Style your Garage

Hey everyone,
as some of you might know, there is a thing going on named Style-Your-Garage. You can order some photo-canvas to attach to your garage gate. There are a lot of motives to chose from, like airplanes, boats, landscapes or whatever. After you've put that on your garage gate, it should look like the inside of your garage is completely different like you may expect it.

My friend and icehockey team member Flipper, asked me a few month ago if I could do something special for him, that he can chose whats in his garage or behind it and don't have to chose from the given motives. His wish was a nice italian landscape behind his garage, that you can walk outside the garage directly to some kind of paradise. For interior he hadn't that much in mind already so I just took his interests and his persons and added stuff I thought that would fit.

Everything was build in 3D, so that the light an everything affects the things in the right way and the perspective fits always to a view point that we're used to... It doesn't look like that much work, but believe me it was, lot of working hours, lots of restarts but finally its done:






This was just a short update, cause I havent the time to run 2 blogs at the same time. As I started to work with wordpress, I'm sure, that this blog here won't exist that long any more, I will sum all my work including my portfolio and actual projects up in one blog.

But yeah, that needs time and surfing is much more important right now:-)
See you soon guys!

New Shoes!

I finally found the time to get my Canon 40D unpacked again and take a few shots...

What could be a better object than shoes?! I've been shopping yesterday and

found a couple of great oldschool Vans-Sneakers... but at home I recognized that I've got the way to many shoes. So I decided to throw a bunch of them away, but before that I took photos of all shoes I've worn the last few years, and somehow I've got memories with all of them. (I'll show a series of them all in an update soon).

So here are my new ones, combined with 2 new great free fonts...

Hang in there, only 25 days till California, all the best,

Stoked Don

I'm in the Rutenfestmood

As I promised I pushed the button yesterday(very very hard);-)

First day of our Rutenfest is over and it was awesome!

As I told you in my last post, there is a 3D update waiting for you.

I've modeled a drum, similar to the drums used at our festival.

Check the final image, as a wallpaper, out here:

Here are some other screenshots:

Download the wallpaper and get the Rutenfest-feeling!

Scheene Ruata!

Reset - A motto

So, studies are almost over...all exams lie passed behind me and I'm totally ready for my vacation!!! We've got this huge festival in my hometown the next five days and I somehow felt like I had to sum up my motto for these days in a new wallpaper.... So look here:

Go forward, download it...I'm gonna push the button, how about you?!:-)

See you all soon with a little 3D Update.

Bye and "scheene Ruata"

Don

Positive Wallpaper

Thursday Night ... 11 hours at university today ... still can't breath through my operated nose ...

But no need to complain! I got a small update for you. Nothing special, just another wallpaper I did tired and exhausted in front of my macbook. If you wanna download it, go forward. If you wanna drop me a line, I'd feel appreciated...so go forward!

See you guys,

hang in there!

Bye bye

IN MEMORY OF MICHEAL JACKSON

THOUGH ALL RUMORS - HE HAS BEEN A GREAT GUY

(Who seem to have died while I made it!)

L.O.V.E

Hey Guys,

a friend of mine sent me a very cool quote about love.

I did a little background artwork. If you wanna download it, go forward!

Just click on the image to get it in higher res.

I'll try do a bunch of updates of this blog today. So watch out.

See you in hell,

Thunder

Roommate Max before going to sleep

After another long day spent at my computer drawing senseless storyboards for studies, I had the desire to shoot with my new baby. So I went one door further, knocked and surprised my roommate Max with a ten-minute-shoot. He has already been dressed  for bed, but that should be no reason not to take some shots. So here they are:

As always, click them for higher res.

All the best,

See you soon

My new Softbox + My Dad + Dave Hill look

I took a few shots with my new umbrella softbox of my dad Bruce. He hates to get photographed, can't understand it, i like is rough face and his ice-blue eyes. But as a Willis you probably like more the fighting-shooting-thing;-) The shots were retouched with the Dave Hill look, I like it, but it has been copied the way too much.

Build your own Lightsphere

I've been to a concert a few weeks ago and had to take some shots of the band. I had to shoot at a very low position because of the sitting ;-) audience. I shot with my Canon Speedlight 299T and had a big problem with hard shadows at the roof (i leo'd Decke, don't get a good word for it, doesn't matter). I decided to build my own lightsphere as a portable solution for a soft light and soft shadows. I took an empty mouth wash bottle, cut one side off and wraped around 2 layers of white baking paper. Easy and cheap cheap cheap! Check it out here:

And here is the result:

On top with my Lightsphere, below the one without LS and some great shadows;-)

Thanks to my model, CM Punk!

Colorful Wallpaper

I've done a wallpaper for my macbook in cinema. Didn't expect it to be that nice. So if you want make your desktop look colorful, go ahead and download it here:

IVYLICE Website and Myspace

IVYLICE are some friends of mine, who design shirts and draw them on their own. They asked me to do a website redesign and mypsace design for them. I wanted to combine fabric elements with a clear design. This is what finally made it:

Ivylice.com
Ivylice Myspace

I had a lot of fun during that project, lots of different programms and lots of sleepless nights. Stay punk, Don

Fluff Affair EP Cover

I've done a cover for my friend Paul and his band Fluffaffair.

I had to hurry, only 3 days before deadline i had the chance to

take the pictures i needed. The cover is all about the love vs. friends-thing.

No one needs all of these lovesongs, we need happy ones.

Click on the images to get them in higher res.
I want to say thanks to my friend Irina (the hottie on the left), my dearest Josi (drunken partyboy on the right) and my schwede (the decider). Check out Fluffaffair on Myspace. I've also done their myspace-design, nothing special, just fitting with the cover-artwork.
Bye Don

12pt5 Blog and Website online

Dear Boys and Girls,

i decided a few weeks ago to run my own website to show some of my work.

The prime reason for this, is my application for my internship in the 5th (next) semester.

To complete my online appearance i run this blog. It's easier to show some 

actual work here than integrate it into my website everytime. So stay tuned, visit my website:

www.12pt5.com and suscribe this blog to your rss-readers.

Bye Don