Augustiner Bräu is a brewery located in Munich, Germany.
Established in 1328, it is Munich’s oldest still independent brewery and produces some of Munich’s most popular brands of beer.
The origins of the Augustiner brewery date back to the year 1294. On July 5, Pope Celestine V succeeded Nicholas IV as the 192nd pope and on December 24 – Pope Boniface VIII became the 193rd pope after Celestine V abdicated the papacy on December 13, only five months after reluctantly accepting his surprise election on July 5, wishing to return to his life as an ascetic hermit. It was in this year when, on the order of the bishop of Freising, an Augustinian monastery was established at the Haberfeld, just outside the gates of Munich (a city famous for its breweries operated by monks). By 1315, the monastery had been incorporated within the city walls of Munich.
The earliest documented evidence of the brewery’s existence comes from the year 1328 (when a major fire spared the brewing house); this year is now commonly accepted as the founding year, although the brewery had probably existed for several years before the fire. The monastery was granted the right not only to brew beer but also to sell it on their premises which started the tradition of brewery-owned beer halls that still exists today. From the brewery’s inception until secularisation in 1803, when many Bavarian monasteries were put under state control by Napoleons‘ reforms, the brewery was present at the original site and only sold within the monastery’s own tavern. After the takeover of the monastery by the state, the monks walked out in protest.
Augustiner beer is normally found within the Greater Munich area, but in the last few years it became quite popular outside of Munich, for example in Berlin where dozens of bars offer it. The reputation of the brewery is so good that the company does not engage in any advertising campaigns. As an example, when most German breweries changed their bottle to a slim and more modern design to give their beer a more classy and less old fashioned appearance some ten years ago, Augustiner stuck with the “classic” older form, often nicknamed the “Bauarbeiterhalbe” (construction worker’s bottle). The labels have not changed in over 20 years either. Its brands nevertheless are among the most popular of Munich’s beers, and the company regularly reaches an annual output of more than 90 million litres (2003).
Augustiner Bräu operates a beer tent on the Oktoberfest, as well as owning one of Munich’s largest beer gardens, the Augustiner-Keller at Arnulfstraße 52, and several traditional bars throughout the city. In recent years, Augustiner beer has become a popular drink in several bars in Berlin; however, the amounts of Augustiner consumed in Berlin are still minuscule compared to its popularity in Munich.
In the record-breaking heat of summer 2003, the brewery refused to sacrifice brewing quality and traditional process to increase production, even though it could have sold more beer.
In the US there is one distributor named Global Village Imports, LLC. that carries Augustiner, it is located in King of Prussia, PA. Although the demand is high, the distribution is very limited.
You can also taste it at “Schneider’s” in NYC Manhattan. Ask for an “Edelstoff”.
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An “iThink” Evolution Mapping. Various Ink Drawings on Vellum Paper. My Contribution to the 11th International Istanbul Biennial (visit website) September 12 – November 8, 2009 The Lord Wink Award Istanbul (visit website) at the Gallery .artSümer (visit website)
Collective Exhibition with artists like Olaf Metzel, Günther Förg, Dan Graham and others.
Stuffed Wolpertingers, composed of parts of actual stuffed animals, are often displayed in inns or sold to tourists as souvenirs in the animals’ “native regions”.
The Wolpertinger (Crisensus bavaricus) (also called “Wolperdinger“, “Poontinger” or “Woiperdinger“) is a fictional animal said to inhabit the alpine forests of Bavaria in Germany.
It has a body comprised from various animal parts — generally wings, antlers, and fangs, all attached to the body of a small mammal. The most widespread description is that of a horned rabbit or a horned squirrel. It is similar to the Rasselbock of the Thuringian Forest, or the Elwedritsche of the Palatinate region, which is described as a chicken-like creature with antlers; additionally the American invention of the Jackalope, as well as the SwedishSkvader are similar creatures to the Wolpertinger.
“Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there’s nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.”Terry Pratchett (English Writer, *1948)
Charles Robert DarwinFRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an Englishnaturalist who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors, through the process he called natural selection. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and much of the general public in his lifetime, but it was not until the emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the 1930s to the 1950s that a broad consensus developed that natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution. In modified form, Darwin’s scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, explaining the diversity of life.
The International Istanbul Biennial History:
The İstanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts has been organising the International İstanbul Biennial since 1987. The Biennial aims to create a meeting point in İstanbul in the field of visual arts between artists from diverse cultures and the audience. The ten biennials İKSV has organised up to now have enabled the formation of an international cultural network between local and international art circles, artists, curators and art critics by bringing together new trends in contemporary art every two years.
The most comprehensive international art exhibition organised both in Turkey and throughout the geographical sphere we are in, the İstanbul Biennial plays an important role in the promotion of contemporary artists not only from Turkey but from a number of different countries in the international arena.
Various Ink Drawings on Vellum paper. An “iThink” Evolution Mapping. My Contribution to the 11th International Istanbul Biennial (visit website) September 12 – November 8, 2009 The Lord Wink Award Istanbul (visit website) at the Gallery .artSümer (visit website)
Collective Exhibition with artists like Olaf Metzel, Günther Förg, Dan Graham and others.
