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The first days have passed. London is really wonderful, even it is expensive over the top. This weekend I visited Canary Wharf and Greenwich with a good friend. Today I took a bus to Crystal Palace and walked through the park. They had some vintage dinosaurs and even a maze in the park. In Germany you are happy if there is a lake with a bench.
I try to upload photos at a regularly basis of my time here in London. Here is the link to my Flickr Set:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/massik/sets/72157622244318487/

Drop by and leave a comment if you feel so.

~massik~

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A long passage of time passed by since my last post. Some things changed, some did not change.
The nice part is that I successfully passed my pre diploma and will move for at least 1 semester to London. The Flight is already booked for the 10th of Sep. Now I only need to pack my stuff.

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And only 2 months left till intermediate diploma. I am thrilled what the next months will bring. This January I applied for Erasmus in London. Hopefully it will go smoothly and I can spend a year in England at the Camberwell College. Besides the preparations for the exchange we got a lot of work to do for uni: Creating a font, building a chair (still from the last semester), designing various posters, doing presentations and drawing all kind of stuff.
Matter of fact is I totally love what I am doing and so the work does not feel so harsh. The only let-down is the constant need of focusing on a small amount of projects. So you cannot do all the stuff you want…

A huge motivator is the current weather. I never thought that I will ever like spring more than autumn. But I have to admit it feels so great smelling the fresh air and feeling the sun on your skin.
~~massik

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That`s it.

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Sure, is not about Christmas, but I do not mind.

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I am definitely not in the mood for Christmas now… By the way, we went to the zoo again. Was okay. Drew some fishes and corals. Maybe I upload them.

~massik~

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Yesterday we went to the opera and watched Verdi’s Aida. The music was quite nice but the singers performed in the first part not so well. But the second part was really good. I enjoyed it very much. Unfortunately was the opera performance not typically Verdi. There were no mass scenes and no real elephants. You saw just a white room with a couch during the whole production. But in conclusion it was a very nice evening.

Today was an ordinary day at the Uni. We drew, but nothing that I would consider showing in this blog. It is indeed not worthy.

Well, enough talk and good night.

~massik~

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Went to the opera and bought 6 tickets. The tickets are for the last row of seats. Hope we will see what is going to happen at the stage.

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Drew this today in my sketchbook during class. Mondays we have drawing class. Our teacher follows some kind of German drawing trend, the so called “blind-drawing”. You have to draw without looking. I do not know if I like this approach or not. Sometimes it is funny and amusing. But after a while I get very very sick of it and need to draw the good old academic way or something out of my head…

Tomorrow I will face typography class. Hope it will be better then last time. The first lecture was about writing with a quill / pen. I never experienced such a thrill writing letters… It is really boring. Hopefully we will start designing our own font tomorrow. Otherwise I got a backup plan: Drawing.

Forgot to point out, that our workload increased this semester by a huge amount in comparison to the last semester. But I still enjoy studying at the HGB. Of course there are days when I wish I could study anywhere else then here…

Good Night Everybody.

~~~massik

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Today was the exhibition from our class. We built a giant Octopus out of card boxes. That was last week. Now the thing is about 5 metres tall. Unfortunately we have to destroy it in the next days. If I had a camera I would have taken some photos. It really looks great. Maybe someone of our class took some photos. The Octopus itself has no purpose and is not connect to the works of our exhibition. But we built it with the reason to hide all of our furniture and to get some attention.

The Chameleon was drawn by me with good old pencil. I made it for the show because we set ourselves the task to create a self-portrait. We drew us all as some kind of an animal. First I thought about choosing a penguin, a walrus or griffin. They are all animals in some awkward way. I like that. But in the end and because of the fear to set a wrong impression I chose a chameleon with a lollipop. Do not know if this is really better…

~~~massik

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Drew this a few weeks ago. It is not finished yet, but I like it. Maybe I will paint it in oil.

Okay, second try to post this. Sometimes I hate flickR and its stupid CSS. Maybe it is really time to redesign my blog. The whole layout looks so cheap and crappy…

~~~massik

Improved my way of shopping. Now it is more fun to write down my needs. Guess which list is from today…

~~~massik

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Just something tiny. Doodled while sitting in the park in Stuttgart. I visited a good friend of mine during my vacation. Did not draw as much as I expected and planned but even a little progress is better than nothing…

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Thought I try something new. Wanted to draw fast and loose. I used pencil and cheap felt pens.  To the ideas: I used a new approach and drew this time something that moved  and bothered me.

massik~~

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This is my second woodprint. Made it 2 weeks ago. As this day was quite busy and exhausting I will go to bed now.

~~ Good Night ~~

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At the moment I am attending a wood print course. I really like it. The feeling to carve in the wood or in this work, into linoleum, is very satisfying. You can see how the image slowly arises. The image grows with every stroke that you make. Every stroke is final, you cannot change it. So you have to think, what you are doing. The work becomes final whether it is finished or not. That is some kind of a relieving feeling for me.

Some notes about the image: We got the task to create an icon. I thought about carving something with a meaning, something that looked good and would be a challenge. I ended up with this. Not the real icon I imagined and not the icon with reason and meaning like in the tradition of all the christian icons. But I think “it” emits non the less some kind of dignity. But please do not ask me why he is floating in space…

Sorry for the few posts in a while. But I am very busy with all kind of stuff that is bothering me lately. From “a” like rotten apples to “z” like the zeros at my dentist bill. Maybe I am able to post more regularly in the near future:)…

~~~I wish all of you a good weekend.

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Summer semester has started. Almost everything is working fine, except the weather does not want to get better. And what is a new semester with the usual Bafög problems? It seems that I worked to much in the holidays. So now they will reduce my Bafög, most likely. As you earn money over a certain amount your funding gets cut back. It does not matter if you own to money or just gave it away. I just love how the German system works. If you have no other possibility to receive federal funding you cannot save enough money so you can establish a company in future. There should exist people who just want to do this. This is just social selection in its finest terms…

Good Night .
~~massik~~

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Almost 2 months I have not been in Leipzig. The reason is I worked to get some money so I can support my luxurious lifestyle. Now I can buy some new Colors and all the fancy stuff that an Artist needs.

In the next days will follow some more updates…

~~ massik ~~

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So, after my long absence I post something, just to show that I am still alive. Next “real” update will be at the end of march. Then I will be back in Leipzig and able to scan the latest stuff.

~~~ massik

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Here is some new stuff from me. Drew this 3 Birds over the Past weeks. I hope I have the time to draw the skeleton of a penguin tomorrow. Anatomy Lesson are awesome. The only sad thing about it is, that it only lasts for 6-7 weeks. Next week it all will be over. Maybe you can guess what birds I drew… The first one is really easy :-).

~Have a nice week~