Ta Maatc, I think I have sorted it but I don't really know if it looks that much better. Maybe they used a camera phone

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Hey,

just watched your clip of Bayern Munich launching their new kit and thought this info might be handy for you:

http://geek.videosift.com/talk/Change-Your-YouTube-Embeds-From-Low-Res-to-Higher-Res

Cheers,
Maatc

Hey,

just watched your clip of Bayern Munich launching their new kit and thought this info might be handy for you:

http://geek.videosift.com/talk/Change-Your-YouTube-Embeds-From-Low-Res-to-Higher-Res

Cheers,
Maatc

Blah, this is one of the worst cases of equivocation (http://roddynobody.com/fallacies.shtml) that I have seen in recent memery. I am talking about the first miniute of the tape now...im writing as im watching this. But to equate what we mean by elite people and elitism is a HUGE equivocation.

When I say, elite fighting force, or elite quake 3 player, I mean someone who is a cut above the rest. He is stonger faster or smarter than a majority of his peers. That is what it means when we all refer to the word elite.

But the idea of elitism is something comletely different. elitism is the idea that someone or more often times, a group of someones are above other people in a sence of power over them. Like the ruling class over the working class; the nature of their elitism is seldom benevolent and more often times is used to describe an explotive relationship. The text book definition is more subtly in these ideas stating more that it is a group of peoples set apart for their intellectual, social, or cultural categories. But implicit in the definition is also its power over the non-elite.

The reason I draw this out is that I think he is making a terrible case of equating the denotative meaning of elitism and not the conotative meaning. The text book meaning is much different than what people mean by elitism in todays lingo, and he is using a logical falacy to bind the two seperate ideas into one so he can show some false truth about the way elitism is really good.

Bad form bad form.

He then goes on to blast people for graduating from a rank 4 facility...because we all know that little peices of paper from prestidgious univercities are the mark of TRUE intellence. This doesn't have to do with his own personal bias im sure, being a graduate of Cornell University in 1978 surely doesn't have anything to do with his view on what it takes to call yourself an intelegent human being. As we all know, Albert Einstein graduated with top honors while also taking his Munich based family bisiness to the top of german economy! O wait, thats not what happend at all...seems like mesuring intelegence might have more to do with people and less to do with peices of paper...who knew!

Sorry for that bit of sarcasm. I just hate it when people get attacked on a personal level because of where they have been or what background education they have. It seems to be ok to be a bigot now adays as long as it is for politics. Sad state of afairs when the people on the sift are more civil and comunicative than the supposed elite.

Good. last thing we need another Munich.

Any one seen Munich? Mossad is no joke, these people have no reason to talk if they care for their lives.

Oops! Seeing that dag made himself look like Hitler in his new avatar, I realize we settled on fascism instead of Bolshevism as the new paradigm. Heil SiftFuhrer! I'll see you all at the Munich Beer Hall for the public reading of Mein Kampf. And you DON'T ignore the wishes of Der SiftFuhrer, mein damen und herren.

>> ^Fjnbk:
Beethoven was German, of course.

Beethoven - 31 results
Mozart (Austrian is still German, ja?) - 24 results
Bach - 42 results
Kraftwerk - 11 results

Volkswagen - 17 results
Audi - 13 results
BMW - 24 results
Mercedes - 8 results

Berlin - 48 results
Munich - 8 results
Stuttgart - 2 results

Austria - 10 results
Vienna- 8 results
Switzerland - 19 results

Eselsoße - 1 result

Yeah, there is one in Munich that was sifted here before:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Urban-Surfing-In-Munich-City-Centre

I like how this one was just there for an hour or so...

there's a similar system in some tunnels of the Munich S-Bahn.

cool. similar to this one in munich: http://www.videosift.com/video/Urban-Surfing-In-Munich-City-Centre

Winterzauber, "Winter Magic"

More info from the artist's website: http://www.p-geist.de/start.html

Multimedia art in Zurich: A restaurant is turned into a work of art

english version (translation Julie Draper)
Zurich, 11.27.2005

Beginning at sundown from 11.27 through 12.31.2005, the historically protected building housing the Lake Side Restaurant in Zurich will be transformed into a 450 sqm. three-dimensional video art installation.

It is the work of Berlin-based multimedia artist Philipp Geist, a rising star in the young art scene. Together with the symphony orchestra OBC Barcelona and the Finnish sound ensemble Pan Sonic, Philipp Geist appeared as a video artist at the opening of the Sonar Festival in Barcelona in 2004. He was represented at the Dissonanze Festival in Rome, at Clubtransmediale in Berlin and at the Mutek Festival in Montreal which is renowned for new media. His video works have been exhibited at important international art institutions including the Central House of Artists (CHA) in Moscow, the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in London, the National Gallery in Warsaw (Zacheta), at the opening of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich – and now for the first time in switzerland.

