My fast for Body and Soul

“Only in quiet waters do thing mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.” – Hans Margolius

I think fasting from time to time is important for everyone of us. But what most people do as fasting, (not eating this, starving, not eating that, etc) is not what I have in mind.

My kind of fast should be more life supporting, it should have a long lasting positive effect on my physical and (more important) psychological health.

I am inspired by various articles I read on blogs about minimalism. One of them is about A Media Fast on the zenhabits blog. I did something similar last year, when i put away my laptop for 2 weeks and did not have a cell phone anyways. But this time I want to set myself some clearer goals for the fast.

The goal is to get rid of all these little addictions that form my life like caffeine and sugar. But also get rid of all these little habits that influence me, like spending too much time in front of the computer, cluttering my life and not getting enough physical exercise.

Some of the media fast stuff will not be too hard for me, since I do not have a TV, a radio, DVD player. No newspaper is coming to my door every day and  I don't go to the theater very often. But on the other hand my computer has become my all in one doorway to the media world. I watch movies and TV series on it, I read newspapers and blogs on it, I use it for communication and for listening to music. (And during my internship I sat in front of it 8 hours a day during work)

That has to change. Therefore the most important part of my fast is to reduce the time I spend in front of my computer from currently 8 - 10 hours a day down to 30 mins a day maximum. But there are other things I want to change too. Currently I am drinking something with caffeine every day. Also I think that I am running around with my headphones plugged into my ears too much. So, to summarize it, I listed my does and don't s for the fast.

What I will not do in these 2 weeks:

• No Caffeine
• No extra Sugar
• No Alcohol
• only organic, fresh, vegetarian food
• No TV
• No Music (meaning: not using my mp3 player  and other music devices to distract me)
• minimize Cell phone use (not sure how, but probably turn off the whole day and only use when really necessary)
• use Computer max 30 mins a day
• go to bed before 11 pm

I assume through these changes there will be a tremendous amount of "extra time" that i will have every day. Therefore here is a list of things I want to accomplish with this "extra time".

What I will do:

• de-clutter my possessions and give away everything i do not need anymore
• create a vision board
• spend more time with people that are important to me
• be active, do sports (Volleyball, Soccer, Riding my bike, etc)
• Solitude: get more clear about who i am and what i want
• meditate twice a day
• finally start learning to play guitar
• do whatever else I want to do and does not conflict with the rest of my fast

I am sure that there is a million other things that i will discover while doing the fast that i will want to do. I will try to do all of them as long as they go along with the rest of my fast. 

Moderation in F.E.A.S.T.

The Vaidya

yesterday I finally managed to get my Vaidya Consultation here in Lancaster with Vaidya Jagdish Vaidya. After filling out what felt like a 15 pages health form I was invited to his office, where he looked through my form and asked me a lot of questions for clarification.

"Moderation in F.E.A.S.T.

Food - Entertainment - Action - Sleep - Thinking

Definition of Moderation is Balance.

That is, not too much, not too little, not at all,  healthy, wholesome, timely.

For each element of F.E.A.S.T., follow each one of these definitions of moderation.

This is YOGA.

The result of this is no more suffering, no more pain, no more imbalance."
-Vaidya Jagdish Vaidya

he made me smile :)

so simple but so profound...

New York, New York

As many of you know, I spent a few days in New York last week.

It was amazing, exhausting, transforming, interesting, fun, and everything else you can possibly imagine.

I had a great time being in this busy city, seeing some really amazing sights (Statue of Liberty, Times Square, Union Square, MoMa, Highline Park Rockefeller Center) and meeting some amazing people.

I spent one evening with Amine, enjoying an awesome dinner, walking through Union Park and Manhatten.

Amine, Mr. NY, showing me Union Square

Also I met Nick, who showed me the Moma and its exciting Matisse exhibition,  High-line Park, other parts of Manhatten and Brooklyn, as well es Williamsburg -the hippster district ;-)
 Together with Nick and Shannon I had great Indian food, somewhere in Manhattan

Nick in his apparment in Brooklyn

Nick and a friend on Highline Park, Manhatten

Shannon and a piece of me during lunch in an Indian res

taurant

At the Entrance of Moma.

 Also I had the awesome opportunity to stay with Vedas family! They were so great, and gave me much more then I ever hoped for! They even took me to their temple on saturday! It was amaying!

