I'm here for almost four weeks now. Two weeks ago, I moved into my new flat, and I don't have internet access which is quite annoying. There is a wireless internet access in the university but it doesn't work with my Leopard system as it seems and there are some technicans who say that that's a Mac problem and they surely have other things to do. I don't understand why people are always so rude to Mac users... A computer isn't just bad because it looks nice... Anyway, I found a nice café where good cappuccino is served and they also offer free Wi-Fi. It's weird because I'm so used to my daily use of the internet that I'm feeling a bit disconnected now... Sorry, folks, when I don't react quickly on your comments or mails... But I also feel more concentrated which is an interesting expierience.

The week before last week, our animation course was running for the first time and it was nice and completely different to lovely Bristol (which is good). The studio was founded by Maria Lassnig in the early eighties. We got a guided tour through the premises, and Hubert Sielecki (who runs that studio) told us, that this studio may be the only one in Europe which develops animation from painting. They call theirself 'studio for experimental animation' and I'm quite excited about that. They showed some of the films their students did the last four years to us and it was very, very interesting with huge variation in style and techniques. One of their (former?) students is Nikolaus Jantsch, you can have a look at his My Space page. They use rostrum cameras there and have some every old classical animation tables... And they've got an light table Chuck Jones (Chuck Jones!) gave to them.
– Gooood Karma, I think... They also build some cheap camera stands on their own which I really want to copy when I'm back home and have space and all my tools...
It's a strange experience to live in someone else's flat (again) with less of my own stuff around me.

And it seems like I'm going more into 2D animation this term. Our first homework is a flip book with about 30 frames. It's a weird experience because I was so used to the puppets. But I'm really looking forward to learn more about drawn or even painted animation. But I'll also do a flash animation course in November to find out if this could be interesting. It's so good to have a huge variation of tools you could use. When I'm grown up, I going to be a fantastic filmmaker!