summer in the city

christmas in german trinity church, melbourne

Link: sevenload.com

happy christmas!

aktueller stand

...meine güte, ich komm ja gar nicht mehr zum schreiben...
hier ist mein aktueller stand: ich bin jetzt in die city gezogen, in ein wunderschönes altes viktorianisches haus. am letzten samstag war die einweihungsparty (leider ohne bilder, weil ich gerade vom technik-teufel verfolgt werde - also wie immer). mein laptop und meine digital camera funktionieren gerade nicht, die haben wohl mein karma aufgenommen und streiken, tsss....
in der arbeit geht es gerade rund, mache das re-design der firmenhomepage und am wochenende läuft so was wie australien sucht den superstar, aber für klassische musik. und henkell, bzw. more than opera organisiert das - und da bin ich natürlich auch wieder dabei. das heisst wochenende fulltime arbeiten. naja, so schlimm ist es nicht. dafür steht family-party auf dem programm. tini-cousinchen hat geburtstag.
so, jetzt muss ich noch schnell weihnachtskarten schreiben.
und dieses verdammten laptop einrichten.
und meine kamera wieder in gute stimmung bringen.
einen artikel für die frankenpost schreiben.
weihnachtsgeschenke kaufen.
die batterie vom rauchmelder auswechseln.
ein hörspiel für sbs kinderradio pfiffikus schreiben.
meine beine epilieren (meine haare wachsen hier wie unkraut!!!)
die weihnachtsendung für 3zzz vorbereiten.
auf toilette...
mist, meine tram!
schiffers, wenn mein kopf nicht angewachsen wäre, würde ich den auch irgendwann mal vergessen...

update...

... frankenpost und radio pfiffikus.

welcome in the republic of movember...

lets grow a mov for charity, party the whole night in 70s styled cloths and get drunk...

i still have a little headdache and my feeds are hurting bc of the highheels - but it was great!

great blog discovered

http://gutter-monkey.livejournal.com/

new government, new chance

last night australias government changed from labor to liberal. the primeminister now is kevin rudd, the new deputy minister is julia gillard (great women!). he said "I will be a Prime Minister for all Australians. A Prime Minister for Indigenous Australians. Australians who have been born here and Australians who have come here from afar." i know, sounds like a typical politicial speech.

but see what is behind: next week rudd will sign the kyoto protocoll, he will move the australian military back to australia, he will change the education system, the health system, he will change the rights for workers. "Today Australia has looked to the future," he said. "Today the Australian people have decided that we as a nation will move forward."

we all have been very excited about it. this is a new chance. for young people, who will get a better education (more support, you dont have to be very wealthy to study). for indigenous people (rudd will defently say sorry about the stolen generation). for the enviroment (kyoto protocoll, saving water, enviroment - this is so important! think about, what we have done in germany and what we have achieved with our strict system).
he also said thank you to his family. he used the term "partner" when he said thank you to his wife. i like it. therese rein (she kept her surename) is a very intelligent woman. she will be a great first lady, because she is modern, independent (she runs her own buisness) and open minded. "family is the important thing in live", kevin rudd said. indeed.
last night was very exciting. for me personally its important to be under a government who is labour and social orientated anyway. so i only can imagine how great is must be for the australian people who voted for rudd. especially victoria, and especially melbourne with the art/alternative suburbs like fitzroy, northcote and brunswick.
this is a great change. this is a great chance.

australian version of christmas market

german styled christmas market in australia: 38,5 degress celsius, brezeln, bratwurst, santa claus and schifferklavier.

a new fruit...

discovered a new type of fruit last week. peapple. a mix between apple and pear. funny taste - the one part of your tounge tells you are eating a apple, the other part enjoys the pear...

last week of academic english course - and my english has improved!

stubby symphony

another example, how much australians love their beer (and how creative they are).

making of

offical website

flemmington horse race

Link: sevenload.com

christmas in melbourne

rmit university architecture

on the road with kidsreporter: arts centre

got a one-year-contract with sbs last week. i am working as contributor for the kids- and the youthshow now. last saturday has been the first part broadcasted. you can listen to it on itunes - type in "sbs german" and download the radio pfiffikus file.

no happy halloween

i was going to miss halloween - but the lovely costume hire shop next to my workplace reminded me on it.

what a noise...

