You have already read the blog post. You have already seen some photos. Since I spent quite some time waiting for test renderings to finish I picked up a project I had been working on quite a while now. A photo book.
Berlin was calling. I had to go. Like the years before. When you’ve been to Berlin once before (and ain’t not sick of it already), you just have to return. Every summer this city calls me by a feeling or just by plain Austrian fatigue. Then I book a flight, make no plans and off I go.
This is a short photo-blog-post of my impressions.
7:30 am and somebody walks downstairs. Good morning to me. My program for today was mostly about tracking and motion capturing and heavy duty compositing. You might have guessed: It was the day of Benjamin Button.
Usually I don’t like the winter. It’s cold outside, I am cold, I can’t wear my favorite clothing (hawaii-shirts and flip-flops), I have to dig out the car whenever I want to drive it, then it’s cold in the car and the snow-clots on my trouser legs melt and run into my socks while driving and then I’m cold again.
Still, when I think I can’t take it anymore, it snows again. Heavy flakes tumble in the air before resting on the ground, little by little covering up all the unpleasant details and the dirt, muffle harsh sounds and immerse the open land in innocence and tranquility — right before my window. In these moments of joy and inner peace I linger at the window, sipping my coffee. And then it strikes me: “I gotta take some photos!”
This is just a little test to see how my sytlesheet is working for flickr blog-posts. I am not sure whether I want to say good-bye to the great NextGEN Gallery plug-in for WordPress I have been using all those years now. Should I really switch to flickr? What do you think?
And by the way: You just witness a major design-wise relaunch of the Promenade Blog, after the years I got a little bored with the standard visual appearance of this WordPress blog, so I stared in August 2007 a major redesign. But today I finally finished it in a couple of hours for the next couple of years. Although everything seems okay on first glance, there might happen some strange layouts on some pages — to be resolved soon.
This quote originally comes from Stefan Sagmeister’s little story he told the listeners in his lecture in Salzburg this March and is more or less the motto of my business trip to Salzburg, where I was photographing for the Salzburg Seminar, as you already know. And it was great! Meeting so many very interesting, very nice and very important personalities definitely is as enriching as it is exciting. And it was a good way to brush up my English because of the high intellectual level of the discussions and lectures I had to photograph. Below is a selection of the best photographs just for you. I will release some of them into public domain later on because Wikipedia is missing many of the speakers’ photographs.
Sorry folks, the final Zodiac handprint will be delayed a few days as it seems because I got a photographing job on short notice in Salzburg. I got a call from Ben Glahn who is Program Director of the Salzburg Seminar to photograph two days of the event. I am not only interested in taking photos but on the insight I get when listening to the big shots who will be there talking about this seminar’s subject of Balancing Security, Democracy, and Human Rights in an Age of Terrorism
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I had to promise Lisa to bring her an autograph of her idol Sandra Day O’Connor when I have the opportunity to. I just hope I won’t chicken out…
I better get some sleep because my train will leave in 3 hours… phew. See you in Salzburg!
Haven’t blogged in frickin’ ages! Currently I am in Berlin, photographing for Dropping Knowledge together with Lisa. A lot has happened. I will post an update, some photos and stuff as soon as I have the time to. Doesn’t sound promising, huh? Eventually I really do it.
Some of you might have seen me two days ago roaming around the endless corridors of the campus: Black shirt, shorts, worn flip-flops and a large black camera on a tripod on my shoulder. But why would I take pictures of the boring campus in medium format? Well… why not?
Last week Lisa and I needed a break. The more pressure you get, the more the walls feel like closing in on you around here. Probably also a side effect of my totally crammed little dorm room here. So I grabbed my Sony Alpha 100 and we sat into the car and went north and up on some winding little roads into the depth of the Salzburgian hinterlands. And I like taking photographs during driving.
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