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Yesterday, Ronnie James Dio passed away. What a bad day for rock’n'roll. Here are three highlights of his legacy: Diesen Beitrag weiterlesen »

New video by The Swell Season (Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová). Filmed on 16mm in New York. Turn up the volume and click play:

From their album Strict Joy (2009).

Some of you might have noticed – either I told you or you guessed it from my post frequency – that I have been working quite a bit during the last weeks. Today, the fruits of this work finally went online: we relaunched 5PRIME.com, my employer’s corporate website. Apart from the new design and improved usability, we have added, e.g., a new product line, some pages about application areas and an extended literature search.

Kudos to Marian, who created a little surprise that you might want to check out, and his buddy Kristian, for a nudge into the right direction when the two of us did not see the wood for the trees.

Just navigate to the homepage (you have to select your country first) and enjoy the video!

Thomas, who spent the last two semesters in Swansea, created two really cool videos that show two months in the life of two walls: Swansea Graffiti.

Yesterday, Berta, Isa, Chris and me went to a very special lecture. The subject? Folk. The lecture hall? The O2. The lecturer? Robert Allen Zimmerman, better known as Bob Dylan.

He might be old, he might be mumbling and grumpy, but the concert was awesome anyway. Bob, whose hat had the biggest flap, played the organ and told his stories while his band, all dressed in black, stayed very much invisible in the background. Whenever he reached for the harmonica, the whole audience cheered in joy.
Here are some of the great songs he played: Diesen Beitrag weiterlesen »