Oslo-Sunday

Today I walked through Oslo-city and took some pictures. After a long time without using my camera it was a great feeling and I will try to take more pictures soon...Click here or the pic to see more.

Trip to the mountains

What a trip! Last weekend I went with some friends to Beggessen/ Jotunheimen, a famous place of excursions here in Norway. There you can camping, hiking and climping. It was strenuous but very amazing and the landscape was fascinating! We had a great time there. I took some pictures to have a little impression ->link

New pictures on Picassa

I've put some new pictures to my picassa gallery... -> LINK

Ingrid Bjørnov show

Last night we visited the Ingrid Bjørnov show "Til Elise?". It was very funny and amusing. She is a famous Norwegian singer and artist. Her show was a mix of classic/modern music and comedian. I was very inspired how she played piano and she could entertain the viewers very well. We laughed a lot ...great show! You can view a short part of the show by clicking this LINK.

Springtime!

Yes! Springtime is coming! This weekend it was very warm, the sun was shining, people sitting in cafes and parks. So my friends and I went to Aker Brygge (habour of Oslo), enjoying the sun, eating ice, drinking beer and drawing people. Now I have a little sunburn... ;o)

New national opera

Yesterday we were invited (skur49.no) to celebrate the opening of the new national opera in Oslo. It was a highlight with opera melody, fashion-show, rock-music concert and fireworks...fantastisk :o)

Museums

In the last time I went with a friend to some museums and art-galleries like the Munch-museum, National-museum and the gallery of Helene Knoop. The paintings there were fantastic and very inspired. So you can view paintings of Monet, van Gogh, Manet, Cézanne and famous Norwegian painters like E. Munch, Thomas Fearnley, H.F. Gude, A. Tidemand, J. Frich and P. Blake. I didn't knew that Norway had great painters. Here some paintings:

Edvard Munch: The Scream

Adolph Tidemand and Hans Gude: Brudeferd i Hardanger

Peder Balke: Stetind in Fog

Thomas Fearnley: Labrofossen

Wall-E meets a vacuum cleaner

Eyego.no

It's amazing! I got a fulltime job at the design-company "Eyego". So my last workday as freelancer is today. Now my new area of responsibilty is: Visual development, internet, multimedia (3D) and design (print). The employees and the chiefs are very friendly. I think that I will have a very good time there and I hope that I could help them with my know-how.

Snow

Today in the morning I wanted begin again to run but when I saw from my window it was impossible because all the night it had snowed. Now we have 15 cm snow and it is very cold and icy!

So I went to the Alfred Nobel museum near my house. It was very interesting. He was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator and the inventor of dynamite. But many people knows him only by reason of the Nobel prizes...

Holmenkollen

Finally it's snowing. So I took the opportunity to go to Holmenkollen. It is a hilly area in the outskirts of Oslo, only a half hour with the T-bane. Here you can do ski jumping and skiing far into the night respectively in summer you can hike through the landscape. It was very funny and I will try to come from time to time to this snow covered place.

Godt nytt år

Happy new year! Hope you have celebrated the New Year's Day great. On Christmas I was in Braunschweig for visitíng my parents and my friends. For some days I came back to Oslo with my sister and her boyfriend.The fireworks and the parties here were fantastic on New Year. Now I'm back in my everyday life. If you want see some new pictures from Oslo visit my picassa-gallery.

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.

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)

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?

There you go!

What a week: Finally I recieved my recidence permit and I found a room yeah. So in some days I will live near center and castle in a flat share. The flatmates are very friendly and the apartment is very cool. I am happy that now I can restart to live here in Oslo.

First snow

Brrrr...in the last days we had very cold weather, under 0° degree, and today it began to snow. Now we notice that the pre-Christmas period is coming. I made this picture (town hall) tonight before I went home.

Good morning squirrel!

Every morning a little squirrel search his food in front of my front door. He is so cute and so fast. Fortunately I shot some photos from him today.

Degree celebration

I found this picture with a little article of our degree (diploma) celebration on the german film school website. It was a little ceremony but nice . Since that time it has been past 2 month, wow.

