Immediately after the Ubuntu release party, I took an overnight train from Berlin to Munich with a transfer to Ljubljana, Slovenia (I pronounce it “Loob-lee-yana” and nobody ever corrected me) very early the next morning. I had wanted to spend longer in Berlin. For some reason, in my mind, this festival was always at the […]
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Ljubljana/HAIP Day 1
November 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Photos, Slovenia, Tech-art, Travel
I spent the first couple nights in Ljubljana at the “#1 hippest hostel in the world” as determined by Lonely Planet. Since I’ve been stubbornly avoiding carrying any tourist guidebooks on this trip, I was unaware of this when I checked in. I just picked the closest hostel to the train station marked on the […]
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Kiberpipa: All our code are belong to you.
November 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Hacker culture, Photos, Slovenia, Tech-art, Technology, Travel
After the exhibition at the art gallery, most people went over to Kiberpipa (“Cyberpipe”, in English), the hacklab/group organizing the festival. Kiberpipa is almost as cool as C-base, but in a very different way. Where C-base has a very gritty, cyberpunk aesthetic, Kiberpipa is much more upscale, receiving funding from the European Union and some […]
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Monochrom and day 101
November 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Hacker culture, Slovenia, Tech-art, Travel
The final presentation on Friday was my favorite one of the entire festival, by far. Even if you haven’t watched any of the videos of the other presentations, I would really suggest watching this one. At least the first half, the audio gets a bit wonky in the second half. The presenter is Johannes Grenzfurthener […]
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Pula Part One
November 27th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Croatia, Hacker culture, Photos, Travel
I swore I would get caught up, and by god, I intend to get caught up even if I have to keep writing all night (it’s currently 4:41 am and I’m in Zagreb, Croatia). After HAIP, I got a ride from a girl I’d been couchsurfing with to Koper, which is one of the coastal […]
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