It is hard to be the Masterchief....

Yesterday I started to play Halo3 multiplayer on XBOX LIVE. That's fun. Really.
The coolest thing is that you can watch all your games again. But not just from your standard view. You can move the camera freely around the level during the replay and watch it from every angel you want. You also can follow other players or just watch cool things like these things you see on the screenshots I took yesterday.
Taking screenshots is very easy and comfortable just watch the replay -> stop it at any time you want -> place your camera there where you want it to be and take the screenshot.
But how can I export it to my PC? easy...
Just save it and go to your bungie service record on bungie.net. There you find all your gamestats, screenshots and much more about all you have done in Halo3.
I think that's a cool feature.

My BUNGIE SERVICE RECORD can be found here. I also added a link in the sidebar that will get you to my service record.

So if you want to meet me at XBOX LIVE just search for my gamertag (salendron) and send me a some lines.

hf gl salendron

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.

Streetlights

Streetlights
Originally uploaded by salendron

This week was fun. First I was at a photowalk in Klagenfurt. It was very interessting and I had a real good time.
The results of this night can be found here (mine) and here (the phtowalk group).

I also took a lot some pictures.
For example: HDR: Herzogstuhl or Apocalyptic Ackern.

This weekend I will visit the Altstadtzauber in Klagenfurt.
holidays are great.

(hard)Core

Fragments

echo "init...."
call init -debuglevel=9

...

FUNCTION init:

echo "This is where it starts... ...this it where it will end!"

/FUNCTION

Sry for that. Just thinking about doing something creative. Again. But, something different. Can't tell you much about it. Just want you to know that I am working on something. Why? Because I have to programm something. Or otherwise I get bored.

Just one thing I can tell you. The programm I am writting is called CORE.

where art begins

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

..I don't know. I think it's a secret.

I don't claim myself to be an artist - absolutly not, but I found some things I like to call art. Things that people made just for fun. So where does art begin?

Why are some things just normal things and others ones are art?

Is it all about a kind of a messege that is build into something?

Hm...

Art is something that makes you feel something - I think. - but who cares what I think.

twenty-three point 5

line of sight (black-and-white shot)
Originally uploaded by salendron

Just a moment away, feels like eternity.

Feels like 9 AM on the 24th of December. So close to christmas, but it feels like time is running backwards.

There is so much to do before it's christmas.
Have to go, have to return. Have to meet someone, have to leave. Have to be creative, have to be rational.

Don't think about it.

Underwear is not allowed

Underwear is not allowed - burn it down
Originally uploaded by salendron

It was a great weekend. I spent a lot of time at the Highland Games in Klagenfurt. I took a lot of photos of all the contests and of the event it self.

It was a lot of fun. The team of my sisters husband took the 15th place. (A great achievement, because they got 15th of 70 teams)

My homepage get's closer to its final version. The photo gallery now has an art gallery with a lot of pictures and now it is possible to enlarge the pictures to see the original size.

If you want to see the photos of this weekend, just visit http://flickr.com/photos/salendron

cooking, colored foil, flashlights, skirts, trees, beer and all the rest!

42

This picture shows you the answer to your question. (Your question was: "What does this wired title mean?" If this was not your question, 42 still stays the answer - to live,the universe and everything else)

Back to what I wanted to say.
It is really hard to find recipes on the internet. It is nearly impossible to find recipes for things that are just tasty. You find a lot of anti-fat recipes or wired african-banana-fish recipes, but nothing that is easy to cook and TASTY!

I have to buy colored foil and flashlights today. I just have to do some more light-painting (I do not know if this words exists)

My brother-in-law will wear a skirt for the next 3 days. No, not what you think. He is member of a Highland-Games-Team. I hope the weather get's a little better because all of the contests (throwing trees, fast-beer-drinking, egg-throwing, etc...) are outdoor contests.

Ice cream in the morning is odd, but tasty.

The legends get older

Light: Ghosts
Originally uploaded by salendron

...but I stay the same

For those who understand

Thousands of stories have been told, about that time. Long ago. Seems to be lost for ever.

I think it is lost for real.
What ever happens tomorrow - I am ready.
I hope you know, that I won't forget, but it is time to let new times come.

The legends get older... ...but I stay the same.

Painting with light

Light: Shapes
Originally uploaded by salendron

Yesterday night michael and me tried to do some experiments with light.

