what a weekend. police band concert on friday evening, playing and emceeing is very hard work. went down really well and was an enjoyable evening.

skiing on saturday at the stubaier gletscher (pictures to follow). “junge solisten am podium” by the innStrumenti chamber orchestra was the evening’s entertainment on saturday.

sunday was a lazy day, spent most of the afternoon playing around with the latest, greatest version of lilypond. the evening was spent at a concert by the kammerchor walther von der vogelweide, conducted by claudio büchler, also the conductor of the uni orchestra.

this was quickly done in the improvised kitchen studio before dinner:

fruit and veg, originally uploaded by tiamak.

the tomatoes and the garlic in the basket have been surprising me every day with the simple colours, so i decided to knock together a quick studio in the kitchen. a large cardboard back-wall made from a weetabix box, lit by an overpowered sb-900, another sb-900 with a dome diffuser off to the right, kindly held by eva. not perfect, but not too shabby for a job knocked together in 3 minutes…

the picture at the top was taken during a short break from transcribing music. the sun hit the glasses just right on my laptop case, and luckily i had my camera sat next to me.

saw this bike at the station in innsbruck this morning. i thought the idea was quite cool, appealing to everyone’s human nature to not steal a catholic vicar’s bike. however, the photo doesn’t show the lock on the rear wheel of the bike…

this is a picture my friend lucas brought back from barcelona when he visited there in april 2009. this picture really speaks to me. the spiral lines seem to add movement and lead you into the light, but the centre itself is totally static.

lucas really has an eye for the unusual; i really like this photo.