maike

Thanks!

Just some funny crap from the news.

This is the govberment's terminology for that old left-hand-talking-to-right-hand problem.

I love the image of this. (They're talking about certain politicians, meh.)

I'm still laughing about this one. It exists. An inside joke for Australians.

Maybe we met on some airport and didn't notice. Which easily happens in my case, because my DoP and me usually use the time before departure to get wasted...

Well, i didn't like Australia too much. I can't really tell what it was, but it didn't feel right. People were nice, landscape was nice, blablabla, but it didn't grab me like the Lago di Tenno in Italy or Rockview Dam in South Africa did.
But Arri's new Rental facility in Sydney is top notch. Whatever i asked for, they pulled it out of the shelves in mostly brand new condition. I deflowered one of their 235s...

It is necessary to travel.. it is not necessary to live.

China, my China,
I've wandered around and you're still here...

Thought I would be going to see her soon as well but alas I am off to the warm southern soils of Old Mexico instead
work work work
and I can not complain

I have recently developed quite a habit of all things sweet and fatty and anything with chocolate is a sure winner on my menu of late. Chocolate donuts rank high on the impulse meter as well as what it means to add the word deluxe to any meal.
Substituting anything for skipping the bar.
Replacing certain sugars with less bad sugars
seeing how it goes

Good luck shoveling shit against the tide
and figuring out the inner turnings of heat and matter

So are we going to see you at California Vegan?

Hah! My robot grand-spawn will soon take over the world.

I'm not sure what a mathematics theme would look like.. although the op art hallway is kind of tangental to that idea.

If you should be looking for descriptions of nothingness i advice you to read Andrea Emo, an italian philisopher who wrote about nothing else.

I haven't been to Argentine yet. The job was confirmed last year but actual shooting will start by autumn this year.

I believe the window would also have lost part of it's power if the restoration was done "right". You can't restore soul. I just came back from a trip to Tokyo. The sword museum of the NTHK is one of my favorite places in this world. It's a rather small place crammed with blades that are overwhelming. Pieces of art and very well constructed tools for killing humans in one.

A happy new year!
Sorry for not answering any your comments lately. I've spent my holidays at home in the woods and stayed away from things like computers and the internet.

Everyone thinks she's Eastern European. Me too. I can't decide if it's some kind of Olympic hangover, or just that she's so damn good. The Santa is the cherry topping.

Actually, I'm OK. I'm ultra-conservative too, hehe.

Happy Belated X-Mess
Hope yours was Jolly
Mine was Fine
and Fun
Yeah!
Back to the Big Ole Gritty

Sure. Some of the 'commentary' looked like spackle applied with a baseball bat, but the cringe-inducing moral grandstanding was at a minimum; it addressed the social costs of oil without making democracy out to be some kind of white man's burden; and even when the bad guys got some comeuppance, it didn't feel like smug intellectuals smirking at dumb conservatives. In short, it felt like a real political film, not a Michael Moore movie.

I enjoy Kiss Me Deadly, they have good energy, which makes for a live show, but I don't think that they're the most brilliant of bands necessarily. Telefauna is probably one of the best unknown bands in town right now, I know them a bit, if you like I could send you a couple of tracks. Very poppy.. but if you like Le Tigre, I could see you enjoying this.

I'll counter your depressing thought with a more intriguing one - most "finite" games can be played infinitely, that is to say for the same game you can find amateur (infinite) and professional (finite) leagues. With a discerning eye, of course.

I know I was keeping mediapile super hush hush but I was eager to talk about some of the books, so I gushed after the contest fell through.

Yeah.. live has a pretty great affect.. I'll recommend anything else I might think of if it comes to mind.

Thanks a lot for your suggestions! I know that i need some equipment to operate theses gas bottles. I just don't know what a "Druckminderer" is called in english... I worked a lot of construction and know how to operate this stuff from welding. I thought about a compressor but figured out that a version that delivers clean air, without the oil you mentioned, will be more hassle and more expensive than the gas bottle. I'm aware of the fact that it might blow dust into the seems but it will be very useful for cleaning magazines and filters.
I didn't think about tapimg the seems of the cases and i'm afraid most questions i could ask you will arise when i'm actually shooting.

(here's the link to the picture i was trying to include:
http://www.linde-gas.de/international/web/lg/de/likelgde30.nsf/repositorybyalias/technische_gase_bild/$file/technische_Gase_bild.jpg)

I've been searching hardware stores for industrial vacuum cleaners that could be used to clean cameras . What i found was a suction device that's driven by a compressor. It can also be mounted to a gasbottle and works way better than the vacuum cleaners i found.
Tell me, when you're in Berlin the next time. We can meet for a coffee and discuss dust.

That was... pretty awesome.