Kdo je autorem / Who is the author

Accidentaly two pictures come to my hands - and brought some thougths within.
The first one (quite abstract, isn't it?) comes from a webcamera in Helsinki South Harbour. I saved the picture in the evening. Obviously it was quite rainy... (btw: I have a "collection" of some 80 pics from this camera - anyone interested :-)?)
The second picture was taken during my holiday in the mountains - I think I like this most of those I took there.
Now there is a suggestion: what if the real authors of these pictures is the guy who installed the webcamera in Helsinki and the other one who erected the snow something (how is it called in English? the thing producing snow?) in the very place?

Dostaly se mi do rukou dva obrazky.
Prvni je z webkamery umistene v helsinskem jiznim pristavu. Ulozeno vecer, evidentne za destiveho pocasi (mimochodem: mam sbirku uz asi 80 obrazku z tehle webkamery).
Druhy obrazek pochazi z me horske dovolene. Libi se mi asi nejvice ze vsech obrazku, ktere jsem tam poridili.
A tak se mi do hlavy vkrada otazka: kdo jsou vlastne autori techto obrazku? Neni to ten clovicek, co na sloupu instaloval webkameru a ten, co na spravne miste umistil snezne delo?

Obrazky z hor III / Pics from mountains III

Here's probably the last set of pictures from my holiday.
Pravdepodobne posledni sada fotografii z volna na horach.


This is a bell on the top of Kronplatz. Unfortunately I didn't force myself to check what was written on the watching tower to find out what was the idea "behind" erecting the tower and putting the bell there. Maybe it was not written in English (but I could read it in German...), or it was just the end of the day so I was too tired (read: lazy) to read it. Or I was too busy with thinking of how did they transport the bell there. Nevertheless - I like the picture.
Zvon na vrchu Kronplatzu. Nejak jsem se nedonutil k precteni napisu na rozhledne, abych se dozvedel, proc presne tam ten zvon visel. Mozna napis nebyl napsan anglicky (ale pak bych ho moch zkusit rozlousknout v nemcine) a nebo to proste bylo tim, ze bylo uz pozdni odpoledne a mel jsem toho vseho proste plne zuby (zkratka ovladla me lenost). A nebo jsem misto cteni napisu venoval prili mnoho myslenek uvazovani o tom, jak byl zvon dostan na vrch kopce. At tak ci onak: fotka se mi libi.

Famous Bombardino. It seems to me that it is inevitably connected with Dolimites. Or is it just a myth? Hard to say. The mixture of Advocaat (hot), brandy or whisky and whipped cream is fine. But for me nothing really special. On the other hand the story around it became so strong in my mind that I will have it again next time when I get there.It is called successful marketing. And don't forget that (as the old wisdom maintains) there is no successful marketing without at least good product.
Slavne Bombardino. Jakoby by bylo nejak nevyhnutelne spojeno s Dolomity. A nebo je to jen domnenka ci mytus? Kdo vi. Smes horkeho vajecneho konaku, brandy nebo whisky a slehacka na vrchu vubec neni spatna. Ale na druhou stranu nic zasadne zvlastniho. Na stranu treti cela povest Bombardina nabyla v me mysli prilis velkych rozmeru na to, abych si ho priste nedal. Rika se tomu uspesny marketing. K tomu je treba mit na pameti, ze dle stale pravdy lze delat dlouhodobe uspesnou reklamu jednomu produktu jen tehdy, jedna-li se o dobry produkt.



Just a picture I like. Something like pictures of Vladimir Birgus. Pieces of reality which can be documented by a camera. But don't forget: first you must spot them.
Proste fotka, ktera se mi libi. Cosi ve stylu fotografii Vladimira Birguse. Kousky skutecnosti, ktere mohou byt zdokumentovany fotoaparatem. Ale nezapominejme: nejdrive museji byt spatreny.
Ski, airplanes, snow, stick, mountains, clouds. Sort of Nirvana. (Hu. I just found out that I already published this picture. But without the previous wise words.)
Lyze, letadla, snih, hory, mraky. Neco jako nirvana.

Even for me it was quite difficult to recognize what was on the picture.

Sam jsem mel problemy s poznanim, co je vlastne na obrazku.

Obrazky z hor / Pics from mountains II

The second set. As you can see the weather was great (next time I will take some sun lotion...). Pure pleasure.
Druha sada. Pocasi bylo vytecne (pro priste je nutne si vzit vice opalovaciho kremu). Cista radost.

Obrazky z hor / Pics from mountains

Just a little appetizer for the other pictures from my holiday.

Drobny predkrmek pred dalsimi obrazky z hor.

Nove odkazy / New links

I added several new links (see the Reflections section). One of them is published by a German antarctic expedition. Enjoy :-).

Pridal jsem do sekce Reflections nekolik novych odkazu. Jeden z nich je psan nemeckou polarni expedici.

Poklady YouTube aneb zivotni role

Brouzdal jsem trosku YouTube a hle, co jsem nalezl:

• zivotni roli pana Frantiska Sahuly
• a, nejsem si 100% jist, velmi zajimavou roli Adely Gondikove.

Tak at vas to pobavi tak, jako to krasne pobavilo v sobotnim poledni me.

Vitezna fotka / Winning picture

There was a photo competition at work - the topic was something like "humourous side of working in D". And here is the winning picture (by me :-)). One could conclude that the life at D. is not that funny if this is supposed to be the funniest picture...
Awaiting the prize...

