Yesterday was the opening from the “a piece of water” exhibition in Kunstlerhaus. I did manage to get my piece ready in time. The opening was a big succes with a lot of people and a good atmosphere, maybe because of the free drinks and real Austrian sausages.
My Erasmus-friends showed up and tried their best to embarras me by giving my work a big applaus. But by doing that they managed to get even more people interested in my work. So thanks.
The project I am currently working on is an commissioned project for the photography class at the Angewandte. The given theme is “water”. The other students in my class have been working on this project since before last summer. A book will be printed which will contain most of the work from the other students.
To promote the book an exposition will take place at Kunstlerhaus. Since there was an deadline for the book I will probably only participate with the exposition. Hopefully I will get all my work done in time, since I’ve already had a lot of difficulties executing my ideas.
Last Tuesday we got this flyer
Tomorrow it’s Saturday again and that reminds me of last Saturday. Here in Vienna they have the “Nachsmarkt”, the city’s main fruit and vegetable market with a lot of stalls and snack joints, serving everything from falafel to sushi. Every Saturday the Nachsmarkt is completed with a big proffesional flea market where they sell high quallity antique to worthless junk.
So last Saturday I came across this nice skull. Since it costed 200 Euro I decided not to buy it and just take some pictures of it.
A snapshot I took in the Tropenhaus from Haus des Meeres, which I visited with Iris and Tom on Monday. These monkeys where totally fascinated by every visitor in there.
Vienna is great right now, the sun is shining and temperatures have been above 20 degrees Celsius the last days. Everybody in Vienna is spending most of their time outside. So did I on Saturday, together with Iris, Davy and his brother Tom. By accident we found the Argus Bike Festival at the Wiener Rathausplatz, a huge event all about bike’s.
The biggest attraction at the Festival was the International Dirt-Contest, Vienna Air King, with 50 of the best Dirt-Riders there to compete for 7.500 Euro. Great show and great tricks. So I decided to go again on Sunday for the finals and this time I brought my camera with me to practice on some action-photography.
The week before I came to Vienna I was a snowboardteacher for the organisation Swinski.
Swinski is a organisation from where I grew up and every year they organise a youth travel to Neukirchen, Austria. It’s a great organisation and a great team, lead by the incredible Irene who manaches to pull it off every year. Two years ago they asked me to join their team after being a participant for a really long time. I got my Anwarter autumn 2007 and this was my second time as member of the team. With Swinski I’ve had some pretty wicked time’s back in the days haha and I know a lot of my friends because of Swinski.
This year I mainly had to give lessons to more experienced riders. Some even with a lot more indoor expierence then I have on the mountain. Weather was great and even with the so called “global warming” thing there was the most snow I’ve ever saw. And that means a hell of a lot of snow. So there was no need to go that much offpiste, because the piste was already offpiste. Besides giving lessons I became the centre of attention on the shownight, danced a lot in the bar and was able to shoot some pictures with my new telezoomlens. Thanks Irene, for giving me the opportunity to do that and the tips.
Even though it was great I had to miss most of the old Swinski-gang and my lovely skïing girlfriend. Who all couldn’t make it this time due to different reasons.