Gratiscomictag 2012

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2012, Buchtipp, Comics, Gratis, Gratiscomictag, kostenlos, literatur, spamdora

Liebe Comicfreunde … am 12.Mai 2012 findet der deutsche Gratiscomictag statt. Das heißt in ganz Deutschland haben 188 Händler (zur Zeit gemeldet) für Euch 30 verschiedene Comics zum verschenken parat. Ich werde mir das ganze in Dresden anschauen und möglicherweise einen Comic mir gratis mitnehmen, denn ihr wisst ja, einem geschenktem Gaul, schaut man nicht ins Maul.

Mehr Info zu diesem besonderen Tag erhaltet ihr hier: Gratiscomicday 2012

You can vote every day (for the next 3 days)

in the Webby Awards for Evelyn Evelyn- Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn Online Film and Video Music category here: http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?media_id=97
And here is a vimeo link w/ all the info: http://vimeo.com/29939081

And these are all the people it takes to catch Evelyn & Evelyn writing on a frosty window:

Director: Hoku Uchiyama – hokuuchiyama.com
Produced by: Erich Lochner, Matt Miller, and Adam Bolt
Lead Animator: Adam Bolt
Executive Producers: Jason Webley & Amanda Palmer
Director of Photography: Adam David Meltzer
Evelyn Evelyn played by: Lexi Ibrahim & Nikki Ibrahim
Composite Work: Travis Gorman & Michael Scott
Additional Composite Work: Caleb Clark & Geronimo Moralez
Skeleton-Dance Animator: Julian Birchman
Additional Animation: David Johnston
Character Design: Adam Bolt
Additional Character Design: Odessa Sawyer
Wardrobe Designer: Jessica Huang
Production Design: David A. Novak
1st Assistant Camera: Louis Normandin
Gaffer/Dolly Grip: Rex Kinney
Sound Design: Mike Weinstein
VFX Consultants: Dan Blank & Arvin Bautista
Hair & Makeup: Stephanie Bravo
Skeleton-Dance Performance & Choreography: Shaheed Qaasim & Joanna Meinl
Production Manager: Sky Prendergast

the SOLOWHEEL …that´s one cool thingy i want

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action, fun, ride, solowheel, sport, technics, transportation, you tube

Hamburg: ACHTUNG! SIE BEFINDEN SICH IM GEFAHRENGEBIET!!!

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demonstration, fc st.pauli, fußball, gefahrengebiet, hamburg, hamburger DOM, hansa rostock, mißbrauch, polizei, radio hamburg

wer sich heute in st.pauli aufhält, sollte von diesen handzetteln wissen…

https://twitter.com/#!/mopo_sport/status/193987703610675202/photo/1/large

sie klebten an den haustüren der anwohner. ja, anwohner…denn in st,pauli wohnen ganz normale leute…genau wie in eppendorf oder anderen stadtteilen von hamburg.

nur das wegen einer demonstration ein ganzer stadtteil von der polizei zum offiziellen gefahrengebiet erklärt wird, empfinde ich als ein maßloses ausnutzen der staatsmacht.

ich zitiere aus dem zettel:

“da die lage für die hamburger polizei schwierig zu kontollieren sein wird, bitten wir sie am spieltag zwischen 9 und 20 uhr ihr haus nur im notfall zu verlassen. sollten sie ihr haus dennoch verlassen müssen, bitten wir sie im vorfeld unter u.g. telefonnummer die dauer und route ihres außerhäusigen aufenthalts anzumelden. die führung ihres gültigen personalausweises ist unbedingte pflicht. ohne anmeldung und personalausweis droht ihnen ein platzverweis und eine ingewahrsamname.”

und das lustigste: bei radio hamburg sagen sie immer noch, man könne locker zum DOM gehen heute…nach der lektüre des handzettels halte ich das für weniger empfehlenswert.

grüße aus der einflugschneise

nat

 

Blood Passage by Michael J. McCann (book review)

I won this book along with 7 others (although some of the authors sent (signed!!!) extras) and I am going to review each and every one of them.

Blood Passage (Amazon link):  http://amzn.com/0987708708

I don’t really read crime novels or mysteries. I have read one children’s mystery a few months ago and several Janet Evanovich books because those can be really funny.

Blood Passage isn’t the average crime novel because there is a bit of the ‘unknown’ in the plot. Four years previous to the beginning of the book, a rather straight-laced Asian fellow in his twenties was murdered. Now a three-year-old boy has convinced a university researcher that he was the murdered Asian man, well… before.

