Recent journal entry:

What the fu****g hack!! Today I got the keys to my first and new flat. I saw that my former plans for my litte gallery are not so fine. So I decided to take some shots which fit together thematically, to have a concept for my flat's walls. Architecture.

I went to the "federal office of radiation protection" (well that's a bad translation but it should be ok) because it's the only interesting building here. Before I took a single shot, a guard came to me, asking me the following:
"Hey master, what are these images for?!"
("hey master" could be translated as "hey mate" or "hey you obscure guy" lol )
1. I'm not his master...I should have answered "I'm not your master, if you want a master, go to the SM studio." (cause...you know...I'm more of a slave or pet )
2. Why does he ask me why I make images? I'm pretty sure that this is of no concern for him.

He had to throw me off the this area. The funny thing: he told me that when I take the shots from 10 m across the street, he could do nothing against it (he had to follow orders but I think he wanted to help me). However, from across the street the images look shitty and they reveal more detail of the building and it's employees than taken with a wideangle lens right beneath/under the building/architecture Oo .

Another question: Why is a federal office not a public building? It's right beneath the railway station in a rather populated area of the city. And why am I not allowed to photograph non-public buildings. What's so secretly going on there? It's no launchpad for nuclear weapons...it's a building full of people who sit behind desks and who are bureaucratically managing issues about natural radiation and protection of humans and nature from radiation. There are thousands of security cameras and one side of the building is even protected by a fence and barbed wire (well the other side looks quite pretty though).
The father of my very first girlfriend works there, so I've already been inside this building, many years ago.

And now the artistic question of the day: Why do they hire an expensive architect to build an interesting building, when it is not allowed to photograph it and to have fun with it? What is the beauty of the building for? Who is the beauty of the building for? Is it for the few people who work there...to give them a more beautiful place to work? I guess they are happy when they don't have to see their place of work when they come home...

It's impossible in this world to be non-depressive, because everytime I try to get out and do something funny and creative, there is something which destroys it.

















This is an animation I made for the trailer of a movie, it's reduced in size (0.5x) and the compession is very strong (XviD quality 89) so the image quality is terrible...you need a DivX codec to run it but I'm sure you already have this ). Left or right click on the image to do whith the animation whatever your browser supports:







12 inch project:
This is a 3D-model of the desing I use for the tube, I will enhance this model while making progress whith the project:



I bought the missing 2 aluminum pipes, now they are all complete and I just have to find time and the will to work on them.

Material listing:
8x 25 mm x 25 mm x 2000 mm aluminium pipes.................................about 164 $
screws with nuts (100x), M5x40 mm..............................................................11 $
shims (250x).................................................................................................7 $



8 inch project:



The 8 " mirror ist spherical now. Phase 1 of 3 ist finished, I'm now up to smooth it out until it's smooth enough for polishing and parabolisation.

I've detached parts of telescope, washed and cleand the pieces several times with a solvent. I cleaned the metal from fat, dirt and the solvent using ammonia solution and a ton of tissues, I didn't touch the metal except with gloves, sprayed the grounding on the telescope parts, sprayed the black colour on the grounded telescope parts...and then?!? It partially peeled off while/after drying!! Here are some of the parts, 3 are missing because colour and grounding peeled off together (the bright spots on the black parts are highlights - the colour was still wet during the shot):



Here are some other parts, in this case it didn't pelt off but after I sprayed the second layer of black colour on it, it became wrinkly.
That indicates that it would have pelt off after a while anyway...



Why is it impossible to get colour on aluminium?!? Do I make the layers too thick??