 Inspired by Josh Adams I also took some Videos.
One is of the probably best street artists I have ever seen playing in a Subway station! I was sooo sad when the train entered the station, cause i did not want to leave them...

 

Sooo, it was an amazing time, and i hope to come back to NY soon!
love

My Vision 2010

My Vision for 2010 - 11:
Learn with every fiber of my body

Recently I had some time to think about my life and my goals, and cause i read some business books that where all about "having a vision", I spent some time thinking about my own, personal vision.

I had always been really bad at stuff like that, cause I never really knew what I should do with my life, but this one day last week it suddenly was so clear to me. Clearer than it ever was. And I understood, that I have had problems expressing it, because my goals never were something like: "i want to reach this and that, I want to have so much money, and this car, and that house, etc", but much more in a general direction way. Ideas that i want to explore, values that i want to uphold, directions i want to reach out.

But getting clear on that, my vision becomes very simple. I found out that I have a very clear goal for next year and that my values have always been there. I just did not consciously know them. So I started writing them down.

My Vision: Learn with every fiber of my body


I am aware and conscious in every moment. Through that I learn and grow mental, emotional physical and spiritual with everything I do. I trust my intuition to guide me spontaneously in the right direction. I understand that only by doing I learn and grow and integrate. Therefore I accept and embrace challenges as opportunities to grow and see mistakes and errors as a part of the learning process. I live in tune with nature and all its richness and opportunities because only by living in line with nature I can truly grow.

Core Values: 

• learning takes place through doing. Through doing I grow and expand
• By being in tune with nature, i am also more in tune with my self. This includes living in a sustainable way as well as following natures patterns
• reduction: I reduce my consumption to things that are necessary and life supporting
• physical well being promotes mental well being
• these values are not dictating my life, my life is creating my values - i constantly rethink and reevaluate my Core Values and adopt and change them to fit to my life.

Action Steps:

• Mental
• at MUM: I try to get the best out of every class. If a class does not come up to my expectations I do not lean back and just sit through it, but rather challenge myself, my teachers and my classmates to make the class better
• GSC/World Congress/Bornell Project: I know that only through doing and practicing I really learn and I see my work as an opportunity for learning by doing. I train my skills by actively participating, stepping up when necessary and observation when possible.
• I take my time to be clear about what i want and do not want and follow my passions.
• Emotional
• I keep on working on my personal development through shadow work, 
• I am opened to building close relationships and open myself.
• Physical
• I train and explore my own body. I am physical active in as many different areas as possible. First of all: riding my bike whenever possible; but also doing yoga, soccer, volleyball, rock climbing, tree climbing, running, walking, skiing, snowboarding, cross country skiing and everything else that is fun
• I commit to one kind of exercise and do it on a regularly basis (ex: go to jiu jitsu, Tai chi, or any other kind of martial arts).
• Spiritual
• I meditate on a regular basis to continuously work on my spiritual development and evaluate the effect of meditation on my wellbeing.
• I am opened to other spiritual practices, try out what sounds interesting to me and evaluate them on a subjective basis.
• Sustainability and contentment 
• transportation: No car, no motorbike, but riding my bicycle. Use public transport whenever possible
• food: I stick to organic, local, seasonal, unpacked, fresh food whenever possible
• waste: I avoid plastic bags, plastic bottles, and all disposable items. Whatever is not avoidable I try to recycle
• lifestyle: I reduce consumption. before I buy something I ask myself if I really need it or if I just want it and rethink my decision.
• I prefer to buy from companies that reflect my values: Sustainability, Fair Trade, Open Source, Responsibility, etc...

The Simple Guide to a Minimalist Life

This is from the book: "The Simple Guide to a Minimalist Life" by Leo Babauta.

You can find it here.



What is a minimalist life?


It's one that is stripped of the unnecessary, to 
make room for that which gives you joy. 


It's a removal of clutter in all its forms,
leaving you with peace and freedom and
lightness.


A minimalist eschews the mindset of more, of
acquiring and consuming and shopping, of
bigger is better, of the burden of stuff.


A minimalist instead embraces the beauty of
less, the aesthetic of spareness, a life of
contentedness in what we need and what
makes us truly happy.


