RESTLESS

Don't worry. I am not lazy, gone or dead. I'm just running from one project to another: Editing, shooting, editing, editing...
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BACK IN HAMBURG

I am back in Hamburg from my Indonesia vacation. Shot a lot of still and video footage. Going to post some new stuff soon...

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387: PAPERWEIGHT

Fuck! I think my Macbook Pro just turned into a giant paperweight!!!

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378: FINALLY...

In the paper last week: "Germans are becoming a country of optimists"
I like...

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376: MERRY CHRISTMAS

I wish everyone a Merry Christmas.
Sorry I do not have a Christmas Shot like last year. I admit I have been lazy this week.
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369: NEW LOGO & A LITTLE PAGE OVERHAUL

Miriam Skalli designed a new logo for me. Check out her page for her incredible work.

And while we were at it, I took the chance to do some little design changes on my website. In particular, now there are only three portfolios in my photography section.

New letter paper and businesscards coming soon.

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366: YOU'VE PROVEN TO BE A DOUCHE

It's almost december, it's below 10°C, it is about to snow and you're driving with your top down. Yes, Sir. You are a douche.

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365: A YEAR WORTH OF POSTS

365 shots or posts ago I forged the plan to take a shot once a day and to post it on this blog in order to keep practicing and to keep learning. I kept shooting and I learned quite a lot, but I realized that it was easy to take a shot. Nevertheless it wasn't as good of a shot as I wished for. Moreover my main work as a film editor kept me quite busy as well. In other words posting good shots in a day to day interval was quite a task.

Therefore after these 365 shots I will rearrange goals, targets and / or topics of this blog. Right now I am thinking that the next step will be to reduce the quantity to 10 shots or posts each month. To my own shots, videos and thoughts I might also add and include inspirational shots that I find in the web or life.

I have to admit I haven't thought everything quite through yet...but stay tuned. Next DVL Episode is coming soon by the way.

PS.:

For those who are new to the blog, this is the old "Get informed" Text:

I am going to take one shot every single day. Beauty, Fashion or just portrait. No matter if it's a snapshot or from a complete shooting, selfportrait, model or a friend, good or even bad shot, I will devote and commit myself to take (or at least just post) one shot a day.

This is being done by a lot of photographers, and therefore this is nothing special nor am I reinventing the wheel or anything. But that does not change the fact, that practice makes perfect, right?
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SLOW...

It's a slow week shooting-wise. This weekend I am going to test the Mamiya with a digital back for the first time. So next week there will be some new (and hopefully interessting) shots on a more regular basis. Actually I am planning some changes as soon we're getting to shot 365...
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346: WHEN REALITY STRIKES...

As a kid I did have all kinds of dreams and expectations of my future life. As a matter of fact I still have a lot of dreams. Although you already guessed that if you're following my Dream Vision Life Project.

So what was a point where reality did actually strike me?

Well, one of the things I always imagined to be awesome was working in different cities or even better countries. Traveling, staying in nice hotels even using different kind of money i thought to be cool.

Years later I am starting to get jobs in different cities or countries. I do love working with different people, and having to speak a different language is a blast. So nothing wrong yet, but what I never thought about: You have to get there.

When you're on vacation it is somehow kind of different to be sitting in a plane, never the less it sucks. Planes suck, trains suck and walking with a couple of bags suck. Ok the last thing could be eliminated by taking a cab, but in my hometown I try to save as much money as possible, since I am probably needing to take a cab in the other city. Other than that you need to worry about a new travel bag. Sounds trivial, but I only have a backpack (daypack) or something like a big traveling bag - nothing in between for just three to five days. Therefore you need to lug around a huge bag with almost nothing in it.

Besides traveling: Staying in a hotel is cool, but as soon as boredom strikes and all your friends are in a different country, it certainly does loose it's appeal. Also I get the feeling, that the older I get the harder it is to get used to a new bed. The first night I always sleep like non at all.

Bottom line: I do like working with different people, in a different city or country, but it isn't as fancy as I imagined it.

So anyone in the same boat as me? Hate planes? Dislike business traveling? Or when did you realize the reality didn't meet expectations?

