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This picture was taken on a trip to Sopron, Hungary. By the length of my hair I'd estimate it was made in the summer '96. As you can see, I like to fool around - and I have no problem with being photographed. I can't stand people who dive away when they see a camera. I rather gaze right into the lens! Well, on this particular photo my eyeballs turned away at least... :-)

These photos show me and Willi Dorner, who is a professional dancer in Austria. The style we dance here is called "contact improvisation". It is, as the name reveals, a style that implies that it is danced by two or more dancers. When doing "contact" the dancers nearly always stay in touch. The photos of this particular pas de deux have been shot on Zakynthos, Greece during a summer holiday. I attended the summer academy there. Willi was the dancing tutor of the academy. Since I was a dancer a few years ago, we came along together quite well. I like these photos, because the two weeks I spent in Zakynthos have been very recovering for me, and I took some real fine memories back home. Actually, this was the finest summer I had so far. I was quite relaxed these days without any worries. What's more inspiring than dancing under the free skies, listening to the rush of the sea, knowing that next day it will just be the same! People seeing those photos have asked me, whether I was gay... Well, FYI, I'm not.

Photos by Sonja Zehetner

Here are some more closeups from the contact improvisation session, so you can take a closer look at my looks... ;) I hope you like them. A bit. Erm. */me becomes a bit embarrassed*. If you do, feel free to tell me. If not, waste your time with more useful things... ;-)

This is a selfportait I created using the Fractal Design "Dabbler" Software. This really is a fine peace of software, coz' it simulates "IRL" drawing tools like regular pencils or chalk. It works best with a pressure-sensitive graphics tablet, which I used here. Nevertheless I worked for about two days to create this picture. The photo you can see above served as the original. I think I've done it quite well, at least I am satisfied, what do you think?

On the photo to the right, you see mee performing as a guest singer at a gig with the guys of "Z'sammgmikscht", which was one of my brother's bands at that time. I was doing "Superstition" by Stevie Wonder I think. I remember we had lot's a fun that night. I just returned from a trip to Greece, where I bought a shepherds stick, and I had it with me, whirling around with it... Heh.. And I wore my "Jesus-Patcherln" as we call them here in Vienna, shoes that look like the sandales Jesus must have worn. My brother sent me this scan and named it "the preacher". Well...

Photo by EnerGisi

To the left you see me in action during a stuntcam shooting at a concert of Faust, another band my brother played the bass with.

Faust shootings are always hard work, since Faust really does some action onstage. They were the last band playing that night of the festival, so the house was really cookin' alright. I ran slalom to avoid to crash with the stagedivers that where flying around everywhere...

Energisi, who shot the photo did well in capturing the speed you have to go as a cameraman during such shootings, trying to be as "invisible" as possible to the crowd... Yet, sometimes you're simply part of the act. You should see my own stagedive caught with the camera held overhead!

This photo shows me taking video footage of a concert the former synagogue of St. Pölten, the capitol of Lower Austria. I was capturing the performance of my brothers band "Z'sammgmikscht", for the production of a commercial concert video, available now. If you want Information on the video just contact my brother.

This particular video shoot was very appreciative, as the venue really was breath-taking. The evening was sold-out, providing the best ground for a fabulous gig. The evocative music as well as the provocative, yet loveable performance of Z'sammgmikscht, combined with the unique atmosphere of an old cathedral and the faboulous lighting effects created by their creative "Optix Man", as the band used to call their light effects artist, created a mystifying, yet stunning experience, capable of being captured impressively through a cameras lense.

Photo by EnerGisi

Photos by Alexandra Regenfelder

The above fotos were shot at the 10^th Anniversary gig of the "Funkmothers" in the Summer of 1999. Somewhere within those 10 years I happend to be a guest singer on one or two gigs, but most of the time I was simply a fan of theirs. Albert Mair, creator and leader of the band also was the keyboarder of my famous ;-) Band "Soul Device", I started back in 1992.

On the day I just returned from a great trip to Paleochora, Kreta (Greece), and I was feeling very relaxed an happy, as you can see on the photos.

This one shows me in a special place in Kerry, Ireland, meditating (well, at least for the picture).

Sonja and me travelled Ireland in the summer of 1999, we went from Shannon up to Galway, then cross-country via Athlone to Dublin, then turned southwards though Wicklow, Arklow, Limmerick to Cork. From there we went up again to Kenmare, form where we circled Beara and did the Ring of Kerry, to finally hit Tralee and Dinge, and saw that peninsula, too. Ireland has by far the most beautiful landscape I ever saw. And this land definitely has a groovy engery about it... When I buy a better/faster scanner, I'll put some of the Lomos up I made there... I shot 47 rolls of film during the trip!

I shot this at a small monolith circle, right in the heart of Kerry, and we were the only two people around, on a very clear and hot day, and I really enjoyed life there. I kneeled down with my Shepards Stick I brought from Crete, in my one hand, and my Lomo in the other. This is by far the best self shot I ever did with it. And such are the situations I love my Lomo for.

Photo by Andrea Freh

One of my favorite spots on this planet is Andrea's hammock. She's got it hanging across a corner of her living room, always inviting to take a nap - athough most of the time during Andrea's parties, you'd have to fight your way into it. On this particular party, as you can see, I made it. And what a reward! The real cool stuff about this hammock is that it's well wide enough for two (sorry, no photo available... ;)