Wir suchen für das vielleicht schönste und gewiss analogste Kaffee Wiens professionelle Unterstützung. Denn wir haben große Pläne für unseren Palast und sind daher auf der Suche nach einer neuen motivierten Mitarbeiterin / Mitarbeiter, die / der idealerweise mehrjährige Erfahrung in der Gastronomie mit einer Leidenschaft für Qualität und Gästeservice verbindet.
Idealerweise kannst Du mit einer Slayer Espressomaschine genauso gut umgehen wie mit einem Plattenspieler, internationalen Gästen, tanzenden Akkordeonspielerinnen und Stress, und folgende Aufgaben sollten Dir ein leichtes sein:
**Servieren von Speisen und Getränken
**Kassieren
**Begrüßen und Platzieren von Gästen
**Einteilen der Reservierungen
**selbständiges Arbeiten
In dieser Idealkombination stehst du uns idealerweise in einem wöchentlichen Ausmaß von 16-32 Stunden flexibel zwischen Dienstag - Samstag (zw. 9.00 - 19.00) zur Seite.
Bezahlung laut aktuellem Kollektivvertrag. Bei geeigneter Qualifikation besteht die Bereitschaft zur Überzahlung.
Bewerbungen mit Lebenslauf und aktuellem Foto bitte an bewerbung@supersense.com
Wir freuen uns Dich bald in unserem superen Supersense Team begrüßen zu dürfen!
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Dear all,
Dear patient friends,
one of the main drives and energy rechargers during our super challenging and exhausting mission to SAVE PACKFILM has been the horror vision that all these legendary classic packfilm cameras will become obsolete. Thousands of beautifully crafted cameras are out there, desperately hoping for a bright future of packfilm. Many of them amongst the most professional cameras ever built, all of them design icons.
With Polaroid and Fujifilm ceasing packfilm production, it is has become our RESPONSIBILTY and DUTY to develop a new production strategy, using everything we learned over the last years. Making another impossible mission possible. And even if all of this once again took much longer than planned....WE ARE ALMOST THERE! In exactly 6 days on....
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 5pm CET
we will finally and truly launch our KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN. So please prepare yourself and dust off your favorite cameras OR - if you're only just starting into this adventure - get your camera NOW. Provided by our new, super experienced partners Kori and Adam from Retrospekt, our fresh main source for the best mint packfilm cameras on earth.
All of their cameras are carefully refurbished, cleaned, tested, and converted to use standard batteries. Please discover a small selection of our most favorite cameras in order to be ready for the future of packfilm! As always all proceeds will be used for our grande mission to save packfilm.
And - as we have made you waiting for way too long we want to apologize with a very special offer: the first 10 cameras ordered will arrive at their new home with a matching free flash unit - because just as your photographs, the future of packfilm is bright!
Looking forward to presenting you all details on December 5,
Doc
Dear all,
super busy and honestly in deep water I don't have too much time left for another blog entry that's why I decided to let someone else speak instead of me.
Someone who recently sent me an amazing E-Mail out of the blue which really touched me deep inside because it describes exactly how I'm feeling the magic of packfilm - which I always have a very hard time to find the right words for. John did a great job in doing so - please read for yourself:
Hello Saviors of Packfilm,
My name is John Obee and I’m not entirely sure what I’m doing composing this email, but I know that I want to be somehow involved in this revival or at least let my presence be known. I received my first Polaroid Spectra Camera when I was 8 and regularly started shooting packfilm in 2011 on a 250 Land Camera. Packfilm has affected me in ways I never thought could happen. I think that the SX-70 and 600 series film is fun and an easy invitation into the wide world of instant film, but it was the challenge and limitations of my faithful 250 that showed me the tall mountain challenge of collecting my memories and storing them on film that I instantaneously got when I took the picture. It’s the idea of looking at a photograph you procured in a moment in time that won’t ever change for as long as you keep that picture. I’m really not sure if this is making any sense or if I’m really just rambling on about something I’ve never been able to articulate correctly to my friends and family. When Fujifilm announced the end of their packfilm, I nearly shut down my entire hobby. I tried desperately to enjoy the Instax wide film, but to no avail. Nothing has come even remotely close to the clarity and enjoyment I have had with 100c, 100c Silk, and 3000b. I’m all but certain that you guys have gotten numerous emails such as this one, and I apologize for the assumed redundancy, but I just want someone out there to know that you guys are saving my absolute favorite thing I have ever experienced and will continue to experience through what I’ve shot already in my 25 years of existence.
