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Barcamp Vienna 08 (this is the recap)

As hinted in my post a few days back, Barcamps are always a lot of fun, the food is a plenty and people are interesting. Well, wasn’t anything different this time. Very well organized by a bunch of dedicated Barcampers. Thanks again to you all!

Numerous people have already written up more eloquent recaps of the event, so I’ll just leave you with a couple of pictures.

HPAt HP.

Food, good The food. Awesome selection. For whatever reason, I only took a single plate. I could still slap myself for that. In fact, I just did.

MetaAnd finally Ritchie, who, equipped with the same camera, took a shitload of nice pictures (one of which is of your gracious host in the exact same pose).

Portugal. The Man, again

Went and saw Portugal.The Man again, this time at WUK. The venue is a bit smaller and doesn’t have the sound system of Flex, but I like it better, not least due to the absence of superfluous security “guarding” whatever there is to guard.

The concert was everything and more I expected it to be. Even the support was amazing, an Austrian collective by the name of Steaming Satellites. This being an entry about music, I guess images don’t to the whole event justice, but still, I took pictures, not least because I can’t help it and also because I like to fatten up my meagre writing with graphics. People like graphics, I’ve read once. So, here goes:

Steaming Satellites

Steaming Satellites

The Steaming Satellites. It took a song or two for them, or us, to warm up, but in the end they did a fantastic job getting people all hot and bothered for Portugal.The Man.

Portugal.The Man

Portugal.The Man

Well, those are the only photos I managed to take during the actual concert. It was wild, it was noisy and their rendition of Helter Skelter took my shoes off. Well, not literally. Actually, literally. No, I’m just kidding. It’s a metaphor.

Portugal. The Lights Fog Accountant Man

Finally, after the concert, we managed to get ahold of one of the band-members. You wouldn’t believe it, but not only does he rock the stage with lights and fog, he’s also something like an accountant for the band. He was most gracious, but after I took his picture, he hurried back into the venue to do money stuff. I just hope he’s not on the run. If he is, I’m sorry for blowing his cover. But hey, touring with a band when you’re on the run? Not such a good idea, unless the band is called James-Younger Gang and you’re Jesse James. In which case the whole band is on the run, so playing public concerts would be out of the question, and they’d rather be interested in robbing banks than covering the Beatles. I guess.

Tupalo Party

Tupalo Party Schwag

Yesterday’s Tupalo party was jolly good fun. Apart from lots of Vodka, Bionade and a whole bunch of people I usually only converse with via the Internets, we also got some nice schwag. And I like schwag!

Please note the notebook, originally provided by one of the party’s sponsors, but re-branded into a Tupalo and Metblogs notebook.

Barcamp January ‘08

Barcamp January 2008

Tomorrow at WerkzeugH, the first Barcamp of 2008 in Vienna. Come plenty.

You know it’s winter…

…when it takes barely two minutes to bleach a streetcorner:

Winter




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