My greatest Birthday-Present this year was a Lomo Fisheye-Camera. (THANX AGAIN!)
I am still learning how to use it, the first roll of film turned out completely useless and the flash is very hard to handle, but I already got some very nice pics. Oh, I will have alot of fun with this baby. 
Shooting back
Part of my Shirt-Collection
My Recordcollection - A Mess
Don’t buy one of these. Had the chance to dj with it on a party, was not impressed.
I have been working as freelance graphic designer for some time, but I did mostly boring printdesign for small advertisement agencies which is the reason why I gave that up after a few years and there are not much works to actually “show off”.
Just two projects that I am still quite proud of:
A poster/postcard campaign for a local theater-festival. The cool thing about this design is that it’s all completely analogue, the whole design was created by hand as you can see it and was then scanned and printed. This actually made it very special, that poster stood out whereever it was displayed.
A nice project done for a museum. They had an exhibition in a huge room with a lot of cabinets and the goal was to display a panorama on the backsides of these cabinets, a picture that “fell into place” when you entered the room.
It took some heavy thinking, some paper and basic knowledge of geometry to figure out how this could be done at all, then I used Photoshop and 3Ds Max to run some tests and in the end I gave a few odd-looking images (clippings of a larger picture) to the printing company. Actually no one (including me) knew if it was going to work at all, but it did to certain degree, the problem was that the budget did not allow to apply prints to the sides of these cabinets, which is the reason why you see those white sides in the picture below. But the idea as such did work wonderfully.
I am one of those guys that was completely shocked when Adobe bought Macromedia and that shed quite alot of tears when Adobe announced soon after that the first product that was going to be put to sleep would be Freehand. (Bloody Murder! Though I guess everyone saw that coming.)
I love Freehand, I have been using it for years, I am just very used to straight-to-the-point approach and the no-fancy-bullshit way it supports, so I can’t really let go of it.
However, because nothing will happen with this program in the future I have tried to get myself familiar with Illustrator a few times, but for some reason I always gave up pretty fast, being frustrated because the whole concept of both programs are so very different.
But I recently found a tutorial that claims to teach you Illustrator in 30 days, and this will be my new years resolution. Let’s see how that works out.
Just some notes about Pixeling in Photoshop. I started doing graphics on the C64, so I am used to pixeling and still use it whenever I have to (or want to).
A few hints to make it abit easier :
1. You dont have to zoom in and out of your picture while working on it. Instead, you can use the “new window for” command to open a second view for a picture. Scale one to 1600% and one to 200% and you can pixel easily while seeing what it looks like on the second view.
2. You can define a pixel grid, see the screenshot. The grid will be visible only in the 1600%-view if you enable it there.
3. Use the “X” Shortcut, which switches background and foreground colour. Make foreground black, background white and pixel away. You can do atleast the outlines and be able to “delete” wrong pixels.
4. Obviously, the tool to use is the pencil with a size of 1 and “precise cursor” switched on.
Photography and me is like Romeo and Juliet… Somehow we can’t get together.
Whenever I acquire some means of taking pictures (not only cameras, also for example a mobile phone with a camera built in) I manage to break or loose it or get it stolen by someone. This happened a dozen of times in the past ~15 years, it really seems I am doomed concerning this.
This is also the current status quo, I can’t take pictures at the moment. All that is left at the moment is an old flickr-account that I can’t even access anymore because I signed up with some fake data, lost the password and because I can’t remember where my made-up-on-the-spot fake character is living (or what his pets name is) I can’t get a new password.
But hopefully this will change soon atleast for some time (until I manage to loose/break my camera or have it stolen again)