I live in the suburban land outside of Minneapolis, Minnesota and work in a Laboratory for a hydraulic filter manufacturer. Attached is a 100c Silk photo of myself that I staged to look much older than when I took it a few years ago. Additionally, my old tumblr that I ran with an ex-girlfriend of mine is linked here. It’s since been abandoned after I left her and packfilm was pulled off stage. On it are a fraction of the photographs I had the patience to scan and upload. I apologize for not attaching “My Favorite Packfilm Photo” mostly because I love all the pictures I’ve taken. I don’t expect a reply, but I appreciate if someone out there took the time to glaze over this and perhaps even a few pictures from my old blog. I love what all of you are doing for this, it’s keeping me from losing all hope.
John Obee
Looking forward to reviving this magic together with you real soon.
Yours,
Doc
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Dear all,
yes, of course my poor project manager Marli, the only one who really works day and night to bring some structure and professional organization into the crazy Supersense world, was right that it is NOT a good idea to schedule the ultimate Prototype Test Video Shooting just a few days before the planned Kickstarter launch.
Dear all,
following last week's post about the magic and importance of packfilm cameras I'm more than happy to today celebrate a very special packfilm camera of no other kind: the legendary Big Shot Camera (one of its most legendary users might be Andy Warhol, who called this camera his pen and pencil and used it to create all his silk screened celebrity portraits).
To support our Save Packfilm mission, Mr. Cheyenne Morrison (pictured above) - a passionate Australian instant photographer with a love for packfilm since ever- provided us with a wonderful original blueprint artwork of the Big Shot, which we carefully turned into a strictly limited art edition of exactly 33 pieces, produced on cotton rag with carbon print.
Please allow me to invite you to click on this link if you are interested to learn more about the unique design process and the story of this camera.
Please be aware that most likely you may fall in love with this wonderful artprint and supply is strictly limited.
Thank you,
Doc
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Dear all,
thinking day and night and day about all aspects and possible challenges of our save packfilm adventure, now that we finally enter the final phase, I want to remind you of a very important fact:
Only if we also take care and develop clever strategies to save all these amazing packfilm cameras out there, we have a realistic chance to build a solid future for our new packfilm materials.
Introduced in 1963 with the iconic model 100, the first mass produced camera with an electronic shutter in history, with more than 1 million cameras sold in just 3 years, the packfilm format was the moment when instant pictured entered the next level.
Growing up from cool instant snapshots to high quality photography. The perfect medium for capturing your most precious moments with a whole range of high class cameras equipped with simply the very best technical features available of that time.
So as we plan to re-start the production of packfilm we are also very proud and excited that some of the most experienced instant camera experts have joined our team and our mission to build a new future for the material we love so much. Collecting, refurbishing old cameras and even building new cameras in order to win new customers for the most magic instant material of this planet.
You will hear soon about the amazing team from Retrospekt, our camera wizard Henny Waanders and many more but today I wanted to introduce Mr. Daniel Toullic, as he is one of the oldest "save instant cameras" supporters and friend in our long history. He was the one who helped us with large numbers of carefully refurbished Polaroid 600 and SX70 cameras as the IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT became possible and the demand for these cameras exploded, and he now became a super important supporter for our save packfilm project.
We are celebrating the future of packfilm with a first small series of a very special packfilm camera: the super rare KEYSTONE PACKFILM camera family. Please have a look at our Save Packfilm Supporter Shop to learn more about these very special tools (as always all the proceeds will directly go into the new production of pack film) and please keep your eyes open for all the packfilm camera out there. Saving as many as possible.
Truly,
Doc
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Dear all,
with only 3 more weeks to go we're going completely crazy with fine-tuning our latest prototype, marveling at first samples of our newly developed packaging, and step by step digesting our still super long to do list for our Kickstarter adventure.
Currently in the final planning stage for our emotional, blockbuster style key video we realized that we
URGENTLY NEED YOU!!
to show the world that this material is NOT ONLY for old guys like my boring self, still hanging on with the leftovers of the last century because of romantic reasons. This adventure is NOT about the past. It has to be about the future.
CORDIALLY INVITING THE NEXT GENERATION
Because, honestly, at the end of the day - and as biggest positive surprise in my life - the new generation of digitally grown up photographers turned the IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT into something so astonishingly possible – and it will also be them who are ready to discover our new packfilm.
We are now looking for protagonist for one of our video's main scenes and additional eye candy materials that will make this SAVE PACKFILM campaign the most powerful and intriguing promotion of instant film ever produced.
Please, please get in contact with me if you...
