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Announcement

2011-02-04T17:48:00.004+01:00

hey! I'm not sure if I will continue this blog - my life changed, so should the book.
Follow me at: http://kingofoaks.blogspot.com

New Thriller: Behind the Scenes IV

2011-01-21T09:28:00.005+01:00

Yesterday I shot the last missing scenes in the "Alte Welt" which is a nice restaurant/pub at the main square in Linz. Thanks a lot Thomas!
It was fun, lighting was not so easy so I shot with my 28 mm prime lense and raised the ISO. It's not perfect, but I think it will be fine in the end. Unfortunately for the movie I had to drop one scene completely, as I won't be able to shoot it before I leave. I had a perfect actor for the role. Maybe I'll do it like the big guys (tarantino&rodriguez) and invite a guest director - I kind of like that idea.

If you haven't seen them yet, check out Part I,II,III.

In the Jungle...

2011-01-17T09:43:00.001+01:00

...the Lion sleeps tonight. And there is a Walruss on the hunt...

New shirt designs

2011-01-05T15:43:00.007+01:00

Baby Panda, Dwarf (two colors), Bat (glowing in the dark), for more click on the SHOP sign:

Silver casting

2011-01-02T12:53:00.003+01:00

This is a short story of an exciting and quite unnerving adventure i started in mid-december. I tried casting silver. First try, knowledge from the internet and some experience from inorganic technology.

Modeling the jewel, was a bit more trickier than expected, as I had to fix a quarz pearl in the middle. i got some experience with clay by now and managed fine. yay.
I made a rubber mold, I melted some wax in a water bath and cast a wax positive.

This wax positive was embedded in gypsum. I drilled holes to get the silver in, and get the hot air out through another hole. That worked well.
All I had to do was buy some silver, melt it (Mp: 960 ºC) and pour it into the gypsum mold right?
great, lets do it... But the stupid silver wouldn't go inside! Damn. Start over!

Well new gypsum mold, which is open on the top. Should work fine. I fixed the pearl with a screw, heated the gypsum with a hotgun, until the gypsum got yellow&black, and poured the silver again.
Unfortunately silver is such a good heat conductor, that the silver wouldn't fill the mold as it cooled too quick, and all i got was a silver blob embedding the pearl and the screw....
It took me two more days to drill a shape out of the blob using a multitool.

Yay well that's it. If you'd like to try that, you should come up with a better plan and let me know how it worked!

Polly wants a Cracker

2010-12-13T09:25:00.000+01:00

New clay sculptures

2010-12-08T13:38:00.003+01:00

New Thriller: Behind the Scenes I (shots by my dear lacquey)

2010-12-07T09:58:00.003+01:00

Some pics from Bernhard during/between the 1st shooting (Part I)

New Thriller: Behind the Scenes III

2010-12-05T12:00:00.004+01:00

A few more stills

If you haven't seen them yet, check out Part I,II

On ze Watch!

2010-12-03T11:25:00.000+01:00

New Thriller: Behind the Scenes II

2010-12-02T09:09:00.003+01:00

Yesterday I was able to shoot another scene of my thriller. Had to take a somewhat longer break in order to finish my thesis in time. If you haven't heard about the thriller yet, read Part I taken at the 'crime scene'.

So, now the scene in the police office is done - here are a few stills for your pleasure:

Chicks'n Parrots

2010-12-01T17:20:00.001+01:00

a few new things: shop.

Blue Mountains

2010-11-15T08:26:00.001+01:00

[.•=•,]

2010-11-13T09:14:00.002+01:00

i'm reaaaaally busy with my thesis right now - so you have to wait until i have time to finish my new website. the current one is working fine, but doesn't look too fresh: shop.

CoFFee

2010-11-08T15:16:00.000+01:00

shop.

Paint Pot

2010-11-01T15:20:00.001+01:00

Hey Honey!

2010-10-31T14:31:00.002+01:00

A peck on the left cheek and on the right cheek...

