Critical Mass

Illustration of a bunch of anthropomorphised animals riding a cargo bike, wearing bicycle helmets. A fox is at the helm, wearing a black hoodie with the antifa symbol. In the cargo hold are a dog, a panda and a raccoon that is about to eat a (vegan) dürüm. Above them is written „Critical Mass“ and on the bike it says „We are the traffic“ as well as a lot more stickers.

Cycling friends! 🚴‍♀️I’ve been to a few Critical Mass events both in #Lübeck and #Edinburgh and it’s always a glimpse of an utopia without cars, love it so much! Check out my website to get the SVG to use this as promo material for you local chapter:

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Unused 1001 Belgesel / Documentary Film Festival Posters

Graphical poster showing a kite with a made of MiniDV video tapes. The text underneath it says „11th International 1001 Documentary Film Festival, 13 – 19 November 2008, Istanbul, Turkey“ in Turkish and English.

Two unofficial / unused posters I did a million years ago (when people still at least had a memory of using tapes to record video ^__^) while on Erasmus in Istanbul for a (apparently defunct) documentary film festival that I still quite like.

Here’s the entry in my portfolio.

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Amsel räumt auf!

Illustration of a giant blackbird with an upturned car in their mouth. One of the car's door has come off and is falling down.

Above it the text: Blackbird tidies up!

I’ve had this project on the back-burner for years but with humanity descending more into chaos every day it’s time for blackbird to tidy up!

Read it on my portfolio:

I’m planning to print this as one of those zines that you can fold from one piece of paper ( https://austinkleon.com/2020/03/04/how-to-make-a-zine-from-a-single-sheet-of-paper/ ), ideally in #Riso print, so stay tuned for that ^__^

If you wanna print your own or do a #translation I’d be happy to provide the SVG/PDF!

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Crystal

Illustration of a sparkly natural crystal in blues on a black background with an off-white border.

This month’s #InkspapeChallenge is drawing a crystal and since I’m a huge fan of crystals I just had to take part. Kept it super simple, it was really satisfying to have something nice fast ^__^ Should do things like this more often!

See the other entries here.

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Stickers now available in my shop ✨

Photo of a white dude's hand holding a sticker with an illustration of cute bird sitting on a skull saying „Make the rich pay“. The skull has golden slime (liquid gold?) coming out of it's eye-sockets and nose-holes 🤷‍♀️

Street arty pals! I finally added stickers to my shop:

https://shop.jfml.eu/product-category/stickers

Go get some while they’re hot! 🔥 ^__^

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Back to Linux!

Ich hab mich letztens bei der LinuxHeld*innen-Aktion von LinuxGuides angemeldet und vor der Vorstellungsrunde versucht rauszufinden, wann ich eigtl. das erste Mal Linux benutzt hab.

Ich kann mich irgendwie erinnern zu Schulzeiten mal so eine Schachtel mit CDs oder so gehabt zu haben, kein Plan, ob das Knoppix war, … ne das war irgendwas von RedHat, wirklich benutzt hamwas aber nie.

2008 hab ich Linux / Ubuntu das erste Mal im Blog erwähnt, anscheinend Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. Aber schon 2009 ging’s dann zurück zum Mac, weil das T40 gestorben war. Ich weiß, dass ich dann zwischendurch immer mal wieder Ubuntu oder Linux mit auf ner Dual-Boot-Partition hatte aber auch als dann Wifi einigermaßen funzte waren externe Monitore, Grafikarten und Sleep-Modus immer noch kein Spaß (letzteres krieg ich auch 2025 mit keiner Distro auf Susis altem Dell hin) und ich habe mir lange eingeredet, dass ich Dank Adobe Creative Cloud (würg) und Unity-Plugins/-Assets (brech) halt MacOS / Windoge brauche.

Ich weiß garnicht mehr, was dann der Auslöser war* aber ich hab dann irgendwann auf Windoge angefangen mir Inkscape / Krita und Scribus beizubringen, das war nach 15+ Jahren Adobe-Software schon hart, aber ging. The Shadow (2023) hab ich auf jeden Fall mit Scribus gesetzt (und vorher 2021 das Storyboard dafür mit Krita / Inkscape gemacht) und aus der Zeit stammen auch die ersten Inkscape-Vektor-Arbeiten. Wann genau ich den Umstieg auf Linux gemacht habe weiß ich leider nicht mehr genau, wahrscheinlich so Ende 2022 / Anfang 2023? Ich hatte ja zweimal so Razer Blade-Laptops, auf denen ich auf jeden Fall tw. am Ende Fedora laufen hatte. Im März 2022 schreibe ich im Tagebuch, dass Valheim unter Linux nich so geil läuft, und im April 2023 gibt es einen Eintrag über Probleme mit externen Monitoren bei Fedora, dh das kommt einigermaßen hin. Bin dann Mitte / Ende 2024 auf Bazzite umgestiegen und das läuft absurd stabil.

So, ich hau das jetzt schnell raus, bevor es wieder in den Entwürfen verschwindet!

* Ich glaube, das war alles noch vor Adobe-AI-Rotz, Unity-Enshittification etc. Ich vermute, es war dieses „Dark Patterns und andere illegale Dinge (gab’s da nich sogar Gerichtsverfahren in den USA?), wenn du versuchst dein Abo zu kündigen“ bei Adobe?

Edit: Anscheinend hab ich aber z. B. 2013 auch hart mit Linux auf nem Macbook rumgenerdet. Und 2014 auch.

Happy belated „International Crow and Raven Appreciation Day“ (May 27th)

Rather abstract vector illustration of a super cute (light blue eyes!) Jackdaw on a rose background with a white frame.

Feathery friends! 🐦‍⬛ Yesterday, April 27th was apparently „International Crow and Raven Appreciation Day“ so here’s my jackdaw greeting card, who is part of a small bird series* and part of a much bigger bird poster / puzzle** ^__^

* https://jfml.eu/2023/08/illustration-bird-greeting-cards/
** https://jfml.eu/2023/09/illustration-birds/

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Gingerbeard A5 print now available in my shop!

Abstract vector illustration showing a split view of a night scene on some islands: Above the water there is the moon, clouds and people camping on one of the islands with a campfire, a boat and and owl. Underwater, there's a diver and two whales.

Stopping on an #island for the #night with a nice campfire and some whales in the deep.

This one is ancient (2011) but I still like it a lot ^__^ Tiny A5 #print now available at my #shop:

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„Sleeping Guardian“ print now available in my shop!

Illustration of a mound with trees on top and the ocean in the background. In the hill there's the entry to a grave with two glowing eyes in the dark and a black fox sleeping above the cavern entry.

Dear Blogvoyagers! ⛵

I reopened my #shop and added this #print: 🐺

Looking for feedback, #WooCommerce is quite the beast with shipping zones and taxes etc. If something doesn’t make sense, please tell me ^__^

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Envelope character with a long letter coming out of it that is also a character on a pink background with more envelope characters, some of whom are cat envelopes?
Sneak peak of my second newsletter: it shows a photo of original Space Invader sketches, followed by a text about how I went to a videogame exhibition in Edinburgh. The next picture is a photo of my project „Utopia Still“ being exhibited at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg followed by a text about setting up the exhibition and being at the congress.

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