A trip to the baltic

August 26, 2008 on 5:13 pm by Thomas | In Zeitgeist | 1 Comment

Three weeks ago we went on a great trip around the Baltic sea, from Vilnius to the Curonian spit (Lithaunia), from Liepaja to Ventspils (Lativa) to Öland via Gotland (Sweden). It was fantastic, especially because so many unplanned things happened and so many people helped us out of difficult situations. Watch a slideshow with the best pictures!

Die Next08 liegt nun etwas mehr als eine Woche zurück und über die Konferenz ist viel geschrieben und gemeint worden: “Gute Organisation”, “zu viel Business, zu wenig Vision”, “gutes Essen”, “schwaches Wlan”, “zu laut”, “beeindruckende Ansammlung von Brancheninsidern”, “Schlipsträger, die keinen Schlips tragen”, etc.

Einge Fragen bleiben aber immer offen und die Macher stricken, nach einer wohlverdienten Pause, sicher schon an Konzepten für das kommende Jahr. Eine Frage jedoch, die meines Wissens verblüffenderweise selten öffentlich gestellt wurde, ist die nach einem Live-Stream aus den Panels oder von der Konferenz allgemein. Denn eine Veranstaltung, die sich “Get Realtime” auf die Fahnen schreibt, muss sich diese Frage sicherlich gefallen lassen. Continue >>

Happy valentine

February 18, 2008 on 11:27 am by Thomas | In Design, Zeitgeist | Say something!

WurstblumenstraußWar zwar schon Donnerstag, aber über einen schönen Strauß freut sich schließlich jeder und zwar immer.
Zu beziehen bei Fleischer Pahl. Dort gibt es auch niedliche Wurstkatzen und Wursthunde, süße Babygestecke aus Wurst, Leberkästorte und den aparten “Charly” für Damen.

Laser Tagging

January 29, 2008 on 7:42 pm by Thomas | In Design, Zeitgeist | 2 Comments

I wanted to write about that many times already and now 01Blog (really, I don’t find that name particularly sexy..) pointed me to it again: Graffiti done with lasers and laptops. Cool shit. But: I’d prefer rapmusic as background as well, despite the very obvious “laser beam” lyrics..

Powerd by Cebit, eingetütet von Sascha Lobo, Schreiber: Sixtus, Schwenzel, Passig: http://01blog.de/. The new German leading medium for tech (as announced in the first post)?

Macbook Air

January 15, 2008 on 8:26 pm by Thomas | In Zeitgeist | 3 Comments

So viele Jahre ohne Mac, und warum? Weil ich genau darauf gewartet habe.

Lesen!

August 31, 2007 on 4:34 pm by Thomas | In Zeitgeist | Say something!

“Ich will die Frage nicht beantworten. Ich will dazu was ganz anderes sagen: Ich traue inzwischen überhaupt keinem Geheimdienst mehr. Punkt.” Ein wahnsinnig erhellendes, langes, unterhaltsames und ergreifendes Interview mit Helmut Schmidt, vor allen Dingen über die Zeit während der Schleyer-Entführung (bei der Zeit).

Und dann noch ein Klassiker: “Nach zwei anregend verbrachten Stunden warf Jossele einen prüfenden Blick nach der Küchentür und winkte mich dann zum Ausgang. Jetzt käme nichts mehr, sagte er.
Wir passierten den großen Tisch, auf dem die Bar-Mizwah-Geschenke aufgeschichtet waren. Jossele wählte eine Bibel und ein englisches Wörterbuch, das er schon lange gesucht hatte, ich entschied mich für eine Luxusausgabe von Shakespeares Werken und ein Paar Schlittschuhe. Nächste Woche gehen wir zu einer Hochzeit.”
Jossele- und andere Geschichten von Ephraim Kishon.

9to5 Rückblick

August 30, 2007 on 12:07 pm by Thomas | In Berlin Scene, Zeitgeist | Say something!

Letztes Wochenende fand ja das 9to5-Festival im Radialsystem Berlin statt, das große Get-together digitaler Bohemians, Internet-Lebenskünstler und Spontan-kreativ-in-den-Tag-hineinlebenden-und-sich-über-Wasser-Haltenden. Ich wollte ja hin, aber war einfach zu platt (auch das kommt mal vor). Daher weiß ich selbst nicht drüber zu berichten, finde aber das folgende Video richtig schick und interessant: Ein kleiner Einblick ins Event und eine schöne Diskussion über die Internet-Selbstständigkeit, via Wirres und Watch Berlin.

