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Jan 19, 2012
Shiver my Timbers: Issues with “Treasure Island”
Posted in Essays, Reviews
Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson published his most famous book, Treasure Island back in 1883, a hundred years before I was born. And yes, I know this off the top of my head since Wikipedia is down to protest against SOPA (which I urge you to support, by the way). So Treasure Island is considered a classic, the ultimate pirate novel or, more often, an annoyance in your elementary school life. I read the book recently the first time and this is my report why I think having the book in the curriculum at that point is rubbish.
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Nov 01, 2011
Street Fighter 2 & Not So Much Free Time
Posted in Games, Reports, Seph Carissa / texx sound
So I did it again, but this time with a different game: After ripping the music-instrument samples from F-Zero and creating a soundfont out of it, I attempted just the same with Street Fighter 2 for the Super Nintendo. If you’re looking for some technical insights in Capcom’s SNES music, wanna listen to some music or just the frickin’ download for the soundfont, you’ve come to the right place! -
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Oct 27, 2011
F-Zero & Too Much Free Time
Posted in Games, Music, Reports, Retro
Today was National Day in Austria and I had some free time on my hands. That’s why I tried hard not to get some work done today. “I’ll be messing around with my Super Nintendo,” I told Conny. And she said “Alright. Have fun with it.” And I did. But in a totally unexpected way. Read on if you want to learn about F-Zero and a little about the making of its music… -
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Oct 20, 2011
Hello? Still Alive?
Posted in Dear Diary, Games, People, Reports, Technology
It’s been a while since my last update and a lot has happened. In fact, the less that happens around here on this blog, the more is happening with my outside life. Wow, I just realized that this is the first time that I apologized that I had a life outside the web. Anyways: I bet you’re incredibly curious about what has been happening since my last update? Read on, I keep it short and funny. I promise!
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Aug 08, 2011
Berlin, Not so sunny Sunday
Posted in Dear Diary, People, Reports
Today I overslept. Or so I thought. In fact I got up around noon after about five hours of sleep and my first thought was: “Damn, I’m gonna be late for the flea market!” I jumped up and emptied my backpack for the anticipated impulse purchases. Esther left to disassemble the audio setup from the party and I took the U8 to Bernauer Strasse. It almost rained.
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Aug 07, 2011
Berlin, Saturday
Posted in Dear Diary, Reports
So I’m in Berlin again, like the years before. And since my trip has become more tradition than exploration I decided to take it back and add more excitement in my experience. I started with booking a different seat in the plane, 23F instead of 15A – hell yeah!
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Jul 15, 2011
» The Gray King
Posted in Essays, Stories
It’s been a while since the last posting, right? And I’ve been busy as a bee with all other projects for AEtuts+ or my completely updated, recoded and redesigned portfolio and other stuff. And last evening I was sitting in this café in Salzburg and a short story hit me. Out of the blue. I typed the first draft down on my phone which took two hours but (hopefully!) was worth it. Please, read on…
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May 11, 2011
fmx ’11, Day Four
Posted in Animation, CGI & Rendering, Films, Lectures, Quotes, Reports, Technology
It’s terrible to say but I was somewhat glad this was the last day of fmx. There had been so much input, creatively, inspirationally and technically that my brains were running out of memory like my Maya scenes with MentalRay. And I didn’t get much sleep this night either and staggered like a zombie down to the breakfast, at least that’s what I think, it wasn’t quite there. Man, if I had feasted on brains I wouldn’t remember it. -
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May 06, 2011
fmx ’11, Day Three
Posted in Animation, CGI & Rendering, Compositing, Films, Lectures, Quotes, Reports, Technology
The morning was worse than I had anticipated it, I don’t quite remember how I got to the venue today, I only remember that I didn’t even get tea for breakfast. The Haus der Wirtschaft was buzzing like a hive again and most of the bees hat been busy at the Echtzeit party that lasted roughly as long as my writing session for yesterday’s blog post. Even worse: Those people seemed much better rested. Life is unfair.
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May 05, 2011
FMX ’11, Day Two
Posted in Animation, CGI & Rendering, Compositing, Computing, Films, Quotes, Reports, Technology
I got up after too little sleep and staggered down to the common room for a breakfast — any breakfast. As I was pushing the wrong buttons on the Chinese water cooker for my tea and dropping the butter three times in a row I overhead a conversation among a bunch of young people on a table. I heard “plug-ins” and “Cinema” and “Color Grading” and what not.