Please send a short E-Mail that will allow us to distill your serious packfilm passion along with 2 of your most favorite packfilm photos you ever took as well as a portrait of yourself to doc@supersense.com
Very much looking forward to meeting you and dancing together soooooon,
Yours,
Doc
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Dear all,
I quickly write this important update late at night Vienna time, super tired. The last week has been super crazy. Not only have we dived deeply into the final phase of our grande packfilm campaign - with some good progress and some medium sized disasters on a daily rollercoaster basis - but also we received a loud and urgent emergency call from our network in Vienna.
Mr. Willy Kolleger, the brave last man standing still operating his amazing LINOTYPE machine, reliable partner in many letterpress projects, informed us that finally he has to give up and close down his workshop. And that he will have to completely vacate his magic print wonderland complete by the end of the year already.
This gives us only very few weeks to organize, pre-finance and execute the re-location of his treasures, most importantly the LINOTYPE machine. Once again a truly impossible mission. After some short brainstorm session we decided that a quick, short Kickstarter Emergency call for help is the only chance we have.
Therefore I would like to invite you today to click on this KICKSTARTER link – I'm sorry this is not yet the link that you've been waiting for for such a long time with all your analog heart. BUT never the less I would be very honored if you have a look at this wonderful machine and maybe even help me spreading the message and continue building a network together of people who share the vision that old proud technology simply has to be saved from junkyard.
Thank you!!
Doc
***** SAVE PACKFILM KICKSTARTER LAUNCHES NOVEMBER 8 *****
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Dear all,
it is a very very thin line between becoming a superhero or ending as crazy dreamer. And only the most stubborn and most passionate people with endless energy and never ending capability to stand up again and again even after being hit by the biggest catastrophes will be the ones to change the world.
This is the reason why it is my true pleasure to present you my dear friends Nik and Marco. As of today, nobody knows whether these two gentlemen will be superheroes soon or if they will fail with their crazy dream to restart one of the most iconic film factories of all time: Ferrania in Italy.
Even if I cross all my fingers for their adventure, I have to say that just for trying the IMPOSSIBLE for many many super hard years by now, Nik and Marco do have my endless respect and thankfulness. Because of exactly such crazy minds I know that the future of our own impossible project, saving packfilm, will be brighter than ever imagined before. Because next generation visionaries like them will invent and produce the most outstanding and most innovative analog film components in the near future. Please believe me, this is not just about keeping some living fossils alive because of romantic reasons!!!
Many many things are slowly cooking and already smelling fantastico!! Perfectly blending old knowledge and machines with new possibilities and viewpoints. Building a global network with all these crazy ones will allow us to dream of many different flavors and editions of packfilm materials and together build the future of analog film.
Ok, ok, my imagination is going wild again. Sorry. And- yes, I have to admit that the picture does NOT YET show us in front of the new giant packfilm production plant we are currently building in Paolo Alto, because there is still a long list of homework to do. Here in Vienna and down there South at the Ferrania plant. Back to balance the thin line.
Yours,
Doc
***** SAVE PACKFILM KICKSTARTER LAUNCHES NOVEMBER 8 *****
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Dear PAUL,
I know it will take some more days but please allow me to already send you a very warm all analog HAPPY BIRTHDAY HUG. I still can not believe that you will turn amazing 90 years on October 15th, and still rock and roll with an energy and ease that deeply impresses me every time we meet. Not only your angle hair pasta with lobster is revolutionary but also your designs and drawings for me are MIND-BLOWING and in my opinion Polaroid would have never been such an iconic brand without your work and vision.
I know that usually I should send you presents, but the fact that you decided to turn this tradition upside down this year and agreed to exclusively produce and sign a small edition of 33 pieces of one of your most iconic artworks, the packfilm 180 camera to our Save Packfilm project, makes me very proud and optimistic that we can really make this happen (the ultimate 8 pieces are available here).
You are at least the "G" and the "I" in the MAGIC of Polaroid and I am super proud and honored to be your friend and biggest fan.
Truly yours,
Doc
PS: Dear Ladies and gentlemen, if you are also in love with Grandmaster Paul Giambarba's Designs, please visit him at http://giam.typepad.com to personally drop your birthday wishes or kisses for his 90th birthday.
***** SAVE PACKFILM KICKSTARTER LAUNCHES NOVEMBER 8 *****
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Dear all,
today was supposed to celebrate the launch of our game changing Save Packfilm Kickstarter campaign. Making our impossible dream of saving another iconic analog film material come true with the help of our global community. Once again proving that magic “digitally obsolete” products can and have to stay in production even if big boring companies can not think of a profitable business plan.
BUT! After many crazy busy, super challenging weeks to prepare for this essentially important campaign stuffed with a lot of darkroom adventures and sample testing / filming we just decided to NOT press the big red, blinking start button today, but to move our launch date to NOVEMBER 8 (please mark that date in your calendar!!).