Naja, nicht so ganz - ich habs ihm hier in den Mund gelegt und er hat es hier gemerkt.
Hat Spaß gemacht, so wie bei den Chinesen, auch die kopieren voller Ehrerbietung.
(nicht so wichtig, ist son Blogdings, über das man gerne kichert schmunzelt)

Fruit fly remote controlThat sex porn was one of the main drivers of the internet (and now its mobile derivatives) is a statement that surely can be discussed but still pops up here and then again and again.

And taking this story on BoingBoing about remote-controlled fruit flies into account, adding the fact that one of the scientist behind the fruit flies experiments is Dr Gero Miesenböck and funded by the us military brings us to one sad conclusion: Despite being humans, complexly developed creatures, sex and violence are still the main drivers of our progress.

Descending dots are amongst others a major trend in recent logo design, Logolounge found out in their 2007 trends:

Logo Trends 2007
Examples for logos with descending dots, taken from Logolounge

Vivid logos were found by the logo blog: An example for a vivid logo,
taken from Logoblog

A chiseled structure becoming alive is the London 2012 brand that was revealed yesterday. An image movie shows how the logo becomes part of the environment and while the aesthetics of the logo are a matter of taste and I think the idea is pretty unusual and, ehm, edgy, the movie is kind of scary.
London Olypmpics 2012 logo
It might represent the competitive character of the games and the fight to find the best. It might also visualize the mental effects of doping, who knows.

[via Cherryflava]

“Die waren erst mal geschockt. Die hatten ja nicht einmal gewusst, dass die Optionen wegfallen, wenn ich freiwillig gehe. Die dachten, der Vertrag wäre wasserdicht.”
Max Buskohl, der sich freiwillig von DSDS verabschiedete im sehr lesenswerten Stern-Interview mit ein paar netten Hintergründen. Die Musik seiner Band Empty Trash ist aber nicht so besonders, wenn man ehrlich ist, sogar richtig üble Rocksoße. Einen Produzenten brauchen sie allein schon damit der ihnen mal das Timing grade zieht.

Danke Re:publica

April 18, 2007 on 11:52 am by Thomas | In Zeitgeist | 2 Comments

Auch wenn der Re:publica an einigen Stellen vorgeworfen wird, sie sei lahm, langweilig und überhaupt alle Blogger dort ziemlich selbstreferentiell gewesen (”Blogger sprechen mit Bloggern übers Bloggen” - hm, ja, stimmt) ist mir das ziemlich egal, in die besten Clubs kommen eben auch nicht alle rein und die drin sind, sprechen darüber wie toll es ist, drin zu sein. Ist es auch. Wenn man drin ist.

Ich habe mich auf jeden Fall sehr wohl gefühlt in dieser loggeren Atmosphäre im Kontakthof oder im “Nerdgeschoss” wo es sich eben so vertraut anfühlte, weil sich alle, zumindest irgendwie, schon kannten. Dass das aber überhaupt nicht repräsentativ für die “deutschen Blogger” war, ist ja sonnenklar und das hat auch niemand behauptet. Das war vielleicht eine irgendwie lose gekoppelte Szene, aber ganz viele waren eben auch nicht da. So und um mal ein bisschen Social Networking zu betreiben, danke ich für die netten Gespräche und Inspirationen: Markus, Jan Schmidt, Falk, Steffen Büffel, Florian, Robert, Oliver, Pit und Nico.
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re:publica

April 12, 2007 on 9:32 am by Thomas | In Berlin Scene, Zeitgeist, virtual worlds | Say something!

Wow, this is what I call impact, look at the Technorati searches to the right.
I guess I do not necessarily have to say much myself in this case, just that re:publica is a nice conference about life on the net with a good vibe and surprisingly many girls (usually, you’ll only find guys on this web 2.0bloggingcastingmediachanging digitalworldrevolution things..) See some pics or read about it. Or ask me later when you see me personally. But the coolest, most instant and somehow closest tool to get an impression on what’s going on at the conference is the very twittery live comment tool of the lectures via SMS.

Stylewalker on Twitter

March 22, 2007 on 9:37 pm by Thomas | In Zeitgeist, virtual worlds | 3 Comments

Yo, I’m on Twitter talking nonsense, add me if you want.

Google and Gapminder

March 19, 2007 on 2:48 pm by Thomas | In Science, Zeitgeist | Say something!

Remember, when I wrote about Gapminder and TED Talks here? Obviously, Google must be reading here and took the article as a solid fundament to purchase the visually statistics analyzing software firm.

re:publica bannerTwo guys that are not only very respected by me but also by a whole bunch of also very respectable internet people organize an event in Berlin to talk about “living on the net”. Johnny Haeusler (Spreeblick) and Markus Beckedahl (newthinking, netzpolitik) gather many wise und witty heads to talk about culture on the net, the power it can give to people, about blogging, communities, citizen journalism, how to join small pieces, liberate yourself and have a lot of fun doing so. Read about the conference on re-publica.de.