For his work in Zurich, the 29 year-old Berlin-based artist deliberately avoids the use of canvases and instead projects directly onto the concrete building façades and windows which have been prepared with a special projection foil. Every evening, visitors can expect to see a selection of images alternating between purist, dreamlike and intangibly fragile compositions. The starting foundation for all of Philipp Geist’s work is video material solely filmed and produced by himself. Geist finds the subjects for his work in everyday things like hairbrushes, leaves, raindrops and curtains. He releases these objects from their usual setting and places them in new visual and correlated contexts by employing special camera and video techniques using motion blur and superimposition.

Especially for Winterzauber (Winter Magic) in Lake Side, Philipp Geist went in search of wintry, Christmasy motifs which attempt to break the link to consumption and indulgence, and instead direct visitors’ attention toward the pure aesthetic component that is all too often obscured by the kitschy madness of Christmas.

It is in this way that a ride along the highly commercialized Oxford Street in London takes on a completely new appearance as it is seen through a window pane. Distorted by the raindrops at night, it allows viewers only a vague impression of the twinkling Christmas lights. Microscopic close-ups give sparklers, burned down candles and snowflakes an element of diversity that would have remained unappreciated by the human eye without the aid of technology.

By opting to use the three-dimensional, defined structure contours as projection surfaces instead of canvases, Geist increases the motifs’ abstraction while simultaneously regaining depth and diversity. In this way, Geist initiates a dialogue between the historically protected architecture, his artistic work and the people going in and out of the structure: The visitor himself becomes part of the projected image on the threshold between the inside and outside of the building.

Geist allows a wintry world to emerge in front of visitors’ eyes. The subject matter and motifs, although familiar, astonish with their size and unusual presentation while altering the observer’s perception and challenging conventional viewing habits.

Given that the opening of Geist’s work will coincide with the first day of Advent, it will be intriguing to see how he uses his playful, artistic interpretation to approach winter and Christmas themes. One thing is for certain: Visitors will be able to immerse themselves in a tranquil, wintry, dreamlike world of lights.

"Winterzauber" 2005 at Lake Side
Videoart installation by Philipp Geist
open daily from 11.27 - 12.30.05, 6:00 pm – 12 am
12.31.05, 6:00 pm – 5:00 am

Big "LUECKE" -- Texas
30° 5'0.39"N, 97° 8'26.99"W

Big Red Wagon -- Chicago
41°53'27.86"N, 87°36'36.84"W
http://p.vtourist.com/115822-Navy_Pie...

Big Soccer Ball -- Japan
37°53'25.17"N, 139° 4'2.10"E

Big Walking Man -- Munich
48° 9'22.91"N, 11°35'3.81"E
http://www.borofsky.com/public/walkin...

Big Chair -- Germany
49°25'50.35"N, 11° 6'10.72"E

Maree Man -- Australia
29°31'54.48"S, 137°28'9.94"E
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marree_Man

Big Tire -- Detroit
42°16'14.44"N, 83°12'32.39"
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attrac...

Big Atom -- Brussels
50°53'41.85"N, 4°20'29.04"E
http://users.skynet.be/rentfarm/expo5...

Eumir Deodato's version of Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra"

I saw this IRL. Loved Munich!

Tags changed from "m,music video" to "music video,new york,london,paris,munich" by gold star member plastiquemonkey.

I agree with this whole thing of space crap, and the whole thing if tyrannical escalation. But that doesn't stop its possibility.

Yes our standard occupying army cannot thwart terrorist aggression, but given free fire on said homeland states for Terrorist, would be devastating. Our country grows bolder every day, and yet we sit around and vote hoping that it will make difference. It will make a difference, but not when we need it the most.

The same can be said for Israel, on the outside they look like they cant take care of terror, but its the human condition to kill each other. The Munich incident did happen, and the movie that Munich was based on is a true story. Don't think that our military has to fight by Mechanized rules of engagement. There are specialized teams, spies, counter insurgents, black tape or what ever you want to call it.

Imagine what would happen if the majority of people knew what kind of Spec Ops was going on, and you think the current war is bad. If the darker side of our military reared its head the war we see now would pale in comparison.

But the incidents where some bogus counter terror op goes awry, they are so few and in between, that we never notice it.

Keep your head on the outside of these bogus ideals, and make your own opinions. If the time comes to make them heard then by all means speak loudly so that every one can hear them.

I did think it was a cool post though lol. I forget, that the internet is world wide, so when i say our military i mean the US military.