Foehn - brilliant Sky

2010-10-31T14:29:00.002+01:00

Foehny weather - awesome sky at high noon...

[.•=•,]

2010-10-29T14:38:00.003+02:00

tape | Digigrafia

the original TAPE an t-shirts, hoodies, spaghetti tops, in crazy colors of your choice (no need to wear a skyblue shirt - although I think it would look great...)

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2010-10-23T20:40:00.002+02:00

New Thriller: Behind the Scenes

2010-10-18T09:02:00.003+02:00

I started with a new film, this time a thriller in dialect.
I'm shooting with my DSLR again going for the look I already had in 9 m m.
Unfortunately I'll have even less frames to work with, but I guess it will be right.

Originally I planned to shoot at a train station, but the weather was bad, and it's hard to find a time, where everybody is available. Markus (the dead main character) let me shoot in his cellar. Pretty cool crime scene.
I'm quite pleased with the photographs. Now only the movie has to turn out right. Wish me luck!

2010-10-15T15:58:00.001+02:00

new products - hoodies: shop
30% on longsleeves for an order of 3 or more products!

I'm so fuzzy

2010-10-06T09:21:00.003+02:00

Got the first t-shirt. I'll place a larger order this evening. If two more t-shirts are sold, I'll be able to upload new motives to the shop.
Production and shipping took about 5 days after placing the order (weekend included).

c[_]

2010-10-03T12:52:00.000+02:00

-click-!

[·_·]

2010-10-02T11:50:00.002+02:00

Ok, new products in the shop!

º[ °( • )° ]º

2010-09-30T12:51:00.003+02:00

Font Bear available on Spreadshirt. This small guy is just the first one of a larger series. Visit my shop at: http://digigrafia.spreadshirt.at/

Case for iPod touch 3 / iPhone 3GS

2010-09-29T14:09:00.005+02:00

Would you like to protect your display from keys and other stuff you carry around in your pocket? All you know about needle work is that you can poke holes and pull a string through the hole? You are not able to cut textiles in a straight line?

Don't worry, all you need is:
felt, rubber foam, needle, string, scissors/cutter, glue

red iPod, blue iPhone ... it's easy you'll figure it out.

Züri

2010-09-19T17:41:00.003+02:00

Had to change trains in Zürich and decided to make a break and walk around town.

Lausanne: pretty(&)cheesy!

2010-09-17T16:43:00.007+02:00

I was lucky. I found a workshop by Sami Jannin on "Dynamic Nuclear Polarization for NMR spectroscopy" at EPFL in Lausanne. The workshop was great & I've never been in Switzerland before...
If you look out of the window there is Lake Geneva everywhere - and on the other side France with more beautiful mountains.
If you walk around in Lausanne I'm pretty sure you'll make twice as many meters in altitude than in San Fransisco + sunrise/sunset are really something...

Baby Jet

2010-09-05T13:36:00.005+02:00

Yesterday was the Klangwolke again. Was fun, in my opinion the best event after "the devided city" 2005, both by lawine torrèn.

Moissac

2010-09-05T13:31:00.000+02:00

Dune de Pilat

2010-09-05T13:18:00.002+02:00

Dune the Desert Planet over 100 m high, about 500 m & wide 2,7 km long
out of this world...

Board eau

2010-09-05T13:16:00.002+02:00

MoneySac

2010-09-05T13:16:00.001+02:00

Bei Chirac

2010-09-05T13:05:00.000+02:00

RocK Amadur & Dom

2010-09-02T15:10:00.003+02:00

Roccamadour is a wonderful sight, it's also a famous spot on the way of st.james to Santiago (Spain). The rock is about 400 ft high with the town in the valley, the castle on top, and the pilgrim sanctuary in between.
It's defenitly worth a visit, the sanctuary has an eglise, several chapels and a crypta - take some time, there is a high possibility that one of them is closed for public because of pilgrim praying inside.
There is also lots of history, famous pilgrims were coming through over the centuries, and imagine they all slid up the stairs on their knees praying. And this place was hot! I couldn't get enough shadow.

o.k. i betrayed my principles and assembled a panorama of roccamadour from the top of the castle. click to enlarge!

