Yes, i was in Australia a couple of weeks ago. And i would have posted much more if my camera would still be with me. But as it stands, it broke just before i left and i still have to send it in for repairs. It's a shame, it's just two years old and now the lens almost fell off (no, it's not supposed to be like that). So for this post i have to rely on lovely hannah's new cellphone camera before i manage to scan in the undigital pictures i took with my father's Rollei. It's amazing how different a "Spiegelreflex" (sorry, i just don't know the english term) camera image shot on real film really is. I almost forgot that. So be patient and you'll see some nice images. Or come visit me for tea.
I had the pleasure of being invited to a Machinima festival in Melbourne at the Australian Centre for the moving image. It is one of the things that you think of and kind of don't really realize until you find yourself in the middle of a 14 hour flight abundant of sleep and bored to death. I never thought that my playing around with computer games would get me travelling like this. I still dunno if i would advise others to try and do the same thpough. We'll see where this will go from here...
To make the writing short and leave space for the pictures: Arrival, witness and partake in interesting and inspiring lectures and discussions, especially with Eddo, Paul, fall sick, get amazed by Jackie Turnure and Peter Rasmussen, present moviesandbox which was great fun, miss wrapup party, travel to Adelaide, slowly recover from sickness, talk some more with the others, present again, recover some more, go get great salad, go to the beach and swim in warm (!!!) ocean, recover fully, present at intimidating but fun art theory event and realize i need to read lots more, go on three day bus-trip from Adelaide to Melbourne, kangaroo experience, climbing up national park mountain, bathing in ice-cold (!!!) ocean with enormous waves (!!!), visit Helen Stuckey's parents at loveliest beach bed and breakfast and calm down (thank you sooo much!), feel rested, have dinner in Melbourne, sleep in strange cubicle hostel, fall asleep on plane and have a relaxing and really nice welcome from Klaus in Hamburg.
This trip was really really inspiring and the couple of days i could turn off and immerse myself in un-computer-things were helping to feel refreshed and healthy. But now to the happy-picture show in no particular order...
Sunday, March 18, 2007
I had the pleasure of being invited to a Machinima festival in Melbourne at the Australian Centre for the moving image. It is one of the things that you think of and kind of don't really realize until you find yourself in the middle of a 14 hour flight abundant of sleep and bored to death. I never thought that my playing around with computer games would get me travelling like this. I still dunno if i would advise others to try and do the same thpough. We'll see where this will go from here...
To make the writing short and leave space for the pictures: Arrival, witness and partake in interesting and inspiring lectures and discussions, especially with Eddo, Paul, fall sick, get amazed by Jackie Turnure and Peter Rasmussen, present moviesandbox which was great fun, miss wrapup party, travel to Adelaide, slowly recover from sickness, talk some more with the others, present again, recover some more, go get great salad, go to the beach and swim in warm (!!!) ocean, recover fully, present at intimidating but fun art theory event and realize i need to read lots more, go on three day bus-trip from Adelaide to Melbourne, kangaroo experience, climbing up national park mountain, bathing in ice-cold (!!!) ocean with enormous waves (!!!), visit Helen Stuckey's parents at loveliest beach bed and breakfast and calm down (thank you sooo much!), feel rested, have dinner in Melbourne, sleep in strange cubicle hostel, fall asleep on plane and have a relaxing and really nice welcome from Klaus in Hamburg.
This trip was really really inspiring and the couple of days i could turn off and immerse myself in un-computer-things were helping to feel refreshed and healthy. But now to the happy-picture show in no particular order...
Sunday, March 18, 2007
