while kajakaja is busy making hats i had a meeting with our mayor. few months ago we talked about renovating the local news, because we find it … not very communicative, let’s say. so we contacted the editor, she gave us texts and photos and we prepared two prepositions. we arranged a meeting to present the ideas and got a green light! owyeah! jolly good. i love talking to people who are open to new ideas and even talking to them is so easy because they are not up-tight and even the first handshake shows it. we will be designing the september issue.

was a real fine day! it makes you feel real good and gives you new energy to keep on.

on the other hand i’m waiting for some nice days to head for mountains. almost two weeks now and the weather is still pretty strange. although those hot days gave me the burns.  i’m not bored. i’m working (and getting hit by tourists#this probably sounds weird), listening to singing birds outside, making cookies, gathering some ideas for screenprinting and on saturday i’m helping organizing a concert.

tataram.

have another day of time off.  fells great. i took one of the walks we used to have as kids and picking flowers. and rain is pouring. gives a feeling of ease. i’m just enjoying individual rays of sun, finishing some things, reading, and smelling the coffee on my fingers.

on saturday you’re welcome to attend a concert (entrance free, but in case of bad weather cancelled) of new wave syria. and on 30th another invitation to a concert of mr. vontone, a rock band. i made the flyers, they’re countinuing the tradition of last year concerts, entitled new postcards of bohinj.

plenty of things going on.
summer job in full swing, had a little workshop on sunday for kids in ljubljana (see photos here), saw for the first time pensioners waiting in line in front of the bank to get their money, designed some little things, met friends i have planned to meet too long. and can’t wait to see a few more of them.
if you’re ever in bohinj, come see me at the end of the lake where i’m renting boats till september.

but … wherever you go: be a good tourist. even if you’re in your home country.

photos by uroš badovinac

yesterday we finished with a 4-day screenprinting workshop.
2 groups, two days. the first day we introduced the whole process and everyone had to do everything, from the fun printing to the “messy” work of cleaning the screens and inhaling a lot of chemicals. the next day we repeated the whole thing but everything went much faster since the process was familiar to everyone. so, alltogether, we printed about 30 motifs. since it was also the first time for me to spend 4 days working with people and guiding them through the process, there was much of learning also on my part. but it was a really good week, thankgod every day started with making coffee (the early 8 hour was important because of the later heat which makes the paint dry fast).*

i’m having the next workshop on 10th july with some kids from
a youth center.

as a farewell home, mentor lended me the book of a slovenian alpinist tomaž humar, who sadly passed away in november 2009 in himalaya. the book is an extraordinary read, full off emotions. and on arrival home a new book was waiting for me, slovenian mountains, a guide. a photo of mine was chosen to be in the book, but something went wrong and my photo isn’t in it. so, i cannot brag. darn.

anyways, it’s been a really good week. i’m starting my summer job on wednesday, renting boats at a camping side at the end of lake bohinj. if you’re around, come say hej.

*the first experience would be worse if it were on metelkova (hardcore diy printing place). so now, that the participants are familiar with the whole process, they will be able to work on their own there. metelkova is hopefully to be “in gear” after 20th august.