Domme is a small town with a great view over the river dordogne.

Sa(r)lat

2010-09-02T14:50:00.002+02:00

Perigeux

2010-09-01T14:55:00.001+02:00

Cahors

2010-08-31T12:35:00.001+02:00

Visiting the King

2010-08-30T13:51:00.004+02:00

Despite this image - i've been in toulouse, which is a really beautiful town with beautiful churches, places & streets...

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There is the king... Audience 4€/2h...

The cathedral is quite a strange building - it looks like it is assembled from parts that don't fit quite together. There was also a sweetly written guide about the building... Maybe I'll add some citations later.

Last but not least...

The Mill Quarters

2010-08-11T13:07:00.001+02:00

There will be blood

2010-07-11T12:37:00.001+02:00

Flirt with Florence

2010-07-11T12:26:00.005+02:00

Caravaggio

2010-07-10T20:04:00.002+02:00

there is no way you can get bored with a camera... this is a little teaser for the florence photographs i took at euromar. stay tuned - i'll post them tomorrow.

King of Oaks

2010-06-15T12:54:00.000+02:00

i started this a practise piece - just a character, so i could focus on the painting process (photshop), without getting distracted by all the things i'd want to put in.
i also followed a tutorium i found in the 'fantasy art' mag. it also took me forever...

i'd like to put this on a playing card, "King of Oaks" (i still have to do the design, for now its just the illustration) , he got the mace handed down by his barbarian forefathers to crash his enemies and crunch some nuts, the orb 'all nuts belong to the king' and the kingly crown and coat.
hope you like it...

J Dean & Me

2010-06-11T09:33:00.002+02:00

it was about time for a new self protrait in a bathroom...
got a new haircut too.

RoUtINe

2010-06-02T08:39:00.001+02:00

I'm blue ...

2010-05-31T13:38:00.001+02:00

Just before the Thunderstorm

2010-05-27T08:39:00.005+02:00

so another shot out of the window & just before the storm yesterday. the pedestrians got soa(C)ked pretty well.

i also did some test shots for a new project of oliver and me... i tried some different angles to see if my working room would fit our purpose.

...

Follow the white rabbit aX the Zebra

2010-05-07T13:12:00.002+02:00

spent yesterday afternoon in vienna - had a lot of fun with my camera... those zebra-Xing are just great ...

... and there is also the horse playing football ...

... and if you get bored, there is still a great gallery to see. i admit you should love cars (especially mercedes - the cool oldtimers and racers).

CEA

2010-05-03T16:59:00.006+02:00

I just spent a day with scientists at iramis/cea research center close to paris - my prof. started a collaboration with them. again the food was very good, and i'm impressed of the research site - sometimes i wish we had that kind of hardware, or so many specialists in different fields around. on the other hand it's nice that i don't have to show an ID if i come to/leave my office...

Paris - Gif sur Yvette

2010-05-02T21:11:00.002+02:00

Well, maybe not what you expected when i told you i'm in paris... i'm visiting an institute just outside of paris, and i just arrived here today (1.5 h with the RER B from CDG-airport).
nice place, it wasn't too easy to find a restaurant that had open on sunday - but we found one that served delicious food.

Agrandir le plan

Maypole

2010-05-01T11:35:00.003+02:00

You guys ever heard of Maypoles? That's a custom in parts of germany, czech republic and austria... You may interpret its meaning however you like... in austria it's all about stealing the maypole of a neighbouring village and hold it for ransom.
two years ago or so, some youth club from muehlviertel managed to steal ours, linz - the capital of upper austria (or biggest village around). never happened before i think. anyways - the new one is up (no machines - it has to be put up by strong men like arnold schwarzenegger)...

oh and yeah. mirrors are fun!