A minimalist realizes that acquiring stuff
doesn't make us happy. That earning more
and having more are meaningless. That
filling your life with busy-ness and
freneticism isn't desirable, but something to
be avoided.


A minimalist values quality, not quantity, in 
all forms.

Marketing 101: Effectiveness vs efficiency

I know we are all already tired of this. We all know the words from Peter F. Drucker (who happens to be Austrian):

“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.”

this picture actually has nothing to do with the post. i just
like it and the post i stole it from

So here is my story:

Right now, I am interning in the Maharishi Ayurveda Spa in Lancaster. A place that was famous, back in the good old days when deepak was still here, and all the celebrities from NY came here to retreat. 

Not too long ago, this place made 40.000 Dollars a month - minus.

In the last 2 years it had 6 different "general managers" and since one year a new president. 

Investments where made; renovation, marketing strategy, new people.

sounds good.

Just do something

When I came here, I first figured out, that there is no written down vision or mission statement. No goal, except for the presidents plan of making this a profitable place again. Well... I am just an intern...

I was told that there are several projects they are working on, one of them was the online presence. 

Since I know some stuff about that already, i thought this would be a good project for me to help with.

So, i started collection infos about a blog, started a facebook group, a youtube channel, and provided all sorts of information for my boss.

Then they desided they want to change the website. So i was asked to drop the social media stuff and get started with the website.

well... i am just the intern...

I spent the last 2 weeks creating a new sitemap, moving content from A to B, writing new texts, suggesting ideas, implementing stuff, uploading new pictures and so on.

Now, they tell me the website project is canceled for now.

Aaah well... I am just the intern.

They wasted 4 weeks of me being a valuable help for them for 2 projects that did not even get started. But I am not even worried about my time. I am worried that they are going to continue this kind of working until its too late.

At least i have learned my lesson. Think before you do.

Often it seems easy to know the difference between effectiveness and efficiency, when in fact most of the people only look at doing things right, but don't spend much time on thinking what the right things are.

I am curious if there are any other project that they want me to get started on. And I will be a nice employee and do it without asking the only real question: "Why?"

As a matter of fact, I just spent some time last week on writing down my vision and values for next year and made some interesting discoveries. But more about that another time :) 

P.s. I just started reading more about Peter F. Drucker and started to getting really interested in his work. There might be more to come on him too :)

The Lucid Lynx experience

So, i just stumbled over "Lucid Lynx" a few days ago. Sounds like a drug! - something new from the eastern European drug laboratories!

But NO - its a operating system. Based on Linux. Open Sources. Managed by a company who's only income comes through Customer Services. With a huge community in the background.

How awesome is that?!?!

I have been thinking about changing my Software usage in a direction that reflects my values for a long time.
Something that's based on a service oriented, sustainable, opened values.
Something not like Microsoft. And not like Apple (honestly, anybody still believes that Apple is "different")

But i did not know where to go.
In my darkest hours (my laptop needed about 10 minutes to boot) i started googleing, and i stumbled over "ubuntu".
ubuntu?!?!
what's that... sounds african...
"humanity towards others"
interesting.





Ubuntu:

Ubuntu (pronounced /uːˈbuːntuː/ or /uːˈbʌnˌtuː/) is a computer operating system based on the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and is distributed as free and open source software with additional proprietary software available.

Ubuntu provides an up-to-date, stable operating system for the average user, with a strong focus on usability and ease of installation. 

Ubuntu is sponsored by the UK-based company Canonical Ltd., owned by South Africanentrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth. By keeping Ubuntu free and open source, Canonical is able to utilize the talents of community developers in Ubuntu's constituent components. Instead of selling Ubuntu for profit, Canonical creates revenue by selling technical support and from creating several services tied to Ubuntu.

source: wikipedia 



how awesome is that!?!
a software company that is in line with my values of how to run a business. It's open source, free, easy to use and service oriented!!

Soo, i installed it.
took 5 minutes! (maybe 10... but short)
and it runs PERFECTLY FINE!

Their newest version is called "Lucid Lynx". What a name!!!
It comes with Firefox, OpenOffice, a Social Media interface, an Email interface and a shit load of plug ins and ad ons you can install (Gimp, vlc player, skype, and and and)
Also, you can install it parallel to your actual operating system (what i did).
At the beginning of each boot you just select which ever you want (in my chase windows xp vs. ubuntu) and then it starts.

