the first couple of photos were taken with the 5d. i actually have two colour film rolls i haven't scanned yet, because my nikon coolscan seriously "spits" them out again without sending any sort of error message.. this pretty much sucks big time i'd say... so i dunno when i'll be able to scan c41-films again.. at least it scans b/w.


the photos look crap, because i forgot to proof them in ps. so i was ignoring the colour profile.. and now i'm way too lazy to re-edit them. so you'll have to live with it.

testing 3200iso here.








pure candlelight. intresting how this camera handles it.


bought 4 rolls of trix. didn't have money for more. have shot 3 of them already. i have no money at all right now.. which means i'm having one more roll of trix left for the next, lets say whole week.

found this somehow weird: closed until .............




how did the cake taste ? taken in complete darkeness.


besma and lorant trying to download some mp3s with mac. a very tricky operation, who'd imagine this nowadays ?





"lorant. thanks for fucking up my photo" is what i said right after taking it... and here is the result.


the most popular emopose i think. somewhat childish and retarded at the same time.. like "i'm so emotional that my knees give in because of the imense heaviness of my feelings" or "i'm easy to get, wanna fuck ?"

actually. it's sad.


went to a place called donau.


they have some nice toilet there.


the evening went on in the morgenstern.


i met a recruit who had NOT to stay the whole day on friday and saturday (holidays) at heldenplatz to "celebrate" austrias "netrality"... an austrian thing...

well i had to... so we both had a reason to drink. he because he had free next day and me because i had to work for the army the next two days. i think he had the better start position ;)


so i went to bed at 3:45am writing paul (our commandant) a sms saying "i'm going to bed now, you know what this means.."

so he called me at 6:15 to get me out of the bed saying "move your fucking ass to heldenplatz!"...

i was there at 7:30 one hour late... but nobody cared... i was fucking drunk.. :D


everyone was sprouting of motivation !



but i was still drunk as shit..



later we got our orders. everyone received a metal stick to watch... greeeeeeat !



this turned out to be so boring that 3 of us escaped to McDonnalds to have a burger and a beer.. to refresh our alcohol content.

cheers !



the thought to drink a beer at mcdonnalds during military comission on THE militray holiday is kinda great.. it was fun !

since we all had not much sleep we decided to have a little nap until the manager advised us not to sleep all over the table and benches...


there were geman soldierst too... also with a camera.


these two struggled against the wind.



*cought in the act* we were actually not allowed to consume outside our army tent... how laughable..


there were anti-military demonstrators too.. funny guys.


the police joined. i love the moment i cought.


everyone had great fun, including myself in uniform.. hah.


a couple of viennies people looking for the tanks aka "wo san denn die pansa?" ;)


he took a photo of me, because i was a soldier with a camera around the neck, an old grandpa camera.. yo know... so i gave him the pleasure back.


since it was cold and we were standing around doing stupid things because we were ordered to.. we felt a bit cold after a while.

so by instinct we found a tent that was heaten by this skin/tube.. we stayed there for a while until our shoes almost melted..


the pope honoured us. he looks like the imperator of star wars to me. not a good sign if you ask me... but who cares about a little austrian's opinion ;)


my recruits with their attached metal barrier sticks. how stupid.


he loves austria.



look who joined the spectacle


careful !



more typical people.


i stoped taking photos at some point because we started to clear up the whole mess which wasn't funny... as you can see in his face.



we started at 6:30 and came home at 24 o'clock... it was pretty much work, pretty much unnecessairy.. but who cares. day one was over.

since it got so late. rekr. traxler had to sleep at my place. there was no transport going to his home anymore... haha.


next day.


"thank you austrian army". this photo says it all..


"coke zero" "motivation zero"..


this shows all austrian armys pride. how ironic.


it was his free day. he visited us to watch us working.. he even thought that's cool... he's our casanova, remember ? rekr. roggenhofer.


some french speaking girls wanted to take a photo with us. i had to take one for us too... soldiers still seem to attract girls and women.. what a cliche. we're all losers in green.. i tell you !


the leftovers of a tent and the leftovers of a soldier after two days and nights of work.


some still didn't lose their humor ?


traxler and i at least were motivated, because major "something" allowed us two to take a ride with the black hawk... that was nice.. damn nice.


we started somewhere after 2pm. here you can see the other black hawk still on the ground.


flying a "sightseeing tour" over vienna was a great experience.. definately once in a lifetime thing.



the other hawk was pretty close.


here is the proof ! i was in there ;)


not really comfortable, but that makes it in the end.


one last for the archive.

bye :)

it's over soon. the army. it went pretty quick in the end. six month in green. the official last day as an austrian soldier is the 6th november but i think my last day in the army will be the 31st october. so ten more days.

