March 2007 – jfml-blog

Klafter

Dank meinem Vater lese ich grad das wunderbare Buch »Eine Schachtel Streichhölzer« von Nicholson Baker. Weil ich beim letzten Lübeck-Besuch nicht nur meinen Mp3-Player sondern auch Lektüre für die Zugfahrt vergessen hatte, war er so frei mir etwas auszuhelfen.

Eine der Stellen, die mich beim Lesen im Zug laut Auflachen ließen war folgende:

»Nachdem wir die meisten Abfälle verbrannt hatten, rief ich einen Holzhändler an und bestellte ein Klafter. Ein Klafter ist eine Maßeinheit, die ›eine stattliche Menge‹ bedeutet.«

Sehr schön.

Discarded Illustrations for the Nord/LB-Öffentliche

I’m doing my very first official, paid illustration job with two fellow students for a charity organisation called »Stiftung Nord/LB-Öffentliche«.

It’s a hell lot of work but I really feel like I am learning a lot too so it’s kinda fun.

We figured out that we wanted to base the whole concept of the work on a tie in the colors of the organisation and that tie goes kinda mad and changes into all kinds of things that make a good metaphor of what the foundation stands for, so that in the end it has nothing to do with a tie anymore but the colors are still left.

So here are some of the pics that did not make it into the final report:

A rich man’s privilege

This is a doodling I did on the trainride back from my hometown Lübeck last weekend. With all the beautiful landscape outside the trainwindows I somehow always end up drawing trees and stuff.

And yes, that is my adress. It’s actually the envelope this semester’s Student ID came in. Thanks to our f***ing antisocial, conservative government these things are now only available for guys that have 500 € on the loose per semester (can I say that?…).

So I am officially putting this drawing on sale here for 500 €. ^__^

EDIT: Well, ACTUALLY my parents just bought that drawing without even knowing it (and they got a »Special Parent’s Price Reduction« from me of course…). They always give me money for everything and I am very grateful for that and at the same time I feel bad taking it all the time.

So thank you so much.

Again.

»The God of Small Things« Teaser

I totally forgot that I put this teaser online for the portfolio I handed in for the Sokrates/Erasmus exchange-program.

This was one of the tasks in a »Macromedia Director« class from the basic studies. We were asked to do a short teaser for an imaginary movie only with typography and graphic symbols. I know that it is not very good (it’s much too long) but I still like the atmosphere.

Because of Director‘s unability to export the teaser properly, I‘ve done the clip for a second time with »After Effects« in far less than a quarter of the time it took me in Director. What do we learn from that? Director really sucks. It does.

Please note that this is not a real trailer.

I don’t think that Mrs. Roy will ever give permission for an adaption of her book and I am quite happy about this because »The God of Small Things« is one of the best books I’ve ever read and a movie would only destroy my very own images I have while reading it.

In addition Arundhati Roy is one of the very few people I consider to be a role model. Her political writings and engagement is very encouraging. I adore her.