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2500 Pixels of Cliché

KangarooIt´s nearly two years now that nugob.org saw the light of day. This is article number 100 - which means that I am rather lazy in weblogging (you are so right). However, at the moment it seems that I have a screen overdose and I just prefer to go outside. There is no digital recipe to compare with this analogue antidepressant: ingridients: a campfire, a handful of nice people, barbecue, beer and guitars (happened so yesterday evening).

Next to nugob.org which becomes 100 I become 25 years next Saturday. I did not really plan anything so far but I´m sure we will celebrate into the birthday on Friday. On Saturday there will be a beer-soccer match between the second and the fourth semester (this time also with a girl´s team). So whoever wants to visit me on May 24 or 25, set off!

Furthermore my days at the Villa are numbered. I will go to a semester abroad to the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Creative Media, in Melbourne, Australia. I will leave on July 16 until January 16 2003. I am very much looking forward to this. The university is a partner institute of the FH Vorarlberg, so I saw some impressing students works. The school really looks very promising. The semester ends on November 22, so I nearly have two month left to travel around there. I bought a digital ixus for daily snapshots, so I am sure you will find a more regular logging then. I just hope that my official letter of acceptance or enrolement will arrive soon from RMIT which I need for my student visum. I am still on tenterhooks because of this. Well, that´s the latest news so far. Sorry for the kangaroo, but I did not find a better cliché for Australia.

As You Like It

Angrillen

 
Angrillen bei Hippies in Berlin.

und dann hängemattete ich ein wenig ...

Yesterday the hammock season was opened in Dornbirn. I welcomed it with so much pleasure that I also spent this day "hammocking" in the garden. To bring at least some small summer feelings on nugob.org (is this possible on screens at all?) I changed the guestbook pictures to the summerset by madsciencelaboratories.

Tea Time

Scarf

Brrrr. As cold as it is you either start knitting a warm scarf and go out to toboggan or you keep inside. Maybe my video advice for long winter nights will help:

Magnolia - a great film by Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights) about chance, sin and forgiveness with great camera and strong use of sound. Most people I told about it said that they would not like to watch it because they don´t like Tom Cruise. Don´t misjudge this. It´s a perfect role for him. The film reminds of Robert Altman´s Short Cuts.

Wonder Boys - a writer (and professor) with a writer´s block who succeeds to make the chancellor´s wife pregnant, who is involved in the killing of her dog, the vanishing of Marilyn Monroes jacket, the homo-erotic urges of a student, a few more things and who attempts to find out or hesitate the solution of his problems by pot smoking.

Memento - a film about a man without shorttime memory who seeks for revenge for his wife´s dead. It´s an interesting plot structure: The film starts with the last scene on the timeline going backwards in blocks (interrupted by short forward-playing scenes), so that only the last scene (so the first scene in time) shows the truth.

I Kina spiser de hunde - in china they eat dogs by Lasse Spang Olsen: the perfect looser who wants to make things right but provokes one catastrophe after another ending with a dogma-like scene.

Una pura formalità by Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso, Malèna), nearly a two-person play (like Der Totmacher) with a suspect (Gérard Depardieu) who affirms to be the writer Onoff and an inspector (Roman Polanski) who wants to find a murderer. Cathegory: Surreal.

Nice vector and pixel art to look at on quickhoney and a nice magazine to click through : tigermagazine (see image).

How to Install your Hammock

Hammock PatternThe last days I was visiting my brother and Miss Partykeller in their new habitation in Berlin. They live in Prenzlauer Berg which is a really, really nice place to be. Old building. High walls. Stuck. Good bars. Enviable.
Oh, concerning partykeller: there is a new weblog project she participates with design - let´s have a look in a few days on antville (read more) - but psssst! It´s still an insiders´ tip and you still get some nice names which are free, like: konfirm.antville, bonviv.antville, vac.antville, dist.antville, domin.antville, hydr.antville, fulmin.antville, hughgr.antville, hairimpl.antville, hubblesconst.antville, ignor.antville, intigr.antville, irrelev.antville, mut.antville, nonchal.antville, deodor.antville, powerpl.antville, pregn.antville, simul.antville, Stuyves.antville and a lot of other names.

While I was in Berlin I made an investment for life! I bought my first hammock. Not just any hammock as you can see in the picture, but a Columbian siesta hammock which is only available in a specialized hammock trade. Plus: an instruction sheet with invaluable hints like this one:

»Be careful: Never climb into your hammock feet first! The hammock will rock, you might loose your balance and fall. The easiest way to get into your hammock is to sit down in the middle of it and only then to strech out and lie down.«
Seems to be wisdom which was given from generation to generation. However, it´s tested, it works, it´s good! ¡Hasta luego!

Morgen wird bizarre

Tomorrow we will start our trip to the Bizarre Festival near Weeze. Some sounds can be found on bizarre radio. Let´s see if it can match with Open Air St. Gallen.

Screenfree Day

PopsicleListen to the voice of rationality: Use the fine weather and turn your computer off now. You will not regret. (icon by madsciencelaboratories)

A Life´s Bug

Vielen Dank an alle die auf unserem Gartenfest waren! Es war ein wunderbares - wenn auch extremes - Fest über drei Tage, das das letztjährige noch übertroffen hat. Am Freitag sah es ja noch nach Dauerregen aus, so gegen fünf Uhr Nachmittag riß die Wolkendecke dann aber auf und bescherte uns ein wunderbares Wetter, das bis zum Sonntag anhalten sollte. Durch Mithilfe unserer 6-Kanal-Dolby-Surround-Lockpfeiffe schwirrte auch das ein oder andere Grüne Männchen vorbei, ließ sich aber ziemlich schnell von Irrlichtern und Kunstnebellockstoffen aus dem Garten vertreiben. Alles in allem also ein wirklich gelungenes Fest, das wohl (siehe letztes Jahr) wieder mehr Fragen aufgeworfen hat, als man zu lösen jemals versucht gewesen wäre.
Inzwischen geht´s mir wieder gut und ich freue mich auf nächstes Jahr! (Bilder gibt´s auch bald.)

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