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My Basel bicycle tip

I managed to break the key of my bicycle lock last night. Tomotec helped me to extract the broken key from the lock for free. Thank you. Tip: remember to lubricate your bicycle lock at regular intervals!
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Analog Tweet

I found this text on the back of a signpost in downtown Basel: An example of an analog tweet…
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Autumn 2009

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Van Gogh credit card

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Confetti, Räppli and Coriandoli

For the record: Confetti is called Räppli in Basel Deutsch. Confetti is called coriandoli in Italian.
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Bauzaun Art

I stumbled across a temporary art gallery along the board fence of a construction site in downtown Basel. An excellent idea. See also this online gallery of Bauzaun Art in Hamburg.
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Biker’s Rant

An intense heading for a small observation, while cycling home from work: I noticed that many drivers and other cyclists make a lot of assumptions. A sincere road traffic faith that everything will work out in the end. For instance, I signaled that I was planning to turn left, and pulled across the road to [...]
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Sempé at the Cartoon Museum in Basel

I went to see the Sempé show today. I had seen parts of it during the Museumsnacht, but the small museum was over crowded and I decided at the time that I’d come back another day. My French grammar books at school were illustrated with cartoons from Le Petit Nicolas. It wasn’t really quiet today either. There [...]
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Blaggede… Surprise…

How do you know you’ve arrived at the Basel* Swiss railway station? You can hear at least 2 people calling out at regular intervals: Blaggede Surprise (French pronounication) *Basel has 3 train stations.
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The Sunday before Christmas

The jog log: Slow but steep run to Bettingen (the long way) through slush, mud and melted snow. The temperature was around 5 to 8 degrees plus. Perfect running weather. The soles of my feet were burning for much of the way. Maybe the wrong pair of socks…? But I kept going and feel [...]
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Snow

Still find snow exciting. Like a little kid. Frozen water falling from the sky. The tag: living in a deep freezer
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Metropole Switzerland

Before I moved to Switzerland I read an article discussing the idea or rather the vision of Switzerland being one metropolitan area with ultra-fast trains zipping to and fro between the commercial centres. Recently this topic has filtered through to me again. I’m assuming that in a specialized context it has been discussed all along. As I [...]
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Lebenszeichen

some personal stuff about me that you don’t want to know: Two days ago I spilled hot coffee on my laptop keyboard. I feel very stupid. I am mad at myself… my only hope is that the letter m will recover. I am thinking of setting up a Donate button. I didn’t think something so stupid [...]
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Portes Ouvertes this weekend

Last minute pointer: Kunstschaffende aus Basel und der Region öffnen alle zwei Jahre an einem Wochenende ihre Ateliertüren, um einem interessierten Publikum Einblick in ihr Schaffen zu gewähren. Portes Ouvertes is happening this weekend. Various Basel artists are taking part. A great way to see how artists work. Hat tip: Martin Gyger, who is also taking part.
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Zemanta

I am learning a lot from the African blogs I am reading… App+frica recently wrote about useful web applications for bloggers in developing countries. In his list he mentions Zemanta: Zemanta, which just scored a new round of funding from Union Square Ventures, is a huge time saving tool. It’s a browser-side plug-in that scans the context of [...]
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Art Attack

Here are the details of the art show that Martin Gyger mentioned when I visited his workspace a couple of weeks ago: Date: 5th to 7th September 2008, Time: Friday and Saturday from 17:00 to 20:00, Sunday from 15:00 to 18:00, Place: Reichensteinerstr. 14, 4053 Basel, map.
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Orchard of old varieties

i went a-photowalking and learned about a project that is collecting and growing old varieties of fruit.
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Zittel and Sosnowska at Schaulager

Schaulager is currently showing work by Andrea Zittel and Monika Sosnowska. If you get a chance to go, you should. I particularly enjoyed Zittel’s design and architecture-related work. And Sosnowska’s Corridor is great.
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Workspace of an artist…

Just a quick note pointing to some snapshots I took on Saturday in Martin Gyger’s studio. I like seeing other people’s workplaces… Martin told me that he will be moving into a new workspace very soon, but before he moves out he’ll organize an exhibition. I forget the exact date but this should be some time [...]
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Puzzled

This t-shirt text puzzled me this morning… ZIM TST ERN I figured it out after a while but at first I kept associating ZIM with Zimbabwe. I’ve uploaded two batches of snapshots to my Flickr stream. I’m a snapshotter at heart and I’m not spending much time correcting or editing my work (yet). Unhindered by talent or technical skills, [...]
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Jet lag

Last night was the second night that I couldn’t sleep cos of jet lag. Instead of trying to relax, I started googling for sites on combatting jet lag. One thing is sure, I’m doing it wrong. Apparently it takes one day of recovery for every timezone I crossed… My current strategy is to go out and [...]
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Chrischona = done

A small feat to celebrate in my personal blog: I jogged uphill from Riehen to St. Chrischona today at a slow and leisurely pace. The first part was tough, but about half way between Riehen and Bettingen I started to feel better. I guess the endorphin production kicked in. Despite a setback due to flu, [...]
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Next Level Parzival

Here’s a blog post to encourage you to go see “Next Level Parzival” at the Schauspielhaus in Basel. I saw it yesterday evening and can recommend it. If you’re a bit like me, you’ll read the Wikipedia entry on Parzival afterwards. Further links: Deutschlandfunk
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Flickriver

Scrolling Ad Infinitum: I discovered a new Flickr tool called Flickriver… It loads all images into one long html page, i.e. you simply scroll down to view all pictures for a tag or group: My contacts My faves Malawi group Canon ImageBrowser to FlickrUploadr: BTW, I’ve found a shortcut how to add photos from Canon ImageBrowser to Flickr Uploadr. In the ImageBrowser, [...]
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Postcard from Basel

Print it out and send it home: I took a couple of spontaneous snapshots in St.Alban. Mostly stuff I see when I go running along the riverbanks. Like this graffiti. Or this analog sms. BTW, you can see my recent Flickr pics on black.
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