I'll gonna test it for about a month before I will finally erase my Windows XP and just run Ubuntu Lucid Lynx)

I am soooo exited!


you can find more info here:
http://www.ubuntu.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(operating_system)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_Lynx

Peaches, Blueberries and the Future of the World

aaah, i love blueberries

My friend Kathie and I were picking peaches and blueberries yesterday. Just around the corner where I work right now is a small scale, organic farm where you can "pay and pick".

It was great! I used to do that as a kid, back in Austria, picking all kinds of berries and fruits in my grandmas garden and in the Alps.

But since then, I had not done it for ever. 

So it felt like a trip back to my childhood, standing in this field, with a little box in my hand and hunting for the biggest, ripest, bluest sweetest blueberries in the world.

Not only was it fun, but it also it made me realize something more.

Last year, in my "Management for sustainability" class, one of colleagues gave a presentation about local food supplies and farmers markets. One of his main arguments was, that people who go to local farms reconnect with the land. They see, how food actually grows, get aware of seasonal food, the balance of nature and the unmeasurable worth of the land.

Let me say it differently:

I think we instinctively defend the place where our food comes from. Right now, for 90% of the people that is the Supermarket or Grocery store of their choice. But that's not where it actually comes from. Food comes from farms, is grown on land, by farmers that need money to survive. Big companies want to hide away this fact, cause people could get the idea of trying to protect their land against chemical agriculture, fertilizers, genetic engineering... destruction.

Being on that farm yesterday reconnected me with the land. It made me aware of the precious treasure we have and we forget to worship much to often.

I think everybody should have this experience regular. See where our food comes from, to see how important it is to keep our planet alive.

And it would be so easy.

Just imagine: 

every school has a small garden, where students grow food, vegetables, berries, fruits, whatever grows. And every class would just spend 1 hour a week in this garden to maintain it and help growing the food.

Everybody would benefit. The students would reconnect with nature, learn about plants, how to grow a garden and what grows at which season. The school would have fresh, organic food to supply their own kitchen, and could provide more healthy, nourishing food for the students...

aaah... a perfect world would be so awesome ;)

Kathie with her Hollywood smile

Me being all "hunter and gatherer"

Apples!

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

o finally i managed to see this film that gabe has told me about soo long ago.
and i must say: It is awesome!


I am not gonna try to repeat the plot, but here is one scene that made this move soo special.
it probably has one of the most amazing flirting scenes ever! Its just great!
I love it!

Jimmy 'The Saint' Tosnia: Dagney? That's your name? Tremendous name. My name's Jimmy and I have just one single impulsive question. Are you in love? 
Dagney: What? 
Jimmy 'The Saint' Tosnia: At the present time, are you in love? 
Dagney: Why? 
Jimmy 'The Saint' Tosnia: Because if you are, then I won't waste your time. I'm really not the type of man to impede another man's happiness. However, if you're not presently in love then I will continue my rhapsody, because if I may say so, Dagney, you are most definitely the bees' knees. 
Dagney: Does this rap ever work? 
Jimmy 'The Saint' Tosnia: Alas, in the old days. Now I rarely get a chance to try it. But you haven't answered my question. 
Dagney: I forgot it. 
Jimmy 'The Saint' Tosnia: Are you in love? 
Dagney: Well there is someone... 
Jimmy 'The Saint' Tosnia: But? 
Dagney: We date... I have memorized his phone number, but I won't use his toothbrush... We're somewhere in between and he's crazy about me. 
Jimmy 'The Saint' Tosnia: As he should be. You glide. 
Dagney: I glide? 
Jimmy 'The Saint' Tosnia: You glide. It's a very attractive quality. Most girls, they merely plod along. You, on the other hand, you glide... Tell me about it. What's his name? Chip? 
Dagney: Alex... 
Jimmy 'The Saint' Tosnia: Same thing. Does he make you thump? 
Dagney: Define "thump". 
Jimmy 'The Saint' Tosnia: Thump. When you think about him, you can't eat You can't sleep. You forget about man's inhumanity to man. Does he do that for you? 
Dagney: That's a ridiculous concept. No one can do that. 
Jimmy 'The Saint' Tosnia: Girls who glide need guys who make them thump. Have dinner with me. 
Dagney: Aren't we the sultan of segue? 
Jimmy 'The Saint' Tosnia: It's a beautiful month. Just have dinner with me. 
Dagney: Are you going to make me thump? 
Jimmy 'The Saint' Tosnia: Or die trying. 


and for those to lazy to read:





great stuff!


boat drinks!

