My new toy pt. 2

Well well. I must admit it's not too easy just going on writing some crap after Flower's last post. Feels strange.
However, I'm doing that now. The reason is: I've got a new toy. A scanner! No, actually it's not my own but at least it will be for the next 10 months. Of course I already spent some hours on scanning everything I could get (hey, it can even do negatives! at least as soon as I find out how) and as I was sitting there, drinking my third cup of espresso out of this fancy iittala-cup checking my room for the next victim, I remembered I promised my lovely Mikontalo-mates to send them the map you might also remember...

It's just the result of the first try. You might notice that :] If you're interested in a better one just tell me and I'll try once again. Also, I've got the map in a much higher resolution on my computer, tell me if you wanna have it (7 MB).

That's all for now. Suomi and Polska-reports will follow as well as some more results of my first attempts of working with a scanner, hehe.

hebron, westbank.

this is actually a post for that nothing pops up to my mind. or it's just popping but not in cohesion.
yesterday I went with an organisation called Breaking the Silence to Hebron in the Palestinian Westbank. Let's called the occupied area. it is max. 2h away from sin city at the beach but light years away from normal life like in TLV.


on the way to Hebron. Hostile Palestinian land.

Hebron H1. A ghost city.

A lively Arabic market street. Arabs are not allowed to go there. Security reasons. For 7 years now. People livin in the houses are not allowed to leave it via the front door...

...so guys like them are forced to climb over roofs and walk long ways around the restricted streets. security reasons.

a post at the boarder to H1 (Palestinian)

we were not allowed to pass the street because we wanted to visit a Arabic family. security reasons. If we'd liked to visit a settler's house...no problem. For a woman of us with a Norwegian Diplomatic Passport it was also no problem to pass. security reasons?

security fence seperating Israel from the Palestinian areas.

all in all a shocking trip beyond the principles of democracy and partly far beyond humanity. the settlers in Hebron are famous for their violence against the Arabs. spiting, throwing trash, stones and physical attacs are daily life. children beat children beat elder and women. the IDF's task ist to protect the settlers, if they intervene for the Arabs they might be attacted verbally or physical, too.
If... 17 - 21 years old boys with M16s and an incredible power, but no idea about life (I had not then).
In fact the settlers can act like outlaws. And some do.



I saw just one side of the medal, much less to judge the political acting of the State of Israel. But seeing that someone surpresses human rights you could lose your believe in the good of human. but how will end up then?
in millions of security reasons.

the holiest place on earth.

the Mountain of Rock. the place where the world was created. nowadays the acess is restricted to tourists and Muslims because it's a holy islamic place. to prevent riots Jews better don't go there. as I heard Jews shouldn't go there also, because no one is holy enough anymore to have the right to be there. or sth like that, the highest rabbis decided.
former PM Ariel Sharon in 2000 thought it would be a good sight for livin' together with the Palestinians and went up there. of course it belongs to both religions... but some didn't agree and the 2nd Intifada started. Some say because Sharon some deny...
you see everything is totally complicated. in whole Jeruslaem. 3 religions clashing into one place. I don't like the atmosphere there. it's like under tension on every corner.
feels always good to ride back to sin city at the beach where cafés are the religion. holy shit look at this cake!

yad vashem

on thursday Yad Vashem was sceduled. the new Holocaust Museum by Moshe Safdie was quite impressive. The triangle cut the mountain like an axis. underground on the left and right are the exh spaces located.
while browsing them you always cross the axis (with barriers) and see the story going on with the sky at the end. no photos were allowed.
the exhibition itsself was after my fancy too much. they focusing on personal fates and display them with tons of photos, sreenings, sounds and models, but never more than 2 or 3 etappes of the victims. though you rarely have the chance to receive this delicate matter in silence, neither to comprehend a whole destroyed life.

but it's worth to see at all! and a must here in Israel.

nothing is happening here :( but i found these two videos, i like em very much. the first one is done by a french guy, and the second is a spot on discovery about a chinese graphic designer... pictures are wonderful!

Michael Lau

so here is mr michael lau...

Some things will never change

pressed da button.

street's metadata:

a orthodox while praying

fight like a Pppanda*

shout on the walls...
(third is from my sis')
and fourth one is especially for Marie

1st of all some pic of my work here. the model, in that I'm right now cutting streets (my heart is breaking)
and my desk. about the other project I will talk later. not sure if I'm allowed now (high-tech!).

*home is where the turm is.

a small arch exhibition. unfortunatelly in hebrew. but located in a very nice bookstore

we found a nice bar here in TLV. 'Suzanna' a roof top open air bar with very good coctails. on the pic is jannette. we studied the 1st years together in Dresden. she's now in Berlin and we met here accidentally, couse she's workin here, too. what a small world.

yesterday we went to Akko. partly with Sheruts, kinda service cabs, where passengers give the money from hand to hand to driver. you meet the world in there. some from Uruguay, Palistinian medicine students from Bochum, GER and so on. just be funny, laugh a lot and let it go with you.
Akko is a small Arabic town near Haifa on a reef. narrow alleys, strange smells and totally not Israel. reminded me to Cairo.

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extra scroll stuff from my mobile!
°German insider: Tokio Hotel at position 1 in the Israeli Charts. That's what I call Stupid.
°I still don't like the flowers
°just do it!