A LITTLE illustration I made for Ginger’s Facebook timeline header. Ginger is a red-headed songwriter who likes cute things & puppies. She calls her loft in Kreuzberg the rabbithole because it looks like a room from Alice in Wonderland. There she meets with many other writers & musicians and produces the most awesome songs. Really.
March 15, 2012
I AM very proud to show you this marvellous portrait Mr. Bruce Stirling John Knox gave me in 2010. It is absolutely perfect: It shows me sitting in my drawing room, smoking a pipe & drinking Cognac. Note the statue of Charles Darwin in the background and the Kaiserbrand Skull engraved in the rifle’s but.… [Read more…]
December 14, 2011
WHEN Ginger was in the US for over six weeks last year, I had the feeling she needed something to cheer her up a bit. So I sat down one Sunday morning and made a tiny animation for her — because she definitely deserved a parade!
December 14, 2011
IN case you haven’t noticed yet, I think it’s about time to confess I have a little quirk: I am a strict follower of the Art of Manliness, and I am strongly convinced to be born in the wrong century (the only thing I would have missed badly is filter coffee, which hasn’t been invented… [Read more…]
November 15, 2011
IT has come to my attention that several of you, my dear Ladies & Gentlemen, seem to be confused about my numerous & different websites. Let me enlighten you briefly with the following compedium of my digital doings – Rmrs.me – This very page is my private & non-professional portfolio, hence the name. Here you can… [Read more…]
July 22, 2011
SINCE Johan, Josh & Niels all had these cool circular stickers with their artwork & contact info, I thought I should get my own as well. The time span between that idea and pressing the order button was approximately two hours. A Coffee break included. I just added an oriental fez and an imperial moustache… [Read more…]
July 22, 2011
THIS week I’ve closed my blog With Us Or Against Us! It was a hard decision because I’ve put so much effort into WUOAU! over the past five years, but I’ve finally realized that I cannot do everything at at the same time, even if I want to. I have too many different projects running… [Read more…]
June 1, 2011
The Animation Tag Attack – Best Collaborative Project – Webcuts.11 Woohooo, yesterday our baby “The Animation Tag Attack” won in the category Collaboratice Project at Webcuts 2011! The version shown was only work-in-progress, so I won’t post a link to the video. Christen is still working hard on finalizing the project and I’ll immediately let you know when it’s all… [Read more…]
May 31, 2011
THAT life doen’t always work out according to plan is a matter of common knowledge. And sometimes life happens faster than scheduled. In my first post on this blog I said I’d like to have my own space that has nothing to do with my work — and exactly that happened at the end of… [Read more…]
March 15, 2011
BECAUSE I love the Old Spice commercial “Did you know” I’ve made this stupid little animation in my lunch break to show that gentlemen using Old Spice are even cooler than jet fighters, or in this case, a football player.
March 12, 2011
FOR me, turning 30 didn’t really mean anything special. I wasn’t excited beforehand and didn’t think about throwing a party at all. But Ginger did! The Zozovilles were on a long road trip in the States that summer, and we were in charge of the gallery. She came up with the idea of having a… [Read more…]
March 1, 2011
HA! I’ve dug up another treasure from the depths of my backup disks: Poo Weather. The little pissed off bear wearing but a shawl came into being on an ass cold winter day in 2006. This is exactly how it feels like when you’re standing at the Boxhagener Platz flea market all day when it’s… [Read more…]
February 20, 2011
A nice interior decoration is crucial for the coziness of a club, but even more important than that is the exterior, the face of the club. In an instant you should be able to tell from the appearance of the shop’s front what’s going on inside, and whether you’d like to step in or better… [Read more…]
February 18, 2011
IT all started with diet stuff everywhere. The next level was a bio-market on every other corner. And now more & more restaurants with veggie or vegan food pop up all over the neighbourhood. Good for the animals — bad for me. I mean, who wants to drink a glass of 0.1% low fat milk… [Read more…]
February 7, 2011
SHORTLY after the Zozoville Gallery opened in 2005 I became one of their biggest fans, and hanging around there frequently soon became good friends with Johan & Mateo as well. We often sat in the gallery, talked about our future plans over a cup of tea and had many stupid ideas. One of those ideas… [Read more…]
February 6, 2011
FOR my 27th birthday (2006) I prepared an army of rabbit blanks in all sizes. I was printing, pasting & cutting a whole day until my fingers were sore. Then I invited everybody over to have a drink and paint as many rabbits as they liked. Some of the blanks were so completely overpainted that… [Read more…]
January 23, 2011