German swearwords

February 22, 2007 on 9:01 pm by Thomas | In Art, Zeitgeist | 1 Comment

For those of you who enjoy a little wordplay from time to time and are fascinated by German zusammengesetzte Hauptwörter (Mark Twain loved them too, read his masterpiece “The awful German language“) here’s a little thought:

German composed swear words don’t sound so mean anymore if you just interchange the two main vocals, actually, they sound quite cute.
Some examples.
Schwunzlatscher - Pessnilke - Sickgesacht (haha, reminds me of Bastian Sick) and Flichwachser. Hey, here’s one that get’s even stronger: Wurmdascher!

Saidly enough, it doesn’t work with Flachzange, Vollpfosten or Kackbratze.
Any more creative ideas here?

Making decisions fast

December 19, 2006 on 1:38 pm by Thomas | In Music, Zeitgeist | 1 Comment

Thermals Fuckin AInspired by the paradox of choice, I decided to make my decisions faster from now on. My mobile phone carrier calls and offers a new mobile? Yeah, sure, why not, get it over!

Planning the next year, study, work, how? Why not do this now, in 5 minutes? C’mon, it’s not so hard. I don’t want to waste no more time thinking about what would be better or worse or if decisions are right or wrong. They have do be made. Period.

So, enjoy, the mighty Thermals and “Here’s your future!”:

[via Subpop]

Sunday morning TV

December 17, 2006 on 6:26 am by Thomas | In Zeitgeist | Say something!

I just love TV early on sunday morning, It’s when children’s and party homecomers’ taste and ability of perception meet. (TV snapshot taken on ARD, at about six o’clock..) And it’s a funny thought: Dizzy party people coming down and early kids united in front of the screen throughout the cities.. And: Do the heads of programming actually think about that?

Edward Burtynsky

November 30, 2006 on 2:49 pm by Thomas | In Art, Zeitgeist | 1 Comment

Coal SteelIs a photographer who documents industrial landscapes: “Nature transformed through industry is a predominant theme in my work. I set course to intersect with a contemporary view of the great ages of man; from stone, to minerals, oil, transportation, silicon, and so on. To make these ideas visible I search for subjects that are rich in detail and scale yet open in their meaning. Recycling yards, mine tailings, quarries and refineries are all places that are outside of our normal experience, yet we partake of their output on a daily basis.”
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Testing out Nintendo’s Wii

November 27, 2006 on 8:33 pm by Thomas | In Berlin Scene, Zeitgeist | 5 Comments

Wii BerlinBig words, but why not, I think this is a real revolution for video gaming. Nintendo Wii uses a totally new controlling concept: no buttons and cursors, the machine tracks the movements in space! Sounds complicated? Here’s an example: Play golf not by pressing buttons but by moving the controller as if you had a golf club in your hand. Same goes for bowling, boxing, tennis or the popular game Zelda.

I had the chance to test this new product because I was invited to the Berlin based Wii-Crib, a lounge with sofas, big tvs and two Wii stations. Continue >>

After the rain

November 8, 2006 on 11:02 pm by Thomas | In Berlin Scene, Zeitgeist | 1 Comment

Nach dem RegenDry heat. Eight people meet, smoking on top of the roof of their firm. Escaping their cruel world as corporate slaves? Hurting each other to compensate their grim everyday life?

Find out: Catalan playwright and wunderkind Sergi Bebel is the author of this modern piece of theatre you should ge see. Besides, you can admire some uprising acting stars!

Fritz Kirchhoff school’s graduating class performs “Nach dem Regen” four times:
10th, 11th, 24th and 25th of september, Glogauerstr. 6, 2. Hof, 5. Etage. 20:30h.

Berlin: Festival of lights

October 19, 2006 on 11:01 am by Thomas | In Art, Berlin Scene, Zeitgeist | 1 Comment

Festival of lights
Some say it’s kitsch, some say, the colours look like candy, I think, it’s the perfect autumn spectacle.
Imagine taking a walk with your date, down “Unter den Linden” to the Dome and the Old National Gallery, all iluminated in different moods, sitting down on some bench with a paper cup of tea in your hands. This should put you in the right atmosphere for getting to know each other..

Watch a 360° panorama of Berlins festival of lights
.
[via Hauptstadtblog]

I like this video. Science, fights, only the music is missing. Edelman brings Technorati to the German market and the German blogosphere watchs critically and pretty unethusiastically. Get used to each other guys, maybe one day you’ll be doing business together! (or not).

(you can skip the introduction)
[via basicthinking]

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