Black eight - Black car

Yesterday evening was very cool. I finally got my new car. (pictures of it will be online soon)
I love it and I really enjoy driving it.

After a little test drive with a friend we drove to town to play billard with some othe friends. (of course I took some cool billard pictures) It wasn't easy to take pictures there, because the light was really bad and I don't wanted to use the flash. (Flash kills colors!) So finally Igot 8 more or less good pictures - really nothing special, just some friends having fun playing billard. I like such evenings.

break on through to the other side....

I really like the Doors.

A lot of things are going to happen in the next few days.

Let's start with my new car. Tomorrow in the evening I will have a new car! Yay!

Cool.

Next thing.

HALO 3
I am just a few days away of "finishing the fight". Here are some cool things about Halo 3.

• http://www.halo3.com/ - Wallpapers, Trailers, 3D Tour through the John-117 Monument, etc...
• http://www.xbox.com/de-AT/games/h/halo3/default.htm - TV spots, Trailer, Game infos
• http://www.telekom-presse.at/channel_electronics/news_30100.html - Der Masterchief bei Madame Tussauds

Let's BELIVE and FINISH THE FIGHT!

Catching Light - Catching Emotion

I am very surprised. I decided to take some portrait images to learn something more about taking this kind of photos. Of course I don't want to take self portraits so I need people that want to be the faces on this photos.
So I wrote a SMS to some friends. I expected either no answer or denial.
BUT right now I have 8 people - men and women - that want to help me.
Wow. My personal target is to have 10 pictures of 10 different people in the end. Of course I need a lot more of every person, because I am not very experienced and I noticed that I need some time during taking photos of someone until I find out what the photo I want should look like.

Sorry, but I am an absolute beginner.

At the moment I took 2 of this 10 photos I want.

I think they turned out pretty good - I think.

I hope new ones will follow soon, but this depends on when the other people that want to help have time for me.
Finally these 10 photos will be printed as a QOOP Mini Photobook. Mini means 3.75'' x 2.5'' => 9.5cm x 6.4cm. I think this is a habile, cool and unusual size for a photobook - that's why I like it.
Everyone who wants to have one after all 10 pictures were taken should tell me and I order one for him. (costs about 5 euros)

Now I also want to thank these people that are making this possible.

First the ones that already did a great job: Both of you were fantastic motives and it was a lot of fun taking these pictures. Thanks a lot for supporting my experiments.

Now the ones that will follow: Thanks for be willing to do this. I hope it will be as much fun as it was with the others.

At the moment I need another to persons that want to join this experiment. If you are interessted in doing this just leave a comment, mail me or if you have my telephon number just give me a call.

Thanks to all of you!

The process of learning

Humans as they are 1
Originally uploaded by salendron

It is an experiment.
I am no professional - Absolutly not!
I am just learning.

1 of 10 is done. 9 more are needed. I hope the other ones will turn out as good as the first one.
I try to capture live. Feelings. Difficult for someone who has so little experience like me.

That that's I am doing it. To learn something.

Let's see if I will learn enough to create something special.

difficult to write what I am thinking

My first Moo MiniCards
Originally uploaded by salendron

some days ago I wrote something like this-> "...about the same thing, but one of these two things isn't interessting at all, because my little world isn't affected by it and I don't care about it."

These lines are the reason why something happend, that I was trying to avoid as much as I can.

I did not wanted to say, that I don't care about the people, which are meant with this. I just wanted to say that I am not interesseted in this situation, because I should not affect this.

I have made a lot of failures in the last years and I want to avoid them to happen again, so I decided to keep my self out of this.
I feel very sorry for saying this like I did in these lines. That was another failure.

I think I had to say this in another way.
Don't think I am not interesseted in you. I just don't want to destroy something again. I am affraid of doing this again so I decided to do nothing and just write a little line about this where I say that I am not interessted in this, so everybody knows that I won't affect this.

I hope now everybody knows that I don't wanted to hurt someone. In fact I wanted to do exactly the opposite.

