Greenhorn‘s view

on the way out of samsara

2008-01-15T10:10:00.008+01:00

there is lots of change around... let's push things forward

click pic to play dirty web preview - better:
Full-HD (1080p.mp4/asp - 140MB)
download in Half-HD (720p.avi/divx - 60MB)
iPod (360p.mp4/H.264 -28MB)

This post is dedicated to Siegfried and his movie "Sansa"

sguardo contento

2007-08-19T00:25:00.004+02:00

spontaneous choreography in a backyard in Tulum Mexico, June-07

Full-HD [1080p. mp4_82MB]

download HD [720p.avi/divx_38MB]
iPod [360p. mp4_17MB]

ali di burro

2007-07-18T18:27:00.006+02:00

non-humanoid dance-alike spectacle. made in Yucatan.

Click the pic for dirty preview [3MB.Flash8]
Full-HD [1080p.MP4_40MB]
Download Half-HD [720p.avi/divx_22MB]
iPod [360p.mp4/H.264_ 9MB]

From now on greenhornsview is presented in progressive Full HighDefinition (1080p)

720p recommended for most people and it is already a big difference to Standard-TV. 1080p won't give necessarily a notable quality difference,
since most screens don't come near to 1920x1080 pixels of screen resolution.

ready for take-off

2007-03-23T11:33:00.000+01:00

[4MB: web/stream/iPod.quicktime7]
[11MB: HQ.standard.divx/mp3]

erba fucsia

2007-02-11T23:34:00.000+01:00

[4MB: web/stream/iPod.quicktime7]
[11MB: HQ.standard.divx/mp3]

using qPatchlib

KungFu-Placeholder

2006-11-23T02:56:00.000+01:00

This is not much more than a mere "i'm alive" ...

[click the pic to play the movie. plays on iPod. 3,5MB]

i‘m working on a more complicated video. devil‘s in the details

carosirup

2006-10-03T17:59:00.000+02:00

sirup on coffee powder

[click the pic to play the movie. 4,8MB. iPod/Quicktime7-webstream
TV/hq. 7,2MB. standard-AVI/DivX]

see it green ?
see it the Miles' way:

"caro Miles"
web/stream. 10MB. mp4.quicktime
TV/hq 12MB. standard.AVI/DivX

Piano

2006-09-26T17:50:00.000+02:00

[click the pic to play the movie. plays on iPod. 4,8MB
original file regular mpeg4. 7MB]

university keeps me very busy these days...

a hand's dance

2006-09-10T22:02:00.000+02:00

hands can dance

[click the pic to play the movie plays on iPod. 7MB
AVI-divx-version 14MB]]

low-key glow sea-walk

2006-09-01T00:50:00.000+02:00

walking on a beach on "Hel" peninsula, Poland.

[click the pic to play the movie plays on iPod. 3MB
AVI-divx-version. 6.7MB]]

featuring crazy

2006-08-06T21:43:00.000+02:00

Today I want to "feature" a real artwork of a musicvideo:

[click the pic to play the movie. 10MB Quicktime]

Video: directed by Robert Hales
Song: "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley

currently searching for new video techniques

Rag-Time

2006-07-14T00:47:00.000+02:00

it´s time for rag-intimacy...

[click the pic to play the clip. 4,2MB. plays on iPod. needs Quicktime 7]

Waverider

2006-06-28T22:38:00.000+02:00

in the harbour of Maastricht...

[click the pic to play the movie. 6,5MB. plays on iPod. needs Quicktime 7]]
click here for high-quality 18MB. plays easy]

you hear an example for nice flow french HipHop.
French is the better language for this kind of "sprechgesang" IMHO.

