May 15th, 2017 §
Berlin needle from Gendarmenmarkt
Last weekend I was in Berlin for the first time for WordCamp Berlin 2017, despite having met and collaborated with some talented Berliners like Luci van Org in my days as a dance film director. Visually I was astonished by the amount of concrete and glass.
Berlin is also very flat, like Holland so it’s an ideal place to cycle. If you come to Berlin be sure to rent a bicycle immediately as the U-bahn is somewhat expensive (€2.80) and dark and smelly. Much less joyful than gliding along beside Berlin’s canals or through its huge parks on your way to your destination.
Remnants of Wars Lost
Berlin, City of Glass and Concrete: Photo Essay Continues »
July 8th, 2015 §
One of the great things about having a dog is that he will take you off the beaten track. Sometimes far off the beaten track. In this case on a 37 degree day, Thor insisted on going through the woods. I ended up crawling through bracken in shorts with low rise socks (very cool looking invention until crossing berries and vines in the woods).
Pressburg Pionier Oberleutenant Karl Hoper (L)
Remnants of Hapsburg Pressburg Continues »
June 24th, 2013 §
Who is this guy? No contact info, no Google and images like this.
Beautiful photos from Nico Continues »
February 1st, 2013 §
Amazing image from Christos Lamprianidis. Who would have thought in times like this the Greeks would be dancing in the streets?
Christos Lamprianidis – Dexim via 1px
Dance retains the power to make banality go away, to lift us into the air and out of the prose of everyday life. How we’ve forgotten to move and become glued to our desks and computers never ceases to astonish me.
We just need to step out into the world and into our bodies to really live again.
In Greece, they are dancing in the streets Continues »
December 28th, 2012 §
I really do not like supporting Adobe. Adobe are monopolists abusing their position to force subscription software down our throats as well and/or upgrades on every upgrade cycle. Everything awful one could write about Microsoft in the dominant Wintel Office days one could write about Adobe, despite the very talented people they have on staff.
Adobe is a company run by the bean counters without vision and without empathy for its customers. There is a single agenda: squeezing us for all they can get while making certain no one else can make any inroads into any of their markets. It doesn’t help that Apple did break the lock on reasonably priced professional video editing (Final Cut Pro) and visual fx (Motion) only to drop the ball with their Pro Apps at the same time as imposing an iOSification of OS X on their pro customers. Even when it looks like there’s sunshine, then there isn’t.
In any case, my company owns many thousands of dollars of Adobe software but I’m always looking for a chance to support the underdog. In this case, I bought a copy of Corel AfterShot Pro during their winter sale as AfterShot Pro will work on OS X, Windows AND Linux. Might be just the trick for us to move more of our computers to Linux. AfterShot Pro used to be known as Bibble (through version 5) before the Corel purchase.
First impressions: AfterShot Pro suffers a bit from the Java cross-platform look in comparison to the sharp lines of Apple’s Aperture or Adobe’s Lightroom. On the other hand, AfterShot Pro is actually fast and lightweight. Unlike Lightroom, Aftershot Pro is fun to work in. You can rate, review and develop pictures at all times without switching modules. Photos seem to load faster and I feel much more in control of my pictures, more like they are in my hands than with Lightroom.
Corel AfterShot Pro vs Adobe Lightroom 4: noise reduction Continues »
August 8th, 2012 §
Girl Sleeping Night Train
The colours of the bottle, the shoes and the skirt fascinated me here. The ordinary becomes extraordinary: normally these trains are banal commuter ferries.
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Girl Sleeping, Night Train Continues »
July 29th, 2012 §
ImpulstTanz lounge Saturday night
The Burgtheater Vestibule is a great place for a nightly outdoor party. When the weather is good, a large part of the party can be outside.
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ImPulsTanz Lounge 2012 Photos: A Saturday night Continues »
November 12th, 2011 §
Balet Bratislava’s premiere of Romeo and Juliet yesterday in Bratislava started the company’s performances off very well. A delighted public. Here are some photos to whet your appetite. Review to follow tomorrow.
Balet Bratislava dance of patricians 1
Balet Bratislava: Romeo and Juliet Continues »