Link: sevenload.com

driving through melbourne city

for my new job (public relation assistance at henkell brothers) i have to drive around a lot - with a huge old car (i love it) - and killing my nerves (heartattack!!!). but i am still alive...ah - and the car as well.

design your own placards!

here

some random links...

single pets...
your salary...
internet thing...
grateful asses...

test your brain...

...left or right?

boing boing!

we should inform us better!
read: boing boing!
watch: electric reporter
listen to other people and talk with them!

busy...

...another article got published...

sad single world...

poor french guys...

ich hab meine bildung aus dem internet

wer kennt ihn nicht - dr. lesch ist jetzt online!

save the world!

learn new words and spent rice!

videos!

cat

spider

forrest

letzte folge...

...meiner karriere als internet expertin fuer sbs geht mit naechsten mittwoch zu ende - aber es broddelt schon wieder etwas anderes in der ideenkueche des deutschen radios in melbourne!

hammergeiler...

...link!

agnes hat mich wieder gefunden!

habe mich heute tierisch gefreut. meine liebe freundin aus alten fotografierer-ausbildungszeiten hat mich auf studivz gefunden. liebe liebe agnes. ich weiss noch, wie wir volltrunken durch herzogenaurach gewankt sind und darueber geredet haben, grosse und beruehmte fotografen zu werden... und ich wollte immer nach berlin! aber da bist du ja jetzt. freu mich...

something nice...

nice video by anthony bloor...

job!

yay. got a job as a public relation assistance at henkell brothers. will start this wednesday. the payment is not bad - would be enough to finance the english course (preparing myself for the IELTS test) and after it to move into the city (yay for my own appartment!).

big brother is watching you...

up to november 1st the german passport is a document with fingerprints. that's crazy - big brother is watching you... listen to the podcast from the chaoscomputerclub and you will hear, what can happen, when the goverment and the police can spy us out all the time!

rmit

got a letter from the rmit last week. i am now officially a rmit student now (only in the case i can sent them my original papers very soon, but i will work it out...)

wenn ich sonst nichts anderes zu tun habe...

...dann mach ich so was wie das.

culture tour part 1 - arts centre theatre

the modern version about "der hauptmann von köpenick", written by carl zuckermayer.

johannes b. kerner kicked out talkshow guest eva herman

eva herman, former talkshow host (she got banned from her workplace) got kicked out from the talkshow "johannes b. kerner". herman, who wrote the book "the eva prinzip" talked in the show about her opinion, that the family structure in world war II was the best and we (she means the women) should go back to it. "stop your personal individuality, germany need children", she said. what a crap. more information and the whole talkshow as video can you find here.

picture: zdf


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Link: sevenload.com

yay for the fringe festival!

puppet play rocks!

wieder mal ein wunderschöner ausflug...

get connected

jihaaa. getting more deep into melbourne's new media artist scene.

such a vulgar taste...

...ruled on the red carpet on the brownlow medal in melbourne yesterday. i did the nightshift for the herald sun's online section. was very interesting. but now i am totally exhausted. got a little bit drunk during the lunchtime. yay for alcohol and cigaretts...

picture: herald sun

life is...

...going on. the world don't care about our problems.

that's the answer

...my daily horoscope
Pisces
Feb 20 - Mar 20
Would you like a foolproof, fail-safe, 100 per cent guaranteed way to win any argument? OK. Here we go. Follow these instructions to the letter and no-one will ever get the better of you again. Don't engage. There. That's it. All you need to know. To enter into an argument is to lose far more than you can ever gain. If you are truly confident of your ground, you don't need to get excited about defending it. It is quite sufficient to explain. Make your point, clearly and firmly, then leave the conversation alone.

can it be...

