September 2007
One of the many things that are annoying about YouTube is that there are so many instances of all the videos with no user-generated content, and 90% are of super-poor quality. Someone needs to kick out what is too much because, as I said. (We might soon need a re-installation of the whole interweb.)
Welcome to business ideas 101, today with external...
The reasons I cannot go to a café or any random city away from home to explicitly work from there are: 1) I need access to my files (and complete Mail conversations), 2) my graphic tablet of vital importance and 3) need the RAM of my large Mac. That is several Gigs which would not yet be possible on that tiny little book I would usually take to work away from home. ++++ 1) Is solvable with an...
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. →
I thought this text was nice – nothing I would usually read, but did so anyway – although didn’t even realize who the author is until I was about 1/3 through. - via a comment I got on Flickr.
It took years to make something similar to... →
In Germany, Amazon now started their mail rental service – while Amazon U.S. already does the downloads. I have only seen one online rental store before, but it was not promoted well and nobody noticed it (I even lost the link). (PS.: Glad I have T-Home in case I need it, which is like once a month.)
Oranges are my favorite winter fruit. I just had the first one for this cold season. It was very disappointing.
“Don’t wear woolen socks while you do product photography.”
– (note to self)
Been using a Mac for long enough to be getting...
Maria: i am in the middle of a virus check-up
Mareen: ?
Maria: already at 17.8%
Maria: after 9:51:34
Mareen: oh, your COMPUTER
Mareen: don't forget defragmenting your hard drive, too.
Would someone go get milk for coffee, please?
The weather is so nasty. Now, if I were a mean photographer, taking advantage of someone who is an intern because they want to learn about photography, I would send Jenny (Flickr, Tumblr). Haha. No offense, Jen! :)
Degree of public life on the internet
Prelude: Yesterday, when I had a private talk with a professor at FHD, my friend was waiting and asked if she should leave the room. I laughed and said there were no secrets. This is how it is. Every now and then, a contact who was a pure business contact until that point, suddenly tells me that he saw my (non-pro) websites (like this one) and asks whether I am not afraid of providing too much...
“Helmut Newton at a restaurant. Waiter: “Oh, Mr. Newton, your photographs...”
– via Martin.
“Average number of frozen pizzas consumed in Germany per person, per year: 90”
– (wtf?? That would be two a week for everyone?) – from brand eins (German economy magazine), issue 10/2007
“Düsseldwarf”
What things cost in Eastern Germany (in the 1980s)
roll: 5 Pf
loaf of bread: 1.04 M
beer: 50 Pf
soda: 21 Pf
25 cigarettes: 3.20 M
1/4 gallon of gas: 1.55 M
tram/subway ride: 20 Pf
school lunch: 35 Pf
rent of apartment: 100 M
avg. salary: 600 M
16 oz. of coffee beans: 8.5 M
washing machine: 2,000 M
tights: 15 M
tight repair service: 1.50 M
tape with music: 22 M
empty tape: 20 M
interest-free credit at marriage: 5,000 M
remission of credit per child: 2,000 M
tax declaration: not necessary
These prices were fixed.
Bat For Lashes – Prescilla (last.fm) →
“Dear Internet, don’t you think a drawing of John Lennon and Paul McCartney having gay sex would be funny? Can you make that happen, please?” — by dalasverdugo The idea itself is absolutely to the point. If only his request is well-spread, e.g. enough people read this post, the chance that someone will actually do it is pretty big. Cute experiment.
Whenever I send off an important (business) email, I hold down the send button for a second that seems like forever, still giving myself the chance to think of a possible mistake – until then finally, I will release it into the bottomless world of flying pixel envelopes.
I always thought I had kept a blog since 2003, but I just realized that the first one I had was in 2000, for about one year, at Open Diary. Looks like the site has not developed since. They must have done something wrong. Dude. I really need to concentrate on work.
“In the Web 2.0 era, the “somebody put it on YouTube” excuse has...”
– Andrew Keen in “The Cult of the Amateur”, when describing how videos and messages appear where they should not have.
WatchA video from Jake and Amir called “Gross Websites”. These are the coolest video stories on the web right now. I love you guys.
“This is the first time I try and realize how enjoyable it is to be touching you...”
– said to me today.
Mareen: Na kleine Mauze, Biku wie Papa sagte
Vivia: hä?
Mareen: Er nannte dich Biku
Mareen: Beim Japaner. Da warste doch bei!
Vivia: nein da war ich betrunken
Mareen: lol?
Vivia: echt
Vivia: das weizen haute voll rein
(Awesome translation from the online-translator: * Mareen: Small Mauze, Biku like dad said * Vivia: hä? * Mareen: He called you Biku * Mareen: With the Japanese. Because warste, nevertheless, with! * Vivia: there I was drunk * Mareen: lol? * Vivia: really * Vivia: weizen fully got cracking)
Hey, if you want to vote for my photo to be in JPG Magazine, you may do so here.
“A link […] it turns out, is the most powerful invention of the decade.”
– Kevin Kelly (in Wired Magazine 8/2005)
Ikea "Große Mode für dein schönstes Zuhause der... →
Been wanting to post this commerical mashup of old ways to present new things. Désirée Lamatz showed it to me as her newest project: she is the pink-dressed actress in that Ikea movie.
