...a little clue to what happened in the zen-temple...

"Black Jim-crew meeting a Zen-master - a story about sin"

It was a strange day.
We just had one thing on our schedule today.

Copy keys.

But when they at the "Copy keys"-place told us that we had to wait for 20 minutes for our keys we started to walk around the neighbourhood.

Soon we found a temple.
A Zen-temple.

Sofia who have been studying buddhism said we should go in.
"Come" Sofia said.

Marty was silent. He had never been to a zen-temple. No temples at all to be honest.

Sofia draged Marty. Ringed on the door and went in.

We walked in a backyard for a while til we found a door, then later stairs and a new door that said...

"ZEN TEMPLE"

We knocked on the door.

Knock Knock.

Knocked again.

Knock Knock.

Then we heard footsteps coming towards the door...

We stood silently.
And then....

More in the next episode of "The Black Jim-crew meeting a Zen-master - a story about sin"...

Tony and Martin Qvarfordt - check out Martins myspace

http://www.myspace.com/martinqvarfordt

Isabel Raposo

Tony Dreannan - great divide

...more pictures...

Glenn Miller-box.


Nash with the trumphet and who´s the great musician on the floor? Let us know and you win a LP with Heino.



Sofia Nilsson posing.


Tony Dreannan & Martin Qvarfordt.


Hannes Früh to the right with two friends.

Video from the open-mic...

Another insane night at the Black Jim Gallery.

coffee break

Black Jim crew takes a brake,our friendly neighbour Dursun came by with cookies.

27/3 - Black Jim Open-Mic & Party

Sara Johansson & Martin Qvarfordt just before the opening.


Berliners.


Sofia Nilsson was taking pictures. In this picture aswell: Lotti, Hannes, Norma & Julia.


Tony Dreannan and Martin Qvarfordt performing.


Swedish Berliners Ronnie Sandahl, Annika Marklund, Gellert Tamas, Emeli Theander and Lotti where there.


Jam-session.


Ronnie Sandahl.


Tony Dreannan sings while two Black Jim "first time´rs" try to understand what´s going on.


Emeli Theander with entourage.


Tony Dreannan with the mic. Julia & Norma Torrens on the floor. Sofia Nilsson & Lotti in the background and two unidentified men in the corner.


Ryan Nash with Isabel Raposo on stage.


Tony works between his performances.


Sara Johansson och Ronnie Sandahl.


Ronnie Sandahl and Martin Bengtsson performing.


Jam.


...more pictures coming up...

Alexander Rodin

Yesterday the crew went to Tachelles.
On the 4 th floor Alexander Rodin have an exibition that you can´t miss.
It´s briliant.

How are you guys today? Are you with us?

It´s a great morning.

Black Jim party, open mic, jam session with special guests

Tomorrow Friday 27th march we have our legendary open mic/jam session party at Black Jim gallery. It starts at 20 Uhr.
Also we have special guests from Sweden.

Hope to see you there!

Directions again.

First you go to Kottbusser Tor..

and when you get to Kottbusser Tor just go straight ahead on Adalbertstrasse until you get to Waldemarstrasse, then turn Left (links) to waldemarstrasse 21.

It´s not to hard to find.

Chapter one: " A nice neighbour donate his Vinyl collection to the Black Jim Gallery & the crew opens a second hand store as a reaction"

So this is the story...

Marty goes out to throw away the trash in a can on the backyard but when he open the container guess what he see? A whole collection LP´s...



Soon the neighbour that throw it away comes out and find Marty in the container.
He asks what he´s doing in there. "I´m collecting records..." Marty says.
"Oh" the neighbour says. "I just throw them away. But do you want them? They work perfectly". Marty says yes and jump down in the container again to pic up a whole Glenn Miller box, the soundtrack to Sound of Music and more obscyre records like Reigel with Pommefritz.



The neighbour later took us to the van where he had collected all kinds of stuff that he donated also to the Gallery. For example it was a air-cleaner, a clock, cups & also some Agatha Christie books in german and one book about Kung-Fu...



