the X-Mas report

...just came back home.
I spent the last 5 days at the house in the mountains.
X-Mas was a lot of fun. The whole family was there to cellebrate.
On the 25th Michael and his girlfriend Venassa were also there to take a ride with the "Nocky Flitzer".
I took a lot of pictures so if you want to know how cool it was, just take a look at them here.

Plans for X-MAS (Info)

Like every year I will spend the X-MAS holidays in the mountains with my family. (I am really looking forward to the dinner! ....mmmh jummy.....) I will return home on the 27th - or maybe a day later or earlier. Of course I will take a lot of pictures and of course I will upload them to flickr as soon as possible.
I have a lot to do during my X-MAS holidays. I plan to turn the chaos-room - I call it like that, because it is the only room that isn't finished right now - into a office to work at home.

Ok, well now I just got one last thing to say...

I wish everybody nice holidays, a nice X-MAS evening, and a happy new year!

gl hf salendron

A little secret about myself: I did it my way...

ok... I think it is time to tell you the truth.

I am a big fan of Metallica, Queens of the Stone Age, Slipknot, System of a down, Muse, Soil, Disturbed, Clawfinger and so on...


..., but I am also a Frank Sinatra fan!

uhh...

I own a T-Shirt with this picture on the front and I own a Frank Sinatra Best-Of CD and a Rat Pack Best-Of CD.

AND I LIKE IT!

Ok, now you know the dark truth about me...

*gg*
salendron

A new challenge!

I think this will be fun.

Robocode. I think I am not really able to exactly describe what it is, so let's see what WIKIPEDIA says -> ROBOCODE

Everything I could say is. It is so cool and so much fun! Please give it a try. I will be worth it! I promise.

I am developing some Robots myself, it is pretty easy for beginners to create something that works. There are a lot of samplebots and documentation.

http://www.robocode.de/ has a really great beginnersguide.

Give it a try, because I need opponents! *gg*

nearly xmas / hey the colors aren't destroyed / I don't fell like this is too much naked skin

Xmas is coming closer and somehow I am really getting into some kind of xmas-mood. Strange feeling.
I will spend Xmas at the house in the mountains with my family, (I am really looking forward to the dinner) but I think I won't stay in the mountains until new year, so I have to plan something for celebrating new year somewhere else.
Last friday I went to the x-mas party of the company I work for. It was a lot of fun. Great food, beer and great ambiance.

On saturday I bought myself a Flash (with some of the money my parents gave me for x-mas).
I always was a bit afraid of flashes, because the build-in flash of my camera always destroyed all the colors in the picture and made it look sterile, but with this flash I have so much more posibilities and if I do it right my pictures turn out really cool. (in my oppion, of course)

So i had to test the flash on saturday evening. I wanted to take some shots of the tatoo on my girlfriend's back.

A friend said that these pictures should be zensored. Zensored? Why?
Maybe he is not the only one that thinks so, but I think that it is a beatiful back. Not more not less.

When I made the shots she wasn't really nude, just the upper part of her body was.
The photos show her always from behind (because that's were the tatoo is).

What do you think? Is this too much? Does the photo show to much skin?

Use the comment function and tell me what you think.

Leaving Home - Part 4 - Finally

... it is done.
This weekend wasn't really recreative. So much work.
Moving is really exhausting, but at the moment everything seems to be great.
I moved to my new home this weekend and I love it. It is so great to have a place to call my own.
I want to thank everyone that helped me a lot for everything they did.
And of course I want to thank my girlfriend for making this place a great place to live.
Everyone who want's to see more can either take a look to here (more photos will follow soon) or just visit me at my new home!

Leaving Home - Part 3 - It's getting serious

Uhhh...
Stress.

I got 2 extra-holydays for moving to the new flat. That's pretty cool, but that means that I have a lot to do to benefit from these 2 days.

My room needs to be empty - except of the furniture - until tomorrow evening.
The pc room will be a lot of work. Don't know where to start.
Since monday I pack things to my car to take them to the flat on my way home from work, than I go home and pack the next things to take them to the flat on the next day.

Puuh... A lot of work.

to be continued....

