I have always been interested in how the cities evolved through the 20th century. Urbanism and urban planning came to the game and changed the way where streets were built, what buildings were built and how public spaces appeared.
Old aerial photos are hard to find, only military or intelligence agencies did some aerial shots before [...]
Historical Aerial Photos In Google Maps?
August 23, 2010 at 17:10 :: Filed under Internet, Musings :: [*] :: No Comments ::
Blog vs Blog Post
There has been an interesting misconception going on in the Slovak blogosphere since its opening to the wider audience and general public by the Slovak daily SME in 2005. The misconception arises from the understanding and use of the two terms: a blog and a blog post.
A blog is
[a] website that allows users to reflect, [...]
August 12, 2010 at 09:34 :: Filed under Internet, Musings :: [*] :: No Comments ::
Blade Runner Photo Deconstruction Is Here
If you have seen the Blade Runner movie, you will know what I am talking about: A blade runner logging into his computer, checking photo evidence found. Zooming into the photo (we can do that, right?), checking different parts of the photo and (behold!) zooming on the various objects, so the flat image transforms into [...]
August 10, 2010 at 19:26 :: Filed under Internet, Musings :: [*] :: No Comments ::
Slovak Readers: Become A No Citizen?
Recent Slovak law against dual citizenship has introduced fines and a loss of Slovak citizenship in case you voluntarily throw yourself to the wolves (state bureaucrats) telling them about your other citizenship.
So, I had this idea: what if you pretended to gain a foreign citizenship and would allow Slovak bureaucrats to void your Slovak citizenship? [...]
July 16, 2010 at 01:00 :: Filed under Musings :: [*] :: 7 Comments ::
Noir Adventure Game Idea
Pure black and white adventure – noir style – white background, locomotive (that futuristic huge train engine from the 20th centruy fifties with the large front light at the top). Black figure of an agent below it.
Agent is the game’s main character. Agent boards a train, railway station disappears and train starts to speed through [...]
June 30, 2010 at 22:04 :: Filed under Musings :: [*] :: No Comments ::
My Favourite Online Comics & Strips
I have always been a big fan of serious comics and graphic novels. Spending my time in US, John Porcellino’s Perfect Example had caught my interest and from there on I had loved to browse San Francisco Public Library’s comics section. I used to borrow everything they had often hitting the top number of books [...]
June 4, 2010 at 17:19 :: Filed under Internet, Musings :: [*] :: 6 Comments ::
Old-school Slovak rap (hip-hop)
Yesterday, I was browsing YouTube and found some good Slovak old-school hip-hop tracks from the 1990’s. Nathan Lively inspired me to create a list of old-school Slovak hip-hop tracks. These rap tracks were released either under Zvuky ulice (Sounds of street) compilation or as the separate CDs by each band (Trosky, for example).
The tracks listed [...]
May 10, 2010 at 14:23 :: Filed under Musings :: [*] :: 2 Comments ::
First Critical Mass in Bratislava
The very first Critical Mass in Bratislava took place on April 30, 2010 in Friday’s Bratislava streets. Although, there were some bicycle crowd’s rides before, this was the first official Critical Mass taking place in Bratislava.
We rode something more than 12 kilometres in rather free streets (most of the commuters had already left the city [...]
May 1, 2010 at 22:24 :: Filed under Musings :: [*] :: No Comments ::
Virtual Reality Nostalgia
Once upon a time, when I was a small kid, I used to read lots of sci-fi books. I was fascinated and overwhelmed by the non-existing future technologies (remember, these were 1980’s) described in the books such as teleports, hologram calls with a face projected in the air and others. When 1990’s came, comics magazines [...]
April 16, 2010 at 22:29 :: Filed under Musings :: [*] :: 1 Comment ::
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Brief Review Of Pohoda 2010 Festival
I’ve been a regular visitor to Pohoda Festival near Trencin, Slovakia since its first year at the military airport near Trencin in 2004. It was a quite small festival at that time and Michal Kascak, the founder of Pohoda Festival and his team were testing the new place. I remember problems with too much sun [...]
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July 12, 2010 at 23:21 :: Filed under Musings :: [*] :: 11 Comments ::