Season 1 Recap

My beginning in blogging was a product of a warm and sunny summer morning. I sat down on the balcony and just wrote for some hours and in the end I got the ten first posts finished. But of course there were some tweaks because of the order and stuff. After that headstart there where several evenings I spent on the balcony bringing up concepts for series and the blog itself. My girlfriend got annoyed when I asked her over and over again if this or that would work out but she got her payback.

I tried to get three post a week done but it only worked out for two weeks or so until I set back to two posts and that still works out perfectly. Also I tried to fit the series in the schedule without missing all the latest news I wanted to cover and now ended up with actually two monthly series and a lot of more or less instant content.

It was great to get out once a week, shooting pictures for the Board and Bike Spots. In general I fell in love with photography and even bought my first own camera. And Hamburg is a great city to get started with photography: modern and classic, urban and landscape.

That is my recap of my first six months of blogging with now finally many more to come.


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Blogs To Read - love from berlin

Today I want to introduce to you to Rae Tashman, a digital product designer and photographer, obviously located in Berlin. Also she runs her blog that is built with a big focus on visuals but the texts are at least as important. I'm going back to browsing through her archive now, see you wednesday.

http://raetashman.com/
http://www.lovefromberlin.net/


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Stay On The Board

So, you might know that winter is not my favorite season for longboarding. My fingers got cold even with 25+°C sometimes, as they don't really have any task and just hang in the wind most of the time. But now - late November - it is really painful sometimes. Also the cold air gets up your sleeves, the street tends to never really get dry and it gets dark way too soon. Many longboarders search for an alternative and most of them end up snowboarding. I personally did it the other way round: I just couldn't wait one year to get onto the snowboard again and didn't want to go for indoor winter sports. Here are some of my experiences about transitioning from longboarding to snowboarding and vice versa.

Rear foot steering. I personally pretty much kick out my rear foot when I'm turning on a snowboard - just like sliding on a longboard. At the same time, you will most likely miss the sliding all the times you're in the city without slopes.

Locking in your feet. My girlfriend didn't trust the longboard at first because she was used to being strapped to the board. But as I told her, there is nothing to worry about. My feet did never just slide of the board - neither while carving nor pushing.

Atmosphere. Of course, the atmosphere is totally different. On a longboard you can go on for hundreds of miles without ever visiting the same place twice. On the snowboard you are pretty much limited to the mountains you're around and you will have to stop after a trail of maybe 10 miles, if you're lucky.

Does anyone of you have other experiences with these differences or did you notice anything else?


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Giving In To Blogging Stereotypes

I never liked these cliche bloggers that post nothing else than top lists, awards and link ups. But actually - now that I blog myself - I understand how good it feels to have a scheme to work by and build your content around. Also readers as well as authors have a benefit from them:

Top lists: As a reader it is super comfortable to go through a list of eight or ten facts or tips and just leave out the ones that don't catch your interest within the first  two or three words. At the same time you can write it in a very easy way as you can split your research and writing into little texts. Perfect to take one item at a time whenever you find five or ten minutes to write on it.

Awards: If you want to find new blogs to read, just search through your favorite blog and see if he or she ever did one of the blogging awards. Usually there are ten bloggers nominated and also you can go by the blog that nominated the one that you are reading. Obviously, as a blogger you get some extra visitors from your nomination and also you have a guide to write your post by.

Link ups: Another community based kind of post that lives from and for creating a community and getting support from other people. When writing link ups you pretty much just have to build a platform for you readers -  maybe a topic to discuss about or one theme everybody can share their ideas about.

What are your favorite kinds of posts to write and read?

Blogs To Read - Muted Mornings

© Mimmi Rönning

And Sweden scores again: Mimmi Rönning is 19 years old and currently living in Glasgow where she's studying English Literatur. I love how she is one of the few bloggers now who write about whatever happens in their lives while others stick to their editorial calendars - although that might be fitting for their branches. However, I like her for her writing, topics and pictures that are always composed to awesome posts. Especially her appreciative posts are a nice read when you need to see the good things in life. Well, just browse through her blog a little and you'll find a lot of nice stories to read.

