Erika Hock “Weil ich es sag” (Because I say so)

cuteness this way

Cloud Atlas to be filmed in Berlin as city eyes starring role in movies

Despite critical plaudits, German productions have rarely managed to infiltrate commercial multiplexes outside their own borders. That might just change with the announcement of what is being heralded in the German media as “the first attempt at a German blockbuster” and “the most expensive German film of all time” – a $100m (£62m) adaptation of David Mitchell’s labyrinthine novel Cloud Atlas, which will be filmed on location in Berlin this autumn. (via The Guardian)

Sierra Leone DCAC.

This Shoe is the result of a collaboration between K1X, a German Sportswear Brand, and Folorunsho from Sierra Leone. The fabric is bought in Sierra Leone, and the shoes are then handmade in Thailand. K1X has worked on different projects in Sierra Leone for the last seven years, and this is their latest success. 

Hohenschwangau, Germay

Deez Nuts In ya Mouth Bitch

ohgodwhat.

Erika Hock “Weil ich es sag” (Because I say so)

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Feengrotten, Saalfeld, Germany. Feengrotten means fairy grotto and it is said to be the most colourful grotto in the world.

Oh… Poor Germany.

The Bridge Gate of the Old Bridge in Heidelberg, Germany (July 1, 2010)

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Zeit für ein Postkartenmotiv / Time for a postcard pic

Artist: Vhils

Location: Berlin, Germany 

Mark Bittman on E. Coli: "Don't Blame the Sprouts!"

Prussia is the next Elvis.

ooc;; Forever lol.

XD

Berlin Police Arrest Suspected Car Arsonist

A man suspected of being behind a recent string of arson attacks on cars in the German capital, Berlin, has been detained by police. The city has been hit by dozens of vehicle burnings, usually targeting high-end cars.

(via Deutsche Welle)

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°°Mathilda°° on Flickr.

In my loneliest moments always someone sitting next to me.

Super cool chef Mark Bittman had a great op-ed in the Times last week on the E. Coli outbreak in Germany. He illustrated how easy it is for food to become contaminated, and how difficult it has been for the Germans to follow the outbreak back to its source.

…it’s likely that most of the thousands of people sickened in Germany ate a vegetable that was contaminated in its handling: manure got into the growing or rinsing water; or it was on the hands of a picker; or it got dropped on a veggie by a bird, or brushed onto it by a wandering animal; or it was in a truck that took the sprouts to the packager, or some other innocent accident, the kind we must do our best to prevent, the kind that’s magnified by combining huge lots of food from dozens of different sources and handling them all together. Remember, 50 STEC are enough to make you sick; one head of lettuce with a few hundred thousand bacteria, tossed together with a few tons of uncontaminated greens, then sold in thousands of packages, can mess up a lot of people.

Bittman puts the outbreak in perspective, but he also highlights how important it is to have systems in place to handle—and if possible prevent—foodborne illness.

The STEC that caused the infamous Jack in the Box outbreak of 1993is formally called E. coli O157:H7. The U.S. has zero tolerance for that STEC, because in 1994 — against the predictable protests of the meat industry — O157 was labeled an “adulterant,” which means that any food in which it’s discovered is recalled; happens all the time, though sometimes too late. There are, as I said, other STEC just as murderous, and we have a much more lenient policy about their presence in food: they’re unregulated. Their presence in food is, legally speaking, just fine.

In theory, if the German thing happened here and the culprit were O157, it might have been prevented. But if the German thing happened here and the culprit were a non-O157 STEC, as it was in Germany (for those of you keeping score at home, that one has been labeled O104:H4), we’d be in the same boat — er, hospital — as our Saxon cousins.

Perhaps the most salient information in his article is that other types of e. coli are just as dangerous as O157—but they aren’t currently considered “adulterants” by the FDA or USDA. According to Bittman, the meat industry is particularly unwilling to acknowledge this.

The fact is that a huge and powerful lobby would rather see a few thousand annual underreported deaths and the occasional high-visibility outbreak than submit to further regulation and smaller profits.

Bad form, meat industry.

