Photo Half Marathon

Today was another of these supposed to be relaxing Sundays, which didn’t work out exactly as expected … well, we took part in a Photo Half Marathon organised by friends!
The task is to shoot pictures on twelve topics (also following one major topic) in about six hours.
The topics where handed out in three groups of four with two hours in between and at different places in Berlin. Which made the whole thing a bit stressful sometimes … and we paid our teamname (“Auf den letzten Drücker”/”In the last moment”) tribute by showing up last on all checkpoints :-)

The topics where following German advertising slogans (therefore translating doesn’t make much sense), whereas the brands in parenthesis where not given and the overall topic was “Powered by Emotion” (another advertising slogan, SAT1) :

  1. Du bist Deutschland (Bundesregierung)
  2. Wer hat’s erfunden? (Ricola)
  3. Isch habe gar keine Auto! (Nescafe)
  4. Eine Perle der Natur (Krombacher)
  5. Bin ich schon drin? (AOL)
  6. Weil ich es mir Wert bin (L’Oreal)
  7. Medizin deines Lebens (Asperin)
  8. Ist der neu? (Perwoll)
  9. Nicht nur sauber sondern rein (Ariel)
  10. Auf diese Steine können Sie bauen (Schwäbisch Hall)
  11. Wohnst du noch oder lebst du schon? (IKEA)
  12. Zukunft bewegen (Deutsche Bahn)

Thanks and Cheers to the organisers
In case we win ;-) pictures will follow!

In Bruges

This one is beautiful! Awesome movie about some criminals in Bruges!
Don’t wonna write too much, but this movie is a must see!
And I really mean it … event though the end is a bit strange the rest great!

Go and see it! Now!

Angela@ATLAS

On April 29th Angela Merkel, the current German chancellor, visited ATLAS/CERN. The picture shows Rolf Heuer (the designated Director-General), Robert Aymar (the current Director-General), who knows, Angela Merkel and Peter Jenny (the ATLAS spokesman) in the ATLAS Control Room.
Since Mrs. Merkel is a graduated physicist it was actually about time for her to visit.
Especially since the public underground access is closing next week. From than on only a few people are allowed to go down and only after iris scan based authentification (cool but unfortunately needed due to French laws applying at the LHC).

Theres also an entry in Mrs. Merkel’s travelbook, see it here (but only in German, so far).