Meli jsme v praci fotografickou soutez s tematem neco jako "Vesele momenty z D.". A tohle je vitezny obrazek (autorem je moje malickost). Jeden by rekl, ze prace v D. neni tak vesela, kdyz vyhraje takovy obrazek...
Tak ted cekam na vyhru.

Dalsi faze / The next phase

Friday evening. Almost 8 pm. And I was still at work - not working but just having one e-learning course (Fundamental of critical thinking...well...). Nevermind.
Allmost all people are gone. Two of my colleagues were still sitting there. Both of them are round 30, both married one of them has a little son. And suddenly he says: "My wife gave me a call already one hour ago and she just told that this is really not the way she likes." (Looks like she still hasn't got used to the time requirements of her husband's job - a cynical joke). The other one just replies: "Hm . I am facing quite an opposite problem. I cannot reach my wife with phone." And the first one says: "This is the next phase."

Patek. Skoro osm vecer. Stale sedim v praci - nepracuju, ale delam jeden e-learningovy kurz (Zaklady kritickeho mysleni...no...).
Skoro vsichni uz jsou pryc. Dva mi kolegove jsou jeste mezi par pozustalymi. Oboum je kolem triceti, oba zenati, jeden ma maleho syna. Najednou rika: "Uz pred hodinou mi volala zena, ze takhle teda fakt ne." (Zrejme si stale jeste nezvykla na zivotni rytmus sveho muze - cynicky vtipek). Druhy na to: "To ja mam jiny problem. Ja se uz delsi dobu nemuzu dovolat sve zene." Prvni: "To je uz dalsi faze."

Pardubice a la Hitchcock

Picture from the city in which I was born from this weekend.
Obrazek z minuleho vikendu v Pardubicich.

Par klipu / Some music movies

The last couple of weeks was really busy so even thinking of some meaningfull contributions (which would "count") was quite difficult. Nevertheless, regardless of how much time I spent at work or so I enjoyed several music movies on YouTube. Here they are:

• Looking Out My Backdoor by Creedence Clearwater Revival - wonderful music and a movie full of good mood. Which is quite opposite to what happened later in the band. You can read the story in the wikipedia article which is something like a story about a hard life with a genius. BTW: for me the movie is a good reminder of the fact that you should always think first before you choose your haircut... :-). (Read the article thoroughly - you may find interesting info about Saul Zaentz - e.g. producer of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
• You might have noticed that there are some lyrics in the bottom in the links. One of them is Warriors of the World by Manowar. Quite a militaristic song. The official music movie is not interesting whereas the following two are. The first one - sometimes it is really difficult to say whether they meant it seriously or it was just a parody (If you really cannot sustain it just go to 1:20. It is really worth it :-)). I am still not sure. And the second movie...well, just enjoy :-).
• And finally a third movie just in order to let you calm a little bit down. It's sort of music movie for Blue - one of the incredible trilogy Three colours by Krszysztof Kieslowski and a music composer Zbigniew Preisner.

Posledni dva tydny byly dosti hekticke, takze i jen pouhe premysleni o smysluplnych prispevcich se prilis nedostavovalo. At tak ci onak, podarilo se mi aspon shlednout par videoklipu na YouTube, o ktere bych se rad podelil:

• Looking Out My Backdoor od Creedence Clearwater Revival - krasna hudba a klip plny dobre nalady. Coz je v dosti velkem protikladu k tomu, jak skupina skoncila - muzete si o tom precist v clanku na Wikipedii. Ve zkratce: jde o to, ze s geniem se obcas zije hodne spatne. Krom toho je klip dukazem toho, ze pred tim, nez si clovek vybere uces, mel by si to radne rozmyslet. A propos: pokud budete cist povidani o CCR na Wikipedii, dozvite se neco i o Saulovi Zaentzovi (mj. producent Preletu nad kukaccim hnizdem).
• Asi jste si vsimli, ze dole mezi odkazy jsou odkazy na texty nekterych pisni. Jednou z nich je Warriors of the World od Manowar. Takova pekna militaristicka pisen. Oficialni klip nic moc. Ale tyhle dva stoji za to. U prvniho clovek dosti vaha, jestli to bylo mysleno vazne, nebo slo o parodii. Buh sud (pokud byste to fakt nemohli vydrzet, mrknete se aspon na 1:20, tam to skutecne stoji za to :-). A ten druhy...no, kouknete se.
• A na zaver treti klip, trochu na uklidneni. Je to jakoby klip k Modre - jedne ze tri casti fantasticke Kieslowskeho trilogie Tri barvy. Hudba od Zbigniewa Preisnera.

Intelektualne zdatny vandal

Foceno tento vikend v Pardubicich. Jo, v Hradci neco takoveho jiste nemaji :-) .
P.S. Je to vyskrabano, ne tupe nastrikano sprejem, to je prakticky sgrafiti (ci jak se to pise).

Odkud je PFko? / Where is PF from?

The PF picture is surprisingly not from Finland - even though it looks like that (as several of you noted and as I realized afterwards). It is from the Czech Republic from the wonderful area of Jeseniky Mountains and the area of Rejviz in particular. It is just at the peaty lake.

Zdroj/Source

Fotka na PFku neni z Finska - i kdyz tak vypada, na coz jsem byl par lidmi upozornen a sam jsem si i posleze uvedomil. Obrazek je z Jeseniku, od Rejvizu, hned od raselinneho jezirka.