http://thomas.holba.ch news from paradise Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:34:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://thomas.holba.ch/index.php/2009/10/08/ireland/ [caption id="attachment_467" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Berlin, Brandenburger Tor, 2006"][/caption] 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. http://thomas.holba.ch/index.php/2009/03/01/berlin/ 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 ... http://thomas.holba.ch/index.php/2009/02/13/world-press-photo-awards-2009/ 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 ... http://thomas.holba.ch/index.php/2008/12/30/escape/ [mygal=2008-10_landgraf] Merel, Murphy, Rhea and me enjoying a nice autumn day at one of my favourite places in Jena: Landgraf. http://thomas.holba.ch/index.php/2008/10/15/autumn/ 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 ... http://thomas.holba.ch/index.php/2008/07/21/advertising-is-a-monkey-smiling-at-us/ [mygal=2008_flames] http://thomas.holba.ch/index.php/2008/05/18/flaming-tom/ [youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hp4pJE0UkGg] Having a boring lecture at university, I recognized that Indrė's (Bass) band (SheeZzanova) has a professional live performance video on youtube. Unfortunately, I haven't had the chance to see them live yet... http://thomas.holba.ch/index.php/2008/02/08/sheezzanova/ Just a few weeks ago, we had the ability to watch an exhibition in Jena of photos that were chosen to win the "World Press Photo Award" last year. Reading Spiegel-Online, I just discovered that the winners of this year were nominated...fascinating shots! http://thomas.holba.ch/index.php/2008/02/08/world-press-photo-awards-for-this-year/ [inspic=111,,,450] [mygal=2007-10_murphy] http://thomas.holba.ch/index.php/2007/11/08/whispering-sweet-nothings/ [mygal=2007_muenster] http://thomas.holba.ch/index.php/2007/10/04/leaving-munster/ Longer time ago, I took part in the protest against the policy of the G8 in Rostock. It was an amazing experience to be part of such a big event, but on the other side quite sad, that it became violent at some places. During the protest I took a lot ... http://thomas.holba.ch/index.php/2007/07/01/greedy-8-photos/ Yesterday, I finally managed to move away from Münster's district "Coerde", which is totally outside. I'm now living close to the central station, and close to the city center. Without the help (and the cars) of Hanna and Malte I wouldn't have been able to move all the things ... http://thomas.holba.ch/index.php/2007/05/22/leaving-coerde/ One week ago the European Union celebrated its 50th birthday: Everybody is talking about the 27 countries being members of it. But unfortunately not everyone knows about a state-in-a-state, which is part of the European Union as well: Not Bavaria, but Užupis. Užupis, meaning behind the river (lt:Už upis), is a ... http://thomas.holba.ch/index.php/2007/04/01/republic-of-uzupis/ Yesterday, I had the great chance to visit the philharmonics of Luxembourg for the first time. My parents didn't have the time to visit "Ben-Hur" played by the "Orchestre Philharmique du Luxembourg", so Simon went with me. This concert was one part of their project «Live Cinema» . Silent movies are ... http://thomas.holba.ch/index.php/2007/03/11/ben-hur/