Great arts & blogging dinner in Hamburg

Thanks again Heiko and Jörg for the dinner and the great discussions yesterday.



What's really amazing is how much we had in common and how much I felt we already knew each other by reading our blogs before meeting in person. Heiko, Jörg and I really feel so strong blogs are changing the way we think, behave, make business, network... We were already old friends before meeting each other and of course meeting in person is something we had to do.



We had great discussions about old europe and how we believe the european blogger generation can become influential in the near future and hopefully do something so that Europe does not get even older. Let's bridge together the european blogosphere and change Europe so that India and China do not eat us very fast in the global agenda.



Jörg has taken us deep into his thoughts about arts. Jörg Heikhaus is the former CEO of the German branch of one of the past (or present still I don't know) leading web agency in Europe, Icon Media Lab and recently decided he would spend most of his time on his passion, arts.



Jörg has launched a new generation arts gallery. Jörg is doing with arts the same as what happens in the music industry with the Internet. Now that he has the physical place, Jörg is using the Internet and will also start a blog to make everybody discover artists who are not known yet and would not be selected by traditional galleries. We had great discussions on how blogging and the Internet could help these artists get known and sell their work without or with fewer intermediaries. The major difference as Jörg describes it very well with digital music and arts is that most arts work must be seen in reality and its digital form does not have the same effect. This is why Jörg needed to start to have a physical exhibition place before using the Internet.



I liked very much the work of Ki Yoon Ko currently presented and especially this women face:







Jörg his also an artist himself and showed us a preview of his own work that he will be presenting next month. I will really try to come back to Hamburg to see the exhibit.

Thank you very much Heiko and Jörg again, this was a fantastic evening, I am now really looking forward to following Jörg's thoughts on his future blog.

Here is what Heiko said about our evening on his blog this morning:

I know Loic will be reading this as soon as he gets his Wi-Fi hooked up so I should just post a picture and leave it there. But I just can't refrain from telling everyone to be at Marktstube tonight (Wednesday) to meet Mr. Enthusiasm in person. You won't regret it.

From left to right: Loic le Meur, Jörg Heikhaus, Tarik Joniot and me, at Jörg's heliumcowboy artspace.