Melt! Festival 2009 in Ferropolis, Grafenhainichen, close to Dessau.
Few people know that Ferropolis/Graefenhainichen is located in a former coalmining region, Wittenberg, and during GDR years the nearby chemistry industry caused remarkably severe pollution.
This area was known as Bitterfeld. Nowadays, the environment seems natural and clean, a lot has been done to make it a surrounding worth living in. Lakes, woods, leasure sites, you can all find it here. Regarding to the press, the industry focusses on solar engineering and renewable energy.
We also find a very high unemployment rate and vanishingly few young people – They all moved to the cities or to the western part of Germany.
Naaaah, talking schmalking: It still is a nice place. You got the picture.
Here are the photos:
Click here to open the Melt! 2009 set on Flickr
Jul 25
The Crumpler Europe crew spend an incentive week in Saigon and southern Viet Nam in April 2009. Visiting collegues in our design office in Saigon and having a closer look at the production process. Good times – and busy times.
A bag companies’ staff on the road? That’s organized chaos, for sure. With all the Crumpler Love we have.
Click here to open the Vietnam set on Flickr
Note that you will not find any pics of our production and design facilities in the photo set.
Unfortunately, those are not suitable for a public audience and therefore can not be published.
Jun 01
… but today I feel I should give back some love to them.
Ronald Jenkees just starts his fifteen minutes of fame. Holy cheesy goodness, this is a tearquenching melody:
Feb 03
These two artists are - in my humble opinion - blueprinting the next musical season:
CSS [Cansei de ser sexy - Tired ofbeing sexy] from Sao Paulo, who named themselves from a Beyoncee quote.
CSS music is a messed-up toybox, a theme park. On MySpace the band categorizes itself as “Grunge, Regaae, Melodramatic Pop Songs” which for me just describes nothing. They are just blending any pop style they can find – thank god including electronic music. I’d categorize them under Do it yourself. If you do not like this pop song, check some of their remixes.
I see a lot of parallels to the foolishness of bedroom mashup superstar Girl Talk, you remember: The guy who plastic wraps his laptop during shows to save it from his own sweat.
Listen to this [follow the links]:
Dec 06
Dec 01
I always had problems with batteries for my Canon Powershot A350 camera: From the time they were fully charged, they lasted only a few days until they drained to zero.
Even at the time they were new, I only had about a week of benefiting from their capacity. It left even if the batteries were not in use.
I discovered that precharged batteries do the job better: The low self discharge enables dealers to store them up to 12 months and still sell them without pissing off their customers.
Of course, the discharging properties stay after recharging batteries at home..
The other benefit is, that the low self discharge enabled me to leave the batteries in the camera for more then two weeks. Hence I stopped suffering the loss of first class snapshots just because the camera is not ready.
This apllies to multiple camera series: Canon Powershot, Fujifilm Finepix, Pentax K series and basically all models that come with AA or AAA batteries – not with the prebuild own battery models like in the Canon Ixus series.
As for Germany, the dkamera magazine suggests these tested precharged batteries:
Please compare worldwide vendors and models yourself by regarding to the international brands.
Have fun using those!
Nov 23
What if David Lynch directed a Disney Movie? This is how it looks like:
Really nice spoof made only from original footage of Disney’s “A Goofy Movie”. Director: Cody Richeson
Aug 02
Que privilegio: I am on soundcloud.com now! This platform is a great way to share your music with the world. Not onlyfor downloading the files: In soundcloud, any member can comment directly to his favorite passages of a track. There are more common community functions inside.
Drop me a line if you like to join: I have two invites left.
Check out this mouthwatering Remix by TJ Kong:
Ben Mono – Jesus Was A B-boy [TJ Kong & Nuno Dos Santos Remix]:
Sounds great? Here’s a TJ Kong Promo DJ set:
Read this statement of the Soundcloud scientists, Alexander Ljung & Eric Wahlforss:
As you might expect, over the years we’ve grown tired of getting emails with YouSentIt links or FTP log-ins just to be able to check out our friends latest soon-to-be released tracks. Not to mention how annoying it is to try and email a reply with some comprehendible feedback. Music is just kind of tricky to deal with over email. So, we thought we’d change that. SoundCloud is our way of doing it.
Jul 29
