here comes a nice one: anatol bogun's (aka nugob) first (handdrawn) animation "café imperial".

"als ich auf das wasser schlug und die schwarze see sich über mir schloß, war es urplötzlich still um mich herum. kein pfeifender wind mehr, keine tosenden brecher, kein ächzen von metall und kein stampfen der maschine. stille. dann ein leises rauschen in meinem kopf. wenn, dachte ich, wenn da keiner ist, sobald du auftauchst, wenn da kein rettungsring ist, keine leine, wenn keiner dich bemerkt hat, wenn niemand dich vermisst, dann sei froh, dass du niemals richtig schwimmen konntest. und halt dich an die alte seemannsregel: lieber sofort absaufen und runtergehen wie ein stein, als stunden später jämmerlich zu erfrieren.

aber ganz konnte ich das leben doch nicht lassen." – kurt lanthaler, "azzurro".

two days ago i was told that capitalism is the most peaceful ideology (or call it form of society) human beings ever created. i was not able to find a reasonable reply.

wireless linux, red hat wireless how-to, the linux documentation project, wireless lan resources for linux.

reproducts produkte: "der gemeinsame nenner" und "nachtgebete i, ii, iii" (derrick atmet). via conspirat.

frankfurter rundschau: "go mad – gerhard schröders 'minority report' und die folgen". von slavoj zizek.

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:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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!