Saturday 15 October 2011

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Freitag.

Went to meet ma pal who's travelling in Frankfurt. We wandered about a bit and then she couldn't get a train back coz they stopped going at 18:30 so she came back to stay in Darmy! She is my first visitor and was a lovely guest to have. We made dinner and ate it on my balcony, despite the cold. We then met up with Liv and went to the industrial designers ending party thing. Had a little schmooze and then left a tad early in order to prepare for our early rise today.

Samstag.

Woke up at the crack of dawn. We were on a mission to get to the fleemarket good n early but it just didn't happen. Said goodbye to my pal and did some embroidering of a brain for my proj on the slow S train back to Frankfurt. Met up with Liv and we went to the fleemarket. Was looking for a coat as it is freezing but did not find one. Nor a bike. I'm too fussy.

After we went to this book/zine fair called 'Dead or Alive?!'. Unfortunately due to the early bird wake up call and general lack of sleep we were more dead but we found some cool peeps to talk to and saw some cool stuff. There were people from everywhere to chat to so it was more than a bit of an alright.

I was interested to see and take mental note of what type of work stands out at those kind of events and what just looks like a jumble of complicated words and ideas. Simple seems to win.

We were talking to this guy who, amongst other things, had made a publication out of his old collection of spice girl articles. His work was really funny and readable and he said he always seemed to break the air of the graphic style boff vibe that you kind of can't avoid at most graphicsy book events. This appealed to me. He was still using rules in a serious way not to be serious. Cool ey.

We went to a bit of the talks. They were ok. More interesting were the chats with people.







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