soma-tique/tico/tisch

on the return

2009-09-08T22:48:00.000-07:00

en route 66, western arizona

2009-04-02T11:14:00.000-07:00

wim wenders was here, for a workshop with bauhaus students and to talk about his films with the audience. as there was nobody to pose the first question after the screening of »the state of things« in our »lichthaus« theatre in the old weimar streetcar shed, i said, »my question is not exactly about the movie, but more genereal. a couple of months ago you were on kqed in san francisco, and a friend of mine called and asked you about rilke, handke, wings of desires, and what your inspirations were.« now, my question for wenders was how he felt about the visuality of the u.s., and if he remembered his epiphany with america and photography. wenders said that it was in new york, at the age of 26 when he first came to the u.s. and didn't do anything but taking pictures with his polaroid and watching american tv. because things you had seen so many times before looked even better in your own pictures. and american tv was so different from german tv with its 2 public channels. after a while, wenders said, he found that what was so fascinating about the us is that it is so attractive at first, and disgusting at a closer look. and since it has been like this. »but you want to know even more, i guess.«

2009-02-11T02:24:00.000-08:00

»I'm on the path to my self, the unknown«

i called on a wim

2009-01-22T00:08:00.000-08:00

First attempt at animating smth

2008-10-24T06:00:00.000-07:00

Der Himmel über Berlin

2008-10-21T08:28:00.000-07:00

»although I know you« 10/11/08

Sardegna

2008-08-15T08:09:00.000-07:00

nouvelles de Paris

2008-08-06T12:19:00.000-07:00

Long time coming...

2008-05-02T16:47:00.000-07:00

I have been wordless for so very long, but you are all very much in my heart... I need to share my coming journeys... looks like Ill be departing from la tierra de liberdad, shortly. Unfortunately, it doesnt quite live up to it's title...
this is just a reminder that Im here saying HI!

Zeitgeist

2008-05-01T15:06:00.000-07:00

You guys please watch this.
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/index.html

Ils sont fous, ces Romains (?)

2008-04-16T14:33:00.001-07:00

somaesthetics

2008-04-12T06:44:00.000-07:00

>>Somaesthetics is devoted to the critical, ameliorative study of one's experience and use of one's body as a locus of sensory-aesthetic appreciation (aesthesis) and creative self-fashioning.<<

Richard Shusterman: Performing Live. Aesthetic Alternatives for the Ends of Art, Ithaca 2000, p. 138.

Sadly we won...

2008-03-31T14:02:00.000-07:00

I thought Smirne would have been a better choice.
EXPO

spring 08

2008-03-30T01:11:00.000-07:00

on friday in our next-door "mountains"
hello to all.

Rendez-vous à Paris!

2008-03-27T05:29:00.000-07:00

Bibia!
Juliette!
Nicolò!
Ci vediamo sabato.

summer 08

2008-03-05T14:31:00.000-08:00

waiting for the president///onion royals///science city 08///school's out///country cool

When you truly believe in Fascism, one hand is not enough.

2008-01-25T07:02:00.001-08:00

Italy sucks.

2008-01-25T06:55:00.001-08:00

I would like to get rid of my Italian citizenship, people up there at the governement should be ashamed of themselves.
May I suggest an article.

This one.

This is a picture of the opposition POURING CHAMPAGNE AND EATING MORTADELLA when Prodi lost the vote of confidence in the Senate.

just be ings

2008-01-16T01:55:00.000-08:00

near my village in the north, dec. 31st

2008-01-13T01:18:00.001-08:00

bonne annee soma!

hope and fear the future

2008-01-07T08:33:00.001-08:00

new visions

2007-12-21T06:59:00.000-08:00

The Birth of Jesus Christ. Drawing from the World Chronicle of Otto von Freising (1157/85). State and University Library of Thuringia, Jena Ms. Bos. q. 6, 39r (clipping). There are only two remaining copies of this history book worldwide, a younger one is stored at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milano.

What?

2007-12-07T00:50:00.000-08:00

Di ritorno da Lyon

2007-12-04T10:58:00.001-08:00

Moleskine+Photoshop

2007-11-21T00:59:00.000-08:00

pres pour l'envol

rien ne peut m'arreter

meme pas une pate en moins

a bientot alors...

go and see

2007-11-20T04:29:00.000-08:00

>>Auf der anderen Seite<< >>De l'autre Coté<< >>Ai Confini del Paradiso<< >>The Edge of Heaven<< Four titles for one movie. The French is closest to the original. How many meanings does the title convey, how many stories the movie tell? [hint: iDentity, simple, double, multiple, changing between the places, integration]. Well, find out. For now, I can only highly recommend Fatih Akin's new movie.
picture: Summer in St. Nazaire, 2007

Un altro muro parigino

2007-11-18T12:04:00.000-08:00

2007-11-08T01:48:00.000-08:00

Quand je regarde mon chat, je pense que cette beauté est une vertu.