I´m still looking for more:
non-gangster, slightly-melodic, well-rhymed and well-sung, decent-rhytmic french rap.

if you like the song a bit - please tell me your rap favorites!

take it as is

2006-06-13T00:28:00.000+02:00

sometimes you have to jump on things as they come to you.
any reflection will screw it,
and worry is waste of karma

[click the pic to play the movie. 6MB. plays on iPod & needs Quicktime 7]
click here for high-quality 12MB. plays easy]

untreated movie track: my finger´s shadows on a dried cacao layer

i like a lot this italian pseudo-russian song, especially in the beginning and at the end

coffee inside

2006-05-26T21:48:00.000+02:00

bad milk does a bad job even in good coffee

[click the pic to play the movie. 4MB plays on iPod. needs Quicktime 7]
click here for higher-quality & more compatible 11MB]

tee, drums and turbulence

2006-05-11T16:39:00.000+02:00

a vortex of tee vapor accompanied by an easy drumnbass piece.

[click the pic to play the movie. 2,5MB. plays on iPod. needs Quicktime 7]
click here for higher-quality 5,7MB]

Where does the vapor go, once it got in the center? It can´t just go to left or right, there already is vapor all around it.

gipsy flute jam

2006-04-26T14:38:00.000+02:00

Guille from France playing gipsy style on a self made flute, others joining him drum and clap.

[click the pic to play the movie. 12 MB, plays on iPod
22MB High-Qual-Version]

run, ant, run!

2006-04-20T18:56:00.000+02:00

Some ants moving around a dried applejuice drop. colorplay, music: "das Huhnlied" by Helge Schneider.

[click the pic to play the movie. 1,5MB plays on iPod. needs Quicktime 7
click here for a nicer higher-quality version. more compatible 3MB]

Katzen-Schwanz-Tanz

2006-04-03T10:47:00.000+02:00

cat sitting on a chair, moving her tail with the music.

[click the pic to play the movie. 4,8MB iPod ready. needs Quicktime 7
click here for a higher-quality version in reddish-organe hue. 12MB]

Note the fidget attack at 0´31´´...
that happens to me too, when i take a nap and i continue to switch between dream and awake, then sometimes I give those sudden twitches.

late walking

2006-03-20T00:17:00.000+01:00

Late-night impressions of Catania / Sicily.

[click the pic to play the clip. 4MB]

tutto in cioccolata, hai visto?

2006-03-19T23:38:00.000+01:00

All made of chocolate.
I´m back from my little Italy trip. This was in a cafe in Syracusa / Sicily.

[click the pic to play the movie. 1MB iPod ready. needs Quicktime 7 or VLC]

improvise!

2006-03-03T23:40:00.000+01:00

this is a great record of a free improvisation performance hold in "Loft", Cologne on second of March 2006.

Das Rhein-Main-Ruhr-Quartett:
Thorsten Töpp - Gitarre
Stefan Keune - Sopranino-, Altsaxophon
Ulrich Phillipp - Contrabass
Wolfgang Schliemann - Percussion

[click the pic to play movie. 14MB. plays on iPod. needs Quicktime 7 ]

you need to see it real. only then you feel how musicians communicate with their instruments

Omniadrum

2006-03-01T17:07:00.000+01:00

The percussionist Omniadrum playing great drum solo in the middle of carneval in Cologne.

[click the pic to play the iPod-movie. 20MB needs Quicktime 7 or VLC]

Notes:
at 0´41´´ she chases away an asshole that collected money on her behalf but for himself. I´m sorry my foot missed his ass...

at 1´08´´ I love percussion

at 2´07´´ She really rocks

A night in Tunesia

2006-02-19T18:53:00.000+01:00

This kaleidoscope movie actually shows tissue and some vapor as my underwear was too close to my table lamp when drying...

Sound: parts of the best ever piece of live-Jazz:
"A Night in Tunesia" 1957 Live at Carnegie Hall, Thelonius Monk quartet with John Coltrane.

[click the pic to play iPod-movie. 2,3MB needs Quicktime7 or VLC
for higher-quality-movie click: here 5,6MB]

Drumm´aleidoscope

2006-02-09T15:07:00.000+01:00

A concert seen through a kaleidoscope, accompanied by myself drumming around (Flanger filtering).

iPod-Movie 5MB. needs Quicktime 7
High Quality-version - 13MB

Now plays on iPod and faster server

2006-02-03T11:59:00.000+01:00

I decided to put things primarily as iPod-ready versions (320x240/H.264/768kbits) and when some more detail is nice, optionally one version in doubble quality (VGA/MP4-ASP/~1.5 Mbits).

