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(…)Leider kann ICH mir das nicht leisten, doch es geht hier  nicht  um 100 € oder 800 €, sondern ist grundsätzlicher Natur.

Es geht um „Entlohnung“ und somit Respekt, vor Qualitätsarbeit, die jemand leistet – da darf auch gerne etwas Anderes als „Lohn“ gezahlt werden, wie kostenlose Unterkunft, Essen/Trinken, T-Shirts, Einladung, Bahnticket, Gutscheine, Bücher –  ihr versteht mich.

Spendenquittung ist an sich sehr gut, aber nützt nur demjenigen, der eh viel Geld verdient, um seine Steuern zu senken. Wenn ich jedoch soviel verdiene, kann ich mir diesen „Gratis“-Job auch leisten. Nützt also nichts.

NEIN zur „Umsonst“-Arbeit, weil dann ist es ja keine Arbeit, sondern Ausbeutung!
NEIN zu Freundschaftsdiensten bei kommerziellen Projekten, weil hier wird Geld verdient von einer Seite!
NEIN zu „mal eben schnell“, weil nicht richtig geplant wurde und irgendjemand tief gepennt hat, der aber dafür bezahlt wird!
NEIN zu „Umsonst“-Praktika , weil böse, falsch und Ausbeutung!
NEIN zu unbezahlten Überstunden bei kommerziellen Projekten, weil (gewollt) falsch kalkuliert wurde!
NEIN zu Kalkulationen von Projekten, die davon ausgehen, das „Alle alles für lau“ machen, besondere gerne , weil jung, dynamisch (und dämlich)  Grafiker, Texter, Programmierer und Fotografen!
NEIN zu unbezahlten Volunteer-Stellen, außer es gibt eine andere Entlohnung/Erfahrung, die es wert ist, zb. Aufenthalt an besonderen Plätzen, Tieren, Menschen, etc.
NEIN zu unbezahlten wissenschaftlichen Hilfskräften, die müssen auch von irgendwas leben!

Dies würde ich im übrigen auch allen anderen NGOs oder Agenturen/Firmen schreiben.  Egal ob BBDO, Mercedes, IFAW oder Greenpeace!

(…)

Dies als Antwort meinerseits auf die Frage einer NGO, bzgl. „Job“, denn ich SEHR  GERNE gemacht hätte, aber mir finanziell nicht leisten kann. Eine große Agentur kann das (jemand freistellen für 2 Tage, egal), eine Firma (Harz4 Praktikanten und Dauer-Leiharbeiter kosten eh fast nichts) und auch Studenten (gegen Schein oder weniger Stundenlohn).

Ja, „taktisch“ ist meine Entscheidung nicht schlau, aber es geht im Leben darum,  Position zu beziehen, eben „Standing“ und nicht immer schön hinterher dackeln in der großen Masse. Dadurch retten man nämlich keine Tiere, sondern nur die „selbst gemachten“ Arbeitsplätze  von NGO Mitarbeitern. Warum arbeiten diese nicht „kostenlos?“ – eben!

… it seems not much happening from the outside, but its far from ordinary, quite a lot of things are underway and i feel good about it to just „be here“ right know. not away, not even mentally. no thoughts about exotic places. kind of everyday life. not the life of a drifter and traveler, more like you average Joe.

the usual struggle about money is nothing to worry about, its just a big fckin hassle! still more concerned to find a goal, a destiny and something i care about and make money with it to support my life.

i started to play the ukulele, my spirit is strong to do kendo again after month of struggle and of course i want to run more (aiming for 15 -21k end of this year!). i definitely need to cut down on beer and swap to spirits –  seriously! too much beer, to much calories 😉

talking about beer, i wanna do my own micro brew for the summer. homemade summer ale, light and crispy! looking forward to do it & try it out.anybody want to join me on this journey?

A few conferences, planing city trips to Berlin, Vienna and Copenhagen. Hiking the Saxony Swiss in Germany in late spring, maybe spending hopefully some time around the Baltic sea or Atlantic Ocean in summer, and maybe California is up in Autumn again, to finish off the year with some snowboarding in the Alps!

