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!
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…
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.
Impulse purchase — yet another. I got me a WLAN router. I didn’t know that I needed one until I got one. Usually I am not that enthusiastic about new consumer electronics 1 but this nifty router finally lifts the burden of ever too short LAN cables even in my cramped spatially challenged campus room.
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.
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’m feeling a little better and now and the fever is gone. In fact I felt so well today that I had the chance to play the Death Toll campaign and it works way better to play in a team with a real friend than with some kids who take your med-kits and startle any witch in sight. But blood flowed not only in the game today.
It’s interesting how my media consumption has changed since I am down with my illness. I watch more TV than during the whole last year and spend more time online reading slams about the worst products on Amazon.com such as still overpriced e-Book readers or overpriced educational software for kids. It’s terrible what trash is out there!
On the plus side it is interesting how my sickness evens out everything. I’ve slept only four hours today and don’t feel it. My feeling of hunger is as nonexistent as my urge for coffee. Sounds like I am really not doing well!
Here we go again. When posting my previous post, titled Sicko!, I was referring to my first moments of playing Vavle’s Left 4 Dead. But I didn’t expect it to become worse.
Since I’ve been back in Graz I’ve already been way too often my favorite café, the Café Promenade (now you know where the name of this blog is loosely derived from.) And the longer I come here, the more and more I learn about people, their everyday struggles, experiences and enjoyments that make us all human.
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