Stimmung aufgefangen bei einem Kruzausflug nach Aulhausen im Rheingau bei Rüdesheim. Die Sehsucht nach Erholung is bei uns allen nach zwei harten Triathlon-Wochenenden in Frankfurt und Roth gross.
Archive for the ‘Offside tracks’
Flying with Niki
My friend and cameraman Fritz took a photo of Niki on his flight from Vienna to Frankfurt. Niki was flying the plane himself and everybody felt exremely safe he told me ;-)… Follow the arrow!
Syden, South, Süden – a powerful metaphor
Today was an office day of extremes. Some things worked out perfectly well, others failed totally… at the end everybody wished to be able to escape to the South ;-). If things go bad or move to the worse, we dream of the South, of Italy or Spain, of a vacation along the shores of the Mediterranean.
Veer won a webby. This was how I came to have a look on their site yesterday. I found this archival footage of exercise, travel, and drinking games. The ‘70s at its best. The Norwegian original you find on Klipp og Lim.
The worldwide web of belief and ritual
My post from yesterday cited Hugh McLeod who pinpoints so perfectly well the bubble, the hype, the controversies, the scourge and advantages the world wide web brings about. Compared to the web Wade Davis is talking about this web seems flat and futile. His presentations is wonderful. It gives a deep insight into the various concepts and visions of life of our globe’s cultures. Davis so brilliantly outlines the difference and sameness among all of us. It is a weekend, perhaps you find the the time to listen. I think it is worthwile.
Anthropologist Wade Davis is perhaps the most articulate and influential western advocate for the world’s indigenous cultures. His stunning photographs and evocative stories capture the viewer’s imagination. He argues, in the most beautiful terms, that language isn’t just a collection of vocabulary and grammatical rules. In fact, “Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.”
Can you believe it?
I just found this foto on the TED blog referring to an article published at Reuter’s, amazing, unbelievable, but real!
The photo shows members of one of the world’s last uncontacted tribes, who were spotted and photographed from the air in a remote corner of the Amazon rainforest near the Brazil-Peru border. The bow-and-arrow wielding Indians in the pictures released on Thursday are likely the remnants of a larger tribe who were forced deeper into the forest by encroaching settlement, experts said.
Source Reuters: »Amazon tribe sighting raises contact dilemma«
Deutscher Windsurfcup Steinhuder Meer
Nach 7-monatiger Abstinenz vom Windsurfsport wollte ich am Wochenende beim 1. DWC der Saison am Steinhuder Meer wieder loslegen. Ich war mit dem Biestmilch´s SEVEN Van unterwegs, der mir auch als “Behausung” diente… Ein Surfer braucht ja nicht viel. (more…)
Sewage disaster East of Baghdad
It’s a weekend again. Time to focus on different things than work and biestmilch. Perhaps you find some time to watch this video from rocketboom’s field correspondent. It reminds me of my time in Beirut’s refugee camp Shatila. I was working there just after the massacres in 1982. It looked and was pretty much the same.
Still it did not change a lot:
Source: Detlef Lampe - Shatila, January 2007
Turtle awakes!
Every Spring it is an amazing experience to see this little lady called “Sissi” restarting her life again. 5 months without food and water and still there is some power left in this small body.
Does she remember the day she fell asleep? Did Biestmilch exist at the time when reptiles started their aera?
Time to take a bath and have a little training session to reactivate the muscles.
