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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.

Kubrism

Kubrism

My first 3d-animation is done. Rendering time had a maximum of about 52 minutes per frame - total 3 days of rendering. I don´t have any more time to write about it now, but if you are curious: here is the file: kubrism. Enjoy! (I am not sure if I compressed it correctly for the Mac - I will care about this next week.) Today I will go to Offenburg for a house-warming party.

The Curse of Intermedia

The following are the official reasons for the suspension of the head of my course of studies intermedia: "Antritt einer Flugreise ohne Genehmigung der Geschäftsführung, nichtkorrekte Urlaubsabbuchung, Rückzug aus den verschiedenen Fachhochschul-Gremien, Nichteinhaltung von Terminen, Desinformation seiner MitarbeiterInnen" and some other reasons. I don´t have the full survey of the situation but I did not have the impression that he identified with the course of studies he should care for. For me it seemed that he wanted to popularize intermedia external while internal problems seemed to be beneath notice. This is my opinion but I know that a lot of fellow students have the same impression. Hope this changes with the succession.

Land in Sicht

The exams for this semester are over soon (which were the reason for not logging for a long time). Tomorrow at 11.25 normality can return to life (what was that again?).
And: rumours about our head of intermedia:
seems that he was fired today. Reason: too little engagement in the course of studies. Just rumours so far, we will see.

One Step Beyond

I´m finally officially in the third semester. Today we got our marks for yesterdays reexamination in applied economics and it was positive (for every examinee). What a relief.

Ravioli aus der Dose

»... openair SG isch eifach dr hammer!!! numä chli heiss ischääs gsi, chöit'r nid luägä dasäs z´nächst jahr wider schiffet oder zmingscht äs paar ventilatorä u ä bewässerixalag installierä...«
- guestbook openairsg.ch

Last weekends open air festival in St. Gallen, Switzerland, was a very very great event and a perfect break after all of the exams. At 8am there was our economics test, at 1pm we opened our first beer. Tasty! Great programme, great weather, great audience. Ben Harper ( low | med | high ) and Roni Size (listen) were fantastic! I will upload some pictures soon.

Mixed Salad in Delicious Dressing

Mario at Mediensalat, FH Bielefeld

Mediensalat was a very felicitous event with several very interesting lectures concerning media design, specially web design and the possibilities of the internet from very different points of view. Two examples in a nutshell: Mario (see picture) from Punapau (listen lofi | hifi ) talked about the intelligent combination of visual and audio elements which is usually disregarded by the visually fixed designers. Tobi lectured among other things about political potentials (popo.at) which opened up with the internet. Furthermore there were students from Swedish hyperisland and Austrian Dornbirn. Some nice pictures of this event can be found on greenwoodworks, videos on mediensalat. I´m happy to hear that mediensalat shall not die after this event and that the site shall become an upgraded version of the current page, i.e. a platform with postings from several authors and (planned) the possibility to directly comment them. Thanks to all participants, it was really interesting.

Mediensalat

Tomorrow I will go on my journey to Bielefeld to see mediensalat on Saturday and Sunday. Analog, not digital. On Friday there is the diploma award of these two guys (precisely my brother Tibor and his diploma fellow Christian). Congratulation again for your diploma! At last - and by the way - a fine news concerning my studies: I passed every exam this semester so there is no need for a reexamination (not even in maths and BWL which I was very unsure about). The holidays which will last until end of February can be as relaxed as I hoped them to be then.

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