Please forgive and please believe us, that the fact we could not rock it today is NOT a sign of giving up this dream!!!!! We hope you agree that a delay to optimize and finetune this hyper important campaign is better than rushing, not squeezing out the maximum of this unique opportunity. Even though being patient is currently hard because we are super super excited to report that we are much much closer to our dream becoming reality than ever before.
Just fancy hot steam talking to talking to hide our desperation and keep you in the loop ?????
Please judge your self and visit our just updated SAVE PACKFILM MICROSITE with a lot of detailed updates on the status quo and even a short TEASER VIDEO from the latest prototype testing and Kickstarter video filming sessions with Uwe at the SUPERSENSE lab 3 days ago.
Ladies and gentlemen: Please trust your senses: We can do it. Once again, the impossible seems to be possible, but traditionally just needs slightly more time and even more of our attention.
THANK YOU,
Doc
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Dear all,
the celebration of the 20x24 Studio Superheroes Collective would not be complete without the introduction of the youngest member: Nafis "NITROGEN" Azad. With his impressive background (engineering degree and a master of fine arts in photography) combined with slamming next generation superpowers, he upgrades the performance of his 2 "slightly" older superhero sidekicks by several degrees (best compared to the performance change when filling your VW with finest nitrogen).
Among his ever expanding and still developing superpowers, I could witness his amazing night vision capabilities during our crazy packfilm darkroom adventures in Ashland. In just a few seconds, he super precisely hand aseambled even the most delicate and complicated test samples in complete darkness in a super tiny darkroom at crazy temperatures (dreaming of 123 virgins) without a single drop of sweat on his face.
The picture shows "Nitro" with one of his first magically hand assembled early stage packfilm sized test, proving that the Ted's super pods perform more than promising.
Feeling super empowered with our Save Packfilm team that is now complete and ready to take things further,
Doc
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Dear followers,
also the next superhero I am proudly introducing today is part of the amazing 20x24 studio team, in fact he was the one starting this amazing adventure:
Please welcome with the mysterious superhero number 7....SUPERHERRRRRO JOOOOOOOHN "RRRRRRRREVOLUTIONARY" REUTER
This gentlemen, easily recognizable by his reduced but stylish black superhero outfit (made out of secret photochemistry resistant fabric) and his VW GTI superhero car, has a long track record of successful heroic adventures, and I will only be able to list a few in this blog post.
John is an outstanding instant film artist and wizard, re-defining and actively changing instant photography for decades, introducing many impossible techniques and tricks which are still benchmark globally. Nobody else has such an experience across all instant film formats and all cameras ever built, including even the biggest monsters, including cameras as big as a whole room. Nobody is as close to the true soul of instant film than JR.
As if this wasn't enough, John stood up and started fighting like a titan when the 20x24 project was in serious danger. Supported by a mystery investor he not only purchased all remaining high quality peel apart film material Polaroid that was about to scrap in 2008, BUT he also rescued all machines and chemicals needed to re-start the production of NEW peel apart films in a warehouse and with a super small team. Against all odds and with unbelievable energy, passion and vision.
Only because of this Superhero I was able save the last 8x10 production machines back in 2008. Many more projects and adventures followed, and today John R. is again one of the key assets in our team to finally SAVE packfilm. THANK YOU MASTER for your never ending support and energy!
Yours,
Doc
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Dear all,
it is my true honor to introduce one of the most powerful and most experienced SUPERHEROES of our Save Packfilm team:
SUPERHERO NR. 6
Theo "TED" McLelland
He might be the oldest member of our league of extraordinary gentlemen, but spending two days of training and testing with him recently in Ashland, CA, I was really impressed by his extraordinary performance and energy.
Ted basically replaces a whole instant film factory team leading the chemical development and production of the world's most ultimate peel apart film production known as 20x24 studio. This amazing superhero can solve each and every problem with just the materials he finds in the room and even if you blindfold this guy and tie him down to a chair, he still would produce you the best film developer you have ever had.
Ted looked at our challenges and magically built us a whole series of super powerful prototype packfilm pods for our next test series whilst eating a turkey sandwich.
It is a true honor and endless inspiration to have TED, who already was in the team of Dr. Land and Howie Rogers (the inventor of color instant film), in our team as one of our key members.
Please stay tuned for more.
Yours,
Doc
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Dear friends,
more than 1 month without any update, please forgive and allow me to be completely honest - there are 2 reasons for the long silence:
The first 2 weeks I was super busy traveling and breathtakingly successful visiting and convincing the last missing SUPERHEROES who are essentially and urgently needed to realize our dream of a simply perfect Kickstarter campaign!! I will proudly present them in the course of the very next days. I am delighted to inform you right away, that I managed to recruit my absolute dream dream and regarding superpowers only the Real Madrid soccer team (before Ronaldo leaving) or maybe the Avangers themselves can come close to the potential of our Save Packfilm League of all analog SUPERHEROES.
