The Mission Backup Earth team is very proud to announce a meet&greet with David Prowse.
It will happen on Tuesday, June 9th 7:30pm at:
Otherland
Bergmannstr. 25
10961 Berlin
We would love to see you there!
Category Archives: Blog
Turning off Javascript
Oh. My. God. I have had NoScript enabled which pretty much claims to do the same thing, but it still seems to slow the browser down considerably. Not to mention the constantly nagging dialog boxes.
If you actually turn off Javascript in Firefox like so (see image), the browsing speed increase is tremendous. I was surprised myself.
Sure, it feels like you’re surfing the web in 1997 and I had to turn Javascript back on in order to be able to upload the above image to this posting, but boy is it quick.
And I suspect that there is _a lot_ of room for speed improvement with clever coding. Come on coders!! Do it! Save those CPU cycles!
Does technology really create freedom?
Today I dropped of two letters that my 6-year old daughter wrote yesterday. She created the envelopes herself using old magazine pages.
This got me thinking once again about technology and the common claim, that technology inevitably leads to more freedom. Ttry to write an Email to someone using your headers and formatting instructions that you designed.
I understand that in the interest of interoperability and basic digital computing instructions premises that it’s important to come up with standards of communications. And it does have its perils if everybody is on the same page.
But some freedom is lost when you’re not able to just stick a stamp on it and send it off.
Please post links to other creative packaging in the comments.
Premiere – Hörspiel “Wasserbomben”, Donnerstag 19. Februar 2015
Liebe Freunde,
letztes Jahr produzierte das Kinder- und Jugendtheater des Grips Theaters das Stück “Wasserbomben” von Susanne Lipp. Dazu gibt es jetzt ein Hörspiel und das hat am 19. Februar Premiere im Kinder- und Jugendzentrum “Spirale” in Wilmersdorf. Beides (Theaterstück und Hörspiel) hat musikalisches von mir.
Wir würden uns freuen, wenn ihr zahlreich erscheint!!
Pressemeldung des Grips Werke e.V.
Hörspiel-Premiere:
Im Hörspiel-Krimi »Wasserbomben« kommen Kinder einem Umweltverbrechen auf die Spur
Das Hörspiel Wasserbomben, produziert von GRIPS Werke e.V., hat am 19. Februar 2015 Premiere im Jugend- und Kulturzentrum SPIRALE. Das Projekt Wasserbomben wie auch der gleichnamige Hörspiel-Krimi beschäftigen sich mit dem Thema Wasser als Ressource, (Über-) Lebensmittel und Ware.
In dieser Hörspiel-Fassung des WASSERbomben-Mitspiel-Krimis von Susanne Lipp und Andreas Joppich, der seit Februar 2014 in Berliner Schulen gespielt wird, erleben Kinder im Alter von 10-12 Jahren eine globale Kriminalgeschichte. Die fiktive Reise auf den Spuren des Wassers führt sie nach Süddeutschland, Kasachstan und Brasilien. Eigentlich reisen sie im Auftrag des neuen Schulsponsors HomeTec, doch in Kasachstan passiert die erste Reisepanne und sie lernen Yerlan kennen, einen 14-jährigen Jungen, dessen Freund an vergiftetem Brunnenwasser gestorben ist.
Mit diesem Opfer globaler Wasserproblematik beginnt die Ermittlung rund um den Globus. Gemeinsam lernen die Kinder die Gefahren von Wasserverschmutzung bei der Herstellung von Computerchips kennen und nehmen die Entwicklung des Geschehens selbst in die Hand.