...that i am so wrong?

today is a yellow day

my horoskop for today

Pisces

Feb 20 - Mar 20

Your Week Ahead Forecast: First, we had a lunar eclipse in your sign. Then came a solar eclipse in your opposite sign. Roughly translated this means that you have already started to go through some powerful, personal changes, and now the people around you are following suit! You are dealing with tense situations. Dramas are being played out. You feel as if a problem is threatening to spiral out of control. Don't forget that you are in unfamiliar territory. Many things seem worse than they truly are because you are not yet fully experienced in dealing with them. Soon, you will grow much more confident and will smile about the matters that are now causing you to frown.

stereo total

yay for stereo total. they played at the northcote social club on friday night, together with i love hiroshima. have a look to the other movies! they are crazy...

the australian way to promote beer...

...the bad thing is, that carlton draught beer is really terrible...
the ad is been made in new zealand. the music is from carl orff, the song is calling "fortuna".

for julia (best translator in the world)

decisions: what we want to be? a rabbit or a bear? thx for your enormus help *knutschi* love you...

for julia (the one with the red curly hair)

veggieart: thx for the chat yesterday and the phonecall on tuesday. love you... *knutschi*

mist verdammter, ich bekomm falten!!!

glen alvie

have been to a appointment with the weekly times. we visited a farmer in the countryside - in glen alvie - the most beautiful place in the world!

next option

...or maybe the monash university? got a contact there today...

rmit - da moechte ich hin - my goal

i've been at the rmit campus today. i visited kate, a girlfriend of mine, she is in the last year of the journalism bachelor degree. she invited me for a lesson, was interesting. the university is very modern, students are getting teached in radio-, tv-, and printjournalism during the degree. they also working with all programs for these working fields as well.
i am starting to apply for that now...

michael jackson is dead

we will keep him in a good memory...

in stiller anteilnahme...

...musste ich hoeren, dass petek's und mein ehemaliger arbeitsplatz pleite gegangen ist (thiihiiiiiihiii). passend dazu habe ich einen tollen clip gefunden - auch noch von der stuttgarter konkurrenz!



Link: sevenload.com

ISA: a little crazy project

look at the offical website.

Programmable MIDI/Multimedia Controller consisting of 24 infrared beams (sensors, expandable to 48 sensors for 3 dimensional version of the instrument).

Playing the instrument is accomplished by moving hands (or any other part of the body) within the range of infrared beams to activate sounds, sound effects (digital audio) as well as other control messages for digital light controllers, VGA projectors or special visual effects (interactive 3D hologram creation, instant fog generation).

Every sensor individually programmable by means of supplied software utilities. Programming of each sensor includes a choice of any MIDI control messages wrapped around GM/GS specifications (as well as messages for non GM/GS systems), control of digital audio files/samples and other functions (see above).

Every sensor instantly reprogrammable during live show giving the end user a virtually unlimited array of effects required for the performance. Instant reprogramming is accomplished by assigning the function to any of the available sensors.

if you want to send a message...

this is exactly that what i need...

omg
shouldn't talk with myself in the public...
now everyone know, that i am crazy (what a surprise).

GO AHEAD!

but...

NO - go ahead

but...

don't cry stupid girl - never give up

my godness - what's wrong with germany?!

ok, got a job now. have to help my kate with photoshop...
back to buisness!

IELTS test???
damn...

what i am doing here?
what is making me think that i can manage that?
*-*

f***
starting to cry now...
too exhausted

wie stellen die sich das vor, VERDAMMT!!!!!

frustrated

waaaaaaaahhhhh!!!
i am dying...
the deadline for the universities is in three weeks. got a huge list of things what i have to do. no idea, how i could handle that...

frankenpost - na endlich

na endlich, das wurde ja mal zeit - die frankenpost hat wieder einen artikel von mir abgedruckt. hat so lange gedauert, weil ich in verhandlungen mit ihnen für eine eigene kolumne war. die hab ich jetzt bekommen "letters from australia" oder so solls heissen. auch gut.

...because there is my first article for herald sun

yay! my first official story at the herald sun website.

funny story

the funny and embarrissing (what a surprise) story about me at a footy game is coming soon - because...

interview with helmut maier from melbourne hofbräuhaus at sbs

the last interview which i did for sbs was broadcasted. i did it with helmut, he is the owner from the hofbrauhaus. listen to it and have a look at the website from the german hofbrauhaus in melbourne.