A farmer doesn't eat things he does not know!

2010-04-27T10:06:00.002+02:00

We got a saying here "A farmer doesn't eat things he does not know!"
Every kid knows it...
Still it seems hard to realize that it isn't about pizza and pasta. It is the root of all social problems in this country (and i guess many other countries of the civilized world)...

What r u doing?

2010-04-26T09:16:00.000+02:00

In the end everything's a frame...

2010-04-22T09:17:00.000+02:00

Now I find I've changed my mind ...

2010-04-11T12:55:00.001+02:00

Darkagent

2010-03-31T11:06:00.005+02:00

Some friends are writing a blog about movies and games (in german) that i'd like to recommend: Darkagent
They asked me to paint a banner for them, here's what they got:

UniCorns

2010-03-28T12:46:00.002+02:00

If you're bored on saturday, wear some funny coats, carry guns and bang some drums...

9 m m

2010-03-17T14:09:00.003+01:00

»
Production:
The experimental Shortmovie "9 mm" is the first serious try of Martin in making movies. It was shot at available light with a Nikon D200 dslr with 28 mm & 50 mm prime lenses. The sound was recorded separately and then synchronised.

Background:
The film idea was born with a couple of coffee and some half pints, when Bernadette & Martin were talking about office humor, and that some jokes are just for "the boys" - and sometimes you just can't stare down the funny guys...

More Information and Photogallery at: www.CreatorsCup.at «

Singing Yeti Girl

2010-02-24T08:40:00.002+01:00

o.k.,... i found out i like yetis.
my brother's playing his ukulele all the time now, and when i'm there for a visit i can't stop to pick the strings. he showed me some stuff too. so i went and bought my own uke. everybody should know it's mine too. so i had another try with paint and glitter and nail polish. i think i figured it out - and i'm sure i'll do that again!

Walking over stick and stone

2010-02-21T11:55:00.003+01:00

Had a nice walk yesterday... the panorama was stitched of 3 shots from 3 different spots.

and this is the most beautiful shop window i've seen since i left NY. the winner is bluma in linz!

Little Sas

2010-02-15T09:57:00.004+01:00

This sasquatch has one purpose - to save my girls day..

Backwater Birds

2010-02-05T14:19:00.004+01:00

We went south to Kumarakom to visit the Backwaters - we also had the spiciest food there in our whole trip. It burnt our throat like acid, I have no idea what it was...
This place is awesome - you got everything: a lake, channels, birds,...

On the way home we visited the the Institute of Science again, met Anil Kumar, drove around Bangalore in autorikshas, and had very good dinner with Jayanthi and Sankeerth.

Then there was only the way back home...

Fishermens Fiend & the Bicycle

2010-02-04T15:52:00.004+01:00

Comfort for Ladies & Gents

2010-02-04T15:31:00.001+01:00

Strolling through Fort Kochin

2010-02-04T14:47:00.003+01:00

Take your time to look around - or you will miss everything you don't find in tourist guides...

On the Way to Kochin

2010-02-02T08:59:00.011+01:00

School was over - so we could finally go on holidays... On the way down from the mountains I found out how the honking really works. You got no chance to get it if you try it in town, but on the curvy roads on the hillside it was pretty easy.
It's nothing more than question & answer :
Ideally you honk, and than the car coming from the other direction honks - so don't overtake. If there is none, the car in front of you (in most cases a truck) will answer, and the driver sometimes even waves to you to overtake...
Then you start honking and overtaking so everybody knows the road is now yours! Trouble is, everybody wants to talk, so in town it's just a mess...

We also saw a huge bison in a tea garden, towering motionless above the road. Very impressive! I thought it was twice the size and weight of our car...

When we reached the plain, our car broke down. The driver said it's the battery. Then he put about 10 l of cooling water back into the system, after getting a hitch on a bike to the next fountain.
Then we just had to push the car to start the engine again, and reached Coimbatore in time for our train.

