A sticky breeze.
Wild, salty air.
Fresh morning swell.
Coffee steam.
Wet tents.
The sun is heating up.
Swell check.
This is the day.
Oh Those Summer Days
Nature's View
Standing bold.
Holding Middle Fingers Up.
It’s a statement.
We get it.
Love you.
Lover
You make my heart open up like a butterfly.
Good and Evil, side by side.
Shame and pride and everything beside.
A Jar full of inspiration and love.
Your energies is the calling from up above.
Larry Choppins - Those Days
Larry Choppins is a Lo-Fi / Trip Hip producer based in Thun, Switzerland. Through various connections he earned his Name in the Gerne and is regularly featured in Spotify Playlists all around the world. While the music industry is changing so is his approach. After releasing his newest LP in 2021, Larry Choppins want to release one Song at a time, without any deadline until he feels like there’s an Album put together. For each Song we will release a unique Photograph to accompany as the cover of the track. Each Photograph will be printed on Postcards including a Barcode where you’ll be able to listen to each piece.
“Those Days” - the first Single will be released on every platform on March 18th.
Ventilated Simplicity
We’re living in a world of complexity.
Everything we do we need to weigh on it. Is it worth?
But more important: Is is right?
Is it the turn I want to take at the crossroads in my life?
This are the questions I ask myself all the time while I’m taking a sip from my fresh brewed Coffee.
And there it is, simplicity.
A balance of Acidity and Earthy flavors, notes of sweet chocolate and fresh flowers.
As my mind catapults into euphoria I can see that life doesn’t has to be over thought.
Sometimes a little simplicity is all we need to see certain circumstances more clearly.
HERMANO'S MAGAZINE ISSUE #2 OUT NOW!!
It’s here!! Hermano’s Magazine Issue #2 - A different kind of newsletter: The Magazine is filled with Stories and Photographs of special People who are part of the Hermano’s Brew Journey. There are 150 physical copies living everywhere where you can buy Hermano’s Brew Coffee (doodah Bern, doodah Luzern, Floating Art & Tattoo, La Buvette, NOMAD atélier, Rod3, 90° Hair Studio, Approved Distribution). You can aswell download the digital version here for free! Ain’t that good News!? Issue #2 is super exciting as it is the first one we were working with a bunch of different contributors such as: Dionys Gartwyl, Robert Voss and again with Daniela Schmied who designed the cover and a lot of the Artwork seen in the Magazine. Check it out!
everything new.
Here we are, new day, new year, new dawn.
We’re gonna do so much better.
We’re gonna emerge as human beings.
We’re gonna take good care of our selves and others.
Because it’s page Ø. Again. Blank. Empty space to be filled by our doing.
Or aren’t we?
Just asking.
In the still of the Morning
True freedom lies in the stillness of each moment. All we have to do is listen.
The Dancing Field
In the dancing field,
where the snow falls,
the waters melt & the woods sound,
we find comfort in the moving winds.
In the forest, the leaves and the soil,
we touch ground with ourselves.
In our heart we find love.
We find peace.
We find happiness.
Café Hommage: THE COFFEE DRINKING CACTUS
How a Surftrip and some Donavon Frankenreiter inspired a Coffee Brand Logo.
The creative process is influenced by countless conscious or subconscious observations and experiences. This wasn’t any different in terms of the Coffee Drinking Cactus Logo: A travel to Asia and Indonesia, countless Coffee Shop Visits, hours of good Surf music and a bunch of inspirational people was mostly responsible for the origin.
There's usually a lot going on in Daniela Schmied's head. The creative thoughts seem to never stop or take a pause. Drawing with brushes and pencils, she recently expands her mind with a digital toy she can easily carry anywhere she goes.
The Moustache got highly inspired by Donavon Frankenreiter.
The Coffee drinking Cactus became the logo and mascot for Hermano’s Brew and can be found on several Coffee, Stickers and Shirt designs. He lately even made it on a Skateboard for a Collaboration with Approved Line Skateboards.
San Juan de Pacifico
Tall pine trees reaching through the hills.
The air cools down as the smell changes it’s endless capacity of scents.
The sun paints the horizon in it’s brightest reds, blues and yellows.
The moon above is already showing himself, protecting all of nature.
Everything is so clear now.
We are all there is, and that’s all we are.
The Stinking Shoe
This is for all the people who stuck with “it” for years. The times you tried to convince me to get rid of it.
The Car Rides, the hotel rooms, the homes that were filled over the years with the wet, acidity smell.
Brought back from Cali, some six years ago. Because, why not. Right?
Shoe laces worn out, forming a loose, rasta like dreadlock have been replaced.