I no longer use H264 for higher quality versions because it´s too CPU-hungry to play nicely on average computers.
Also i no longer encode with Quicktime (bad quality and slow encoding), but with ffmpeg or mencoder. But things are still fully Quicktime- / MP4- compatible, HQ-version may not stream though.

I finally realized that the host i used is definitly too slow and unreliable. i switched to http://ib84.blip.tv/
The new host should work better.

Have a look downwards, there are now 4 iPod - Movies.
and more to come upwards...

dirty pasta-water dancing drum ´n base

2006-02-02T19:02:00.000+01:00

Slowed down to 1/4 speed, the dirty pasta-water moves to this nice live drum and base piece.

[click the pic to view the movie. 8,8MB.
needs Quicktime 7 and at least 1 ghz-CPU.
iPod-Version

Note the two shouting dj-people at the beginning. one of them is fouling around a bit.
Actually, i wanted to accompany the music with the movie and create kind of another beat with the movie playing frame by frame, not at a constant rate, but in its own rythm, like a visual drum or hihat.

Any idea how to do it?

talking wall

2006-02-01T12:44:00.000+01:00

A pot of water and the reflexes of its waves on a wall, as i beat on it with my fingers.

[click the pic to view movie. NEW: now iPod-ready. 5,7MB.
needs VLC or Quicktime 7]

visions on the social internet -version2

2006-01-31T12:45:00.000+01:00

[last update 27.2.06]

i have some ideas on the internet, inspired by "del.icio.us" and peer-to-peer networks.
if you consider the internet 10 years ago, there has been a lot of interesting development since then. But couldn´t it go much further?
If we would want to, it could go much further. here is my vision:

[click on "Read more" for the main text]

The idea

You certainly heard of names like Napster, Kazaa or Gnutella. These are peer-to-peer networks, where everything is focused on sharing files. In a peer-to-peer network there is no server and no client, but everyone is server and client at the same time, giving and taking, uploading and downloading. Peer-to-peer systems have some advantages, but till now it is mainly used illegally to download music and other media. But the principle of peer-to-peer itself isn´t any more illegal than a fridge.

Now, why not use this techology in a more productive manner and build a peer-to-peer network, in which a user can "issue statements" that others can join or reject, forming currents of statements. The more people join the current, the bigger it grows, the more power it gets.
(As for del.ico.us this would correspond to a link whose quality is indicated by the number of people who share it: "...and 217 other people".)

There could be all kinds of statements. Single words or sentences, bookmarks, photographs to movies, scientific articles, reviews of articles, webcams, online radios and - opinions.

Potentially very beneficial but also potentially very dangerous: opinions
There could be a current around simple statements like: "USA out of Iraq" or "no war for economic motives". Imagine Bush observing the current´s participation during the last year, he would have seen a real turbulence...
This could also have much consequences for democracy: What is important in democracy? Primarily the will and well-being of the people, right? Not interests of corporations. Maybe that´s why it is kept as indirect as 200years ago, even with all the possibilities of secured communication we have now.
If people could express themselves freely AND if people with the same ideas could associate in currents more dynamically, this could get a real powerful voice of the people to political parties, without the traditional biased media to delay or influence opinions. Isn´t it one big problem, bad communication with of the politics with the people?

But, unintentionally, it could also be an extreme form of surveillance by politicians and corporations. We could want that they do not know about us too precisely.
Knowing about our consumer habits is one big deal for you bosses isn´t it? This could be it for you... if it weren´t you are cowards, risking profit when people start boykotting you because they get informed about irresponsable behaviour like your sheming and exploitation of nature and cheap labour in development countries, unjustified rationalisations, the real meaning of biopatents, etc.

And it could be a medium for "bad" opinions too, like hatred against other people, racism and all kind of negative things.
It would maybe need some mechanisms of controlling. Or a more liberal approach, admitting negative statements and counterweight with the corresponding positive statements.

