Naked Censor

(c) by Rotraut Susanne Berner

After flickr made the start on censoring German accounts a couple of weeks ago an American publisher of children's books (Boyds Mills Press) now adds another story on censoring skin: The pictures shown above and the one following are taken from Rotraut Susanne Berner's worldwide reknown "Wimmelbücher" give too much room for naked details. They urged the illustrator to delete those two tiny details before they would buy the rights and print the books. She didn't want to and the German publisher either ... hmm, what does this story tell us?

(c) by Rotraut Susanne Berner

.. both taken from this tiny scene ...

(c) by Rotraut Susanne Berner

Rooms with Views

click on picture to enlarge invitation (c) by Anne

And for all of you, who still don't know, where to go next weekend. This is the place to be: The latest exhibition of modern Design in Photography and Graphic Design in Dortmund - at the University of Applied Sciences. Grand Opening on FRI, 07-07-13 at 12:00 p.m..

Three days from noon to seven at night to be seen here at Max Ophüls Platz 2, Dortmund.

... starring Anne and Anne!

Zwangzig

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Haven't been drawing for days, as we are somehow busy imagining pictures of future flats ... finally came up with this anniversary-greeting-card, for someone who is already working for 20 years for the same company.
"Zwangzig" (something like "compulsion(ing)") nearly sounds like "Zwanzig" (meaning "twenty") - so connected to compulsory labour ... translating plays of words stinks ... ;-)

End of tunnel

Eight days of work to go at my current working place before heading for another challenge… thinking about that, the saying of our former minister for foreign affairs (Joschka Fischer) came back to my mind:

“It’s not the light at the end of the tunnel you see, it’s the lights of the encountering train coming up to you …”

Online-Festival

Came about the live-stream to "Rock am Ring" - a classic major outdoor music festival, starting today and counting .... another two. And as it is for festivals: It's raining. So I remembered The Shins' singer I drew lately from a picture taken from the ARD - therefore the encircled number One.
Best festival equipment next to a raincoat allways seemed to be a life jacket for me - on the other hand, not the first choice if you prefer stage diving, though.

Negative Space

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Did some training in character design and their dynamic behaviour ... so is this one of 'em. Negative space and overlapping limbs are supposed to be the first step.

Talking about first steps and space and negative: Resuming the first weeks of spacious apartment-search: negative, Sir ... according to our budget ;-)

Waves // Wellen

it's so hot and sticky these days // can't wait to get closer to the sea in some weeks // anyone out there having a home for us in Hamburg // we're still looking out for one // ... // no fun

Talking about waves ...

.. global dimming will bring some more to us and where I might about to live. Take a look here, what the BBC and 3Sat broadcasted these days. Global dimming through pollution decelerated the effect of global warming. Now, as we work on reducing it ...

Trafalgar Square: Computer animated scenario of a flood
© ORF/BBC/Clearcut Graphicss

If you click on the picture, you'll be about to see the whole documentary by the weekly BBC-magazin "Horizon". Read a first insight here ...

"This is a film that demands action. It reveals that we may have grossly underestimated the speed at which our climate is changing. At its heart is a deadly new phenomenon. One that until very recently scientists refused to believe even existed. But it may already have led to the starvation of millions. Tonight Horizon examines for the first time the power of what scientists are calling Global Dimming."

18metzger // 18butchers

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I yet don't know, how Olav Korth (Cologne) came up with his site's name. I only know, his comic-panels and ideas are always worth coming by once in while! He also is one of the contributors to Mamba.

Strange Things // Seltsame Dinge

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"Seltsame Dinge" - meaning "strange things" - the boy was inspired by Alex Noriega (as written on the page above). After I got back to his page again, I went on drawing.
Funny enough my Mom called that night, some weeks ago, and told me strange things ... after I had drawn this page

Anne on Display

After "Das Leben der Anderen" now "Das Leben der Dinge" - an exhibition where some of Anne's Photos are on display, too. To put it in other words : It's her first group exhibition. Tadaaah!

Grand opening on Friday, 27.04.2007 from 7 p.m.
Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte
Hansastr. 3
44137 Dortmund
Germany

Weser at Farge

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Did some reality, too, around Easter. Spring green came around at the river Weser banks.

Inspiring Easter

Tons of sketches, inspired by the fruitful Easter bunny and driven by some niece's picture- wishes I am about to share some with you.Bought two new colours so I am able to paint as pink and purple water as Enrico does in his ongoing Venice Chronicles.

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... and still more bunnies who couldn't be held next to the scanner, hidden in my books.

Frohe Ostern! // Happy Easter!

Have a break, have some fun ...

... and this it what happens ;-)


I got my name in lights with notcelebrity.co.uk

Un jour, un dessin ...

.. that's what I am about to get close to. Next step would be to do an even harder thing for me: A scan per day ;-)

As I am still training on both of it, I have to share this wonderful watercolour-blog with you.

copyright by BENJAMIN GABOURY

Rataouille

just a test to see if this really works out fine ... and by the way I like the teaser and the Japanese trailer which might be the "real" trailer, too?

And the Oscar goes to ...

(c) Geschmeido

... this wonderful German band I found: "Geschmeido". Just go there and click on some even free tracks to get into them and buy their new album at any personal retailer.

That picture, shown above reminds me of this years Oscar-winning movie "Das Leben der anderen" (Life of the Others) - though Geschmeido's b/w-photo has been taken a lot earlier.

