Gilles - Nosegrind - Cinemax - September 2008

Trying to - but I keep finishing them first.

That's all I'd take pictures of if I'd be living in East Lansing.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! AND DON'T BLAME YOURSELF!

Uhhh..

Stefan Gruijk - Nosetap

Spending more time posting pictures here at the moment.

Der Herr B,

Well.. I'm working in a cellar at the moment, looking for certain papers which occur every 6th month.. And there are envelopes full of material for 14 years. And EVERY day! HMM..

More Insectocons..

There are these steel insects in Zurich, peering for prey. I barely managed to escape after I took this glimpse around a corner.


...Wicked Imagination, I know. So ignore it if you can't relate.

It's all about the hat. Pimp.

New home, new scanner, old camera. Hope to post more regularly again.

Too much SLAYER?..

Yeah man, and keep pointing that bottle towards you

I'm a bit lame at the moment, I know. Working again and having no permanent Inet access slows be down a bit, sorry. I made these two pictures during our last days in Okemos, MI.

BELUGA



VANCITY



BORED NR. 200056

Now that all the cash is gone; rather healthy tha(e?)n nothing.

We're back in Zurich now and miss Vancouver. Seems like Claudia (sitting in a bar atop Van) knew before we returned and started thinking early about the good times we had.

Canadian style snowchains. Harhar!

And these.

And these.

Sounds crazy, but I actually miss days like these now.

We're in East Lansing now. In the state of Michigan where cars matter and nothing else.

Meet Heroin Hillbilly, number two of the toy industry's latest series of collectibles; puppets on drugs.

It has been said a million times and I'll say it again; Vancouver is worth a visit. Not only for the containers, but for it's diversity and culture. Verry nice, verry nice!

Never liked dogs a lot until the last couple of weeks up at the lodge. This Rottweiler - Blue Heeler mix called Stich made me change my mind. He can walk on his front legs only, dive into Snow and chase Elks, well, at least until they decide to chase him. It was my main source of entertainment up there. ..even Claudia liked him.

Back online again. Had a great time (and view..) in Vancouver and am now in East Lansing, Michigan.

I'm off to Vancouver tomorrow! A bunch of last Pictures of here will follow though - as soon as I got access to the net again. I took these near the heater we have, in spite of never having to chop wood anymore.

Uhmm.. Wohl verrrrückt geworden!?

Zum davonlaufen.

I had to think about that Stone Formation which reminded me of a robot. Was it a coincidence or did somebody make it on purpose? As a matter of fact I figured out that I was quite ignorant and that these little (or sometimes very big) arrangements have a special meaning to the Inuit, the Canadian Natives, or Eskimos as we call them in Europe. Here's what I found out about the Symbols called Inukshuk: '..meaning "likeness of a person" in Inuktitut (the Inuit language) The Inuit make inuksuit (plural) in different forms and for different purposes: to show directions to travellers, to warn of impending danger, to mark a place of respect, or to act as helpers in the hunting of caribou. Similar stone figures were made all over the world in ancient times, but the Arctic is one of the few places where they still stand. An inukshuk can be small or large, a single rock, several rocks balanced on each other, round boulders or flat. Inuit tradition forbids the destruction of inuksuit.'

Nicht mehr lange und ich kann mich wieder selbst im Tram fotografieren. Die Besonderheiten Vancouvers warten auf uns.

ehmmm.. yes, I had a little approach to avant-garde portraits. And too much wine.

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Ihr solltet euch auch mal im Klo einschliessen und gaaaaanz lange die kleinen Details anschauen. Oder eure zeit mit dem lesen von Geruechten totschlagen

Huh!?

..not exactly the eye of the tiger.

More boredom.

..you shouldn't eat pink snow either.

Riechts hier nach Pasta?.. Und wo ist der Wein?.. Insider?..

Never trust an Elk. As soon as you turn your back on them they'll kick you. One of those fuckers must have thought I was a predator or that I might steal it's hay and gave me a couple of punches. They attack frontal and use their front legs. And they don't show any signs of aggression before they take on you. They can be peacefully eating and just snap from one second to the next, those lunatics.

Spycams installed.

My momentary occupation: chief arsonist

Went snowborading, fast as always, great views got my head cleared and made me realise how stuck I am here. T - 23 days.

Lücken-Füller.

No Helli-Skiing this year. So the once in a lifetime chance to go and taste champagne powder straight from a mountain top, for free, is gone. With no fresh Snow a couple of weeks ago everything was canceled. And suddenly we get loads of that white stuff. Great, fucking great!

Eine haarige Angelegenheit.

Die Kälte und der Schnee macht die Wapitis richtig zahm. Mittlerweile drängen mich die Jungen sogar vom Truck (womit ich ihnen das Stroh bringe) weg. Sie lassen sich sogar berühren. Und das sind wilde Tiere, nota bene, keine dressierte Gäule.

