paris inbetween berlin ...

here is my first untrustworthy sketch of a new project: a poster for the 25th aniversary of berlin - paris city partnership 

> the comic book will be finished soon ... ähem really ... but it is going to need some more time, then 3 weeks ... though it really should be finished by then, because of this where we will go in may

frau heinemeier korrigiert

frau heinemeier korrigiert > is my first comicbook project about a teacher, who is actually quite progressive and works in a nice school, until one day someone/something evil? decides, that this school is too good for this world, and tries to "improve" the school by tearing it down and building a new elitarian school instead ... in this first story frau heinemeier will fight with all her laconic charm for her old school, but it's not that easy ... she has to sign a contract (never sign a contract! when your soul is endangered by this action) ... the devil never looks, like he's supposed to look like ... so well, frau heinemeier will get into real trouble, but i designed her as my ideal teacher, i garuantee, she has to struggle a lot with the whole system, but she deals with it in her own way ...

well, read by yourself, it will be released in 3 weeks ... then i'll post a link for a shop and the price per book will approximately be 8 euro

the arab spring lecture

> a poster i did for amnesty at stockholms universitet

for an open lecture about arab spring > unfortunately i missed this night, but i think it was pretty interesting ...

s k a m n e s t y

 

current projects...

this is another sketch i did yesterday for the poster for an open lecture about the arab spring, that's organized by the amnesty university group at stockholms university

it will take place on 28th march ... but i'll post the final design for the poster^^

i n b e e t w e e e e e e n

there happened quite a lot ... why do i never post? maybe cause i needed these whole 9 months to ...  äh .. :o ... ah yes: to learn ...

... i was never content, with what i did and so there was no reason for publishing it - or some other flimsy excuse like this ... but for not letting this blog die at all ... here are some sketches from two current projects and i'll post them, if they ever get finished ...

term is over

so, well, that was a long term, though we had'nt too much time for our project 

- bookillustration for "professor a. donda" by stanisław lem - ... but it was a quite productive time. some results are here, yeah and i'm in berlin enjoying, that this is done now and that there are a lot of new things coming up, stories to be told and new adventures to be experienced(: which i'm looking forward to ...

nach einem vorläufigen weltuntergang: unser erzähler sitzt vor seiner höhle, ein affe hat ihn aus einem bunker vertrieben....

... vorher ist einiges passiert: ein ingenieur hat sich bei einer kokosnussfabrikeröffnung in lamblia ziemlich naiv einem schakal gegenüber verhalten...

... woraufhin die regierung des erfundenen afrikanischen landes, ihre kokosnussfabrik- einrichtung zur bestattungshilfe nutzt ... der auch nicht ganz unnaive erzähler ijon tichy 

... darf darauf erstmal um sein leben laufen, wobei er netterweise den herrn professor affidavit donda kennenlernt, der ihn auf seinem kahn mitnimmt nach gurunduwaju, lamblias nicht weniger korrupten nachbarstaat. 

der professor wurde unter seltsamen umständen in die welt gesetzt:

... das ist aber nur eine der vielen nebenpassagen -  bald hat der professor enormen einfluss in lamblia:

mit einem riesencomputer kann er afrikanische flüche programmieren, wird daraufhin bald von der abergläubischen bevölkerung des kleinen afrikanischen landes gefürchtet und von der westlichen wissenschaft geächtet...

ein auftritt bei der kybernetischen weltkonferenz in oxford ist da auch nicht hilfreich... ihm glaubt niemand, als er sein gesetz erklärt: wenn wir weiter mit der informationsanhäufung in unseren millionen computern fortfahren, wird ein kritischer punkt erreicht: ein bit wird das fass zum überlaufen bringen, poff: auf einmal wird sich alle information zu ein paar miligramm masse verdichten- einem minikosmos: unsere computer werden mit einem schlag auf reset stehen und alle festplatten und speicher leer sein...

je mehr wissen wir ansammeln, umso mehr nähern wir uns der ignoranz.

in lamblia stört das niemanden so richtig, hauptsache, die staatlich angeordnete korruption läuft weiter....

... bittere vorwürfe werden gegen ende an den professor gerichtet: der kann sich zwar erklären, aber  nur noch mit viel galgenhumor: das weltende ist schließlich nicht mehr weit ....

....
alle rechte für "Professor A. Donda" von Stanisław Lem liegen beim insel verlag in berlin.
die texte unter den bildern sind keine zitate aus dem originalbuch.

one day...

... we will live in forests again ... i'm sure... slowly, we will collect way too much information in all our computers and heads and mp3-players _ then the law of donda will set in and ... !puff  t a b u l a  r a s a ;)
(no, i didn't read too much stanislaw lem, it's just, that we had a nice rehearsel for this future scenario last week ... a really comfortable though)

 ... one week working with analogue stencil printing in our nice "schullandheim" in the middle of the forest was very fine ... and it felt, like we where a group of witches ... ^^

witches for the win! 

i always use boards of clay as well

... or at least, i sometimes wish, i would do so more often ... last week, i didn't use the computer at all ... for the moment, ijon tichy posts thoughts in an analogue way, we'll see, how he gets along with this

gute nacht...

he shall protect from bad dreams (i'm shure he does;)

and if you cannot sleep: you will maybe not want to on may 14 :) ....

i did this posterdesign last term for "Lange Buchnacht Kreuzberg" and won the 3rd prize in our class (:

the design by rafael varona won, i like it very much, here is the link for lange buchnacht:

http://www.lange-buchnacht.de/

c) karolinea

hihi...

there is a place ....

that one will get to know soon... 

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... then i'll be able to post another link here, for a nice place, where some great, chaotic gestalten try to learn  how to use there pencils as wands or like this;) ...  (sorry i have to stay so mysteriously, but it would spoil the surprise, if i was telling more at the moment^^ only so much: it's something really nice, and it's a real place in the real city here .... to warm up: please listen to captain beefheard and if you look for the opposite of his eccentric schrammelrock, try warpaint, i love them both so much (: though they are really different.... but hmmm...♥

and i was on miranda july's site today, please try out the game, she writes about:

http://mirandajuly.com/