Tatra 2009 Survive

On the 22th of July, finally we put everything together to make our "into the wild" journey just real ! Our goal was: being in the Tatra for about 3days, 2nights under the open air, without being punished for x-1000 euros by the "TANAP" forces, TANAP means TAtry National Park.

Our equipment was about (per person):

-1 sleeping bag,
-1-2 iso foil,
-dry clothes,
-bandage, lint, betadine
-calcium + magnesium tablets
-food + drinks (only kremlin vodka), (we have the cleanest water just have to climb for it..)
-tooth washer + tooth paste. We also had collectively:

• 1 documentary adventure book (180kilometres from the southern pole, originally written by Ernest Shackleton)
• 1 oil burner - as a cooking set (altered from a standard garden-torch which you can get from tesco for example)
• 1 tent-cloth (for 2 people) without any wire-frame stiffener sticks and other..

Our experiences :

1. Sleeping under the open-air on ~2000 meters above the water level, means that you should get wet morning welcomes by the nature, cause the clouds may passing exactly through you, caused by their decreased altitude, thanks to the air pressure changes at dawn, when overall temperature gets enough cold.
   
2. Hiking in the Tatra is quite breathtaking and valuable source of experiments, and really worth to do that, you can make a relatively cheap charging with all the nice details which the nature can offer you.
   
   
   
   
   by detecting hills that demands some climbing
   
   
   
   
   master of lighting effects
   
   quality check
   
   

final respect to the nature, at the end of TATRA SURVIVE 2009.

almost all photos by: Ervin B. Nagy aka Erwino Binotti

Next survive trip maybe - Nepal 2010.

Mátrabérc 56

tour details: " Mátrabérc 56 " (2009.04.25 Saturday)

Distance walked : 55.4 km
Stage Time : 11hour 44min
Start : 06:14am
Finish 17:58pm
Sleep time before hiking : 3hour 30min, Sirok-castle catacombs

energy input during the whole hiking

I.R.O.N dude

washing feet into the brook is fun like orgasm" (after 42 kilometres)

This was an excellent conditioning hiking for me! We specialised on up-hill rushes. So, we performed speed-climbs by overtaking many people towards the top, and on the "hill"-tops we just let ourselves wasting the time by laying down, chill. After that, the rush started again with the next hill to lift up. This is one of the highest altitude tours that i know in Hungary. The overall altitude is 2734 meters. Unfortunately our highest hill in Hungary is only 1014m high (it's included in this tour of course), so the solution is to add some lowhills together, climb them from each to the other and then get the desired idea, that we climbed a great hill in the alps (for example). That's what this great tour about.

my GPS altitude results

this is from the website of this tour

my altitude paper

my checkpoint-stamp collector paper

iwan - Brussels #3 faces of Brussels

Different faces of Brussels presented by different models of the " Volvo - evolution ".

iwan - Brussels #2 doubt

Palais de Expositions (1935)

The grimace calls against the building behind me, - the Art Deco Palais de Expositions (Grand Palais) in Brussels - which i titulated as "nazi styled". I wasn't sure of myself, so i read about it on wikipedia later, i realized, that nazi architecture used some art deco motifs and style-elements on numerous buildings. Despite this, i like this kind of design !

Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (1937)

But in this picture the soviet pavilon (on the right..) seems much more art deco (to me) than the nazi eagle podium (the left). The nazi podium is more classicist i quess. Otherway, both of nazis and soviet dealed with Neoclassicism and Art Deco so it's hard to keep it clean. I guess, i am confused.. Architect experts, please.., help me out! %)

any similarity ?

I put the Brussels expo next to the soviet pavilon, and it seems, that my supposal was inproper, and i should say: Palais de Expositions has built in soviet style in that context. Amen.

iwan - Brussels #1 - alternative energy

20090307 14:41 taking off, gears in. Budapest >>> Brussels
Every time, i fly over Budapest, the first thing, i think is: "Yeah, this is our great capitol!" Over the years it had been savaged by many enemies: the invading Mongols (tatars), the Turks (Ottoman Empire), Germans, Soviets and so on. But it still stands* !

*: (for how long, i really don't know)

After 15-20 minutes -as the airplane fly over Austria- wind turbines and solar cell farms are showing up. The second thing turns into my mind immediately: Practically, we don't have wind turbines and solar cells in Hungary. Belgium is a 3 times smaller country than Hungary and they even have 10x more wind power capacity. Don't even mention Germany %) - we are not the same division.. but they have 1076 X more then us. I'm sad because it shows: Hungary is not at the top rate in alternative energy source management..

(in number of megawatts)

The wind power statistics a gathered from Show.Mappingworlds.com

Food-Photo Problematics #3

#3. The 'two sides of the cake' - conception

two picture about the same cakes, but one is upside down.
Is it counts ?
in my opinion:
Yes, just as everything counts !
Then, which picture shows mostly the truth?

Two pictures above, taken about exactly the same cakes.
So thus, physically there was no difference between them.
But, the other way -as you see- the photos shows us two different pairs of cakes.
Two possible variations of the past.
The past of those two cakes, the past of myself, (who shared common room with them at that moment),
The past of the napkins under the cakes, and so on.
If i don't tell you, that there are the same cakes on the pictures, you cannot be sure of that.
Furthermore, you hardly can decide, which photo conists the more documentary-value.
Nevermind, it's not your fault.
Why?
Because the two photos are about two different kind of apects that i tried to document at the same time !
On the 1st (left one) i recorded the actual positions of the cakes, as i put them onto the table from their pack, when i not thinking on: "how to set them to make the most informative photo i can take of them".
On the 2nd photo (right one), i manipulated the original past (the represented past by the 1st photo), -but only for documenting that the cake has different sides. It's important.. I simply couldn't document it without manipulating the fact: the method, i used to put those two cakes on the table when i'm not thinking on to document the cakes on the best possible way. So it's a closed circe.
I know, this paradoxon just starts sounding like Heisenberg uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics. But please, it has at least as much connections to quantum mechanics as to our everyday life without any disciplines named or mentioned. (if it's true, that our world is operating by rules of quantum mechanics.)
That's what i truely believe in, the "everything counts" in other words, "everything coheres everything". That's really not an unsignificant parameter of the organic world, we living in. %)

To continue thinking about information in details, i give an example:

Let's play with the idea: What would happen if all the documentation and photo-material would destroy on the core of some war & disaster, for example. Only this piece of photo will remain (on some dusty server in a vault..maybe %) about this kind of cake product, the made in Hungary product named: "Pilóta keksz" (Pilot-cake). The whole past of this cake, which -once upon a time- satisfied millions of consumers, would drop off to one simple image. How would the rest of (survived) humanity remember this cake. Was it light or dark brown colored? Was it double-sided ? It only depends on how much information the photo-taker wanted to transmit. In this case, the creator of this picture (gosh, me?!) might bear the whole responsibility of the quality of image remained in the rest of humanity's collective mind about Pilóta-cake.

With this tale, I just wanted to picture the importance of planning what and how we document about the past, for the future. That's why i generally try to do my best at every documented piece.. %)

Tribute to micro-room125.

I got this Maquette room from S0phie, my girlfriend for Christmas 2008 ! She miniaturized my current room, in the dormitory of the university. It's tiny, but organized " %). The maquette is just HOT ! Sophie kept it in secret, she took hunreds of photos as a spy, often, when i wasn't 'at home'. She said, she made it through 7 evenings. It must be at least 35-50 hours net time. Congratulations for the quality, s0phie ! Nice job. Thanks again !