The rest of the time I was super relaxed traveling with my family, breathtakingly successfully doing exactly nothing but diving into a fantastic holiday break at the coast of Portugal. Re-charging my all analog batteries in order to be in perfect shape to finally SAVE PACKFILM big time before the end of this year.
As the last sand grains are slowly disappearing from between my toes, I do not want to waste time and right away, re-open the gallery of Packfilm SUPERHEROES with the next entry:
Markus "The Beard" Mahla
This gentleman has been on my side for more than 15 years now, fighting for the future of instant film. Since I met him at the famous Polaroid Ship in Cologne during Photokina 2002, he was one of the very few to not only believe in my mission but also has been essential to making them come true. Back then, Markus was one of the leading Polaroid managers and had the superpower to mix super experienced manager quality with a dash of the crazy vision that was urgently needed to believe in the all analog fantasies of this crazy spider expert from Vienna.
Since that day, The Beard always has been incredibly important for all my adventures as super serious and hyper experienced manager, but also as investor who connected our dreams with the "boring" reality of company thinking, business planning, project management and experience.
In August, Markus finally decided to end his professional career as outrageously overpaid high end manager for the coolest brands in order to dive deeper into the maybe most exciting "next big thing" called the SUPERSENSE.
As an important aspect and one of the main projects he will direct his SUPERPOWERS onto the support and super serious development of the SAVE PACKFILM project. Taking care everything is treated not only super passionately but also super professional. Taking care that the whole project does not stop again for 2 weeks because the lazy Doc decides to grill sardines in Portugal.
More soon,
Doc
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Dear all,
sitting on a night train, traveling back to Vienna after meeting some old friends with highly possible, new PACKFILM SUPERHERO potential in Florence, I finish the homework I promised you last week:
Providing you with more information about how we will use the proceeds of our Packfilm Supporter Shop in order to prepare the best possible way for our Packfilm Kickstarter Campaign in September.
On the picture you see the entrance door to the amazing Kickstarter office in Brooklyn, NY. I took this photo it in 2016 when visiting them the first time. Already back then, the main topic for my visit was my big dream to save this amazing material with the help of the community. It became clear to me that day that a perfectly prepared Kickstarter campaign is the one and only chance to success, and together with their creative team we discussed some possible strategies.
The real beauty and at the same time "the challenging beast" of such a campaign is the fact that it combines the possibility of a pre-sale based pre-financing of a production with the character of the hardest and most authentic market research mankind ever invented. Because each and every campaign asks a very precise question: DO YOU BUY THIS PRODUCT / SUPPORT THIS PROJECT? There is no "maybe" and no "eventually".
If you fail - and not enough people are interested in what you have to offer right away - the chance is over and your dream ends.
Therefore compromises are no option and the key elements for a perfect campaign have to be developed with all honesty and focus:
1. A perfectly working prototype and real proof of concept
2. Waterproof agreements with all key partners
3. Clear understanding of all production and development costs that you base your end customer prices on (also defining the reward prices)
4. A dense network of supporters and influencers taking care that all potential customers globally hear about this campaign
So, this is the reason why we need your support right away. Not just talking about peseta, but also talking about your help to build a network and support us with your expertise and energy (thank you for the many offers we already received from you in the last weeks!!).
My main focus for the next days is to once again travel the world to do last tests and negotiations with key partners, producing and collecting all components needed to build a REAL FUNCTIONAL PROTOTYPE here in Vienna, to be presented and demonstrated in the campaign without any tricks and shortcuts.
Also, my team started to activate all our global contacts and put together a small team of designers, so we can also present you the beauty of our new PACKFILM as magically as it already appears in our dreams.
Because honestly we know that most likely this is our ultimate chance to save this wonderful material and therefore this Kickstarter Campaign has to be based on a simply 120% IRRESISTABLE PRODUCT.
For all of you that are already convinced TODAY, and do trust me in never giving up and making the impossible possible, we are introducing a new "product" in our SUPPORTER SHOP right away. A hopefully perfect solution for all of you who contacted us over the last days, asking for a possibility to DONATE for this cause, as they love the project but do not want to spend money on high shipping costs (or their refrigerators are already stuffed with Fuji). We can not accept donations and therefore we created a special SAVE PACKFILM Voucher that you can purchase from exactly now on. All proceeds will be 100% used in order to pre-finance the next development steps right away, and at the same time you can use it for purchases in our Packfilm Supporter Shop (best as soon as the new films are online in the hopefully not too far future.)
