Talk in the park: Bladie Flowness

Today, I had the opportunity to talk with a New York phenomenon, Bladie Flowness. Here's what he told me (and some slightly drunken Irish folks)

Short conversation with Bladie, a New Yorker Singer, Performer, Blader, Artist and owner of a bike that everybody loves.

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I'm just writing a report and was looking for another word for dilemma. dict.leo brought up this wonderful picture:

to hold the wolf by the ears

in einem Dilemma stecken

It's one of the powerful metaphores I've ever imagined. Could you see yourself with the roaring, snarling animal, being safe for the moment but without any chance to change the situation but getting seriously hurted?

Weather influences

Now that we are living in New York Cites Upper West Side, we ake lots of different experiences. For example, today, the weather forecast was really, really bad - and it was right. So we spent most of the day at home, and I was pleased to spent a lot of the day playing with Nathalie.


This was great fun, but sometime this afternoon, I was not sure if Nathalie missed a potty time. I detected lots of liquids on the floor, which turns up as water. Good, from a cleaning point of view, bad becuse I detected that the water just drips out of the wall. It was not that much, so we left here a towel. Later that day, about 11.00 pm, I was looking for Nathalie again, as I wondered about a periodical noise in her room. After inspecting this more deeply, I found out the it started dripping through the ceiling. which I never ever experienced in even much, much cheaper apartments.

So what's next? Call the super and hope he may fix it.

Übercaster

Last night, by chance I visited the ubercaster website. On that site, they offer a very cool podcast software called Übercaster - which obviousely seems to be a german product. I played around with it for half of the night and must consider that this is a really nice piece of software.

The look is very stylish. For my point of view - and for my old eyes - a bit too stylish, because to font is way too small to read. S most of the time I have to guess what I'm doing. Making the fonts 2 points bigger would help a lot. And even if I like the cool black surface, it is "a la longue" not very funny to work in a black box. It would be great to have some skins or customize options.


The programmer knows about podcasters needs, most functions come to you intuitively, beside one: the deleting of sequences. This could be done more easily than by dividiing the soundclip in a couple of pieces and then deleting the one that was not correct. If you made a recording with some noises, coughs etc, I think you would not be very happy to edit like this. would be way better to just mark the piece you want to delete and press the delete-button.
A great feature is the option to directly record skype and iChat conversations. That's cool for interviews, chats, you name it...
One thing to remember - it's made for Mac.
Anyway, for about 80 Euros it's a deal for all of you who are about to enter the podcast world.

First Moblog Call

I just disovered this functionality, and was exited how it works. It's easy. The qualty of sound could be improved, but it's a really simple way to produce some audio content. I think it's good. What about you?






And here, as promised, my personal workspace when I'm working in the CiticorpBuilding. This is Touchdown Base #5, which offers, besides beautifully furnished 3 square metres, a phone, a LAN socket, a power socket and light and air AND, when my eyes find another window than Bill's, this spectacular view. That's always worth it!

Congratulations... thank you!

Hi! I can hardly believe that so many are aware of my birthday - and care. Thanks for all your congratulations. I'd like to share my first present with you. Enjoy!

podcampnyc

I had the great opportunity to attend one of the biggest Barcamps I have heard about, the podcampnyc last Saturday. More than participants registered, and there was an unvelievable variety of presentions (12 parallel tracks with 8 presentations).
I voluteered for videoshooting, so you may find my documentations on my blog during this week. Allow a couple of days for digitizing...

Here, you find the opening session.

NYCN 010 | 030807

La bella Luna, how to spend more than 700 KwH in 22 days, how to get 760 Million dollar in one night (but at least a pizza) and no idea how to sell some cars. And another eleven days...

NYCN 009 | 030607

Pleasure and pain: Happy Birthday, Bastian and hope it doesn't hurt that much, Kira. Running in the Central Park, the weather ... and another 13 days.

NYCN 008 | 030307

Saturday... some animals... and another fifteen days...

NYCN 007 | 030107

It's about never just follow your mood, better check the sound quality (apologize), stainless steel, lonelyness these days and a song about "the city"

NCYN 006 | 022607

Not so much to tell. What about the iPod Doctor instead of using Apple warranty, check Zodiac upcoming weekende and think seriously about your love affairs...

NYCN 005 | 022507

The Time-Warner-Man was here, there's 1.5 billion people riding the New York Metro and I found a Band coming from Bremen.

