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panoramas

well, i have to say the demo-version of realviz’ stitcher is quite capable. here are some really quick and dirty hacks making a panorama of four images i made in kos. it’s the castle in kos-city. here is a 800kb QTVR. and this here is a 400kb jpeg: it’s a real pity that even the student version still costs 100€…

tandem movie II

today i finally got the time to grab renzos pictures and movies from last friday. and since sigi liked the first tandem movie so much, i thought i’d give it a go and made a second one. this one here is a 5.7 mb movie, renzo and me driving from the main station in bern to the university hospital of bern (actually with some blood in my backpack). ps: the movie has no sound from driving because it was just too muffled, absolutely no chance to understand a single word. ps2: watch out for the upcoming tandem feature movie “dru poschis i dru minute” (three post-coaches in three minutes) with an almost crash…

going for a sunday walk

today i thought i needed to go for a little walk. as i live really near the allmend here in bern i thought, thats a good idea to go there. but then i discovered that it’s not your typical sunday walk today, instead there was some motorbike exhibition. although i am no fan of motorized stuff, i couldn’t help watching those guys doing some truly impressing FMX stunts. now i go and read my newspapers.

moving an original

yesterday i helped a friend of mine to move. she owns an original ball chair by aarnio eero which is quite a pain in the ass to move. the picture below is the effort of five people to get that beast into the first floor (it’s too wide to carry up stairs and too wide to get through doors. i have to say that for me it looks like a scene from Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! .

les triplettes de belleville

through some circumstances i could not go and see les triplettes de belleville last tuesday, but managed to go and see it today with sigi & baba (i simply forgot something and could not go to the movies, no big deal). it’s a really magnificent movie, go and see it! even if you don’t really like animated movies, it’s got so much charm and a huge amount of far out ideas and little heart-warming details. if you do not know what i’m talking about, go and see the website (which is a really nice flash-site) or download the trailer here.

a funny little movie

too much time + some playmobil + a good idea + istopmotion = a funny little movie by sven (warning: the movie is at least a 10 mb download)

todays fun link

if an oriental rapper doing sexist lyrics while wearing a shabby elvis outfit is your thang, then khai is for you! you need to check out his videos! [via PieceoBlog]

tandem movie is up

well, if you’re interested, one of the tandem movies can be downloaded here. i have to issue a warning, the file is about 9mb in size and if you got a weak stomach, then you might get ill :-) further infos: the timeline of the movie is absolutely unedited, we drove down the frickweg with the speed you see on the movie (btw. B. and Hermann, i could not show your house, because i had to concentrate on the sharp turn at the end of the badgasse, sorry) and had exactly those two and something minutes to drive down. the annoying noise is the wind blowing in the microphone of my cam. remember it’s supposed to take pictures, the movie-ability is just a nifty feature… and yeah, gimme a break, i know the sound is not edited very thorough, but as i said before, it’s my first try with imovie.

keep it simple

do you remember the movies i made last friday? i’ve been fooling around with ’em in imovie and must say that this app is quite straight-forward (as soon as you figure out how to import the sound from non-standard-mpegs which my camera produces). i know there are much fancier products which are also free, but with imovie i was able to make a nice little movie with soundtrack, a little transition and stuff like that in a matter of some dozen minutes without even thinking about reading the manual.

Hebeisen erklärt die Welt

für einmal auf Deutsch :-) Wer genauso wie ich Abe Hebeisens wochentliche Kolummne im Bund liebt, wird sich freuen, dass es auf Bernerkultur.ch ein Archiv aller bisher erschienenen Kolummnen gibt. und dort gibts auch gute Kulturtips, das werde ich heute machen. and here in english. i just love the translation of Hebeisen into elevation iron :-)