www.elevate.at

the site is up & the program sounds gr8.

Democracy! addresses different critical views on the topic of democracy through a dense schedule of lectures, discussions, workshops and film screenings. It will be a gathering of forward thinking activists, authors and scientists as well as a playground for new ideas and projects. (text taken from site)

Lab brings you workshops, lectures and showcases featuring international and local artists with the aim of supporting practical knowledge in areas such as sound design, street art, music production, music marketing and visual art , will be held on the three floors of the Forum Stadtpark Art Center.(text taken from site)

Live! A 4 day long 24 hour broadcast. New standards of interaction will be set, as the program will feature documentary films, short films, visuals and live-broadcasting of discussions, workshops and lectures, as well as live music of artists at the festival. A hitech guerrilla-media experiment. ‘Build your own media!’. (text taken from site)

& of course the music

just 2 name some...

Murcof, Bogdan Raczynski, Skream, Amit, Virus Syndicate, Oris Jay / Darqwan, DJ Scotch Egg, Baby Ford, Modeselektor ... & many more

seeeeyathere__

peaceout

get yourself some more information about this great project of my mate alex nikolic and his buddies, who founded Slum-TV:

SLUM-TV wants to documents the lives of the people in the slum and to reevaluate these lives through the camera. A camera always attracts attention. Our partners from the slum film and document the life in Mathare. The small movies are then shown in public places in Mathare, like a newsreel. In Mathare, there exist a variety of self-established cinemas. Mostly American and African films and European football is shown there. (text taken from website)

In 2006, during our stay in Kenya in the framework of the Groupexhibition “economy class” at the Alliance Francaise in Nairobi we managed to establish a very productive cooperation with the artists and photographers Sam Hopkins, Fred Otieno and Julius Mwelu. Together we documented and realised Lukas Pusch’s Performance “Vienna Voodoo”, which was done in Mathare. Mathare is the biggest slum in Kenya with approximately 700 000 inhabitants without electricity, running water and a sewage system. During our filming, Fred and Julius told us about the premiere of a German documentary movie for which they had done the camera work two years earlier. Suddenly they became sad and thought that this is odd because approximately one third of the people appearing in the film, have died in the meantime; and the movie is their only memory.

The foundation of SLUM-TV

SLUM-TV wants to documents the lives of the people in the slum and to reevaluate these lives through the camera. A camera always attracts attention. Our partners from the slum film and document the life in Mathare. The small movies are then shown in public places in Mathare, like a newsreel. In Mathare, there exist a variety of self-established cinemas. Mostly American and African films and European football is shown there.

Analogous to weekly news-shows in the early age of television our partners want to show their contributions in these cinemas, and maybe to charge a small entree fee in order to finance videotapes and other material. Copies of the videos are sent to Vienna. We will also try to distribute them under “Creative Common” licenses. That means non profit orientated community TV’s could use material for free, but has to name authors. All other users would have to pay. From the proceeds the manufacturers in the slums benefit again.

(Error Level Analysis. The bright area indicates where the image has been manipulated)

Dr. Neal Krawetz presented a software tool that is able to detect if an image has been digitally processed using format- and image-analysing technics @ this years BlackHat Convention.

It is actually possible to determine the last "tool" that created the image ---> this means u can tell the camera model if its the original image or the version of photoshop that has been used to alter the image.

see his blog for more examples.

Pdf slides of Krawetz s presentation @ BlackHat (35mb / this document explains the basic techniques used & is not2geeky)

SourceCode

pOUt

fring is a smart little application that implements the chat client of you choice (msn, icq, skype, twitter, google talk, SIP) on your phone.

this means if you have a wlan compatible phone & access to a free wireless network all your calls/messages can be free and anonymous (unless u enter your real name in web formulars ;) ), wherever you are on the planet. u don´t need a contract with a phone company any more.

more info --> www.fring.com/blog/

got a compatible phone? --> www.fring.com/wml/

peaceout

masterplanthemovie.com

...

a bachelor thesis about the power of google.

by Ozan Haloci & Jürgen Mayer (University of applied Science, Ulm, Germany)

really nice illustrated animation with alarming facts.

www.scroobiuspip.co.uk

listen & enjoy

no proplem...

check the first completely open, Linux-based mobile phone. voot!

The Neo1973 from FIC is the first of many phones that OpenMoko will run on.

wiki.openmoko.org

here´s a video with the devoloper, explaining the basics...

--LINK--

support open source!

/peaceout

...instead of fighting them why don't you go free ...

check this out