WHEN we moved into our new KAISERBRAND office in Friedrichshain in 2006, we had lots of blank walls. So I illustrated a family of pandas –and their pet rabbit– and enlarged them with Rasterbator. This is a really cool freeware tool to blow up pictures up to 20 meters (!) in size, and it creates… [Read more…]
January 20, 2011
AT the beginning of every new year I have the habit of going through all the stuff that collected in my drawers in the past months and throw away everything I don’t need. That way I only keep one little box for each year, labeled and carefully stored away in my closet. It’s really fun… [Read more…]
December 6, 2010
IF someone would ask me how the ideal gentleman should look like, I’d say something between Sultan Hussein Kamil (Sultan of Egypt 1914-1917) and Fred Astaire (Broadway & Hollywood Legend). But if I had to choose, I’d take the looks of the former and the character of the latter. Next year I’ll invest in one… [Read more…]
December 5, 2010
THE probably most important event of 2008 was Jana & Matze’s wedding! I made the Rock’n'Roll graphics for the invitations (including envelopes and stamps specially designed for that occasion!). And I paid for Jana’s 50s haircut at Kaiserschnitt :) Weeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
December 5, 2010
IN 2008 Erika Matsunami asked me to make some additional motion graphics for her project still/silent. Under her supervision I added contrails and particles to her video collage to emphasize the connection of sound and video footage. still/silent was a live performance, part video installation, part avant-garde piano music. It was shown during RE ASIA… [Read more…]
December 4, 2010
MY grandfather used to say “If you plan to do something, do it properly.” In case of a neat club room this rule can only mean one thing. NO IKEA! I’ve found some terrific examples of traditional drawing rooms, though there’s not enough seating in the black&white photos. The picture in colour is a better… [Read more…]
November 28, 2010
I met Christian Rothenhagen in spring 2008. He was in the middle of curating a group show called the deerBLNproject, which has a simple concept — by personal invitation from Christian, artists are asked to submit an artwork that adheres to only two rules. #1 It has to relate to the topic “deer”. #2 The… [Read more…]
November 17, 2010
HARRR! Ain’t those moustache buttons splendid? If your girlfriend doesn’t like cultivated facial hair, displaying your manliness with a moustache button is the second-best option. I made them for my birthday party in 2007, where my friends dressed me up as Kaiser Wilhelm II.
November 17, 2010
THIS is a small maquette (super sculpey& acrylics) I made in 2007 as birthday present for Johan Potma of the Zozoville Gallery. I called it The Solver — with his three heads this cute little guy is able to solve even the trickiest riddles. What’s the least number of chairs you would you need around… [Read more…]
November 15, 2010
THE Swashbuckler. I made this linocut back in 2007. I think this artwork initiated my obsession with the art of being a gentleman — which commenced with wearing three-piece suits, continued with me growing a moustache, and which finally will lead to taking fencing lessons.
November 15, 2010
ONE fine day — when my company is big enough that all I have left to do is paying a visit, let’s say, once per week or so and my pony-tailed clerk informs me all is damn well and serves me a brandy while I’m reading the GQ — I’ll buy or rent a neat… [Read more…]
September 8, 2010
~ The Call ~ First of all I want to thank Christen for starting this amazing project and compliment all our predecessors on doing an incredible job and spending so many hours on the Animation Tag Attack. We at KAISERBRAND had to think twice if we could spare enough time besides our daily work to create something appropriate,… [Read more…]
September 2, 2010
The deadline is close, we’re in the middle of the last production week. The animation is clean and coloured, the backgrounds are finished — now we’re concentrating on composing the scenes, abuse our plug-ins and add some sounds. And if we manage to get everything done by Saturday, we’ll add a bonus scene. Happyhappy –… [Read more…]
August 27, 2010
ONLY one scene left to clean. Phew! Next week we’ll concentrate on compositing. While I was looking for reference material for the backgrounds I found this old photo: “What the heck has this to do with the Animation Tag Attack episode,” you ask. Nothing. But I like it ^^
August 13, 2010
AFTER the first week is almost over, we’re close to finishing animation. Our friend& animator Andreas, who just came back from MPC London, is incredibly fast! Next week we’ll clean the rough animation and start doing the backgrounds. I’ve already painted a quick moodboard of the opening scene (I tried to stay in the same… [Read more…]
August 10, 2010
SPLENDID NEWS! My animation company KAISERBRAND is going to produce the next episode of The Animation Tag Attack! What’s that you think? The Animation Tag Attack is an exquisite corps project created by my good friend Christen Bach. The rules are simple: Each participant gets 4 weeks to produce between 5 and xx seconds of film. When… [Read more…]
March 15, 2012
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