Dusseldorf: K21 ||| Paris: ENSAD

2007-10-31T07:59:00.000-07:00

Buca delle Lettere - Milano

2007-10-30T18:41:00.000-07:00

Apres une longue absence/After a long silence

2007-10-28T15:14:00.001-07:00

Feelings mixed & confused for now.
too confusing to be talked about.
in the moment.

Leaving the country in days, counting
Too little to do too much. to do where?
tryin. hard.

Weird love stories aquarelling somewhere.

I had warned you
Currently not intelligible.
but still wandering at night camera wide open.

Lessons in Art History II [variation of the same]

2007-10-28T14:39:00.000-07:00

2007-10-25T10:02:00.001-07:00

in honor of knowledge lost, and knowledge gained

Lessons in Art History I

2007-10-25T01:54:00.000-07:00

Un altro muro ancora... davanti alla Femis.

2007-10-23T01:11:00.001-07:00

Altro muro parigino

2007-10-21T04:43:00.001-07:00

Hello SOMA!

2007-10-19T01:14:00.000-07:00

So. Here me and Bibia say hello to the camera, to the sky, and to all of those who at that very moment were not in Paris.
That day Bibia and I went and had a GREAT breakfast at LPQ (Le Pain Quotidien) where they have the greatest hazelnut spread. The tables there are in thick wood and extra-loOong, perfect to have a SOMeAl. So, the next time we hang out all together (...) let's go there.
Yesterday I saw Death of a President - italian TV gets better!- which I very much enjoyed, especially for the use of the typical language of a documentary. It really felt like a real documentary and made me realize how much can be scripted and staged on an actual one. Duh.

2007-10-18T06:19:00.000-07:00

picture remix. see http://www.uni-jena.de/~x3wajo. (attention: some browsers mix it up even more. works best with >>camino<<)

Paris

2007-10-07T13:23:00.000-07:00

Nico smelling his armpits
in Paris
that's big news
it deserved to travel
all around the world

vanishing?

2007-09-19T05:53:00.000-07:00

all men will become brothers

2007-08-20T11:36:00.000-07:00

St.-Nazaire-Paris-Lago di Como

tutti gli uomini diventano fratelli

2007-08-20T11:31:00.001-07:00

Milano-Paris-St.-Nazaire

tous les hommes deviennent frères

2007-08-20T11:25:00.000-07:00

Paris-Milano-München

2007-08-20T04:57:00.000-07:00

vive l'europe

2007-08-05T14:14:00.000-07:00

being on the way north to Sweden, this crossed my path:
http://www.dearmrb.se/

S(om)A reunited

2007-08-02T02:33:00.000-07:00

Johannes just arrived from Milano in the early morning...

...he is a little exhausted

but there are new opportunities for work out in Paris: velib' (almost free bikes)

Nico we are waiting for you...

at la Femis!

Bisous à tous ceux qui sont de l'autre côté du monde

4th of July

2007-08-01T12:19:00.001-07:00

On a roof in San Francisco. You can't smell the barbecue or hear the fireworks but at least you have the view.

sommerloch in der thüringen-toskana: our resp. places, weimar 2

2007-07-18T02:54:00.000-07:00

soma, a species yet unknown

2007-07-15T09:49:00.001-07:00

but she was there, too.

Come and see me in Paris

2007-06-29T12:48:00.000-07:00

Milano Pride (Vagina Woman)

2007-06-29T00:52:00.000-07:00

Missing the SF pride, the national Roma Pride, the Milano pride was small but fun anyway.
Miss y'all.

en attendant Sophie

2007-06-26T13:42:00.001-07:00

et la voilà.

2007-06-23T04:35:00.000-07:00

under my roof ^

2007-06-23T02:21:00.000-07:00

My luggage got here with me.
two logged suitcases: 30kg. and 31 kg.
one carry-on: 22 kg.
NO surcharges (god save the queen and british airways)

two pckgs previously shipped thru USPS: $170 (one's here already)

Not too bad.