FOOTY!!!!!!!

yes, my lovely workemate made it possible that i am at the footy games the whole weekend. i will get a presspasspord and i will sit in the vip section. jihhaaaa.

dam... why i am writing emails when nobody is writing me back?

doing my daily english grammar lessons now...

sunstroke

i struggeled yesterday. got a huge, terrible and very painful headache. felt totally exhausted. probably a sunstroke - the strongness of the sun here is really not funny.
i am lying in bed now and doing paperwork, eating cheese and dark choclate...

lisa-need-a-sunumbrella

dam. i becoming more and more sunburned. i am using the 30+ sunmilk, but it's not protecting me very well. i look like a indian now, or if i am blushed the whole time. my poor perfect pearl skin...*schluchz*
should develop a foundation for lisa-need-a-sunumbrella. please message me for my bank account contact....

how embarrassing...

...noticed that i am was wearing my pulloverjacket backward the whole day.
that's so typical for me - i am out of my mind... *-*

sunburn

next footy training, interview, pretty boys, standing around in the teams changing room, while they walking around half-naked (how boring).
got little bit sunburned, although i used sunmilk (30+). should buy a sunumbrella - or a hat (me and a hat, very funny)...

lunar eclipse yesterday

so wonderful. was sitting outside on our balcony and watched the lunar eclipse. but i was not able to took a photo. but thanks to google here a picture from the moon yesterday.

go for footy

went to the collingwood footy training today. michael, the sport journalist from the herald sun introduced me to some footy player, we went to a interview and to a press conference together. and on the weekend, if i am lucky, i am at a footy game - watching it in the vip press cube. jihaaa!

lovely present

got a great gift from a workmate today:
"love, life, goethe - how to be happy in an imperfect world" written by john armstrong.
thx, peter.

next advice

"mistakes are the doors to new rediscoveries"

advice from mum

first advices

"Your live is not your own, when you're working here"

qoute from todays conference

ethnic journalism

it´s becoming more and more interesting...
talked with kate, a gorgeous workmate, she is on of the great guys in the online section (on of them knows max msp! yay).
we had a great talk about ethics in journalism, politics and economy.
well, and about black cloths and silver jewellery as well ;o)

internet for beginners

yay. sbs broadcasted the first episode of my new own sequenz "internet for beginners". was great. you can listen to the episodes soon on the internet as well.

tomorrow published in the herald sun

smoking is bad - we all know that.
but the rate about young smokers in the age between 12 and 14 is in australia increasing.
all schools have a smoking ban (since the 30th of july victoria is under a whole smoking ban. smoking is not allowed in pubs, restaurants, public places, etc.).
but the young people are still smoking. and because there is ban at schools, they are smoke on the trainstations. some young students get interviewed. they said, they need a cigarette to start the day.
the herald sun took photos from them. saw kids, sitting at the trainstadion, mostly in schooluniforms, smoking.
but should the pictures get published? because it is very probably, that the students get banned from the schools, when they are in the herald sun - smoking and in school uniform.
this was the issue in the conference today.
to published means to set the young students under the risk to loose theire schoolplace. and a lot a family members would call the herald sun and complain about it very angry.
on the other side, it´s legal. and they doing defenitly something wrong. the photographer talked with them before (well, with the most of them), they know, that someone did photos from them.
while they were discussing about it, i was thinking, how it would be in germany. first of all we have no school uniforms, so they wouldn´t know, on which school they are. and if - it doesn´t matter, i guess.
but basically you´re sitting between to chairs: protecting young kids (because they don´t know what they doing) or show the truth (but you can show it in very different ways).
herald sun decided to publish it. but they will use the pics, where you cannot see the emblems from the uniforms.
well, i don´t agree. pictures yes. but not a picture where you can indentify the person (take the photo in front of the sun, or show only the back from the person, or you can take a picture, where the swap cigarettes and you only can see the fingers...). basicly you need a photo. a photo where you can see two things: young people and they smoke. it makes the article authentic (like: yes, it´s true, you can see it with your own eyes). but you don´t need the faces for that.
and here is line. and on the other side is the herald sun. they doing it (like die bild in germany). of course they were talking about it, if it would be a risk for the kids, but they never thought not to show the faces. they need that. you are getting more attention with that. in my opinion it´s not attention, it´s voyerism, which the public wants to get served. and that is not serious and objective journalism.
will see if they are really publishing it tomorrow. and i am interested what response they will get.