Would really love to make some proper money to do all the things i wanna do. so much to do in life, aye? diving, surfing, snowboarding, kendo, books, traveling, concerts & festivals, hiking and good coffee! i need to push my own business! I spend way too much time on other peoples projects and stuff I CAN’T make money with. Not taking mine serious! need to focus, fast!

eating!  not much milk and yoghurt anymore, no meat in the last couple of month, no fish this year and i am in a really good mood about it. need to eat more greens and fruits! i will try hard to eat no meat as much as i can, but the BBQ season is coming up! on the other side it feels ok for ME to eat a little bit of meat as long as its eco-friendly/sustainable  and not more then once or twice a month. urgs!

talking about feeling good. I’m actually in pretty damn good mood, hell yeah, there is an awesome girl i totally adore and it feels great! not to be a lonely soul anymore! no cowboy attitudes at the moment! probably the best start into a fresh year i can imagine!

1. Zugenommen oder abgenommen?
Zugenommen … das ganze Bier bei einer Weltreise muss irgendwo hin 🙁

2. Haare länger oder kürzer?
im Februar ab, dann wieder länger, same as every year

3. Kurzsichtiger oder weitsichtiger?
same. -8 gilt es zu schlagen, und nein, ich brauche diese schwarze dicke rayban wirklich!

4. Mehr Kohle oder weniger?
weniger, weil fürs reisen rausgepustet. schulden my ass 🙁

5. Mehr ausgegeben oder weniger?
leider mehr als ich habe. nennt man dann schulden machen 🙁

6. Mehr bewegt oder weniger?
no idea. mich. um die welt?

7. Der hirnrissigste Plan?
unbedingt die dämlichen waitomo caves zu sehen! rumtrappen, kohle raushauen und stress für nix! ausser touri shit!

8. Die gefährlichste Unternehmung?
Gipfelaufstieg bei beginnendem Schneesturm! Avalanche Peak, NZ

9. Die teuerste Anschaffung?
schätze flugtickets

10. Das leckerste Essen?
mitten in der natur! aussem campingkocher! oben die gleschter, unten das meer und über mir der sternenhimmel neuseelands.

11. Das beeindruckendste Buch?
gute frage; was hab ich den alles gelesen? vielleicht couplands „A“ ?

12. Der ergreifendste Film?
180° South

13. Die beste CD?
schwer. william fritzsimmons „the sparrow and the crow“ obwohl eigentlich 2009

14. Das schönste Konzert?
Joanna Newsom in Wellington, New Zealand, 1 Reihe, grossartig!

15. Die meiste und beste Zeit verbracht mit …?.
(leider) mit mir alleine und meinem Rucksack, ab und zu Tabak dazu 😉

16. Vorherrschendes Gefühl 2010?
„I made it!“

17. 2010 zum ersten Mal getan?
, SO Asien und NZ bereist, Fussball als Leidenschaft empfunden, eine firma mitgegründet, Silvester gearbeitet

18. 2010 nach langer Zeit wieder getan?
arbeiten, Coopers Pale Ale trinken, den Indischen Ozean küssen und mich verlieben

19. Drei Dinge, auf die ich gut hätte verzichten mögen?
nichts.

20. Die wichtigste Sache, von der ich jemanden überzeugen wollte?
keine ahnung? wüsste ich jetzt nicht.

21. Das schönste Geschenk, das mir jemand gemacht hat?
alle den menschen, die mich beim trampen mitgenommen haben, all die dinge, die mir auf meinen reisen
gutes getan wurde ohne gegenleistung, iphone als dauerleihgabe, morgens um 8 uhr für mich mit dem auto vor der tür zu stehen

22. Der schönste Satz, den jemand zu mir gesagt hat?
„welcome home to australia“

23. 2010 war mit einem Wort …?
zwiegespalten – erstes halbjahr am reisen, zweites halbjahr davon am erholen 😉

What @font-face has done is shine a light on all the deficiencies and lack of precision in font rendering and text flow and text layout that have always been with us hidden in plain sight.
Fifteen years into the web, I still can’t set a column of body text – hyphenated and justified – and know what it’s pixel container size, line count, and line breaks will be at any Zoom level across browsers and platforms. It’s a crap shoot. (Rich Fink on Zeldmans article)

Webfonts. fantastic, standard-based, super cool! client project for a friend, he is a type designer, so great chance to play around with his fonts and see what we can do in 2010 with webfonts. also my first foray into them.

