week of events.
tomorrow night, the release of the new rosebud issue is praised at unit f and ra'mien bar.
honestly, i have a long-term love-and-hate relationship with this design product. and i still think it got a too seductive attraction for advertising bluebottles (also see below).
but alas! much too many people i fancy will be there tomorrow. inter alia, the sensomatic duo who probably will present something like a big checkmatey – and who is the right couple for you if you're in need of a pair of highly gifted designers (to continue a certain tone of voice here).
now it's time to practise fire alarm routine. will have to step down the stairway, lift is big no-no. so excuse me for ten minutes...
yesterday, i attended the absolut vodka commercial by absolut km/a fashion label at the absolut mak and i must say it was absolutely... well, stuff it, you know yourself how this paragraph would continue with this absolut cheap pun. been there, seen that. te absolvo.
anyway, the funny reason for me being there was that my mother once used to take a daily walk with the designer's mother for a while. so it was the deadly serious idea of her that i should go there – although i even did not know what katha harrer looks like at all. but who would want to disappoint his own mamachita?
imagine, you could create a little drawing in your web browser and then send it to a friend who can see just exactly the way you have done the marker's strokes (via euroranch notes).
my three wishes for the blogtalk conference:
- there will be more writers and/or publishers than engineers or theorists. first in the audience, later amongst the bloggers, too. blogging is about publishing. in the beginning there was the word.
- the weblog myth will be deconstructed. it has to die if it should live on. a private homepage ain't a weblog. and some weblogs are private homepages. nothing more (or less) than making necessary distinctions to amplify quality, not ideology.
- people begin to take this weblog thang seriously – rather than themselves. and forget about the money question. and the copyright. and all their other excuses.
if i was subscriber of the newspaper "der standard" i would have immediately unsubscribed today.
besides the fact that they advertise for a technology that will paste our brains with even more useless "multimedial" trash they sell their entire journalistic heart and soul for a fistful of euros.
looks like this paper is in deep financial and textual trouble.
update: could not resist to click the link again and found the comments bitching about the propaganda campaign deleted. bravo, neo-liberal hypocrisy!
today was a very good day.
just for the record aka private mumbo-jumbo.
and it started at 21:00 on thursday(!) night. i met the fabulous mr hofegger at the release party of the wonderful magazine peng. if you should need a fine one-man graphic design company he is your man.
yesterday mr burg visited the office and by chance (the boss was busy due to an accidental collision of appointments) i attended a talk about the coming weblog event. could become exciting.
but the very best was the presentation of my current project. although it's very technical it was understood quite well by non-techies, too. and that's what i'd like to call impact. i think it will make bloggers happy and writers shake their booties. let's see.
finally, i had a greek theme night together with z.: souflaki, retsina and ouzo first, then the devastatingly funny movie "my big fat greek wedding". and here comes the saturday, saturday, saturday. hoppa!
voice-of-wine.com. sponsored by apple?
microsoft muzak.
randy a. riddle: "brian eno and 'the microsoft sound'".
my baking and brewing i will do today the queen's son tomorrow i will take away no wise man can show the queen where to begin, for my name, to be sure, is rumplestiltskin.
"i've seen the future i can't afford it tell you the truth sir someone just bought it." – abc, "how to be a millionaire".
"es ist leicht, nicht käuflich zu sein, wenn einen keiner kaufen will." – dr. seltsam, salbader nr. 31.