Guess the city
Friday, August 31. 2007
Taken from the balcony of Joel's Place at vlogeurope07 gettogether.
Sandkerwa final pt.1 - Haas Säle
Tuesday, August 28. 2007
This is my first location for todays final of the Sandkerwa 2007. Although it took a while until a decent number of people joined the venue, all ended up in a great party!
CMS Meetup
Sunday, August 26. 2007
Instead of drinking a cool beer at the Sandkerwa, I'm stuck in a Feki.de meeting discussing the future content management for the site. Hopefully I'll be able to join my blogger friends soon.
VlogEurope 2007 in Heidelberg
Saturday, August 25. 2007
Next week there will be 3rd VlogEurope conference, hosted from vloggers for vloggers. It is not just a meet-up of the who is who in the European vloggers-scene, but also a conference with interesting sessions. The current session planing for Saturday is:
09:00 - 10:00 Arrive - Registration - Coffee Halle_02
10:00 - 10:30 Introduction and welcome
10:30 - 11:30 Aske Dam: Then and now - the history of personal media
11:30 - 12:30 The Perfect Software - a discussion on tools
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break. buffet lunch.
13:30-15:00 - The Vlogs with which we Live
15:00-15:15 - Short break
15:15-16:00 - Content Transcending Cash
16:00-end - Closing, Group Planning of Vlog Europe 2008
Since the conference is hosted in Heidelberg this year, I don't have too much trouble to attend. I'll also be a given a few minutes at the "Perfect Software" session to talk about education and vlogging. I think there are a few good approaches in this area, where vlogging is already part of educational software and processes, that might be of interest for the discussion here.
The NIN trouble
Monday, August 20. 2007
As mentioned before the Nine Inch Nails were booked headlining for the Frequency festival. But they had a very hard stand. The organizers gave them the next to last slot at the main stage on the 2nd day (starting 10:30pm). Generally this is not a bad slot– prime time at the evening, main stage with room for a lot of crowd, not too late – so the crowd shouldn’t be completely exhausted. But due to some unfortunate circumstances it ended in a scandal.
The slot was between the two German bands “Beatsteaks” and “Die Ärzte”, those two bands share a lot of fans. One reason for the Beatsteaks success was advertising of “Die Ärzte”, who referred to the Beatstakes in on of their songs. Also both German bands play German punk rock, where NIN’s style is American industrial rock from that point of view, they would have been far more compatible with Interpol (they are doing American indie rock). But Interpol was put into a similar slot trapped between two other German bands (“Jan Delay” and “Freundeskreis”) at the second stage.
Plenty of people attended the Beatsteaks’ concert, who afterwards stayed in the front rows waiting for Die Ärzte, without any interest in the performance of NIN. Even worse, a lot of them was not open minded enough to take the NIN performance and started chants demanding Die Ärzte on stage (“Wir wollen die Ärzte sehen! Wir wollen die Ärzte sehen!”. So the atmosphere got really screwed. NIN lead Trent Reznor commented the show
“the worst performance and certainly the worst crowd of the whole tour by far.”
in his official tour blog. This was a very annoying situation for all fans of harder music, who already had to cope with the canceled performance of Tool the day before.
New header picture – Beatsteaks
Sunday, August 19. 2007
I’ve been looking for a header picture like the current for quite a while now. Unluckily the pictures of bands with crowds I’ve taken before somehow sucked put into the 5:1 format I need for the blog header. Stupid enough the header picture still is far from perfect. It is taken with my Canon EOS 400D camera and the bulk EF-S 18-55mm lens. It was part of a series of pictures I took with a fixed exposure time of 1/10, since I intended to get some movement of the crowd clapping, but guess little shorter, or a lens with an image stabilizer would have done better.