The creative path you choose, and the types of projects that you work on are critical to your happiness and success as a creative person. This can be professionally or following your passion. Knowing that you are right about the type of creative work you do, and knowing that you can make good decisions about a […]
Dark Stories from Between the Cracks of Time — Part II
I heard a very low humming sound coming from inside somebody’s pocket. One of the two men sitting at the table behind me pulled out his phone and clicked a button. The phone stopped ringing. The man standing at the toilet door put his phone away and walked towards the bar. He stopped next to […]
Dark Stories from Between the Cracks of Time
If you stand on top of the Teufelsberg in Berlin and look out into the distance, all you’d see is a carpet of tree tops. Green landscapes that seem to spread out into the mist. Imagine though, that you start to run along the sides of the derelict works of this old listening station, a […]
Fallen Lovers and Two Shots
The city is like a forest, when I want it to be. Other times, it can be a maze of dark and dangerous streets. It is always intriguing, it doesn’t have to be “nice” to be intriguing. A place is always as much as you want it to be, it is a mixture of experience, […]
Dark Thoughts of Curiosity
When you go to bed at night and turn off the lights, do you notice the change in your thinking? Your eyes strain to see into the darkness around you, you wish for the moment to come when your eyes adjust. You want them to stop bulging in their sockets so that you can relax […]
Finding the Story You Really Want to Tell
People telling stories has been a form of meaningful communication for us since the cave paintings of Lascaux Caves in the Pyrenees Mountains in southern France were discovered by a group of children in the 1940s. The paintings depict animals interacting with humans. This is a narrative idea, that could lead to a solid story. […]
A New Neighbour, a Hot Shower, and a Cup of Tea
When I look out of my rear window I see a tree that is as large as the house I live in. I live in a block of apartments with four floors, on each floor there are two doors, each leads to an apartment. Some of these doors represent a mystery to me, I don’t […]
The Express Lounge Café in Berlin
The Express Lounge Café Rain, wind, and wet masked faces mill around the corner of Mehringdamm and Bergmann Strasse. Leaves on the ground are already causing heels to slip. People take shorter steps in autumn, I’ve noticed that. Mehringdamm When you look along Mehringdamm, a part of the long road that cuts through Berlin, you’ll see that […]