Pictures

if you missed the pixmix tonight, then you can see all the images i showed in the /pics section, in the folder pixmix13 .

this time i used a new gallery-export-program which is built around simpleviewer /postcardviewer [1].

simple- and postcardviewer are a free flash image viewing application with a visually pleasing result. the thing that makes it supereasy to export galleries or folders is iphoto export from hagus.net .

choose a folder or gallery in iphoto, choose the viewer and press export. voila. and all freeware, free as in eggerbier [2].

as mentioned before , i also shot two panoramas from the watch-tower yesterday. because i’m on holiday preparation, i found some time to stitch them with the excellent hugin [1].

both panoramas below were shot hand-held, without a tripod and without aperture-control (i need that with my next camera…). the original images were resized to 1024*768 pixels to prevent harddisk-bloat, and then stitched.

with the free program make cubic they were assembled into a QTVR. click on the thumbnails below, wait until the movies are loaded (beware: they’re both quite big!) and then click/drag around with your mouse.

this weekend the 21st berner renntage have been carried out at the klosterlistutz .

because i saved two days from my civil service at the adventure playground i was part of the staff this weekend. after hauling around 300 bales of straw around 60 soap box cars raced down the rather steep hill. the car below was one of the nicest, even though it doesn’t really fit into the selfmade category. the kids got it from an old rollercoaster and rebuilt it as a race-car.

felovignedde

naja, geht so mit lustig….

my pictures from saturday evening are now part of a story at nowpublic.com.

how does that happen you ask?

this afternoon i got an email from clorenz41 [1] through flickr. he asked if he could use my photos “for a few stories that have been sent in”. the mail included some fancy link which made the whole process work automagically.

so after some clicks my pictures are now part of a story from conneticutkati [2], where she quotes another article on indymedia.ch.

since i seem to be in a musical mood, here’s another post for sound lovers:

if you’ve listened to any song that uses samples, be it hip hop, drum n bass, dub or a lot of other flavors, you’ve heard the “amen break”. it’s a sample from the b-side of a single of the winstons from 1969, that only lasts 6 seconds.

it’s absolutely amazing how far those snare beats came, it became the base of nearly every drum n bass and jungle song.

do you want to take a look at the biggest microscope ever built ? do you wonder how it sounds in the huge assembly hall of the two atlas magnets?

then you should take a look at this qtvr-panorama of peter mc cready. and you should also definitely check out the other panoramas he made. you can access them in through the navigational buttons in the lower pane.

sigi, barni and herman, do you remember how we stood in those halls some years ago? (and seen some really weird stuff going on, like those photographers for …. :-)

früecher ischmä ir pfadi umds lagerfüür umeghocket und het lieder usem rondo gsunge.

hüt hocketme vorem flachbildschirm-tv und spielt singstar , und es isch mindischtens genau so luschtig…

ds panorama ufem foti obe chasch entweder auf biudli aluege, oder hie aus quicktime-panorama (2.1 mb .mov)

english: ages ago we’ve been sitting around a fire and singing songs from the scout-song-book. today we sit around a flat-screen-tv and play singstar. kinda the same, innit?

the table getting ready - simu cooking

andi readying the fondue, dewi having some wine - reto and simu digesting

hamme , nicola , andi - nicola finishing off, andi and hamme watching.

[1] actually his name is simu: see him in action here and hear his messenger-song here (4mb swiss german gola -tribute .mp3). the song was the gift we/he made to our customers last year.

yesterday evening pesche invited us for a diner in his new flat in basel. the image below was also shot on the train back home: bruni is trying to remember that certain line from abba . [1] oh, and the panorama turned out quite nice, too, you can see it as an 1.3mb-.mov-file here .

[1]: don’t ask, it only makes sense for him and me…