Wir machen gerade einen Workshop Webdesign in Pöllau! Heute ist der dritte Tag. Wir haben schon viel gelernt aber die Seite ist noch nicht fertig.

Vielleicht wird die Ziege doch noch ein Zuhause bekommen.

Hier gibt es die styrian summer_art Webseite.

Labels: html, styrian summer art, webdesign

Oscar and I were invited to watch the theatre performance Eda by Neda R. Bric in June 2009. The theatre play tells the story of the flight pioneers Edvard and Josip Rusjan, two brothers who made the first flight in Slovenia. Edvard flew the aircraft 'Eda', which was built by themselves, on November 25, 1909, near Gorica / Gorizia.

Edvard Rusjan died in a plane crash near the Kalemegdan fortress in Begrade during a demonstration of one of their planes. Josip moved to Buenos Aires where he died in 1953. The theatre play tells the story of the two brothers and at the same time tells the story of a mother and daughter.

The theatre play tells two parallel stories connected together. But everything was in Slovenian language, so the only parts which Oscar and I could really follow, were the scenes where they were putting together a maching on the stage. The machine looks really good and it is nice to see the two actors putting it together and actually flying it, before it all falls apart again...



The video is a short impression of the machine. The full theatre play lasts 80 minutes and can still be seen this week at the Mladinsko Gledališče in Ljubljana, Slovenia. I was hoping to catch some more comments from Oscar during the play, but all his comments and laughing were always on the moment just when my camera was not running... At the end of the video he calls out very excited 'drie Verbeugungen!!!'. This is a combination of Dutch and German, which means 'three bows!!!'. At the end of the play the actors bow three times, which was very impressive to him.

Labels: crash, eda, flight, neda, pioneer, plane, rusjan, Slovenia

The video 'Little boy crosses the border', which shows a very young boy crossing the border on his little red fire engine car, showing his passport to the custom officers, has *almost* thousand hits. Every day I have a look if the video has reached the magic number of 1000 views, but every day it is still just under thousand views. Today it is at 986, 14 more views to go. Shouldn't be so hard to get 14 views in a day... maybe this blog entry will help to get the first 1000 hits.

Labels: border, little boy, passport, video, young boy, youtube

This video shows an impression of the pixel tattoos on the facade of the museum of contemporary art 'Kunsthaus Graz' in Graz, Austria on a Friday evening in May 2009.

The BIX facade is a huge area of neon lights on the skin of the so-called friendly alien, the Kunsthaus, a building which is made in the shape of a big balloon. Each light can be adjusted individually and in this way patterns can be created which move over the skin of the building.



On Friday, May 29, 2009 the designs were made by a group of artists from Slovenia.
>> http://www.aksioma.org/pixeltattoos/

Labels: aksioma, Austria, bix facade, friendly alien, graz, kunsthaus graz

This image probably shows very well the atmosphere of the Video Vortex conference in Split, Croatia in May 2009. On the photo you can see the symposium participants hiding in the shadow in front of the Multi Media Center enjoying a short break. It was too hot to be sitting in the sun.



This photo shows the view from the Multi Media Center towards the center of the town. Not far behind the houses on the photo is the beautiful sea side, with the many bars, terraces, beach and harbour. Oscar says that Split looks like China on this photo...


'This video is not available in your country'
Click on the photo for a larger version.

This photo shows what Split looked like for us, the participants of the symposium. We spent most of the day in the dark, attending the lectures inside the Multi Media Center. The presentations were all very nice, but unfortunately the Video Vortex program was so full, there was not much time to go for a walk and enjoy the city. Hopefully some other time.

Labels: conference, croatia, split, video, video vortex

The short video 'Little boy creating a recycling wallet in 30 seconds' will hit 4000 views today. Right now the counter is at 3,995. The manual 'How to make a recycling money wallet', which explains more in detail how to make your own money wallet from a recycled tetra pak, already passed 2000 views. Let's see which video of the two will be the first to hit 5000 views!

Labels: recycling, video, videos, wallet, youtube

We were watching the interview with Harry and Charlie on youtube. This video also shows some of the remakes that people made of the famous 'Charlie bit me' video. It was the first time that Oscar noticed that people are doing remakes of videos on youtube. Immediately he had the idea that we could also do a remake.

So we jumped up and rightaway made our own version. It was obvious that HE was the one who was going to bite and that I was the one who was going the get bitten. We did not even discuss that part. Only, I was not prepared that when Oscar bites, he REALLY bites. And Oscar did not yet know that you can also just pretend to bite. However, the moment Oscar realized that he had really hurt me, he felt really sorry...



In this video I am actually holding the camera in my right hand. And I am rubbing my left hand so much on his shoulder because it was hurting so much. Just after the camera stopped filming, Oscar brought me a plaster which he put on my finger. And I gave him a stick which he could use to bite on in our next version of the video.

Labels: charlie bit me, oscar, video