Autumn

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Lange Nacht der Industrie Dresden

First Lange Nacht der Industrie Dresden, 3 July:  Our family of three taking a guided tour around the Druck- and Verlagshaus Dresden (no photos allowed inside). A bus came to pick us up Theaterplatz and drove us to the print house, where we first attended a presentation and then were lead through the printing plant where the workers and machines were just beginning to take up work. Afterwards we enjoyed the night air and a short walk along the Terrassenufer.











Vorstadt Geister

Das Vorstadt Café Dresden feiert 7 Jahre Bestehen / Vorstadt Café Dresden celebrates its seventh annual anniversary. With DJ teams Bleckburk, Norminho, Unitedinmovement and Tanzatelier Kokü.

Vorstadt Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vorstadt.schillerplatz

 

 

Anno Domini Dresden

Some snapshots from eating out at Dresden’s Anno Domini, claiming to be the most rustic restaurant in the world. Well, there are knight’s armors greeting the visitor upon entering, followed by a multitude of hunting trophies and twisted antlers covering the walls alongside candelabras and crucifixes. Beer is served in huge jars and food in iron pans. We eat with some sort of knife-shaped piece of wood and a wooden spoon, there is medieval song singing and if a guest misbehaves or does not eat up the waitress gives them a roasting with whip and morning star or lend them a hand with an overlarge spoon.

    

    

Saturday’s special: Duo Asatru singing us a song about the red-haired witch who was burnt for cheating her man with a stranger…

“Kunstmolkerei” Exhibition

Newspaper review about the “Kunstmolkerei” exhibition at gallery batzner69, Dresden. 80 artists participated this year, I was present with two paintings.

The Last Warm Days…

Photographing Another’s Art

This week I am asked to photograph latest artwork by painter and graphic artist Philipp Gloger, who is currently taking his master craftsman’s diploma at Dresden’s HfBK (Hochschule für Bildende Künste).

The challenge here is to capture the original work in an authentic way and so that the photos can be used for portfolio or catalogues. The main problem pose specific color hues, e.g. the blues as well as lighting.

Besides technical issues we come to discuss also about Dresden’s art scene. Lastly I am eager to see what he made of some of my old concert photos, which you can see assembled in the work below:

Art © Philipp Gloger, www.philippgloger.de

Inquisition / Revenge / Corpus Christii

Time for an update, and a legend: InquisitionUS-Columbian Black Metal outfit Inquisition are touring Europe in September. Together with Revenge they hit Dresden, making the best of a day off. Originally scheduled for another venue the concert was moved last minute to Club District, because the owners of the former location had a problem with some of the band’s provocative appearances. Their loss, because this turned out a long concert night absolutely worth seeing.

And since this was an off-day for the bands there was also nothing to lose. The atmosphere was thus pretty relaxed, there was no big stage show to expect but raw music was served.Corpus Christii

Supporting acts were Corpus Christii and The Stone. I missed the latter, so I cannot say anything about them. Corpus Christii played when the club was still empty, but mobilized the audience by serving raw fast black metal.

Canada based band Revenge  were the secret favorite of the night. They played long, over one hour of brutal high-speed black metal. People were headbanging from the start and reactions afterwards were enthusiastic. RevengePerfect timing did not only account for their rapid and über-precise playing, but my clock showed 00.00 when they were finished. (The right time for a break…)

The rest of the night was owned by Inquisition, who played for nearly two hours. It took me a bit to get into the sometimes monotonous and repetitive parts of the songs, but the audience was going for it immediately. It was without a doubt a special atmosphere created by these legends, somehow solemn and sinister, while at the same time most of the audience was headbanging all the way through. In between songs, guitar, micro and drum-sound had to be adjusted several times, but the two musicians went about it in a calm and professional manner, so that the flow of the concert was not effected. Then suddenly the show was over and what felt like an eternity could actually have lasted for at least another two hours. My resume: Inquisition live is actually one of those concert experiences that keep growing on me in retrospective, and I hope to see them live again in the future.

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