A Documentation About The Prater

A film by Ulrike Ottinger

Prater the film - Official Website

A Photo Battle Was Launched

Fotofangen was launched on facebook. The goal of this group is to create a chain of association in form of pictures. Each picture is an answer to the picture before. Inspired by fotofangen.blogspot.com. Start posting.

1st photograph in this series:
photographed by Christoph Steinbauer

Auto Paint Scratch Theory - Indicators Of a Wealthy Society.

Published on boa73.net

Exhibition of Annie Leibovitz - A Photographer's Life 1990 - 2005

30. Oktober 2009 bis 31. Jänner 2010, Kunst Haus Wien - Official Website

Recovered Photography

During the last month i learned something wise: The storage of digital photography sucks. I learned through pain. After a doubtful period, i decided to recover my temorarily lost data and payed ceiling prices for my own photographs. Here is a small sample of the recovered stuff.

Photography: hard disk from hell


What comes next? According to my series Aesthetics of destruction - On the edge of analogue photography i will perform a further series: On the edge of digital photography.

Stay tuned and don't stop backing up your digital photographs x times ;-)

The Age of Stupid

A new idie film - a combination of documentation and fiction by Franny Armstrong:
Official Website

The Hidden Parts of Characters

The effect of video games on the character: Project Video Gamers by Phillip Toledano.

The simulacrum and the truth. Here is some theory about Simulacra and Simulations by Jean Baudrillard

A Very Promising Trailer

Diagonale 2009 awarded film Mein halbes Leben by Marko Dorninger

The Thing

Photographed by Christian Wagner, 2009

The Alien

the alien, originally uploaded by boa73.

In Memoriam Dash Snow

Various polaroids of Dash Snow on tinyvices.com.

Die Zeit about Dash Snow: "Dokumente eines kompromisslosen Lebens".

The End

the end, originally uploaded by boa73.

Fishermen's Summit

photographed by Christian Wagner

Pale - Las Vegas Photographs

Pale - Las Vegas Photographs published on flickr. Photographed by Christian Wagner, 2009.

For a nostalgic trip back in time - try this: Las Vegas - gone but not forgotten

The Web

The web - A series of three photographs is published on flickr. Photographed by Christian Wagner, 2009

Eyes on Basic Hybrid - a project by 0512

BASIC HYBRID a project by 0512 from 0512 zerofivetwelve on Vimeo.

Official Website: www.zerofivetwelve.net

Introduction into Generative Design and Art

Have an eye on the lecture of Bruce Sterling

Once more: Banksy - Sensational

Banksy vs. Bristol Museum * June 13th - August 31st



For deeper insights in the show and his newer works watch this:


Official Website www.banksy.info

4th of July

Untitled, (c) Christian Wagner, 4/7/2009

Untitled, (c) Christian Wagner, 4/7/2009

Standby - till 21th of July

(c) Christian Wagner, 2009

Graz goes Pleasantville

Most highly recommended news article: Singapur liegt an der Mur, the Zeit magazin, 4.6.2009. (c) Christian Wagner

Berlin - Incomplete Impressions

New Issue out now: Berlin - Incomplete Impressions on boa73 Space

"New York was the place for all who wanted to leave America, Berlin was the place for those who wanted to leave Germany" Nan Goldin interviewed by the Zeit magazine (Die Zeit, 4.6.2009)
Untitled, (c) Christian Wagner, 6/2007

Too Dark for Loch Ness

New issue out now: Too dark for Loch Ness on boa73 Spaceuntitled, (c) Christian Wagner, 2009

kurzundschön - An International Film Competition

International tv commercial motion design and short film competition for young creatives: kurzundschön the official Website. 2009 kurzundschön starts with the new category "mobile miniatures" for mobile and online application developments and concepts. The competition is open for students and trainees with focus on the moving-image media (design and film schools, art academies, broadcasting stations, production- and PR-companies).

Deadline for submision is 23rd July 2009.

Host of that competition: Academy of Media Arts Cologne and WDR

Street art in Buenos Aires

Social street art, Buenos Aires, (c) Christoph Steinbauer, 2009

6400 ASA pick: The world through the eyes of Julia Hofmann and Christoph Steinbauer. Watch their extensive photographic works on their 1YA | One Year Abroad Blog.

Second take of the series In Times Like This

Land des Specks - street art from unknown (street) artist, Graz/Austria, (c) Christian Wagner, April 09

The limits of control

New film of Jim Jarmusch. from 29.5.09 in Austrias theaters.

Assembly09 / Pixellab

Some random takes from the Assembly 2009 Designfestival in Graz - Official Website
The Pixellab: Analog production of digital art/efacts.Graz 2009

Saturday Afternoon

Giants vs. Templiers d' Elancourt, Graz Eggenberg, (c) Christian Wagner, May 2009

Design Camp in Graz

Saturday, 23th May, 10 am; Schaumbad, Freies Atelierhaus Starhemberggasse 4, 8052 Graz

Eyes on Banksy

Streetart at its best: Banksy - ironical, socio-critical, crazy.

I don't want to withhold the citation of Banksy's Manifesto: "When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised God doesn’t work that way, so I stole
one and prayed for forgiveness." by Emo Philips

Lendwirbel 09

Blockparty in Lend/Graz. 7th to 9th May. Official Website

Santa Sangra

In course of the X-treme movie series of the Filmzentrum im Rechbauerkino they put a further Alejandro Jodorowsky film on their program: Santa Sangra, 1989.

