Friderika Faye Benedict

She definitely stole the show at our art opening.  Cameras everywhere zoomed in on the youngest crew member and she ended up being prominently presented on all media channels:  radio, television, and newspapers.

Russian princess at the tea house.

Nonchalantly surveying her vassals and domain.

We do not have any cute photos of Friderika at the Polish or Russian border.  We deemed it bad for our health and well being to be snapping away with the camera while crossing a mildly tense international border.  But baby cuteness power helped us get through with a bus full of art crates in only 2 1/2 hours!  No police dared to rummage through our stuff with such a little helpless nursing baby.

Poland was so exciting that she slept through her entire first visit to an exotic foreign land.

Packing.

She did not think this was nearly as amusing as I did.

WhatayadoinFrida?

“Just chillin’ before my big adventure.”

Saving the world:  before and after.

How we cruise.

We get strange looks, but we tend to ignore them going about our business.

This is not a documentation of how much weight I have put on since becoming a father.

“Kloppi” is a german word that roughly translates into goofy in english.  Both of us have a love of travelling but also discovered that we share an inexpicable and ironic loathing of our fellow tourists which focuses on the photos taken in front of important monuments around the world.  For three years now we have been doing a quasi-art-project which we call “Kloppi Photo,”  in which we stage a scene or stand in front of something interesting on a trip and try to look as much like an out of place tourist as possible, this is generally not very difficult to do.

This particular set stresses how badly both of us failed our Cold War propaganda studies in school in the 1980’s and fell in with the “enemy.”  Pinko Commie and Capitalist Swine, which is which?