In Ernakulam we had the most insane taxi driver, who thought he had a magical horn, so that honking would solve everything. It worked well enough for all the two-wheelers, but there were some trucks with a bigger horn, and he just couldn't believe it.
When there was less traffic he gave me his cell number and told us, he would bring us to Kottayam for only 9000 Rs !! 3 days later we got a tourist cab for 1300 Rs instead. Anybody wants his number? He is a friendly smiling guy, a little adventure guaranteed!

Fort Kochin is a great place. I really liked the atmosphere around the ancient chinese fishernets. You see a lot of guys working the nets, repairing small nets that are thrown from small boats, you sometimes see men fishing - they mostly catch very small fish, but at the kiosk some of them got real big fish. I had the feeling it's mostly a show for tourists, but it's a nice show nonetheless, and you get a feeling how pple lived before we came to watch.

This restaurant on the right had great sea food too. We went there twice.

We were walking all the way from the fishernets down to Jew Town. You just have to ward off all the autorikshas ("Ferrari, Ferrari"), who will try to convince you that it's too far, too hot, and you just won't make it alive. You have to be strong minded, or else they will eventually convince you on the last 300 m.
Then you can continue your walk (maybe 30-45 casual min) and enjoy the view.

Ooty, Lake

2010-01-29T13:14:00.004+01:00

Well. Some more photographs from round Ooty - a night shot close to a farmers market, some health care centers, and honest stores...

Village in tea gardens...

And the Summerschool was over. On friday afternoon Madhu arranged a nice trip for us. To the telescope house, the tea factory (see earlier post) and an artificial lake where you could make boat trips. was a lot of fun and a nice way to finish school.
In the evening we went to Ooty's botanical garden for a family photo ;)

Ooty, Tea

2010-01-27T08:51:00.008+01:00

Ooty itself is surrounded by tea, forest, dark red earth, houses and clothes in deep saturated colors.
You see a lot especially at the market, which was almost like a basar with lots of small kiosks, narrow ways with sun sails, where you could find everything from fruit, meat, living animals, books, tailors, shoes, pest control,... I didn't take pictures there.

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Tea Factory

The factory is nice but small and can be visited. Don't expect a huge facility. You can get great tea there, some sorts are boiled in milk (no water) like the 'cardamon tea' I got for myself.

Summer School in Winter

2010-01-26T13:24:00.009+01:00

The School itself was at the Radio Astronomy Center close to the Hotel. About 8 km from the Hotel, but with unpaved roads you'll learn fast, that the most accurate unit to measure distance is hours - it took us about half an hour to get there.

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We stood up early every morning, when it was still cold, about 3-5 ºC, where you could still see the morning fog, and when the bees were still sleeping.

The RAC has a very special telescope that is over 530 m long, and got something like 1100 wires to build a reflecting surface. It's also built on a slope, so that it is parallel to the rotational axes of the earth. How cool is that?

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It is amazing. You can tell because during every tea break there were at least 2-3 people who kept staring at it. A real beauty.

I also met Siva again, who shared the office with me when he was studying in Linz.

And here is the colleague who is sharing the office with me for 3 years now.

An Introduction to India

2010-01-21T12:07:00.012+01:00

What do you guys know about India? Something you saw on TV or what your friends told you? Forget it, you got to go and see for yourself, it will be completely different!

I normally don't do anything like this, but this time I kept a diary, because I got the feeling, that I would forget it all. There was just too much input and it was really intense on all the senses.

That is about the Journey we were going to undertake.

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After about 14h of flight from Munich with a stop in Dubai we arrived in Bangalore in the morning.

We were picked up by Sankeerth who brought us to the Tata Institute of Science where we could relax a bit and had lunch before we continued to the bus station to catch our bus to Ooty (7-8h drive).

