The first flight on a near wind-less day. just starting, going up, stay there a bit and land. Footage taken on board with the n95 strapped to the chassis.

A glimpse into the future

sales guy vs web dude

Hightlights of the 2008 Jordan Rally. For the first time the event is part of the World Rally Championship.

Crashfest down under, only 7 of 22 made it to the finish. Flawless performance of Lewis Hamilton.

Smart cat

Smart hungry cat

A detailed history of Porsche race cars, from the 50ies to the present.

A detailed history of Porsche race cars, from the 50ies to the present.

Racing biography of the Austrian driver Niki Lauda, a 2-time World champion with Ferrari and McLaren. Later a successful airline entrepeneur. He is the one who made his first and last name a brand: Lauda Air and Fly Niki :)

A funny crash in the Champ car series, luckily no one was hurt

Contemporary documentation of the worst accident in racing history which claimed over 80 lifes. Mercedes pulled out of racing completely, returning in the mid 90ies with their Formula One effort. Switzerland banned track racing completely until today.

Onboard a Lotus (dunno which one exactly) on the Zandvoort track in its "original" configuration. The track was half-demolished later and subsequently rebuilt. Today only the start/finish straight and the first few corners resemble that old layout. T1, the famous "Tarzan" corner is still used. It was named "Tarzan" because the guy who sold the land needed to build that part of the track requested that.

A lap of the "Green Hell" professionally commented and driven by Derek Bell. These were the great days of Sports cars, 1983

A nice cut-up of some historic Monaco happenings

Qualification lap for the Japanese Grand Prix 1989. Senna the wizard at its best.

Jackie Stewart explaining some aspects on Nürburgring and Brands Hatch. Obviously, Sir Jackie is one of the few who can keep talking totally independently of what they're doing.

One of the most famous overtaking maneuvres in modern F1, staged on the epic Spa Franchorchamps track in Belgium.

Some insights on the myths of race car vs road car development and the contradictions in Formula 1 deveopment.

Some information on race car aerodynamics development. A bit dated by today's standard where some some F1 teams run two wind tunnels 24/7 and the help of vast computer resources to simulate designs before even bothering building a model.

Some onboard footage of Sterling Moss, narrated by himself.

Some footage of MS doing what he's really good at. Shows the Ferrari 2003 F1 car in Monza.

Footage of the 1978 Ligier/Matra in Monza. These were the days when there was just no security measures on the cars, so no carbon fibre safety cells, one wrong move and you were dead. Touching the "curbs" would take you out as well I guess. Narrated by Mario Andretti.

And recap of historic Formula One champions.

Some rare onboard footage of the "maestro" J. M. Fangio. Narrated by S. Moss. No belts, and Fangio just wearing a t-shirt... And look a the bumpy track! Certainly times have changed.

The unique Tyrrell 6 wheeled P34 in action. Driver Patrick Depallier. They removed the parts of the car cover for this camera laps, so you can see the feet working the pedals.

Formula One 1995: Damon Hill vs. Michael Schumacher. Redflagged at the start. Watch MS helping at the restart by generously carring the car lifter tool. They were still on slick tyres back then, none of these grooved tyre nonsense in use today.

Formula One 1978. Onboard with Patrick Depailler in a Ligier on a frightening fast street track. The race is still existing today, but now promoted as a champ car race (one of th two open wheeler series in the US). Starting 2009, it will most probably be an IRL race since Champ Car has filed for Chapter 11 recently and the two series are merging (at last!). Also, the track configuration has changed quite a bit over the years, in 1978 the pit exit was at the end of the back straight and nowhere nea the start/finish line. very uncommon. Narrated by the iconic Mario Andretti.

... and i flew as well on that day!

rails vs php pt. 1

rails vs dotnet

rails vs java

rails vs php pt. 2

by Claude Lelouch 1976

ktl

monkeymen video

Trailer of the animated movie 'Persepolis' by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud. Poignant coming-of-age story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution. I've just watched it, its great.

A few shots of the newly renovated musum in berlin. This dinosaur skeletons are HUGE!

a nice realtime web app monitoring application built on top of ruby and opengl. fun to watch!

lime rock park is an existing track, this is from an online session with a grid of about 12 cars

a lap of the lienz fantasy track in rfactor. rfactor is a racing simulator, a cool one.

rare color footage of the 1930's mercedes race car. filmed in 1962, with graham hill commenting on hermann lang's (slow) lap in the legendary car.

wern is getting nervous

kart race south of hamburg

Whispering, a laid back pop rhythm and something that sounds like an overwound gramophone – thus begins "Jinx", the new album by the Kammerflimmer Kollektief. Recorded by Tobias Levin at Electric Avenue Studio, it is their sixth longplayer. This band is still a "collective", although within the last years and extensive touring through Europe, a group of three core members emerged from the original line-up: Thomas Weber (guitar, electronics, piano), Heike Aumüller (harmonium, vocals, synthesizer, percussion) and Johannes Frisch (double bass and percussion). The eight songs on "Jinx" leave the wide-screen cinemascope soundscapes of the previous albums behind. With their serenity, these songs sound almost like a sediment of the band's earlier approach. This becomes evident in a track like "Nest" (which is reminiscent of the folk-jazz-approach of early Pentangle albums), or the beautifully minimalist yet very touching country-epic "Live At The Cactus Tree Motel". Faced with this music, the usual groping for stylistic comparisons and genre attributions appears more helpless than ever. This is mainly due to the focused use of instrumental improvisation on this album. In their dialogue with the sound impulse, the musicians re-endow data folk with a body and electronic music with its metaphysics. This becomes evident in both the title track and in "Both Eyes Tight Shut", where in a repetitive swing Heike Aumüller's voice persistently fishes half-words from the vortex of sound particles. In "Gammler, Zen & Hohe Berge", a tiny echo from the beat on a small wood block which is electronically slowed down, dies away. Time drips through the spheres, quietly. This is not an escape into esotericism but rather the attempt at reflection and clarification, a catharsis somewhere between a constructed reality.

celebrating 60 years of working with ferrari, shell has produced this stunning film. it took about a year to drag all those historic race cars around the world for the various shootings. this is the long version which will probably not be broadcasted too often.

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a midi karaoke stream and a network event stream visualized. need to brush up my 3d programming again! this was fun to do. the recording quality is bad, though.