last interview at sbs

interview with the owner of the melbourne hofbräuhaus, helmut maier on sbs. click here for listen.

homesick

i am working me a little bit to death, i guess. every friday working from 9am till 12am next day (9am-5.30pm herald sun, 6pm-12am hofbrauhaus). in the first break i had a appointment with sbs (start 22.august), signed the contract. in the second break i talked with my neighbour peter (we are developing a new media instrument, we will show it at the artcenter in october, will write about that later).
i don't want to complain. will only show the reason, why i am so slow with answering emails - i am sorry. i love you all, and i am missing you. to be honest, last week was the first time when i felt homesick. i was reading the blog from julia, her story about the diploma works from our university (they are sooooo f***ing great).
i am missing the nights with the talks about art, live and the sexual problems the gumbears :o)
BUT, no worries, darlings. i learned from my mistakes in the past, i should get more time for me and art. on the weekend is the writers festival starting *yay* will go there and will have a day off from the hofbrauhaus.

well, and i should write a little bit about my work at herald sun.
i am impressed. the newsdesk, where i am actually working looks like a hollywood newspapers-set. a huge room on the 12th level in the herald sun building. in the middle is a circle, there are sitting the bosses and cordinators and designers, over our heads are 14 tvs, showing australian and international channels. the conference is every day at 10.30am and 4pm. very funny, the same humor, the same black ironic atmosphere like the confrences in germany. we are all the same... journalists are crazy (yyyyeeeeaahhaaaa - i feel like at home). last friday one of them started to scream through the whole office. complainted about a photo. the other intern was really scared, i was laughing... i know that - men... sometimes we all have to steam up...

after the second conference the office is becoming busy. the atmosphere is changing. like a beehive. the people walking faster around, the noice is becoming louder. herald sun is like the bild in germany, but bigger (stellt euch das mal vor). the mostly part of the herald sun is from a serious journalistic and a normal minded person views's grab. like all newspapers in this section is the sportspart huge, art is "lifstyle", politic is a personal opinion from the writers and economy is the bets for horse runs (well, a little bit overdrawn, but true).

but the journalists are good eduacated, with a lot of experience and passion. i liked that, and i am appreciating that. and they all believing that they doing right - because they have sucess (herald sun is the newspaper of the year 2005 and 2006, most selling and biggest newspaper in australia). so who you should blame? the journalists, who writing opinion, mixed with scandals, intimitate facts and emotions? or the readers, who are buying and financeing this way of journalism? it's always the old question: who is the chick and who is the egg?

shane burke, the associate editor (my first contact, who i anoid for months, till i got the first answer for my emails) is impressed about my education - and about me, as well - i hope. no, i am sure. he told me that. normally i am shy in a new enviroment, but here - no. because why? i am at home now (well not 100% because the herald sun is not objectiv)!
that is that, why i am living, why i am in this world. i cannot do anything else, never. friends (oh no, here you naming your friends "mates") - MATES, maybe, hopefuly you can understand me better - i am on a egotrip now, i know. i am hurting persons with that, i know. i am sorry for that, but i cannot change. jetzt nicht mehr.

internet for beginners

yay! my own sbs sequenze will start next week. signed the contract for ten parts today. developed a own blog for it as well - have a look.

write me your opinion

read, think and write: http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/jews_murder_the_palestinians_mickey_mouse/

happy birthday to all

Your birthday star is in the constellation Pisces. It is called 107 Piscium in the Historia Cœlestis Britannica of John Flamsteed and Edmund Halley. It is called NS 0142+2016 in the NStars database.


birthday?
here are special links for
you.

a little bit fun

Link: sevenload.com

new stories about herald sun soon. it´s going really well. till i have time enough to tell you the story here a funny little movie.

videos bayron bay

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Link: sevenload.com

pictures bayron bay

yay for bayron bay! i am totally relaxed now and looking forward to my third and last internship at the herald sun.