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As I reported some time ago, people in China do not seem to have access to my personal homepage. Recently, I again sent someone in China the link to a pdf in my domain and he replied that he could not open it. What can I do? What did I do?!

Ok, this film might be stupid, but in the beginning of the trailer one can see an exibition by Cai Guo-Qiang in the Guggenheim Museum in New York. In the centre of the building a set of 'exploding' cars were installed. I want to believe.

Last weekend I was in Copenhagen where I visited friends before proceeding to a conference. Saturday we went to Overdrevet
where a concert with three bands took place, namely IMMOLATE (swe), SOREAZIS (dk), and SKIND & BEN (dk). We missed the first band but heard the last songs of immolate who played extremely loudly. In summary, the place, which seems to be a follower of Ungdomshuset, is nice and the people are friendly. So we had a good evening, stayed long, and had some kind of hangover the next day.

During my time in NYC I frequently went to do my laundry in a store around the corner from where I lived. I did not have a television set but the TV in the laundry thing was always on, many times any Spanish channel. However, in the weather section of the news, they from time to time announced the coldest day of the year and made a big thing out of it. I found that funny – because one day has to be the coldest day of the year.

Christian solved the problem about the Wheat Field with Cypresses:

"Writing to his brother Theo from the asylum in Saint-Rémy in early July 1889, Van Gogh described his latest work in the series he had begun in June: "I have a canvas of cypresses with some ears of wheat, some poppies, a blue sky like a piece of Scotch plaid; the former painted with a thick impasto . . . and the wheat field in the sun, which represents the extreme heat, very thick too." Van Gogh regarded this sun-drenched landscape as one of his "best" summer canvases, and he reproduced the composition in a reed pen drawing (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam) and in two variants in oil paint (National Gallery, London, and private collection)." (www.metmuseum.org)

The painting is by Vincent van Gogh.
According to wikipedia it can be found in the National Gallery London. However, I am 100% sure that I took this picture in a museum in New York (but I forgot which, and when).

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: Odalisque à l’esclave

Yesterday I wore a T-Shirt that I brought in Brazil end of 1991 or beginning of 1992. There used to be a market on the Praça da República in São Paulo where one could buy handicrafts. The shirt shows the Brazilian flag rolled up and fixed by a rope noose as used for gallows. Further it says “A corda – Brasil” which is a word play, meaning either “the rope, Brazil” or “wake up, Brazil”. At the time I liked it because it is anti-nationalistic and I think one should be careful with any kind of patriotism, nationalism, or chauvinism – not only in germany. The funny part is that people in Brazil are so patriotic that I rarely could wear the motive since I did not want to offend them (too much). The interesting part is that at that time the president Fernando Collor del Mello (who by the way was the first directly elected president after the military government, which ended 1985) was accused for corruption and resigned in 1992 to avoid an impeachment (Amtsenthebungsverfahren). Thus, today I think the T-Shirt is already some kind of historical source since to some extend it reflects the attitude and anger of the people.

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Hat Gott eine Seele?

Does god have a soul?

Funnily, for the german version of this question google finds only two pages, while it provides much more for the english one.