Our Equipment:

• Canon EOS 400D
• Canon EF-S18-55 Lens
• Tripod
• 4 Flashlights

None of these photos was manipulated on the PC.
We really made them looking like this just by using a high exposure time.

We waited until it was getting dark outside and then we just set up the camera on the tripod and started to take pictures with a high exposure time (10sec,15sec,30sec) while we were trying to draw some shapes.

Our first pictures weren't really what we wanted (blured,wired).
After some time we figured out how to draw without getting just blured heaps of light.

We spent hours on trying to draw different things. We drew basic shapes, PacMan like ghosts, little creatures on the playground, glowing houses and we made ourselves glow.

I think you have to see it to understand what I mean.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/salendron/

This was my first experiment. I haven't planed anything. I think I can do a lot better, if I do this with a bit more organization and planning.

And of course I will try this again.

small changes

Huge chair
Originally uploaded by salendron

I started to change a few things on my Homepage. My first change was to clean up the forum and to apply a new theme.

The next step is to rebuild the photo gallery. In the future there will be two parts. Phots and Art.

The art part - what a funny word - will contain huge versions pictures I have stored on FLICKr. - just the best ones of course.

The photo part will contain photos of events, parties or something like this.

The photo gallery should be finished until monday the 13th.

Then there is just one thing missing. The new Index. I have a wired idea, I hope you will like it.

and suddenly there was a Peacock

and suddenly there was a Peacock
Originally uploaded by salendron

Strange.. isn't it?

I just wanted to take a panorama, but then there was suddenly a peacock running around in the europa park.

Normally they are inside a cage, but this one escaped - I don't know how.

So I was able to take some real cool pictures of it while it was posing for me and all the other people standing around. It seemed like it enjoyed beeing in middle of all these people and all these cameras.

Strange animal.
Strange evening.

something new

It's time for something new. In fact a lot.
I plan to do some radical chances.

That means that:

1. I plan to create an alternative to the forum that makes more sense than a classic forum.
2. I am building a new (AJAX/PHP) photo gallery with a better and easier to use GUI
3. I plant to create a new Index (Just something that looks cooler and that has some cool features...)

how small

Planet Flowers
Originally uploaded by salendron

WEB 2.0 makes this world even smaller as it was before. Strange, but funny...

my way to weekend

Statue - Lion (black-and-white shot)
Originally uploaded by salendron

...planing... ...nonsense... ...but necessary...

I have to travel a lot today.

1.
I will drive to the train station in Klagenfurt.

2.
There I will take the train to Paternion/Feistritz at 14:01

3.
Then I will drive to Turrach with my girlfriend and then back to Fresach.

4.
At 18:54 my girlfriend and I will take the train form Paternion/Feistritz to Villach.

AND THAT'S THE POINT WHERE MY WEEKEND BEGINS!

5 hours of traveling arround for 1 weekend. Strange... ...but necessary...

it's 6AM

Planet Lizzy
Originally uploaded by salendron

...christmas morning...

listening to marilyn manson... ....in fact it is after 10PM.

I have made planet. A very cool panorama - I think.

- STOP -

What?
Whom you thought to know?
If I was what you think I am, wouldn't that be boring?
I am no genius, no great inventor, I am not stupid, not born to follow all these rules.

I think.... I am born to think far beyond all these rules that I should believe in. Or am I not? Tell me....

I think there is no great meaning of life... Life will kill me, one day. Not today.

"They said that Hell's not hot"
My purpose? No idea.
My wishes? A lot. A normal life with all it's good and bad sides. To know why I stand up in the morning.

My targets? Do something that will be remembered.

I am just a lost soul, searching for my way back home... I am as normal as all of you. Nothing special. Isn't that what makes all of us unique, to know that nothing ever changes.

Let's make history. I wish to have one big idea. One big mindblowing idea. Like Linus Torvalds, James Gosling, Douglas Adams, and all the other nobodies that had a idea that was so great that nobody ever could remove them from my memory.

Welcome to my journey. I have so many ideas and I think that's the problem.

Weekend - the bright side

Panorama: View from Lanzkron
Originally uploaded by salendron

It was a really nice weekend. I was driving around with my girlfriend searching for some good spots to take some pictures.

