After having moved away from the town of Heidelberg about five years ago, I rarely returned to the place I grew up. But last friday I came back to play at the place everything started, the club called halle_02. Actually I played at the new halle_03, which is just next door since halle_02 and 01 are currently used to hold the world famous Körperwelten Exhibition, that shows prepared dead bodies in an amazing way. halle_02 was the place, where I first decided to start dealing with lighting and video when I was about nineteen. And it was also there, where I started to establish the style I videomix today. My good friend Valentin Lüdicke of Atelier Kontrast, which could be considered as sort of my lighting- mentor designed the new club and was pretty generous with filling it with video and the party was, thanks to the Djs Move D and Bouillabass, pumping as hell…   see yourself….
Well this was the perfect example for me not taking care of my blog… Right now I´m sitting in my bed at an amazing apartment at the 14th floor located at the financial district of New York. The last weeks were so busy and filled with events and work that I even haven´t had time to write a single article. Back to the fact that I´m NYC. Hendrik and I stay at the absolutely fantastic place of my friend Jakob, where you can see right on the construction site of ground zero (pics will follow). After having taken a flight from Munich at 11 o`clock we landed and dived right into the nightlife of Big Apple. We started our evening with a dinner at “The Box”, a strange small place with an even stranger and really outstanding show (http://www.theboxnyc.com/). If you´re looking to spent your evening with a rather unconventional form of entertainment this is the place to go, I can only recommend it (though, if you´re not famous, it´s really, really hard to get a reservation. Special thanks to Gloria here 
). The rest of the evening took place at “ciprianis”, after that we tried to get into clus like Mansion, Kiss And Fly, Pink Elephant, and many more. Since we were big group and most venues close down we landed at Pascha in the end…Â
So the next days NYC is about to be tested. We already found a nice penthouse if I decide to move here. I only have to find someway to pay the 25.000 Dollars monthly rent. Anybody got an idea?
Oktoberfest, or „die Wiesn`“ as the people from Munich call it is always one of the most busy times at my homebase club P1, and let me tell you, the last two weekends were tremendous (just like the alcohol-level). This, by the way is the first clip online showing the video-LED installation I designed in the lounge floor.
Well this was it, the Ibiza season is over!!! Y punto, finito, over, fin!!! Last week I boarded my last „every thursday“ flight to Ibiza for the closing party at privilege. The police came twice and stopped the music for about 25 minutes, which resulted in the crowd singing „F**K THE POLICE“ each time, at least after I asked them to do so on the giant screens, followed by a little comic- police man i quickly drew. The animated little police man with the red bat, came back to the visuals a couple of times that evening, doing the Visual Drugstore „police-man-dance“, the people loved it!
Here is the dancetrippin episode of Audiofly playing live and me VJ-ing at Monza end of August. Be sure to check out http://www.dancetrippin.tv for Dj-mixes and video episodes of parties around the world…
After having played almost every thursday this summer @ the Monza club, Privilege Ibiza next thursday is going to be the last time for this season that i`ll board the plane to crazy island for the closing party. I really must say, even though flying over there was a real hassle I´ll absolutely gonna miss being there once a week. Here´s a small vid of Monza when Luciano was there, amazing night!!!
So Ibiza and your people, see you last time for this summer next Thursday…
and „pimp“ is really ment in the original meaning…
4 days, 15 cars with more than 10.000 horse powers, 3800 kilometers, and so on. The „Royal Race“ a charity run initiated by “Pince and german red-light icon Marcus v. Anhalt” (which bought his aristocratic title from Frederic v. Anhalt, Zsa Zsa Gabors husband) was probably the most exceptional event I ever participated at. Read More »
Hello Everybody…
…and welcome to my blog. After trying to resist the web 2.0 and all it´s aspects I now finally agree to post my own blog to keep all my friends informed about me every once in a while. Here you will find everything that happens in my life from partys to people, travelling to business and so on. I don´t know if I´ll be able to keep it up to date but i`ll try my best…
So lets go…
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