krakow, a bar and club in an industrial complex. We met Elwira and Popesz, two VJ friends (aka. EleKTro mOOn), who organised the parking space for us … Continue reading →
we met at 10:00 in the backyard of credo:film to load all the technical equipment into our caravan “Frida” to hug and say good-bye to the credo colleagues. then, it took a quite long time to cruise around Berlin – from Mitte to Tiergarten to Neukölln and Kreuzberg to pick up our private belongings and find space in the van to store everything. around 16:00 we finally hit the city outskirts and the autobahn bound east. our first stop was Herzfelde in Brandenburg, where we met Dirk, a very talented, friendly and funny metal and tin engineer specialised in chassis … Continue reading →
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We had a wonderful Party @ betahaus/ Open Design City on Friday. Despite the rainy weather we had a great time with sparkling wine, we covered the ground with pink sticky notes and Frida was more beautiful than ever! Now we are packing our bags. Passport. Raincoat. Bialetti. Sunglasses. What else?
“Farewell & Startschuss” We are celebrating the kickoff of our Tour d’europe with you tonight! 7 pm @ betahaus Berlin! Come and join us – and get mishmashed up!
