Dreams. Thoughts. Studies.

... More than food! August Rush (2007)

Well well well... It's hard. It's action. It's not rescuing the world. It's an untypical soundtrack. It's a lot of great camerawork but even more cutting. Sometimes less is more but I enjoyed the cinema as event itself. ... You should watch the film and decide for yourself. ;)

Sound Theory. Sound Practice. New York / London 1992 General Introduction: Cinema as Event - Film can not be defined as a text - Movie is not only a product but a whole industrie / (can't be separated(?)) - lenghty process of conception-investment-production-distribution-exhibition-reception is described as a 3-D-model - Cinema is seen as a macro-event and therefore seen with a dozen attributes: Multiplicity Three-Dimensionality Materiality Heterogeneity Intersection Performance Multi-Discursivity Instability Mediation Choice Diffusion Interchange Altman comments on all of these attributes concerning sound.

Two days and two hours to go...

Nachtrag zu Jüngers Gartenabhandlung: Das Tropical Island ist ein Gartenformat von heute, was ins Extreme ausartet. Ausgeschlossen von der natürlichen Umwelt, unterwirft man die Pflanzen einem beliebig wählbaren Klima. Die Mechanisierung auf die auch Friedrich Georg Jünger am Ende seines Aufsatzes verweist, tritt hier deutlich zu Tage.

aus Gärten im Abend- und Morgenland Bechtle Verlag München und Eßlingen 1960 Das Geleit macht darauf aufmerksam: es geht um das ästhetische Vergnügen in und um Gärten. Wachstum und Planung [lose Gedankenaneinanderreihung] Gartenbau steht in Verbindung mit Seßhaftigkeit und geht dem Ackerbau voraus. Garten = Zaun, Einzäunung als Äußeres. Inneres bestimmt durch Mannigfaltigkeit, Gemisch, Pflege. Nutzgarten / Ziergarten. Ein Garten wird umso genauer eingeteilt sein, je mehr auf seinen Ertrag gesehen werden muss. Es gibt keine häßlichen Pflanzen. Ein Park folgt keinem ökonomischen Plan, noch soll er die Gedanken an Wirtschaftsführung und Nutzen erwecken. Das Paradies ist an persischen Gärten angelehnt. In Persien ist die Gartenlust schon sehr lange stark verbreitet, auch in Form von Gesetzen für den Obstbau und Schulgärten. Persische Gärten weisen Ähnlichkeiten zu englischen Parks auf. Das älteste Gartenprinzip: Pharaonengärten, mit oasenhaftem Charakter. Zentral nicht die Anlagen, die ber...

I guess - right now - there is nothing much to talk about than the voting for the new US president! Even if I would try I will not even close have a clue how many people around the world want to know who will sit in the oval office for the next four years. If not even the US citizens themself have been aware of the gigantic interest in the polling day of their own population. And as I click through all the pictures and articles I can feel a rising excitement myself. It's amazing that people are waiting in line to vote. Why is it that there are so many troubles with electoral lists and ballot papers? Why does one of my profs thinks we are going to election parties? The hosts on "Radio1" are so fevered that something goes not as planned all the time. It took my laptop about 30seconds! to load the Barack Obama Website . I have friends who will watch the live TV coverage. etc... Well since I got a lot to read and to think about besides the biggest popstar in the political wo...

Four days and eight hours to go ... then I will finally watch the new James Bond Quantum of Solace . Can't wait!

I got back from a small party only a few minutes ago. I was celebrating that an old schoolfriend moved back to Potsdam after three years working somewhere south in Germany. She invited six very good friends for dinner... she had delicious food, good wine; looots of good wine. =) Just right before that I was chatting for over an hour with a guy I once gave private lessons to. The reason why I am telling you this is because I had the chance to experience again how wonderful the brain works... simply keep talking, listening, enjoying yourself and many sweet memories will come back to you! Without asking - but very realistic. Like a dream! I like it.