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There is a theory which sta­tes that if ever any­body dis­co­vers exactly what the Uni­verse is for and why it is here, it will instantly disap­pear and be repla­ced by some­thing even more bizarre and inexplicable …

… There is ano­ther theory which sta­tes that this has alre­ady happened.

Dou­glas Adams, 1980

On Decem­ber 5^th, I’ve uploa­ded the forty-second video on Vimeo. My HD chan­nel 42seconds (42 seconds (almost) daily, whe­ree­ver I am. Fil­med with Kodak Zi8 (1280×720 px / HD video material">wei­ter »

During the Power­Point User Days — from Octo­ber 25^th to 27^th, 2009 in Fulda — we shot in the cour­ses, breaks and even in the old town of Fulda with mul­ti­ple came­ras and used the mate­rial to pro­duce this retro­s­pec­tive wei­ter »

Since mid-2009 we have worked on the video clip from the title song of the new bassa CD — Ber­lin Tango. The musi­ci­ans were, indi­vi­dually and with chan­ging cos­tu­mes recor­ded in front of a green screen and then crop­ped out of the back­ground. Then, with still images and stock pho­tos we built the wrong cards and the old-fashioned cork bul­le­tin board in Pho­to­shop and then »brought it to life« with After Effects. This com­po­si­ti­ons­were then incor­po­ra­ted into the pin board, accom­pa­nied by other effects and ren­de­red as a video in HD qua­lity. You can see the result (not the HD ver­sion) here.

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TV sta­ti­ons, we can — request in con­sul­ta­tion with bassa — of course, ask for the HD ver­sion (1280 by 720 pixels).

On behalf of the Ver­lag für Com­pu­ter­wis­sen, we have crea­ted an ani­ma­ted logo, which can be inte­gra­ted into videos or pre­sen­ta­ti­ons. There is both an HD ver­sion with 1280 by 720 pixels, as well as a blog ver­sion in the ratio 4:3 (800 by 600 pixels).

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The new CD by bassa is out now. It is tit­led Ber­lin Tango and was desi­gned by me (label, book­let, and »digi­pack«, that is the case con­tai­ning the CD">wei­ter »

My con­tri­bu­tion came from our books­helf. Today I got the book »24 Stun­den sind ein Tag — Ber­lin, Haupt­stadt der DDR« (mea­ning: 24 hours are one day — Ber­lin, capi­tal wei­ter »

This short jingle will be used as a basis for a »pre­sen­ted by mStore« text.

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Two months before the Power­Point User Days — Octo­ber 25^th until 27^th, 2009 in Fulda/Germany — take place, we pro­du­ced the first video trai­ler for this event and put it on the anwendertage.de website.

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The video effects are made in coope­ra­tion with Elmar Strot­mann using Adobe Pho­to­shop and After Effects. The music was spe­cially com­po­sed by Alex­an­der Sem­row for the user days.

A few days ago I par­ti­ci­pa­ted in an Adobe/Layers Maga­zine con­test tit­led How Pho­to­shop CS4 Saved the Day. I do this from time to time not hoping to win anything, but wha­te­ver … Like­wise from time to time I take a look at my spam fol­der and: Sur­prise! Yes­ter­day I recei­ved a mail with a win­ning info from the above men­tio­ned con­test. I do con­sider now to buy a ticket for the ita­lian natio­nal lot­tery (with a 149 Mio Euro jack­pot).
You can watch my par­ti­ci­pa­tion video on Screencast.com!

We’ve crea­ted a new intro for PowerPoint-TV. The credits and the short inte­rim jin­gles were also adap­ted to the new look. The music stays the same, which was com­po­sed by Ralf Meyer-Wilmes and recorded.

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