picture of the week
today i went down the river aare with sigi and some friends. the picture below is colu, lukas and whatwashisname schrigy leading the pack of four boats, trying to catch those kayakers (i don’t think they went war kayaking, the didn’t look like that :-) a pity the aare wasn’t so warm like it could be in late june. nonetheless i swam from the eichholz to the marzili because i didn’t want to walk down that approximately 2.5 km. not too bad for 15.7°, aight?
la mala educación
yesterday i wanted to go to the theater with fränzi, but the whole evening came different than planned. since it was a birthday gift for her, we wanted to go and have a little drink before, so we met quite early. but when we drove over the kornhausplatz her bike got caught in the tramway tracks and she fell really hard. fortunately she wasn’t injured much, “only” little rashes on pretty much every protruding part of her body (hands, elbows, hips, knees). you can guess that she wasn’t in theater-mood anymore. so we returned to her place and she cleaned all her wounds. when she recovered from her mild shock we decided to go to the movies instead. in the end we went to see la mala educacion. quite some time ago i discussed to go and see that movie with bruni, but then we ended up watching another movie, mostly because i thought that la mala educacion was much to heavy for that certain evening we had then (which was really good, but not in a sunny, happy good way). but now, that i’ve seen it i must say that i’m (as always) impressed by pedro almadovar. first the movie starts out quite funny, even hysterically funny sometimes, but then turns in a pretty intense movie about misuse of kids with a pretty complex time-structure, so it’s not an easy movie, but nonetheless worth seeing. but go and see it on a good day of yours, not when you’re in a grey mood!
mixed tape
mercedes benz (yes, the car maker) has released 15 nice tracks as mp3’s for your pleasure, you can download them for free and they all add up to a mixed tape. a 60 minutes collection of downbeaty, ambient and jazzy tunes, with one song especially produced to announce the new cls-class of mercedes-benz. if this is the new form of marketing, i’m all up to it. and there’s even a second collection coming up, sometimes in the beginning of august.
virtual bubblewrap
need to relieve some stress? want to bring back some memories from your childhood? or just need to burst some bubbles? then elbewerk’s virtual bubblewrap is for you! (160kb .swf-file) good night!
deleted pictures
to save chris some space and to prevent bloating of my picture archive i deleted some pictures from the /pics-section. so, if you miss pictures from millau, from the trainingsweekend, from terraventura, from the juli-bruch, from the last party @ barni and from evionnaz then send me an email, i might burn them on a cd for you.
michels abschied
aus aktuellem grund mal wieder in deutsch: wenn du michel bernard vom velokurier bern kennst, dann komm diesen freitag doch auch an seine abschluss-sause. nach 11 jahren wird er auf ende juli den velokurier bern verlassen. ihm zu ehren werden wir ein alleycat durch bern machen, hoffentlich kommen kuriere und nichtkuriere von überall.
bike porn
i’m in the process of looking for a fixed gear hub for my polish frame on one of my late-night surfing rounds i found these links: circle a cycles (pictures) solo velo chub hub goldtec harris cyclery paul component engineering (click on hubs in the navbar) oh, and this article from nonduality magazine made me research for a fixed gear hub and not a singlespeed freewheelin one…. maybe i’ll explain the difference later, but now i’ve gotta go to work!
musical convulsions
so here’s something funny for all of you which don’t want to be bothered with my rant below. bjorn mailed me the movie below. it’s a movie of a french guy which mounted some horns on his jumpsuit and manages to actually play songs through his convulsions (2.6mb .wmv-file) now i’ll go to bed, because i’ve got to get up in something like six hours. good night!
body modifications in the weltwoche
if i could be bothered to actually write a letter to the editor i would, because that article in one of the last weltwoche’s is absolutely crummy! the article is in the archive which is not freely available, so here’s a copy of the printout i made: with a wee bit of research david signer would have found out that there’s no thing as a piercing world record (and the most pierced person has much more than 500 piercings). so dear david signer, if you don’t like it for yourself, just leave all the other people living happily with their modifications happy and look that you can find your way without dissing other people!
picture of the week
finally i can link to this post on bild.li, because the picture of that photo-shooting is now available: about a month ago i spent a day in biel with about 40 other people. franziska frutiger took pictures of us, and now the result looks like this: the original picture can be seen on the page of swisscom mobile or on franziskas page (no direct link, because she uses a nifty flash-interface, but if you click on “new”, then you can see the full ad). just make sure you don’t mistake me with my doubleganger, i’m the one in the back row, not the one with the che guevara t-shirt…