Fanart, Fanfiction and Fangirling

Highlight of the week: yesterday and today I went to a recording studio to take pictures and videos of some friends who are recording an album. The quality is probably gonna be pretty low (I'd never taken "professional" videos before), but they just needed some material to put together a short teaser clip and some making-of photos.

I miss taking pics at concerts. I miss concerts in general.

At least it was a nice change from all the recent job-related stress.

Still toying around with my graphic tablet and trying to find my own way to draw Holmes. I guess I should just doodle and sketch until I find it. In the meantime, here's how I spent the afternoon so far.

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I just wanted to draw him with bed hair. :P Also: folds will be the death of me.

The photo contest we've been organising for the last months opened yesterday. I spent almost the whole day setting up the exhibition with two friends of mine and was dead tired when I got home, but it was worth it, it looks really good. There are a few photos I can't stand, I hope people won't vote for them...

Had a great night at Wayne's gig yesterday. The concert was at Magnet Club, which is going to move from Prenzlberg to Kreuzberg in a couple of weeks. I had already been there to see The Crash in summer 2004 (my GOD, that's almost 6 years ago :O ) and in my mind it was bigger. Oh, well. Duncan Townsend, the opening act, was hilarious. He kept making jokes in German (see Wayne? Brits can speak German if they try) and the audience loved him.

As for Wayne's concert, I can confirm what flaschengeist already said: that bloke makes the weirdest faces when he sings. He kept saying they were in a hurry as a punk band was supposed to play after them and made random jokes about Achim (who totally is Rod's secret son, come on) being like a flower: he looks nice, smells nice, but no one knows why he's there. Poor thing. Later, after the umpteenth joke, he said "OK, maybe I went too far? Aww, come here." And hugged him. But, as they were both quite sweaty, they both made disgusted faces. XD

The girl playing in the film "Die Tür" was also there and Wayne called her on stage. He started talking in English to her, but she couldn't understand him, so he knelt down and spoke German. See Wayne, that wasn't too difficult, was it? There was also this inside joke of Wayne greeting the keyboards before playing ("Hello, piano") and a few others I can't remember.

During the encore Lula sang "Smashup", which is a song I actually quite like, probably because she sings it a couple of octaves lower than her usual. :P She said she was "total erkältet" and looked... quite drunk, honestly. I don't know if that was just a stage act, as she looked absolutely normal after the concert.

Afterwards I could only talk very briefly to him, as people kept calling him and he constantly had to go and greet people here and there, but at the end I managed to get an autograph for a friend of mine who couldn't make it to the gig. He asked me if it was one of my musician friends and I said that yes, that was him; I told him they won a contest and are about to shoot a video and he asked me to send him the link when it's done.

After that I hung about for a bit, but the punk band that was supposed to play at 11 was taking its sweet time (I left after midnight and they hadn't started yet) and I didn't really like the music they played in the "Rockbar" part of the club, but maybe it was simply too early and that was just warm-up music; the bar was full of teenagers anyway, so I left.

On the way home I got an SMS from my friend, who was all excited about his authographed CD and I just had to grin when I read it. A random guy walked by just then and said "Nice smile!" Er. Thanks? XD

Now I'm going to finish touching up my friends' photos so I can finally send them. The poor guys have been waiting for them for two weeks now. Also, I finally put some of my pics online, they're here if you're interested:

http://www.doitcomics.net/portfolio/

My friends liked the photos I took at their latest concert! :D You can see them here:

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=331481277&albumId=1218525

Unfortunately, uploading them to MySpace ruined the quality a bit, the originals look much better. But I'm very happy, that was the first time I used my reflex camera to take concert pictures and the results were better than I expected. :D

Lo and behold the new Los Helmstedt comic!

http://www.doitcomics.net/loshelmstedt/bbylh020.html

A big thank you to Maike for the idea, I changed the dialogues a bit but I hope you like it.

Yesterday I was in a horrible mood (why, yes, I got yet another negative reply, this time from a place in Potsdam), but last night things got much better. I went to the happy hour organised by our candidate's support group and took some photos; after a while my musician friends arrived and I introduced them to the people in charge of organising concerts, hopefully they'll have a chance to play before the summer. After that we went to do some shopping for dinner and ended up doing and impromptu photo-session in the car park of the shopping centre! I took a lot of photos and some came out really nice, I'll let you know when they publish them on their MySpace.

Why can't I do something I like for a living? Or at least something I don't find totally disgusting? *pouts*

Leaving for Berlin tomorrow! I'm so excited I'm feeling all queasy! I'm going to bring along my new reflex camera and make a lot of pictures! The photography course started last night and I already learned some technical stuff about exposure time and diaphragm opening that I'm going to use. The teacher is very nice and professional and told us to show him our pictures, even the ones who didn't come out well, especially those, so he can explain what we did wrong and we can learn from our mistakes. I'm very happy I decided to buy that camera and attend this course. :)

My Berliner friends are back from Australia and I'm going to meet them tomorrow afternoon. I can only stay at their place for a few hours though, because they're still quite jet-lagged (they came back yesterday). And I don't want to abandon Maike for too long. :P

Also, think of me on Tuesday morning! I can't give away too much, but... Think of meee! >_< Things can't always go wrong, dammit!

And let's not forget Sunday night. Let's not forget him:

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*fangirl overload*

PS OMG look at the bouncy kitty!

Aw, man. I sent in a picture for this photography contest:

http://radioeins.voting.funtip.de/index.action

Maybe I'm stupid, but I can't find the list of submitted pictures? The voting page just loads a random picture every time you vote or refresh the page and, judging from the rankings, there are about 600 photos? Argh.

Oh, well. If you happen to see my pic and want to vote for it, you'll make me very happy. And if you tell me the picture id and/or URL, you'll make me even happier. :)

Damn, I've still got "Atem" stuck in my head. Damn you, Farin, why do you have to write such beautiful Ohrwürmer.