Vacuum City, USA

2010/2011 Centimeter Hockey League Champions!!!!!

I guess the basic message is: do not give up.
Yeah, the big 'ups' and 'downs' take their toll. Let them. Allow them. Keep striving and knock them aside, collect them and stay balanced. Know your own characteristics and use them to forge your balance. Bla bla bla...but its meant to be true.

Yesterday the Wiener Gummieisbären won both the semi and final match of the Viennese Centimeter Hockey League playoffs. We are number 1.

As player/coach I can say that we played a solid, well rounded hockey. This made us strong and we did not give up. Thank you players!!!! I had some brief moments in the last weeks thinking about my future as coach of this team because coaching is a big distraction to my own game. Even yesterday I was pretty severely compromised with my performance, but i did not give up. No one gave up.

I had thoughts of being a lousy coach...a non-coach...a joke coach...
but I figured out in the end that it is the flexibility of a non-authoritarian plus a big portion of solid trust bringing a feeling between all team members that we can play well together with the talent and drives we have as individuals...and this is a big reason we were the strongest on playoff day. I am overwhelmed.

I got a good summer to think it over...

That said, "VOLL GUMMI!!!"

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memory lane

one of the things i got as a kid was the understanding of taking it to the street...in parade-form...definately keen on changing the world to a better place. here seen dressed as a cow carrying a plastic baseball bat, holding hands with a gun-slinging cowboy...



10 or so years later the marching band takes a left at lords, thanks to a friend. and although being spotted in marching band photos as part of the band is technically worse than inhaling, i remain proud to have been part of that team. we lived through the team-embarassment and came out stronger individuals.



concerning teams, i always loved this shot of my dad's team, 'Larmer'.



here is a weird newspaper photo promoting the metacomet park summer concert series...also a nice team-style portrait.



...i dont know why i am posting all this memory lane stuff. maybe its because its time to go down memory lane.

Internet helps artist bridge the gap between hobby and visual composition...

...found this in the internet a couple of weeks ago...and it helped me to build the fake ice hockey goal behind the fake ice hockey goalie picuted below...




...which after shooting about 100 pucks at it looked like this afterwards...





...another display of the remains, this time in the gallery where i am showing it. KG Freiraum... Sleepytowne...




...in the same room with this work. The whole thing is pretty much a getaway with reference to Mike Bouchet. The opening is tonight.

Gurt Pfosten, tidying up and T.C.O.B.

circa 200 years later...

spinning a mellow yarn trail. Looking good though, this place.

Time is ticking. Mouth full of saliva. Gurt Pfosten practice tonight. -TeER-'s got a pizza going...

Later tonight i will prep some toolboxes...paint a life size ice hockey goaltender on thin wood I hope...if i get that far then i can begin firing pucks at it.

when i lick my arm, i am as salty as a pretzel. yum.

Ancient Treasure found in Northampton closet

In England, people have machines like this one. Perhaps it has something to do with the Keltic roots.

...just another reason to love life.