Jamie Lidell / Joakim
They will play at the Posthof in Linz. I will play warmup together with fino from 10-12pm. And .. i updated my upcoming shows page .. me lazy bastard :)
Mobile Music Workshop
The mobile music workshop takes place atm at the university for applied arts in vienna (sterngasse 13, 1010). So if you are in the area, just drop by!
Comics
I want to share some daily comix which i read constantly.
xkcd.com and dilbert.com are my daily dose of nerd stuff and the other is wulffmorgenthaler.com, which is just plain weird.
Also, a friend of mine started a weblog which is about ruby code and lyrical spam called sick.snusnu.info
Krochen!!
I was wondering the last year or so about a new trend in vienna. I saw a lot of kids dressing up in golden sneakers, wearing neon-colored caps and palestinian scarfs running around in vienna .. there is now a official name for them called “Krocha”. Wikipedia makes it official now ;)
I started surfing around a bit and found websites like this one where they present their style of dancing called jump-style. Next thing i found was a dance style called shuffle .. and it fuckin’ rocks.
The funny thing about it is that i get so nostalgic when i watch this kid jumping .. takes me way back to my old rave times. We didn’t have the funky sounding names for it (like melbourne shuffle, jump-style ..) but we had better XTC :D
Seems i’m getting old … baaam euda!!
Imdb search bookmarklet
A adaption of the google bookmarklet, nothing special, but i use it a lot (useful when browsing joox.net :)
(just drag the link to your browser bar, it should appear there as a normal bookmark. then just browse a website and if you find a title of a movie or movie actor for example, highlight the words and press the boorkmark. won’t work on sites with frames i guess)
Graffiti Research Lab
I had to write a little report on the GRL guys (in german unfortunately). You can find it here, enjoy!
Unreal and Kwari
I play UT2k4 for about 2 years now and i still really enjoy it. It’s a fast paced first person shooter like Quake or Warsow with different game types. I play most of the time either TAM or InstaCTF (both also in an austrian clan). Because UT3 was released a few weeks ago the 2k4 communtiy is a bit weak at the moment, so i am looking for alternatives. Warsow looks really promising, it’s fast, it has insta .. and it’s open-source and free!
Another interesting approach i found is Kwari, an ego-shooter which is about real money. Still not really sure how it works, but i downloaded allready 78% and i will try it immediately.
Yummi, ear fodder!
My girlfriend Vania is really into electro music and she is also a fantastic electro djane. She runs a radio show on frequencyradio.org every two weeks (maybe in the future every week) on thursday from 10 to 12 pm cet. She plays different styles of electronic music (all of it broken beats, because otherwise the electro-police will arrest her) and she sometimes invites guest to play there as well (me f.ex. :). The radio is focussed on electronic music and they broadcast live every day starting at 8 pm cet (check out the program).
Another internet radio i really adore is globalfunkradio.com. As the name suggests it’s all about da funk, so they play soul, funk and jazz mixes during the day (not live though). Their live program starts around 7 pm cet consisting of oldschool hiphop, electro breaks but also more experimental stuff.
And, in case you didn’t know it, go check out play.fm. They broadcast live but they also have a huge archive of electronic music (Vania has a show there as well btw).
2008 - Ouch my head!
After having around 25 bottles of champagne and sparkling wine yesterday i try to organise myself for the coming week (which is kind of hard because my head feels like a smashed potato). I want to finish the 3d tests for the semester project, i have to write a little report on these guys and make a 3d model of an idea for a projection. University starts with the 7th of january, but i have to work the whole week so barely enough time ;)
Happy new year!
Sculpted prims with Cinema 4D
I found a nice AND working tutorial for C4D on how to make these strange images you can use then for sculpted prims in Secondlife. I will never understand why they didn’t implement a .obj importer f.ex. but yeah, i guess LL moves in mysterious ways.
