Innovation and Relaunch

Good morning, everybody! I wonder if anybody has wondered what became of this blog, its obviously huge blog-team and this mysterious wemo? Well, some guys got hired away by huge major blogs, some got their masters in social studies and are playing guitar now in Salzburg's old city, and so forth. But now a relaunch is under way. A new blog, maybe with more German in it.

Vielleicht sind Sie ja irgendwann über diesen Blog gestolpert, wg. Salzburg und so? Und dann waren die Texte alle so ... englisch? Und wer sollte dieser Blogger überhaupt sein? 
Na ja, zur ersten Frage gibt es jetzt Hoffnung. Blogger wemo hat einen neuen Blog eröffnet – und der soll großteils in Deutsch, österreichischem Deutsch sein.

So, here's the header photo, here's the link, see you there!
Also, auf ein Neues, Header-Foto oben, Link hier, man sieht sich hoffentlich!

I was a designer lamp

… and didn't I look good?

Found at republic café in Salzburg's old city.

ARGE reflections

It is heaven for the 'reflective photographer': The ARGEkultur-Beisl in Salzburg-Nonntal, the bar and restaurant of the long-standing cultural cooperative.

It had to move from its old location due to the construction of big Unipark facilities, a campus-like new home for mostly the humanities of Salzburg University, into a hugely complex new concrete building, seemingly weird due to the tiny lot it had to be built on: a 'Restfläche' as we call it in German … residual space?

In the neighborhood, cont'd

A room with a view

The observation tower of prize winning Salzburg shopping mall Europark as seen from a friendly restaurant that will pass any Elk Test.

New job, more time for oneself; time to shop for new Billy shelves at Ikea.

Slowly by slowly wemo is recovering from his 'overwork' at the former limo service company and enjoying his new job as a 'simple' Funktaxi-driver in a one-car company with one of his best friends as his boss, and a connection with the biggest taxi switchboard in Salzburg city.

Funky taxi, funky town for the for the cabbie out of passion!

Hello to the funky ladies of Lipps Inc!

On the waterfront

Theater & hotel

There's a moon over St. Julien street

Graffiti-Gate

Winter returning

Residenzplatz, before

... and after

Dairy Queen, 434 East Wooster Street, Bowling Green, OH (419) 352-8042 ‎

Taken from Google Street View:

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=de&q=bowling+green+oh+317+1/2+north+main&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=317+N+Main+St,+Bowling+Green,+OH+43402&ei=YdUyTaOfC4qugQePxZTSCw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CBoQ8gEwAA&iwloc=undefined

"Best Dairy Queen ever. This is a family owned place and it really shows ..." (quote from a user review at Google)

Some things never change, it seems.

This was one of wemo's favorite hang-outs way back in the early 1980s … and boy, did he love to count the carriages of those endless freight trains on the tracks! –– What an eager student.

"You're so vain …"

"… you probably think this blog is about you, don't you?"

Soundtrack by Carly Simon,

with background vocals by Mick Jagger

wemo & the blogwart have strictly refused to accept any association with this post,

image or text.

So be it!

Pha***c Mönchsberg

Now, what the f*x!!

Mister Mister, blogwart

Künstlerhaus – Artists' Red

"when it's dark, it ain't half bad really, but by day: what a horrible red of that 'artists' house'! Them oughta have learnt a decent job! – We gotta move those refrigerators, we gotta move them color TVs!"

Local lore from Salzburg city, Austria,

brought to you by foreign correspondent Mr. Dr. Hammerhead,

for World At Large News, worldwide

Soundtrack recommendation, by Dr. Mr. Hammerhead:

Dire Straits

Money for nothing, and the chicks for free

Once again, the blog team is split:

wemo's going for pt. I, the back office crew for pt. II, and the blogwart is apalled.

Festival Halls

"Back there you see them festival halls, no idea what's goin'on in there; is for all them rich folk …

and front it's the pedestrian zone – rilly dangerous every morning, a man might'a be run over by a delivery van there …"

Order, order!!!

This the blogwart speaking!

This is a blog by an academic from Salzburg city!

What's going on, and where's that language coming from?!

Fortress in the mist

"Well, you know, in them days of old, there were those prince archbishops and them built that castle up there in the mist and it was meant to keep us humble town folks way down, kinda low-life, ya see?"

One more gripping statement from Salzburg town folk

Winter's Day in Salzburg

Remember Frank Zappa? – "… but I got a crystal ball …!!"?

"Well, this is Salzburg city, and us locals we got golden balls. Some call it art, for us regular folks it's just basics: what's a man gonna stand on if a man's gonna do what a man's gotta do?"

Thanks for that deep insight into human nature!

This is Mr. Dr. Hammerhead coming to you live from Salzburg, Austria, Europe, on a warm, rainy day in January 2011

Serbian kitty

November sky

Train station blues, remembered

Well, wemo's not been able to record the progress of Salzburg's biggest construction site, the main train station rebuilding. One view still looks just the same: the exterior of the main hall (while inside everything is changing), and the light column in front of it.

Still a beautiful sight.