I was asked by Mutabor Design GmbH to help them with the 3D execution of this lush self promotional film to go along with the relaunch of their homepage.
Apart from the intro, the objective was to create three distinct worlds that represent the spirit of the divisions white, black and the newly installed silver.
Be sure to check out more of their projects on their site.
September 02, 2010, 11:10am, Comments
This post was originally supposed to be simply about Cass McCombs.
On how I loved his music ever since I’ve seen Jerry Hsu skate on top of his “Sacred Heart” in the “Bag of Suck” video, on how I loved the music even more when I discovered his latest and more toned down album “Catacombs”, how I listened to the album to death during my time in Copenhagen and how I just rediscovered the album on a boat while watching a beautiful sundown.
Instead this post is now a rant about geoblocking. When looking for a good quality link for his “The Executioner’s Song” video I had to find out, that his record label Domino Records has blocked all of his videos in Germany.
During the last years the so called geoblocking has become an utterly annoying trend amongst record labels around the world and the worst part is that I honestly can’t understand why they are trying to do with that.
I understand why sites like Hulu lock out everybody except for US resident. They want to save bandwith and target a narrow market with the advertisements they show. Still questionable, but there is a chain of thought going on.
On the other hand Youtube operates globally. You’ll have to endure their ads tailored to your viewing habbits weather you’re in the US or the Tundra. The record labels don’t have to pay to have their videos on there and it’s not their bandwith they are wasting, so why give all the fans a massive smack in the mouth and tell them they are only second rate because they happen to live in some other country? I believe that especially the smaller indy acts like Cass, who often times get a big part of their fanbase by word of mouth (or word of post in this case), heavily benefit from people having access to their music on the web.
I even think that this whole situation is neither the artists or the labels fault but some legal issue mindfuck that everybody holds on to without even thinking for one secont what this communicates to the people locked out.
The funny part is, that the video and the music gets out anyhow. I managed to find the video to the above mentioned song by some other user who has reuploaded it. The only difference is that now the video and audio quality is massively degenerated, so when the record label really wants to exercise control over it’s content it is really just giving it away to other people who can’t give it the same care and thought they can.
Don’t fool yourself people. The internet is a wide open place where ideas and content will be delivered to the ones who demand it. Any attempt to interfere with that is bound to fail.
I don’t know if this will be the case forever or if at some time in the future governments and big corporations will manage to put the handcuffs on this wonderfully free vehicle but until then, enjoy Cass McCombs beautiful song.
August 18, 2010, 3:52pm, Comments
For about two days now I’ve been too lazy to plug in my headphones at work and while this video was making it’s rounds on every blog known to mankind I was wondering what type of music goes with the pictures.
That is until today, so in case you haven’t seen (or heard) this already do yourself a favor and get the whole package, because it’s awesome.
August 05, 2010, 4:08pm, Comments 
I didn’t believe it would ever come to this. My sloppy, self programmed homepage is online after all.
As for now there is only my ancient 2009 showreel on there yet, but seeing the page this scarce will hopefully put some pressure on me to do something about it.
Anyways, this thing is still super buggy but I’m planning to give it some TLC whenever I can.
Stay tuned for some fresh content.
July 31, 2010, 2:44pm, Comments 
Reggie Watts - Fuck Shit Stack
This joint goes down so smoothly, after about 30 seconds you don’t even realize anymore you’re basically listening to a giant stack of fuck with shit with fuck stacked on top of it. I especially like how Reggie looks like the bastard twin of ?uest Luv mixed with Richard D. James from the Windowlicker video in this one.
March 20, 2010, 5:19pm, Comments
If you were wondering how I spend my last two month you can take a peek at the above video. From what I heared Justin Timberlake was doin’ his thang at the press conference but thats not on the vid unfortunately.
Animation done by Mitra Navab-Pour, Alexander Hanowski and myself.
March 19, 2010, 11:56am, Comments 
Yet another shameless plug for my guest appearance on Mostyle.tv. Be sure to check it out on Kay’s Mostyle Blog and get the Handycam rig here.
March 18, 2010, 12:27pm, Comments
The Glue Society directed this wonderfully weird video for The Bumblebeez.
An ode to all the people that don’t fit in and do their thing anyways.
P.S. I’m in the process of moving this blog from tumblr to a local hosted Wordpress solution so please bear with me when posting is slow at the moment.
December 11, 2009, 10:06pm, Comments 
Yōkai Daizukai by Shigeru Mizuki
This adorable critter is one of 85 traditional Japanese folklore creatures, that have been anatomically dissected by manga artist Shigeru Mizuki.
Some of the other illustrations with complementary in-depth information on the depicted beast can be found on Pink Tentacle.
December 03, 2009, 3:50pm, Comments 