The Wolpertinger is not a typical cryptid, as local people likely never believed in its existence. Rather, it is some kind of traditional prank belief, as is evident from the many stuffed Wolpertingers displayed in village inns along with real hunting trophies, which have been fabricated deliberately in order to make fun of gullible foreigners who may want to go hunting for this remarkable animal. Like the Jackalope, the Wolpertinger is thought to have been inspired by sightings of wild rabbits infected with the Shope papilloma virus, which causes the growth of antler-like tumors in various places on the rabbit’s head and body.
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“Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.”Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
A genogram is a pictorial display of a specie’s family relationships and medical history. It goes beyond a traditional family tree by allowing the user to visualize hereditary patterns and psychological factors that punctuate relationships. It can be used to identify repetitive patterns of behavior and to recognize hereditary tendencies.
Created 2009 - 4×0.8mx1mx0.1meter canvases. (A Spamconsumer Project – Two Transformers, a Spaceship & an AT-AT.)
Science fiction is not about science. It is about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
Reality is a crutch for people who can’t handle science fiction. It has become a dialect for our time.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
Hell Is Other Robots. We have enough robots in this business.
The universe is a machine where you have been placed, and like a machine the outcome can be known.
Every battle has already been won or lost. All that is left is for you to choose your side.
But before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine!
The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to eat.
Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a machine – One has to look out for engineers they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.
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Captain Future’s Spaceship Comet:
Captain Future was both a science fiction magazine and a fictional character.
In 1978 Toei Animation of Japan produced a Captain Future(キャプテン・フューチャー,Kyaputen Fyūchā) TV anime series of 53 episodes, based on 13 original Hamilton stories. Despite the strong cultural differences and the large gap between a literary work and animation, the series was close to the original in many ways, from the didactic scientific explanations to the emphasis on the usefulness of brains as opposed to brawn.
Captain Future’s lightspeed spaceship “Comet” was developed and constructed in the year 2495.
It’s 200 meters long. The word comet came to the English language through the Latincometes from the Greek word komē, meaning “hair of the head”; Aristotle first used the derivation komētēs to depict comets as “stars with hair.” The astronomical symbol for comets accordingly consists of a disc with a hairlike tail.
Star Wars: AT-AT (All Terrain Armored Transport)
The AT-AT is a large, four-legged walker introduced in The Empire Strikes Back during the Battle of Hoth. An AT-AT also appears in Return of the Jedi.
Joe Johnston’s original design for the Empire’s war machines was a giant, multi-wheeled vehicle; ILM filmed the AT-ATs using stop-motion animation against matte paintings created by Mike Pangrazio because attempts at compositing miniature footage against live-action background footage yielded mediocre results. Additionally, ILM studied elephants to determine the best way to animate the four-legged AT-ATs.
The AT-AT, designed to favor “fear over function“, can carry five speeder bikes and 40 Imperial stormtroopers. The walkers themselves carry two blasters and two laser cannons. Manufactured by Kuat Drive Yards, Expanded Universe sources describe the AT-AT as being either 15 or 22.5 meters tall. Their armor is resistant to standard blaster weapons; however, the “neck” column of the walker holds no such invulnerability and, if shot, can cause the entire walker to be destroyed.
(トランスフォーマー ザ-ヘッドマスターズ, Toransufōmā za Heddomasutāzu) is a Japanese anime television series.
Rather than import The Rebirth three-part mini-series as a conclusion, Takara, the Japanese producers of the Transformers toyline, opted instead to continue the Generation 1 universe by creating the full-length 35-episode series, Transformers: The Headmasters (two additional clips episodes were produced after the fact for direct-to-video release). Supplanting The Rebirth’s position in Japanese continuity, The Headmasters occurred one year after The Return of Optimus Prime, introducing the titular characters to the Transformers universe in a different way. Whereas in western fiction, the Headmasters result from the merging of a Transformer with an organic alien being from the planet Nebulos, the Headmasters of the Japanese series are a group of small Cybertronians who departed the planet millions of years ago and crash-landed on the inhospitable planet Master. To survive its harsh climate, a select few Cybertronians constructed larger bodies called “Transtectors,” to which they connected as the heads.
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“Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today — but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.” Isaac Asimov (Russian science-fiction Writer and Biochemist. 1920-1992)
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Exhibition at the Praterinsel in München / Germany. March 2008. 120qm of visual art. 5 banner sized pillared collages. (5 x 2,1m x 11m)
By SPAMCONSUMER & Stephan Doesinger.
A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral.
Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of aesthetic convalescence. Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object.
I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun
walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls, girls in tight shorts.
Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces.
Everybody has the right to go by public transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view
down their street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish.
_ I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.
It’s not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more.
You’re torn between wanting to fill in all the spaces and knowing that’s really going to screw up the screenplay. And yet, how are you going to communicate it to people who really don’t understand the process? Sacred spaces can be created in any environment. We call them “Bastard Spaces“!
» Learning from Sim City” is neither a geek’s wet dream about the virtualisation of space, nor is it a techno-phobe’s lamentation of the loss of physical matter. An eye – that of a 21st century critic-tourist – onto the great screen-saver that is our reality, and illuminates the inevitability of an illuminated future that oscillates between the supposedly real and the allegedly virtual.« Shumon Basar, Architectural editor for Tank Magazine, writer for Blueprint Magazine and curator at The Architectural Association, London
Exhibition at the Praterinsel in München / Germany. March 2008. 120qm of visual art. 5 banner sized pillared collages. (5 x 2,1m x 11m)
