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.

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… Continue reading Workspace of an artist…

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… Continue reading Puzzled

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… Continue reading Jet lag

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,… Continue reading Chrischona = done

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

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… Continue reading Flickriver

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.

Recent cultural activities

Saw the play “Angst” at Theater Basel. It’s a kind of like a mashup with glimpses of 3 separate households on one stage, which then interweave towards the end. Entertaining. But it is not really deep or philosophical or thought-provoking. Covers all types of fear… Saw the movie “The Namesake”. Sad and moving. Great mood.… Continue reading Recent cultural activities

Ekiden Marathon in Basel

Tomorrow in Riehen/Basel: Ekiden-Marathon I’m a substitute for one of the Lauftreff teams. For the 4.9 km distance. My very first race. See also this Wikipedia article on Ekiden races

in between

The weather turned out much better than forecast. I took this snapshot while sitting in the sun at Barfüsserplatz.

meteo update

it’s official: September 2006 was (a lot) warmer than August 2006. For the full comparison see: SF METEO

Donizetti

This week in Riehen: Opernfestival I listened into the rehearsal this afternoon. Great voices. And the stage is some kind of catwalk.

TV Sunday

I just zapped into the making of Vitus on Swiss TV: Die VITUSmacher A film I really enjoyed. If you get a chance, go see it esp. in dialect… It’s raining cats and dogs in Basel. I hope this rainy weather will not result in floods and landslides in the mountains. Yesterday I saw War… Continue reading TV Sunday

Sunny Days

Summer sports program in Basel from 10th July to 12th August: Sunny Days … they haven’t updated the pdf file with this year’s list of courses yet. [update] The pdf is up now!

Hiking Ideas

A couple of weeks ago I stopped by at the tourist information office to collect a couple of brochures on Basel for a visitor. Here are some hiking links I found in one of them (for future reference): www.wanderwege-beider-basel.ch www.jura-hoehenwege.ch www.tourenguide.ch P.S. I love the mugshots on this page.

Basel Blogger Meeting

A couple of Basel bloggers are meeting tomorrow evening at Restaurant Auf der Lyss. See Cybi’s post for details: Basler Blogger-Treff am Freitag 10. März

Blogger Meetup in Basel

If you’re a Basel blogger (or just travelling thru), there’s a meetup on December 15th at 18:30. For more details, see CyberWriter’s invitation Feel free to come along.

Blogger Meetup in Basel in March 2005

Just got back from the Swiss Bloggers meetup in downtown Basel. It was fun sharing experiences and talking about tools and seeing the blogger “in person”. As Bamboozled had announced a couple of journalists came by asking questions about blogs, star bloggers… and the future development of blogs.