Spring is coming and it’s time for a new year full of fresh photography. To take our enjoyment to the next level we will also get some fresh gear for our cameras. For steady shots a light-weight tripod, for smooth time-lapse captures a digital-timer cable trigger and last but not least the ultimate portable camera-dolly.

1) light-weight tripod: Manfrotto MA 055XPROB Pro

light-weight 2,4kg (5,2 pounds) with all features like a professional tripod + the ability to get 10cm (0,3 feet) above the ground. Great for macro shots! We will love it.

manufacturers website: www.manfrotto.com

(the tripod in this video is the smaller brother of the 055XPROB, but nearly the same)

2) light-weight fluid video head: Manfrotto 701HDV Pro Fluid Video mini head

A tripod without a (good) head won’t do its job. I think there’s no need for explanation about this

manufacturers website: www.manfrotto.com

3) digital-timer cable trigger: Phottix Tr-90

We already own this little digital helper and I have to say: although it’s a no-name product, it does its job very well. You just have to set the duration between the releases and the shooting-quantity to get some really good time-lapse captures

manufacturers website: www.phottix.com

4) portable camera-dolly: Glidetrack Shooter

“The Glidetrack Shooter is the world’s first camera slider, that doubles up as a shoulder support. Glidetrack Shooter is perfect for the new breed of DSLR’s that can shoot video i.e. Canon 5d, 7d, Nikon D90, D3s etc.”

manufacturers website: www.glidetrack.com

We are in love with the publisher Taschen. Since we own more and more books from them (Decorative Art 60s, Japanese Art Now!, and so on..) we regulary look on their site for new money-sucking offers we can’t deny.

Our next investiment definitely will be this two books:

1) Guidelines for Online Success

> more infos on here.
> amazon for dollars: here.

2) The Internet Case Study Book

> more infos on here.
> amazon for dollars: here.

both are available in german and english (check out both links for the € and $ version. The second book is pre-orderable.)

I found some really inspiring photographers the last days and I would love to share them with you

Della Bass
She’s an Australian photographer and lives in New York. She mainly shoots fashion and some travel and portraiture. Her work is full of color and life, I love it!
www.dellabass.com

Norbert Kniat
a Vienna based fashion photographer for international clients.
www.kniat.de -  (website done by myfriendfromberlin.com. also interesting inspirations there )

Anders Bergh
has been working as independent photographer since 1993, with his own studio in Copenhagen. He also worked with several international brands and advertising agencies. I really love his style and cleanliness. Hard contrasts, full HDR power – check it out yourself at:
bergh.dk

Lyndon Wade
is a NYC based commercial photographer, who shoots for world’s most famous ad agencies. Great colors & compositions ideas!
lyndonwade.com

A little shop in the 3rd district of Vienna with lots of accessoires, gifts and well-designed home-stuff. We got in touch with the people there and took some photos of some products with our macro lens. The lightning was low (like in every store) but enough for some good shots:

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if you want to get in touch with this lovely two-person crew check out:
www.samtundsonders.co.at

A lot of work in the last days, but now we’re free for at least 2 weeks to post some more stuff for you:

Japanese Final Fantasy XIII Launch Line Report
A big party for all the FF XIII – awaiting people. We really want to be there, but just a flight-ticket for a release party would be too crazy

A first original gameplay video found on youtube from Final Fantasy XIII:

also interesting for game-fans like us: the japanese game-blog from andriasang.

Eventually we’d plan a trip to GB / London. Why?

The group called “Bonobo” plays LIVE at London in 2010!
Official Bonobo Website
Official Bonobo Myspace

Finally, We want a Dog!

Since some days we’re searching for a dog. Finally we decided to get a pomeranian or a long haired chihuahua for ourselves

Slumber on Flickr -by iampoohie

Enjoy your christmas time and see you soon!
your tweemee’s

A foggy cold sunday and good lightning by the sun drives us to go out with the sigma 150mm marko for some hours.

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The hot chocolate was a real pleasure for our cold lips

You enjoy your Vienna vacation and need some really really good and cheap food? You don’t want to drive hours to the outer/cheaper regions because you live or stay at the inner city? So you definitely have to check out the best burgers and food (also vegetarian, not only meat) in vienna at Gußhausstraße 12, 1040 Wien.

delicious monster website

website: Delicious Monster
Restaurant &Take Away / Frühstück & Lunch / Cafe & Sweets
Gußhausstraße 12, 1040 Wien

One of our favourite Pet/Bird/Aquaristic shops in Vienna is located in the Columbusg 27-29 in the 10th district. Most people in Vienna might think that the 10th district isn’t the most “likeable” place in town, but it’s a jump from the unterground metro U1 station “Keplerplatz” and if you need healthy fish and other pet stuff,  it’s a good place!

Thanks to the lovely people who own this shop, we got the chance to take some pictures of fish and birds (through the gratings).

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Good for all fans and geeks in Vienna: markets with thousands of comic, anime & manga stuff and merchandise!

Comic & Film Börse – 6.12.2009
Längenfeldgasse 13-15 | 1120 Vienna

Wiener Comic & Figuren Börse – 13.12.2009
Modecenterstraße 22 | 1030 Vienna

Comic & Film Börse - 6.12.2009 Vienna

Comic & Figuren Börse - 13.12.2009 Vienna

Midnight and clicking through a whole bunch of youtube videos, we found some stuff about the KORG KAOSS PAD 3 (which we also possess) and a guy named “Beardyman” (UK Beatbox 2006/2007 Champion) do a real go(o)d job with it: Beatboxing with his voice/mouth and resampling with hardware all in one.

The results are really professional, creative and rocking! His sound is a mixture from mostly DnB / Jungle to Techno with influences from a lot of other genres.

We really hope to see him in Vienna or around middle Europe in future. If you’re on a trip to England, you definitely have to check out his Beardyman @ MySpace account before. On our journey trip we’ll definitely get to see him live.

Count Basic (not Count Basie – but the name is related to them) are an Austria R&B, trip-hop, acid jazz & smooth jazz band. Band Leader Peter Legat, the wonderful vocalist Kelli Sae (both working together for 13 years now) and a really really good band crew kicked our ass at the Gasometer to move to their groove beats and lovely melodies. Luckily we got the chance to take photos from the press box in front of the stage and it was great fun but also quite hard to shoot good photos, because of that low (sometimes red) light.
We enjoyed ourselves!

Count Basic Website
Count Basic MySpace

external interview with Count Basic @ Jazzitalia.net

our photos:

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Here’s a list of our favourite picked iPhone apps & games. alle $ (US) prices with the ” ~ ” character are estimated prices, because we live in europe and the most prices on other review sites are not up to date.

1. Edge

One of my all-time favourite iPhone games. + 8bit-soundy electromusic with a really great visual style.

Navigate your cube over the next edge through over 30 levels.

Price: € 2,39 | ~ $ 3 .

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