July 2, 2010
Dear Diary, Random Thoughts
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I like Flattr. I like the idea of it: Flatter people with a click that is the digital equivalent of a coin ringing in a tip-jar. And for some reason it became customary to blog about how much you made past month. You get tipped, and you tip yourself. It’s social. No surprise: It’s from Sweden. They compare it to having a piece of birthday cake and giving a slice to everybody you want to flatter. The more people you flattr, the smaller the slices get. At the end of the month it’s payday: Everyone on Flattr empties their jars and counts the coins. There are people who had an income of more than 500 €, the are many more people who had about 10 € by the end of the day. And now I am going to spill the beans myself.
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I like Flattr. I like the idea of it: Flatter people with a click that is the digital equivalent of a coin ringing in a tip-jar. And for some reason it became customary to blog about how much you made past month. You get tipped, and you tip yourself. It's social. No surprise: It's from Sweden. They compare it to having a piece of birthday cake and giving a slice to everybody you want to flatter. The more people you flattr, the smaller the slices get. At the end of the month it's payday: Everyone on Flattr empties their jars and counts the coins. There are people who had an income of more than 500 €, the are many more people who had about 10 € by the end of the day. And now I am going to spill the beans myself.
I made 1.07 €. Plus taxes.
For a Web 2.0 thingie that's still in beta I'm rather surprised by that. In fact I made 90% of that the first day after I signed up with Flattr. The rest of the month was spent by posting creative stuff I did to Flattr, hoping some people would enjoy my music,
January 30, 2010
Compositing, Computing, Dear Diary, Tutorial
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Wassup, y’all? I’m back! Back from the vault, back from grinding merrily away 20 to 30 hrs a day on my diploma thesis and back from LaTeX formatting hell. Through my veins still runs a little amount of blood among all that caffeine and so I’m announcing my new credo for 2010: Make Something Creative Every Day Week!
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Wassup, y'all? I'm back! Back from the vault, back from grinding merrily away 20 to 30 hrs a day on my diploma thesis and back from LaTeX formatting hell. Through my veins still runs a little amount of blood among all that caffeine and so I'm announcing my new credo for 2010: Make Something Creative Every Day Week!
There's quite a bit I have planned for in 2010. First and foremost I'll get busy on some new AEtuts+ video tutorials introducing Nuke to the After Effectors among you all and something I have in mind for quite a while now, working title: "The Art and Science of Rotoscoping". (Everything's "art" and "science" in visual effects, if you read the books.)
There's a new series for flickr that I have in mind by the name of "Austrian Details". There are so many things I encounter that are so typically Austrian in some way and that people from other places probably wonder about when they see it. When it launches I'll tell you here.
I'll also be holding Tutorials on the Salzburg University of Ap
October 15, 2009
CGI & Rendering, Dear Diary
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Another time it’s been way too long between updates. Again much has happened, I was too busy to author a thorough blog post of general interest. And honestly, I still am. So I will give you a short run down on what I did recently. And if you want to see some shading/texturing going on, to witness the power of the almighty bump-map that still does its job well and without the annoying purple eye-cancer-causing colors of a normal map, read the rest…
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Another time it's been way too long between updates. Again much has happened, I was too busy to author a thorough blog post of general interest. And honestly, I still am. So I will give you a short run down on what I did recently. And if you want to see some shading/texturing going on, to witness the power of the almighty bump-map that still does its job well and without the annoying purple eye-cancer-causing colors of a normal map, read the rest...
After posting the last blog post I...
...worked on some station ID motion graphics as a compositor at Fresh FX. Lovely place!
...took a week off, hoping to get anything done with my diploma thesis.
Instead I am working on a rather secret project on lighting, shading, rendering and compositing. Oh and I got me a Canon EOS 5D Mark II. As soon as I produce something worthy I'll let you know. But I already know how much I love that black brick already.
...did an elaborate video tutorial for AEtuts+, that'll go live this week or so.
..enjoyed two week
August 22, 2009
Dear Diary, Essay, photography
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Berlin was calling. I had to go. Like the years before. When you’ve been to Berlin once before (and ain’t not sick of it already), you just have to return. Every summer this city calls me by a feeling or just by plain Austrian fatigue. Then I book a flight, make no plans and off I go.
This is a short photo-blog-post of my impressions.
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Berlin was calling. I had to go. Like the years before. When you've been to Berlin once before (and ain't not sick of it already), you just have to return. Every summer this city calls me by a feeling or just by plain Austrian fatigue. Then I book a flight, make no plans and off I go.
This is a short photo-blog-post of my impressions.
Berlin needs to be experienced best through the microscope of everyday experiences. Berlin is detail, it is a patchwork of delicacies woven together by stretching alleys and slowly crumbling houses. Berlin is chipped-off paint on pre-war buildings, covered in stickers and iced with graffiti. They look all the same from afar but become more and more discrete the closer one looks.
But don't get lost in the details. Enjoy the sun, enjoy the wind, enjoy the low prices and the smell of coal and smoke in the winter.
Berlin is flat. At least in Google Earth it is. Once you roam the sidewalks they are an uneven terrain for the unassuming traveler flipp
May 4, 2009
Dear Diary
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Finally. I arrived in my hotel in Stuttgart, eagerly anticipating the fmx launch tomorrow. The ride from Salzburg didn’t feel really long mostly because of the lovely company on the way, a wonderful sunset and some good music.
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Finally. I arrived in my hotel in Stuttgart, eagerly anticipating the fmx launch tomorrow. The ride from Salzburg didn't feel really long mostly because of the lovely company on the way, a wonderful sunset and some good music.
Room 212, originally uploaded by Phil Strahl.
Currently I am in my bed at the Hotel Hottmann in southern Stuttgart. This year I got the room above the one I was in last year, unfortunately it is a bit smaller, still comfy. Most important to me is the radiator next to my bed because I freeze easily and the room was really cold. Even colder than the hallway. So I turned it all the way up and spend my time waiting for the WLAN to transmit data-packets, one at a time at about 25 baud. Every 5 min I have to attempt reconnecting for another ten to thirty minutes, so it's quite tedious. But not as tedious as driving around for 20 minutes looking for a space to park the car -- Stuttgart's jammed!
I
April 22, 2009
Compositing, Dear Diary, Reports, Seph Carissa / texx sound, filmmaking
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It’s been quite a while since my last blog entry. In fact it has been so long, that I had to think twice to recall my password for this sweet blog o’ mine.
You ask “What’s new? What’s cool?” and I tell you: A lot: I’ve been in the trenches with Nuke and fought After Effects so there’s a lot of stuff I want to show and tell what I’ve learned in the past weeks, not only about VFX.
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It's been quite a while since my last blog entry. In fact it has been so long, that I had to think twice to recall my password for this sweet blog o' mine.
You ask "What's new? What's cool?" and I tell you: A lot: I've been in the trenches with Nuke and fought After Effects so there's a lot of stuff I want to show and tell what I've learned in the past weeks, not only about VFX.
I recorded a couple of tracks for my upcoming album (release: summer 2009). The Samson G-Track is a sweet piece of hardware, it combines a condenser microphone and an USB-soundcard. Finally I am able to record my acoustic guitar and piano work without the "help" of my 5€-headset whose microphone buzzes worse than the wasp hive in Donkey Kong Country 2 and rumbles more than my PS2's Dualshock 2 controller that surrendered yesterday to material fatigue after nearly nine years of heavy duty service. Got me a new one today.
Between all my private creative work I am tackling 87 effect shots for our student short film "MOSKAU