In the end it seems sad, but i can say, that at the moment, its only mac osx with webkit/safari/chrome & the newest mozilla running smooth. PC? its ok, in IE 8  but not beau.
its the bloody rendering under windows. sucks! A total desaster under windows xp without „cleartype“ on. i don’t know anything what to do here? how to force ppl to „switch“ it on … very frustrating 🙁

a note to myself: use web fonts for headlines and subheads, 20px up, but for the copy use the default ones, like arial, times, etc. for the moment. it seems to be fail-safe for IE and Mozilla on Mac, Unix and Windows (as long as „clear-type“ is on)– a great round-up is this article by Mrs. Zeldman and discussion about the “ cross browser use“ of it, and not „specially designed for your designer audience “ … read the comments!

what is also quite strange it seems there is only one „web app“: fontsquirrls webfont creator out there. Why isn’t it integrated in CS Adobe? Fireworks? Indesign? No standalone application? or am i wrong? at it seems, the type designer must meet special requirements so the rendering is nice, but then i read webkit/safari choose their own kerning/hinting! Postcript should be better then TT for creating the wof and so on …

very confusing. BUT i just made the first steps on this road, so lets see what’s possible in IE9 and everything coming in 2011! are their any special mailing list or groups out there in Germany, who are discussing web-fonts, besides advertising for font shops webfont stuff?

Still lots of questions!

… weil ich gerade damit schon jens auf FB genervt habe, meine meinung zum thema dioxin eier als grundlage für diskussionen, hier in (ergänzter) form:

„die Massentierhaltung in Verbindung mit Profitgier und „GeizigistGeil“ Mentalität ist IMMER ein Problem und alle anderen „Probleme“ nur Symptome dessen.

Wenn jeder von uns nur Bio Eier zu 1 E kaufen würde (Prioritäten) und einfach mal weniger Eier futtern, wäre allen erheblich geholfen. Eier bitte durch beliebiges Lebensmittel ersetzen. Jede „Verbraucherschutz“ Diskussion ist nur ein Farce

Und Bio bedeutet auch in Konsequenz auf Discounter-Strukturen zu verzichten (gelingt mir auch nicht!) Was nützt es, bei Aldi & Co Bio Zeugs zu holen? Diese diktieren auch „ihren“ Bio Bauern, was es zu kosten hat, Personalkosten gering halten, keine Betriebsräte, erlauben, Tier durch halb Europa fahren, nicht regional aufgestellt sind, tierverachtend usw.

Nein, solang (Gross-)Bauern mit Lebenwesen wie Dreck umgehen und Verbraucher, dies tolerieren & durch Kauf direkt unterstützen, ändert sich rein garnichts.

mir fällt es auch oft schwer, gerade wegen der kohle. aber dann müssen wir halt alle einfach mal wieder lernen „mehr zu verzichten“ als immer „mehr haben zu wollen“ – Lieber ein gutes Stück Käse, als 10, lieber ein gutes Brot als 10, lieber 6 Eier in der Woche, als 10 Eier – you got it!

sorry jens für den rant, aber ich bin echt so genervt. jedes jahr nen neuer „skandal“ und alle fressen weiter wie gehabt. das system kollabiert, keiner will auf was verzichten, politik ist ein witz und nach mir die sinnflut. haupsache immer „ich ich ich“

its getting busy. lots of concerts, lets see where i end up. if someone wants to join me or is going anyway to one of the events, pls let me know 🙂

i am also very happy to see emerging bands or just stuff i don’t know,better a lot of great „small“ bands, as big ones i know anyway

• jonossi, 1feb, düsseldorf, zakk
• herrenmagazin, 3feb, düsseldorf, FFT
• iron & wine, 9feb, cologne, gloria
• band of horses, 15feb, cologne, live music hall
• gisbert von knyphausen/nils koppruch, 18feb., dortmund, konzerthaus
• die goldenen zitronen, 20feb, düsseldorf, zakk
• the low anthem, 20mär, cologne, essigfabrik
• erdmöbel, 31mär, düsseldorf, savoy
• clickclickdecker, 6 apr, düsseldorf, FFT
• belle and sebastian, 8apr, cologne, e-werk
• frittenbude und saalschutz, 9apr, düsseldorf, zakk
• tallest man on earth, 22may, cologne, essigfabrik
• william fritzsimmons, 17jun, dortmund, konzerthaus
• immergut, haldern, dockville  ????

you can also find all the events t my last.fm-page: http://www.lastfm.de/user/silentDAN/events

A great and fantastic happy new 2011 to all of you, my friends, readers and netfolks!