When everything was collected...and yes, some things thrown away again, Marty and Sofia started to put together a second hand store and also decorate the entrance with a new theme. "German schalger".



They put up a table and suddenly everyone started to check out the Gallery and the LP collection looking for there favourites.



After a couple of hours Sofia turned to Marty. "We´ve had people here the whole day. The hippsters where here. The turkish families. The hippies. The drunks. The nuns. The neighbours. Even a dog came in for a quick look and went out again. What is happening?"

It´s the "German Schlager" Marty says. We got a crazy nisch. Art and Schalger. It´s never been done before...



When the Gallery closed at 22 Marty got a new idea. He started to decorate his studio with not usuable LP´s.



Today the succes continues. Right now a german women looking at the Heino singles for her next DJ-set...

On the playlist today...

About Black Jim

For those who`s still not sure what Black Jim is about or where it´s at, here comes a little bit info.
Black Jim Studio & Gallery opened at the 14 th of February 2009.
It's runned by Sofia Nilsson & Martin Bengtsson, two swedish artists that been living in Berlin since 2008. Black Jim got a room for exhibitions, a smal stage and a music-studio.
It's open three times a week: Wednesday, Friday & Saturday 15-22, and also there is an open-mic twice a month. New is also a little second-hand store.
In March & April you will see the art exhibition "Bringin back black" by Sofia Nilsson.
If you are interested in having an exhibition or sell your own designs for clothes, jewllery etc. at Black Jim Gallery & Studio you are welcome to contact us at blackjim@live.de or e-mail us on myspace/blackjimstudio.


Direction to Black Jim studio and Gallery. U-bahn kottbusser Tor, straight ahead on adalbertstrasse, then left (links) to Waldemarstrasse 21.


The black Jim stage is known as the most genuine stage in Europe.



The black Jim Shop.


The Gallery.


Martin Bengtsson a.k.a Waldemaar and Ronnie Sandahl in the Black Jim Studio.

Clip of the day: REM - At my most beutiful

Sofia scare the kids...

A little turkish boy just walked by the Gallery, looked in and saw a white painted head on the floor. What happened? He started to cry and pointed at the head til his mother grabbed his hand and explained that it´s just art.


Sofia with the head.

is that a shoe?

Only in Berlin can a shoe suddenly fall down from the sky...

Norma with her orchestra at Black Jim 14/3.

Waldemaar & Heiko Ruddigkeit performing Ryan Nash poem "believe me" at the Black Jim party 14/3.

Open-Mic, Mustach-Marty-Birthday-Party & "Bringing Back Black" exibition by Sofia Nilsson, 14/3

Here comes yesterdays birthday-party and open-mic in pictures. Thanks everyone for coming, and next open-mic/improv is at the 27th of March!



19.48: On the walls art by Sofia Nilsson who have here exibition "Bringing Back Black" til the end of the month .







21.03: People enter the Black Jim Gallery. The die-hard fans had been hanging on the lock since 20.



Winta Yohannes, Gellert Tamas and Paula Guidugli hanged out in the Gallery.



New people had find Black Jim and the stage-builder Ryan Nash entertained them.



Gellert Tamas & Paula Guidugli with a friend.



More people comin in...



Ryan Nash and Marin Bengtsson a.k.a Waldemaar started the night as usuall with a toy-organ intro and a trumphet solo.



Ryan on the trumphet.



The audience. Noemi Gonzalez had a front seat while Tony Dreannan and Gellert Tamas took the once in the background.



Martin a.k.a Waldemaar performing "Neverland".



Waiting for the main-act...



Tony Dreannan & his orchestra.



The crowd sang a long to the improv songs "The spanish clap", "23", "Joi the lavyer" & "Don´t fuck my daughter" and of course poems by Ryan Nash.



Tony Dreannan tell his musicians to play faster.



Paula (to the left) played the homemade maracas and found a brasilian sound.



Noemi Gonzalez & Ryan Nash ended the night with some spanish tunes.