Fresach - Villach - Lanzkron - Finkenstein

I noticed that the best shots are the shots you don't expected. (A frog sitting on a wooden hand rail)

Did a lot of pictures. ( See the best ones on flickr.com/photos/salendron )

Panoramas, macros, black-and-white, ......

I love spending the weekends with my girlfiriend. She is the only one that understands me and all my quirks.

Funny, beautiful, cool, nice weekend.

Monday - The dark side

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

Monday is allways a strange day. Feeling tired. Feeling like it isn't right that I am awake.

Rain and storm outside. Thoughts about how unfair this world is. Hate.

I wish it is allready 2009. Don't ask.

Cold, dark......

Monday morning.

180°

Panorama Bahnhof Klagenfurt
Originally uploaded by salendron

This is my second panorama. I think it looks a lot better than the other one. Ok it has stitching errors (very little ones), but I really like it.

Today I am going to take a lot of pictutres - I hope.
I am going to Villach to take some more panoramas and to take photos of anything else that's cool, interessting or simply looks like it is something I have to take a photo of.

I think I finally found a way to express myself. Photographie has really become my hobby #1.

I don't know if my pictures are good, beautiful or significant. I don't know how other people think about my creations (I really want to know), but I found something that I really like.

I am really looking forward to go for a photo tour today. If someone want's to join me and take some cool photos with me on such a photo tour - It is really fun, trust me - just contact me.
Four - or more - eyes see more than two.

Cinema Summer

I think I will have to go to cinema more often in the next month.

FIRST REASON:

My first picture of the moon

My first picture of the moon
Originally uploaded by salendron

I wasn't easy, but I did it. The new Tele-Lens is just amazing. The other pictures of today can be found on Flickr.

come on closer

Today I bought a 55mm-200mm Tele for my EOS 4ooD. It's so cool. The other lens I've got goes from 18mm-55mm. Perfect for a lot of situations, but if you want to take a picture of something that is very far away you need something bigger. Like this!

At the moment it is raining outside. Damn. I'd like to test it!!!!!

My First Panorama

My First Panorama
Originally uploaded by salendron

Yes I did it.

After a lot of trouble doing a picture like this I really made it. A panorama consisting of 5 pictures. Ok it isn't really spectacular, but it looks nice I think!

the way of light

Drive by and trees 2
Originally uploaded by salendron

Today I will drive around a bit. Searching for something cool to take pictures of it. I'd like to have a name for this - a name for driving arround doing photos of everything cool or interessting.

suggestions? - post a comment

Today my target is to make a cool panorama.
I don't really know where to go to find a cool location for a panorama, but I am sure that 'the light will guide me'.

uh... I forgot.... I have promised a friend to drive him home today after work. - No problem I'll take him with me. I think...

At night I also want to drive arround a bit. Taking photos at nihgt is much more difficult, but also much more fun.

It is very interessting to do something without planing anything. It is so much more fun.

Ubuntu Studio and Beryl 3D Effects

Pictures say more than 1000 words. Woobey windows, windows are burning down in 3D, 3D cube Desktop switcher and much much more...

Have a look....

Me and my studio PART 1

Yes I did it. I installed Ubuntu Studio 7.04 Feisty Fawn. Only alternative installer.
Big DVD iso image.
Worked fine - except of some xserver issuses, but "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" helps a lot - did it 2 times.
Beryl also works - also just a little problem - "force aiglx" option did it for me.

These two things were done using two really good howtos.

Installing Ubuntu Studio:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Install-Ubuntu-Studio-54514.shtml


Then I activated nVidia graphic acceleration like this:
from ubuntuusers.de

7.04 (Feisty Fawn)
Man kann die Treiber bei Ubuntu über "System -> Administration->Verwaltung eingeschränkter Treiber" installieren. Diese Funktion ist derzeit in Kubuntu noch nicht implementiert. Hier wird der entsprechende Treiber bereits angezeigt und es wird gewarnt, dass die Verwendung von binären Treibern nicht risikofrei ist. Nach dem Bestätigen dieser Warnung wird der Treiber automatisch installiert und konfiguriert. Nach diesem Schritt muss der Computer neu gestartet werden.