rekr traxler, who had night shif that day. we met him at 6:30 in the morning. he was hoisting the austrian flag. that's what you have to do every morning when you had night shift...




my buddy reif and i had an intern challenge who's gonna have more beard after a week not shaving. it's fun, you know in the army you should shave each day. if you don't do and in the morning, when they check if everybody is present, wearing the right socks and stuff, they also have a look at your "shaving status".. so not to shave for a whole week in the army is almost impossible but we started to give a shit lately.



so, after we both haven't shaved for a week, we decided that we have to shave again, to avoid getting into any army-troubles ;)



we could even write with the beard that was collected in the sink.


daily business is starting.


this station is called "EKG" we prefer to call it "Ruhe-EKG" what would mean something like resting ECG. it's the ECG-station... we take our definition by word as you can see.


sometimes the station is full of recruits, sleeping on all kind of places, including myself.


just a still life. why did i capture it ? because this is what i see every day before the "check". behind that door there is our "drillmaster" ;) the sticker says "I'm a non smoker" and i won't start to explain the sticker above.. it's austrian army humor, not funny actually..


since the next generation of soldiers has allready arrived, we, the old recruits are not allowed anymore to stay in our rooms.. because it's now their rooms.. stupid i know. we still go up there to have a snack, cig or nap. that's also mainly the reason why we started to sleep in every avaiable bed in the stations instead of going up in our rooms to lay down there..


i really really love the army hospital. it has the image that if you go there because of a bee sting on your finger, they'll amputate your whole arm, to get sure...

so last entry was featuring reif with the ruffle, now it's reiter with the turban.. ain't it funny ?


everyday 2pm in the afternoon, is the most boring part of the day. we officially have nothing more to do. but we have to stay in the barracks till 4pm. so it's the time of "tarnen und täuschen" which means in short: everyone has to hide somewhere and stay quiet.

the next photo shows what we should NOT do. sitting around in the hall, because this is NOT hiding.. isn't that funny... damn it.


some tracks of history. it says "Heilsarmee" (salvation Army). i stumbled across this.. found that really intresting.


the obligatory none saying elevator self portrait.


beer can blues.


a streetshot ! whoa. a rarety. not a good one though..


this is my successor and i'm glad he's having success... since when everything works because he's correctly tought be me, i can go to sleep and let him work.


one more reason why the old recruits sleep all over the place.


i sticked an ECG-contact on his cheek.. he didn't wake up.. i had a good laugh.



this massacre happened in my courtyard. i think it was a falcon. i like them, they kill pigeons.


next day. it's about 6:25am. i'm going to the supermarked to buy me some breakfast. everyday i cross this wall with the two spotlights and almost everyday, there is this guy standing there. kinda creepy. so i took a photo once.


new day in the army starts. i'm lying in the bed, giving instructions to my trainee recruit. he's good and that's good for me too.


i found that scene cute .. or ?


there are three ash trays in the smoking cabine.. and they get emptied every day. all of them are full by noon, that should make us worry i think. glad i don't smoke cigaretts..


at the end of the station service.. we have to clean and desinfect the beds, machines and instruments. one day we found out how good this desinfection solution is burning.. it's still getting hot though, i let him wait till he couldn't hold anymore, then took the photo. too funny.


what does miriam think of all this ?


next day, we've gone shopping. a rope to enter a window in the second floor from outside. (long strory).. we've came across this hairdress saloon... that had installed a mirror outside, featuring three kind of (long hair) styles, where you could fit your reflection into, to have a look if it fits you.

we thought that it was pretty ridiculous.


wasn't able to take the photo correctly with the rangefinder though.. maybe with a slr it would work.


some rumanian friends staying over. we've been to the infamous "plutzer" bräu.. where bernhard and i had our "second living room" back in winter 2006. lot's of wasted money on booze.

back to the rumanians. they weren't sure what to choose from the menu. i found that scene cute.




later. still shooting trix@400, in the morgenstern. this is booze and lorant, ot is it lorant and empty glasses of booze ?


conversations at 4am.. i don't remember them, but there is a photo of it.


do girls or women laugh more on the phone than boys and men ? i've always wondered about that. can you make a difference if a girl/woman is talking to a girl/woman or a boy/man on the phone by her amount of smiling ? i doubt it.


on my way home. i've came a cross the schnaps museum.. that's something to print and hang somewhere in a pub or bar.


and i also met mirjam weichselbraun. isn't she looking retarded with that smile and these raindrops making her look even funnier ?


one last for the archive.




these were my last two rolls of trix. how bad is this ?

gonna get new rolls soon.

cheers

finishing an old roll of trix i started some weeks ago.

f2.0 1/15 kinda lovely tones.


lorant being mad about someone who has ruined one of his prints in the darkroom. sticking up letters sayin "thank you" over and over again.





