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March 2002 Timeline: April 2002 May 2002

Memento
Hollywood, 7 April 2002 		Before Sunrise
Hollywood, 7 April 2002 		Sushi and Beer!
Universal City, 13 April 2002 		Former Scots
Universal City, 13 April 2002
So we met Holger and Clodaugh at the Deux Cafes and then headed on to one club in H'wood that served booze beyond 2am.... Just before sunrise, we went to Holger's house.... Good thing we had these photos, otherwise I would not have remembered that place....
At Holgers place... The girls passed out, the guys going strong....
 So our work place had an open house celebration together with our DVD authoring company on the Universal Lot.
 Joe pitching some ideas to Yoshi, OWL's former Managing Director....
PH'woodLab Group Photo
Universal City, 13 April 2002 		Wrapping up
Universal City, 13 April 2002 		Any patients left?
Santa Clara, 16 April 2002 		Blocked Road
Ground Zero, 19 April 2002
My colleagues on a group photo... Some of us already dizzy with Sushi and Beers.
Our work party wrapping up... It took place in little Europe on the backlot, which is a fake area with facades that has been used for many films and TV series....
Sun Microsystem's Campus in Santa Clara. Beautiful day, amazing facilities. Apparently the fifteen buildings around this campus used to be a former hospital for the mentally insane....
 Before last September, there was no view to the sky from this place....
Ground Zero
Ground Zero, 19 April 2002 		The Sphere
Battery Park, 19 April 2002 		Staring outside of the window
Manhattan, 19 April 2002 		Room with a View
Manhattan, 20 April 2002
Eerie.... Nothing is left to remind you of the former twin towers... Just a whole in the ground. Looks like any construction site... Were it not for the many posters in the area....
Fritz Koenig's sculpture... Once buried under the rubble of the Twin Towers, the sculpture has now found a new temporary home in Battery Park....
...instead of doing work....
 A look from the lawyer office where we had our MPEGLA meeting onto the Statue of Liberty... I can only imagine how high the rent in this office must be....
People at the Sphere
Battery Park, 20 April 2002 		Gap in the Sky
Battery Park, 20 April 2002 		Can't get enough of this woman....
Battery Park, 20 April 2002 		Busy people under the flag
Manhattan, 20 April 2002
I have a special link to the sculptor Fritz Koenig.... He was a pupil at my former highschool (Dom-Gymnasium in Freising) and also for our school he built several sculptures, including the fist in our Aula... I will put some photos of his sculpture up....
Gap in the sky over Manhattan...
 Gorgeous view of Miss Liberty....
 Commuters at Grand Central station... Like everywhere else in New York and america, flags all around....
Times Square
Manhattan, 20 April 2002 		Grand Central Station
Manhattan, 20 April 2002 		Photos of the missing
Manhattan, 20 April 2002 		The missing and the dead
Manhattan, 20 April 2002
Manhattan's famous square....
The giant halls of Grand Central station.....
 Just after September the 11th, the city was plastered all over with posters of people missing... Some of the posters remain here in Grand Central....
Some photos of posters when peope were looking for their loved ones, full of hope and descriptions.... When all hope was lost, the city was covered in a second wave of posters.... Same photos, but with poems and declarations of love and loss....
Happiest moments
Manhattan, 20 April 2002 		Nobel Prize Winners
United Nations, 21 April 2002 		Security Council
United Nations, 21 April 2002 		ONE MILLION DOLLARS
United Nations, 21 April 2002
The photos of the missing were never passport photos... They were photos of the people at their happiest, at weddings, parties, holding babies.... That is how people want to remember them, not as statistics or how they spent their last day... Terribly sad...
At the UN they had an exhibition of the Noble Peace Prize winners.... Each one of them had a special quote/motto.... The following two were the ones I took with me: 'The most difficult matter is not so much to change the world as yourself' (Nelson Mandela) and 'L'oppose d'amour n'est pas la haine, mais l'indifference' (Elie Wiesel).
 It is visible that the United Nations have been built in the sixties and that much money needed for renovation and making it the institution for the 21st century that it deserves to be..... Sadly, it looked like a run-down school....
All I could think about was Austin Powers and several James Bond movies, when I saw the seventies style Security Council hall....
General Assembly
United Nations, 21 April 2002 		We shall beat our swords into plowshapes
United Nations, 21 April 2002 		Two more presents to the United Nations
United Nations, 21 April 2002 		Strawberry Fields Forever
Central Park, 21 April 2002
Yet more 70s style for the most important global institution....
Present by the former Soviet Union to the United Nations.
 Two more presents to the United Nations by Italia (two spheres in the background) and Denmark ('Non-violence' in the foreground).
 The little part of Central Park close to John Lennon's apartment (where Yoko still lives) in front of which he was killed in 1980.
Imagine
Central Park, 21 April 2002 		Midnight at Ground Zero
Manhattan, 21 April 2002 		View from the ESB at Night
Manhattan, 21 April 2002 		More NYC at night
Manhattan, 21 April 2002
Close-up of the Imagine mosaic in Strawberry Fields.
The light shining is where the workers were continuing to remove rubble all night, 24/7.... The gap is so visible, when you look at earlier photos of the World Trade Center taken from the Empire State Building....
 A view from the Empire State Building onto New York City....
 The Chrysler Building, the quintessential skyscraper to the left....
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