The 1956 documentary movie ↑Le Mystère Picasso by director Henri-Georges Clouzot mediated a new way of experiencing contemporary fine art. For the camera Pablo Picasso painted live on vertically erect canvasses and the painting process was filmed from behind the … Continue reading →
The so-called big coalition between Germany’s major parties, the ↑SPD and the ↑CDU/↑CSU has published its freshly minted ↑coalition agreement [in German | .pdf | 619KB]. ↑2R ↑points us to the agreement’s line 5147 [in the vicinity of which the … Continue reading →
Vít Šisler is one of the interesting people I learned to know at the ↑Cyberspace 2005 conference and with whom I will stay in close contact on every account. Vít is a young Prague-based lawyer whose primary research interests are … Continue reading →
Nothing is impossible in Havanna My old pal from the glory days of us being anthropology students, all-time-beauty ↑Joanna Michna has done it again. After her ↵ethnological documentary movie on Colombia’s Balineros now there is another one by her … Continue reading →
In the wake of the ↑Machinima Festival just being over, ↑Publish.com‘s Stephen Bryant has done a short ↑interview with Keygrip-creator David Wright: Back in 1996, when Quake was the finest first-person-shooter around, a Stanford freshman named David Wright created a … Continue reading →
Hotel Garni’s rooms are nothing special, but they are spacious, clean, and it’s perfectly quiet. The bed is good and I slept very well, although not too long. At the reception I ask where I could get a coffee and … Continue reading →
Tank filled to the brim again, equipped with a chocolate bar and a citymap of Brno I settle on the filling station’s parking lot and start to develope a strategy to get to my hotel. The congress organisers have put … Continue reading →
The things in my office seem to be sticky like glue. It’s always the same, whenever I enter the office, and even if it is just for fetching something, not wanting to spend more than one or two minutes there, … Continue reading →
There was no Internet-connection at the ↑Fighternight VII, you guessed it—but I will write something on it later. In a minute I will be on my way to the ↑Cyberspace 2005 Conference, where I will give a talk about ↵The … Continue reading →
The location of the ↑Fighternight VII is somewhat strange—well, it’s ok, but it definitely hasn’t the ambience ↵Wolfenstein had. The tables have a crude wooden top, so you have to use a mousepad. That’s not the problem, but the hall … Continue reading →