Croquis

About a month and a half ago I got both my hands infected from too much work, and I haven't really been able to sit in front of a computer since then. They are almost 100% back thank god, but I am passing my time sketching and doodeling and doing some good old 2d animations as well. As part of this retro wave of mine I hooked up with one of my buddies, Peter Ruschel, to go do some croquis. I am quite rusty I must admit, but it is great exercise, and its a nice crowd to hang with...

 Here are a few of my doodles from last weeks sessions...

My girlfriend gave me a black eye...

Just another day with an abusive make-up artist girlfriend...

I feel like DAAACNING!

Yesterday i had a streak of sudden and intense happyness: My hands are healing, the weather was so nice, then there was all the Guggenheim fuzz and i just FELT LIKE DANCING. I was dancing a little, but the people in the U-bahn didn't think it was cool, so I grabbed my sketchbook and doodled this very very quick little comic on the way home to watch Flashforward with my loved one (Click on it for biiig):

The Guggenheim and me?

The craziest thing just happened. Yesterday The Guggenheim and YouTube, in collaboration with HP and Intel announced the shortlist of 125 videos for the youtube/play exhibition at the Guggenheim museum in NY and Bear Untitled is holding a spot on that list. I know that it is only the shortlist. Out of these 125 videos, only 20 will be entering the grand halls of Guggenheim, but I am pretty darn exited about it so far, and baffled that mine and Henrik's silly remark on a harsh teenage breakup made it through the initial 23.000 videos submitted to the exhibition in the first place. Now it is up to a hardcore jury of awesome artists to select the 20 final videos. Amongst them are such names as Darren Aronofsky, Stefan Sagmeister and Animal Collective, just to mention a few.

Read the Guggenheim press release here


The announcement of the final 20 will be made on the 21'st of October.

 

And here it is in the youtube version

The Chandelier Story

Eva and I live in an awesome old fashioned Berlin apartment with 4 meters to the ceiling and tall wooden doors. Ever since we moved in we wanted to buy a Chandelier for the living room. But those Devils are expensive and even a cheap one would be at least 150 euros, so we never got around to buying one. Then around 2 weeks ago I was on my way to do some good old fashioned grocery shopping as I passed our garbage container and somebody had thrown out an old chandelier. It was pretty worn and all the crystals were hanging in laces, laying around it or missing. Just for the heck of it I picked up the pieces and brought it home with me. We spend the entire evening polishing crystals, dissembling the chandelier and putting it back together. I took all the crystals off and rearranged them and now we have an awesome light source in the middle of the living room. Unfortunately I don't have any before pictures but feast on an after-shot. Now we can go towards darker times heads high. Heck yeah!

Fimoland

I just got back from a week in Barcelona. Untitled BCN celebrated its 2 years birthday and Jess and Xavi invited me back* to take part in their birthday-exhibition. I made a series of sculptures called "The Vovels and F". (They are for sale so give me a shout if interested)


*I exhibited my fluorescent paintings there in january.

 The night before leaving Eva didn't get too much sleep and I hardly any. I had 3 deadlines to finish before leaving and on top of that we were busy on finishing the last of the sculptures for the exhibition. Luckily Eva was a trooper and did most of the preparing work for the sculptures.

Here's a short pictorial making of. Eva looks a bit tired but to her excuse it was around 3 o'clock in the morning:

Some kid drew this fan drawing in the gallery guest book, describing which ones he loves the most. That is just straight out flattering!

While we were in Barcelona, we stayed with Jess, one of the Gallery owners, and her fierce cat Derrek in their cool apartment in Gracia. During our stay they had a street fiesta going on, so all the streets were decorated in the most amazing ways. I normally don't post too many vacation photos on this blog, but the labor these good people put into decorating their respectful streets calls for a bit of sharing. It was so amazing walking the streets at night. Everything is made out of 100% recycling stuff. Old water bottles, boxes etc.

 

What a trip. And thanks to all the guys in Barcelona for yet another rock'n'roll stray!

P3 Making of... sort of....

Haha, Christina Maria just posted a small making of featurette on youtube. For all you tech nerds out there dont get too exited; it is basically just me, Peter and Christina rambeling through strange situations during the process - and everything in the video took place before the digital process of it. But it features how to build a mountain, an ecological beard and how awkward I am on camera...