after yesterday’s elections in the german ‘state’ of bavaria the CSU first time in the existence of the german federal republik lost their governing mayority. still, as seen on the above map, there…

These machines built to repeat a carefully calculated miss approach over and over by Michael Kontopoulos absolutely stimulate my interest getting to a world where the machine’s ‘live’ has way more character than the actual outcome. Love it! 

Saw this wonderful piece at the Be[com]ing Dutch exhibition in Eindhoven last week. Now we know why they did not make it into teh finals again this year…

here is a nice update to the nasa ‘world by night’ pic.
this site shows a world satellite picture with real-time day-night simulation

David Byrne is activating the Maritime Building’s Sound in NYC, a fromer ferry station, by the use of engines that set specifis parts of the building into vibration to release the objects natural ambient sound.

Dear lovers and haters of Bavaria,

just when Oktoberfest is about to hit the fan (why in september, anyways?), this excellent documentary ‘Rampenfest’ by Jeff Schultz gives us a profound introduction into the south-eastern life in Germany. Enjoy!