Good Morning America!

Imagine a stewardess walking through an aisle offering drinks and nobody cares. What could be the reason? The passengers might be too busy with playing video games or zapping through 80 movies and 105 TV channels. Or maybe they are just fed up with drinks they get offered constantly. Welcome to Singapore Airlines. I didn't book this flight, but Delta Airlines did it for me since they cancelled my flight from Frankfurt to New York. I just want to speak out my recommendation. Maybe it's useful for someone.

Now I'm back in the states with some decent photographs in my baggage. The cancelled flight gave me the chance to photograph Frankfurt yesterday not speaking of Istanbul, a beautiful city where the lanes on the streets have as much purpose as seatbelts do - none.

"This is the first day...

...of the rest of your life."

Happy new year everybody!

Welcome to the 2007 version of this weblog. For my family, 2006 ended with a big surprise. I showed up in Germany on Christmas Eve dressed up as a Santa Clause. Nobody expected me - fun fun fun. I started my new year with some Turkish apple tea and hot chestnuts with Cagil and friends in Istanbul. I'll be here for another six days.

Let's give this new blog page a private touch. Here are two pictures taken by my uncle, showing Cagil and me and also me in my Santa costume. At this point, nobody knew it's me. Easily understandable by looking at my grandma's suspicious face :-)


The Smoker

Because of his enormous popularity, here is a another picture of "the smoker".


So what's the story?
I participated on a music video production for a reggae song. This was one of those low budget Craigslist things and definitely something interesting to do. We first met for a rehearsal in a studio in New York and did an outside shooting in Chinatown very early on a Sunday morning. It was actually not that early anymore when I took the picture. Nothing was really organized and took very long. That's why I had time to interact with people who were standing around. So this man was staying there with his cigarette and apparently very excited to watch us. I liked that and started to photograph him. Then I signalized him that I want him to smoke his cigarette, what he immediately did. So that's basically how it came to the photograph on my front page.

Celebrity Gossip

How do you feel about those gossip magazines? You cannot understand how someone can be permanently interested in other people's private life? Same here.
However, yesterday I photographed some celebrities at the museum of natural history. It was the world premiere of "Night at the Museum" and also the reason why my friends and I couldn't see the space show we wanted to see. Instead we photographed Ben Stiller and his father Jerry on the red carpet.
There is one star in this movie who didn't show up at the premiere: Robin Williams. Now the mysterious part: While we were staying around there waiting for the big limousines, I noticed (and I think I was the only person who noticed him) a homeless man. I found him interesting looking with a radio around his neck. Later when I looked at these pictures again, I was quite excited to find out that he actually looks very similar to Mr. Williams. I searched the internet for a picture of Robin Williams' profile and found one. What did Robin Williams do last night? Was it him hanging around incognito?