geoff News

Some thoughts on Egypt

geoffrey — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:48:10 GMT

This so called Egyptian Uprising really got me. I've been in vagually similar states myself: academic debates, protest marches and demonstrations, defending the hainburger au (a floodplain forest on the boundaries of Vienna), then also experiences in civil war guatamala and clandestine Honduras. One BBC interviewee described it as spirituality. It comes close. Masses on the streets for days with mutual just causes. Neighbors, strangers, students, soldiers and vegetable vendors (yes, I also mean Mohammed Bouazizi).

What do they do. We think of them as chanting. But that is only some of them part of the time.

The rest of the time they were talking to eachother.

Maybe they organised by facebook, texted through twitter. But the rest, the big stuff, what made and will make the difference: was word of mouth.

Communicating and sharing the essence of being with strangers, students, soldiers and vegetable vendors. That is what, together with their glory and happiness, they have ahead of us.

Primitive Studios Vienna - Relaunch

geoffrey — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:24:37 GMT

My good friend Lupo Plainer gave the Primitive Studios a work-over: now it has excellent, WAI 1,2, and 3 conform code - and an even better appearance to boot. (The original Site was also his design.) So if you need a sound studio in Vienna, take a look at Primitive Studios.

Then again, if you need a standards-conform website, that still looks good: contact Lupo & me.

Vielfach - the cool new modular shelving system

geoffrey — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:46:35 GMT

My friends Florian Harmer & Christian Thurner have gone in production with a great new modular shelving system that looks and is, well - way cool: the vielfach system The 4 different sized shelf-squares (einfach, zweifach, dreifach & vierfach) can be stuck together in literaly thousands of ways, either stand-alone or wall-mounted.

Vielfach is german for "multiple", "multiplicative", or "in many cases" - and thus quite self-descriptive.

PHP Security Blog

geoffrey — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:50:44 GMT

Bernd has opened a new blog on PHP security. After years of expertise in the sector he has chosen to share his experience with the programming community - and with us;-). There would nbemuch more I could tell you about him and his work, but I'm never sure what is confidential and what not, as much of his stuff is published under pseudonyms. Best you go there yourself, or subscribe the PHP Security Feed

Ich verstecke Menschen

geoffrey — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:22:34 GMT

Ich verstecke Menschen (I hide people) is a project by Anthony Wagner in coop. with Austrian artists, cultural inititiativs and NGOs. Ich verstecke Menschen is an impetus generated by pressure of reality - triggered by the subhuman treatment of non-Austrians by Austrians. Ich verstecke Menschen tells empathy with the prosecuded.

Ich verstecke Menschen ist ziviler Ungehorsam. Ich verstecke Menschen ist ein leistbarer Beitrag zur Menschlichkeit für alle. Ich verstecke Menschen ist ein öffentliches Bekenntnis. Ich verstecke Menschen ist eine Anlaufstelle, für Menschen, die versteckt werden wollen. Ich verstecke Menschen ist mutig und gut. Ich verstecke Menschen zeigt Empathie mit den Verfolgten.

Have a look

Courage Films - International Documentaries and Image Films

geoffrey — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 23:03:36 GMT

Welcome to the Club, Hermann! Hermann Kurasch is the owner and driving force of Courage Films Multimediaproduktionen KEG, that moved into the "FOX" this year. Hermann does good work for good projects - one of my favorites is the documentary Living with Gods : Susanne Wenger a portrait of an Austrian artist whoes life was a bridge between Africa's past and Europe's present.

So now we finally have in-house film production, and a small but state-of-the-art digital cutting studio that can be rented through Hermann too. Take a look at his new site: