FWA site of the day

If you're an artist, designer, writer, film-lover or simply anything close to a visual-art appreciator, you're bound to be hit by lightning. Take a look at Sergej Minaev's incredible Website, and you'll need serious rehabilitation afterwards. Especially if you decide to read his books!

Aniboom Video Winners are Announced

So, I mentioned somewhere in my personal blog that I'm waiting for Radiohead to finally announce the winner of the Aniboom competition. Now it turns out, that instead of one video, to win the price of $10,000 to complete their projects FOUR winners have been annonced. You can check out the current status of the clips here:

Videotape 2.0
Reckoner v2
Transmutation
15 Step v2.0

As soon as the videos are completed, they will premiere on the band's myspace page. Why there - who knows, perhaps they're just really into their fans and want to encourage them in any way they can. I've always been amazed by their up-to-date trends and high-end cutting schematics...

Textile workz II

Just a quick update on what I've been working on this weekend.
The first is commission art for a vest, I call it "The Surprised Airheads" :)
The latter is my first experiment with mixing textile colors, this one was more complicated to draw (as you can see it's far from perfect, but with more practice I hope to improve). Based on Tori Amos' new Comic Book Tattoo, it's the most time-consuming textile work I've done so far.

"Can you hear me, Major Tom...?"

The Parkhotel

So, this is the Parkhotel in Bremen, Germany. Some already know. It was built step by step in the years 1958, 1963, 1966/68 and 2004.
There is one certain thing I am confused with, and that is why I felt like it needed a discussion.

As you can see, there is no perfect symmetry. So the question is: why? You have to know, that the park around that building IS perfectly symmetrical (you can see it here: http://www.park-hotel-bremen.de), only the building is not.


This photo shows the former "Parkhaus" from 1890. Unfortunetaly it burned down in 1907. Well, as you can see, it was perfectly symmetrical.

Don't get me wrong, I am no opponent of asymmetrical buildings.

For me personally the present Parkhotel, as we know it today, feels like a lame compromise. It is not really asymmetrical and it is not really symmetrical. Are we afraid of perfect symmetry today?