Leaving Home - Part 2

Yesterday I started packing. Six big boxes so far.
Just a few minutes ago I was told that I will get my keys today at 17:00. That means that from now on I will take a few things to the flat everyday after work.
That means the stress has begun.
I have to pack everyday to take some more to the flat everyday and I have to get everything - except of the furniture - to the flat until friday afternoon.

A lot to do I think!
to be continued....

Leaving home

That's how it looks right now. It is 9:00 AM - sunday morning. It is the last sunday, which I will spent here. Next sunday I will allready wake up in my own little (71qm) flat. MY OWN.
This week will be very stressful I think.

Here is my TODO-List:

• Getting all my stuff into packing cases. (It is a lot of stuff)
• Getting all my paintings and pictures into a safe wrapping.
• Getting my keys.
• Transport everything into the flat.
• Getting the new furniture.
• and then start to build all the furniture together and get all the stuff back in place.

I think this will be a lot of hard work.
But I think, in the end it will all be worth it.

Unfair

So what have we learned?
World is unfair. We learned that it is completly senseless to work hard, try to learn a lot, try to make everything right, because someone showed us that doing nothing, behaving like a stupid spoiled child is absolutly enough to get whatever you want!
I feel like everything I did, does not mean anything!
I could not be proud of myself, if a stupid idiot is allowed to do whatever he want's and I have to work hard to get I want!

Why?
Tell me!
NOW!

I wasn't writing for quiet a long time, but in fact there's a lot tell.

Photowalk
There was another Photowalk some time ago. It was really fun. Great colors. Great people and a lot of great pictures.

You can read about it here -> http://www.photowalk.at/
The photos are available here -> Photowalk Group Pool


This weekend I decided to get my self into the mountains (Turracherhöhe). Snow! A lot!
It was really wired to drive back home on sunday - to drive back into autumn.

Back to school - the last time

I quit school 3 years ago, but because I am an apprentice for 3 years now I had to go to school 9 weeks per year.
On monday I have to go to school again. It will be the last 4.5 weeks going to this school. Normally I hated to go there - It is boring - ,but this time I think it is something like some time to breath again. Work was very hard during the last weeks. I think school will be a great alternation.
Don't get me wrong, I really love my Job, but I had a lot of stress during the last weeks.
I have a little private project going on and I hope to have more time for it in the next weeks than I have now.
School is easy so it won't be very hard for me to get the marks I want.

Maybe I will like school for the first time in my life, allthough it will be the last time to go there.

About Halo3 and god, lonlyness and the my search for people that help me try something stupid

Let's start with Halo3 and God.

As I read the news today - I only read them online - I found an article about the usage of Halo3 as a tool to get younger people into church. This happens in america, really!
-> http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=3065770
How crazy is that? Do they say something like: "Come on kids, let's pray and then we'll kill some Aliens!"

Something is wrong with this world.

yes something is wrong. Also with my world. I feel a little bit like left behind on a lonely island. All the people that were allways there for me to talk, to go for a beer, to hang around are now gone! I don't blaim them to do something wrong - hell, no! - It's their life! They had to do so and it is like it is. I know there is no better way, but I feel lonely. I am left behind. Maybe it's my own fault.
ICQ helps, but it's not the same. I am very looking forward to the day I will meet them again. I hope they want to meet me too.

People. that's a word. I am searching for some people for trying something wired. I am not god. I can'T do it alone. No way. I have made a little FAQ about it.

You can find it here-> http://www.the-engine.at/ppi.htm

Maybe someone can help me. I hope so.

I am hoping for a lot of things right now.

salendron

Boxing and the creatures in the garden

I think that hurts.
This weekend I visited the Boxportverein Millstätter See. It was great to watch their training even if the light was really bad so the photos did not turn out very good.
I hope to have the chance to take some more photos of them under a bit better conditions.

I also build some chestnut creatures with my girlfirend and placed them in the garden to take some pictures of them.
I know that I am childish, but it was fun - really.

The Honk and the only real Dude

Ok. I think I have to explain.
First of all everything started as I called somebody a HONK. Just in this moment I realized that I don't really know what a HONK is.
So I asked the god of senseless information (the internet) whata HONK is.
And it shown an image. This one. A hairy brown ball with big green eyes.
So this is a Honk. Cool. or maybe not... ...who cares...


So. Now I have to tell you who the real dude is. Him->

Thanks for reading.

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.