any day now

...some are concentrated, ...some just bored

2008-01-18T08:14:00.000-08:00

Some photos I took last year during a concert in Lübek

...for Judith

...for Matthias

father & daughter

...and that's the reason why ...Lukas, the son

The second christmas-day

2008-01-17T11:30:00.001-08:00

On the 25th I was visiting my good friend Hans-Georg Behr, who is living in Hamburg.
He just survived his third stroke and though his body is half paralysed, his mind is clear and I always wonder how much of his life is still very present in his head. He's author, writer and hemp-expert, and I get the feeling he knows everyone in the world, at least met most of the important people in his time, though he spent a long time of his life in India.
Some of his books are: "Almost a Childhood: Growing Up Among the Nazis", "Die Moguln: Macht und Pracht der indischen Kaiser von 1369-1857", "Nepal", "Die Moguln", "Weltmacht Droge: Das Geschäft mit der sucht", "Von Hanf ist die Rede: Kultur und Politik einer Pflanze", "Drogenpolitik in der Bundesrepublik", "Die österreichische Provokation: Ein Mahnruf für Deutsche", "Söhne der Wüste: Kalifen, Händler und Gelehrte", "Organisiertes Verbrechen", "Unsere Unterwelten", "Haschisch-kochbuch", "Werbung um Antigone: Eine abendfüllende Jause", and so on...

The 24th in Lübek

2008-01-17T03:44:00.000-08:00

I had a wonderful christmas with my sister and her three children

vacancy in North-Italy with my brother-in-law

2007-12-28T09:42:00.001-08:00

I was invited to join a trip around the region of "Lago di Lecco" with my brother-in-law and his two kids in September this year, and here are some nice shots of the landscape around there.

Visit of an good old friend

2007-12-28T08:44:00.000-08:00

Last summer I met my old friend Leo, whom I know from old times in Berlin back in the 90's. He still has the good running Cafe "Anita Wronsky" in 'Prenzlauer Berg'(Berlin), but also bought a very nice country-house in Pasewalk, which is near the border to Polen.

Selfportrait, the second!

2007-05-09T11:50:00.000-07:00

Me and Sabine(aka Pam) at work. (...stupid looking me)

...eh, deine Muddäää, eh...!

2007-05-08T07:04:00.000-07:00

Plinke in da house

Parts of my family

2007-05-04T17:01:00.000-07:00

Some pictures I took last weekend at my sister's place in Lübek. One of her sons, Lukas, was celebrating confirmation.

Shit... I really like this photo!

2007-05-04T16:04:00.000-07:00

Valle and me at work (...actually Valle took this picture with his right hand)

The bus-riding-cat

2007-04-18T02:10:00.000-07:00

Wow!!! ...check this out. There's a cat taking the bus all alone three times a week getting to a certain place in London.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=447527&in_page_id=1770

Löwe braucht Zärtlichkeiten

2007-04-09T09:42:00.000-07:00

That's just incredible... it looks like an attack, but then...

The Hole - video powered by Metacafe

Recht des Stärkeren

2007-04-09T09:19:00.000-07:00

What the hell is goin' on here

Click Here for more great videos and pictures!

4 years drummer !! - amazing

2007-04-09T08:59:00.000-07:00

This post is dedicated to Lukas, also a very good drummer.

baby duck feed the carp (Nishiki-Goi, Koi)

2007-04-09T08:48:00.000-07:00

Sometimes nature can be irritating, but who cares...it's so cute

Stephan and Andreas

2007-03-28T04:09:00.000-07:00

Our two interns Stephan and Andreas during lunchtime at the "Alster"

Markus P

2007-03-15T09:20:00.000-07:00

Don't know what to say here. - ... he's just a fucking good animator. (..and funny anyway)

Sabine

2007-03-15T08:16:00.000-07:00

... also called Pam in our institute, is hardly trying to keep alive our women-quota, and is by the way working as TD. :)

Valentin

2007-03-15T08:02:00.000-07:00

Valle, one of our dear collegues at Spans&Partner, a good drawer, animator and modeler.

My kitty feels all sleepy in winter

2007-03-06T02:41:00.000-08:00

For the kiddies of my sister

2007-01-29T03:21:00.000-08:00

Old memories

2007-01-06T07:29:00.000-08:00

My Father at his 70th birthday. We had something like 50 guests at my parent's place in Baden-Baden and my sister talented with poetic skills was reading a very funny hymn on the birthday-child. My father was laughing so hard I just had to get this on film.

