Chapter 56 Almost stepped on it...

2008-09-25T08:04:00.003+02:00

Something's Glowing...

2008-09-18T09:06:00.000+02:00

Santa Cruz

2008-09-14T09:33:00.002+02:00

Finally some Pictures. ^^
I made a short road trip to Santa Cruz today driving along the coast line on highway no.1 with two friends of mine! Was a fun trip. And Santa Cruz was great!

The hot tub was the highlight of the evening... ^^

San Francisco

2008-09-09T20:17:00.003+02:00

Hey guys I'm not dead! ^^
I'm really sorry for the lag of updates but I recently moved to San Francisco and I was very busy settling in the last 4 weeks. I've found a nice apartment in San Mateo, went to IKEA and FRY's a couple of times. I had a lot of trouble getting phone line, internet, credit card etc. without having a credit history....but that seems to be normal over here.
Anyways I'm pretty much settled in and I'm having a great time here in the bay area. The weather is awesome! It hasn't been raining since I arrived here five weeks ago. That's incredible for someone coming from Hamburg ^^
Work is awesome and I met a bunch of people I knew for years through the net.
So I just wanted to let you know that I'm enjoying a new chapter in my life here in CA and hopefully I'll be able to update my blog with new artwork soon!

Red Door

2008-07-12T19:24:00.002+02:00

Red has trouble with her internet...

Street View update

2008-07-08T12:08:00.004+02:00

Googole Maps Street View goes Europe!!
Many roads in France already available awesome!

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Bubble

2008-06-11T23:31:00.001+02:00

This one just came out of my head...

Uplift Universe Challenge....too late T.T

2008-05-17T19:30:00.002+02:00

I came back to Germany one week ago. The vacation was amazing even if I became terribly sick the last two days. ^^
I was very busy the last week...! Anyways unfortunately I didn't find time to finish my Uplift Universe Alien Relation Challenge on CGSociety. Here are some of my concept sketches I did for the challenge.
The goal was to show the relationship between aliens and Humans.

Taronga Zoo

2008-05-05T03:51:00.000+02:00

We went to the Taronga Zoo on Saturday. It's an amazing zoo but unfortunately we arrived a little late that we had only 3 hours to walk around and we missed a couple of animals. But the weather was great and we had really close looks at the animals.
Picture time! ^^

And another great view to the beautiful Sydney skyline.

Later that evening we went to a birthday party of a friend of manuel's. We had a great time. Today is Sunday and since we were pretty exhausted from all the trips we've done during the week, we decided to stay at home doing nothing. Mimi cooked super delicious dinner (as usual) and we watched a weird but funny movie called 'The Heartbreak Kid' afterwards. Off to bed...

Garie Beach

2008-05-03T10:36:00.000+02:00

Times flies like an arrow...it's friday already and Manuel and I went on a day trip to the Royal National Park. We drove down to the Garie Beach. This was definitely the best beach I've seen since I came here. Have a look at the pictures!

We walked up the hill and had a fantastic view from the top!

bot in the sand...

Jenolan Caves

2008-05-01T02:58:00.003+02:00

After stopping by at Pulpit Rock we continued our tour to the Jenolan Caves. It was an one hour drive and it was very exiting to drive on the very tight winding road down to the caves.

We did a 1.5 hours guided tour through the Lucas Cave. This cave contains the highest and largest chambers of the Jenolan Caves.
The scale of the chambers were incredible.

The most photographed feature of the Lucas Cave seems to be the Broken Column...and I just took a picture to raise the quote... ^^

It was an awesome 2 days trip and we are pretty tired now....
(_ _ )zzZ

Blackheath

2008-05-01T02:27:00.003+02:00

The weather was perfect! Blue sky and we finally rent a car for a week and drove straight to the Blue Mountains. The car is pretty comfortable. It's a hyundai but I had to get used to driving on the left side of the road....everything is mirrored and changing gears with the left hand is quiet difficult. And when I turn...I always turn on the wipers first! ^^;

We parked our car in Blackheath and went for a pretty long and exhausting walk from Govetts Leap Lookout to Evans Lookout and all the way back. Other than in the city it was very cold up in the mountains. Thank god that we took some warm clothes with us. In the night the temperature was even below zero.

The air was fresh and view was overwhelming. Since we wanted to continue our tour to the Jenolan Caves, we decided to stay over night in Blackheath in a motel. And damn it! My room was so cold....I suffered through the night T.T

The next morning we drove to the Pulpit Rock Lookout which was the most spectacular one of the three we have seen.

and here are two of my favorite pictures I took on our way.

from Bondi to Maroubra

2008-04-29T00:57:00.004+02:00

We didn't get a car today but tomorrow we certainly will ^^. I went to Bondi Beach with Manuel instead. It was a bit cold and windy but still awesome. We took the bus to Bondi and walked along the coast from beach to beach. Me at Bondi.

Even the wind was strong the waves weren't. But there were still some pacient young surfers.

