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sh!t! i was helping binary.koala set up his recent AI sculpture, electro!cute, in our atelier when the weak-sauce plaster walls buckled under the pressure of its girth. luckily no one got hurt other then a few bloody cuts. in this shot, danja is not a happy boy 😦 but i know he is up to the task of bringing it back to life!
sorry for the web neglect lately but i have been doing the flickr thing like a ravenous dog. yeah yeah, i know flickr is old news, but i have just been using it as online photo storage until now. curiously finding a lot of peeps i haven’t talked to in a long while, flickr is quite an addictive type of social networking that i can’t seem to tear away from. if you are taking photos i suggest you sign up for a free account, if only to back up your photos. see you there!
how about that for response time, just a few mins ago i was hinting at binary koala getting his great pix online and what happens? that’s what i call collective (un)consciousness… amazing stuff, man!
if you haven’t already seen them, check out [SmarcH] ‘s flickr stream. he has been making some supa-sweet joiners. mad props man. now if only b1n4y would get his pix online, we could start some type of post-hockney revival sh!t, but with new enthusiasm and laptops. its been a twenty-five or so year cycle, right? keep up the good work!
here it is!
picking up ourselves at a cafe in prenzlberg after new years. that was a nice day… now if only there were that many karins…
as many of you already know, the boys and i hosted a new years party at our new atelier in berlin. man, it was so fun! thanks to all who made it a great evening and for those who couldn’t make it, we miss you and hope to see you soon!
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so just a little while ago i had the fortunate opportunity to visit maedel.maedel in her home base of vienna, austria. the trip was mostly one of rest and relaxation. the time spent there was cozy, and as foreign as a new place could be, i have to say that karin and her friends treated me like one of there own. even though it wasn’t christmas yet when i came to visit, that feeling was there, and not in a cheesy commercial way, but how christmas should feel when you have a hot chocolate or hug your someone you love.
normally i am not so hot for christmas, but if anyone celebrates the festive season well, it is the viennese. the streets in the centrum were lit with fantastic silhouettes of chandeliers composed of lights, and were littered with happily drunken people gripping warm mugs of punch or gluhwein. i have never seen so many wide smiles on winter streets in any city at -10 degrees.
during the day i took some time to take a walk around. most of the architecture is what any north american would envision as prototypically european. the architecture throughout the city was varied to reflect the styles of the times, but almost every street in the city center was like walking on the set of amadeus. here is a picture of the michaelertor, which is part of the hofburg imperial palace.
and here is a pic of your average viennese street
in the center of it all is st. stephen’s cathedral; one of those monumental buildings that seems to be in constant restoration.
one of the more memorable places i spent time in; mostly because of the lovely company ;), was the palmenhaus. the palmenhaus is a coffee house (the viennese consider coffeehouse dwelling a national pastime. in toronto that pastime is called loitering at timmie hoe’s…) that is located in the old royal greenhouse.
speaking of coffeehouses, another popular coffeehouse in vienna are the aida coffeehouse line of coffeehouses (hah! try to use the word ‘coffeehouse’ that many times in as short of a sentence!). not only serving up damn good coffee called ‘melange’ by the locals, but also has a mouth watering assortment of pastries in which upon eating, one would no longer feel the need to add sugar into their coffee/bloodstream ever again. also cool were the nice waitresses dressed in the traditional aida cafe uniform of brown accented with pink trimmings (imagine brown knee length waitress dresses, pink, ankle high socks and brown black leather shoes with a 3 cm heel), much in contrast to the sharp, curt, almost snobbish middle-aged men that work at the palmenhaus.
other interesting sights include what is probably the finest designed wurst stand i have seen from a distance, located in the cultural center of the museum quartier.
other interesting sights located in the museum quartier is vienna’s museum of modern art (MUMOK), another museum with the largest selection of work by the austrian artist egon schiele, but more importantly, a shop that has a wide selection of vintage nintendo gear called subtronic (sorry, can’t find a link!).
as i was leaving this cosy trip to vienna, i took a couple pics of the city airport train.
supa hugs and kisses to ‘you know who’ for taking care of me and giving me a very special early christmas for 2005!
what a blur. here is a link to videos of the lectures that where held at the conference. among all of them, i strongly urge you to take the bandwidth and download the lecture entitled “We Lost the War” for it is very pertinent to our current world sociopolitical climate. an extremely eye-opening discussion that pretty much was a wake-up call for most of the people in the lecture hall.
till next year!
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