Let's invoke darkness, shall we?

Further back we go. So far we visited 2006 and 2003.

As always this blog is meant to provide background information as to how the work of *ahem* art came to be. This takes us to the year 2001. I had just left the German equivalent of high school and was doing alternative civilian service as community worker in a small town (1300 people). In other words: I was bored out of my skull.

To help this problem I stayed in the theater group of my school for a year after I graduated. The group of studen… Continue

The second tour back in time leads us even further back into the year 2003. Now we truly enter what pypermarru would describe as "fake UFUs on strings". Hey, pyper, how's it goin' ;-)

This - lets call it - project was clearly born out of a "they were young and had nothing else to do" mentality. The story is unoriginal, the camera work sloppy and the editing imprecise. Plus this was at a time when there was no 16 bit audio yet. Well at least not on my machine ;-)

My fingers are SOOO itching to… Continue

In the following weeks I am gonna share a few pre-LV movies I made here in Germany whenever I managed to get a crew together long enough to finish one. I usually didn't take any roles myself so that I could concentrate on the camera work and directing and all that.

So instead of going forward in skill and complexity of movie making as I usually do when uploading here, one can see where I'm coming from. No visual effects, no fancy soundtracks (those I made myself back in the day). And of course… Continue

A while back I made a video called "The Early Bird catches the Worm Redux". Ken (rivrvlogr) had made a poem that inspired me somewhat to add a little something here and there. Flophousepoodle suggested I should make more of these - as she called them - sabovlogs. I think it's not a bad idea.

So if sometime in the future one of your videos provides additional inspiration (aside from being spectacular on their own ;-) ) I might pick up on them like this:



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