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Projekt 52 2008
Project “Show Colors”Are my blogging ideas and interest in danger of going down this spiralling black hole these days? Or is it the humid heat? Well, we might never know…
Boiling heat
Summer stench
'Neath the black the sky looks dead
Soundgarden, "Black Hole Sun"
02
Jul
2009
The black hole
29
Jun
2009
Projekt 52/26: Math around you
The next topic of Projekt 52…
- though I can see why one would like to do so with the bills and taxes one has to pay
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28
Jun
2009
Links, Images and Videos of the Week (2009/26)
- A volcanic eruption on the Kuril Islands, photographed from the Space Shuttle (via @BadAstronomer):
(Image: NASA Earth Observatory) - More great photos taken from the shuttle at The Big Picture
- Photos of fighter jets breaking the sound barrier (via @grantimahara)
- The Baloney Detection Kit (via Astrodicticum)
That little faggot got his own jet airplane
That little faggot he's a millionaire
Dire Straits, "Money For Nothing"
27
Jun
2009
Ruinous Roses
I’ve got some photos from last Sunday left when, after attending a record-CD-DVD-computer-whatever sale in Ingolstadt, I did a little photo tour through the Klenzepark.
As usual also available as Flickr slideshow…
English Rose, a crown of thorns
I hope you're staying around
English rose, a long long time
Before you wear me down
Motörhead, "English Rose"
26
Jun
2009
State Of Shock?
At least a part of the music world certainly is in a state of shock today after Michael Jackson’s death yesterday (no, I’m not really including myself in this part)… I personally liked his music in Thriller and Bad times to some extent, but that’s not what this is about – neither is his, erm, partially eccentric, insane and dubious lifestyle especially in later years –, but instead it’s about Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury, for they were actually friends for some time and recorded a few songs together – which, however, were never released this way, since that friendship ended when Michael got so successfull with Thriller, and as far as I remember, different ways of life also mattered…
Anyway, there is a quite nice demo version of “State Of Shock” (still-image video) as duet by Freddie and Michael which the latter later recorded and released with Mick Jagger, and a demo of the Queen/Freddie song1 “There Must Be More To Life Than This”, which, however, isn’t that great in this duet version, hence here also the link to the final Freddie version; Jackson wasn’t that great on ballads anyway, now was he? I wasn’t able to find the third song that is said to exist, “Victory”.
Brian May wrote on his blog-like “Soapbox” a few words about Jackson, if anyone’s interested.
- was originally planned for the Queen album The Works, but ended up on Freddie’s solo album after he and Brian had written “Is This The World We Created…?” [↩]
And another one gone and another one gone
Another one bites the dust
Queen, "Another One Bites The Dust"
24
Jun
2009
Vintage cars en masse
And I only picked 44 photos – the Donau Classic Oldtimer-Rallye 2009 in Ingolstadt and the surrounding area featured 190 cars from 1928 to 19841. On Saturday afternoon, they had to drive a small round course in Pfaffenhofen’s city center, including my street. I concentrated mostly on the older cars for my photos because I think they are more interesting than those from the 70s and 80s.
In this post I’m only showing a selection of the selection; all 44 photos are available on Flickr, e.g. as set overview and as slideshow.
(The cars’ specifications are taken from the official start list.)
The oldest one, a Bentley 4,5 ltr. open from 1928:
Alvis Speed 20 (1935):
BMW 600 “Rennsemmel” (=”Racing bread-roll”) (1959):
Riley TT spezial (1936):
Hudson Big Six Sedan (1935):
Josef Kulzer Fiat Kulzer Spezial (1940):
Horch 930 V Cabrio (1939):
This “Pi” looks funny, but the start list is wrong here, since this silver Porsche certainly is no black-red Ferrari:
DKW F 89 L (1953) – not much beer left…:
MG A 1500 MK I (1959) – The almost drove straight ahead without going their rounds… [Insert joke about blondes.]
Fiat 500 (1973):
Front: Jaguar XK 120 SE OTS (1953), back: Triumph TR 4A / IRS (1967):
That’s the end of this selection of a selection – as I said, there’s more on Flickr: set overview, slideshow.
- well, 3 new ones (2008) before and after the actual rallye were also on the course [↩]
We were talkin' 'bout the old times
We went walking down the streets we used to run
Roger Taylor, "No Violins"
23
Jun
2009
Projekt 52/25: 100 meters away from home
The next topic of Projekt 52…
Topic 25: 100 meters away from home
Measured with Google Earth, this somewhat picturesque little tower on the local Hotel Müllerbräu is exactly1 100 meters from my front door – directly at Pfaffenhofen’s Hauptplatz (main square). The freshly renovated town hall is also worth a look (but a few meters further away):
It was illuminated in blue and yellow on its re-inauguration celebration, see hier.
- as exactly as you can tell from not too sharp Google Earth photos and when the front door is a few meters behind the house front due to a small passage… [↩]
Maybe I'll find on the way down the line that I'm free, free to be me
Black night is a long way from home
Deep Purple, "Black Night"
