What Pan Walther did with great care by hand & with smelly chemicals, I can nowadays do with some picture editing program and a working knowledge of histogram curves. I had been wanting to try for a while; when I took a walk with my mum this evening, I took some pictures with my new camera (which is neither new nor mine), then frobbed the results a ( Read more... )

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Sorry, I'm spamming the flist today. But Der Spiegel has an interview with Shaun Tan where he answers in pictures*.


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My mother and I took a train to Frankfurt (they don't seem to have their transporters installed yet even though they are sort of advertising them*, so train it is),


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The two serious appointments/things to go to this month (apart from my vacation, of course!) all had to happen on the same day ( Read more... )

One of my favourite photographers of all time finally has a web site!

This is what may be his most generally known work:


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I am in probably the most valuable hotel room I have ever stayed in. The owners of our hotel are modern art collectors and have originals in every room ( Read more... )

Don't say 'Bless you' -- that's what the lovely Art Nouveau bath is called, you know, the one where I go with nazgulwears  when I'm AWOL for an evening from the Intarwebz. I took these pictures a week ago, and promised to post them -- now I finally processed them, and here they are!

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To some of you, I mentioned having drawn cute kids instead of writing while offline at the Baltic Sea? Well, I've put all of them on the scanner last weekend at my sister's (she's got a very superior scanner), burned them on a CD- and here they are now.

Most of them show what I inagine some of the characters from the discworld_rpg might have looked like as ( Read more... )