THE PULP OF BIESTMILCH

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Struggling with the champ !

By today we managed to roughly finish the painting of all our dear athletes … honestly, it went fairly smoothly Nicole, Sebastian we had an relatively easy run with them today, but this Mccormack … you won’t believe it, we were not happy with him … so, a second round is on with him, and we are running out of time… it will be my weekend job to tame him ;-) .
Good so, I know what to do during the holidays that are about to come ;-)

Nina working Nicole's shoes

Nina working Nicole's shoes

Sebastian in the making

Sebastian in the making

Chris, Yvonne and Meike in the process of drying

Ronnie, Chris, Yvonne and Meike in the process of drying

Have a look at the details

Have a look at the details

Thank you Nina for your commitment to our cause!

The artist, Nina Reisinger

The artist, Nina Reisinger

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Ronnie out of swim, Chris still in the making …

Another day of painting our athletes passed by… as time goes by bodies take shape. But there lies still a tough day of work ahead of us, the job is much more time consuming as expected. Hopefully we have some return on investment ;-)

Dancing with Ronnie
Nina dancing with Ronnie
Ronnie out of swim, Chris still in the making
Ronnie out of swim, Chris still in the making
Ronnie, Chris, Nina and Arne on the move
Ronnie, Chris, Nina and Arne on the move
Sophie prefers sleeping on yvonne
Sophie prefers sleeping on Yvonne
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Yvonne and Meike in the Making

Oh boy, it is a big job to give our girls* the shape they deserve. But don’t you think they look nice already?

Nina working on Meike's helmet

Nina working on Meike's helmet

I try my very best ...

I try my very best ...

Yvonne and Meike

Yvonne and Meike

*for those who are not familiar with triathlon, we are talking about Yvonne van Vlerken and Meike Krebs.

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Working on our biest athlete avatars

While on the other side of our small office world Chris gives us a big deal of excitement since it is iron fact that he is racing in Frankfurt, we continue with our preps for all the events that are close about to come. We are currently designing and painting our biest athletes Sebastian Kienle, Chris McCormack, Ronnie Schildknecht,  and the girls Meike Krebs, Nicole Leder and Yvonne van Vlerken (here in alphapetical order).

Work in progress, Nina and Yvonne

Work in progress, Nina and Yvonne

Why we do that? Well, as you know, it is fairly difficult to collect all these individuals at same time in the same place, so we thought it may be a good idea to take the group as avatars with us on the road … ;-) It saves us a lot of time coordinating and nevertheless increases the team spirit … ;-)

Nina working on Yvonne

Nina working on Yvonne

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After a long day of talking and with I all my due respect !

Today we had a meeting marathon day … discussing a lot about how to get our biestmilch messages across without ending up in the middle of nowhere. After 10 years of developing and improving my communication skills I am used to the fact that I may end up in the desert, unintentional, taking a high risk of being laughed at and being taught lessons by those who know it better… and my goodness there are a lot of this kind out there. To be intimidated and give in … uff, difficult !

One day I made up my mind to follow my track regardless of getting betrayed and blamed for my notions every other day. It was Heinz von Foerster who encouraged me and made me “understand” one day that communication has nothing to do with understanding each other, but with interacting. Von Foerster uses metaphors for words that should be like hooks and arrows, that make a communicative processes successful, not like elastic balls that bounce back without leaving a mark. Communication needs objects that leave marks on the body’s surface of the other, make the other shake, startled and entangle him/her… reach out to touch him/her emotionally. You can only achieve this, if you are construing a fine and colorful communicative fabric made out of the most different languages and slangs, and forms of behavior and denkstile. Otherwise you may end up in only insulting, hurting and disrespecting the other.

This should not happen, but it happens a hundred thousand times in this multi-media based world with all its social platforms affluent of words, in a world where so many people dare to write who never would have done so before. Due to the quick access to channels of communication a web of unnecessary pain and tears emerges, beings of emotional incontinence take over the lead… I hate that, my motto is “better think twice” … We should by all differences respect each other, and remain modest.

Of course, I write this fairly moralistic post, because of an incident that happened to me today, that hurt me a lot. If I am assuming it right, the persons I have in mind while writing this paragraph, is never ever going to recognize that I am talking about him /her… and that’s for good.

with my due respect but ...

with my due respect but ...

Gapingvoid

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A quick hello from New Orleans – the city of jazz

Since the volcano eruption on Iceland I may have the chance to attend the New Orleans’ jazz festival next week, with mixed feelings, I have to admit!

jazzposter

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Good bye Haikou – Impressions from our last day

Tomorrow we leave China. It was an incredible experience. Today Fritz an I have been to the old market… breath-taking !!!!

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heavyload
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goodbye

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China beyond sports

I have been in many places on this globe, but this is one of my most breath-taking experiences.

Girl in the old town of Haikou

Girl in the old town of Haikou

Old man drinking tea

Old man drinking tea

The flower hat; you find it on many heads ;-)

The flower hat; you find it on many heads ;-)

Dogs on the road; I love dogs and they don't eat dogs here!

Dogs on the road; I love dogs and they don't eat dogs here!