It would be good if the net could regulate itself, without intervention of "someone". So how could one counteract negative statements? By deliberate counter-statements, just like a demonstration of right wing people often brings up a counter-demonstration of left-wing people.
If you believe in the good, it should be possible, but if a real group supposed to counteract is underrepresentated or just is a minority, we have a bad situation. But this is, how it could work:
for example if there is an anti-arabic current getting more and more inflow, other people could confront it with currents like "the majority of arabs are not violent" or "don´t mix arab and islamist" or "USA foreign policy in the past is one cause of islamism" or "kind of retributive justice" or "we have arab influences all around" or simply "arab women have nice eyes" with a photograph of it.

There could also be a diversion of currents that originally have nothing to do with it, but were diverted to a particular current, confronting it or joining it.
For example there could be a trivial current "Chill!" or "peace" that adherents of that currents divert to confront "let´s make war on Iran".
Or positively, "Chill!" and "peace" could join each other forming kind of brother currents. You could literally form families with it, for example "peace" could be the mother current of an initiative against nuclear weapons....

There could also be some kind of communication between currents, for example if the anti-arab people are persuaded by the confronting currents i just invented, they could retreat from the anti-arab current which ideally would subside.

Also the diverting current itself would get characterized by a) the choice of currents it diverts to and b) by the participation of each diversion among its participants.
So "peace" could divert to "Marihuana", "Bob Marley" or "love" but also to "United Nations", "Amnesty International" or "Red Cross". This way different aspects of the word are covered, and you can see how much the participants of the current weigh them.

So a person could be defined by the participations or confrontations of currents, and the diversions, fusions or initiations of new currents.
Example: Let´s assume there are the currents "peace", "love", "nature", "solidarity", "help", "charity" and so on, that many people could potentially join. (just picked it as example). And let´s assume the majority isn´t really aware of the real meaning of it, the actual consequences this would bring.
For example don´t buy too cheap banana because this probably sustains child work and inhuman social labour standards, or don´t use fresh-cellulose paper, as most of us do, because it´s often cut trees of endangered habitats, which in turn has affects biodiversity and CO2-absorption, which in turn destabilizes ecosystems which in turn.... You get the idea of consequences.
Back to the people that too easily just join peace, love, nature, help and charity:
There could be recruitment of those too easy-people by people that happen to know about a specific consequence (not blaming anyone, because everyone has his fields of contribution).
One current "attac" or "Greenpeace" could inform people by confronting them in a non-hostile way with fact currents, meaning statements that claim to be truth and are confirmed by authorities like the UNO or that are "validated" by the mere amount of participants.

There could be ways to distinguish people who really aren´t interested at all in help, but just want to decorate themselves with their participation, but refuse to accept any consequences. Do you know which kind of people i mean? They just say it for the hell of it. Those kind of no-real-ones could be diverted to currents like "pretender" or "hypocrit" (or to say it precisely, the people disturbed by them, divert the "pretender" current to them, this way "assigning" it to them, qualifying them)

that´s about what i mean by saying total integration.

Now, what the use of all this, if it stays only a virtual thing?
First: even virtual can have real repercussions.
Let´s say someone issues a statement about a corporation´s criminal behaviour, for example a bank that invests in a pipeline project that the people on place don´t want for good reason and when they start to defend themselves the corp does some killing and intimidation (for details on this one google: WestLB OCP). And assume his friends join it, then like an avalanche people associated with those join and build a big current that forms another current "boykott" ... already this could be a way to control the almighty corporate world, because they fear informed consumers.

But it could get even more real:
if the current "WestLB OCP" issues another current "take court action" and if there was a way to contribute to a current with money, so someone could pay the lawyer...
With the money in the game and all the stuff you can do today on the internet, you could accomplish a lot, but as said before, you could also do really bad things, depending.

OK, now it gets really a bit visionary, but if you imagine a bit further, we are not that far away: If you crosslink currents tightly, if you increasingly connect lots of simple nodes, you form kind of a neural net with its own dynamics. We could kind of rebuild a brain, a brain that could one day include all humans and make them one mind of some sort.
Of course i don´t want it to get the evil StarTrek thing you may know, a collective dictature of the "Borg", but maybe we could understand our own brain a bit better in the process...

