Saturday was 'filled" from beginning to its grueling end (half past midnight) with the Einhorn e.V work in all 3 locations. Sunday was dedicated to the Herve&Nathalie visiting from Clamart outside of Paris. We ended our small but extensive walk at Unter der Linden (after deciding that there were too many Berliners visiting the new "Neues Museum") then taking the Bus100 to haus der Kulturen der Welt to view the building then walking through the Tiergarten to view the modernist experiments of the HanseViertel and dining at the Akademie der Künste's kanteen. This was follwed by heading to Prenzlauerberg to visit their friends Michel and Sabine who run/own a "brocante" shop on Kollwitz http://trouve-berlin.de/. They had a splendid apartment with windows on 3 sides and a direct view down into the Jewish cemetery. The only unfortunate fact was that this apartment was located in such a deeply gentrified neighborhood.
All this activity after a prior week of getting my "Atelier" in order -of which has only been about 75% successful. Only today Monday remains to attempt completing this necessary task before Tuesday's "Studio-visit" from a small group of young NYC "collectors". Organizing, cleaning etc is a worthwhile but stressful endeavour.
This morning I noted from HuffPo [http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17992-new-camera-promises-to-capture-your-whole-life.html?full=true&print=true] a fascinating "gadget" that will/may be avail from the UK as of 2010. A small automatic DSC intended to digitally document up to every30sec which is envisioned for "life(b)loggers" - though i assume one can place this small digital camera on a child or pet or a long host of other "carriers". It's been called a personal "black-box".
Vicon, based in Oxford, UK, which specialises in motion-capture technology for the movie industry, has licensed the technology for the camera from Microsoft and intends to put it into large-scale production.
Imogen Moorhouse, Vicon's managing director, says that Microsoft has licensed the technology because it can't keep up with demand for the gadget. So far, only 500 have been made, most for use by researchers.
Vicon's version will retail for £500 (about $820) and will also be marketed to researchers at first; it will go on sale in the next few months. A consumer version should be released in 2010.
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