Lieutenant Hank Donaghue and snappy, sassy Detective Karen Stainer are investigating a related attack, then the cold case of Martin Liu, the young man murdered four years ago and trying to balance the information from the three-year-old as the bodies pile up.

The social hierarchies of Asian communities and the police force are examined and explained in comprehensive detail. I actually studied Asian culture and Mandarin for awhile in college (don’t ask me anything!!!) and enough research was done and detail used that I didn’t laugh and I felt like I had learned a few things.

Blood Passage is entertaining and exciting all the way to the last page. I am glad that I had the opportunity to read it.

Spank it! (Greatest Cartoon Ever?)

Goofy Goat Antics

Alas, Alas, The Best Laid Plans

A Car-Tune Portrait (for your listening pleasure):

The Villains are getting me on their Slow Train – Music Review

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Eric Fish, indiependent german music, music, review, Slow Train, support, The Villains, wieso sitzen sie da

Saxony has some bands and musicians that seem to be very representative these days in Germany … like Kraftklub (which I don’t like), Silbermond (which one I don’t like either). Back in 1997 I was studying in Zwickau and I was witness to the Record Release Party of the debut album of THE VILLAINS. I liked their show but I still cannot remember why I didn’t buy their stuff on that evening. I probably was as often later and before madly broke. So, anyway. I read later from time to time of these guys and I was hoping to have the chance to see them live again. But anyhow I couldn’t make it to any other concert and I didn’t recognize the release of their second album SLOW TRAIN. It was released in 2009. So, some years later I just realised that I have to apologize.

The whole album “Slow Train” is a sophisticated alternative music with deeply touching lyrics and sounds that gets deep into my music loving heart. I absolutely love the arrangements and the singing voice. (That is usually one of the important stuff I have to like … next to drums and bass …) I like the Villains sound. It is not overwhelming. It is anyhow great relaxing music to me.

The band sings in English and German and I like both of it.

If you want to know more about the band … check them out.

@Youtube: thevillainsde
@homepage: The Villains

And P.S: One of the most touching song with German lyrics and in cooperation with Eric Fish … “Wieso sitzen sie da” … was the single of Slow Train.

The Next Time Someone Says the Internet Killed Reading Books, Show Them This Chart – The Atlantic

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books, internet kills reading books, leselust, literature, reading, spamdora. message, statistics

Dear Readers of this blog. Today is an awesome high holiday (inclusive Sunshine in Hamburg) … take your recent book you actually read or you ever wanted to read (when you are alone and/or not) and read. Because Internet cannot kill the reading of analog books.

I found that pretty cool article bout this topic and I wanted to suggest it to you to read (before you take your own book.

The Next Time Someone Says the Internet Killed Reading Books, Show Them This Chart – The Atlantic.

I will read on with Mario Puzo “The Godfather” because I will be today completely alone and you need to do pretty lovely things on a holiday.

HAPPY EASTER anyone.

Kongen av Bastøy – King of Devil’s Island – Review

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film, Filmfest Hamburg, King of Devil's Island, Kongen av Bastøy, Marius Holst, motionpictures, review, Stellan Skarsgård, suggestion

I lately went to cinema to watch the audience hit of last years Hamburg Filmfest and the hit in the “homecountry” Norway from 2010 by Marius Holst – King of Devil’s Island.

The synopsis … the story is about a prison for young boys that actually existed between 1900 – 1953 (as I do remember). The island Bastøy is a small island 50km south ot Oslo. The picture story takes place in 1915 when one really “bad” boy enters with an other one the Island. His story will be told.

The prison director (Stellan Skarsgård) tries to teach those young boys with christian passion and with strict rules. His colleagues are rough and fulfill the rules with psychological terror and physical terror. The new prisoner is a kind of Messiah to these imprisoned boys and you will see his rising and falling in 2 hours of heartshattering, earthbreaking amazing play by that complete cast. The people who work at the prison are convincing but the young boys are brillant. The movie is not popcorn. You have to want to see it. The setting is extremely dark (as you can see in the trailer) and the music is stunning. I was happy to see this motionpicture pearl and I absolutely understood the wish of those boys to leave the prison. None wants to stay there (Besides the fact that fleeing was incredibly different.) AND the Soundtrack to it is terrifying beautiful.

This picture started in German theatres two weeks ago. If you can watch it as well, give it a chance. More info bout it @ IMDB: King of Devil’s Island