ZINNAGLISM

My new dream house

lukas — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:08:30 +0000

I am always looking through sites like notcot in order to get input for architectural input. Today I came across this stunning piece of arch….ahm…art. I almost get goosebumps only by looking at it. Belzberg Architects created an open spaced private residence overseeing Los Angeles. They (obviously) didn’t exactely mention where the house is located at, but from the view I assume it’s somewhere around Mullholland Drive. The house features such nifty aspects as an outdoor cinema, infinity pool and free hanging fireplace.

skyline residence

a tripguru sent us a pic

lukas — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:51:46 +0000

win a lomo cam on tripwolf.com

lukas — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:21:29 +0000

tripwolf is giving away several lomo cams and tripwolf t-shirts (i prefer those ones ;)). just upload your favourite travel shot.

here u go

zinnaglism by wordle

lukas — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:27:17 +0000

SU2C

lukas — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:09:55 +0000

Behind this mysterious abbrevation a US wide campaign for one of the major problems of society is hidden. STAND UP 2 CANCER. A multidimensional approach to “cure” cancer. From the mission statement it reads:

Here we stand, on the verge of unlocking the answers that will finally conquer the devastation that is cancer.
We now understand the very biology that drives cancer. With knowledge gained from the mapping of the human genome, we can now target the genes and pathways that are involved in turning normal cells into cancerous ones. We are on the brink of possessing a toolbox full of new, advanced technologies just waiting to be adapted to benefit patients. Right before us, so close we can almost touch them, are scientific breakthroughs in the prevention, detection, treatment and even reversal of this disease.
For the first time we can envision the possibility of stopping cancer in its tracks. But just when science is on the verge of giving us the breakthroughs that can end cancer, the will and the funding to do so are disappearing from the national agenda and from our collective consciousness.

Since I am personally very interested in cancer pathophysiology and epidemiology (I recently registered TheCancerDiaries.com) I thought it’s a great Idea of undertaking this global issue. As Americans tend to do, even this campaign has it’s own featurette, directed by David Fincher.

I was born under unusual Circumstances

lukas — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:55:53 +0000

Can’t wait for christmas to see this moving coming out. Brad Pitt in another great role, starring as Benjamin Button, a man whose life is getting younger instead of older. David Fincher spanned a story throughout a person’s character and it looks like this is about to become some visual mashup of Burton-Youthwithoutyouth-Lemmony Snicket.

Update: Just came across the inofficial blog

Update 2: I got ahold of an early draft of the movie and can only say it’s a must read if you are into movies. Screenplay by Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, etc.) based upon the book by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Ex ante? Mal Abwarten ;)

lukas — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:39:56 +0000

Durch eine doch recht amüsante Kette an Zufällen war ich heute partout in dem Moment bei Twitter online als Robert Basic (den ich auf einer nächtlichen Zechtour durch München ein wenig kennen lernen durfte) einen Aufruf nach österreichischen Bloggern gestartet hat. Just in diesem Moment war ich dann auch gleich der erste der geantwortet hat.

Bei solch netten "interblogären" wirkt mein Bestehen der Diplomprüfung heute morgen geradezu negligabel. Wie auch immer dank ich dem RobGreen für seine nachbarschaftliche Aufopferung und blicke dem Spiel Ö-D natürlich auch genauso entspannt entgegen wie Robert himself. Auf ein gutes Match (Hat jemand eine Ideen wo das Spiel heute ohne allzuviele Menschen aber doch in moderat gestmmert Atmosphäre zu gucken ist?).

Hinweis in eigener Sache noch. Wir sind vor kurzem mit unserer doch relativ kontroversiell empfangenen Menschensuchmaschine 123people auch in Deutschland vertreten und auf der Suche nach Social Media & Online Pr Experten - Interesse, Kritik, Einwände? Der melde sich ganz "ungschauda" bei mir.

Ein Video dass mir in den letzten Tagen zugeschanzt wurde und meine letzten 6 Jahre doch recht anschaulich wiedergibt mag ich euch nicht vorenthalten. Film ab!

L.E.S. Artistes at hollywood house party

lukas — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:02:22 +0000

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=oGz5bnzZtUk[/youtube]

Mapping the “Diseasome”

lukas — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:13:19 +0000

The New York Times recently published an interactive scientific map of diseases linked with assoiciated genes and mutations. Pretty nice vizualition!

Tags: science, genes, diseasome

music 2.0 roundup

lukas — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:04:00 +0000

Since I see myself buying more and more records (strictly speaking, vinyls) lately I discovered some nice web 2.0ish music startups from all over the planet.

POPULIZER

Populizer lets bands and artists upload their tracks and makes it easy to share them in (almost) any possible way. The idea isn’t new, yet the service does a pretty good job in serving several web based services (twitter, etc.) and non webbased distribution forms (sms, etc.). Although there aren’t a lot of bands up and running I am pretty sure stuff like this comes pretty near the future of the music industry. With struggling Majors and numerous evolving (and sometimes pretty pretty good) indie artists this is surely and efficient way of promoting their music. On a large scale Services like these need to be fully compatible with existing SNs and Services.

MOJO

Remember the good ol’ times of Napster or Audiogalaxy? Well, Mojo might be kicking in where those two died. It’s basically a Jabber based IM Client for sharing Music. It has a slick and easy to use iTunes integration, making it possible to share your entire library - from anywhere to anyone. I tried it out with my bro the other day (who is on Windows) and we experienced some issues with the .net Membership and a router firewall. Nevertheless I love the usability the app provides and hope this might bring back the old day of Napser & Co. Just wondering how long it would exist if it shows success. Other Services like TuneCore offer a similiar Service also by adding Support for itunes, amazonmp3 or Rhapsody.

SONGTEXTE

Thomas Gabriel from Internetszene recently re-launched Songtexte.com. With a database of 220.000 existing lyrics and an attached Social Net for finding similar minded Pals the service is an enjoyable rival of the tons of bulky-ad-flooded lyrics sites on the Net. Nice Add-ons such as aggregated and affiliated YouToube Vids, Band descriptions and the semantic link between people who have the same taste in music.

Besides, this is my first post written and published with Qumana - I hate the name but i like the app. Check it out…