Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Viennale, the 50th

Yupp, it's that time of the year again: our annual Viennese filmfestival, the Viennale, is happening right now! Yippiiieeee!

Last night I managed to get to my first movie there: Ai to Makoto. And I have to say, this might stay my favourite movie of this year's festival ^^ It was funny, in a very weird way. And it made me want to study more Japanese again. Hehe. I selected it out of the festival catalogue, and only after buying the tickets I realized that it's from the same director as 13 Assassins. And the main actress is the one who plays Kaoro-san in the RuroKen movie (hope that'll be in some theater around here, soon!). Anyways. Very Japanese, and fun movie! When they first started singing I was afraid that this would be a musical. But quite soon you realize that it's a movie that doesn't take itself too serious. Good fun.

Anyways, if you're in Vienna, go to Viennale! Some movies are already sold out, but there are many where you still can buy tickets - and this year, buying them online actually works like a breeze :-) So far I have four more tickets already, but I'll definitely watch some more Fritz Lang ones at Filmmuseum - fortunately that's possible till the end of November.

Mmmh, movies!

Monday, July 30, 2012

Space Evaders


Just wanted to share this nice little picture I made today: the last space invaders ice cubes leaving my flat. Or something like that.

Good thing I still can do ice cubes in the shape of LEGO bricks and shot glasses. Oh, and simple cube-shapes ones like you'd expect them.

Cheers.

Monday, July 02, 2012

PhD accommodation

Last weekend I went hiking again on one of my favourite mountains. Stayed at the usual place overnight, the one already mentioned. One thing that had slipped my mind so far:

If you're a PhD student, you might be wondering what your future housing perspectives are. Well, up on that hut they have a separate building just for our kind:


Hadn't noticed that before. I mean, that the letters on the toilet building form PhD when read together. Hmmm. What a weird coincidence... not? No idea.
(in case you're wondering: the letters are short for "Pissoir", "Herren" and "Damen")

Anyways, this is silly. I'll leave you with some more gorgeous sunset pictures I took while sitting on top of that rock next to the hut.
 




Keep enjoying nature, everyone!
Yours truly,
 
 


Thursday, June 07, 2012

Anger Street

In May I visited some olde friends of mine in Haribo land. Good fun.

Also, interesting street names around here:


Ho-ho, anger street. One more pic to prove that I was in Germany:


That should do ;-) It was my lunch in the sun. Aptly sold as bratwurst in a bun. Creative German naming :-D

Keep travelling, everyone!

Cheers
CGA

Cubetrooper

Hello there,

have you heard of Cubeecraft? I've discovered it through some Star Wars blog - you ought to know I like that franchise if you're following this blog. Anyways. I found this and thought Hey, cool! A cute little stormtrooper that you can build with an A4-b/w-page-printout, scissors and a Stanley knife ^^ I wanna try that! Stormtroopers have always been my favourite SW design.

And so I did. Here's the result:


The scissors are there as a size reference. Cool, huh? No glue needed. Thick paper is recommended. I just printed it on regular paper. And I can also recommend thicker paper ;-) Simply because you'll have an easier time after folding the little parts and trying to put them together. Anyways, hope you got inspired. And don't worry, you don't need to have an interest in Star Wars to enjoy Cubeecraft. They got lots and lots of different designs, take a look at this. And if you don't like the designs of all of those - unlikely as it might be - just take one of them where you like its form and make your own design. Shouldn't be too hard with tools like GIMP or Inkscape. I now have that little cubetrooper watching over my desk. Hehe.

Have fun!

ps: and if you're wondering why I have time for such things on an Thursday: well, today's a public holiday in Austria :-)