Good News From Europe http://www.g-rad.org/nina/ en Copyright 2008 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:38:46 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss afternoon.
I get so bored sitting around in city-sandboxes digging the sand, hearing the other parents say "no kilian, don't hit the little girl on the head with the showel" if it wasn't for the little girl being pretty good company after all i would have turned into a sour plum. today i went to UN Plaza only to stand in the doorway of the crowded room where they were screening the videos with a toddler on my arm that went "blblbldada" which isn't the stupidest thing that anyone has said about video art but people where turning around at us so i figured i would leave and when they started analysing the films mila got bored anyway so we left. i like the area around UN Plaza. The houses are sky high and the windows are reduced to dots in a grid. I've always found the thought that each of those dots represents a room with a person in it comforting not disturbing.


plaza.jpg

]]> http://www.g-rad.org/nina/archives/2008/09/afternoon.html http://www.g-rad.org/nina/archives/2008/09/afternoon.html Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:38:46 -0500 Hello dear g-rad.

By some strange circumstance I was just remembered that I'm in charge of running this weblog. And happened to remember how to login: So I will write one or two lines before I go back to my usual activities. G-rad seems to be doing so incredibly good. Just skipping through some of the discussion forums, I get the impression that so many things are being discussed that I had wished to have talked about while I was a citizen of Grand Rapids, Division Ave. So now they seem quite far removed. We don't struggle with any of the issues that were part of my living experience there. Here we have luxury problems. I despair when I realize that the health food store on the corner is out of organic lemonade. I live now in a part of town that knows only ice cream shops and playgrounds. There is no question, hardly anyone owns a car. Not that this is the status quo in the country that I live in, quite the opposite is the case actually, and apparently I have maneuvered myself into becoming an inhabitant of a bubble-city.
So, while knowing how difficult it would be to raise my little one as easily and healthily if I still lived where I used to live in Grand Rapids, a place that I miss quite a bit from time to time, I will try to keep up on news from this precious place called GR and from now on refer to G-Rad as "Good News From Grand Rapids" and remain
yours truly,
Good News From Europe

Mila

]]> http://www.g-rad.org/nina/archives/2008/08/hello-dear-grad.html http://www.g-rad.org/nina/archives/2008/08/hello-dear-grad.html Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:28:02 -0500 TEST test

]]> http://www.g-rad.org/nina/archives/2007/10/test.html http://www.g-rad.org/nina/archives/2007/10/test.html Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:42:35 -0500 Happy Fall! http://www.g-rad.org/nina/archives/2007/10/happy-fall.html http://www.g-rad.org/nina/archives/2007/10/happy-fall.html Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:04:07 -0500 nesting ....Nesting....
....Nest....

]]> http://www.g-rad.org/nina/archives/2007/05/nesting.html http://www.g-rad.org/nina/archives/2007/05/nesting.html Tue, 15 May 2007 05:58:32 -0500 storknest It's finally working! Amazing. Watch the storks nesting:

http://www.storchennest.de/en/index_live-video.html

]]> http://www.g-rad.org/nina/archives/2007/05/storknest-1.html http://www.g-rad.org/nina/archives/2007/05/storknest-1.html Mon, 14 May 2007 11:27:57 -0500 RWF I've spent the best of the past five months with this exhibition at KW Berlin. Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz will be on view for another two days. (that doesn't leave a lot of time if you want to see the whole 15-hour film, but will be exactly the kind of entertainment you need while the weather is bad and you prefer to stay in small rooms filled with cushions, watching what is probably the darkest, longest and most indoorsy of all films in cinema history).

........Berlin Alexanderplatz Finished.........

This is my fassbinderesque dark and pixelated impression of the finissage-evening, right in front of Franz Biberkopf you can see Juliane Lorenz, Fassbinders late wife and the cutter for Berlin Alexanderplatz.

]]> http://www.g-rad.org/nina/archives/2007/05/rwf.html http://www.g-rad.org/nina/archives/2007/05/rwf.html Thu, 10 May 2007 18:08:49 -0500 spring and dance .....demo 2.....
The Birds are back from Africa.
And I could almost hear them chirp and sing, if it wasn't for the swarm of military helicopters that is incessantly circling over my roof. It's because Kanzlerin Merkel is down at Brandenburger Gate with Rod Steward and Bono and about a hundred thousand excitable Europeans to cheerfully celebrate the European Union's anniversary..
Berliners, critical and aware as they are known to be, don't miss the opportunity to spend the springy sunday afternoon on the street demonstrating that they, for one, do not approve..
......gegen markt.....
On another note, I got some fish on the market on friday and i wonder if it is too late to cook it now, two days later, as I know that fish is quick to perish, even when kept in the refridgerator, though it is filet and cost me a small fortune, and I would hate to throw it out?
.....demo 2.....

]]> http://www.g-rad.org/nina/archives/2007/03/spring-and-danc.html http://www.g-rad.org/nina/archives/2007/03/spring-and-danc.html Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:38:11 -0500 .......Officially Really Pregnant.......

]]> http://www.g-rad.org/nina/archives/2007/03/post-4.html http://www.g-rad.org/nina/archives/2007/03/post-4.html Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:12:58 -0500 Mauerpark I

]]> http://www.g-rad.org/nina/archives/2007/03/post-2.html http://www.g-rad.org/nina/archives/2007/03/post-2.html Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:13:05 -0500 Mauerpark II
Mauerpark V

]]> http://www.g-rad.org/nina/archives/2007/03/post-1.html http://www.g-rad.org/nina/archives/2007/03/post-1.html Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:02:29 -0500 pong

because the world is round it turns me on
because the wind is high it blows my mind

]]> http://www.g-rad.org/nina/archives/2007/01/-because-the-wo.html http://www.g-rad.org/nina/archives/2007/01/-because-the-wo.html Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:26:00 -0500 birdies Blue 6
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Blue 7

]]> http://www.g-rad.org/nina/archives/2006/10/birdies.html http://www.g-rad.org/nina/archives/2006/10/birdies.html Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:00:09 -0500 American President Declares Himself Ruler of the Universe read more

]]> http://www.g-rad.org/nina/archives/2006/10/american-presid.html http://www.g-rad.org/nina/archives/2006/10/american-presid.html Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:03:58 -0500 Life has become the ideology of its own absence

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The cracks that run through the structures that organize our lives act like veins and glands, supplying us with the stuff that makes our cheeks rosy and our eyes fill with tears.

iminhiding

when you crack, smile.

]]> http://www.g-rad.org/nina/archives/2006/09/life-has-become.html http://www.g-rad.org/nina/archives/2006/09/life-has-become.html Sat, 30 Sep 2006 18:05:57 -0500