Merry Christmas & a happy New Year!

Julemarked

In some days we will celebrate Christmas and tomorrow is the last work day. For this reason our company arranged a christmas party today. After this I was with some friends at the Chistmas Market near the havour. It was very interesting and nice... typical Norwegian air. We have drunken lots of Norwegian glogg (...hiks...:o) because it was so cold. In the last days the temperature is sinking more and more. Now we have 16 degress below zero. The sea and rivers already freezed up...brrrrrrrr.

WALL-E

Watch the new WALL-E Trailer! The robot is so cute :o)
I'm very curious to see the next Pixar movie next year...

Second move

Today my company Ignitas moved too the apartment. We are still near the havour and town-hall. It is a nice "new" office and within walking distance from home. Weekend was great, I have got to know better my flat community. I'm very happy to live with them. Kamil, our photographer in house and me are planning a funproject in future...so stay tuned. Here you can see a work from Kamil.

Move

It is done! Today I moved in my new room. That's so cool and I am happy that I settled here in Oslo better and better. In the apartment we are an international flat-sharing community: an Australian girl, a Norwegian, two Sweden girls and an Argentine. All very friendly. Tonight we will celebrate my move...yeah! :o)

Website: www.al-haj.de

Last week I finished with the medical-website creation for the german doctor Mr. Al-Haj. After 3 years I began again with webdesign and I saw that a lot of things changed. So I had brought me up to scratch in the last time. Now you can view the new website under www.al-haj.de. I hope you like it.

Beowulf

Today I went with Gard to cinema for seeing Beowulf, an 3D-animation movie. Very cool seeing the movie with 3D-glasses. For me it was interesting to see how the development has improved since Polar Express. The movie was made with the motion- and perfomance capuring techniques. That means that real actors have given to the 3D-characters the movements and the facial expressions. This theme was one of my degree thesis and so I was very anxious to view this movie. Regrettably the 3D-characters still looks dead. And the blame have the eyes! They are staring blankly into space or boss eyed. But I believe that in some years you can't disgingish the 3D-characters with real persons...wow. But is it diserable?

Blond

Yesterday I saw a very amazing digital painting video on Youtube and I tried to make the same but I needed lot of hours to finish this painting...hmm. Now is time to go to bed :o)

Blue eyes

During my sickness I tried to paint human eyes...it was pretty difficult. But now I am hale and hearty practicing more the human character.

Crazy weather

What a climate...we had very cold weather (-8°C) til Monday with rain, snow and wind. Now the weather changed so immediately that we had in this moment +8°C. Thats incredible and for this reason I recieved the flu...nice...very nice...grrrrrrr.

Thinking...

Today I was running but it was very cold, icy and very slippery, so after some kilometers I had to return. It's a pity because the weather was ideal. Here another portrait, painted for some minutes:

Unknown Norwegian woman

This unknown girl I met during my flat viewing,so I tried to paint her for some days. Yes I know she has black hair and not blond like the Norwegian :o) In this moment it is my desire to advance my portrait paintings. So here the result: