Thursday, October 21, 2010

Monaco, the place - not the band...



I always wondered about the name of New Order Peter Hook's side project... "Monaco"
I mean there are a lot of images and emotions connected to this name... Not really fitting to a band with that kind of music, you'd think... Maybe it was meant to be tongue in cheek... But when I accompanied Mona to an awards ceremony and was able to see the place I was even more surprised...
But see for yourself!



I guess I was in a good situation to experience the most "New Order"-like feel for the city as it was already autumn... The weather was way better than in Germany where we just came from, but still left me with a feeling of displacement in that kind of location...


















All in all I have to say I really enjoyed visiting the place. I met lots of wonderful people and found quite a different place than I had anticipated... That might have to do with it being off season, but Monaco felt to me like a glamorously slow beehive past it's glory... with many surprises off the main streets... So, maybe Peter Hook was onto something after all!

Friday, October 8, 2010

More travel and assorted iPhone images...



I don't quite know what to write about these images, or even what these images have in common... I mean they are all taken on a recent trip through Germany... Lots of input received here... The first image is taken in Munich... An S-Bahn station underpass I always found creepy...



Surprising things left over from the past.



On my way back to the Muensterland... Stopping by a friend's studio in Stuttgart... Looking out of his window...





Waiting for appointments in Hamburg... Luckily close to the habor... Love it there!



Demo in the middle of Hamburg... Police is demonstrating against the cut of their funding... Interesting scene...



Waiting for my train to Berlin...



And in the end all things turned rosy... ;) (showing off the hipstamatic app to my former roommate while having drinks in Berlin.)