On this canary island our partner Hannes has organized a triathlon training camp. Beside the fact of shooting our athletes, we are promoting biestmilch with a booth at Hannes’ base on Fuerteventura. On Tuesday Fritz, my dear DOP, and myself left for Fuerteventura to collect some footage of our biest athletes, who are currently polishing their bodies for the season. Whenever I am on the road like this I try to find a few short seconds to get off the track and see something else of the place. I have to admit this time these moments were extremely rare. We had only 3 days.

Heavy gusty winds turned the Atlantic into a wild creature

Peaceful coexistence. The dog has got some features of my borders

Typical local restaurant, our refuge on the island

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… to go to sleep and get up early. It is race morning very soon.

Turtle waiting by the pier, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii

Today when we were having breakfast with Chris and the guys at Jamba Juice the topic of vitamin B was raised. Therefore I thought of a short summary about these essential water-soluble vitamins that play important roles in cell metabolism. We know 8 different vitamin Bs. Their roles are manifold. Various enzyme activities depend on vitamin B complex. It influences growth, development, metabolism, the functioning of cells, their regeneration and their turn-over. Immune cells and nerve cells need vitamin B complex.

B vitamins are particularly concentrated in meat, and other good sources are potatoes, bananas, lentils, chili peppers, beans, liver oil, liver, turkey, tuna, yeast, brewer’s yeast, and molasses. Marmite and Vegemite are famous for being one of the world’s richest known sources of vitamin B. As might be expected, due to its high content of brewer’s yeast, non-filtered beer is a source of B vitamins.

Just about everyone in the Western worls already gets all of the B vitamins they could possibly need in their diets… Extra B vitamins are generally just flushed out of the system—although everyone’s limit of absorption is different in regards to B complex vitamins and no-one knows how much is needed on an individual basis of these vitamins…

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Today was not a too good day. I was not efficient at all. Days of this kind are days of doubts, necessary days, days of renewal as one recognizes only later in the process. I started to read, this is always a process of refueling for me, if the books don’t turn out to be stupid, but stirring up. It is like pressing the reset button, and that’s good too. Step beyond the daily rush and routine, and start questioning.

Why the heck, did she put this photo in this place*

This is how I came across a paragraph on Seth Godin’s blog. I donate these lines to all my young co-workers who seem to be so straight on track, that I envy them sometimes.
“Some people read (business) books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can’t help but push you forward.”

by Seth Godin

*Photo by Fritz Oelberg