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And the vulgarity? “Have you never visited a Japanese household? The traditional image is of clear-cut lines, everything so simple, nothing to be seen except the tatami mat. Today, every tiny Japanese apartment is crammed with a mishmash of souvenirs, east European embroidery, a candle from Greece, a German plate, a good-luck cat with one hand up – superstitious things you can buy at a temple. There’s an obsession with labels but no judgment of what constitutes vulgarity. People are more affluent. There’s a lack of confidence about tradition because the Japanese are still enthralled with western culture. But when I look at [the classical music boom in] China, Japan and Korea, the only country where they seem to be genuinely music-loving is Korea.”

Current number is 17.121 german-language EPUBs, assuming we have them all, which is not unrealistic. Bad compared to English, but not abysmal, by the way. Italy, Spain, France, even Korea are much worse.

Postcards (predominantly German) from

the Great War, scanned at high

resolution.

All postcards are from my collection

unless otherwise stated.

Large bars = normal text line, small bars = footnote line. Dark red bars stand for full rip-offs and masked rip-offs, red bars represent other plagiarism categories (german).

a footage of a German merchant ship being rescued from pirates.

>* Plotting a dot for each geo-localized article on a world map. > That would give a kind of coverage of where are the things we talk > about on Wikipedia. This could also create cartogram map where the > density of article shapes the map rendering. I've done that already, these two maps show the article density around the north german city of Schleswig, using Google Maps and a generic OpenLayers layer respectively, * http://www.websitedev.de/temp/dewp-artikeldichte-um-schleswig.html * http://www.websitedev.de/temp/openlayers-heatmap-layer.html Doing this for all articles would push the file size to around 5MB and browsers aren't really up to the task of drawing 200 000 rectangles, and I haven't found a proper public domain OpenLayers compatible map service so I could at least make a static image of it.

A Week in the Life is a visualisation of telecommunications data. The data sculpture represents my movement and communication made with my cell phone in one week. With this project I want to make people aware of the german telecommunications data retention act (Vorratsdatenspeicherung) which requires the telecommunications providers to collect the connection data of all customers, which is an unneccessary breach of privacy. What can be read from the sculpture is my position in the city through the cell sites I used.

ALMOST EVERYONE IN THE WORLD KNOWS SOMEONE WHO HAS

FLOWN TO THE GERMAN CAPITAL IN RECENT YEARS AND PROUDLY RETURNED WITH BIZARRE STORIES OF PREVIOUSLY UNIMAGINED HIGHS AT ENDLESS TECHNO PARTIES AT BERGHAIN, WATERGATE OR TRESOR.