Very much hoping that all or most of this strategy do make sense for you and we can count on your urgently needed support to SAVE PACKFILM together.
Yours truly,
Doc
Dear all,
today I'm introducing SUPERHERO Nr. 4: UWE Mimoun. Actually I've known Uwe for a long time, working on several crazy projects more or less connected to the world of photography. Uwe has an incredibly strong superpower to think outside the box, combined with an outstanding photochemical expertise, blended with innovative creativity. Uwe developed and realized several wonderful projects for the Lomographic Society and other big players before starting his own projects under the Kono brandname.
For several years we met on an irregular basis to brainstorm wildest dreams and even lift some of them beyond the prototype phase. At the end of one of these sessions I totally frustrated showed him one of my last packs of packfilm, telling him: “Uwe, whenever you are really bored, please do me a favor and have a close look at this crazy origami!! You are my ultra last hope to find a new approach of how we could restart the production of this magic material. How could we possibly produce a modern version of this highly complex product with the small resources we have here without the need to pre-finance millions?? Please teach me my friend.” Uwe replied with a confident smile on his face: “ Impossible?? Ha! Just give me some days, this should not be a problem!”.
Well... several weeks went by and I did not hear anything. I honestly almost forgot about it but then we met again and Uwe put a little black paper box on my desk. The smile was gone but he informed me with a tired voice: “This little bastard almost killed me, but I think I have found a sexy solution!! Only problem is that I am afraid I will never ever be able to do it again when I take this apart to show you the concept!”.
Well, we did take it apart and after some hours filled with a lot of blood, sweat, shouting and tears we finally had a first, very basic functional demonstrator in our trembling hands.
So, to cut a long Blog post short: never before was I that positive with providing the good news: YES, I think we are proudly looking at a potential rate for success exceeding the incredible 88% ratio. I am so optimistic that I from now on will not even call this an impossible project any more.
It's only because of the fact that we have really fantastic solutions and strategies for all key parts of this project, I finally decided to re-start this Blog and even agreed to open the Supporter Shop in order to collect some funding for the necessary next steps for the first time of this adventure (with the exception of one wonderful investor, everything so far has been funded out of our own pocket as you know).
Please stay tuned to learn more about these next steps and all the homework we still have to do in order to professionally prepare for our big Kickstarter campaign...
Yours truly convinced and POSSIBLE,
Doc
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Dear all,
very much do understand that asking for your support once again is not fair and respectful without giving you very detailed and honest information of how impossible our adventure really is and will be.
Please accept this blog as my true attempt to summarize the current situation and our realistic chances to succeed as precise as possible (all long term supporters please forgive me for maybe repeating myself, but I think it makes sense to go back to the start so everybody really gets the full picture of where we are standing today)
PART 1
After the clear NO from Fuji in 2016, all hope that we can rescue at least one of these highly sophisticated packfilm assembly machines urgently needed to produce this magic format, shrunk to Bonsai size.
Never the less we continued to search the globe, hoping that somewhere one of these machines might have survived in a secret warehouse. Talking to ex-employees of former packfilm factories in Mexico, Japan, Scotland and the USA didn't lead to any results.
In this depressing times, Bob Crowley and his New55 team were the ones who recharged our hope with basically building many essential machines needed to restart the production of 4x5 inch instant films, out of plywood, hairdryers and parts you can get in every supermarket. Even if Bob already has been featured in this blog several times, and even if his New55 adventure is on hold at the moment, I never the less have to right away include this fantastic gentleman in our newly formed LEAGUE OF LEGENDARY SUPERHEROES.
Because Bob did not only show me what can be possible when thinking out of the box, but also has been the first true expert who finally opened my eyes to the real impossible challenges packfilm has to offer when tinkering with new possible ways of production:
Everything looks pretty easy at first sight - compared to the integral format we could finally save in 2010 - because the development process is not driven by a battery powered mechanism with a very special battery included in each pack. Maybe it just needs a nice darkroom facility and some night vision googles to carefully fold these films into the cartridge?
When analyzing a pack with Bob in all details it became clear to me that each and every pack of this film is an incredibly complex and outrageously over-complicated origami-style paper folding miracle. Many parts are glued to each other and connected in a brain-cracking way, changing their position within the pack after exposure, bringing the next negative in position.
Not even Bob could think about the professional development of possible solutions without huge upfront costs, detailed scientific feasibility studies including several experts, in the very best case leading to a masterplan for the construction of a new machine, triggering costs of several million Euros. Absolutely no chance to build any of these out of plywood unfortunately.
