so much for creative sparks...

.. while browsing for books on ebay i found this:

... listed as modern art (for 150-2800 bucks)....

wouldn't bug me so much if I didn't knew the art of Shunya Yamashita who happened to be the original creator of:

I'm really really ashamed that the "artist" who turned Yamashita's art into something -very personal and subjective opinion of mine- totally butt-ugly is actually German. Copy-pasta for 150 bucks?... cheapo.

If you ever consider doing art for living and don't want to be creative try to steal something NOT THAT POPULAR. Arg....

Chubs For Droid :D

shameless advertising >_<
We finally started uploading the first Chubbanimal Live Wallpaper. Actually it won't be the last if people love those. Jason and I have been working quite a while on new ones but the more we do the longer it takes since the concepts get bigger and bigger and oh well... bigger.
Anyways, I'm happy with the outcome and I had Bao on my own droid for a while and it's so cute when he's following you touches.
The LWP can be downloaded for free here
and the Donation Version here

Still working on nerd-stuff at the moment for Schmidt Spiele. It's a challenge but I'm still excited about the whole thing. Maybe because it's so very not cute.

Ouchn...

seriously...this is not fair. and the insane amount isn't that huge since I replaced everything with ginger tea over the last months. Seems like the "fairly" normal dose plus being nervous about a concept presentation was a bit too much.

Pokey Kittehs...

... want outside... finally.
We're currently installing (or trying to) the cat wire network outside on the balcony. Birdie HD TV in that case.

Kulla speed-felting *yowzaaa*

Awwww! Kulla looks a bit gloomy but hell, I never knew how to felt so this is epic anyway.

On monday I had one of those rare moments - in the middle of a night- where I knew a idea was creeping right into my head. I can't explain it in any better way but it's like sensing something's coming up and if you're lucky it doesn't vanish right before you can grab it.
I can remember every three times I had that moments and all were book plot moments. I know I'm a whack...

Anybody else every experienced it?

Flip it, Babe! -Photoshop and OpenGL

The Rotation tool of Photoshop CS5 is one of the best inventions ever. I supsected CS5 wouldn't offer (to me) anything I really love but ... gods, I love rotation when I need straight(er) lines and it comes in handy if you need to ink or work neat.

don't ask what the motive is.... anyways, big file is big. I guess you'll be able to see everything....

More information by Adobe can be found here:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/404/kb404898.html
and here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSA6DF9C40-CEA8-4cfd-9A8B-44108E2975DD.html


I know Painter had it for ages but as some people might have painfully experienced Painter seems to be unable to NOT crash. I mostly work with 600 dpi and I doubt Painter would have liked my game board with 2 m width and 600 dpi.

Hope somebody didn't know the Rotation tool and loves it as much as I do now :)

Art Academy Bao

Lazy ass at the moment. I'm always tired but since the Nintendo DSi is so small and light I'd favor it as my couch buddy right now. Everybody's heading to Leipzig right now... I travel into the opposite direction and spend my week-end in Hamburg with Sonja.