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süß ist sie ja schon: Nilam Farooq ;)

in: T-Mobile LaLaLa Werbespot

Trotzdem: ist nicht OpenSource und wahrscheinlich voll durch patentiert, deshalb: besser nicht kaufen.

Und wo ich schonmal dabei bin einen sinnlos-post zu machen: don’t watch.

Damit wünsche ich Ihnen einen weiterhin angenehm (brech-)reizvollen Start in den Tag…

SPON produziert ja selten wirklich Niveauvolles. So ist auch das hier bestimmt nicht auf der Basis einer handfesten Recherche entstanden. Aber gut isses trotzdem.

Und wo wir schonmal dabei sind: Freier Strom für freie Häcker — Deutschlands Energieversorgung jetzt per GSM kontrollierbar. Wurde in diversen Medien als tolle Erfindung kolportiert.

Because I’ve been asked.

Here’s what Street Photography is.

Street Photography for the Purist

and a little bit more entertaining:

Street Photography: Documenting the Human Condition — Part I

Street Photography: Documenting the Human Condition — Part II

Street Photography: Documenting the Human Condition — Part III

And it’s not about the Leica thing.

And these documentaries if you still like it:
WNYC Street Shots: Bruce Gilden

WNYC Street Shots: Jake Dobkin

WNYC Street Shots: Sandra Roa

WNYC Street Shots: Jamel Shabazz

WNYC Street Shots: Joe Wigfall

Digital is yesterday!

Film has just so much more soul.

Don’t get me wrong, the digital is … certainly better in every way, but … look at this tiny cute thing (LOMO LC-A+):

Or … my latest love, a russian rangefinder Leica clone, the FED 2d, (built in 1963):

We need the DSLRs for work, but film is love!

update:

She has a new lens: The Industar 61, 52mm/2.8, said to be one of the finest russian lenses. I had to do some adjustments of the rangefinder to the new lens. I hope I got it all right, only the next roll of BW400CN or NEOPAN400 can tell.

www.bassdrive.com

keeps your mind awake.

(via danielkaes.wordpress.com)

Music of the month — beeing (electro-something):

Paul Kalkbrenner - Sky and Sand

Daft Punk - Aerodynamic

Фузион - I’m coming! :)

Although this will be yet another literature suggestion and I’m usually doing these in german, this one will (hopefully) come along (nicely) in english. I just started a book that appears to be one masterpiece. I can’t really put into words what makes a book a masterpiece in my view but it seems to be something that is between the lines. Occasionally, there are books that make you feel bad and take your energy away - and by that I don’t mean that they are boring. And there are masterpieces that do the exact opposite: They set your mind on fire in a positive way. They give you a starting point for a thought on its own with every of their sentences.

On of those seems to be “The Wealth of Networks” by Yochai Benkler. Benkler is a professor at the famous Berkman Center For Internet And Society at Harvard. Fame aside, he also seems to be someone with a very beautiful writing and thinking style. I merely read the first few chapters yet and already if not learned then understood deeper allot of things that move the creation and distribution of information goods. He is an advocate of free and open software and a general information commons and gives allot of reasons for everyone, even hardcore economists, to also embrace the emergence of a new world of culture creation. I have yet to see what is coming but it seems be a strong statement against strong copyright policy because of simple economic reasons and not some 69’s dream of equality (not that I wouldn’t like these dreams). So for everyone who already loves commons and who would like to bring light into his understandings of motivations for information production and who wants to get insp(f)ired, I can really suggest the read. :)

… Just tought my girlfriend how to play chess (while she suggested strip-chess, how great is that? ;) ). I’m currently sitting in the living room in the dark, listening to the Xmas channel on sky.fm really loud and running an emerge --depclean on my laptop.

While we are at it — I just put together some (incomplete) freevo playlists for the free webstreams from Digitally Import and sky.fm. They are only 96kbit/s MP3 but sound reasonably well. So for everyone who also has a freevo box in his living room, here are the lists:

• di.fm.fxd — di.fm — mostly electronic/techno stuff
• sky.dm.fxd — sky.fm — everything else (oldies, classics, pop, rock, etc.)
• other.fxd — oemradio.org, dub-beautiful.org, LOHRO, Radio1

It’s been quite some time we shared. You teached me so much about my imagination, about good and bad. You have probably been one reason why I am now where I am, studying computer science and beeing the person I am. But only now I have seen the last episode (of 7 seasons, each about 25 episodes) and I’ll definitely miss it.

Well, for all of you who didn’t know yet: I’m a StarTrek TNG fan. It must have had something todo with the time in which the TNG series was produced — following the stories and characters was an inspiring experience. Nearly every episode is full of explorations of the human soul, tries to show the heights and depths of us and how we can decide where to go. I guess, much of that comes from Patrick Steward who plays an intellectual, culturally rich and yet strong Jean Luc Picard and alot of that is not just roleplay, I bet.

I have to admit, in my youth StarTrek characters were my role models. The ideals of which TNG is full of are pure and rich and I feel lucky to be influenced by them (don’t get me started on comparing them to new “science fiction” series like StarGate or something like that).

So, I just want to say thank you to all the writers, actors and visionaries who produced Star Trek - The Next Generation.