Ahoi! Arrr!

Avast! It's Talk-like-a-Pirate-Day today!
So all you bilge rats and beautys out there.. ..TALK LIKE A PIRATE!
Why? BECAUSE IT'S FUN, ARRRR!
Wanna know about the history of this really special day? take a look at this -> WIKIPADEDIA/International Talk Like a Pirate Day

You want t' know more about it?
Arrr, take a look at these websites!

• Official "Talk Like a Pirate day" Homepage
• How to talk like a pirate
• Pirate language translater

So what be you goin' t' do now?
Yes! Talk like a Pirate!

E'en some popular websites like Flickr celebrate this day Aye! As you can see when you take a look at the flickr logo today, arrr!


So post some comments and show me your pirate talkin' skills!

No at all.

Mural (black-and-white shot)
Originally uploaded by salendron

Time. So fast.
You can't get of train at full speed.

Hours like seconds. Years like minutes.
18.. 19... 20....

STOP

Realize.

In the brightest hour of my darkest day, I realized what is wrong with me.
Can't get out of my memories. Have to realize that something new is just starting here and now!
I am happy to share this time with people I call friends and a girl, that is waiting with me for the day, when we are on our own. Our life our home. Our world. Our plans.
It is time to let past go.

Something new! Just some seconds away. *gg*
I want everyone that wants me to be part of his life and who wants to be part of mine to let me know. I won't be officious. No matter what happens you are welcome. All of you.

I really did nothing wrong this time. No. Not today.

Misunderstood?

Donut Room
Originally uploaded by salendron

I don't know how it happen. I really don't know.
I thought I did nothing wrong. I never told anybody that someone is disturbing my life. In fact, I thought I was disturbing others.
I apologise.
I think I have made a lot of mistakes throughout the last years and I feel very sorry for the things I did.

I thought it would be the best to say nothing. To let others do what they want without telling them what I think about it. I just want old friendships to grow again, but I do not know if these people want that to happen.

So i decided to be quiet and wait. I am not angry about anything. There is nobody and nothing that makes me angry.

I just want past to be past and today be today. I want everybody to be happy with their lifes as they are.

Please don't think I am angry. I am not. I just want that everybody knows that I am not the one that wants to change things that are not about me anymore.

Please let me know if you want me to be a friend again. No matter how long it takes.

The countdown to the countdown

Ant (black-and-white shot)
Originally uploaded by salendron

It's to late - it's to fake, but I've got nothing to loose.

six.... five...
One chance to stay alive...

four... three...
...but I can hardly breath.

two... one...

...

let's go.

I see changes in my live every second. One second things seem to be so far a way. Another second it is to close to realize.
I am happy. I hope I did not do something wrong. I hope my plans and wishes for my life work like I want them to. So many decissions. So little time. Changes - great chances - are just a heartbeat away. Have to think fast - act right - get out of my memories.

Tomorrow will be what tomorrow will be. No illusions. Goodby reality.

Nothing to say

Panorama: Stadtpark Spittal
Originally uploaded by salendron

What it is? - Something good - Something great.
Why? - Nobody cares about that.

I am not able to do something - to change something. It is not necessary. I works - I think.

"sometimes you find out something about yourself, that you did not know." - he said - he's right.

It's right.

Everything chances. - But it is getting better. I am sure.

Alive

Felt my blood floating through my body - faster and faster.
Felt the sweat on my fingers - cold.
Heard them screaming - loud.

Gears of War is really the best multiplayer game ever!

Yersterday my XBOX 360 finally came back from getting repaired. I played PGR3 for about an hour, but then I decided to play Gears of War.

It seems like I have forgotten how great this game is.

So I went to the toilet (to play it safe) - took off my shoes - plugged the headset into the controller - activated the 5.1 sound system and joined a multiplayer game.

4 versus 4

After some time of real great multiplayer action I noticed that my puls was really high and my fingers were covered with cold sweat. I also noticed that I have played for 4 and a half hours - it felt like I have just joined this game.