Latest appreciative post: One month in Glasgow & Appreciative Post #6
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Now On Pinterest

Great news! Board Vibes is now on Pinterest, a awesome way to collect all kinds of awesome ideas, inspiration and products you love on a several virtual pin boards. For the beginning I created three collections for you:

 -- Board Ideas.  A collection of  mostly DIY ideas all about your longboard. Wall mounts, cookies, shelves. But this is still the smallest pin board.

-- Awesome Decks. While going through all kinds of longboards, I found some really awesome decks I want to show you. Mostly these are Landyachtz and Arbor boards with some pretty awesome photo paints.

-- Board Vibes. Well, that's what it's all about, right? Although this is partly a collection of hot girls on boards - or girls that are hot because they're on boards - I tried to capture this thing I just call Board Vibes as good as possible. But it is a fact that on something like Pinterest girls are more popular than cool guys, isn't it?

Visit Board Vibes's profile on Pinterest.

I added the "Pin It" button to the blog so you can pin the Board Vibes posts and pictures to your profile. Just hover your mouse over the picture you want to pin and the button will appear in the top left corner.

Just come back there every now and then to see what's new out there. You can also leave your ideas, pins and discoveries for me and maybe I'll add them to the boards.


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One Day in Hamburg - Alstervergnügen

So over the summer every year, there are some events that just affect the whole city. This here is a good example: the Alstervergnügen / the Alster pleasure. While the larger part of the lake Alster is home to all kinds of small boats, sports enthusiasts and all winter lovers when the ice is thick enough (that happes like once in five years and becomes a pretty big thing), the smaller part is home to many events and street festivals like the CSD and of course the Alstervergnügen, once in the summer months and once in the winter months. The pictures are one and a half months old now but is still was a pretty awesome day to spend in Hamburg.

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Blogs To Read - Jennypurr

© Jen Carrington

May I introduce: Jen Carrington. With her blog Jennypurr, that was founded in March 2013, she is currently reaching more than 10,000 readers every month. When she isn't working on her daily post for Jennypurr she has plenty of writing to do outside the blog as she works as a freelance writer and also as an editor for A Little Opulent, an online lifestyle magazine. After graduating from Lancaster University last summer she figured out that she would concentrate on online content 

creation.

She divides her posts into four categories: Life, blogging, freelancing and beauty. Sometimes these categories can't be kept apart - that's what happens when you write what you think and want to instead of sticking to the rules - but she doesn't struggle to keep the blog's structure upright.

Still, Jen does not work only with passion but also with professionalism. She actually keeps the business woman and the girl in her early twenties in perfect balance. On the one hand her posts are advice on everyday life but never without at least a chunk of help on workflow and evolving yourself and your writing.

Her most important message - in my words - is still: Don't do it the best way possible, do it your way. If you want to learn more about what she means by that, need advice on freelancing and blogging and still want to get updated on the best in beauty, just stop by at http://www.jennypurr.co.uk/ or visit her on Bloglovin.

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Blogs To Read - What I Read

Here we have another series I thought would be nice to have in the blog. This actually means that each of my Saturday series will - together with the Hamburg Longboard/Bike Spots - release in a three-week pattern.

As you know (If not you didn't read any of my recent posts to the end), I recently joined Bloglovin, the perfect website to keep up with all the blogs you follow. Also it is perfect to explore blogs through all the different blogging platforms that are out there. Although I don't have a reach that would be useful for the bloggers I feature, I want to show you some nice blogs to read. And if you know a blog I might like and you would like to have featured just tell me in the comments of any of the Blogs To Read posts. To get this going I wanted to get this pre-series post out this Wednesday so the first feature will release on Saturday.