^
/ \
| | sono a casa!

hommage à yo

2007-06-21T05:32:00.001-07:00

janvier 2006

2007-06-14T16:31:00.001-07:00

Past steady streams, bending rocks, the charcoaled stump of a once-towering redwood, a clearing where hundreds of butterflies sun themselves in a quiet rhythm of pulsing wings, sunlight dripping through branches, the patterns moving across my face -- As I walk memories of the past year swirl in me... I think of all of you. And from deep in the wilderness, without even the technology of the watch, I get excited that I can reach you all on our blog!!
Back in Berkeley now, will be missing you more. Big kisses to each of you!!
s

2007-06-13T07:08:00.001-07:00

jumping in between worlds with the speed of flight

back where i left off i don't remember when

to where i don't know

always

our respective countries; à Weimar, no. 1

2007-06-11T01:15:00.000-07:00

welcome dinner with roommates

my last minutes in berkeley

2007-06-09T03:23:00.000-07:00

and then off i went. now here but not yet arrived, you are missing, and it will take a while to fully acknowledge the fact that the world is a big place, which of course i knew but still need to appreciate.

image description

2007-06-05T02:45:00.000-07:00

a mother and her child, on the platform in a rush. she carries a backpack, in one hand a bag, her daughter's hand in the other. the little girl in a sky-blue dress over which she wears a frilled white apron. her long, blond hair wound across her head in braids; blue eyes catch a glimpse of mine in the adjacent train, camera out of reach.
nürnberg, june 4th. back in germany.

5 days without w-lan. but i don't think we're slower over here. it's just another pace. a loving, peaeceful one.
weimar, june 5th. via the free wireless one can catch under the trees in front of the café which was once Goethe's first apartment in weimar.

My new obsession

2007-06-04T14:07:00.001-07:00

my jewish ancesters from Russia before they imigrated to the US
fascinating don't you think?

And bye the way

2007-06-04T14:05:00.001-07:00

I went to Budapest, it was great

That's all I got

2007-06-04T14:01:00.001-07:00

Yoram came in Paris but everything went by so fast that it is the only picture I got of him,
pretty blurry

Images

2007-06-03T15:35:00.000-07:00

We expect yo-pictures and jo-photos from your respective countries.

I pod, my space, you tube, our - - -

2007-05-29T13:27:00.000-07:00

what would our story have been like if i hadn't gone to that one international scholars meeting? love to you all, bis bald.

Yo-Haynes CiaoCiaoParty

2007-05-29T12:14:00.000-07:00

Those of us remainings of a great and lost culture, will gather tonight to celebrate the disappearance of another of our bricks.
8 at Nico's place.

a bientot les ami(e)s!

2007-05-21T12:52:00.001-07:00

2007-05-17T19:38:00.000-07:00

Nous allons tous nous départir, chaq'un à sa façon.

(goodbye) party at vio's place, saturday night!!!

2007-05-17T00:02:00.000-07:00

ok everyone, you have to be there, it's in the north berkeley hills (right behind saul's, where i'll be finishing my shift around 9pm...) the address: 1440 Arch St.
Berkeley

bring some food and drinks if you would like (wine and beer) and let's celebrate the end of this looong semester, and our friendships and loves and everything good (even the bad) and let's be merry and let's say goodbye (i leave for france on monday... this might be a long goodbye for some, i come back on the 11th of june, so i'll see the rest of you guys when i get back...)

anyways, let's party, saturday, at violetta's!

wish you were here bibia! (but i'll see you in a few days!)

bisous!

Spring

2007-05-13T21:31:00.000-07:00

under the Campanile, a few days ago.

May 68 anew

2007-05-12T11:14:00.000-07:00

Richmond, Calif.
we won't repeat the past.new contexts demand new take-ons.but nobody can take our knowledge of it.

Good bye May 68, We will miss you!

2007-05-08T06:25:00.000-07:00

Moving Variations

2007-05-03T23:53:00.000-07:00

The new products of your dear friends, Bibia.
Yoram will produce an installation, to tell the truth.
As for me, I will have a movie at a screening in Kroeber, like last semester.
Fear not though, Bibia, for we will document the installation and I will make sure to bring a copy of movie to Paris when I come and visit you.
For other somatics: COME!!

2007-05-02T20:22:00.000-07:00

Thursday, May 3, 2007, PFA

5:30 p.m.

Last Summer Won’t Happen (Free Screening!)
Peter Gessner, Tom Hurwitz (U.S., 1968/1973)

for all those not in class (n'est-ce pas, Juliette) or in need of some distraction.

2007-05-02T04:22:00.001-07:00

Chanson Ségolène - Clip tube officiel
Uploaded by NetSquale

HOPE

2007-05-01T13:41:00.000-07:00

As we walked home after the big Segolene Royal Meeting earlier this evening
The sun leading our way
I felt hope that we could win on sunday
And happiness that 60 000 people attended the gathering

toujours dangereux

2007-04-30T17:13:00.000-07:00

...il a du charisme, quand même:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K46OrTe_Uzg

Les Gens, Je Vous Aime

2007-04-26T18:01:00.000-07:00

:-)

And I am probably gonna stay in the Bay for the summer ! yay!

- excuse my philantropist enthusiasm.