I think its very good to have a kind of fresh start every 12 month, even if we all know, that things will continue, if not we, by ourselves decide, where to go from here. But we all knew, the sky is the limit. So go for it, Forest!

Last year, in Hervey Bay, Australia, 32°, bbq, beer and friends, this year, 5°, düsseldorf, Germany, working over NYE and friends, too  – for me, after the last 2 years, another absolutely great year comes to end, lets see were we at end of next year! Join me on the rollercoaster!

Love, hugs and kisses, fun, meditation and a helping hand to all of you around the globe.

daniel

My music of the year 2010. I just asked myself, what i was REALLY listing to, not what came out! Let say the real good caribou album. It is great but i never listen to it! so why put it on MY top list? Just to please the critics?

Because of my long world travel this year, i couldn’t catch up with new music, so lot of older stuff from last year like mumford & sons is on the list and quite a lot of „outdoorsy lone ranger folky stuff“ which kept my going alone, on the road in far off places 🙂

1 The xx  – The xx
2 Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me
3 William Fitzsimmons – The Sparrow And The Crow
4 Angus & Julia Stone Down The Day
6 Arcade Fire – Suburbs
7 Junip – Fields
8 Jack Johnson – En Concert [Live]
9 Beach House – Teen Dreams
10 Tired Pony – The Place We Ran From
11 Pearl Jam – Backspacer
12 The Low Anthem – Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
13 Belle & Sebastian – Belle & Sebastian Write About Love
14 The Drums – The Drums
15 Broken Bells – Broken Bells
16 Iron & Wine – Around the Well
17 Gisbert zu Knyphausen – Hurra! Hurra! So nicht
18 We Were Promised Jetpacks – These Four Walls
19 Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More
20 Ugly Casanova – 180° South: Conquerors of the Useless (OST)
21 Eddi Vedder – Into the Wild
22 Band of Horses – Infinite Arms
23 Villagers – Becoming A Jackal
24 The National – High Violet
25 Byte.fm – Internet radio

(only on album per artist, otherwise …)

For next year you should write on your own blog. back to your own plattforms. no facebook. no third-party-shit

Not more blogging in the last weeks, even if i tried too, but just to damm lazy! bloody facebook! bloody twitter! … maybe everything is too well in my life? no more crying around and saying „me me me“ or am I just to relaxed?

For next year find something you care about!

Of course, it’s the money as always. And that there is still nothing which would give me a sense of responsibility for someone or something. ok, i enjoy quite a lot of things, probably to much, but can’t make money out of it. thats the different to quite a lot of people i know. i only work, cause u must work for a living, otherwise i would spend my time and nergy in the outdoors, helping nature to survive and educate people about it.that makes sense! i really enjoyed my work in Iceland, guiding and educating people about the ocean eco systems and marine mammals or on Haleakala in Hawaii, volunteering for the National Park on Maui. So see! There is something work related i enjoy! Instead of the whole Graphic „you hipster fuck no cares“ Design Studies, i should have learn something about forests and oceans, bees and plankton and how to teach things, so YOUR kids will know what animal Paul is!

For next year, you should volunteer & doing stuff with WDCS, SSCS, IFAW or Greenpeace – of course there is no money in this game, but all lot of good karma and worth doing it

speaking of volunteering kind of, the whole co-working space düsseldorf project has kicked off and we made it happen in 3 month. now we must see work to fill this creative space and help to let it grow. its really great to create something, which could be last for a while. as i told many people, even if it fails, i made real world connections with people and ideas, can you ask for more?

