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Day 8: In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much.

What else could I write about than my first and non-digital fandom on this day when it's his birthday!
David Bowie would have been 71 years old today, on January 8th.

I became a fan when I was 15. One year later I exchanged letters with other fans. If the internet as we know it now had existed then, I'd been active on tumblr, LJ, twitter and everywhere, but we had our ways to connect as well, swapping tapes and videos, collecting articles and writing, writing, writing letters to each other.

The first time I met a fellow fan in real life was at a Bowie convention in Essen, Germany, which was an exciting day. We watched videos, looked at all the merchandise and talked about David Bowie.
The next year we visited the second convention and met more fans in person. We saw him live, wrote more letters.... and drifted apart.

I lost contact to most of the fans and never really started to join the online Bowie-fandom. Probably also due to the fact that you had to pay to access all features of "Bowienet", the official website, which kept me away during the first years, and now that there are many more possibilities to access info, I have turned to other fandoms.

I do love to browse tumblr for pictures and watch videos on Youtube, follow some twitters, but I don't really interact with Bowie fans. Well, there's a time for everything.

Here are two pictures I took at that second convention that I had digitalized recently:




(promo-pictures and -records, and two Bowie-dolls)




(original suit he wore as Ziggy Stardust (right) and the red Glass Spider Tour suit from 1997)


P.S. I seem to turn to Bowie every time on Snowflake challenge. But with January being the month of his birth (8th) and of his death (10th), it's understandable, isn't it?

I made some icons in 2013.

I shared a video in 2014.

I was happy about a new release in 2016.

I mourned him in 2016.


So I celebrate him today! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, David!

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What a great day for this challenge: David Bowie has released his newest video "Lazarus" today, and tomorrow is the day that his new album "Blackstar" goes on sale.
The first time I started interacting with other fans was because of David Bowies. We swapped tapes and videos and articles, wrote letters and met at parties and concerts.
I feel lucky because I was able to see Bowie performing live several times.
Although I'm not really in touch with other fans anymore, I still buy his records and enjoy his strange artistic output.
Here's an old favourite, performed live:


And this is his new video for "Lazarus": Link to VEVO here if the embedding doesn't work.