"life fucks me everyday"


little nap.


rekr. reif coming back from the military hospital.. looking pissed haha.


this is a decisive moment i'd say..


one more for my in the kitchen photo collection.


rerk. reif has somehow inherit this "lovely" poster from his precursor.


went to the cinema to see a explicitly self chosen bad movie called "superbad"



and it was definately superbad..



schef aka "the brain" during a game session. the last round was something for the guiness record books.


morgenstern once again.


lorant looking like a zombie.




had to guess exposure here.. leica.. 5.6 250th kinda worked out on the 2000iso trix.


more decisive stuff..


more pretty girls.. with beer. the left girl is very funny too..


seems like the cellphone light is brighter than the place itself.




bernhard joined us. strange night. don't wanna go into details.


hello babsy !


bernhard looking for a mouse, he said... ;)




he's looking retarrrrded ! again cafe wirr for a coffee.. deja vu


look he can look like a human being !





bernhard took this one of us. we were spooling up films in the darkroom so it was completely dark.. we use cellphones as flashlights to find the things we need, like finding each other.


look who joined the funny team.

darkroom randomness.



"you've been a nasty, nasty boy!"


enough randomness. sorry for another senseless post ;)

cheers !

shooting more shots lately, related to alcohol, not to photographs...

so the following entry will mostly feature party shots. i hope i don't bore you. this is what it's life like at the moment.

katja in between random stuff. nice light i thought.




dinner at my favourite asian restaurant.


met lorant. went to club ost. an eastern european / russian party place. didn't take any photos there, due to not enough light. went there by cab as you can probably see.


the next day. saturday. on the way to a small concert, i've stumbled across this bus. kinda creepy i thought. i didn't know yet how this day would end.. i just knew there were several parties going on that night, lots of free alcohol..



not that the plastic cup was more intresting than the band ;) but i can't see these stereotype band shots anymore, so i didn't take any of the band at all.


there was this little room. kinda cute i thought. nothing special in the end.


random boys butt.


and the girl ones in comparison. wonder what made me photograph those.. it's a nice difference though, as if someone blew the boys one up like a balloon.. (i should think out loud more often sometimes... haha)


after the "show". he deserved a beer.


lovely mix of expressions.. i must say, i hardly remember taking these photos due to lots of alcoholic abuse.




changing location. i actually have changed it twice, but don't have any photos from there.. so here we are on the morgenstern toilet.. capturing some last impressions of the night with the camera but not with my mind anymore....


lovely. on the way there i must have almost felt that this night will soon reach it's "klimax".. how funny is that..


to be accurate.. that's the last bit i can hardly, hardly remember that night.. probably the real climax.. the barkeeper and two ladys on the bartable...


filling some vodka in people's mouths.


like i told you in the last entry.. i got some of the vodka too.. the next thing i remember was getting up on the sofa, finding most of my flat covered in puke.

what a night... ;)




next roll of trix.


a lady doing some sort of questionary about the topic "how adventurous are you?" or in short "how far will you go?" i'm curious about the outcome of her answers...




some bokehstuff..


alice schwarzer stayed in vienna, we went to her reading. she is the german feminist since the 70s. bit of an idol for m. but also for me.



in "action"


of course a must to take a photo together ;)


this photo shows how lucky we've been to be able to get so close during and after the reading. it's the day after, a much bigger event with more than 500 people. no chance to get a photo with schwarzer there..


in some random elevator. the light was film noir if you ask me.. great setting ;)


miriam at work. i won't solve the mystery for you, make your own interpretation..


old classmate. we had one of these class reunions.. people don't really change i think.


"pflück dir ein edelweiß" something for german speaking people. irgendwie ironisch ?


ending up in the morgenstern once again. second home already.



to the next party.

apx100 with flash. why so ? because there was absolutely no light at all.. this time it's not only the alcohol why i don't remember taking photos, but also the absence of light, i didn't really know what i was photographing because it was so dark.. pretty funny that i almost haven't seen any of those faces at the party but only on the photos later...


i still haven't found out what that thing in front of the lens is... but it makes a nice shadow. freaky photo i think.



there was another pro-photographer there shooting with ring lite !! impressive ;)



actually the party was more or less boring.. just like these girls sitting at the table all the time doing nothing. sorry i've i'm being subjective here.. maybe these are great human beings, god knows..


this guy is being proud of wasting almost 4€ for a small beer.. look at his face...


lorant is wondering what it feels like to look right into the flash in complete darkness..


party people. smoking is cool.


drinking even cooler.


oh wow ! damn cool man.. manly manly !


oh so manly.. damnit... maybe men feel more manly if they are inside a brothel.. yeah the party was inside one, without any dancers of course.. wouldn't go into a real one.


well finally some little party started to be going on.. last frames wasting in the crowd... then making party myself.

looks like som bum joined us there

till next time. cheerio !