MayTie & TieZember

 

Why does men wear ties?

Or why does all men who find them self important, wear ties.?

Or why does people find that men that wear ties are more important?

Normally I do not wear a tie as I consider myself the more casual, lending towards the hippie, kind of type.

That said you might think that I give a damn how I look or what I wear. Not really. In fact the quite opposite. I really like fashion and I do like the look of a tie in combination with a shirt, a suit and whatever and I do like the challenge to put together different professional outfits with a tie.

I just regard it too hard to do every each day of my working life. And I believe that the routine of " you have to wear a tie" spoils the creativity and just makes it kind of everyday invisible as with time it just becomes routine.

Therefore I only wear ties in my professional life for two months of the year. In December and in May. I call these TieZember and MayTie.

Why: I state that it is to raise awareness about male creativity and thinking outside the box.

These two months I have the challenge of trying to put together my wardrobe in different and matching ways. I am not allowed to wear the same tie twice in the same month and I am trying to make new combinations with my wardrobe. It makes my brain work in new and creative ways and is a good start to the day to do that.

So I wear a tie to challenge myself to think creatively and aesthetically/ fashionably. And the response I get those two months is very positive and people are curious as to why, so I get the opportunity to share my issue. Something that wouldn't happen, if I was to wear a tie - or suit- every day, as a uniform.

Maybe this attention makes me feel more important?

And maybe people find me more important as they now know why I do it, because they've asked?  

Like a Traktor Tattoo...

 

I do have one tattoo but no, I do not have any Traktor Tattoo, yet...

If I'm getting one made, I guess I better have to design it myself. Or what about I call for some submissions?

A Traktor tattoo will be somewhat permanent, something that will be agonizing and hard to get removed if ever.

It will also be extremely painful to get it made, a big challenge in fact. And it will take time.

I do have two blogs, however I do not really maintain them and certainly do not do a daily blogpost either, yet.

One post a day on a blog would be something permanent as a tattoo. It would also be extremely hard and challenging for me to maintain this endeavour, and I will be a jibbering wreck every time I post my flab doodle, anxious about responses and critics and I will be vulnerable as English isn' my mother tongue and I am not a real writer. I just like the thought of maybe becoming one.

Therefore, the challenge to myself to do one dally post -or at least five a week- will be somewhat the same as getting that tattoo, painful. Why not make it a Traktor Tattoo blog as well, as people will ask me anyway why I do, or did it.

Post Challenge 2016

My inquiry teacher icon is a tractor!

We had this PD day workshop about inquiry based learning and to get some inquiry going between us, we were asked to create an icon that for us could signify the real " inquiry teacher".

All of us got a pipe cleaner as remedy to create the icon. After that we should try to go around and and make inquiry among the others to see if we could find similarities and connections.

As I mentioned, I made a tractor as icon for the inquiry based learning teacher. 

Why?

Well, simply because a tractor is the tool, the machine or thing that unselfishly, each and every year will prepare the fields for the new season and will sow all the seeds on the fields and are responsible for them, clean them for pests, water them to growth and ultimately, when the crops are suitable, harvest and prepare them for what ever use they are intended for. And then, after that, will start the entire circle all over and over again.

 

Cherry blossoms in Naha, Okinawa

The springtime messenger is back. Cherry blossoms in Japan. First sign that springtime is approaching.

This is fromOkinawa, one of the most southern of the Japanese islands, so maybe they need two more months until they will start blooming in Tokyo and Kyoto?

The centered vision of Wes Anderson.

A nice little film that illustrate the power of Wes Anderson's symmetric image composition.

Where is the city?

You are in it, but yet can't really see it. Everywhere construction and cranes and empty concrete shells. Occasionally some huge run down post soviet era building, in the far horizon scattered up the surrounding hills, the makeshift ger districts.

Went for a walk from friends house to see a palace just closed by. That was closed though, so the trip took us to the "down town" area. A long walk along a road, way to small for the amount of traffic trying to get ahead on the road. Seemed a bit dangerous, even compared with China traffic. In some ways UB can resemble the impression of the Klondike, the gold rush that suddenly changed areas of the Wild West. This is just the wild north east.

If you would feel unsafe driving on the road in  a car, being on foot along the road wasn't much more relaxing as sometimes thee was no pavement and if there was, you had to take not to stumble in to one of the many huge holes.

Capitol of Mongolia; Ulaan Baatar.

This is now at the other end of the journey. Same plane but different location about 3000 kilometres North.

Warm summer weather but not hot and humid like Hong Kong home. More like good old home on Northern Europe.

First trip to some of the hills outside Ulaan Baatar with a view towards what could be "down town UB".

Green hills and fresh air. Looking forward to see some more of this huge wast country.

North East Asia tour 2014

Now waiting at airport. Checking in, a Mongolian official at the desk told us that visa rules changed on the 24th of June, now Danish people do not need visa any more. We got ours on the 18th. Bad timing and wasted 604 HK$.

Anyway, it's all good and we are so looking forward to visiting you and Mongolia.

BTW. Do we need your address for immigration?

Gate 503. 11:13 and boarding starts in about 12 minutes. I love it when I am at a gate and heading to a destination where I've never been. This year it has been happening twice. At Easter to Pyongyang and now to Ulaan Baatar in Mongolia. Both times has also meant boarding new airlines. At Easter it was Koryo Air, now it is MIAT. Great stuff.

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Amazing Hong Kong views

This time of year the sky changes rapidly, from sun to pouring rain by the minute. Makes some nice light and vivid colours and if you get up between the high rises on Hong Kong island you can get some awesome pictures.

Traktor in DPRK.

A couple of weeks ago it is now that I returned from DPRK, however I think the impressions has first now settled and it is time to get some of the stories out.

It is one of the worlds most secretive states and the conditions of peoples lifes there has undoubtfull been the cause of many rumours and speculations. How it really is to live there, I cannot answer. The only thing I can say is that I have been there and seen some of it, and that many of the rumours we are witnessing in the western medias could be true, but also that there is another side of it that we are not getting.

The country is for sure dominated by the devotion to the Kim's. They are ever present. If on photographs, in paintings or as here as statues, these people means everything or nothing to the people of the DPRK, at least that is what they let you think as a visitor.

It is like a religion, and in many ways I feel there could be made a comparison to the way the roman catholic church are devoted to the figure of Jesus or Muslims to Mohammed. Even this is not the subject here. All I'm trying to do is to show some impressions from a country we in the west have decided we do not like and a country we do not want to trade with.

Ein Hauch Deutschland in Hong Kong

It is the time of the World Cup, and everywhere you can meet different nationalities in the pubs and bars celebrating their teams. Sunday morning I was in little England to see their opening against Italy, and tonight it is "ein Hauch von Deutschland". Means something like a piece of germany.