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343: WHEN YOU REALIZE 123456 ISN'T THE BEST PASSCODE...

I had to edit a commercial in Brussel. Despite the fact that I didn't see a lot of the city, I think it is quite a nice city. The area where I stayed and worked actually felt upper middle class and rather safe.

The city was unfortunately quite packed and therefore all the hotels were booked out. So the production company organized an apartment not too far away. The apartment was actually quite nice apart from the very bright red interior, until the house lady gave me the key to the maindoor and told me that the roomdoor uses a six number passcode.

Yes, with the most secure number in the world: 1 2 3 4 5 6...
Business area, all seemed safe and everyone was quite nice. I guess I just trust 123456.

10 pm and suddenly two guys stand in my room. Lucky me they weren't muggers, but rather seemed to have an apartment with just the same passcode.

On the second thought, they did make a rather strange couple: actually it was a young guy around 20 and another mid 40 guy in a business suite in a room with just a kingsize bed. That puts the bright red interior and the big mirrors into a complete different light.

I did not worry about 123456 that night anymore...
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SORRY

Sorry, I'm filming this Saturday (although Germany is playing by the way). And because of all the preparations for this job I actually forgot to post a shot for today. A new shot is coming tomorrow.

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3 o'CLOCK IN THE MORNING...WORD OF THE DAY

It's three o'clock in the morning on a Friday night. I was more in the mood to work and let creativity strike me. And I remembered a quote: "People aren't going to remember the things you do, people remember how you made them feel." I just can't recall where I read that quote, but I wanted to share this thought...
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VIDEO WANTS TO STAY ON TOP

You know I want to promote my Dream Vision Life Project, therefore the next new shot will be posted on Thursday, so that you can enjoy the video on top of the blog until then...Enjoy.

www.ISMONO.com/DVL

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232: BACK SOON...

I finished two interviews for DVL in the last few days. Four more are to come in the next two weeks. And I'm planing to get back to daily business next week. So new shots coming up. Maybe with a new rule: Every video counts for two or three shots ;-)
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230: MY NEW PROJECT: DVL

So what is the fuzz all about?
I believe that it's important to have an own vision and maybe a dream that you should at least try to fulfill. I'm always inspired by those who do follow their dreams, and certainly I am aware of the fact that the pursuit of those dreams can be risky and hard.

I always knew what fueled myself to do everything I've done, but I am interested in some more opinions regarding dreams and their relations to the real life. That's why I'm going to interview a couple of people over the next couple of months. The main target will be to create an inspiring short documentary, but over the time I will post the individual interviews on my page, of course.

The very first interview is going to be this saturday, and over the next two weeks four more are scheduled.

I prepared a website and an introduction video. Link and video will be posted here in the next days.

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229: WORD OF THE DAY...

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy,
I'm telling you it's going to be worth it...

Found this very inspiring text here.

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228: NO SHOT... A SHORT BREAK...

No new shot today or in the next couple of days... Sorry about that, but this is a quite busy month. I'm editing two musicvideos, one commercial and I'm preparing a new project, which I will go into detail a little later. So I spent more time in the editing room rather than holding a camera. Although I did a corporate shooting and to help my brother I'm going to shoot more than 60 people in one day. That's probably going to be quite a task. Maybe I'll do a behind the scenes for that one.

The musicvideos will be finished at the end of the month so hopefully I can shoot some more pics and show you the videos asap. Regarding the project: Short it's called DVL, and in the next days I will post some more informations, so stay tuned...

Anyway, please bear with me, the next one or two weeks, I'll just post sparely... And please excuse the mess. My home office is still in the making...

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200: SOME OF MY FAVORITES

The 200th post! Some of my favorite shots from the last 200 shots. Thanks to everyone for visiting my blog. Tell your friends and support my blog ;-) After the Link a snapshot of the visitor-statistics.

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Over 3000!


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ALMOST 3000

Almost 3000 Visits in a year. For most blogs that probably is a small number, but I am definitely glad for all the visits. Thanks to everyone, keep visiting and tell your friends ;-)

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