First pictures

Finally I uploaded some pictures from Oslo on Picassa. Click the Link or the picture to see the gallery:

Restart

Today in the morning I restarted with the running training. For my birthday my sister bestowed me the nike + ipod sportkit and so I tested it finally. That was so cool. You put a chip on the shoe and your ipod nano shows the distance, kilometers, calories and the effective velocity during your course. And on the nike+ website you can see the map with your course. It was very amused and you are now more motivated :o)

What a week!

Now I lived here 2 weeks and it began to dawn on me that how the life and job works here in Norway. Every day I met new people and customers and the work by Ignitas is very varied. So I am responsible for web-, print-design and animation. (Ignitas wrote some words about my works on their website. You can read the article by clicking on the picture). Every day you learn more and if I have a question I can ask the Ignitas-team. Until now I didn't regret that I came to Oslo. The people, the landscape and the culture are very fascinating. Now I have to learn only Norwegian and searching a flat :o)

Aker Brygge

My first working week is nearly over. It was very exciting and a lot to do. Tomorrow I will inspect some flats and visit the city finally. In my today's lunchtime I made this picture. In the red house (left) you can find our office. It's beside the harbor and "Aker Brygge" a famous place here in Oslo.

Ignitas

In some minutes my first work-day here at Ignitas is over. I have my own workplace and work here as a freelancer. My first client came today and we spoke about his application. It was very cool. Now I will go home with bus. Runars house where I'm stayed in this moment is 20 km from Oslo away. Runar and his family are very friendly and amiable and I am happy to stay at first there.

Oslo

Today I came to Oslo. That is my third time that I visit this beautiful city. But the first time that I will stay for a longer time. The flight was nice and the family of my friend Gard is very sympatic. In some minutes we will visit Runar where I will stay for the first time and then we want to go to a party...yeah. That begins very good.

Back in Germany

Yesterday night I came back from Santiago. The 16h-flight was agreaable and in Frankfurt I met my friend Maren who flew later to New Zealand for a half year. It was a nice surprice. Now I have to prepare me for my stay in Oslo. Just only 3 days...

Flight away

Lo and hold!!! In this moment my airplane flies to Germany without me. Why? Because I had many unforeseeable occurrences. So I was caught up in a traffic jam and then I had problems on the fly counter with my bags . Now I will still stay here 4 days longer. Incredible!

3ra corrida por la vida

Today I participated with my cousins on the family running contest "Corrida por la vida" here in Santiago. The event was for the women with Cancer. The course was 10 km long and it was very warm but many people run all the same. During the running you could see the cordillera covered with snow. A nice view. In general it was a beautiful family day.

In some days my stay here will be end. The time was running very fast. But I had wonderful vacacions. Now I can rise to new challenges and I am thrilled to work in Oslo even the leave will be hard from here.

32

I'm living exactly 32 years now on this planet yeah!

The day was great and unforgettable. My family and some relatives from Santiago came to celebrate my birthday. What a surprice :o) Thanks to my friends who congratulated me today.

Santiago de Chile

Last week I came back to Santiago to spend the next two weeks here. We had beautiful weather and I made many things with my cousins and friends. Yesterday we went to a little village (Isla de Maipó) to celebrate the virgin of Maipó. It was very interesting and traditional. What a bammer that the days pass of very fast.

Quintay - Chile

Since Monday I'm in Chile to visit my relatives. All people here have free this week by reason of national holiday. So we are now in Quintay a little village near Santiago. It's very beautiful and we have wonderful sundowns :o) -> more pictures

Half marathon

I’m back !!! Last week I could relax a little, I hope this week too ;o)
Yesterday I was running my first half marathon (20 km) here in Braunschweig. More than 700 people have participated on the „Schapener Volkslauf“. The weather was ideal to run and the halfmarathon round was very nice. After just under two hours it was a great feeling to pass the finishing line :o)

Holiday

My last day

Today was my last day here on the German Film School. On Monday I had my colloquium and today my public presentation about my thesis and degree film. And in some days I will recieve my diploma, yeah! But before I am away of leave.

