Fall is here and winter is close at hand. People complain about the lack of sunlight and everyone feels a bit tired. The stupid university heating department makes sure my room is always cold enough for a slight shiver. I haven’t accomplished much lately and am slowly dragging along.

Oh well, here is a picture I’m going to contribute to a show in Hamburg. Originally I had planned to make a fancy drawing flexing my all to seldom used painting muscles. Seems I got around that once more. One of the participation guide lines for the aforementioned show is the use of an old wooden frame. Last saturday I went to a local flea market with my friend Nina Kaun to acquire one of these antique objects. I found one with a picture of a school class from 1930. As it sat there beside me waiting to be replaced by my drawing, it dawned on me that it might make a good subject all by itself. Thinking about how innocent many of these faces were looking and still might have been willing participants in the last world war, I came to envision them as robots. I wonder if maybe someday in 75 years from now someone finds a picture of me in school and does the same thing…

Then some doodles. One with reference the rest without (obviously).

No links today. :(

Hmm. Here is a collection of pictures and things that happened to pile up around me. Food, photos and sketches. Ahhh, the life of an artist.

Double page spread in my sketchbook part one and a half: I tried to show more patience towards my doodles and it seems I’m on the right way. Some steps in the right direction concerning shading and brush use…

Then, finally, I got around putting up my recently framed pictures. From left to right: “Zeitwertkarte” by Alexander Draude, Rotkäppchen (Little Red Riding Hood) by Aisha Franz and a print by APAK.

Last but not least: You are what you eat. What does that make me whilst eating the following? You tell me…

Now onto the least. Links, of course. Something to drag you down at first, then, following the aggravating is a collection of rather funny thinga-ma-jinga-things…

This is shocking. Chinese soldiers where taped whilst openly shooting Tibetan pilgrims who where no threat to them.
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Disney behind the scenes. Now you know why they all got these silly and doped grinning faces…
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And then there is the slow but quite entertaining search engine Ms. Dewey. Have fun with her. But beware she’s a bit sassy.
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Now, to round it all of, take a look at some real lord of logistics. I have seen people carrying all sorts of things on their bikes in Indonesia still, these pictures are just hilarious. I couldn’t help giggling all the time.
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Well, haven’t posted much in the last time, have I? Apart from doing what I’ve been doing the last few months, I’ve spent a bit of time here and there with a new design for the upcoming Trexi v3 by Playimaginative. Here are a few preliminary sketches and doodles as well as the final submission.

Last but not least some things I happened to find whilst browsing various sites. One would be the very promising looking Limbo. A jump and rund game entirely composed in black and white sporting some wonderful and inspiring value based compositions. Link.

Quite funny is the prank that yahoo maps programmers pulled during the beta testing phase. It might be old news to some but I happened to stumble over said link whilst reading the newest post at Set-Top Cop on the corporate-friendly technologies GooTube will probably be installing soon. Link.