We reached Ooty (2250m altitude) in the morning - coming through a forest in the cold, blue, morning fog, before we went up the mountains. The planes were still dark, when the sun rose and sent it's golden beams over the mountain tops, it was awesome. Suddenly everything was colorful and the birds started to make noise (not all of them have a beautiful singing voice)...
We drove through the dark green tea gardens sprinkled with red and white and purple and ... flowers.

Tamil Nadu in the late morning sun - hot enough to burn your skin during a tea break, if you are used to central european winter...

Snow Hankies

2010-01-18T08:29:00.003+01:00

I'm back from india (Summer to Winter in less than 24h) with a lot of pics, but had no time yet to sort them out. Until then I got 3 shots from this Sunday, where we had snowflakes of the size of hankies.

Digigrafia

2009-12-29T10:30:00.004+01:00

I updated my Webpage DIGIGRAFIA with a number of photographs I took since summer 09.
As many of them where taking during Linz09 I made a new photography subsection "LINZ 09 special".
I also did a new painting, a gift for my gf. A ninja training in the fields. It was a long time since I finished a piece with brushes only, so I'm quite happy how it turned out.

I won't be able to post in the next two weeks, because I'm away on a conference in India. But I got time to travel a few days and will be back with great pics (or so I hope)...

This isn't Madness...

2009-12-22T14:08:00.001+01:00

Yeah well - silent time or not - great atmosphere this morning. golden light, snow, cold, angels, a few spartans...

Busy...

2009-12-16T16:44:00.003+01:00

Dear visitors,
sry for not posting stuff!
I did not become lazy! I'm working on two bigger things right now, but can't show them yet (for two different reasons, plus I don't like to show unfinshed stuff).
I hope to take some pics next week - meanwhile please be patient and come back in a week or two!

L'autre jour a Vienne ou ailleurs

2009-11-27T13:16:00.001+01:00

Soup of Fog

2009-11-26T14:59:00.002+01:00

Sry for the long lunch break - I was ill.
But I did some pics together with international friends on saturday - one of them I haven't seen since I've left the new world.
I borrowed my tripod to Johannes, so I was going freehand - the fog made it possible to shoot at 100iso (28mm f2.8) with only 1/4 shutter speed in the middle of the night - no VR. I'm quite happy with the results ;)

Vi(en)n(di)a Visa Venture

2009-11-20T12:54:00.004+01:00

I was on a little trip to vienna - todays pics follow the tourist slogan "vienna is different" - I tried some not tourist like approach to the city. anyways. more pics are to come...

25 a LUNA

2009-11-16T09:19:00.003+01:00

No photographs today (well there are some - but it's not about the photographs today...)

My little brother became 25 years today... Well I had some ideas and was able to motivate myself to doing something practical.
The little bugger is playing the Ukulele & has lots of fun doing so.
He also is a rat - according to the chinese horoscope - and he likes
the pretty much.
So well I started with that idea but had a lot of boring time, where I had to wait for the paint to dry before doing the naext layer...
I got another idea and just started fooling around, and was pretty surprised, that I had it done in time. Well see for yourself:

some progress shots:

Rose

2009-11-09T16:47:00.000+01:00

Burning Universities...

2009-11-06T08:53:00.005+01:00

According to the Police there were about 500 students and solidarized people demonstrating in Linz. I'm hard at guessing numbers, but normally numbers by the police are significantly lower, than those by the organizers.
Anyway, there were demonstrations in vienna (8000-20000), salzburg (400), graz, innsbruck, klagenfurt - also students in seven german cities solidarized with austrian protesters...standard,FM4
One of the main demands is, that education should be free, university education and research should be independent and not directed by industry,...
I found it interesting to hear that while there is less and less money for universities, dividends at viennas stock-market went up by 350% from 2004-2008 and investment into military went up by 35%. Werkstatt Frieden&Solidaritaet
I was heavily disappointed by the AG (= "my dad has his own company" students party) who declared themselves against these student actions - students should study and let politicians solve everything. But honestly - there wouldn't be any protests if they would do their work, instead of illegal investments and being threatened by prosecution for their crimes...
Wake up - you are a students party - not lawyers of those giddy clowns!