Me, Marc, Gila, Cordy and Addy

Me and Sebastian

Relocation

So, my time in Elstal is over. Yesterday I moved all my things to Braunschweig. Well next week I will come back for some days to finish the filmschool and to say goodbye from my friends. Here the last pictures of my apartment.

I managed it!!!

Yeah, yesterday I finished my degree short. I'm very glad that I've kept up and now I'm very tired :o) The last 6 month were incredible. I learned a lot but it was also a very stress time with ups and downs. Now I can prepare me calmly for my colloquium and public presentation of my degree short and thesis in two weeks. Then I will upload my short on my webpage, so stay tuned!.

The countdown is running

Only 2 days to finish my degree short...

Hot Tuesday

It's really hot in Elstal right now...and we had 30° degrees...incredible. Yesterday my friend Jessica visited me in Elstal. We spent some hours together. It was a varied and funny day! And now I have to continue working on my degree short :o)

Pelé the panda - Music

For my degree short I decided that my friend Guillermo Gómez from USA will compose the music. He is a very talented compositor and I like his compositions. So until now he has composed my shorts "Wilson the snowman" and "Merkaba". I know that he will forge ahead in the future. So stay tuned to hear his new music for my film "Pelé the panda".

The German Film School

During the last 3 years I've studied on the German Film School and in 3 weeks I will finish it. Here a picture of the university for digital production found on Google Earth :o)

Dinner with Gard Jenssen

Last week I met Gard, my friend from Oslo/Norway, here in Berlin. With other friends of him we had a nice evening. So and now I have to animate and finish my degree short.

Wall-E-Teaser

I'm back. The last two weeks I was in Braunschweig to write my diploma thesis. Now I finished it and I came back to Berlin to animate my diplma animation short.

Today I saw the first teaser of "Wall-E" the next Pixar movie after Ratatouille. It's so cute. Here the teaser

Castle Sanssouci

Yesterday I went with my friend Ines Gruner to Potsdam to visit the castle Sanssouci with the beautiful parks. It was very hot and we spent a wonderful day together!

Soccer game

Last sunday I saw with my father the soccer game Herta BSC vs. Werder Bremen in the Olympia stadium for the first time here in Berlin. The atmosphere was fantastic. A reason could be that the weather was great and the stadium sold out with 75.000 people. Finally Werder Bremen had won 4:1.

Making of...and 9 min. Trailer of Ratatouille

I found a 'making of' for the next pixar movie: "Ratatouille", and a 9 min-trailer. WONDERFUL! So now I will pack up my clothes and fly to
the FMX conference :o)

FMX

Next monday I will visit the FMX conference in Stuttgart. I hope to meet new people, talk with peers, learn new tricks for animation, film and tv and party :o)

300 - the movie

Last week I saw the movie 300 and I was very fascinated about the graphics and the visuals effects. It's a very exciting movie and is very well done. Frank Miller again brings to life a magnificant Graphic Novel. All in all this was a very entertaining film.

RTL 2: "Gut zu WISSEN" - broadcast

Today I found out that our RTL 2 interview about 3d animation will come on next sunday (08.April 2007 - 17:30h). For more informations about the braodcast "Gut zu WISSEN" click on the picture.

Bao Bao

Yesterday I used the opportunity to visit the panda Bao Bao in the zoo too. So I could see how he lived and act in a bawn. Unfortunately the other panda Yan Yan died last week. Here some pictures of Bao Bao:

Cute Knut

Today I went to the zoo of Berlin to see the new attraction "Knut" the baby polar bear. He was born on December and he was abandoned by his mother but he is sooooooo cute!!! So tiny, fluffy and adorable! See the little sweet film ->click here (1 MB, .wmv)

Meet the Robinsons

I just saw the new Disney film "Meet the Robinsons". This film is extremely colorful and will send a powerful message to kids but it isn't for adults. If you think you will see a movie like "Happy feet" or "Finding Nemo" you will be dissapointed. Only the look and the animation have assured me. I hope that the next Disney film will be for adults too with more jokes.