Wägitalersee

This weekend we were at the Wägitalersee to celebrate my father’s birthday. It was a very nice day, the sun was shining, we catched some fish, had some nice grilled meat – what else do you need?

The full gallery can be seen here: http://gallery.shihan-online.ch/main.php?g2_itemId=345

I also made some macro shots etc. there, those images can be seen here (the first 6 pics): http://gallery.shihan-online.ch/main.php?g2_itemId=25

Zürifäscht 2007 – Albaner vs Albaner?

This is too funny… but only if you live in Switzerland and know the “situation”. You should master swiss german if you want to listen to the following clip (actually no video avaiable):

Finally someone who tells what he thinks / Ändlich mal eine wo sini Meinig seit ;-)

Zürifäscht 2007

This weekend the “Zürifäscht” took place in Zurich. It’s the the biggest Volksfest ;-) of Switzerland and takes places every three years. It had a bit more than 2 million visitors. Have a look at some impressions:

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You can see more pictures of that evening in my image gallery @ gallery.shihan-online.ch. I also made some videos of the firework, the ferris wheel and the party at the Bürkliplatz with my new camera:

As always it was great fun – let’s wait 3 years again ;-)

Nice to have – Inkscape

Ever wanted to create some nice vector graphics? Don’t want to spend money to buy “CorelDraw” or “Xara Xtreme”. I suggest to take a look at “Inkscape”. It’s free, it’s opensource, it’s fast, easy to use, good looking and much more.

Inkscape

The program also supports various languages (with auto detection) and is avaiable for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. You can get the latest version on the offcial homepage: http://www.inkscape.org

There you’ll also find some tutorials for beginners and some more example graphics.

Video effect test

Uhhhh… do not mistake this blog as a Battletar Galactica blog… it is just a phase that I am going through ;-)

I have been playing arround a bit with Adobe Premiere Pro 2 and Sony Vegas7 (two great video editing tools) and edited some clips. Here is an example where I added glow and light effects. I really like the result (and I hope I am not the only one):

When you click on the video you can go to my other videos on youtube, maybe you find one that interests you :-)

Everything changes?

I always thought that the todays youth (yes, I belong to it ;-) ) is propably the worst, dumbest, laziest in history. Well you know what I mean, you always hear such stuff. But today I read the following quote:

“Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.”

Socrates (469 BC – 399 BC)

So maybe everything is like always, nothing changes. An old conflict that will never end. More great and interesting quotes can be found here: http://www.quotationspage.com