An Apple a day...

keeps the Vista away. What a location. Most impressive: It's open 8760 hours / year. This is 365 days / year. 24 hours / day. That's very open. But, after having a look inside, there's nothing more to discover than at Best Buy or all the other stores selling Apple products. Even if they might have whole Manhattan as a store - they have only very few products. Atmoshphere was ok, the salesgirl talking to me had to ask other people for help - not very reliable...

NCYN 004 | 022107

Why a sunny day is hard to find and not always a sunny day.

NYCN | 022007

Roundtown trips, breathtaking views, insights and visions of Klaus Kleiinfeld, bad news from Germany and a question to you.
Music: Melting by Emma Hallin, Sweden.

NYCN | 022007

Roundtown trips, breathtaking views, insights and visions of Klaus Kleiinfeld, bad news from Germany and a question to you.
Music: Melting by Emma Hallin, Sweden.

Townhall Talk with Klaus Kleinfeld

Just two pictures of this breathtaking view. We are in Citicorp Building, 153 E 53 St. 50th floor, facing north. Have a look over Midtown, Central Park, Upper West Side, Upper East Side

Some impressions of the meeting will follow soon.
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NYCN | 021907

All about clockwise and counterclockwise, sushi and music in the backgroud:
Sushi Queen by Michelle Cross, Chicago, Illinois
So sushi by Cuttlers, Arcata, California
A Saying by Surrogate Sushi, Aalst, Belgium

All music from garageband.com

Clockwise & Counterclockwise

That's interesting. Marion gave me a reply mentioning, that she's running conterclockwise but also said, that, heading to a lake, she turns right. Ooops. But, thanks a lot, she later sent me a picture to clarify. Thanks again. I, personally was thinking of the "Coriolis force", because all of us are more or less pure water, so why shouldn't we behave like water in a bathtub? If you're interested in details: check wikipedia as I did. You will come to the conclusion that I might have failed with my guess...

NYCN | 021807

First try of a New York Podcast to share my mood, ideas and some experiences.

Wohnung....

Viele neue Anzeigen bei craigslist. Selten so unentschieden gewesen. Keine Idee, was ein gutes, was ein schlechtes Angebot ist.
Erster Termin für den 22. vereinbart

No Siemens, no cry?

Immer noch kein Rhythmus. Normalerweise bin ich schon am ersten Tag drin, aber mit Nathalie ist das unmöglich. Führt zu sehr unproduktiven Tagen. Kontakt zu Tim Murphy. Termin für nächste Woche vereinbart. Unklar, wann.

Ankommen kann dauern

Schreckliche Nacht wg. Nathalie. Alter Rhythmus. Erstes Scannen von Craigslist. Sehr zögerliche Kontaktaufnahmen. Kein Gefühl für Lage / Preis / Makler / ... Kein Kontakt zu Siemens. Ist richtig kalt geworden. Spaziergang im Central Park.

Der erste Tag (und nicht der längste)

Jan 17: Shuttle nach NY klappt. Hotel (Belleclaire, Upper West Side): Kleine Family-Suite, extra Schlafzimmer. günstig und gut. Nathalie verkraftet die Zeitumstellung (erwartungsgemäß) nicht. Macht es auch für uns sehr schwierig. Heute nix gemacht, außer im Central Park gewesen. Versucht, Kontakt zu Siemens herzustellen. Erfolglos. Besuch des Children Museum of Manhatten (CMOM). War sehr gut für Nathalie, nicht wirklich spannend für die Großen. Könnte trotzdem eine Dauereinrichtung für uns werden.

Abflug

Packen bis zum letzten Augenblick. Am Abend vorher noch bei Joerg zum Geburtstag, leider wegen allem, was noch erledigt werden musste, (Auto von Sixt ohne Kindersitz, Termin bei Siemens, Packen, )viel zu spaet. Am Dienstag: Kindersitz holen (Stachus) / Kisten einlagern / Unterlagen zu Thomas / Wohnung putzen / Alles packen / Kindersitz einbauen / Fahrt zum Flughafen (machen wir so nie wieder. Nur noch mit Taxi).
Flug wunderbar. In Paris nur 35 Min. zum umsteigen. Deshalb special service: Mit Guide der AirFrance durch Absperrungen und Geheimwege direkt in die Anschlußmaschine.
Geschafft. Wir sind über dem Atlantik.