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day 1, linz (spread yourself like sunlight)

fe_2007_augsculpture_001_s.jpgApproaching shock level. This year’s Ars Electronica in Linz teems with a load of weird, emotional and sensual Japanese technology, Christian technological inventions close to madness and quite a dozen of weird press people running around with their avatar names above their heads (transparent plastic is quite the method, I tell you). The town is splendid, otherwise, very intimate, the small alleyways and the cozy cafeterias almost make you feel like home. (Then you look out the window and see a beach modeled after one based in Second Life and its gets quite surreal.) Girls are gleaming and their coffee is quite a Hiroshima kind of assault.

Been checking out various exhibitions for seven hours now, the available DVD materials here are awesome beyond recognition. Day 1’s been awesome so far, a shitload of pictures taken, will start posting them tomorrow (or the day after tomorrow. Or when we get back. There’s no wifi at the guesthouse but we have lots of Austrian guys with bears and beers and noise. And then some more beer. This is slowly getting to me.) We almost crashed at the autobahn face front. Quite a memorable picture of a piece of machinery ass. Now we’re off to Second City at Marienstrasse.

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  1. keressetek meg ars electronica legvonzobb nagyagyu mernokpasijat is, fotot kerek es nevet ;)

  2. Dawe

    Bring me the hottest hostess girls as souvenir :)

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The television skies of Chiba City branded his brains in 1992. He hasn't recovered fully since. Re-wired his brain with a few years of FastTracker, hosted radio shows on the first .hu netradio for 4 years, went on to broadcast radio for another two. Worked on the absurd radio series Kónuszék, that actually led him to become a script writer for the multiple-award winning animation Nyócker.

Started LD50 in 2001, an alternative community portal for some, a media experiment for him. DJ'd and organized for 6 years @ Budapest: the first weekly gothic/industrial clubnights, the VK/jrock Nippon Shoxx and the biggest local industrial/cyber party series called Kollektíva, among many. Key figure behind the cyberpunk PDF magazine THE DOSE and he's making a comeback with it.

He's currently an IT/science journalist, with a love for weird stuff, Asian cuisine, pop culture, energy drinks, coffee and chili, eyecandy, Japan and a life-long devotion to all things cyberpunk & slipstream.