Thomas Holbach

Finally, there are some photos of my trip to Ireland in September. Having finished my bachelor-thesis, I had a nice trip to Ireland’s Iveragh Peninsula. We had been warned to travel there in late September, but fortunately we had weather, which was out of character: nearly no rain, at all.

I’ve never been to Ireland before: I enjoyed its fantastic landscapes and its nature, as we were hiking most of the time. Afterwards I made panoramas from multiple pictures for the first time. It’s super-simple with hugin. So have a look at:

• the area surrounding Caherciveen,
• the beach of Waterville and
• the view up from the West End of Iveragh Peninsula - and of course
• the whole gallery.

Berlin, Brandenburger Tor, 2006

Having a fancy internship in Berlin, I moved here, today. I’m going to work and live here (and write some papers) for two months now.

The winners for this year were published:

My favourites:

• “At the fights“: Potraits of boxers taken before and after a boxing match.
• “Chaiten volcano erupts“: Brilliant “Last Judgement”-photo taken in Chile.
• “Homeless“: Photos taken of homeless people in São Paolo.
• “Preserving Memory“: Visitors in Auschwitz.
• “Petrona Rivers“: Photo of a victim of gang violence in El Salvador - and of course the winner:
• “US Economy in crisis“

So, as you can guess… I moved once again. Due to a bunch of lost souls, I decided to use christmas holidays to move to a new living community.

A catholic student fraternity, which was living in the same house decided to expand. They had the right to take rooms in case someone moved out - meaning that by-and-by my living community would have been full of members of this organisation.

It’s sad to leave, because I had a great time there with a gigantic room, many charming and  changing flat-mates, an unforgettable party and a place to call my, at least, second home.

For those of you, who want to have the new address, you drop me a mail…

During the last days I discovered a fascinating advertising campaign on youtube. CareerBuilder seems to understand my daily grind in Jena

As a student of Communication Research I’m totally interested in advertising. Even in the hard times of studying in the end of this semester (5 exams in two weeks + a “mini” thesis) there’s still some time left for applied research:

• check this youtube search request
  

The title of this entry goes back to Oliviero Toscani’s great book “Advertising is a carrion smiling at us”, which is unfortunately not available in English. To be true, I’m really wondering why.

Addition: one to bind them all (one video with  all ads)…here

Now back studying….