Brno

2009-11-02T10:56:00.004+01:00

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Cruisin' in the south

2009-10-18T14:54:00.003+02:00

I was on a little trip down to styria, carinthia, back to styria(graz) for lunch & coffee and back home in the evening. I don't know the exact distance, but I was probably driving 800km...

Active(ly) Busy(ness)

2009-10-15T10:14:00.006+02:00

I'm a bit busy this time - it's not so easy to post pics regularly. That's why I'd like to draw your attention to red du[nua] where I'm running a photography activity with a couple of friends (everybody who comes through linz is welcome) where we take photos at different locations in town, mostly in the dark hours after work.

Here are two pics from yesterdays session (exclusively for documensation)
My comrades at work - all blur:

Travelling folks, taking out their cameras after they saw us shooting:

The Riddler

2009-10-12T08:38:00.004+02:00

So, would you like to hear about a riddler who didn't dress in toxic green, but in colors of brown and gray, who always had a friendly smile?
His favorite joke was:

What's that?
It goes tic toc tic toc, it hangs on the wall,
and if it falls down, the clock is kaput?
...

Anyways, he loved kids, painting, driving, "Kling Glöckchen", colored trees in autumn, the neighbors dog and a lot of other stuff...
I was thinking of him a lot the last few days, and yesterday when i was walking around to take some pictures he came through. I don't know, many of my photos are just not how I would shoot them, they are more like the nice, (cheesy) views we know from the "Heimatfilme" - I guess this genre is not known in english speaking countries, because the translation I found is "sentimental film with regional background" - think of it as "western" just without the west...

Pfiat di!

Visiting Grampa

2009-10-08T10:01:00.002+02:00

Yesterday we got the mountain hairdryer (foehn) all over the place and very warm weather for this time of year... I enjoyed a short walk through the old parts & realized, that the time in NY changed my way of looking. I kind of explore my hometown as if it was a new town, unknown to me. Weird & cool...

The Castle

2009-09-30T14:41:00.003+02:00

The south part, which is now newly rebuilt (after it burnt down some time back in 18 hundred) is part of the "Schlossmuseum" and has a brand new exhibition about upper austria, it's geology, fossils, animals, plants and how man changed the environment. I was not allowed to take pictures inside, but have a look for yourself, it's worth it.

Old Hag's Summer

2009-09-28T10:32:00.006+02:00

Or Indian Summer - that's what we have right now - which means beautiful light at our latitude - so I'm busy taking photos.

It's a bit hazy, which is great for the atmosphere, on a clear day you would see the mountains at the horizon - hopefully I can show you that in winter.

At the city limit, there is a small settlement, where you feel like you were in a small unknown village... which is cool - because it's still in walking distance from the main square - got to face it, I live in nothing more than a village with a fair number of pubs.

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Where's the show?

2009-09-28T10:29:00.003+02:00

Distorted view of History

2009-09-15T07:50:00.003+02:00

Lets go for a walk through the ancient part of Linz. I'll bring my lensbaby for focusing your attention.

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Eye of & the Tiger Shark

2009-09-14T08:27:00.002+02:00

I know there are some guys out there who are crazy Sharks (don't know why) - well Linz is the way to go!! We got this new Eye "Linzer Auge" (which is also the name for good local cookies) - there should be two segments inside that should counter-rotate powered by the river...
Anyways, there's a shark close by, just in case somebody falls into the danube!

We got a HighLine too

2009-09-14T08:03:00.004+02:00

So we got this huge wooden path-construction "Höhenrausch" (you could translate it as "high-altitude euphoria") on the rooftops of a parking garage and a shopping center including a giant wheel and lots of art installations, like that "Bubbleman".
The First picture is more or less, what I'd do if I had to do Flyers/Posters for that Event - I think it's pretty slick.

You start through the OK building where the staircase at some point becomes wooden, and you climb the rooftop from outside the building.

