Chi-Tai, Research, Software and Music

I’ve been to banff/canada for a week to attend the international conference on interactive tabletops and surfaces 2009. Apart from the high quality of that conference, there were a lot of social happenings with the researchers, e.g. having interesting and productive talks while enjoying canadian beer in some of the beautiful pubs and restaurants in banff. Also the banquet with banquet speaker Chia Shen was great. I haven’t had such a delicious dinner so far and i’m pretty sure that it was quite expensive.. Thank goodness it was paid by the conference hehe

Oh and the view onto toronto at night (from the airplane) is soo beautiful.

On tuesday i presented results of my research from the university of augsburg and of course i was quite nervous hehe. Here are some pictures of my presentation and talk afterwards.

This is an elk in the gray of dawn. Unfortunatelly there wasn’t sufficient light for a perfect picture…

A great diner burger

The conference hotel – the fairmont springs banff!

Banff at night…

A view from the bridge in banff..

Some mountains…

Am 24. Dezember ist es soweit. Im Kesselhaus Augsburg (Riedingerstrasse) findet ab 22h die Angels Loft auf zwei Floors statt. Ideal um nach der Weihnachtsfeier im Familienkreis noch einen richtig coolen Abend zu erleben.

Cosmic Music Productions:

• DJ Chris DVM _{(Canspirit, World Wide Music)}
• DJ Chi-Tai _{(Cosmic Music Productions, Alkberg Festival)}
• DJ Ben _{(Cosmic Music Productions)}
• DJ Susan S. _{(Lechbett, No-Limits, Airport Augsburg)}

House and Black Party:

• DJ Tues _{(Appartment 11, Volksgarten, Liquidclub)}
• DJ Heed _(Liquidclub)

Ausserdem finden weitere Veranstaltungen im Kesselhaus am 25.12. und am 31.12. mit den DJs Chris Liebing, Rainer Wichhold, D-Fact, Essex, Lützenkirchen und Tomcraft statt.

Ressources:

• Kesselhaus Augsburg, Riedingerstrasse
• www.kesselhaus-augsburg.de

Ein kleines Bild aus dem Inneren des Kesselhauses:

Eine Cosmic Party im Kino?

Stilistisch vielleicht nicht ganz so wie in einer Tiefgarage, aber auch nicht alltäglich. Am Freitag, den 27.11.2009 könnt ihr genau DAS erleben! Das alte Kino in Mering (beim Schlosserwirt) bietet euch ab 21:00 Uhr eine Cosmic Party mit einer Discjockey-Konstellation, die auch über die Region Augsburg hinaus bestens bekannt ist. Musikalisch erwartet euch aktueller Sound gemischt mit den Favourites der experimentierfreudigen DJs:

• DJ Chris DVM _{(Canspirit, World Wide Music)}
• DJ Chi-Tai _{(Cosmic Music Productions, Alkberg Festival)}
• DJ Bene _{(Alkberg Festival)}
• DJ Susan S. _{(Lechbett, No-Limits, Airport Augsburg)}
• DJ Ghandi _{(Loudstaerke Vinyl, No-Limits)}
• Guest DJs _(toDo)

Resources:

• http://www.lokalisten.de/group/Kino_Mering
• Anfahrt: Googlemaps-Link

Cosmic Music Germany celebrates 20 years (1989 – 2009) of creative work on music and events and as to that invites to the club Ostwerk Augsburg on December the 18th / 10pm.

Celebrate two decades of finest dance music with us and our guests as follows.

Italy:

• DJ Corrado _{(Zanzibar/Spleen)}
• DJ Fabrizio Fattori _(Mamamia)
• DJ Tebo _{(Dub Club)}

Austria:

• DJ Stefan Egger _{(Mr. Cosmic Music/Afro Meeting)}

Germany:

• DJ Chris DVM
• DJ Chi-Tai
• DJ Ben

Resources:

• Cosmic Music Productions

I was lucky enough to attend the “German-Israeli Minerva School for Ubiquitous Display Environments” from end of august on and it was a great experience to learn from the lectures and different cultures. It was also an experience to see how other researchers move towards possible solutions within the workshop and collaboratively create and work on ideas. Many thanks to all the responsible staff at this place. Oh and really delicious food…
And of course (a little late) here are some impressions i took with my camera hehe..

The minerva crew:

Some impressions from Israel, Haifa, Jerusalem, …:

I’ve been to america for some weeks to visit my sister, take a vacation, and see my niece for the first time. Except for the great weather, it was a wonderful experience to live like and with americans and have time with my very cute and already sooo smart niece
I’ve also been to a nice club in rochester where a dj from 95.5, wearing sunglasses, broadcasted live to michigan statewide. While the club-music was kinda used (but great though), the imagination that anything of his act is broadcasted statewide was… interesting hehe..
Now vacation is over and guess what… somehow i miss the automatic in cars, ac everywhere, and so on hehe
During this great time i took a lot of pictures and here are some of them showing impressions of that weeks. In all america is a great country and i guess i’ll be back

• That’s me sitting somewhere at the beach of lake huron.. a little windy…
  
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• Townsend Hotel
  
• The corner at townsend hotel
  
• Way to tunnel to canada.. oh clearance is such a keyword i like for another reason hehe..
  
• Near Detroit Windsor Tunnel
  
• That’s me in front of the bridge to canada
  
• Caesars casino in canada
  
• The bridge to canada
  
• Me again and the hard-rock cafe behind (in detroit)
  
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• An ongoing baseball game in the stadion of detroit
  
• Detroit wayne state university
  
• Ghostbusters in action found at the annual Woodworth Cruise… there were so many old and crazy cars… unbelieveable..
  
• Exit to 8 Mile
  

• added: wm6.5 support for taskarrow position (can be specified by registry-value CloseButtonWidth)
• added: wildcard for free numbers in exception list of calltimes (only at the end), e.g. 123*
• grab a copy – Download

Just a quick info: There will be no cosmic-music on the alkberg festival this year 2009.

Recently i’ve been to italy with the lab for multimedia concepts and their applications and it was a wonderful week. Nice people, delicious lunch, aromatic coffee, great landscapes and places to be and here are some of the impressions of the region i caught with my camera

Raulka (a fellow user from xda-developers) has released an updated Floyd 2.4 theme suitable for VGA/WVGA/QVGA/WQVGA/Portrait/Landscape.

Features:

• VGA sized beautiful graphics
• 7 types of clocks (change with Floyd’s toggle button)
• 4 types of icons (change with Floyd’s toggle button)
• 4 types of buttons (change with Floyd’s toggle button)
• Almost every icons/labels have ontap and/or onhold function
• v2.4 – Only two Cab released: QVGA and VGA which are contains all of previous versions in portrait and landscape too! Small graphics changes in portrait versions too. Important! After you changed the screen orientation from portrait to landscape or landscape to portrait, first of all just click on CPU usage (%) button and wait 7-8 secs. This will set the correct xml and notestoday + todaycalendar settings to the new orientation!

Head over to xda-developers.com and check out Raulkas Floyd theme.