Oliver Thylmann’s Thoughts

Karl Lagerfeld was in an interview yesterday here in german television. This man is amazing, period. He just perfectly knows what he wants and is not afraid to say so.

Just some quotes, from my head.

Question: “Are you afraid of death?”
Answer: “Billions of people have died before me. Billions of people died after me. It can’t be that bad.”
Question: “But what do you want to be remembered by, do you want a museum or something?”
Answer: “Oh no, I live now, I never followed some great ideal, I just wanted to have a good living. Me starts with me and ends with me. After me the flood.”

Question: “Are there any similarities between you and your sister?”
Answer: “No, not at all. She is a very caring person. She helps the poor and homeless and things. I just help myself. I am very much an egoist.”

Question: “You lost 42 kilos…” (60 kilos now)
Answer: “I feel very good now, actually, I wear pants that some of the people I work with don’t fit in. That’s very funny and conforting. It shouldn’t be really as it is not important, but you need to get your fun somehow ;)”

Question: “You have 230000 books, what aobout pride in owning them?”
Answer: “I actually don’t know how many books I have, my computers tell me I have 230000, I never counted them. I read a lot and my favorites are at all my places. Other’s are just somewhere on call if I want them. I actually don’t think there is a pride in owning them. Owning something is boring, the collecting is the fun part. Once you have what you wanted to collect it gets boring. […] I also think I like paper and that probably runs deep. When I was young, good drawing paper was rare with most of my paper coming over from the US from uncles. They told me to draw on the backside too but I promised myself early on that I would never do that. I also can’t throw it away. I now have more drawing paper than I could possibly use in more than one lifetime.”

Weird guy, but very shure in what he knows, believes to know and thinks.

Want to see an amazing Flash web site? Flash art one might say? Check out Turtelshell or rather, Turtelshell 2000.

Yesterday we went to the Linus Talentprobe (translated it would mean something like Linus’ Tallentshow) with some friends and it was a blast. It was the first show of this summer and marked 30 years of the Talentprobe. To really get an idea you have to be there but in short, this is probably one of the toughest tallentshows out there. You can send in your tape and they might let you perform. You will then try to impress a crowd of over 8000 people, a crowd that is very hard to impress. You have to be very good to impress this crowd, which everybody who performs knows. If you are just a little bit bad, everybody will shout and scream, the crowd will sing a different song, everybody will sit down and then, from the front, get up to perform a wave, or everybody turns around and parties in the other direction. At the end, the winner is found based on applaus. Always exciting, if you are not on stage that is.

I just stumbled on the new kind of mobility. For all the surfers, snowboards, longboarders out there, this seems to be the ultimate riding experience. Check out some first hand experience or go directly to StreetCarver.com. Sadly it costs 500 EURs. The dream machine is built and designed by BMW!

If anyone of you is looking for a content management system for your web site and you are using IE, you need to consider Typo 3, a very powerful free system. I am currently thinking about using it myself but need to look further into how well it works for live updating pages and things. Probably very well as it is based on PHP but this might require some scripting, meaning writing the layout/interaction of the page within the Type 3 Script. The interface is just amazing though and you can do anything. I would even consider this one amazing if it cost money.

You can for example make different users and say exactly which kind of access they have, which is nice, but above that you can also say which different function these people will be able to use. Obviously, they will only see those functions they can use. So you can give somebody the right to write stories, edit them, but not the right to put them on the front page and viewable by everybody.

You have a real text editor in there with buttons for bold and several templates for sites that makes deploying your site easily. If you want to change the template you go to a screen that has a screenshot of the layout, with numbers floating above it telling you what each section is and what you can edit in that section. change the logo, the background color, the way the links appear (in automatically generated gif images for example with mouse-over effects and everything).

The only request the author has is emm… not using it for anything that is against the bibel, as he is a christ with all his mind and body and soul. Check it out, seriously.