Lately I’ve developed a great liking for the author Max Dauthendey. His stories, at any rate those I’ve read and listened to so far, are really interesting and somewhat strange… but a good kind of strange. For the current “Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa” I’ve recorded two of his stories. One is called “Zwei Reiter am [...]
Archive for August, 2010
Strange Stories
Posted in audio, LibriVox, Whatever on August 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Eyelet Socks
Posted in knitting, personal, Whatever on August 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As promised a couple of posts/weeks ago, here are my finised “Eyelet Socks”: They turned out really beautiful and were quite easy to knit, though I had huge difficulities figuring out how to do those eyelets at first. But the best is that they are amazingly comfortable to wear. As usual full details can be [...]
Nighttime visitor
Posted in personal, Whatever on August 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For the last couple of nights we had a very noisy “nighttime visitor”. Yesterday I finally managed to get a pic of him. Meet Mr. Hedgehog: Isn’t he cute? He comes every evening after dark to get his share of Kitty’s dinner. Kitty isn’t too pleased with this arrangement, but after getting pricked a couple [...]
Das Natterkrönlein
Posted in audio, Books, LibriVox, Whatever on August 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I just couldn’t resist recording another one of those wonderful fairy tales with the beautiful pictures for LibriVox. (See my post about “Zwergenmützchen”) The fairy tales I chose this time is called “Das Natterkrönlein“, which mean roughly translated “The snakes crown”. The story has been written (or edited… I forgot which) by Ludwig Bechstein. It’s [...]
Short “Prosa” collection
Posted in audio, Books, LibriVox, Whatever on August 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday the 26th “Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa” got cataloged. Japanische Märchen This collection consists of 15 short German texts. Those text can be anything that is in the public domain, provided it does not rhyme. So most collections are an interesting mixture of fairy tales, more serious non-fiction texts and lots of others. Here is [...]
LibriVox Community Podcast #114
Posted in audio, LibriVox, Whatever on August 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Completely forgot to mention it, but there is also an awesome 5th Anniversary Podcast: Here is the LibriVox page to the podcast, where you can find everybody who contributed: http://librivox.org/2010/08/10/librivox-community-podcast-114/ Listen! It’s fun!
Happy 5th Anniversary, LibriVox!
Posted in audio, LibriVox, Whatever on August 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
LibriVox is celebrating it’s 5th Anniversary today!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LIBRIVOX! For this very special occasion 3 very special 5th Anniversary Collections were cataloged today. What do you do for a fifth anniversary? We decided to have a collection of short works with a difference. We challenged our readers to find any short works which had [...]
Beautiful Cover for the “Multilingual Fairy Tale Collection 003″
Posted in art, audio, LibriVox, Whatever on August 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Just a quick post to show off the beautiful CD Cover Hokuspokus made for the Multilingual Fairy Tale Collection 003! Thanks, Hok! Multilingual Fairy Tale Collection 003 Isn’t it absolutely perfect? I must confess that I’m totally in love with the pic! Btw. here are the other two fairy tales I recorded for the collection. [...]
Zwergenmützchen (Dwarf’s hat)
Posted in audio, Books, LibriVox, Whatever on August 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of weeks ago I re-discovered a lovely German fairy tale called “Zwergenmützchen” (roughly translated it means “Dwarf’s Hat”) by Ludwig Bechstein. It used to be one of my very favorite tales and I really enjoyed recording it for LibriVox now. Oh, and if you get the chance, read along. The text really has [...]
Latest Knitting “Experiments”
Posted in knitting, LibriVox, personal, Whatever on August 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I had a couple of days off this week and since I wasn’t feeling too well and as the weather was incredibly disgusting…. gray, cloudy, windy, cold and rainy… I had a lot of time to fool around indoors. So while catching up on my prooflistening for LibriVox, I started to knit some more socks. [...]
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