Finally I managed to translate my post about the medieval weekend in Hohenwestedt, oh and added a few pictures, enjoy:

He has to be a fool,
who not lives
and not loves
under the summers dominion

This is how Saltatio Mortis sang one of their songs, Ecce Gratum, in Latin for the audience that had gathered in Hohenwestedt for the Medieval Phantasy Spectaculum (MPS) this year. The atmosphere was amazing and the music invited everybody to sing, dance and clap to the drums. Another highlight on the music side was Metusa, but not only that should make this event so awesome and entertaining. There was archery, show fights, a mounted knights tournament, fire dancers, comedy and other foolishness and enjoyment, also concerning food, about everything for a perfect stay. Actors, barmaidens serving mead, visitors and musicians mixed to a huge family and conversations with random people about costumes and experiences turned into normality very quickly.

Many of the visitors and participants made a big deal out of their clothes, armors and dresses. There were knights in full plate armor that must have weight 30 kilo and above. Dresses, robes, coats were carried under the nice blue sky in the heat of a beginning summer. Rarely I’ve ever felt so comfortable in between so many armed people with swords, axes and much more. The concerts were awesome. There was a really good and still calm atmosphere. Kids could even stand in the first lanes at the midnight concerts without being pushed and had a nice view on the bands. There also were some interesting activities for the kids like stonework, felt textile creation and with all the events as bathing of the witches (though a lot less brutal than in the old days ), processions of knights and their followers and straw stacks which obviously were interesting to play around in.

conclusion:

• 941 photos
• an awesome weekend Sir Lennart the long, the Steffmaster and Hendrik the swordmaster, that will stay in my memory forever
• A LOT of tasty food
• nice new contacts
• next time, pack more cards AND store them so I will be able to find them, so I don’t have to start writing my address on pages of my notebook and hand them out

Some more, really really great photos can be found at Mar-jus page on deviantART

Ja, am Morgen nach dem Grand Prix.. ähm, Eurovision Song Contest ist dann auch bei mir angekommen, dass “unsere” Kandidation Lena Meyer-Landrut geSIEGt hat. Nationalstolz wohin man blickt. Mal ganz ehrlich, bei den Performances, die ich gesehen habe, bevor ich eingeschlafen bin, war es kein Wunder, dass ein Sieg sehr greifbar war. In den wenigen Interviewminuten in denen ich die gute Frau erlebt habe, war sie mir sympathisch. Sie ist humorvoll, schlagfertig und zuletzt, da von geringster Priorität: hübsch.

Wie wäre es, wenn wir jetzt statt ihre Single zu kaufen, einfach mal einen Monat nicht bei Aral, dem größten Vertriebspartners von BP innerhalb Deutschlands tanken, sondern die paar Euro mehr ausgeben um ihre sicherlich genau so profitgierigen Konkurrenten zu füttern? Natürlich, die armen Angestellten von Aral können nichts dazu wenn ihr Lieferant Mist baut, aber sie sind genau so Kollateralschaden wie 10.000 Seevögel in Mexico in meinen Augen. Naja, warum sich über so etwas den Kopf zerbrechen, feiern wir unseren Star, ist schließlich von nationaler Relevanz!

As I have mentioned before on my deviantART profile, Dropbox is a really handy tool for backup and collaboration. I’ve realised this weekend again how pleasant it is, to keep regular backups of important files, you need to access from more than one computer. It’s nice for keeping your bookmarks, address book, emails and more available. I’m looking forward to try it for some collaborations and stuff I’m breeding right now, which is not meant to be made public immediately.

So if you would like to:

• share, but only with certain people
• collaborate
• store your stuff in an online backup solution (recommended you crypt the data first)
• keep things synchronized on different computers

You should sign up now and get 2GB of space for free. Premium accounts are 9,99$ a month for 50GB and 19,99$ for 100GB. (Oh yeah and if you click my links, you help me get some extra space )

…is pretty much fun.  I discovered an entry on FotoChaotins blog where she wrote about two different services to draw in your browser. Yeah I know, again outsourcing things to your browser that only are available online. I’m tired of it too and I really love my desktop applications for feeds, email, twitter and I would like these features available in GIMP or mypaint.

The two little applications (Harmony, Scribbler) available are so much fun, because they connect your lines automatically, distribute nice effects that are sensitive to your mouse speed and make pretty much anything look cool in an abstract way. I was surprised how it managed to connect the lines of my doodles and build a relationship between them. It’s like having two hands drawing for you immediately while you are doodling around. Of course you have less control over the appearance of the drawing, but it still is fun, like smashing paint on a canvas. You may not have much control there either .

So here are some examples with Harmony, showing the mouse-speed recognition and some of the effects:

Ein bisher sehr entspanntes Wochenende, etwas betoniert, Holz gehackt und Rasen gemäht. Dieses Wochenende kam ich dann auch mal dazu meiner Mutter und meinem Stiefvater meine Neue vorzustellen.

Dazu auch wieder sehr passend:

Sie sah ihm ins Gesicht,
fand dort die Liebe nicht.
Sie sah ihm ins Gesicht.
Vergiß mein nicht!

Saltatio Mortis – Vergiss mein nicht

Edit: Meine Mum nach dem Lesen dieses Eintrages: “Wenn ich so ein Blog hätte, würde ich schreiben: Mein Sohn war da, hat nur gefressen, kein Eis mehr im Kühlschrank.”