Sketchcrawl # 16 -- Dock 10

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And to see some more Hamburg impressions you might want to watch 2007's Movie-Festival's trailer.

St. Claus has been a very good boy this year

#1 Christmas Shopping #2 Christmas Hopping

ComicFestival Hamburg 2007

06. - 09. December 2007
For details, please click on image!

Santa Entangled

Did this one about a year ago in Dortmund - foreseeing, that my next Christmas-Time will be closer to the sea. The booth's owner sold fish and had this Santa caught in his fish-light-net, you normally catch Christmas or other trees with ... I tried some colouring this time.

Experiment on Sketchcrawl Pictures

Sketchcrawl # 16

... click on picture to participate in Hamburg!

Times and Places are changing

Due to my moving business (not be mixed up with other people's movie business) I haven't been around for a while. But hey why not use my holidays, to catch up a little again ... I thought to myself and a (non-computeral) virus did the same ... catch me if you can - and he could. Or she? Who really wants to know ...

... well at least I am alive. And that's I wanted to state: I keep on posting here. Soon again!

Two years online = Web 2.0?.

So, if you are online for two years: Does this mean, you are the impersonated Web 2.0?

wer nicht gehört wird, muss fühlen

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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

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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