Berlin, Pyronale'09 last weekend: huge, mind blowing and captivating. Poland owns my heart: http://j.mp/G303x (but better to see live!) # Guten Morgen: etwas feiner Musik aus James Stone seinem roten iPod… http://j.mp/1hnXmU # Future now: http://bit.ly/Xysur # Microsoft will port DirectX and some other tech from Windows 7 back to Vista: http://j.mp/269TV (via @XaocCPS) # …
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Amazing… RT @mirkohumbert 50 brilliant & creative advertisements for your inspiration http://bit.ly/pqt68 # Powered by Twitter Tools
In the Church
I’ve recently been in a church – for the first time in my life not as a tourist. It was build around 900 years ago, and looks really like this from outside. At first, I was confused, which one of the many doors to use and if I am, as a non-christ, supposed to enter the church at all. …
Viktor Tsoi
Today, 19 years ago, Viktor Tsoi died in a car accident. He was one of the leading USSR rockers of 80ies. I was a teenager at that time and he was my idol. I used to come back from the school, lie down to the bed and start hearing his songs. Most of the days in the …
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Learned and tested ?????????. Interesting word choice for the 1st chapter: hungry and tired, you go out to eat bread, soup and rice # Powered by Twitter Tools
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Learned and tested ?????????. Interesting word choice for the 1st chapter: hungry and tired, you go out to eat bread, soup and rice # Powered by Twitter Tools
Tenderness
In the University where I’ve studied, there is a student theatre called Mannequin. Several years ago, they played a performance based on the short story of Henri Barbusse named Tenderness. I like the original story; so I want to share it with you. It is tiny but emotionally intense, dark but romantic, not really realistic, but with …
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In Russian, I can build 12 different cozy, informal names from the formal name ??. And seven of them would even sound good. # On2, a company developed probably most popular VP6 Flash video codec, is acquired by Google # "And then the market shifts…" How to grow properly: http://is.gd/24GyX (start from the slide 40). …
Stalker
Recently, I’ve watched the “Stalker” again, the 1979 cult movie of the cult Russian director Tarkovsky. The screenplay has been written by the most influential russian science fiction authors Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, based on their “Roadside Picnic”. In the movie, there is the Zone, an area full of strange and dangerous natural effects that cannot be explained by …
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The nightmare of a control freak: the most important question of your life is being decided, and you have no control about it whatsoever. # Incredible: play that MP3 with looping, and it will ascend forever http://tinyurl.com/lqhjnr (other illusions http://tinyurl.com/kot5sr) # Gadgets are materialized emotions, not just things http://tinyurl.com/ncyfq8 # Will Silverlight 4.0 also contain …