munich with friends

i spent a weekend in munich with two friends of mine. one of my friends moved from one flat to another so we didn't have to much time to explore the city. but i managed to shoot some photos of the most important places. view the whole gallery here.

some music...

i've been singing and playing guitar for quite some time now, but i hardly ever made any of my work public. i'd like to do so now and created a soundcloud account, where i'll upload music that i want to share with others. comments and feedback are very welcome!



Pickin On Me by bekassine

to listen to some more songs by me go here or click "my soundcloud" in the sidebar.

schönbrunn photo shooting

had a lot of fun doing these photos with my friend franzi. again it was just the perfect location, the perfect weather and the perfect day. you can view the whole gallery here.

paint with light

this was made using a light ball that changes colors in different intervalls. more pictures using this technique: lightwriting

a little turtle passing by - stop motion

a little practice in making stop-motion videos. and i love that little toy turtle by the way...

josef hader, andré heller und meinungsverschiedenheiten im audimax

Am 16. Dezember 2009 beehrte Josef Hader mit einer Art "Best of Hader" das Audimax der Universität Wien. Vor seinem Auftritt gab es einige Meinungsverschiedenheiten zwischen den VeranstalterInnen des Abendprogramms und einer Gruppe von StudentInnen, die zur Spontandemo vor dem Rektorat aufriefen, um gegen eine Polizeiaktion in den (manche meinen zu Unrecht) besetzten Büroräumen des Hofes 5 zu demonstrieren. Ein Teil der Anwesenden konnten sich mit der Demo anfreunden, nachdem festgelegt wurde, dass diese nach Haders Auftritt stattfinden werde. Viele waren jedoch auch nach dem Kabarett nicht bereit, der Demo zu folgen. André Heller, welcher als zweiter Gast an jenem Abend geladen war, konnte die Situation halbwegs retten, indem er vorschlug, seinen Beitrag um 20 min zu verschieben und sich der Demo anzuschließen. Der Ablauf dieser Vorkommnisse zeigt ganz klar eine gewisse Spaltung innerhalb der Besetzung. Bleibt zu hoffen, dass die Bewegung diese Zeit der Spannungen und Meinungsverschiedenheiten übersteht, um weiterhin für das kämpfen zu können, wofür sie eigentlich steht: freie Bildung für alle!

do the "wiener linien" want you to turn your brain off?

as i took the subway this morning, i recognized that the "wiener linien" installed screens into their trains. not such that show you the previous and following stations but such that display commercials. video projectors in the subway stations that show these adverts have already been installed years ago but now we're also flooded with these spots while we're on the trains. personally i'm really against these screens. no, not against the screens but against their purpose. while you're on the train, you may be bored and you may look around. these screens attract your attention while you're looking for something to look at. you're doing that unconciously. and while you're staring at these screens you're being filled with commercials, without you recognizing. when you're watching the commercials on these screens, you turn your brain off. if there were critical messages on these displays people would maybe start to think. i'd really like to stick disturbing messages onto these screens, to make people's brains work again.

google wave invites give-away

i've got seven google wave invites to give away. if you want one, just drop me a line with your email-adress. first come, first serve.

edit: i got some more invitations. i can invite 19 people to google wave. again, just drop a line!

sometimes just everything's right...

yesterday i went to "wienerberg", which is a recreation area in the south of vienna at a time when the sun was about to set. so the light was as beautiful as it could be, i had my tripod and my camera with me and a good friend shared my enthusiasm while i was shooting. right place at the right time, sometimes that's all you need. here are the results...

photographic contrasts

the following three pics are the result of a hdr late night shooting i did in the first district of vienna some days ago.


during that shooting and while i was merging the pics to the final hdr photo i thought about the technical and ideological aspect of photography and especially hdr imaging. it's quite an effort to produce a hdr-photo. at first you have to shoot all the differently exposed pictures (these have to be congruent, that's why you ned a tripod for doing hdr photography), then the stitching, the tone mapping and finally retouching noise and undesired objects. in the end you have an artificial "image" that shows a place or object in a very emphesized way.

yesterday i tried something completely new. pinhole photography.


right now it seems to me as the complete opposite of hdr. the equipment you need to do it is really cheap, the aim of this kind of photography is to show a "real" image of the environment and the technical perfection of the photograph is subsidiary. i did both photoseries, the pinhole and the hdr series, with the same camera but the results are as different as they can be. for the pinhole photographs i took off the lens of my camera and put a piece of black thick paper with a tiny hole in it in front of the camera. then i pressed the exposure button for about half a minute. at first i couldn't believe that it was really working, that my camera could produce an image without any lens. but it did and i'm fascinated.