There are some possible software solutions:
http://www.p-grid.org
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/chord
http://freenetproject.org
http://www.gnutella2.com/index.php/Gnutella2

I received an email of someone working on P-Grid. He told me about a Project "Nepomuk - the semantic Desktop". i´ll see what they do...

inside the egg or the maastricht interference...

2006-01-29T14:22:00.000+01:00

Ever wondered how it is to be inside the egg?
that´s inside the "egg" of the Bonnefanten museum in Maastricht.

[click the pic to view the movie. 1,2MB.
iPod-ready. needs Quicktime 7]

yesterday i was in maastricht for the first time. it´s quite a nice city. the exposition i went to was not as good as sounded the description (i should have know), but i meet two girls.
we wrote on those little postcards to change numbers and each wrote a little thing on it. she wrote a line in indonesian too that i happen not to understand, even less than dutch, maybe you can help me...

"the devil" - indian dance the 2nd

2006-01-27T15:11:00.000+01:00

Another indian dance movie, another filterwork

Note the shadows merging with the dancer (right).
And at left, the drummer going into ecstasy at 1´08´´...

[click the pic to view the movie. 18MB. needs Quicktime 7 or VLC and >1 ghz-CPU.]
iPod-Version 14MB

If you happen to understand in the first 3 seconds what the woman said just before "the devil", please let me know.

bird bubbles

2006-01-22T20:18:00.000+01:00

Hey,

found a new filterwork for the bird thing, it´s just you don´t see birds anymore...

but you can see the swarm though, it´s the bubbles

[click the pic to view movie. 6,1MB. needs VLC or Quicktime7]

with FinalCut you can invert gradually, giving a percentage, and "in between" it´s a lot more interesting than the normal Yes or No.
This is with the "partially" inverted Y-channel :

[click the pic to view movie. 4,7MB. needs VLC or Quicktime7]

another filter:

[click the pic to view movie. 4,6MB. needs VLC or Quicktime7]

again partially inverted:

[click the pic to view movie. 4,6MB. needs VLC or Quicktime7]

Rome Pictures

2006-01-20T00:22:00.000+01:00

some more photos of Rome here on flickr

their own busy world - birds over Rome

2006-01-16T02:14:00.000+01:00

These are swarms of birds flying maneuvers for the nuclear war we get soon... (Please Jacques Chirac: stai zitto, non rompere...)

you have to wonder why they continue to do it for such a long time for no obvious reason. AFAIK science isn´t sure about it. doesn´t matter

They have their own busy world up there

[click the pic to view movie. 12.5MB. needs fresh VLC or Quicktime 7]

this one gives nice shapes

[click the pic to view movie. 3MB. needs fresh VLC or Quicktime 7]

Cool when they pass by over your head in the narrow streets... like some unreal phantasy movie supposed to scare you. of course the preview can´t show the crazy movements they do...
without filterwork:

[click the pics to view the movies. 5.5MB and 9MB. needs VLC or Quicktime7]

Gianicolo - view of Rome and a woman´s destiny

2006-01-15T01:40:00.000+01:00

[click the pic to view movie. 4,6MB. needs VLC or Quicktime 7]
iPod-Version 1MB

.. a nice view of Rome, seen from Gianicolo.

From this place, you can not only see the town, but there´s a prison close by.
My cousin told my about women talking to their husbands in the prison, shouting over at least 200m distance downwards. i admit, it was touching to see.

[click the pic to view movie. 4,5MB. needs VLC or Quicktime 7]

this one got the bird in himself...

2006-01-14T03:35:00.000+01:00

A street-artist in Rome...

[click the pic to view the movie. 7,8MB.
needs VLC or Quicktime 7]

the human in the horse

2006-01-11T10:27:00.000+01:00

a horse filmed on Piazza Navona

[click the pic to view movie. 2,6MB. needs VLC or Quicktime 7]

first it does dentiary care of some kind, the eyes being very "animal".
then it takes very human pitiful expressions of sadness,
then realizing being looked at, it raises the head like encouraged by the attention
then disappointed, lowers its head and turns animal again.

Still life - live

2006-01-07T20:19:00.000+01:00

A still life movie...

Rome wouldn´t be Rome with houses intact and streets all clean...