Women working in the headquarters of the German 4. Flakdivision...

I want to go back to Germany. Right this minute. I mean, up to this point I’ve missed the people more. And I’ve missed Europe, but right now its almost overwhelming. I want to be in Herrnhut, where it’s beautiful and you have to walk everywhere and wandering always produces some sort of adventure.

Probably Germany, we MUST win.

I love uniforms, they’re so great. I would try all of them, but I think the two anglophones and german ones are specially cool… and Russia’s one!

“You can lie to anyone - except yourself.”

- Mario Gomez

Berlin, Germany

(Ellis Jukes/365)

Mmmm… Germany I guess…

Switzerland also, he treats really lovingly Liechtenstein. And America, so funny - you support me and… I’M THE HERO!

“Success and friends.”

- Bastian Schweinsteiger“When you stop improving, you stop being good.”

- Holger Badstuber

Women working in the headquarters of the German 4. Flakdivision in Germany, spring-summer 1944

Dolly Haas in 1932’s So ein Mהdel vergisst man nicht (A...

Every time I see a BMW or a Porsche pass by, I relize that it is like the Mecca of cars for me:)

BMW, Porsche, Audi, VW, and Mercedes Benz here I come:) 

In a little over a month, I will be embarking on a 2 week tour of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland that will most likely include pretty mountains, fancy European art, a legally consumed Guinness, and a concentration camp.

This is an incredibly awkward and naive statement— but I don’t want to go to a concentration camp.

Not because I’m part German and don’t want to be ashamed of my ancestors. I’m part British and French as well and feel zero affiliation to the sins of my forefathers. That’s not it.

Maybe because I’ve already been to the Holocaust museum, read The Hiding Place, and I know that it was (is) bad. Really, really bad. And I don’t want to travel 6,000 miles to reach an even deeper and more tangible level of sadness (or empathy, if I’m capable of it).

I don’t want to feel bad about something I’m unable to fix.

Is it wrong to want a little bit of ignorance?

OKay, I know that the moment you read vampire and then see this picture, you really think that I have gone off the deep end.

But its true. This is a Nachzehrer.
Its a species of vampire found among the Kashubes of northern Europe and in parts of Germany.
Its able to kill its relatives through a kind of long-range sympathetic magic. While in the grave it will devour its own shroud, piece by piece, moving on to feast on its own flesh.

According to legend, the nachzehrer leaves its coffin or tomb often in the shape of a pig.

And this is my rendition of that moment of him leaving his tomb. He is more pig than man, in the middle of transformation.

- Quoted from Pictures Source.

My Reaction:

After thinking about it for a minute:

I’ve decided I’m giving up on the next generation…

Probably time to switch fandoms OTL

Like the krsnik/kudlak, the German Nachzehrer starts out as a cute little baby born still in his amniotic sac. And like the kudlak, that kid is doomed to become a vampire after death, a Nachzehrer.

I did my best to figure out the German (mine is a little rusty) and the best I could do was ‘after devourer.’ If anyone out there has any more info, I’d appreciate the help.

While in its grave, the Nachzehrer keeps its left eye open and holds one thumb in the other hand.

The Nachzehrer has an interesting diet… even more interesting than your usual vampire fare. Before starting out of the grave to drink the blood of its family, the Nachzehrer needs a little snack, some fiber. The Nachzehrer eats its own graveclothes before it can rise. And as if that’s not enough, it also takes a bite out of… itself. A little nosh here and there gives it the strength it needs to get up and go.

Once it has finished on the kinfolk, the Nachzehrer climbs the nearest church belfry and rings the bell. Anyone who hears it will die.

Use garlic against the Nachzehrer, and put a pair of scissors under your pillow, with the points toward the head of your bed. This will protect you, but you’ll still need to do an exorcism ritual to get rid of it completely.

- Source.

Stunning.

Monopteros by Josephine Mok on Flickr.

Swans and Schloss Nymphenburg by Josephine Mok on Flickr.

Dolly Haas in 1932’s So ein Mהdel vergisst man nicht (A Girl You Don’t Forget)

we’d never forget this girl!