Putting friends into boxes

Since I am doing my internship here in Lancaster, I have a little more time to do, lets say, organizational stuff for my "online life". I have cleared out the 8.340 e-mails in my gmail account, I registered a blog, and finally, I organized my Facebook friendlist.

Unbelievably I have 642 "friends" now, and every once in a while i am wondering "Who are all of these people?!?"

So, I just started with A like Aaron Hickenbottom Jr , going all the way through to Zack Phillips (Zack Phillips ॐ), or actually: ユウキ カドタ  (whoever that is....) and putting everybody into a category.

Since I did not have categries yet, i just started one, for everybody i did not know where to put them. But surprisingly I ended up with only 7 Categories.
Bad Ischl - my old friends fomr high school, where i used to live between age 10 and 19.
Family - all my family sibblings, parrents, uncels, nephews and nieces, their boy- and girlfriends
Gastein - The City where I used to work as a Snowboard teacher and spend my holidays
Lancaster - the smallest group so far,
Linz - all people i got to know during the time i lived in Linz when i was 19 until 26.
MUM - all the people i got to know since i go to MUM
Others - 27 people i did not really know where to put. Friends of friends and people i do not actually know.

Suprisingly for me, the by far biggest group is the MUM group with an incredible number of 344 friends in it. Clearly not all of them are really MUM students, but its all the people all over the USA i got to know since I am here, and it still suprises me how many of them there are.
Due to the fact that i came to facebook only 2 month before i left to Fairfield, there is not so many people from Austria in this group, but still, 300 people from the good old days, back home :)

And going through the list, i found a lot of people that i otherwise would have forgotten. Friends that i had not heard of in a long time, people i would have no idea what they are up to and ex-girlfriends that i have not talked to in much too long!

It's interesting to see all of these people, and it makes me happy to see how my friends from high school made their own way through life in all various kinds of ways.

But it also reminds me, that looking back at them all is nothing more than a memory. I should not put to much energy in the thoughts about what happened, cause it's all just the past.
And my life happens now.

Blood, Sex and Sand

I admit: I have been watching Spartacus - Blood and Sand
the most bloody - violent - sexual - TV series I have ever seen...

Even watching the trailer gives you an idea of what to come:


i was quite surprised when i saw the first episode.
How can so much violence and sexuality be on mainstream TV?
But: I could not look away. Something took me in its ban. Something made me keep on watching.

Summarizing some of the reviews I have read:

"Spartacus: Blood and Sand" hopes to appeal to your bloodlust and the other, more common lust. Anyone who has a problem with violence, nudity, sex, profanity or anything else Rated R-worthy should tune into USA instead

The characters make proclamations such as that the sacred ground they stand upon is watered with the tears of blood. Seriously, the “tears of blood?” Or you get to watch a woman wander throughout the gladiators with unrestrained lust. After watching one of the gladiators be made to have sex with a slave girl, doggy style and as explicitly as possible without hitting hard core porn, the woman salivates as she asks, “Can you make him do it again?” 

The first episode alone keeps up a brisk pace: Open with a gladiator fight, move to a sex scene six minutes in, follow that with a bigger battle, a fist fight, two more sex scenes and ... well, you get the idea. If bodies are a-grappling, "Spartacus" is where it's happening.

"Spartacus" is a rousing, addictive show that doesn't tax with too much moral complexity. It doesn't just try to reel us in with insane amounts of violence and sex, but also to appeal to our most basic, idealized views of how the world should work. True love, justice and freedom will win out, dammit, and Spartacus is our boy to make them happen.

Lucy Lawless 00 Spartacus Blood and Sand - These bloopers are hilarious

I guess you get the picture.
But seriously, I am normally not one of these guys who like stuff like that. I am not driving a big car, I am not going to the gym every other day, I am not even getting in fights with other people.
But something in this cocktail of sex, brutality and stupidity is attracting me.

