ohhhh markus ….

Internet Week started here for the first time, with an absolutely fabulous kick off party, hosted by Thrillist, music by Faux Punk, the best/worst/only Daft Punk cover band, visuals by VJ ValuJet and both were amazing! And after them only rock (&roll) music! fantastic! I was dancing like crazy, boy that was fun!

unfortunately the dance floor was covered in glass fragments from broken glasses, which made expressive dancing quite an adventure. I landed one jump exactly on a big piece, resulting in quite some pain, and I thought, ok, there goes my left shoe, but couldn’t see any hole to my surprise.

after arriving at home and removing my shoes, surprise surprise, the glass managing to stab me into the foot, causing quite a deep cut and some bleeding. What I don’t really get is, how can this happen without the slightest hole in the shoe afterwards (and its quite a massive leather sole). strange ….

what a lovely perfect sunny day. went to the queens pride 2008, gay parade/festival in Queens. totally low key and very relaxing. and fabulous (mexican) street food there (and free hepatitis a/b shots, good initiative!).

but ‘nough said, enjoy the pics

 

oh, well, back in austria the New York festivals sounded always so glamorous, so prestigious. While this might be true for the award itself (high quality work there), its definitely not true for the ceremony itself.

They simply rented out the (small) Samsung flagship store and the whole thing was presented by someone who could have played easily a role in the stepford wives. Unfortunately I couldn’t get the false laughs and strange smiles on video, but here are some impressions and videos (I kinda pity the people who flew to NY from europe to get this award in person. what a waste of time).

Well at least I and the stepford wife had matching outfits. nice.

A old colleague of mine (now CD at Scholastic, imagine that!) is member of an absolutely terrific artist group, going each year to Burning Man. And to get the money for their absolutely fantastic floats they have quite some fundraisers, parties full of performance artists, stilt walkers, cutting edge DJs and a funky dressed crowd.

So I went there, a two story building in a totally sketchy neighborhood,  had to stop 5(!) cabs until I found one who knew that address and after quite a ride I was there. finally!

Everyone in a good mood, dancing, performance artists and cheap drinks. I was dancing so wild that I fell off the stage (oops, one step to many to the right ). Luckily I didn’t injure myself, thanks to quite some flexibility from my Tae Kwon Do training it was just a rather big and very deep step. But for a moment I was rather surprised :D. 

God, I am really looking forward to go to Burning Man this year ….

So Creativity magazine had a kinda posh party at the Tenjune in the meat packing district, celebrating their 50th issue. Guest list with ID check, mostly A-list, posh location, the whole package.

You can find some an article and some pics of the party here, scroll down and spot me!

After having a splendid time and getting lots of looks and compliments for my outfit (oh behave!) we headed to another location, stopping a stretch limo on the street to have a nice ride. As it turned out the limo driver had no clue about Manhattan at all, driving around in circles and going even to Brooklyn. But we didn’t really mind, enjoyed the ride and finally arrived at our destination, a small bar in Chinatown.

Where I met to my surprise a couple from Austria, living and working here, too. (Let me tell you, Austrians are RARE here).

And to my even bigger surprise another (married) couple where the guy was from Austria and his name was … tataa! … Markus!

awesome!

and now have fun with some pics and a movie from the ride!

 

 

Enjoy the pics and some clips

(btw, if anyone has an idea what the strange rotating speaker is for, add a comment and let me know. ;))

strange speaker

So after the fiasco last night I went with fabulous S to a Digitalism concert. and this time strictly sobber.

What a blast (as usually at Webster Hall). At the end the crowed was storming the stage, dancing there like there was no tomorrow. Security couldn’t do a thing about it.

Their smash hit “Idealistic”

and another one:

After the concert we passed this superpissed looking tranny, handling the queue in front of the Webster Hall. worth a pic ;) 

  

And afterwards going to St. Marx, browsing through the HUGE underground (adult) comic section. And found quite some pieces (even one in 3D, but the credit for finding this one goes to S) …. 

What an absolutely fabulous night!

So Misha had this fabulous idea to have a fundraiser to refurbish their new loft.

“You dress up nice. You bring a date, maybe two. You leave with a different date. Or two. You swing as hard as you possibly can all night, and then during the auction you actually bid money on whoever strikes your fancy. Expect wicked dancing, lots of video projection, and a crowd. And of course: an auction.”

well, it was truly a splendid party.
And quite some extraordinary experience for me.
Why?
Hm, well, you all know those kind of warning stickers on medications “Do not drink alcohol beverages while taking this medication”. Since I had a very nasty cough for two weeks I had to take codein. Which you should REALLY NEVER mix with alcohol.
I didn’t know that and learned it the hard way. After one drink I looked extraordinary wasted (won’t post this pic here ;)), after the second drink I was feeling kinda sick. Especially after having a chinese dinner at 3am in the morning things went, hmm, downhill.
Arrived at home. and puked. Went to sleep. woke up. and puked. Had some rest, went to the street to get some bread from an italian shop. Entered the shop. smelled the fresh fatty pizza. and had to leave immediately, just made it around the corner and puked like I had never puked before. I was grossed out and fascinated at the same time how much liquid and stuff you can puke (even if you had puked two times before).

lesson learned. seriously.

Ohhh what a nice day! First a surprise presentation by the english Aardman Studios, which was of course terrific (they handed out plastilin kits to build your own character during the presentation). Below is a picture of me behind original figures of Wallace & Gromit, used in the movies (the big ones each worth 15k).

Then a concept a collegue and I worked on got very good feedback and will be probably launched in the intermediate future (not to mention the very exciting project I am working on right now).

And last not least the Justice concert at Madison Square Garden after work. You can’t see it on the pic/video, but behind me were about 900 people and on the seats above/behind my plattform about 5000). Luckily I had nice tickets and could get pretty close.

Mister D put me on the guest list of the Cielo today, and we had quite a blast (although I couldn’t dance because I kinda hurt my big toe by braking some boards at Tae Kwon Do). After being in the club for a while he put the glass down on one of the tables. And now guess what, one of the guys at the table (BIG! MUSCULAR! shaved head, you get the idea), took the glass and put it on the floor. I would have just taken the glass and let it be. but Mister D started to argue with this guy and both looked rather, well, testosterone loaded. But after like 2 minutes he left the table, looking pissed, and I thought, ok, that went kinda well (without violence). But he just went straight to the bar, bought a drink, drank it, went back to this table and dropped it with a bang into the cooler. the other guy jumped up super quickly and they both started arguing. And it looked really tense. It really looked like they are going to fight any minute. And guess what, after like 4 minutes, both suddenly shook hands, smiled and that was it.

I will never get that kind of behavior. seriously.