Pour Bibi! (t'inquietes pas... on va gagner!)

2007-04-26T12:16:00.000-07:00

Texas: Not just anywhere

2007-04-18T10:52:00.000-07:00

2007-04-17T22:05:00.000-07:00

Welcome, to the first ever screening of a SOMA collaboration!

http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/film/FN16374

ok guys, you have to be there because there is a q&a at the end of the show and we have to represent! thursday, april 19th, 730pm @ PFA... be there, or be square (desole bibi)!

Ancient Arabic poem sent by a friend

2007-04-15T23:44:00.000-07:00

Lanterns
Hang from the night sky
So that your eye might draw

One more image of love upon your silk canvas
Before sleep.Words from Him have reached you

And tilled a golden field inside.When all your desires are distilled
You will cast just two votes:

To love more,
And be happy.

Take the sounds from the mouth-flute of Hafiz
And mix them into your seed pouch.

And when the Moon says,
"It is time to Plant,"

Why not dance,
Dance and Sing?

Hafiz

2007-04-11T19:43:00.000-07:00

May this never end Gualala, Calif.

April 13th and 14th

2007-04-11T13:30:00.000-07:00

http://www.americaanditswars.net/

Professor Anne Walsh (Nico, Sofi and Yo's digital art prof) will be presenting as well as other shcolars and artists...

Tonite

2007-04-06T18:25:00.001-07:00

At the PFA

Closely Watched Films: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Director
7:00 p.m.
Tropical Malady: Shot-by-Shot

2007-04-06T15:45:00.000-07:00

Zabriskie Point
Michelangelo Antonioni (U.S., 1970) Saturday, 8.30pm, PFA

place for open space

2007-04-02T10:41:00.000-07:00

talks, thoughts, thursday, from 7pm, some food, something on the screen. kommt zu tisch!

remember summer

2007-03-29T18:32:00.000-07:00

Berkeley is small.

Europe is big.

Remember summer.

notice spring

2007-03-21T10:19:00.000-07:00

too busy to post

2007-03-15T14:09:00.000-07:00

Personally I am too busy watching candidates on television...

2007-03-15T10:40:00.001-07:00

We may think about getting rid of the dream section and comment our dreams directly as new posts instead. This would save us our average, since in this country everything is about numbers, figures, average points and so on. Probably nobody would even care. In general we need to always remember that soma is just another distraction of the mediotechnological world that surounds us. (But, in fact, and of course, I know it, we meant it to be sth. else. I just keep yo's shocking langugae to raise awareness. Let's see how much of it it takes.)

this posting is just to alert you about this dangerous posting trend

2007-03-15T03:52:00.000-07:00

by posting this post i am trying to reverse the dangerous posting trend that is threatening us all... every month since our procreation, we have been posting less and less posts! at this rate of always writing less than half as many post in three months as we wrote in the previous three-month period, soma will be dead in no more than a year... soma wake up!

I have to say...

2007-03-15T00:36:00.000-07:00

...the castro theatre is quite stunning.
And the movie was quite good.

soma, please remember

2007-03-13T21:34:00.000-07:00

to water your cats

and recycle your squirrels

this was a message payed for by Squirrels and Cats Organized for Renewable Energy (S.C.O.R.E.)

The Rules of the Game

2007-03-13T20:17:00.000-07:00

What about this instead?
It's at 9.15 at the Castro Theatre in SF. Getting on the 8.07 BART would be perfect.

Special Event Tomorrow Night

2007-03-13T11:45:00.000-07:00

ANARCHA PROJECT: Collaborative Lecture

Wed. March 14 7-9 pm
285 Kroeber Hall

Black Culture and disability culture activists use performance methods to address the memory of experimentation on slave women in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1840s. Theatre, dance and poetry make connections to public secrets, women's bodies, the persistence of pain, racialized medical histories, health care inequalities, and survival.

Anita Gonzales (theatre arts), Tiye Giraud (vocalist/percussionist/composer), Carrie Sandahl (activist/scholar), Petra Kuppers (activist/scholar)

those were the days of happy collaboration

2007-03-12T22:22:00.000-07:00

NYC la série.

2007-03-07T15:54:00.000-08:00

2007-03-06T11:18:00.000-08:00

There is a documentary film of the choreographer,
Boris Eifman, that will be shown at Wheeler Auditorium
on Friday at 7 pm. It's free. I am planning on
coming, but I never know if I'll have the time.

See you soon.

A friend of my friend is my friend

2007-03-02T09:57:00.000-08:00

Hello,

my friend Anna who is from France but lives in Mexico right now to do her PhD will be in Berkeley for a week starting tomorrow. She will be attending a workshop at the university.
Is there any chance any of you could show her the good stuff on campus?

Love to you all