This is one of the installations with Helium filled balloons - it's fun how the bundle moves when you move one of them - never let the child within die.

High up floats the "bubbleman" - when he's up, this funpark is open. There is a movie later on, that shows how a guy blows up a balloon until he starts to fly high up into the stratosphere, where he finds his tragic end - you know it's all that physics stuff with pressure ;)
The yellow cart, is modified to a vertical kiosk.

On this one the shower makes music, using the umbrella as resonance body - I think it's controlled by the waterpressure. Pretty fun - the umbrellas are not totally waterproof. Got a view sprinkles on my camera, which was fine for me. If you're not sure better put it somewhere dry!

That beats Coney Island what do you think?

You can see the wooden locks on the right that make the path over the rooftops, the blue building in the back is another muesum. But the capture here is all about the old woman in the chair. I love this!

Thats a dead end on one of the roof-corners, where you can look straight down...

Pretty nice ha?

Time to go down again -

- but first visit the Paradise Garden on top of the Ursulinenkirche and memorize a wisdom of life.

Sooo if you guys got interested - the fun will be over at the end of October...

The Cloud spoke in swooshing Sounds: FLOOD

2009-09-06T19:49:00.008+02:00

A lot was going on this cold Saturday. In the afternoon animals gathered on the main square, desperately looking for a way out. I didn't feel it yet, but they knew already - the flood was about to come...

Some of them took their chance hunting distracted game.

There were also some weirdos shouting "the end is near" - I was a bit surprised, but there was nothing I could do - I was hungry, and well, whatever was going to happen was surely better dealt with a full stomach. I got a delicious eggplant filled with cheese, bell pepper and potatoes. (that's the revenge for tenshin don!)

Later that day a shepherd came forward and led the herd to an arch. I found a dead tyrannosaur on the way to the arch - now that explains why they are extinct! sad thing...

When darkness came and the night brought the cold, it happened, and all I could do was watch, and document hoping somebody would survive... Icebergs were floating down the river, I watched in terror when destroyed homes were carried away, ...

And then! The arch exploded, I was frozen solid - it was burning!

But there is hope, some animals were able to reach dry land.

I survived - I guess I was blessed! Crawling I found a warm place - I was waiting until everything was over - drinking beer... I had to drink a lot to overcome my fear.

Shooting Game

2009-08-31T21:46:00.003+02:00

Today I took some friends (who, luckily, all wore bright colors), looked for a nice place along the Danube, with great late summer late afternoon light and took some photographs...
I'm quite happy with the results! Those are not just for fun and practising, but will be used in my recent project.

A Tour around THE capital...

2009-08-31T11:11:00.002+02:00

So - our tour starts at the Hauptplatz (~main square) which is about 500m from my flat. This cloud above totally looks like a skull btw...

We take the Pöstlingbergbahn (with the new retro designed waggons) - which is working there (also with the original carts) for more than 100 years and is one of the steepest tracks that is operated without cogwheels or cables... Here's the route:

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And here is the new train:

That's Linz - it is huuuuge - I didn't even get all of it on one photo! I really liked the crane - somebody got too much money and is building a villa up there, which upset a lot of pple, but I really liked how that crane works as a pictureframe. perfect!

Wonderful late summer light!

A meeting of orange guys was providing a nice color set just for me.

Soooo this promises an interesting upcoming weekend. We got this major event Klangwolke with the theme "Flood", and some of the animals where already running around in the city...

So what about that?

2009-08-31T10:39:00.001+02:00

Well - I thought, I had so many followers on my NY blog - which was a bit of a surprise - on the other hand it was NY - soo I thought, I'll show some stuff from HOME for all my friends abroad...
I don't think I will be able to travel a lot - but fortunately Linz is "european cultural capital 2009" (together with Vilnius, Lithuania)- so there might be a lot to see, and I got a lots of ideas for artprojects, and I'll post all that stuff here. Don't expect me to post as frequent as I did in NY...