Author Archives: Manuel Martensen

Carboarding

Rope: Manuel Martensen, Lens: Jochen Neumann, Wheel: Holm Löffler.  Taken on the Listlandstrasse on the Isle of Sylt with an Apple iPhone 3G on January 29, 2010.
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Switzerland

What a wonderful week. Switzerland is almost as good as Canada. Almost. German ski resorts though — and austrian resorts packed with Germans — suck horse. But anyhow, here are some of the photos I took down there… More about this set at its Flickr page.
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Open Letter to Apple

Dear Apple, 5 years ago I’ve bought an iMac for 1700 Euros. A few month out of warranty its logic board broke for the first time and Apple agreed to replace it for free. Unfortunately this was not the only time it broke, it happend 3 more times. And even­though the iMac was out of warranty, Apple always aknow­ledged the [...]
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Marine traffic around Sylt

Here’s a map with live coverage of marine traffic (tankers, cargo ships, coast guard etc.) around the Island of Sylt, my home.  You can actually click on a ship and view its track and see where it came from or what it was up to, pretty cool feature. Only AIS equipped ships will be displayed though. [...]
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Typographical “5th of November”

This video is not related to Guy Fawkes and his collegues, there’s not even a mask in it, but it’s lovely and the date to post it is just perfect. Made by Chris Silich, found on YouTube.
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Seadog Walk

Have I posted this video before somewhere? I can’t find it. But it’s kinda cool — nothing fancy, just me walking — whatever, here it is again. Taken at “Seadog Beach”, a few month ago.
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