Maybe you didn't know, but we're a group of homeless Uber-friends collecting thoughts, ideas, rants and all here. Here's a short story I did for the local paper last week. I was in the Queen Marrgrethe of Denmark II's garden (year, thats a mighty long name) the other day, doing archive shots of the place, when the local kindergarten came by.
"I'm going to steal apples from the queens garden," this young fellow said, "I got permission!" And in fact he does. Story is that back in February they went into the garden and stole some apples, but when back home they felt so guilty they wrote the queen to confess their sins.
So the kids got a nice letter from the Queen, stating. "It's okay, you are free to take as many apples in my garden as you wish."
Now, that was a real fairy tale from the little Kingdom of Denmark. Hope you are all well, and we'll be speaking soon. Let me know if you have subjects of special interest I can entertain you with.
Nice to see you here Thorsten and a lovely story to start off with!
Posted by: Jay Gannon | 29 September 2008 at 03:11 AM
Cute!
In our country, if you try to approach the White House garden without permission, you just get shot. It's just as well; the apples there are poisonous.
Posted by: Darren Abate | 29 September 2008 at 03:29 AM
When queens are less unreachable than you think... :) nice story and nice picture.
Posted by: jiwaki | 29 September 2008 at 05:14 AM
homeless Uber-friends... amazing! I will keep this. Kisses
Posted by: Andriete le Secq | 29 September 2008 at 08:13 AM
Nice story... kind of uplifting, then again I feel homeless today :) Hope you’re doing great!
Posted by: Rastislav | 29 September 2008 at 09:50 AM
We sure will miss our home...
And what Darren said. :-)
Posted by: Elinor | 29 September 2008 at 10:12 AM
Well said Darren Abate! Great contrast.
Posted by: Tom Walsh | 29 September 2008 at 10:25 AM
Thanks Thorsten, very cute story. I'm suprised anyone can go mess with the queen's garden, but then again, it's Denmark so... We'd get shot from a mile away if we did the same thing in this country (USA). I'm glad to see that several people are going to be participating on the blog entries, that's gonna rock!
Posted by: Sam Oksner | 29 September 2008 at 10:28 AM
yep ... our king george isn't as nice as the monarchy of denmark.
love the photo, thorsten!
and, yes, i miss our home ... it makes me sad.
Posted by: C Weeks | 29 September 2008 at 11:10 AM
we're homeless Uber Children, as someone said:) great to know that we can find here so many friends, and way better that the community is growing somehow!!
Posted by: Magda | 29 September 2008 at 11:17 AM
what a lovely story :)
Posted by: Christian Rollinson | 29 September 2008 at 01:33 PM
Cute story and photo. I love that protective hand at the bottom of the frame. My next one is going to be how my wife forced me to walk to Starbucks for coffee in the middle of typhoon Jangmi this past Sunday.
Well, didn't really "force" me...she knew I wanted to go out ant take pictures.
Typhoons are fun.
Posted by: Brian Webb | 29 September 2008 at 06:46 PM
wow, thorsten... that photo is excellent! what a nice portrayal of childhood innocence. love it.
missing uber so much already...
Posted by: meredith | 29 September 2008 at 07:54 PM
Thorsten, that is a fantastic story!
I love fairy tales, and stories like that are just amazing!
it kinda makes me hate my country though ...
Posted by: rooftopjunkie | 29 September 2008 at 09:18 PM
Nice post Thorsten!!
Now let's see if we can transition these back to UBER!
Posted by: Jonesy | 29 September 2008 at 10:10 PM
@ Jay,
Thanks. The format and design (which is being worked on) doesn't permit me to do a looooong post. I want to.
Posted by: Thorsten Overgaard | 30 September 2008 at 05:19 AM
@ Darren, jiwaki, Ellinor, Tom Walsh, Sam O, Chris Weeks and rooftopjunkie,
It's not regarded that fantastic here [that you can go into the garden], because you can. It's an interesting perspective that you can't visit King George just like that.
It reminds me I was walking in my town some weeks ago with a Hungarian guy, and he points to the parked bicycles (a bunch of 200 on the corner) and says "I've never seen a country with so many bicycles. Everybody is bicycling!" – and it made me look differently at my town. Suddenly I noticed how cool in fact it was that – not only was the sun shining, but also - people were actually bicycling. Old, young, mothers with kids, girlfriends, bums, wealthy people.
So thanks' for that new viewpoint on or monarchy in Denmark. It was not an angle on this shot AT ALL. Actually, the fun part from a danish viewpoint was that they asked to get permission (when you can just go and take the apples if you like).
Anyway, maybe I should sell the story to New York Times or something. They might like it :-)
Posted by: Thorsten Overgaard | 30 September 2008 at 05:29 AM
Jay, Andriete,Ellinor, Chris, Magda, meredith & Jonessy,
Uber.com feels like an old friend now. It's farther away than actually.
Maybe this is the evolution that will bring about something - and more than one thing - interesting which wouldn't have come about if we had just continued the wonderful Uber.com thingie. At least, let's all try to make something out of a bad thing that makes it better in the end!
Posted by: Thorsten Overgaard | 30 September 2008 at 05:36 AM
@ Brian,
Typhos, no Typhoons. are fun! I love to shoot in difficult and weird weather conditions. Sometimes it may cost a camera, but it's a great way to be alive and outside.
And in your case you got coffee and your wife probably thought it was pretty cool that you dared (and that you did what she told you to).
Posted by: Thorsten Overgaard | 30 September 2008 at 05:39 AM
Still homeless? Here's an email I received:
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Here's the latest-
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Posted by: Jonesy | 30 September 2008 at 06:07 AM
Hi guys!
It's a great news you got a typepad!
I'm going to add you to my blogroll if you don't mind.
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