in the recently-published book “hibernation” by clive roots, one of my bat-photos was used to illustrate the size of the smallest hibernating mammal:
Archive for November 19th, 2006
gotta post this as long as it’s fresh:
i’m just boldly assuming that you already know the free hugs video from sydney (thx caro).
my friend lisa saw it too, and she decided to start the same thing here in innsbruck…
it seems strangely …unreal and long ago now (just 12 hours later), but it was incredible.
i stopped by to take photos and enjoy some hugs myself, and the reactions that i witnessed were just amazing.
some people were just smiling and silently sneaked by, others were hesitant and seemed to think “i could give it a try”, and lots of them* just did it. there was so much positive energy!
* my general impression of tyroleans involves adjectives like stubborn and close-mouthed (relatively, of course), so i was REALLY surprised about how many passersby went for the free hugs.
[view photos: free hugs in innsbruck]
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just another bunch of unsorted cellphone snapshots…
the photo on the right comes with an additional soundfile.
the background: humanities campus consists of just about the crappiest of all university buildings – some of the lecture rooms had to be closed down because parts of the ceiling were coming down. its system of elevators is the only one in innsbruck (that i can think of) that i absolutely don’t trust.
when there was a fire alarm two weeks ago, i also noticed that every floor seems to have their own alarm signal. i set my mp3-player to record when we walked down two storeys and out of the building, and you can hear a mix of the different signals.
[download] (mp3, 594KB)
in case you’re wondering: voice#1 says “you have to leave this building”, and voice#2 (that’s me) asks whether it’s a real fire alarm, which #1 doesn’t know either.
in the end, it turned out that one of the janitors hat unintentionally cut a wrong wire…