So by the end of 2017 this left us in a very complicated situation, basically the exact opposite of the situation we started the Impossible Project 9 years before. This time we intensively researched globally for possible new essential packfilm components (positive, negative, developer paste, paper, ...) which has been very promising (more details and updates about this important aspect in the coming weeks), but regarding the search for machines needed to assemble these components I had to question myself if we maybe had finally reached a dead end street.
Never before something that IMPOSSIBLE has been in front of my dreams. This was the point when I stopped writing this blog...
But super fortunately this was also the time when I met my next SUPERHERO, with amazing SUPERPOWERS that zoomed this adventure back into POSSIBILITY and whom I am very much looking forward to introduce to you shortly in my next blog......
Yours,
Doc
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Dear all,
Dear friends,
even if it took us more than 2 years to develop a waterproof strategy of how to really SAVE PACKFILM, it finally turned out that the perfect guideline for such a truly important mission can basically be found in any comic book:
Step 1:
You have to bring together THE WORLD`S MOST OUTSTANDING SUPERHEROES.
Step 2:
You have to create a secret HEADQUARTER, a real fortress of solitude, an office of coordination. Not just a place where these Superheroes can hang up their capes and recharge their superpowers. But mainly a place where we -acting as mission control- can connect with YOU, all our supporters globally, unite all our forces, plan all actions and bundle all our wildest dreams and energies.
After long research for the perfect location it became clear, that the modern headquarter of a modern superhero adventure surely has to be a virtual one. Therefore the famous LEX, THE WEBMEISTER, created this "top secret" WEBSITE together with his blind sidekick dog BARTHOLOMAEUS (pictured above).
From now on this fantastic hideout will serve as our new headquarter for this important adventure. Please close your eyes before clicking on this top secret LINK that will directly zoom into our new pack film mission retreat.
See you at the headquarter,
Florian 'Doc' Kaps
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Die Auswirkungen, die der Genuss mehrerer Flaschen Budweiser Bier haben kann, sind äußerst unterschiedlich. Einen der magischsten Effekte konnte gewiss der Amerikaner Ted Serios demonstrieren, dem es selbst unter strengster wissenschaftlicher Aufsicht wiederholt gelang, seine Gedanken auf Polaroid zu belichten.
Autor, Künstler und Filmemacher Romeo Grünfelder hat über diesen schier unglaublichen, bis heute ungeklärten Casus ein ganzes Buch geschrieben und darin nicht nur die spannendsten Beweisfotos, sondern auch die abseitigsten Spekulationen von Skeptikern zusammengetragen, die sich an dem Fall bereits die Zähne ausgebissen haben.
Wir werden an diesem einzigartigen Abend nicht nur einen der bizarrsten Fälle der Parapsychologie nachspüren und verschollen geglaubte Filmdokumente sichten, sondern auch direkt im Selbstversuch und im Dienst der Wissenschaft zahlreiche Budweiser kippen und diese mit feinsten Prime Rip Burgern untermauern, um am Ende des Abends unsere schärfsten Gedanken auf einen original Polaroid S/W Packfilm zu belichten.
Ted Serios. Serien
Romeo Grünfelder (Hrsg.)
564 Seiten mit 352 Abbildungen
Mit Beiträgen von Philippe Dubois, Prof. Dr. Peter Geimer, Romeo
Grünfelder (Hrsg.) und Prof. Dr. Bernd Stiegler
Textem Verlag 978-3-941613-46-1
Zu Ted Serios
geb. 27. November 1918, arbeitete als Hotelpage in Chicago, als er für seine Produktion von »Gedankenfotografien« auf Polaroid-Film im Laufe der 1960er Jahre bekannt wurde. Er behauptete, Grundlage seien allein seine psychischen Kräfte, was Fotografen und Skeptiker seither zu widerlegen versuchen. Ted Serios starb am 30. Dezember 2006 in Chicago.
Zum Psychiater und Parapsychologen Jule Eisenbud
geb. 20. November 1908 in New York, USA, arbeitete nach der Erlangung der Doktorwürde an der Columbia University als Psychiater und eröffnete 1938 eine Praxis für Psychiatrie und Psychoanalyse in New York. Im Jahr 1950 wechselte er als außerordentlicher klinischer Professor für Psychiatrie nach Denver. Eisenbud widmete sich den Forschungsgebieten der Psychiatrie, Psychoanalyse, Anthropologie und Hypnose. Er war einer der Ersten, der Gedankenübertragung und andere PSI-Fähigkeiten als Kommunikationsmittel in die Psychoanalyse mit einbezogen hat. Bekannt wurde er vor allem durch sein Buch The World of Ted Serios, New York 1967, in dem er seine Forschungsergebnisse zu Ted Serios zusammenfasste. Jule Eisenbud starb am 10. März 1999 in Denver, Colorado.