Desinfection spray, special Ski - & Snowboard Boot driers, nights spent on the balcony… Nothing could erase the scent until abandoned in a foreclosed room.
Many time I tried to replace, but could never find a rightful replacement.
So here we are, one more season on our tongues. From frosty temperatures to slushy conditions. Still wet when I slip my toes into it.
This if for you my old friend. See you next year. Maybe. Almost positive.
Sorry guys.
Blast Anxiety
The Channel of the pipe is glowing in a dull, gloomy light.
The morning Sun.
A couple hours ago she rose so promising over the mighty appearing Panoramic picture of Grindelwald.
Now she’s suddenly disappearing and the contrast is vanishing along with it.
Where does this anxiety coming from? The fear of not being enough, of not being liked by the persons I’m just about to meet. The people that gave me that assignment to shoot some pictures for the Jungfrau Region in exchange for a small sponsorship for my personal Snowboard Project.
But this is not the time for soul searching right now.
A couple of runs to clear my head. To get the knees warmed up. Shoot some frames of black and white film with my Buddy and Filmer Clément Schwab, then we’re heading to the spot and get our settings done.
Mother nature is in our good spirits today as she shows up and rags the haze apart.
There it goes, my anxiety vanished into void. I found my soul.
Foggy Grindelwald
Thoughts arising, warped around by doubts.
Words are missing, mouth is feeling clinched.
A black shadow is crawling up, numbing everything around my aura.
Trapped inside my mind no lights to be guided.
Where should I go? But even more, what should I do?
Roadmaps have been burned by circumstances out of my control.
The Virus isn’t the physical disease. It’s what it is doing with the human being. Isolation.
Let's open up and free ourselves again.
State of Flow
Boots heavily stamp through thick snow, now pressed under our Feet.
A simple Board with a wooden core transitions us into a new state of mind.
Thinking disappears as we almost hover over the layers of nature’s gift of happiness.
Turns burst into concentrated energy that blows up waves of powder into the air.
The cold on my face is warming me up.
I release all tension as we glide, captivated in a state of Flow.
Appreciated Friendships: Clément Schwab
Clément and I first met a few years ago when I was working at a small, local Snowboard Shop. There was an instant connection and quickly we'd spend countless hours in the Mountains or having one - or maybe some more - Beers at our local Bar.
Today, a couple of years older, there are less Beers going down the drain but no less days spent on the Snowboard. An everlasting friendship as one will rarely find.
While most of us got into the struggle of self expression and starting our own thing, Clément worked his way up as our Go To Buddy when it comes to everything Smartphone or Tablet etc. related. Which paid him the expenses to go to unusual places with his Snowboard like Japan, Kosovo, the Himalayas or nevertheless on a Surfboat trip to the Maldives.
Always being fascinated by capturing those moments, it was an obvious step to pick up a camera and invested more time in this passion.
To create one of his first professional Videography projects, we traveled to Grindelwald in the Jungfrau Region to get some cool Shots to create a short commercial for Hermano’s Brew.
Thanks Clément for your never ending source of Motivation.
-This article was published in the Hermano’s Magazine Issue #1. You can read the whole Magazine for free here.
Hermano's Magazine Issue #1
Lean back, have a Coffee and get inspired.
Strange times require creative thinking. While everything is heading towards digitalism, every mail box is getting swamped with better or worse Newsletters and all you get on Social Media is Commercials on stuff you probably won’t need we thought: Why not make something physical that you can actually enjoy holding in your hands.
The Idea of Hermano’s Magazine is to print a, so to say, Newsletter in Magazine format once to twice a year. BUT not only is the Hermano’s Magazine to be read as a Newsletter trying to sell the Brand. It is filled with Stories of People that in some sort of way contribute something to Hermano’s Brew or inspire us to print their Story.
In the first Issue we teamed up with Daniela Schmied, the creator of the Hermano’s Brew Cactus logo to take a look into her creative process. Showed what it takes to handprint Shirts with the Atélier Gross & Klein, talked about the importance and drawbacks of running a Core-Snow- & Skateboard Shop with doodah Bern shop manager Kaspar Kupferschmid and much more.
Printed as a very limited edition of only 50 physical Copies, Issue #1 is already out of order. So we simply converted it as an ebook for everyone to enjoy. You can download it here for free.
The Perception of Silence
The white Mountains, covered in Snow. The still, serene blue Lake. Loneliness melts with comforting void, inner contentment and the connection to the all. No anger, no anxiety. Nothing but the comforting void. The voice of the impalpable, the inner Peace.
We’re melting together as the waves wash over us.
Tumbled and stoned.
Tuned in.
Far away and only here.
Mind wide open.
Our hearts are one.
Dreaming of Snow
“When there is nothing but Silence surrounding me, there is peace.