2007-01-03T07:49:00.000-08:00

Anybody who is into lost and abandoned places?
Go and have a look here (click on that picture:

... and some other similar pages:

abandonedplaces - abandoned - forgottenplaces
danart - silentwall - nostalgicglass - deonderwereld
islandia - marode welt - dezafekt - hfinster - lipsheim
menschenleer - industrie - robdobi - striped
edwardburtynsky - industriezerfall - oboylephoto
kittyempire - schattenlose - icpnet - kodansha
exposed-photography - dubtown - perso.orange
users.pandora - opacity - urb-ex - cathedralsofdecay
dijitalphotography - jloliver - mechanised - futurespeak
suburban - urbanatrophy

First morning of year 2007

2007-01-03T03:14:00.000-08:00

I love my new camera! (...and my cat ofcourse - she looked realy cute this morning)
This'll gonna be a good year, I think.

Stray-cats of Croatia

2006-10-06T07:01:00.000-07:00

...and ofcourse the hundred million alley-cats we met at every corner:

Freeclimbing at the coast

2006-10-02T04:11:00.000-07:00

We even found a place where we could practice freeclimbing without any equipment. which means, if you fall, you fall, but into seawater (hopefully deep enough).

Croatia ick liebe dir

2006-09-27T07:47:00.000-07:00

I just came back from a two-week-trip through Croatia and here are some impressions:

Parts of my family

2006-08-24T16:14:00.000-07:00

My father

My father and Lukas

Lukas

Lukas

Lukas

Judith and Lukas

Judith and Wolfram

Kolja

New digital photo-camera

2006-08-22T04:46:00.000-07:00

I just bought my new Nikon D70 and this is one of my first pictures I took. Ofcourse it's my cat.

Still Statues

2006-07-28T04:48:00.000-07:00

A pathetic one from cemetary "Montmatre". - Look at the patina.

Cat and Statue - I dig the combination

2006-07-28T04:38:00.000-07:00

And another one taken on "Pere Lachaise". That cat was sleeping right next to the legs of this beauty and just waking up when I took the picture. What a lucky moment.

I love Paris, and if it's just for the cemetaries

2006-07-24T02:47:00.000-07:00

I met this lovely girl up the mountain on "Pere Lachaise". She was so said I had to ask her, but she didn't wanna talk about it. So I just took a picture and left.

You have to cool down these days

2006-07-20T03:16:00.000-07:00

One of those mega-hot weekends where your only chance of surviving depends on getting as close as possible to the biggest amount of water Hamburg can come up with - The Alster.

Armin and Stefan

Armin, Stefan and Andreas

Birgit, Martin, Stefan and Andreas

Me, Birgit and Martin

Little girl-scetch during work

2006-06-22T07:28:00.000-07:00

What a cool cat!

2006-06-13T06:21:00.000-07:00

A weakness for the romantic epoche

2006-06-12T10:56:00.000-07:00

I know for most people this kind of poem might sound kitchy, but I have to admit, I have a great weakness for those romantic writings and everytime I read those I become elegic and somehow get lost in thoughts. ( by the way this is one of the most beautiful statues I've seen in my life (cemetary in Berlin))

Ich träume wieder von der Unbekannten,
die schon so oft im Traum vor mir gestanden.

Wir lieben uns, sie streicht das wirre Haar
mir aus der Stirn mit Händen wunderbar.

Und sie versteht mein rätselhaftes Wesen
und kann in meinem dunklen Herzen lesen.

Du fragst mich: ist sie blond? Ich weiß es nicht.
Doch wie ein Märchen ist ihr Angesicht.

Und wie sie heißt? Ich weiß es nicht. Doch es klingt
ihr Name süß, wie wenn die Ferne singt, -

wie eines Name, den Du Liebling heißt,
und den du Ferne und verloren weißt.

Und ihrer Stimme Ton ist dunkelfarben
wie Stimmen von Geliebten, die uns starben.

