Not me

August 17th, 2007

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The band tonrand doesn’t yet have a real homepage (soon to come),
contacts can be made via us. (nad@daytar)
music&lyrics:Niko Lai, vocals: Cat Caspari

The Elbe Cycle Route

August 16th, 2007

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Since I keep reporting from our bike trip, I thought it may be useful to report about the route itself.

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Torgau – in the city church

August 14th, 2007

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The city church of Torgau, built in 1119 is a Hall church (since it is built in late gothic style it may have taken a long time to built it). I am making this post not because of eventually ongoing rumors that Catherine Zeta-Jones thinks about entering a convent (which I definitely won’t believe unless there is more evidence..:)) but rather in order to have an opportunity to mention that Gerhard Richter’s new windows in the dome of cologne are now on display. But of course the church’s architecture is noteworthy in itself:

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Torgau-made in leipzig

August 13th, 2007

schlossschild450hoch.JPG More from our bike trip from Dresden to Dessau:
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no ufo – just technology

August 10th, 2007

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“boomerang with unknown boomerange” artwork by Vera Schloss

Just an update of an old randform post about funny flying objects. This time you have the choice to read about big or small FO’s.

random calling

August 10th, 2007

Recently there was the question coming up wether Peter Gabriels jacket in this video is generating a random light array or wether it displays some pattern, which may be only seen with a shutter of a certain frequency (a temporal stencil so to say). I don’t think so. Does anyone know?

short story

August 10th, 2007

My class mate needs again to publish a short story for her creative writing class. This time the assignment was to write an easy readable detective story which includes a decent amount of product placement. (in german)

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CCC you

August 8th, 2007

just an announcement: The CCC camp starts today at Finowfurt. Here the site with an introductory video by Tim Pritlove et al.

bauhaus trip

August 8th, 2007

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In the last weeks we did a bike trip from Dresden to Dessau. In Dessau we visited the famous Bauhaus, which I had visited a couple of times, but which I hadn’t yet seen in its new colours.

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NMI 07 – part III

August 4th, 2007

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Ökolopoly (1984) by Frederic Vester (“ecopolicy” is an english computer version of Ökolopoly)

Here comes the third part and rest of the documentary of the NMI 2007 conference (part I and part II):

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