Variations on Normal blog
Whenever I visit the park there are always some excellent Frisbee throwers. I find it slightly mesmerising watching that Frisbee glide on the air back and forth. While I was mid mesmerisation I thought to myself what if there was a giant Frisbee that we could strap ourselves into and go on journeys.
Berlin seems to have an unusually high amount of street posts. Whenever I walk down a street and approach one of these street posts I am always tempted to see if I can just walk straight at it, with the post passing between my legs. I try not to break my stride but the split second before I arrive at the post I hesitate, my heart beat increases as I become unsure that the pole will pass under me without hurting me. This is a problem that I set about solving in my latest idea to create a device that gauges the height of the oncoming pole, compares it to the height of my inner leg and indicates to me if it is safe to walk over it or not.
I was walking down a street in Kreuzberg and noticed there seemed to be a lot of smashed bottles on the ground. I mentioned this to my German friend Christian and he said ‘Yes there is a lot of gravity in Berlin’. He meant to say there is a lot of graffiti in Berlin but miss-pronounced it.
I told him that I thought he said the reason there were lots of smashed bottles on the ground was due to excessive gravity in Berlin and we laughed. I took a photo of a smashed bottle and came up with a solution to the problem as pictured.
Like all Englishmen I enjoy a nice cup of tea at 4pm each day. One of the joys of tea drinking is dunking a chocolate biscuits (cookies) in it. I’m refering to those lovely plain biscuits that have melted chocolate on top. I like the way the chocolate melts on contact with the tea but I don’t like how it gets all over your fingers when you hold it. Here is a solution that came out of a chat with Richard Shed and Thorsten van Elten at, yet again, a pub. (c) 2009 Dominic Wilcox
I’m currently living in Berlin for a couple of months in an area called Kreuzberg. It’s very laid back and everything seems slower than London. Within this relaxed pace I’m appreciating the small things in life. Here is a short video of something I enjoyed doing today, one of those little, special moments. Some people may know what I mean, others won’t.
Dominic Wilcox 