[click the pic to view movie. 4,6MB. needs VLC or Quicktime7]

profile browsing rocks

2006-01-01T21:36:00.000+01:00

Hey,
I just discovered what this profile thing is good for! it´s really cool that you can click directly on a particular interest like a music group or a special movie and see all the people that share some taste with you. Just found interesting people this way and a lot of good music! You can get lost...

[you see the pig in the pic? another shower spirit...]

waves of champaign…… Hyppa wne yaer!

2005-12-31T20:07:00.000+01:00

hey.

this isn´t really waves of champain, just for the ring of it...

[click to view movie. Needs Quicktime 7]

the original movie shows some light plays of a glass of champaign with some candles in the background.

shadow of an indian dancer

2005-12-31T16:03:00.000+01:00

Hi.

This is a movie of an indian dance performance i filmed in Stuttgart in a little crowded theatre.
The shadow is real point of interest here and the reason for which i misstreated the movie that way.

I like a lot when the way she´s singing for the first 5 seconds, very bewitching voice.

[you need Quicktime 7 to see the film]

2005-12-29T17:26:00.000+01:00

some pigeons flying in a swarm.

[movie needs quicktime 7]

shower spirits - the movie

2005-12-22T13:49:00.000+01:00

Hey.

This is the movie of the shower spirits.

[click to view. Needs quicktime 7 and some phantasy]

I consider this one of my best things i´ve ever done, as usual by accident:
to see why, you need to see the spirits. to see the spirits you must look very carefully:

open it with QuickTime, then when playing press right / left arrow key on your keyboard to view frame per frame forwards or backwards.
Now, don´t you see anything in it?

I see a lot of faces, figures and creatures…

white stripes

2005-12-21T19:06:00.000+01:00

hey. this title fits well for the movie...

and i like the band too. Especially "the hardest button to button", "seven nations army", "ball and biscuit" and "the air near my fingers".

[click to view movie.]

the film shows a bottle of water, that reflects passing lights of the tunnel outside. it was 3 o clock in the night, while going by train back from Copenhagen.

here´s another one you can recognize:

[click to view movie. needs Quicktime 7]

blue blood

2005-12-20T14:35:00.000+01:00

hey.
here a movie i took in a botanic garden in Tuebingen. It´s a geranium sanguineum L. and of course sanguineum=bloody, it should be red...
it´s edited with the ProcAmp Filter in FinalCut, else gamma corrected and the Y-Channel is inverted.
(Can anybody explain me what this Y stands for, as the source is RGB not CMYK?)

i intentionally did not focus the flower, but the backround, which is the real subject of this movie.

[you need Quicktime7]

PS: you need to add the ".mp4" extension to the filename to view it. sorry forgot

.

wim wenders über "Dont come Knocking" (german)

2005-12-16T14:54:00.000+01:00

Wim Wenders in Tübingen über seinen neuen Film "Don´t come knocking". Schaut auf seine Hände: diese Unsicherheit, mit der er auftritt macht ihn mir sympathisch.

Mpeg4, 115Mb, nicht streamfähig.

just married.....

2005-12-16T14:16:00.000+01:00

OK, lets populate.

image token on the marriage of my girlfriend´s sister.
this image somehow reminds me my inner situation as i just got separeted from my girlfriend 4 days ago. took two years, my first "real" relation.

Hey hi

2005-12-16T13:25:00.000+01:00

My name is Ingvar, i live in Aachen/Germany on the boarder to Netherlands and Belgium. i´m studying biology, to work in environmental biotechnology some day. My interests are photography, film, art, travel, books.

this is my second blog. the first one never really was active for longer than a week: (ib84.antville.org). this time it´s going to be different.
hope this time i will publish more regularily, as soon as i get internet in my new apartment.

i want to post my photo and video experiments here along with some thoughts of the day.
I´m recording on a Olympus C770, clean it up using JES VideoCleaner (a big thank you to the autor!!) and play around with FinalCut and QuartzComposer.

what it looks like:

PS: You will need a recent quicktime (>7) or VLC to view the movies, as i plan to post in H.264.

Hope you enjoy and i´d be glad to have any comments, especially with links to similar vlogs.