I noticed early this morning that I was getting a steady flow of traffic from a site called Ehrensenf, something that I’d never heard of before, but I was still half-awake so I didn’t really bother to check into it anymore than that. After sufficiently waking up though I visited the site and saw there was a video, but it was all in German. So I decided to watch the video, and what do you know, around 2:20 in they talk about The Desktop Wallpaper Project… and then they say my name. I start laughing hysterically and dance around the room. Hearing your name in an online German show is quite possibly the most awesome thing ever, it totally made my day today.

I asked my friend FW to translate it for me and this is what it roughly says:

Why should you put art on the wall when you can have them for free on the internet at the website of Bobby Solomon where you get high quality wallpapers by artists and designers every Wednesday?

I would have loved to hear her say Kitsune Noir, that would have been incredible.
Thanks Ehrensenf!

Bobby

5 Comments »

1. She’s a babe!

   Comment by Jon — June 16, 2008 #

2. they got some diesel sweeties in there, also awesome.

   Comment by Piers — June 16, 2008 #

3. Ah, two of my favorite things: Germany and Kitsune Noir.

   Comment by Taylor — June 16, 2008 #

4. Hi Bobby,

   well, that’s where I just found out about your work. Ehrensenf is a sarcastic, ironic webshow produced by Germanys leading news magazine, Der Spiegel (The Mirror). “Ehrensenf” is an anagram of the word “Fernsehen”, which means watching television. You know, as Brian Eno once put it, German is like Lego, you can add a noun to another noun and another noun and anothernounand ano ther… and it’s still correct, proper German. However, Ehrensenf is a term that is used occasionally in every day language if somebody comments on things, even though no one’s really keen on hearing it, because it’s rather unnecessary or even uncalled for. Literally “Ehre” means “glory” or “honor”, “Senf” means “mustard”, which I guess symbolically stands for an enclosure, but not really a necessary one.

   Okay, I don’t really know if you care about this. BUT, I love what you are doing. I love this blog and I will be a frequent user of your website and the art. Thank you and keep up the good work.

   Comment by Marc-Antonio — June 16, 2008 #

5. Your blog is known in Holland as well. On Twitter someone posted a link to the Wallpaper Project and since then I read your blog regularly :-)

   Comment by Janna — June 17, 2008 #

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