# 00104

luzern, ch, march 2013

# 00097

zürich, ch,  october 2012

# 00095

"the philosophy of the lost generation" - bohemeleka

copenhagen, dk, september 2012

# 00017 - trouvaille 001.2

doing nearly everything in my (moderate) power to promote (and re-kindle the fascination for) the pop-culture phenomenon frederick and piggeldy once were (and i mean, honestly‚’tha streetz’ were swept clean, every time an episode of the show aired (or so I remember), BELIEVE THE HYPE!), i’m employing the two attached photographs to complement an earlier post regarding the amiable pig brothers.. they depict both an earlier as well as a later stage of the piece.. while the first and older one concerns itself with the same ballot as the one described in the mentioned earlier post (but prior to it), the second and more recent one comments on yet another rather embarrassing (yes, this proud democracy seems never to fall short of providing those) ballot outcome.. but hey! let again the pig(let)s speak for themselves:

frederick & piggeldy, autumn 2010 (source)

confronting frederick forthrightly, piggeldy poses (in his rather prototypical manner) the question “after all, what is a deportation initiative exactly?”, right after opening with his trademark “hey frederick!”.. quick as a shot, frederick replies (in an apparently cynical as well as amused mood) “it is first and foremost a humanitarian swinishness [pun intended]!”

again, this dialogue took place before the infamous ballot and was immediately amended after its outcome (into the very state already rather eloquently described here).. but just months later, the pig bros speak up again, still shocked by the initial initiative.. and again, a rather discomforting ballot outcome was the bone of contention..

frederick & piggeldy, winter/spring 2011

trying to find a voice between all the screaming ads for brot und spiele, piggeldy speaks up once again “hey/yo frederick!”, only to repeat the already uttered but still kind of unanswered question “what is (again) democracy?” by now, one can not be sure if the following is just a post-traumatic and repetitious rambling or the faint echo of the first disgusted reply, but there, above the often so clever frederick, hovers, not unlike Kurtz’s last ode, (paraphrased:) “the swinishness! the swinishness!”

zürich, ch, autumn 2010 - winter/spring 2011

# 00014 - trouvaille 001

piggeldy

so far, words have not been my strong suit.. the pictures or whatever should preferably be speaking for themselves.. though there have been moments, i've been feeling almost obliged to pull out my mighty.. hmm.. imaginary pen, reluctance usually gets the best of me.. again and again.. not to set any sort of closing to this fading year, but rather as a signal for the posts to come, i am overcoming my natural shyness and reaccounting a wonderful work i've stumbled upon a few days ago.. along the lines of the already mentioned credo of letting pictures stand on their own, i'm merely translating the depicted dialog..

frederick 

   in this scene, the two brothers piggeldy and frederick, both beloved characters of a german tv-cartoon series, are discussing a current political event..
   as usual (this is somewhat the clou of their purposefully educational program), piggeldy, the younger piglet (and to be blunt, a rather illiterate and simplistic creature), expresses his general lack of understanding of any wordly matter whatsoever through a very concise and relevant question, in this case "yo, frederick!" and then, in a sort of casual manner, "what is democracy?"
   being the lethargic piglet, or rather the lethargic boar for that matter, that frederick is (and all over the world is known to be), he shows no sign of bashfulness and answers his younger sibling straightforwardly "democracy is the governance of a 52 % majority over a 48 % minority, piggeldy."
   any further questions or arguments are missing (or obsolete since no one expects piggeldy to dish out a witty comeback), but one may doubt if the endearing but dull young piglet detected the cynicism (and frustration) the apparently voting frederick has expressed in his very true answer..

   zürich, ch, december 2010

(allne än guete rutsch und äs guets neus!)