Fog so thick the sun needs a drill to push its rays through.

Wolfs are coming over the frozen lake to howl Hello. Today they were so close that I thought I could sneak up on them. It seemed like they were in the bay and I could have a look down on them, but soon as I came out of the trees on the edge of the cliff the howling stopped and all I got to see was a lonely track in the snow. Maybe tomorrow, but I doubt it.

Herr Winter ist ein hinterhältiger Bursche. Passt man nicht auf lässt er seine spitzen finger auf einen fallen.. Vor ein paar Monaten wurden sie so gross, dass unser Chef am selben Tag gleich zwei mal nur um einen Meter nicht erschlagen wurde. Das Eigengewicht wurde so gross, dass der Dachrand sie nicht mehr halten konnte, sekunden nachdem er unten durch lief. Leider habe ich es verpasst Bilder von diesen Monster Dinger zu machen. Jene auf dem Bild sind im Vergleich dazu die eines Säuglings, eher noch eines Foetus.

The Lake has frozen.. The structures - they remind me of world maps - which appear from the different stages of frozen ice are more colorful then I've ever expected. Unfortunately these Pictures never live up to what can be seen with ones own eyes.

Sessel und Sofas sollten mehr von Bedeutung sein, mehr in Ehren gehalten werden. Wir betrachten sie als zu selbstverständlich, als Notwendigkeit. Dabei gibt es nichts dankbareres als seinen Allerwertesten in die sanfte Umarmung seines Lieblings Sessels plumpsen zu lassen und das erleichterte Seufzen der Glieder zu spüren. Mein Sessel ist zwar kein Prachtobjekt, aber nach einem kräfteraubenden Tag mit Väterchen Frost ist das meinem Hintern so ziemlich egal.

Weder noch.. Jener mit der Zahnbürste ist's!

Ist's jener mit dem Messer oder jener mit dem Beil, der da durch den Dampf sich schleicht?

Winter is back! Temperatures dropped to minus 22 - at daytime. The battery in my Mini Digi lasts about 5.5 minutes..

I'm running out of pictures.. Well, I have plenty, but most aren't anything near to special. Until I got some new ones that I like I'll feed you with some leftovers from back home. These masculine figures are ventilations of a underground parking..

Heard a wolf yesterday and howled back. He didn't answer though. Must have rolled his eyes and trotted away after hearing one of those awful human singing attempts.

Biip - Bip. Stone Robo has emerged. Bip.

Last summer's dust. Rally time is coming.

Meanwhile I got really used to the life here. Wild Wapitis eating out of my hand surely helped settling my restlessness. Still trying to get a shot of me and the Chief Elk but it's difficult because as soon as he sees a camera he pretends to lose interest in eating the hay in my hand. As you can see on the pictures the young girls don't care about a little limelight, those brats.

Hungry crowd.

The House were we live in.
It's built all crooked and we keep on falling out of our beds and start rolling until the wall stops us..

It's not really obviuos, but the snow is actually 'blowing' horizontally.

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More boredom.

picture taken during a pause i took while sawing wood. wearing ear protection, due to the noise of the chainsaw, gives you a very 'silent' approach to taking pictures.

I thought of a book cover for a crime story and ended up with this. Of course this doesn't fit on the front of a book, unless it had a unusual format. That's why it would take up front and back cover, with a little cropping on the sides to center the road more on the front cover. Blablabla.. Just an Idea.

First the heavy and now a wigga.. Nutin' but weirdos 'round me.

I met this dude from a heavy metal band. What a fuck-up! But I had to do some picutures of him.. I mean, who in the world still has that long hair? Damn retro, that is.

Syrup Recharge.

Hellouuuu... This is Sky. He's not as dumb as he looks and he taught me that Horses are not as bad as I always assumed. Eventually you can get used to everything..

It's getting frosty now. The streets aren't as icy as the one here - that was about a week ago and it was fun driving on it - but the ever going wind blows snow into the furthest corner and lets streets change shape. The conditions are getting more and more unpredictable. Driving down the roads you suddenly feel the car drifting in a other direction, especially in the turns where the structure of the paved-away snow on the side leaves dead spots, letting the fresh snow pile high. You think you see where the tricky spots are, but when you turn the wheel and accelerate a bit you either abruptly start slidering or you get a sudden grip and jump forwards. And going too slow means risking getting stuck. Harhar, tt the moment, driving a car is certainly an adventure.

You know what's best about good old friends? No matter how long you haven't heard of each other, when you get back in contact things are as they always were. Uncomplicated and honest.

This unexpected B-Day card certainly made my day!

Somebody mentioned there's no Snow in Europe?.. Want some!?