(c) Das Leben der Anderen

Sketchcrawl # 12...andahalf

This time (Jan 28th, 2007) it's been an worldwide indoor crawl. Here is what I would see from some place in our apartment. To get the full background-story, please take a look here. And to get an overview on all the wonderful participants work - this time in one big post - peak around this corner.

STOP (IF: Red // Jan 26)

"Illustration Friday is a weekly illustration challenge. A topic is posted every Friday and then participants have all week to come up with their own interpretation. " it's saying on Illustration Friday. But the more popular this wonderful idea became, more and more nice illustrators leave illus done before the subject has been published and to top it: even promote these drawings for sale.

I am not jealous and there are some wonderful drawings on their way. But I'd like to have the spontaneous fun back, which lifted this forum - I am just a little bit tired of clicking through all the other posts not directly related to the idea of IF.

Red - Illustration Friday (Jan 26)

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Rhett .. Red Butler

For all, who do not know: He is the male leading role in "Gone With The Wind"

... standing again!

Due to some "maladissimo" I have been laying around most of the last days. Celebrating my hopefully upcoming upright period I test-post this:
A sketch I finally glued on that king-size matchbox, which in fact beholds these clips - really neat to clip some notes or postcards and have them stand around you ;-)
Snow is falling right now - allways a good sign for me. Am I right, a.n.?

.. guided by his fellow friend.

Creepin' from underneath into ...

.. the huggly-muggly bed, in some seconds. Story will follow. Good night everyone!

Oooh, so this is how it feels ...

... when I start drawing and painting again. Time to go to bed and keep on monochrome colourworks. Will I be able to share and put up about one post per week as last year? Keep the fingers crossed.

Have yourself a merry litte dancing ...

... and a happy new year, everyone!

I drew this on New Years Morning while traditionally watching the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra with their concert broadcasted worldwide. This song played every single year actually during my drawing this year was "An der schönen blauen Donau" - "At the beautiful blue river Donau" and has been dedicated by this year's conductor Zubin Mehta to the new members No. 26 and No. 27 of the European Union: Bulgaria and Romania, which should be crossed by the river Donau.

Welcome!

Some chairs left ...

... to put on the desks and leave the room. Two and a half weeks left to be freed from the status of permanent assessment.

Sleepless Hippo

... what a night! Change of weather can be very inspiring. Had that same feeling some days ago and did this drawing afterwards. Hope the weather won't change on a daily basis the next weeks and steady up a little.

Up-Stares

due to all those deadlines not only this pastor is looking for solutions "upstairs"...

Talking about Deadlines (1)

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Inspired by Jason's I thought about mine, too ...

Ghost - Illustration Friday (Oct 23)

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Mousehouse

I wonder what happened to the mouse in the wall, we discovered a couple of weeks ago, as she ran from behind the stove across the kitchen up to the sink, to fetch some rose-fertiliser ... maybe she grew to a giant mouse .... I think of a HULK-mouse after having eaten the fertiliser --- blasting the walls.

Trouble - Illustration Friday (Oct 10)

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Won't chicken out!

What ever will happen within the next roundabout 8 weeks! I won't chicken out! Just keep cool - nothing's falling on my head .. not even a piece of heaven, you little chicken! You're not getting boiled you are getting tested and examined! No one really gets hurt --- at least not physically ...

One year of blogging

Well, who'd ever tought I'd do this still ;-) Seems it really took some time, to make fun. Enjoy! I do.

Sitball

... wrote to my godchild, he's blond, plays in blue and white and got to meet Ronaldinio ... how on earth is his name written. Oh, and tomorrow the new film on the German national football team is on big screen! Can't wait to see!!

SC 11 - The Big Picture

It seems, every other Sketchcrawl a certain subject comes to my pens ... last time,, on SC #5 (Pakistani Relief SC) I had oillamps and other cans or pots. This time, it happened after a while, that I mainly drew and drew my attention to people's bags ;-)
Well, if you want to see them detailed, please click on the pictures. I only could draw all of them within a range of two to five minutes as I was sitting at crossing first and later on at the main railway station forecourt ... and please do not forget to watch out for the rest of us at SC-Forum!

Get up, stand up, ...

.. go out for the crawl! It's September 23rd, ladies and gentlemen. Time to get out of your huddly houses and crawl thorugh the streets and draw whatever you SEE. Have fun alltogether! See the results later on here at Sketchcrawl-Forum.

Working on ...

If you want to see some of them, please take a look here.

Verschlafen - Overslept

.. aus gegebenem Anlass eine kleine Nachreichung .. oh, I forgot, that there are some internationals about to read this, too ... : ... at the instance of the late start into the day, due to a friend's marriage last night and the lazy game my favorite football-team showed today, I post this on here:
... I actually do not have one of these fancy nightgowns. Have yourself a nice day ;-)

Farm - Illustration Friday (Sept, 9)

This is, what we have standing as little farmers in our front or backyards ... we as: some Germans - not we!!! ;-)

"Fiiiiiiiiiish in the waaater ..."

"... a fire in the sky!!"
Frei nach Deep Purple.

State(s) of the art, where I have been to

... well, finally I found this gadget ;-) To all who know. Now you can see, what I was talking about. I you want to switch back to my global view, please click here.

create your own visited states map

Safe - Illustration Friday (Sept, 01)

.. and falling asleep right now (ten to one in the morning - local time, .. by the way: which time do none-locals have, who live around here?)

CPU - Cross Promotion United

... seems like it's working. Now, this is another gadget, I may be about to use on my flickr account.