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Smile, guys!

Over the past week there was only one thing to do when I was on a train. I searched for smiles - and hardly found them. But it is awesome how smiles can help you through the day. Well, at least they help me. Every time someone randomly smiles at me I get this awesome boost that gets me to reach my goals. But one of the best things about it is that you carry that feeling on to other people because you get that happy and friendly smile as well.

This sounds great but not likely at all. You really gotta look into a lot of people's faces to find someone that makes it work. You might think you look silly because you're smiling all day and you're the only one. But it's totally worth it. That feeling you get is just awesome.

Still there's one thing about me that doesn't seem to match with anybody else: I feel really close these people. And the moment we loose eye-contact I miss them because they are just so rare out on the street and I wanna know more people like that. At the very same moment I think that wouldn't work out because a very big part of this effect is that you don't know that person.

But now that I am thinking about this all day I guess that maybe I can't even make it work but it works on me. That's a terrible feeling. Still I have faith in the people and will go on being happy, smiling at everyone and trying to get them happy by that seemingly tiny task. And if you are with me tell me about it, get other people to go with us and don't let anybody bring you down.

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Train Blues

Look into a person's eye. What do you see? Sorrow. Exhaustion. Boredom. At least that's what I see right now. I stopped smiling. I get home and close the door to my room. Lie down and recover from the day's horror. These people hurt me. I feel terrible standing right in the middle of them. But why do the feelings of random people even affect me? In fact it would be quite unhealthy to stay in this state of letting all this impact on you for too long. So is this why people just live alongside each other: There is just to much bad mood that would probably kill you if you let it have an influence on you. But this can't be the right way, not the best. Nothing big today.

Alien Post - The Purge: Anarchy

Do you know this kind of movie that has nothing else than action for you but still makes you watch it? The Purge: Anarchy is that kind of movie - at first.

But not too seldom these stories are situated in a really interesting world that directly relates to our world: The rich people want more money, poor people have to find a way to keep themselves alive and both use absurd ways for that - including the trade of people and killing as a festive ceremony or group activity. Also the world the movie plays in is quite well constructed - everything is tuned in on the situation. For example how there are gangs that found together on the streets and fight together as well as businesses employing and equipping soldiers to fight for the night.

It is unbelievable how this movie that almost doesn't even need a story has so many twists in the plot. Some too many I would say. Still it is a movie I highly recommend to watch if you want a hour and a half with nice fights, a overall catching story and a light taste of society criticism.

Oops, I did it again - Morning Bike Rides

Storm it! Once again I got caught up getting ready for a bike ride instead of going to bed when arrived at home at six in the morning. This really get close to a bad habit as these hours decide whether your day will be awesome or terrible.

The obvious thing about going to bed at that time is that you won't wake up until noon. That might be part of a lifestyle for some people but I do not like that anymore as it destroys your biorhythm and leaves you with half of the day gone.

On the other side you might have a problem when you're inexperienced with staying up more than 18 hours at once. Because if you decide to stay up throughout the morning you'll have to keep it going until the following evening. What is just as bad as missing the first half of the day? Missing the second half. Or even most of the next night as well.

But once you are about to get out of your cycle or if it is already out of control, it is the best possibility to bring it back with one -- for your body terribly shocking -- night and day with out sleep. Because when you go to bed at the time you actually need to you will actually sleep. At least if you didn't use caffeine or anything alike to stay awake, they might actually get you into trouble in terms of sleep.

Why Longboarding Together? (3/3)

Longboarding is great. Longboarding with friends is awesome! For me, the community is one of the best things about Longboarding. You don't even need your friends as many cities have their own community that is organized via social networks and open for any new members just like you maybe.

You can get good advise and also be sure that there's another pair of eyes that watches out for dangers and you would get fast help if something went wrong. Also it is at least double the fun to ride together in formations and talk with each other or even listen to some music.