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“Garten der vier Ströme”, (garden of the four streams) Erholungspark Marzahn

Berlins most beautiful garden is not – as one could imagine – a castle garden or the botanical garden, no it is the Erholungspark Marzahn. The Erholungspark Marzahn doesn’t provide a spectacular view onto Berlins rivers Spree or Dahme – often reserved only to Berlins “(economic) elite” – but provides instead of a view onto the old eastgerman claddings of Marzahn.

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Today the DMV (german mathematician comunity) awards their media prizes to journalists for special archivements in communicating mathematics in the public. Besides the media prize (4000 euros) for George Szpiro (Jerusalem) and the journalists prize (1000 euros) for Ulf von Rauchhaupt (Frankfurt) a very special honor is given to Hans Magnus Enzensberger: The implicit surface given by the above equation was named after him.
Details about the prizes the winners and the ceremony here, an image of the surface from the press release here.

“Eiszapfen im Licht”, image from wikipedia

Today I am trying to make sense of the dynamics of advertizing. I am fully aware that this will end up in a rather naive attempt, but whatever – the customer has a right to think. This going to be more an essay then just a blog post.

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Way back in the beginning nineties the math department had a graphics supercomputer: (more…)

LiVES is an open source (of course) video editing and vj-ing tool. It allows for a way more playfull approach to video manipulation than say cinelerra which probably comes closest to apples final cut pro or Premiere pro on Linux systems. Have a look at the demos for lives (the image above is taken from the first demo by salsaman).

This weekend there are Tenso days in Berlin, which is a festival for contemporary chamber choir.

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I finally managed to translate my article for the conference proceedings of the NMI2006 conference from german into english. There are a few additions, which are not included in the german version.

The article is a description of our installation seidesein. It gives an account on our motivations for creating seidesein but it explains a bit also our motivation for other daytar works.

The article is for download >>here or directly via the seidesein page.

I am very grateful for any feedback on this article.

this is a follow up to this post

Just what seems to be a nice book:

The idea behind bastard was to bring together photographers, writers, illustrators, graphic designers, musicians and typographers to create a solid and unique book that also functions as a work of art.

->bastard project

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Hundreds of approximately 3 inch stoneballs have been found in Scotland. (more…)