Is it the simpleness? Is it the plainness of "just killing" , black and white, doing - not asking?
For sure, it has something liberating. Not having to think.
Could it be that this portraits a dumb, attracting form of "being in the moment".
Being present every moment, or dying?

Or am I just making all of this up to justify my own lust for blood and sex?

Oh, if you got interested, i watched it online. The quality is poor, but its for free, and you can watch it whenever and wherever you want:
Watch Spartacus: Blood And Sand Online Season 1

My new Minimalism

My new Minimalism


I just stumbled over this guy: Leo Babauta
and he is a really interesting guy.
Not only has he written a bock which's title definitely interests me: "The Fine Art of Less -the fine art of limiting yourself to the essential". I think, I'll gonna need this.


Do Less. Get More Done.


also he has two blogs that attracted my attention:

http://zenhabits.net/  and http://mnmlist.com/ 

with interesting posts like 

rethinking necessities

The elements of change or

50 Amazing and Essential Novels to Enrich Your Library

This guy totally got me. The people he quotes in his blogs, the topics he writes about - everything sounds pretty cool! I think i'll spend some time in the near future reading what he has to say.

Here are some of the quotes that I really liked:

‘Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.’ ~Shunryu Suzuki

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”Aristotle

"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson 

mnmlist : less

• Stop buying unnecessary things.
• Toss half your stuff, learn contentedness.
• Reduce half again.
• List 4 essential things in your life,
• stop doing non-essential things.
• Do these essentials first each day, clear distractions
• focus on each moment.
• Let go of attachment to doing, having more.
• Fall in love with less.

also, he made me think about my own lifestyle right now.
One thing i did almost a year ago, when i left Austria to come to the USA, was to give away as much of my stuff as i could. Simply because of the fact that I moved out of my apartment and i could not bring anything with me anyways. Therefore i gave away most of my furniture and stored the rest of the stuff in my parents house. Rethinking now, i should have given away more, but that's ok, i can still do when i come back.


Thinking back, it was liberating for me to give away all these things. Less to carry with me, less to be worried about. Having no car and no cell phone for a year was the best that could have happened to me, and i think i want to continue on this path. Keep less and have more space to be. Just be.


We will see how it works :)

My New Camera

OOOOOOOK, i did it...

i was looking for a Fisheye lens for quite a long time now. Sadly nothing in the digital realm came up to my expectations concerning quality, creativity and price.

Canon EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye 

First of course i was looking for Lenses for my Canon Eos 350d (= rebel in the US).
The real good lenses are all above 500 USD, like the Canon Fisheye or the Sigma Fisheye for Canon.
After those high end lenses my way led me to the cheaper ones, in the hope of finding something that could fulfill my desires. I landet at Pro-Optic, Samyang, Rokinon, Bower (= all the same) with their 8mm f/3.5 Fisheye. With a cost from about 300 USD this sounded affordable and it seemed to be pretty good. But: manual appreture, manual focus? I don't know if i want to deal with that, after paying 300 bucks...

Since I am not willing to buy a Lens that is worh 3 time as much as my camera i came to those cheap plug-on lenses, which they sell in million times on Amazon. But there are two problems with them:

1. the are cheap plastic bombers that ruin the motor of the lens you put it on and
2. they probably have pretty poor quality while pretending to be good quality.

So... no plastic-plug-on cheapy cheap lens for me...

Lomo Fisheye # 2 Whit Knight edition

Then I found LOMO and its fairly new released Lomographics Fisheye # 2 .

My heart started pumping a little faster. Looks good, this little, withe, plastic knight. It's not promising the best picture quality, BUT: it's promising fun, creativity and a good price. And the bottom line is, that that's what i have been looking for!

The only problem I have: I am a kid of the age of digitalism. I have never, since i am an adult made any picture with a film camera. So i am a little bit nervous if i can deal with not knowing how the picture looks like until the film is full and developed. 

We will see how I can live with that.

Most important for me: I found a market niche that no company is actually serving: affordable, digital cameras that are tailored towards young, creative minds that do not give a shit about the highest quality, or how many lenses you can put on it. 

A digital, point and shoot fun camera that gives you artistic pictures you can work with. Somehow similar to the Lomo - just digital.

Wouldn't that be fun?!?

Until then, I'll try my best with the new Lomo soon to arrive :)