Monthly Archive for November, 2009

arrived in Hong Kong

After a looong night stopping over in singapore and meeting my friends jerneja and rizal, in finally arrived in hong kong. living in the middle of the city, in wan chai, in a nice little hotel with a balcony into the chaotic hk streets.

and i got a new phone number: +852-6547-4890.

After visiting the RTHK radiostation in went to videotage to hang out (beautiful space by the way) and start preparing this weekends hackteria workshop. and then....

shopping at Ap Liu Street, the electronics paradise. got lots of blinking stuff, LEDs, cameras etc.... and set up my lab in my hotelroom, experimenting around with lasers, lenses and tardigrades

preparing for Hongkong

[16:39:14] … check this map
[16:39:15] dusjagr: nnnnnice
[16:39:19] … thanks a lot
[16:39:30] Keith: apliu street 203,
[16:39:45] … and there is a building next to this "Ming Chu Bldg"
[16:40:09] … write down this chinese character: 華輝 , because you would find a big signage of this name
[16:40:40] dusjagr: i copy everything
[16:40:52] Keith: and also you can have find of the whole street, full of junks, electronics, cheap LEDs, parts, vintage something, etc
[16:41:02] dusjagr: aaaahhh
[16:41:04] … paradise
[16:41:05] Keith: super cheap, fxxking cheap
[16:41:15] dusjagr: i'll be there dude
[16:41:26] Keith: all of my friend from ITP named it Paradise
[16:41:33] dusjagr: haha

Setting up the Electric Retina in Melbourne and some noise

Here are some impression from my trip to melbourne, where i went with Jill Scott to set up the Electric Retina at RMIT gallery for the exhibition Super Human: Revolution of the Species organized by the Australian Network for Art and Technology.

The setup went great and i had some time to celebrate my birthday, meeting with my old friend Guoliang and going to some wicked noise concerts in bar open and horse bazaar.

experiments with the microscopic eye

After a discussion with some sci-fi movie makers in melbourne I thought i could show up at the set using my newest development...