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Timelapse: Garbage Day

Timm — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:48:33 +0000

Why go out on big tours when you can film interesting scenes right from your kitchen window…?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqLUws0R_mg

New Photo Set: Balls & Boxes

Timm — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:44:30 +0000

On a chilly Saturday morning in December, it was still dark, David and I jumped into a bus to shoot some rare sights at the dockyards in my hometown, Basel, in Switzerland. Uneasy in its sodium nakedness, the container crane and his minions greeted us like bugs on a table cloth.

Underneath the hangar roofs, among nooks and crannies, a labyrinth of train tracks spread thinly, guiding yet confusing, watched over by knowing symbols.

Slowly, daylight creeped in, and revealed a myriad of structures, some curious, some threatening, all of them alien.

In the gorges of containers we walked, multicolored steel valleys full of cargo. The crane moaned and hissed as we passed it by.

And on the horizon, the wilderness of industry, the drums and spheres of containment, steam against the sky.

View the whole set:

Pecha Kucha Reviews

Timm — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:00:22 +0000

Participating in Basel’s first Pecha Kucha Night was great. The PK rules – present 20 slides for 20 seconds each – impose a set of boundaries that makes presenting a completely different experience than your usual Powerpoint spiel: There’s just too much going on to have stage fright, it’s all about the excitement of making the most of the 20 x 20 seconds.

Pecha Kucha Daily has a nice overview with event photos about the evening.

I’m especially pleased with the great review the Tagesanzeiger, one of Switzerland’s biggest newspapers, wrote about the event and my presentation:

“He shows what probably no one in the audience – around 100 people – has ever seen: A deserted classroom, children’s respirators, an amusement park that was never used, the totally irradiated forest – everything in close proximity to the decomissioned reactor, deserted, in unbelievably warm colors, and at the same time icy cold in its mood. Suess manages to distract even the chatterers at the back of the room and make a big impact with his entertaining performance.” (translated from German)

If you haven’t seen the slide deck, here it is.

The next event is on October 22nd, again in “Unternehmen Mitte” in Basel. Put it in your calendars!

Chernobyl Pics Live at Pecha-Kucha Basel

Timm — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:08:42 +0000

If you’re in Basel, Switzerland, tomorrow night, join us at “Unternehmen Mitte” in the city center for the first public presentation of my Chernobyl series. As part of Basel’s first Pecha-Kucha Night, I will be showing 20 chernopics, wrapped up in a short presentation.

What: Pecha Kucha Night
When: Thursday, 28 May, 20:20h
Where: Unternehmen Mitte, Gerbergasse 30

More info on the official website.

Update: Great event, lots of fun – thanks to all who cheered for me! You can see all the slides I showed in the respective exhibitions page.