I really love the color of the water...it always makes me want to jump in right away...so clear and beautiful...

And what would be a post without all those lovely animals I've seen on my way.

People who know Sydney might be able to imagine how far we walked today. From Bondi Beach straight to Maroubra Beach...
There are a couple of other beaches inbetween. That was a pretty long but exiting walk. (my feet hurt.... T.T)
Later this evening my fellow artist Min invited me for dinner. We had some delicious Thai food. I better go to bed now. Need to get up early tomorrow.
more to come!

Manly

2008-04-28T08:22:00.005+02:00

Today was Sunday and Manuel, Mimi and I went to Manly a very beautiful part of Sydney. But first I want to show you the view from Manuel's balcony....awesome hugh?

So we went to Manly by ferry and had lunch at the beach.

After lunch we walked through the national park. Beautiful nature and we saw many lizards and pretty scary spiders... I took over a hundred photos today ^^;
Here is a best of.

An awesome view from the national park to the down town skyline!

Tomorrow we'll probably rent a car for a week to explore the areas around Sydney! Can't wait.

Aquarium & Wildlife World

2008-04-28T08:20:00.001+02:00

I went to the Darling Harbour to visit the Aquarium and the Wildlife World. I loved it. I really need to go diving in the great barrier reef sometime...
Here are some pics.
Aquarium

Wildlife World

Saturday the weather was fantastic and I went to Maroubra Beach with my buddy Manuel. Many surfers and giant waves...when we entered the water the beach patrol asked us to come out because of dangerous current and high waves. The waves were indeed very high I've actually never seen such waves in life before. Awesome!
As we walked a bit further we found a nice rock pool where we could swim. We spent some time there. I loved it! Sorry no pics... T.T

Sydney Day 2

2008-04-24T11:04:00.003+02:00

Since Manuel and Mimi had to work I called my buddy Adam (a fellow concept artist I know through online forums) to catch up with him in the city. It was raining very badly so we went to the art gallery and later to a nice cafe where Oyo (room mate of Adam) joined us. We spent some time there talking and sketching. Later they invited me to their place where we caught up with Manuel and my fellow artist Min. I'm now sitting in an internet cafe cause Manuel doesn't have internet at home x_x I think I'm going to check the aquarium today. More to come...

P.S. Until now I didn't find any free wireless access points...and internet is freakin' expensive in Sydney T.T

First Time Sydney

2008-04-24T10:48:00.002+02:00

I have never been so far away from home. I'm now pretty much on the other side of the World. My buddy Manuel offered me his couch for my stay in australia. I'm really grateful for that.
Manuel picked me up early in the morning at SYD airport before he went to work. After resting a bit at his place, his wife Mimi took me straight to downtown. We went to the opera house and took a walk in the botanic gardens right next to it. And WOW...so many birds I've never seen before in wild life....just beautiful!

At a certain point Mimi told me to look up....At first I didn't see anything and suddenly....BAM...a whole bunch of bats hanging in the trees. I was totally freaked out. I mean...just look at that! 0_o;

I'm so looking forward to see more animals and australian nature! Next week Manuel Mimi and I will do some trips to places around Sydney. Can't wait....
I love this city already!

A Sign Of Life

2008-04-24T10:36:00.002+02:00

Hello from Sydney! I decided to do some vacation since I haven't done that for the last 2 years. The flight takes about 22 hours from Germany. Since I don't enjoy flying that much I made a 4 day stop in Seoul (South Korea). (about 11hours to Seoul, about 11hours from Seoul to Sydney) Even it was a short stay I had a really great time. I met some really nice people walking around with them all day, doing a day trip to the north korean border, eating nice korean food, going to a korean hip-hop club and of course no lae bang in the night.

I rarely used the time so effectively. Many thanks to Seung-Hee, Animesh and Min. I had a great time!

Valley

2008-04-04T16:42:00.001+02:00

So....

2008-03-31T23:05:00.004+02:00

Hey guys. Lag of updates continues... ^^;
I didn't paint much in the last few weeks. But I did enter the new cgchallenge over at cgsociety.org. I don't know if I find enough time to finish but I started to do some concept sketches. The Challenge title is Uplift Univers - Alien Relations.
Click here for my challenge page.
I still have some ideas floating in my mind that I have to capture on canvas...

Oh and check out REE's new short film below! I watched it several times in a row ^^ So adorable! Loving it REE!

*cough* Heiko...*cough* update your blog *cough*... :P

Easter Eggs

2008-03-21T18:50:00.002+01:00

Sorry for the lag of updates....
I bought a Macbook and I was very busy setting up my new toy ^^
Happy easter everybody! Hope to do more frequent updates again.

Storch

2008-02-29T23:31:00.003+01:00

Dice

2008-02-28T00:11:00.000+01:00

Balanco

2008-02-26T23:46:00.003+01:00

He's trying to walk without touching the ground...

Leaf Collector

2008-02-21T23:02:00.001+01:00