Archive for October, 2006
I really like to talk to people who know how to play with the language they use. May it be, this is how German actually works: Playing with the language in various forms and not using some kind of standardized language at all. It makes the speaker interesting and it makes reading interesting. But what, [...]
Web 2.0 seemed to be a revolution in information-delivery, some people even started to talk about a web democratization because for the first time (I know of), not a small group of people decided what the topics of interest are, but the readers/viewers themselves did this.
Somebody found something interesting, submitted the, say, article’s URI to [...]
Yesterday I went out for dinner and my primary goal was to find a Korean restaurant that could fill my needs for rice with kimchi. In Vienna, we currently only have five Korean restaurants and not one of them is Korean only, they always mix it with either Chinese or Japanese food. However, I [...]
If you live in Vienna or you came here and erroneously expecting this town to serve good coffee, you probably tried to have breakfast outside, too. For me, this became a habit especially when meeting friends, since the chance to catch me in my free time is much higher in the morning than after noon. [...]
Is monogamy still the preferred form of living together or is it just outdated? After reading the article “Monogamy. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow” by Jacques Attali, which argues for monogamy being an outdated and never really lived social model for relationships, you start to rethink your own situation or the situations of people around you. [...]
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In 1997 I participated in a field trip to Venice organized by my school. All the participants were divided into two groups: One group’s task was to take pictures with their cameras and the other group’s task was to do paintings in various forms: crayoning, hatching, these kind of things. I [...]
In case you wondered how real beauty can be prepared, dressed, made up, designed and photoshopped… The face of a human being seems to have only one role: being the basis for the post-production.
Tomorrow, there will be another flickr-meeting in Shanghai. I am curious on who will be there and what will be the (photographic) results of this meeting. I enjoyed the last one very much, too bad I cannot participate in this one.
But still I have to leave a remark on advertising this meeting. Who came up [...]