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+ 2 - 0 | § Fourth.

Raven/Nuance - Right way to heaven?

My contribution to the Pixel Graphics Competition at Evoke 2010. I was ranked 4th in this competition that featured quite good entries. More of my demoscene art can be found here.

31 Aug '10 - 06:38 | | Consume or die | one comment.

+ 0 - 1 | § Zvokz? Fucke? EVOKE!

Today I will be off to visit the EVOKE demoparty in Cologne. The combined Buenzli-Evoke-Ticket was actually a good idea. I have to work today (damn) and also visit the doctor lateron (double damn), so I'll be arriving quite late at the party. Let's see if I'll manage to finish a competition picture for Evoke, but I don't have anything really worthy in the pipeline. I guess I'll just throw in one of my new C64 pictures then. We'll see. I'm looking forward to the party, especially because my sweetheart will already wait for me there. \o/

27 Aug '10 - 06:18 | | Demoscene Life | No comments yet.

+ 4 - 1 | § Instant win!

Raven - Marblemaid - Buenzli 2010

Enjoy my new painting called "Marblemaid", which won the 1st place of the graphics competition at the Buenzli 2010 demoparty in Winterthur/Switzerland.

24 Aug '10 - 06:27 | | Demoscene Life | two comments.

+ 3 - 2 | § Go and get it, tiger!

Raven's MOD-Collection

You can download my growing collection (>2400 tracks, ca. 230MB) of demoscene music in MOD format over at demoscenery.net. Table of content is available here. It is frequently updated and the link is always available through my weblog here. Please always link to this site and don't create deep links for the download of this collection as the filename will change now and then! Have tons of fun! \o/

18 Aug '10 - 07:01 | | Demoscene Life | three comments.

+ 2 - 1 | § Buenzli ahead!

Just some more days and the Buenzli 2010 will take place in Winterthur/Switzerland from the 20th to the 22nd of august 2010. I'm sooooo looking forward travelling there together with Addie and meeting all the fellow demosceners and have once again great competitions and tons of fun and and and...! \o/

Be sure to check out the Buenzli website at www.buenz.li.

16 Aug '10 - 19:02 | | Demoscene Life | two comments.

+ 6 - 2 | § Sometimes...

Janina and Harry...just right after an end...you sometimes...find a new beginning.

And even if you decided for yourself to walk your path alone for some time...

...the person you meet takes away your angers, your fears, your decision to stay alone, your sadness, your doubt, your sorrow...with just a smile, some words and her nature.

I found this person in the most unexpected moment of my life.

She shares my opinions, my interests, my humor and my way to tackle things. She's strong but at the same time tender and caring. She's all grown up, but kept the fun and joy to explore new and old things. And possibly the most important thing:
She brought back my true smile with her love!

I'm looking into a wonderful and bright future. A common future.


Dear Janina.

Thank you for being the wonderful woman you are. Thank you for loving me the way you do. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to go the way through life together with you and your kids now.

I love you!


(You surely noticed that there are no comments possible for this entry. That's simply because this is no matter of discussion here! If you're happy for us like all the people that already told us: Thanks a lot! We highly appreciate it!)

06:28 | | Me, myself and I |

+ 1 - 2 | § Inception

Yesterday evening I went to see Inception (IMDB) starring Leonardo DiCaprio. I just have to say one word: Brilliant. Christopher Nolan did an extremely good job even if I though he couldn't do any better after The Dark Knight. But he created a sci-fi movie that really catches you and makes you think about it even after leaving the cinema. The effects can be called discreet but breathtaking and just look real. Only point: I found the first third of the movie a bit too stretched, even more if you put your eyes on the playtime of 148 minutes. But to cut a long story short. This movie is worth spending the money for extended playtime. A must see.

9.5 out of 10.

11 Aug '10 - 17:05 | | Cinematography | one comment.

+ 3 - 3 | § "Sänk jou...

...for träweling wif Deutsche Bahn!"

Is one of the sentences I hear quite often during my last weekends. This is because of two reasons: On the one hand it is because I started to extensively use the transportation services of the German railway company and on the other hand the english skills of the service people working in the trains are often questionable. My english isn't that good either, but at least I try to speak a proper english when communicating with people.

I admit that I had a kind of aversion against riding by train since I did my military service a hell lot of years ago. Possibly because I even didn't like the basic training at the military at all and I had to go there a long way by train and the connections...well...sucked bigtime! Lately this changed quite a bit since I often travel quite some distances during the weekends and travelling by car is not always the cheapest or most pleasant way.
Overall I really seem to get used to travelling by train. The only thing that sucks is the unreliability of the Deutsche Bahn in General. The hasn't been a single planned route lately where one of the trains didn't get delayed for some reason. 96 minutes was the most horrible delay one of the trains had. When you have to switch trains on your route this can be extremely annoying because your ETA is skyrocketting. And another point that's extremely annoying is the way you have to claim refunds when using an online ticket. You can use an online form for it and then print it out and send it by snail mail. WTF?

I also found out a single train that never ever seems to be "in time". It's the IC 2213 from Koblenz to Mannheim (on saturdays) that always manages to be late. Let's see if it will fail for the fourth time next weekend! I decided to buy a small bottle of champagne or do a congratulation certificate to carry with me for handing it over to the service people of this particular InterCity train when they finally manage to arrive and leave Koblenz in time! :-D

Nevertheless the train brings me to the place I eagerly want to be...so I even like to tackle with the inadequacies! :-D

09 Aug '10 - 06:36 | | German Stuff | one comment.
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