Few people know that Ferropolis/Graefenhainichen is located in a former coalmining region, Wittenberg, and during GDR years the nearby chemistry industry caused remarkably severe pollution.
This area was known as Bitterfeld. Nowadays, the environment seems natural and clean, a lot has been done to make it a surrounding worth living in. Lakes, woods, leasure sites, you can all find it here. Regarding to the press, the industry focusses on solar engineering and renewable energy.
We also find a very high unemployment rate and vanishingly few young people – They all moved to the cities or to the western part of Germany.
Naaaah, talking schmalking: It still is a nice place. You got the picture.
Here are the photos:

Click here to open the Melt! 2009 set on Flickr

Click here to open the Vietnam set on Flickr

Note that you will not find any pics of our production and design facilities in the photo set.
Unfortunately, those are not suitable for a public audience and therefore can not be published.

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CSS music is a messed-up toybox, a theme park. On MySpace the band categorizes itself as “Grunge, Regaae, Melodramatic Pop Songs” which for me just describes nothing. They are just blending any pop style they can find – thank god including electronic music. I’d categorize them under Do it yourself. If you do not like this pop song, check some of their remixes.

I see a lot of parallels to the foolishness of bedroom mashup superstar Girl Talk, you remember: The guy who plastic wraps his laptop during shows to save it from his own sweat.

Listen to this [follow the links]:

• Tiny Masters of Today (CSS Remix)
• CSS – Move (Cut Copy Remix)
• Grizzly Bear: “Knife (Girl Talk remix)”

Via.

Even at the time they were new, I only had about a week of benefiting from their capacity. It left even if the batteries were not in use.

I discovered that precharged batteries do the job better: The low self discharge enables dealers to store them up to 12 months and still sell them without pissing off their customers.
Of course, the discharging properties stay after recharging batteries at home..

The other benefit is, that the low self discharge enabled me to leave the batteries in the camera for more then two weeks. Hence I stopped suffering the loss of first class snapshots just because the camera is not ready.

This apllies to multiple camera series: Canon Powershot, Fujifilm Finepix, Pentax K series and basically all models that come with AA or AAA batteries – not with the prebuild own battery models like in the Canon Ixus series.

As for Germany, the dkamera magazine suggests these tested precharged batteries:

• Panasonic Infinium
• Kodak Digital Camera Battery Pre-Charged
• Ansmann maxe
• Conrad energy Endurance
• Duracell ActiveCharge
• Sanyo eneloop
• Varta Ready2Use
• AccuPower AccuLoop
• ELV Combo
• Hama Ready4Power
• GP Recyko
• UniRoss Hybrio

Please compare worldwide vendors and models yourself by regarding to the international brands.
Have fun using those!

Really nice spoof made only from original footage of Disney’s “A Goofy Movie”. Director: Cody Richeson

Check out this mouthwatering Remix by TJ Kong:
Ben Mono – Jesus Was A B-boy [TJ Kong & Nuno Dos Santos Remix]:

Sounds great? Here’s a TJ Kong Promo DJ set:

Read this statement of the Soundcloud scientists, Alexander Ljung & Eric Wahlforss:

As you might expect, over the years we’ve grown tired of getting emails with YouSentIt links or FTP log-ins just to be able to check out our friends latest soon-to-be released tracks. Not to mention how annoying it is to try and email a reply with some comprehendible feedback. Music is just kind of tricky to deal with over email. So, we thought we’d change that. SoundCloud is our way of doing it.