Wasserbomben
eine Hörspiel-Fassung von Susanne Lipp
nach dem gleichnamigen Mitspiel-Krimis von Susanne Lipp und Andreas Joppich
Regie: Philipp Harpain
Sprecher_innen: Sara Spennemann, Fabian Monasterios und Stefanie Kaluza
Kindersprecher_innen: Aimée Adamowsky, Mascha Horakh, Lena Lauterbach, Pia Liebchen, Lara Polewacz, Helin-Maya Schwarz, Rike Sindler, Bo Kejatan Stobbe, Jakob Wohlrab
Ton und Schnitt: Hans Hafner
Regie-Assistenz: Wendy Pladeck
Assistenz: Laura Miriam Walter, Lisa Vagts
Organisation: Janina Reinsbach
Die Hörspiel-Premiere findet statt
am Donnerstag, 19. Februar 2015
um 18:00 Uhr
im Großen Saal vom Jugend- und Kulturzentrum SPIRALE (1. Stock)
Westfälische Straße 16A, 10709 Berlin
Dauer des Hörspiels: ca 1 Stunde
Mehr Informationen unter www.wasserbomben.org
Pressekontakt: GRIPS Werke e.V., 0176 75464216, info@wasserbomben.org
My personal list of top 10 cultural works
Over on Twitter I`ve reached 10000 tweets the other day and as a countdown to the 10000th tweet I decided to create a list of the 10 works that most helped me grow as a person and as an artist.
Here is that list as one posting and because of the number of tweets I just decided I`ll leave those numbers in front of the works:
9991 Van Gogh – Cafe Terrace at Night
„Gogh4“ von Vincent van Gogh – Unbekannt. Lizenziert unter Gemeinfrei über Wikimedia Commons.
9992 Georg Büchner “Danton’s Tod”
9993 Miles Davis – Bitches Brew
9995 The Simpsons – “Lisa’s Substitute”
9996 Beethoven – Symphony Nr. 7 II. Allegretto
9993 Blackbird (Lennon/McCartney) – Jaco Pastorius
9997 Network – “I’m as mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it”
9998 Igor Stravinsky – Rite of Spring (esp. from minute 3:25)
9999 Goethe – “Faust”
10000 is not a work of fiction but a quote by Martin Luther King:
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
12 Amazing Things Scientists Discovered About Music This Year – Mic
6. It can actually cure tinnitus.
12 Amazing Things Scientists Discovered About Music This Year – Mic.
That’s why you don’t see pictures of my daughter: Privacy and kids: Don’t post photos of your kids online.
Brilliant: How To Make Streaming Royalties Fair(er)
OK, So who got the benefit of the $10 I paid in subscription fees?
$3 goes to Spotify. Sure, that seems fair enough.
Roughly .007 cents will go to Butchers Of The Final Frontier. Hrmm, if only I had played the track ten more times Butchers would have earned a penny.
But… hey, wait a second… I paid $10. Where’d that other $7 go?
Spotify: “What $7?”
That other $7. Where’d it go?
Spotify: “We paid it out in royalties. For plays. Your boys got paid for their plays”
Don’t be cute with me. Who got the $7?
Spotify: “Look! A puppy!”
Please read the whole article here:
Audiotechnik: Warum uns komprimierter Digitalklang so nervt – DIE WELT
The new business model for the music industry
For many years now, the tech industry has told the music industry to “get with it” and create “new” business models.
Well, they`re here now in the form of
- outrageous ticket prices
- constant marketing mailing/viral campaigns
- increased corporate sponsorships (which is just splendid for artistic freedom, but who`s watching, right?)
- investment in venture capital and thus tech startups as you can see from the article below
What`s gone is:
- investment in A&R
- advances for producing albums for young bands / artists
- the middle class career in music
- the small indie label investing in niche music out of love
There is only one solution to this whole dilemma that will bring back freedom to create art:
The audience has to come back with their wallet and directly (!) support the artists they like. Even if those artists happen to be signed to a label. Not all labels are Mega-Corporation-Labels with terrible deals for their roster. A lot of the do really great work and love what they do.
Your choice:
Support and buy the albums directly from artists
or
Have a winner-take-all music world dominated by corporate / artistic relationships based on marketing research and capital.