Paul Verlaine

Thumbs up for Marcus Plinke

2006-06-01T07:11:00.000-07:00

Here comes Markus Plinke our new animator, fresh from the filmacademy, starting his big career at Spans&Partner (no just kidding, hope to learn something from this talented guy)

Freelance-time

2006-05-28T17:50:00.000-07:00

This was a job I did in Stuttgart with a bunch of people for M.A.R.C.13 during my short freelance-period 5 years ago. It was an animation for a music-video from Rammstein called "Links". The music is rather dull, but it was fun to animate real ants behaviour.

Tideland

2006-05-19T06:15:00.000-07:00

Shit, I really 'd like to see this film. It's the newest Teri Gilliam-movie, but unfortunately, as I heard, it's hard for him to find distributers, so I guess I have to wait quite a time. Have a look at the trailer, beautiful pictures and a very dreamy world inside a little girl's head.

Press here for the website

If you wanna see the trailer go to 'Access Map' and hit the trailer-field.

GEZ-Sheep

2006-05-18T06:22:00.000-07:00

It's a bit late, but here's the new GEZ-ad I animated together with a friend at Spans&Partner. The spot also won on the animago-contest the first price.

Press here for the movie (54.4 MB)

Co-workers

2006-05-18T03:36:00.000-07:00

Jan and Valentin at Spans&Partner

That's the feeling

2006-05-17T05:57:00.000-07:00

Just fuckin' awsome:

Sketches

2006-05-17T03:34:00.000-07:00

Some drawings I did lately

Comic-time

2006-05-15T16:07:00.000-07:00

This is stuff I did at least 15 years ago. I remember that in this time I was fascinated from one of first comics ever made from Windsor McCay called "Little Nemo". So I started to draw my first own comic. It should have been a children-comic, but I definitely underestimated the hard work and so unfortunately I never finished it. Here are just a few drawings I did:

Some 3D-Stuff

2006-05-15T15:41:00.000-07:00

These are three images out of my 3D-Diplom-project I did when I was at the filmacademy in Ludwigsburg. It was part of a feature-film called "Tunnel" my dear good old friend Martin created in director's class. I had to build up and animate a dream-sequence with a gigantic turtle sitting on train-tracks. Well, that was kind of arty and underground, but what a great time!

Sommerterrassen

2006-05-04T07:10:00.000-07:00

I met my good friend Goro along with two other co-workers Melanie and Martin at the "Sommerterrassen" in Hamburg. Hope to see him soon again. He's going to the south of Germany now to join an interesting project for at least half a year.

LPD-songs are great

2006-05-01T11:03:00.000-07:00

Some years ago I used to listen a lot to the music of "Legendary Pink Dots" and I always liked their lyric. So here is the text out of a song called "The Lovers".- I like their almost poetic descriptions.

The Lovers (part one)

Airport torture. Patience! Wait! The tannoy shouts you've just arrived and
fingers tap and eyes are strained - they wander through the queue for
recognition. Soon we'll be together - sharing secrets. Share a scarf...... and
share a little heaven. Again. ...

Kisses over breakfast. Touching souls and swapping wishes. The coffee's cold
- you washed the dishes - shared a cigarette and time to go. We took the train -
still clutching. We smiled as others looked away....then looked again...

Hands across the table - tasting tears and linking fingers. Case is packed but
we'll still linger `til our time is up. Soon we'll just be swapping letters, crying
down the telephone. We'll wish away the seconds `til the story starts
again...............

Legendary Pink Dots

Sunday morning

2006-04-27T14:21:00.000-07:00

This is where I live - I like those mornings in winter.

2006-04-27T07:39:00.000-07:00

well... and this is part 2 of the storyboard.

Valle

2006-04-26T09:43:00.000-07:00

valle melle valle melle

2006-04-26T06:26:00.000-07:00

This is old stuff from years ago. I did this photo-storyboard to apply at the Filmacademy in Ludwigsburg back in 1994 and though it's a bit amateur-like I like the story somehow.

2006-04-22T16:29:00.000-07:00

My cat nowadays. She likes to turn the back on me and watching me over the mirror for hours. Somehow scary sometimes.

2006-04-21T06:49:00.000-07:00

This is my cat when she was 10 weeks old - I call her 'Mitzi', but her real name is 'Frau Schulze' - Such a cutie!!

2006-04-20T13:08:00.000-07:00

This is me and my girlfriend Rachel in my old appartment in Berlin (1992).
Well - I think I watched to much "BLADE RUNNER" these times.