Pursuit between two invisible people
Totally awesome video. I really don’t think things can become more abstract than that.
Bricks from Pierre-Abraham Rochat on Vimeo.
Exploring the camera: rain
The good thing about non-commercial videos? Fantastic CC Music a-plenty. Gave myself one hour for a video short. It was raining, so I headed out in the garden to play a bit with f-stop 2.8. Here we go:
Check out the HD version here: 1-Hour Video: Rain from Irakli West on Vimeo.
The music is unforgiven by spinmeister on ccMixter.
Dilemma
Passing by Marienplatz today, Munich’s main square was being cordoned off to allow ultranationalist party NDP to set up an election booth.
Next weekend, we have parliamentary elections here in Bavaria, and NPD is participating. Not that they stand much chance of achieving any significant results, but I always wonder whether it is worth attributing them any attention at all.
I think the electorate here is clever enough, or economically well enough off to not cast too many protest votes, but that is not the point. What if we didn’t pay any attention to extremist parties? It’s a tough one to call, but it probably makes sense to show up with plenty of security forces, if only for NPDs safety.
Anyway, moved on to the salad bar and left those sad characters to their own fate.
Hattingen: Bomb explodes more than 60 years on
It is not uncommon to find unexploded bombs during construction work here in Germany. A huge portion of Allied bombing in World War II failed to explode and continues to live as a “ticking” legacy. It is rare for a week to pass in this country without some area being cleared while a bomb is removed. Almost all disposals go without incident.
Not so this morning in Hattingen, which lies in the State of Nordrhein Westphalen: a bucket excavator struck a still functioning 500lb bomb, sending debris flying as far as a few hundred feet, and smashing many windows in the vicinity.
It is almost amazing no-one was killed or seriously hurt. 17 victims were accounted for, most of them suffering from explosion trauma.
WAZ has some pictures, and here is where it all happened.
Canon G10 out
Whilst I’m still fiddling with my G7, Canon has meanwhile released the G10, with a whopping yet pointless 14,7 million Pixels.
More interesting is the rearrangement of dials, with a combined ISO / Mode dial, and a new dedicated exposure adjustment dial. I’d really be interested to know the quality of exposures beyond 400 ISO, which are dismal with the G7. The “black” look is really cool.
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Welcome to Irakli West's personal pages on the Web. I am Danish, live close to Munich in Germany, and run FWnetz, an online magazine and training resource for firefighters. In real life, I am Regional Manager Northern Europe for Paratech, teach Heavy Rescue (it's fun, challenging and serves a good purpose) and try to learn more about USAR. I am a member of the Munich Volunteer Fire Department as well as @fire, a USAR and Wildfire NGO outfit.
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