Choreolab 06 opened with a piece from András Lukács, who regular readers might remember from the evening of Nicht nur Mozart where he offered Tabula Rasa, a group piece with a touching duet for men…. Finally, Emma Harrington, who was one of the two leads, has such a beautiful cameo appearance that she could just come and sit for a painting and it would be a pleasure to the eyes to rest upon her timeless features.
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Photos are up. Review to come later today.
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The weather really picked up last week and we had some glorious days. Happily enough my office is very close to Schönbrunn and I can go out there for a nice long walk even on a busy day.
I took the camera one day. Schönbrunn is supposed to be the Austrian Versailles. It doesn’t quite manage that but with its Tiergarten (Zoo), (made famous in the English speaking world by John Irving’s Setting Free the Bears), it quite a park.
I often tell people that Vienna is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. I get some raised eyebrows. I don’t see why.
This is what I see.
This is also the second round of pictures processed since calibrating my monitors with basiCColor display. Nothing more tedious than a bunch of theory with no practical application. Certainly beats screenshots.
The first round is here.
Click for larger versions of these and some more pictures of Schönbrunn.
Gloriette roof shots
North to the Schönbrunn Palace and then to Kahlenberg
West to Wienerwald and the hills
Continue ReadingSpringtime in Vienna: Schönbrunn and Wien from the Gloriette
The software package which came with the basiCColor squid was basiCColor Display 2.5.4 originally written by Integrated Color Solutions (no relation to the cleverly named pretenders above) who sold the software and trademarks to German company basiCColor three years ago. State of the art, for a long time, 2.5.4 has dated badly in terms of profile speed (think ten to fifteen minutes to generate a single profile, with quite a bit of manual intervention)…. With the inefficient, labor intensive backed involved in trying to do an upgrade (if you lose your password to your user account, the basiCColor.de website is not even able to send you a new one – you have to call them), no wonder they need triple license fees.
5 CommentsKnocking down the ADC D65 profile to a target maximum luminance point of 173 cd/m2 gave a result of 162 cd/m2 which didn’t blow out any whites and gave very natural colour which matched the Samsung 213T well enough. The Apple Cinema Display has a bit more kick and a little more depth in the shadows but one could work on the same pictures on either monitor and get very comparable results.
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The exterritorial gallery opened with a huge crowd to see work from Rita Nowak, Mario Grubisic, Hans-Jürgen Hauptmann, Georgi Piralisvili and Hermann Fink ,
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The best set of the night was played by the beautiful and ethereal Gaby…. Met another beautiful girl there as well Fiat Lux!
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Here are some photos from Weichnachstklänge im Märchenland – 24 December 2005 – Quantum Album Release Party…. Much more relaxed than the Sunday Chai in Flex the next night on the 25th.
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