Heute, am 11. Mai jährt sich zum 13. Mal der Todestag von Douglas Adams, dem Kultautor von ‘Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis’ (Original: ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’). Im zu Ehren wurde gleich wenige Tage nach seinem Tod der Handtuchtag (Towel Day) als Gedenktag eingeführt. Am 25. Mai tragen Fans des Autors und seinem Werk ein Handtuch mit sich herum.
“Ein Handtuch ist so ungefähr das Nützlichste, was der interstellare Anhalter besitzen kann.”
Im Jahr 2005 habe ich im Rahmen eines Artist in Residence Aufenthaltes in Innsbruck das Projekt ‘The Physcal HoT Spot‘ produziert. Neben der Audio Installation die sich auch mit D. Adams beschäftigt, habe ich für die Aussenraumgestaltung eine Serie von Handtüchern bedruckt. Diese wurden damals mit dem guten Rat ‘DON’T PANIC’ bedruckt. Ergänzt wird dieses Zitat von den Initialen von Douglas Noel Adams, DNA und den GPS Daten von Innsbruck dem Ort an dem D. Adams die Idee für ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ hatte.
Kurze Zeit später, habe ich auf Grund des enormen Interesse an dem Handtuch eine Produktion eines professionell gewebten Handtuchs in Auftrag gegeben. Selbstverständlich wie gehabt mit dem weisen Rat: DON’T PANIC. Zu erwerben ist es weiterhin im DON’T PANIC Towel Shop.
Trage es in Ehren :)
(DON’T PANIC Towel at The Jane Hotel, New York City, 2014)
Posted by Uli Schuster at 10:44 am on May 11th, 2014.
Categories: Don't Panic. Tags: 42, DNA, Don't Panic, Don't Panic Towel, Douglas Adams, h2g2, Handtuchtag, HHGTTG, Towel, Towel Day.
Radio 4 Extra celebrates the 36th anniversary of Douglas Adams’s cult science fiction comedy.
The global multi-media success story that is “Hitchhiker’s” started life as a Radio 4 series in March 1978. The original scripts by the late Douglas Adams then went on to spawn a series of novels, a feature film, at least three stage shows, a TV series, a computer game, a collection of comic books – and a towel.
The first chapter:
(1/6) Arthur Dent is trying to stop his house being demolished. But what about Planet Earth?
Brodcasts:
Sat 8 Mar 2014, 19:00 on BBC Radio 4 Extra and again 4 hours later in the night from Sat – Sun 9 Mar 2014 at 01:00
The following chapters will be broadcasted on the upcoming five saturdays. On the website of the h2g2 radio show you will find some extras, like clips, maps and galleries.
Grab your DON’T PANIC towel and enjoy the broadcasts.
Posted by Uli Schuster at 5:10 pm on March 7th, 2014.
Categories: Don't Panic. Tags: BBC, Don't Panic, Don't Panic Towel, Douglas Adams, h2g2, HHGTTG, Towel, Towel Day.
A happy towelday 2013. As a tradition for the last years I have chosen one certain place to present my DON’T PANIC towel. This year it’s the ‘Anhalter Bahnhof’ (german for ‘Hitchhiker Station’) in Berlin. So, we have an official hitchhiker station on planet earth :)
The ‘Anhalter Bahnhof’ is a former railway terminus located in the city centre of Berlin, in the neighborhood of the Potsdamer Platz. The station was heavily damaged during WWII and closed in 1952. Today, just a small part of the front facade is still there. Where earlier the trains left you will find a football field.
I set up a Towel Day gallery, where you can see that towel travelled already to some locations and met Lenin in 2010.
And if you like to get one the lovely DON’T PANIC towels – there is the unique DON’T PANIC Towel Shop 24/7 open for you.
‘A Towel – Just about the most massively useful thing any interstellar Hitchhiker can carry.’ – Thanks and honor to Douglas Adams
About Towel Day
Since 2001, on may, the 25th, hitchhiker’s, fans + enthusiasts of D. Adams are celebrating the Towel Day, by carrying a towel with them. A few days after Douglas Adams died on the may, 11th 2001 D Clyde Williamson proposed to invent that day, as a tribute to the author of ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’.
Posted by Uli Schuster at 8:00 pm on May 25th, 2013.
Categories: Don't Panic. Tags: 25. Mai, DNA, Don't Panic, Douglas Adams, h2g2, Towel, Towel Day.