Zum Herausgeber Romeo Grünfelder
geb. 1968, ist Autor, Filmemacher und Regisseur, studierte in Hamburg Musik, Medienphilosophie und Kunst. Stipendiat u. a. der Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades. Von 2008 bis 2010 unterrichtete er Dramaturgie und Philosophie an der Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg. Fokus seiner Arbeit liegt auf paranormalen Themen. Seine ausgezeichneten Filme werden im Kino als auch auf Festivals und in Galerien gezeigt. Er lebt & arbeitet als Regisseur in Hamburg und Berlin. felderfilm.de
Zum Textem Verlag
Gegründert im Jahr 2004 von Nora Sdun und Gustav Mechlenburg mit Sitz in Hamburg. Der Verlag ist spezialisiert auf Veröffentlichungen von Literatur, Theorie, Künstlerbücher und Ausstellungskataloge. Seit Juli 2006 verlegt der Textem Verlag das Printmagazin Kultur & Gespenster. Bisherige Veröffentlichungen, das Verlagsprogramm und weitere Aktivitäten des Verlags unter www.textem-verlag.de/
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Wir freuen uns das Salonorchester Alhambra abermals im Palast willkommen zu heißen!
Das Salonorchester Alhambra mit Hans Daffke - das sind zwölf schmucke Herren, die sich unter Qualen in ihre Schalen gezwängt, ihr Haupthaar gestutzt und gelmanipuliert sowie den blassen Teint aufgelegt haben, um die großen Schlager der 20er und 30er Jahre in wahrhaft betörender Manier zu praktizieren.
Dabei haben sie nur eine Absicht: Ihr Publikum zum Quietschen und die Tanzfläche zum Kochen zu bringen. Nach einem gefühlten Jahrhundert ohne dem Salonorchester Alhambra gibt sich das Ensemble um den Berliner Hans Daffke nun die Ehre und bläst zum Revival.... unter den Gästen darf man den schönen Sigismund, die reizende Donna Clara, sowie einen kleinen, grünen Kaktus erwarten.
Vocals: Hans Daffke
Violin: Mario Gheorghiu
Sax: Thomas Hofstädter, Peter Rohrsdorfer, Martin Haslinger
Trumpet: Thomas Gansch, Aneel Soomary
Trombone: Leonhard Paul
Bass: Rev. Andrew Brown
Piano: Sascha Peres
Guitar: Marcus Ratka
Drums: Michael Kahlig
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Endlich gibt es die wichtigsten und gleichzeitig einfach basalsten supersensorischen LEBENSMITTEL nicht nur im Palast, sondern auch für Jedermann und Jederfrau zuhause. Unsere Lieblingslebensmittel, zärtlich zusammengetragen und 100fach getestet zu jeder Tages- und Nachtzeit. Sachen, die man in dieser großen Stadt leider immer schwerer bekommt. Und wenn dann nur zu absurden Preisen an eigenartigen Orten.
Sweet, Sweet Moon macht Lieder, die dem Blues zuzuordnen sind und die er auf dem Klavier, der Geige und der Gitarre vorträgt. Er schreibt die Lieder vor allem in den Sommermonaten und lässt sie in der kalten Jahreszeit reifen. Bei Konzerten wird er häufig von Musiker*innen begleitet, die gut zu ihm passen. Auch beim Kaffeehauskonzert wird er vermutlich nicht gänzlich allein auftreten.
Sweet Sweet Moon spielt für Menschen auf der gesamten Welt; seine Musikreisen haben ihn nach Afrika, Europa, Südamerika u.a. geführt.
Donnerstag, 15. März,19.30 Uhr
Eintritt: Freie Spende!
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Zum Ausklang des Valentinstagsrummels und "in the name of love" laden wir mit Nassplatten-Alchemist Zoltan Janota zum Shooting mit dem/n Lieblingsmenschen.
In einer herrlich analogen und wirklich persönlichen Portraitsitzung werdet ihr mithilfe von Silber, Licht und Liebe auf Kollodium festgehalten - basierend auf einer wahrlich faszinierend Fotografietechnik aus dem Jahre 1851.
SAMSTAG, 17 Februar 2018, 13 - 17 Uhr
Terminvereinbarung: wet-plate@supersense.com
Aktionspreis: 99,-
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Beim besten Dogen gibt es nicht nur das beste Essen der Stadt, sondern auch sensationelle SPEZIAL - EVENTS:
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