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Keine Durchfahrt

Kay — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:53:08 +0000

Because it’s a big, fat wall, baby!

umfallen? nicht mit mir.

Kay — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:20:29 +0000

Found @ Mariahilfer Straße, 13 September 2008.

Invader invading MQ

Kay — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:09:57 +0000

Don’t miss tonight’s opening of quartier21’s “Street Art Passage”!

It is pretty much impossible for you to not have come across mosaics done by French street artist “Invader” before, but now he got to – legally – artify an entire part of the MQ complex.

The small bridge between Breite Gasse and MuseumsQuartier is where Street Art Passage is located (this is the third themed passage initiated by quartier21, by the way – the other two are TONSPUR_passage and KABINETT comic passage). Next to the bridge, works by national and international street artists will be displayed from now on, and street art magazine “betonblumen” can be bought from a machine for €2.

Tonight, Invader will be signing the current edition of the magazine from 7-8 p.m.

MQ article
space-invaders.com
betonblumen

blockieren? nicht mit mir.

Kay — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:40:58 +0000

Found @ Mariahilfer Straße, 2 September 2008.

Donauinselfest 2008

Kay — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:05:15 +0000

As you might know, Europe’s largest open-air festival, the Danube Island Festival, was moved from its traditional end-of-June spot to September because of Austria’s role as Euro 2008 co-host this year.

I almost forgot about this myself, but the festival is set to take place this weekend already (Fri 5 through Sun 7). Apparently, it’s the festival’s 25th birthday this year, and just like last year, 2.000 artists will be performing, providing festival goers with 600 hours of entertainment, all in all. (The traditional fireworks on Saturday got cancelled, however..)

For some reason, I, myself, haven’t been to Donauinselfest for a few years now, but I intend on going again this year. If you do, too, you will find the programme search on the festival’s official website helpful.

People playing music on public transport

Kay — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:50:31 +0000

For a long time I thought it was only teenagers who force their environment to listen to whateverkindofmusicitistheylistento on public transport. I’ve meanwhile also come across adults who play (.. different, but equally annoying) loud music on their mobiles on buses and trams. The only difference I have noticed is that some of the latter will put their phones close to (one of) their ears for a “better” listening experience (.. which does not really make any difference for anyone else sitting close to them).

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll.

What do YOU do when people play loud music on public transport? – Do you react at all (i.e. ask them to turn the volume down/why they aren’t using headphones/whatever)? Or do you just sit there and wait for the moment you can get off your bus/tram/subway?

ImPulsTanz Opening Party

Kay — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:45:50 +0000

I was not at ImPulsTanz Festival’s opening party last year, but I attended the closing party, and ohhh, it was something different from the usual stuff, let me tell you. The crowd was very mixed, there were people from different countries, different age groups, many dancers, good music and lots of dancing going on – all in all a really nice party atmosphere.

Today at 10 p.m. starts this year’s opening party, and just like last year, it once again takes place at Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz (.. which is a really nice venue, just as a by the way!). So, if you don’t have anything better to do tonight and have €10 to spare, I’d recommend going there!

More info!

PS: I can also totally recommend ImPulsTanz’s Festival lounge at Burgtheater. The nice thing about that is that the entrance is free!

Kunstzone Karlsplatz

Kay — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:43:22 +0000

If you are more into culture than sports and feel “left out” because of the Euro, the official City of Vienna art zone might be just the thing for you.

Kunstzone Karlsplatz offers DJ lines, installations, theatre and art performances, visuals, live music, film nights etc. in four main spots (source) at/close to Karlsplatz from 8-28 June.

Kunstzone Karlsplatz opens tonight, for the full programme check out its website (in German).

Reminder: Ring closed off

Kay — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:59:15 +0000

I, myself, haven’t been near the Ring today, but I just remembered that its closure (rather, the closure of parts of it) was planned for today, so I thought it might be a good idea to post a reminder.

Vienna’s Fan Zone extends from Babenbergerstraße to Schottengasse; all traffic and public transport usually going along this part of the Ring will be diverted until 4 July.

While the website of the Wiener Linien mostly concentrates on providing information on how to get to the Fan Zone (I’d still very much like to know how all affected NightLines will be diverted..), ORF.at posted a very useful map of alternate routes today (source).

Verkehrsmittel laut Plan unterwegs

Kay — Sun, 25 May 2008 19:19:47 +0000

(I really like how Wiener Linien are informing us that they don’t have anything to inform us about!)