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Melanchoholics Solar Café

illustration, record sleeve

 

Next part in updating my blog. This is a record cover I did for Melanchoholics. The making of this took very long because it was overshadowed by the death of their mastermind Benedikt Kristofer Bjarnason who died of cancer in 2010. I hardly knew Benedikt, but he was great. The cover is based on photographs he took in small Icelandic village and photographs of his ancestors that had a kind of weird and spooky atmosphere to them. If you look at the cover very closely you can see these photographs. I would love to show them by myself because they are very beautiful , but I don´t have the rights.covermela_eangepasst_2klein  covermela_g-(1) covermela_linernotes_2covermela_bandp ahnenzeichnung_2

paris 1

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So I have been back from Paris now for a week, and went to Rome in the meantime. I spend most of the time in Paris on a course about producing animated films in Europe at the Gobelins. We only had the weekends for more touristy stuff and sketching. So here are some of those.

Some of the sketches were from two performances by the Aurore Quartet. I haven’t listen to Gipsy Swing for ages, and I really loved their energy, their violinist and singer is especially great. I like the fact that this music is basically there to make you feel good, and that they really give all they have to entertain the 30 people who happen to be in the pub where they are playing. So it is music for it is own sake, and in a way this real philanthropy. If you happen to be in Paris, check out their website: myspace.com/aurorequartet.

I made the mistake of going to the Louvre last Sunday. It seemed to be full of small Paris Hiltons, who mistook the Louvre as backdrop for their facebook pictures (`… look, it looks that I am touching his ass`). There were millions of them. I am thinking of doing a comic about that, with the very foreseeable end of a Babylonian God which doesn´t want it´s ass to be touched mauling some cheeky American teenagers from the Midwest.

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pirtate 2

comic, film, illustration

here is my first photo sketch from Paris. O.K. obviously it is something completly different. I have so much stuff to do, that I can´t scan the stuff I did.  There would be a lot to write about that, and I ahd some nice ideas, but it will take some time ( to cut it short France is always pretty inspiring). This could be a title page to the last comic, but it actually is from an invitation to an exhibition with Ruth and Felo in April… It is a kind of homage to Herge I guess. I am afraid me and Steven Spielberg liked the same comics when we were young, for I just heard that he uses the Rackham volumes as the basis for his Mocap- feature film, which sounds like a nightmare…kaeptn

harhar

comic, illustration

Hi

I didn´t finish the comic strip I was working on. I hope to finish it in the course of next week. It deals with my new experience of carnival. To cut it prettty short, carnival seems to be fun, but my three beer rule is kind of counterproductive. It needs more then that . So I will have one year to decide what to do next time. So here is a slightly older comic. I wasn´t completly satisfied with it, but I guess it is O.K. arbeitslosechipslang_1arbeitslosechipslang_2arbeitslosechipslang_3

I am Back.

fun, illustration

Hello there….

The last two weeks were pretty exhausting. I have started a new job at Cologne and we try to set up our flat simultaneously. O.K. enough chitchat. This is about drawing. I have started these two drawings already in Leipzig. The one with our beloved Bundeskanzler, Mrs. Angela Merkle, is an idea which is already 3 weeks old. So if you are not into German politics you won’t get the joke, and if you are into German politics and you don´t get the joke, it is probably because it was more prevailling 2 or 3 weeks ago.

It is basically about the fact that some spin doctor told Angie to pose as the first environmentalist German Chancellor, which led to her travelling to Greenland. The photographs looked like she was going to be the cover model of the new Jack Wolfskin catalogue. As soon as the economic crisis kicked in Angie forgot all she said a few weeks before. These things are probably better told elsewhere. Zurückrudern means literally to row back and figuratively to revoke something.

Land unter.

Land unter.