Alejandro Jodorowsky is an absolute outstanding Chilean director, actor and author of a series of surrealistic films, such as El Topo (1970) and Montana Sacra (1973). Originally he was the designated director of Dune, before David Lynch was engaged for making this movie.

6th of May, 10 pm, Santa Sangra - special feature, Filmzentrum im Rechbauerkino, Graz

Obama's People

The Israeli photographer Nadav Kander shot portraits of Barack Obama's top members of his incoming administration. The 52 portraits are published on the New York Times website. Have also an eye on Nadav Kanders other photographic work, such as Yangtze - The Long River, Chernobyl - Half Life, Bodies and some his portraits, respectively of David Lynch on Nadav Kander's official website.

Diagonale - awarded austrian films 2009

Gran Diagonale Price Feature: Michael Glawogger, Das Vaterspiel
Grand Diagonale Price Documentary: Constantin Wulff, In die Welt; official website
Diagonale Price for Innovative Cinema: Michael Palm, Laws of Physics
Diagonale Youth Jury Prize: Marvin Kren, Schautag
Diagonale austrian editors association aea Price: Anja Schürenberg, Rimini and Michele Barbin, PianoMania
Diagonale Diocese Graz-Seckau Prize: Bernhard Braunstein/David Gross, Pharao Bipolar
Diagonale Austrian Association of Cinematographers AAC Prize: Enzo Brandner, UNIVERSALOVE and Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 7915 KM; official website
Diagonale Kleine Zeitung Audience Prize: Marco Antoniazzi, Kleine Fische; official website (german)

6400 ASA picks of introduced films at the Diagonale film festival:

The Making of FUTBOL, Helmut Köpping, Michael Ostrowski: A film about the true, unadulterated essence of Austrian Football Culture.

And finally a very austrian film: Der Knochenmann, Wolfgang Murnberger after a novel by Wolf Haas; official website
Trailer (german)

6400 ASA launch today

The 6400 ASA Blog has been launched. Stay tuned.

Recording the crisis

Why we’re taking photographs of beautiful people, whilst we are in the midst of a paradigm shift and the economic crisis is spreading?
Brain Ulrich shows himself surprised on his blog that not more artists react to environmental conditions. Inspired by his post Cara Philips wrote an interesting post The nature and purpose of photography, discussing why the contemporary photographic art scene behaves in this passive way. In the course of reading her interesting post, I came across some statements regarding differentiations of photography: art photography, amateur works, etc. Well – to be honest, I’m still confused about what in photography is denoted as art, as amateur work or scrap. But that’s an other story.

Never mind. Independently, I started taking photos of the artifacts of ongoing occurrences.

Selected Exposure: Car storage at a car production site, Graz
© Christian Wagner

Lay Flat – A new print publication on photography

Lay Flat aims for publishing the best in contemporary fine art photography and writing on the medium. The first issue “remain in light” comprises works of Tim Davis, Darius Himes, Cara Phillips, Shane Lavalette, Eric William Carroll and Jason Fulford.

6400 ASA pick: Tim Davis

Format Festival 2009

A fist full of upcoming movies 2009

TOKYO - THE MOVIE
dierected by Joon-ho Bong, Leos Carax, Michael Gondry



13 TZAMETI
directed by Gela Babluani



MILK
directed by Gus Van Sant



CHE - THE MOVIE
directed by Steven Sonderbergh



HUNGER
directed by Steve Mc Queen


Finally a blockbusters from which i currently don't know what we can expect from it: Inglorious Bastards, the new movie from Quentin Tarantino.

Pruggern - Austrian ski resort at night

© Christian Wagner

Instant photography won't die

Since Polaroid stopped the production of instant films 2008 - the Polaroid photographers society was yelling. Now the good news: Ilford restarts the production of analouge integral films for vintage Ploaroid cameras in 2010. The rescue endevour was called The Impossible Projekt.
Impossible? Well because the Impossible b.v. team has to reinvent the film. The original parts of the films are based on a 40 year old technology. Some of the suppliers stopped their production of single parts, which has to be replaced by state of the art technology. Now Impossible b.v. has to fix 7 problems to restart the mass production 2010. They invite all interested people for participation to solve the problems.

Inauguration on the air

© originally broadcasted by N24; photographed and arranged by Christian Wagner
More about inauguration on the air on bo73 space: Issue "44"

Winter is

© Christian Wagner

Eyes on that...

When I was rummaging through FOTO 8 magazine I came across Thunderbolt Way * A fictional photo story by David Gray and The blue skies of Nauru by Aileen Rahn.

Profound thinker

© Christian Wagner

New documentary about William Eggleston

Today i want to introduce the new documentary of one of my absolute favorite photographers: William Eggleston. Notice for all car lovers: No, this issue is not about the F1 president.

"It would be difficult to imagine the world according to David Lynch, Gus Van Sant, Juergen Teller or Sophia Coppola without the world according to William Eggleston." The Observer

Shortcut of the documentary by R. Holzemer:

The film can directly be ordered from the website of the filmmaker Reiner Holzemer.