after passing few exams i wanted a cool celebration and with a friend (she’s from croatia and studying in slovenia) headed to croatia to inmusic festival. but got stopped at the border. because slovenian legislation allows every(bobby)one to understand it as he wants, we got sent back to ljubljana. seems like i’m jinxed cause every attempt of attending a concert in past (almost) two months failed. eh. now i’m having some layed back days at home, reading, watching movies and documentaries, working on some other things that got left behind.

i’ll be helping with screenprinting workshop probably next week, still some arrangements.

+ made a simple poster and invitation for a sale at almirasadar (on tavčarjeva 6 in ljubljana) boutique

on monday afternoon i got home from three day survival training in nature. training was led by three professional soldiers and was very educational: we smoked fish for three days, picked flowers and other edible things, we made our own fire, climbed and crossed a gorge by rope, learned about orientation and led the 10-people group through the woods, we made our own bivouacs from leaves, we talked about first aid and made stretchers. a real life lesson. now i know that i really enjoyed it and hopefully learned a great deal. last thing before saying goodbye was a descent by rope down 30 m high bridge. the view is much more terrifying that it looks like.

the only thing now remembering me of the weekend are shortage of sleep, bunch of bruises, black marks and itches from ticks (sheep-lice?). but all in all it was a great experience!

photo below by tadej žun, our commander, it’s me on the right. more photos here

it is martin woodtli. i attended a small exhibition he holds in ljubljana (at NLB, bank) and i cannot understand how he does all his posters with screenprinting. i checked his website, nothing specific, i googled and youtubed him, nothing stands out. and since he is connected to stefan sagmeister, another wunder mensch i adore, martin should not have shocked me.

if you pass by the NLB, step in for a few minutes and check him out. i’m so mad i missed the opening. the exhibition lasts until 15th september.

other news: exams. exams. exams. silly exams. and looking forward to a weekend of survival training in the nature. ha!

yesterday i headed home to have peace and quiet to study. on a half way home i got a call from Matej, the guy who taught me to screenprint and i went back to ljubljana in the early morning. because i had some time left i went to tivoli (park in ljubljana) and there met a lady who was feeding the squirrels and the birds. i then had a day for screenprinting. with Matej we printed about 150 t-shirts and repeated all the working phases. it was a great day!

afterwards we had our well deserved beer. he took me halfway back home because he lives in a 30 min distant town. passing the mountains in distant, he named them all and shared his adventures. plus: he signed me up for survival course next weekend! should be a good life lesson.

anyways, i’m back home, must study. it truly was an amazing day. to many more!!

plus: i’ll probably be running a workshop with Matej  at the end of june. let me know if you’re interested and i’ll keep you posted.