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August 8, 2007

Good Bye Lenin!

Last night I saw "Good Bye Lenin!" on TV. A German film by Wolfgang Becker (IMDb.com rating 7.8/10) that was released in 2003. See Wikipedia article on Good Bye, Lenin!

I liked it a lot and I think it's a good example of European cinema - so much different from Hollywood, and so much better.

On one hand the film can be seen as a part of ostalgie phenomenon and it certainly brings backs memories from the old days. I also lived long, dreadful years under the communist regime. But for me the real value of the film is that it is about feelings and that it speaks to your heart.

Published at 06:46 / 2 comments / 116 visits
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August 9, 2007

Music to die for

The other day I have come across this little list on the net. This is classical but music is music anyway.

What do you think ?

Published at 06:28 / 3 comments / 91 visits
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August 9, 2007

50 Places To See Before You Die

"50 Places To See Before You Die" selected by BBC viewers (2003):

Based on this.

Published at 08:51 / 7 comments / 160 visits
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August 11, 2007

Beginning conversation in a friendly, casual way...

...in Poland.

Usually you start by saying Hi/Hello/etc. and then you start the usual small talk by saying

Jak leci ?

 

Published at 10:06 / 2 comments / 105 visits
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August 13, 2007

Ipernity - new possibilities ?

Unlike F*r and other photo sharing websites Ipernity gives its users opportunity to write their blogs and upload documents in various file formats.

Photo sharing websites are for sharing, presenting, appreciating and indulging in () photography. It is good to know your creativity and passion for photography is appreciated by a group of friendly like-minded people.

A photographer discovers and documents multitude of surrounding world views, sometimes she/he transforms a view of the real world to express his thoughts or state of mind and heart.

Ipernity might also be a place for sharing, discussing  and discovering others'

  • favourite music
  • favourite films
  • favourite art
  • interesting, helpful or valuable websites 

just to name a few. Opportunities are only limited by your imagination.

 

Published at 10:17 / 1 comment / 220 visits
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August 14, 2007

Little secrets of the house

I hope people behind Ipernity won't be mad at me for revealing some secrets of the website.

Users at Ipernity are identified either by their nicknames or internally by numbers.

It is not very difficult to find out that #1 at Ipernity is our hero Christophe Ruelle. #100 is also special because the name of the account is... Ipernity. Apparently developers restricted or blocked IDs 2 through 9999 and the next active account is #10000 and it belongs to a close relative of our dear Christophe, it seems.

Account #10002 is a bit special because of the person to whom it seemingly belongs Sergey Brin. If you don't know (almost impossible) who he is look it up in Wikipedia - Sergey Brin.

Larry Page hasn't got an account on Ipernity yet (shame on you Larry ).

The last active account when I checked was the account number #22316 (a person from Lyon).

Update (Aug 16, 2007): The most current account ID number is 22472.

That tells us there are about 12,400 open user accounts on Ipernity, but please bear in mind that there are thousands of accounts that are completely inactive (no docs, blog posts etc).

Update (Sept 7, 2007) The most current account ID number is #24186 =~ 14,100 open user accounts.
Published at 11:04 / 0 comments / 151 visits
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August 14, 2007

Original or favourite ?

It would be a good thing to have a means to flag and then easily find out docs uploaded as original creations of Ipernity users and which have been created by someone else and only uploaded for others to appreciate (or some other reason).

Almost all photos are taken by the original uploader  but it is usually not the case with other docs.

For the time being the best solution would be in my opinion to tag docs with the "original woa" tag (for original work of art).

What's your opinion?

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Published at 19:16 / 2 comments / 170 visits
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August 16, 2007

Your creativity and contribution to freedom

"Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment."

Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia

Please consider publishing your texts, photos and videos of encyclopedic nature as well as music performances on a free licence. By this you can help Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects grow.

Please have no fear - your copyright will be retained.

Wikimedia Commons and specifically Wikipedia has already benefited greatly from people who published their photos on free licenses in Flickr. Please see these photos.

Please read more if you are interested.

There are Creative Commons licenses that are especially suitable:

  • CC BY-SA - Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike
  • CC BY - Creative Commons Attribution

You can of course use Free Art License or place your work in Public Domain.

You can contribute with your talent and creativity to dissemination of free knowledge to everyone on the planet (especially people from the Third World).

Published at 14:35 / 1 comment / 117 visits
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August 18, 2007

Simple discovery system

I am amazed how much fine and artistic creations I find on Ipernity. It strikes me that it is happens very very often by a sheer chance.

I'd love to have a system that would follow items that have been favourited by a set of my contacts.

Another menu item in 'Explore' menu - 'Explore your contacts' favourites'. I think It would help me and let me easier find what I seek here on everyday basis.

 

Published at 05:33 / 1 comment / 158 visits
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August 18, 2007

Wikimedia Commons - Picture of the Day

Wikimedia Commons - Picture of the Day

 

credits

 

Published at 16:56 / 2 comments / 197 visits
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August 21, 2007

Meet Photography Gods

The Wikimedia Commons has a wide base of very good photographers but crème de la crème of them are listed on the page "Meet our photographers".

 

 

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August 24, 2007

Yann Tiersen

I didn't know that Yann Tiersen (fr, de) was the composer of OST for two films I like:

You can listen to a few tracks on Ipernity:

and view a music video:

 

Published at 19:18 / 0 comments / 177 visits
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August 28, 2007

The Ambassadors/Die Gesandten/Les Ambassadeurs

The Ambassadors (1533) by Hans Holbein the Younger is a undeniably magnificent work of art. You might be interested to know that it takes an art detective to interpret.

Read more/Lesen Sie mehr/Voir aussi:

Published at 19:39 / 0 comments / 199 visits
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August 30, 2007

A Neanderthal child - recontruction

A photo of the reconstruction of a Neanderthal child made by the research team from Anthropological Institute, University of Zürich.

Authors of the reconstruction:

  • Christoph P.E. Zollikofer, Zürich — 3D skull reconstruction
  • Marcia S. Ponce de León, Zürich — 3D skull reconstruction
  • Elisabeth Daynès, Paris — model reconstruction (skin, eyes, hair)
  • picture made by Christoph P.E. Zollikofer

This reconstruction was made with modern techniques from the Gibraltar 2 Neanderthal specimen discovered by Dorothy Garrod at Devil's Tower, Gibraltar in 1926.

Read more: Neanderthal.

Courtesy of Wikipedia authors.

Published at 18:58 / 2 comments / 207 visits
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