Soundtrack Cologne 8.0

It was a great time at Soundtrack Cologne. The program that they manage to put together is impressive, it was fun and informative! I spent a little too much time in the business side of things workshops instead of the inspirational and fun workshops about the music, but hey, that’s important too!

I met some great people including Jeff Rona (who I met about 10 years ago at Berklee) and Joris de Man.

And of course all the guys who I’ve known online for quite a while have finally a face, body language and voice.

It’s inspiring and it’s incredibly important to talk and exchange ideas and also support each other in our daily work challenges.

1. Berliner Kinderkongress – Unbezahlbar

Heute war Aufbau, morgen geht es los mit dem 1. Berliner Kinderkongress des Grips Theater an dessen 2. Spielstätte, dem Podewil Theater, ich freue mich schon sehr darauf, ich wollte nämlich seit langem wieder mit Kindern arbeiten. Wir werden für die nächsten 3 Tage eine kleine Gruppe sein (4 Kindern und ich), die für die musikalische Untermalung der Aufführung und Abschlussveranstaltung des Kinderkongresses sorgen.

Unser Workshop hat den Titel “Wie klingt Glück” und ich bin schon sehr gespannt, habe auch schon einige Ideen, aber jetzt will ich doch erst mal sehen, was die Teilnehmer denn so mitbringen. Deren Ideen sind mir wichtiger als meine eigenen und ich hoffe, dass wir die gute umgesetzt bekommen. Mehr gibt’s dann hier!!

tedPAD – create millions of amazing and really bad TED talks

A quick thrown together TED talk:

It’s not nose picking. You also means keeping your back straight et cetera, et cetera. But most importantly, you need the brain to always think straight. I’ll give you an illustration of this: In the middle of the world lies all the knowledge and wisdom we need. I would like to remind you of French intellectuals ridiculing these things. And – admittedly – when you look at the middle of it all, you could see the situation running the same way that a downward spiral would. It makes you yearn for coffee – you know it will be wonderful. I’ll give you some related data of the United States health situation. Compare this to French phrases such as “et cetera, et cetera”. But I should be more specific when referring to a milky weak coffee which makes you both happy and excited. How many of you would prefer that to tea? I think it’s just like when the middle of the world lies all the knowledge and wisdom we need.

Get your own here:

tedPAD – create millions of amazing and really bad TED talks.

One cold day in hell

It was impossible for me to find out if this is actually true, but it is a fine read anyway!

Chemistry class at Maynooth University in Kildare, Ireland.

The answer a professor got from one of his students was so “deep” he had to pass it to his colleages via internet:

Bonus-question:

“Is hell “exotherm” (gives off heat), or “endotherm”(absorbs heat)?

Most students assumed with the help of Boyles law that gas cools down while expanding. One student however came up with this answer:

“First we need to find out how the mass of hell changes over time.
To be able to do this we need to first find out how many souls venture into hell and out of it.

It is my opinion, that souls , once they’ve entered into hell, won’t leave it again.

That’s why no soul ever leaves hell again.

Concerning the question how many souls go to hell, the opinions of the religions existing today, can give us an answer.

Most religions assert that you go to hell when you’re not one of them.
Since there is more than one religion and because you can’t belong to more than one of them you can assume further that all souls go to hell.

Wíth birth- and deathrates of today we can further assume that the amount of souls will exponentially increase.

Let’s now take a look at the size of hell.
According to Boyles law the size of hell must increase proportional to the arriving souls or else we have two options:

1.: In case hell expands slower than the number of souls arriving, both temperature and pressure inside of hell will increase so much that the whole hell falls apart.

2. In case the hell expands faster then the amount of new guests then temperature and pressure will fall causing the hell to freeze up.

Now which is it?

When we take into consideration Sandra’s statement to me in our first year here, that it will be a cold day in hell before she’d go to bed with me as well as the fact that I slept with her last night only number 2 can be valid.

That’s why I’m convinced that hell is endotherm and must be already frozen up.

My conclusion is, that hell can not accept any further souls and is therefore extinct….and so only heaven is still existing. This however, proves the existance of God, which explains why Sandra screamed: °Oh, my God!!!° the whole last evening.”

This student was the only one who got an “A”.