Derby Nerdism

Since I was ill this weekend (and couldn't go to derby practice *cry*) I had plenty of time getting bored of lying around in my bed and looking for my good old polymer clay (which gets totally hard and crumbly if you don't store it well, kids! Learn from my mistaken life.). This is based on my actual skates (size is approximately half a thumb - I mean the part above that joint. You know what I mean. Maybe.):

I also scanned some quick'n'dirty sketches which I did at SKOD in Gent (I didn't draw as much as I had planned though - was too busy being all excited and screaming my heart out for the Bombshells and stuff.)

Woaaahhh~ I can't draw in caaarssss... *wibblywobbly*

Zine Fest Belin 2011 and a call for submissions

OMG, lookit these awesome vegan cupcakes!

Now that I have your attention: I've been at the very first Zine Fest Berlin (already two weeks ago, actually). I was way to excited and awestruck by all the amazing people, zines, cupcakes and workshops to take many pictures, but here are some:

I also participated in a workshop about perzine writing (amongst others). We came up with some nice ideas and a whole lot of enthusiasm. Which means there will be some compilation zines, one of which I'll be editing. May I please direct you to its little (very minimalist and under construction-y) site so you may consider contributing in case the topic speaks to you?

Happy X-mess moster

Long working hours on Saturday, wicked fun on Sunday. I participated in fabulous Carolina Cruz' stop motion animation workshop at Wostel. We were six people and this is what all our crazy brains combined together came up with (I made and animated the snowman. And the monstrous eyebrows!):

Although, I have to admit that I liked the original version better (with that happy monster in the end instead of the beginning). Merry (pre-) X-mess everyone! I'm drinking mulled wine and dirtying my laptop with (homemade) sticky sugared almonds as I'm typing this.

I miss you

Playing around with an idea. From manual to digital.




I've got about a million variations of this theme in my head (well, almost) which I might decide to work on for my portfolio thingy some time.

For my non-German-speaking readers: "Du fehlst mir" means "I miss you". It's supposed to be a word play (more obvious in German - directly translated it's more like "I lack you").

Half a meter of giraffe spots

Do you recognize them? Last week, a very good friend (whom you really should visit on flickr if you like excellent photos) mentioned that he'd love to have a bigger version of this to decorate his room. I love friends making remarks like that shortly before their birthday. He-he. (Don't ask how long it took me to crosshatch half a meter of giraffe spots though...)

Oh, by the way, I'm now officially "Diplom-Ingenieurin of technical chemistry". Just in case anybody cares. Most probably not (which I truly understand). What some of you probably will care about is that all this retained crazy creative energy will want to discharge somehow which might lead to an increase of drawings and posts here. That doesn't mean I was able to completely suppress the urges during the last stressful days though (hellooo sleepless nights).
This is what I wore for my presentation and exam (in addition to unbelievably serious clothes, of course):

(It's the structures of the two imidazoline nitroxides I was working with and one of my EPR spectra. Just in case you wanted to know.)

And here's my little red dyke-y riding hood. She found herself a decent mobile home on my bag:

We ride our bikes up in the sky...

Just because we can.

♥Save our Mur!♥

Nothing better than spending a lovely autumn afternoon with a cute girl (and some cameras).

By the way, listening to the Johan S. Detox-club mix of Twin's Star Wars theme* in the middle of the night makes me want to embroider my underwear. Just in case you wanted to know. Is there a selfhelp group for this? Or at least a facebook group?! I think these hardcore thesis work days are finally doing something nasty to my brain...

* As Pat Ridiot pointed out in the comment section, it's not by Aphex Twin as I initially stated - he still rocks though and I'll test asap what his stuff makes me want to embroider.