Installing Beryl with nVidia:
http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Install_Beryl_on_Ubuntu_Feisty_with_nVidia


All the other usefull stuff (codecs, tools, fonts, etc) I used Automatix:
http://www.getautomatix.com/wiki/index.php?title=Installation


Today I won't be at home in the evening so I won't be able to wirte a userfirendly easy tutorial. I will write it tomorrow. The next step is to learn about Blender 3D and cinelarra (also needs to be installed). I am also looking for a little and easy to use document managment system. I hope I find a good one.

to be continued...

adventuresome

Today I'll give it a try. Since Ubuntu Studio was released I wanted to install it. I wanted to see, fell, experience it, but I haven't had the heart to do so. Now I think the time has come.

My Goal:

• Install a fully working Ubuntu Studio 7.04 Feisty Fawn

Tasks:

• Download it
• Install it
• Install Automatix for missing codecs and stuff
• Write a Guide about installing and configuration
  
• Getting my mobile phone working as a MODEM again
• Getting my Mouse (Logitech MX Revolution) working
• Installing Cinelerra
• Learning Blender 3D and Cinelerra

optional:

• Getting Beryl

The time has come.

Night Lines

Reflective
Originally uploaded by salendron

Yestarday evening - after a very uncomfortable dentist's appointment - my neighbour and I drove through the city to make some more pictures of light stripes and other cool things. So we drove to the university and took some pictures there. Then we took some pictures of cars driving by on the street - really cool stuff.
I really like spending my evenings like that. Just doing what I like, having fun and don't wondering about any problems.

I hope you like the pictures -> flickr.com/photos/salendron

For those that won't be there

30 seconds 1
Originally uploaded by salendron

Tomorrow LAN PARTY.

For those that won't be there I will Blog directly from where the Party is. I don't know if this Post will apear here or in my mobile blog (Link on the right). This depends on how stable the connection of my wireless UMTS MODEM mobile phone will be.

/*Comment for interessted people

I found a way to use a bluetooth dongle and my mobilephone as UMTS modem and the cool thing is that it works great and it works with Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn.
To put it easy: I connect my mobilephone wireless (via bluetooth) to my Laptop and my mobile phone does the work of a wireless modem with a maximum bandwidth of 384kb/s.
I think that's cool.

*/

If the connections is bad (terribly slow or simply not working), I will blog via my mobile phone using GPRS connection. This means shorter Posts low quality pictures an d that all post apear in my mobile blog.
I hope the UMTS will work - in fact I think it will - because in this case I can use high quality images and post more text and the post apear here in my normal blog.

We'll see.

MOBILE BLOGGING WITH SHOZU

AND IT WORX. THIS TEXT AND IMAGE WERE DIRECTLY TRANSFERED FROM MY W850I MOBILE PHONE. BECAUSE OF THIS I CREATED A NEW BLOG CALLED "ON MY WAY TO NOWHERE". This will be my mobile blog. You can access it by using this URL: http://on-the-way-to-nowhere.blogspot.com/ or using the link on the right called 'my mobile blog'

Just four weeks left

HDR Hotel
Originally uploaded by salendron

I was going to the vocational school during the last 5 weeks. Really boring, but now it is over and there are just 4 weeks left in winter. Yesterday my girlfriend, my neighbour (one of my best friends in fact) and I did some pictures in Klagenfurt at night. Really funny. There are so much little - and big things to see. We tried a lot of different things. (HDR, high exposure time, low exposure time, wired perspektives).
For example taking a tripod placing it next to a street and using an exposure time of 30 seconds to capture these cool stripes of light when cars a driving by. When we were driving home my neighbour sat on the passenger seat an took some pictures of the street with a very high exposure time while I was driving.
But this was allready the second photo-session of this day. Some hours before my girlfriend and I were at the "Europa Park". A lot of ducks and flowers.
Today I will take the train to my girlfriend's home. Maybe I will take some more photos there. - I think I am in the right mood.
I am so happy that I can go to work tomorrow and don't have to go to school again. I am really in a good mood.

PS: all photos of this wekend can be found at http://flickr.com/photos/salendron

Chaos

HDR Garage 2

salendron has added a photo to the pool:

Qtpfsgui tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Fattal
Parameters:
Alpha: 0.1
Beta: 0.8
Color Saturation: 1
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PreGamma: 1

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At the moment everything is really strange. School is strange, I feel strange, this new HDr looks strange.

Strange, isn't?