For next year work hard on your own business for profit and help to let the others grow for karma!

i will try to work (hard) there on my desk till spring. so i can see, if the freelancing thing is my deal or not. it feels good and i love to design and code for the web, but still its doesnt’t change anything. no idea, if it was right to put webdev on my card, but just let’s see.

For next year be „here“ –  try to find a regular daily structure in life. not more more more

next year is coming up and i would love to, how to say that, not settle down (Cats Stevens Song, anyone? i mean i wouldn’t mind for the right reasons!), but be here, be around and see what europe has to offer. step back a little bit, after the last 5 years of traveling and adventures. 2004/2005 Australia  2006 and 2007 study like crazy 2008 diploma Iceland, family affairs,  2009  hamburg, great summer, canada, california, hawaii, australia and 2010 new zealand, indonesia, singapur thailand, world cup, great summer, coworking space …so it would be really ok to be here, be in love, focus on someone, work and live europe. düsseldorf?  i don’t care as long as i can make it money-wise. so if it should be Hamburg, Copenhagen, Helsinki or Lisabon for a GOOD reason, come on let’s do it!

i think  i learned a few things while travelling and being on my own for quite a while. there is a very small line between doing things and running away from things.

For the next year you should be more active (again!)

better late then never. start again with running and kendo on a regular basis. try to dive at least once a month, and even try to rock climb, maybe even (kite)surfing and snowboarding. hiking of course! there a 2 big ones in germany i wanna do: the „saxony  mountain walk“ (100k +) and the „harz walk“, maybe something in the south.

For the next year you should think hard about where you wanna go from here and how!

in the long run there is „my“ big decision to make:  i love my people and room in düsseldorf, but i need to decide on the „big try“! Iceland? Australia? Canada? Hawaii? Asia? for real? not just a few days, weeks or month. real commitment, but then for what? and why? just for a better outdoor lifestyle? starting from scratch? no friends? no job? no working visa? … but then again, being here,  it’s often so frustrating to know to be capable of doing a real high profile job, making money, doing real stuff, but somehow can’t get a grip on it, a carrier and shit,  just not „dumb“ enough anymore after all my travels? not „useful“ enough for corporate life? but i  mean, who the fuck? who really wants a big car, house, louis v  and shit?

by seeing friends making carriers, having babies/family and the kind of moving on to a next level (next island? next purgatory?), you realize that this is something i silently envy. i am still so restless inside and have no idea, if there is something worth out there, living for? or wise versa something or someone happy to be with me or can calm me down? in the end, lots of luxury problems , so we will all see (again), what will happen next year!

2011 – OMG! 2011 fckn unbelievable!  i am really happy to live in these times. the technical progress, a changing world, beside all the shit we are digging, its damm exciting!so have some great days and a good start into a new fresh year!

Yesterday i went to Cologne with Sandra and Mo watching „Blitzen Trapper“ in Concert at Luxor, Cologne. The ticket was a present for my birthday in October. I really like present you can use weeks later, like newspaper subscriptions, or concert tickets.

Anyway really nice, „simple“-kind of concert, not much audience, so great for short ones like me. we got probably best places right at the end of the bar, sipping some becks, me later „kölsch“beer, watching first „pearly gates“ (reminds me of the „trapez singer“ of iron & wine-cover fame) and later „blitzen trapper“ – seems booth bands had quite a lot of fun, rocking the luxor. BTs sound was great,  i felt instantly like being back on pacific west-coast of the states – Seattle, Washington NP, PDX aka Portland (where they actually come from), SF and so on.  Rough Americana with a lot of rainy grunge -attitude and folky harmonica tunes. band singer reminds us of this guy in „from dusk till dawn“ with a penis revolver , forgot the name, whatever.

so yeah, great easy concert, in a good mode, thanks for the ticket! and thanks for (every time) driving and the good company. i am very happy to have those both, otherwise i wouldn’t know, how to handle my desire to go to concert, as i would be mostly on my own.
i know from being alone on  the road a lot, it’s awful. one of the strangest things is to go to a concert alone. don’t ask me why.i hate it. its totally different then going out to theatres, cinemas, etc. people just expect that you will be there with friends, a girl or working as a journalist.

Alright, if Blitzen Trapper becomes the new Arcade Fire some day  i can say i saw them once with 30 people in a small venue 🙂