It was a very funny feeling to know that a game - a great game - one of the greatest games ever - could make me fell like this. It was a hard day at work and I was very tired and cut up when I came home this evening, but after these hours of playing this I felt happy, balanced and a bit hungry.

I am not addicted to computer games - absolutly not - I am not even very good at playing video games, I just play about 5 to 8 hours per week. I wouldn't even have the time to play more, because I have to go to work and my girlfriend wouldn't be very happy, if I would be playing video games all the time, but sometimes we play together and that is one thing I really like about her. She has no problem with killing virtual monster in a video game with me.

Today I won't be able to play gears of war, because I will drive to my girlfriend in the evening. I miss her a lot so I am really looking forward to see her again in a few hours.

Sry virtual monsters, I have to kill you tomorrow, because today I have more important things to do....

Back 2 life

Star-Tracks 2
Originally uploaded by salendron

A good friend told me this weekend that I should write again about me, my life and my own wired world.

I think, I really should do so.

Let's start with: ME

I am really happy right now. Ok it is monday, but so many good things happend in the last 72 hours. (breath in and stay calm - I am no idiot my friend) My MOO cards finally arrived and also my XBOX 360 is back (now breath out - everythings ok). I also visited the Harley Davidson Bikeweek. Really cool. Pictures can be seen in my Flickr web-album.


Next Topic: my life

My life is as usual... ...ok not everything is as usual there are two things, which aren't as usual. (breath in again - it's getting dangerous)
These two things are - nearly - about the same thing, but one of these two things isn't interessting at all, because my little world isn't affected by it and I don't care about it. (Can you feel the tension?)
The other thing is really cool. I like how it seems to turn out. I hope it turns out good and stays good. (Was this careful enough?)


And at last: my wired world
(uhh... A lot to tell - scary isn't it?) I allready told you that there is one thing happening, which is really cool and I like how it works and how it seems to turn out. I want to tell you that I have nothing to with this - no influence - simply nothing, but it all happens so close to my world, that I can't ignore it. So don't be scared. Be happy my friend.

RainbowSnake

Python is a programming language that really blows my mind.

Wikipedia says:
Python is a multi-paradigm programming language (functional, object oriented and imperative) which has a fully dynamic type system and uses automatic memory management.

I say:
Python is just great.

Some time ago I began to play arround with the Python Image Libary (PIL). I found out how to manipulate every single pixels color, brightness, contrast and so on. I also made some experiments with merging pictures (of the same thing but with different exposures) into one picture to gain more details, but this pictures weren't really outstanding beautiful ( in fact they all looked pretty boring, because my method caused them loosing contrast).

At the moment I am playing arround with colors. I use kind of color-patterns (in fact I use different relations between red, green and blue) and manipulate every single pixels color by recalculating its color in relation to the other colors of this pixel.
The results can be seen on the picture in the top left corner of this post. (I did NOT use any photo manipulating software to create these pictures. I just used my own little python programms. I just used GIMP to put all 12 photos onto on big picture.)
I created 3 different styles so far, but I am not really satisfied at the moment.
The next step will be to use 3 different pictures with different exposure of the same thing, merge them into one boring picture and apply styles that keep the details and bring back the colors to the picture.

A lot of work I think. A lot of things to learn about color managment and a lot of fun.

to be continued...

letter to reality - One

Dom Maria Saal
Originally uploaded by salendron

Dear reality!

I changed the title of this blog. Know its title is 'LETTERS TO REALITY'. I think that's better than just salendron.

I have also changed the design, because I think if I change the title, I also have to change the look.

But now let me tell you a bit about my holydays.
First of all: It was great!

My holydays started with the photowalk - I allready wrote about it.
The first week I spent with doing nearly nothing. Just hanging around, sleeping meeting some friends. I just had a good time.
the second week was nearly the same. Just great.

Of course I always had my camera with me to take pictures of different kind of things. (you can take a look at them here)

I know that this is a very short letter after so long time of writing nothing, but at the moment I really haven't got a lot to tell.

salendron.