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Enemy of the state

7 days ago by pixtur
Evoke is over and we even managed to release or final version of Outside. The reception was surprisingly good. Well, we won the demo competition. Additionally we got some really funny press coverage on one of Germany's biggest IT-news-sites Heise news.
In der Königsdisziplin der Demos siegte Still mit "Finally Inside". Aus ihrer politischen Gesinnung macht die Demo keinen Hehl: Eine Überwachungskamera wird zu vielen; später ist eine Galerie mit Politiker-Bildern zu sehen; am Ende fliegt die Kamera durch eine zerstörte Stadt.


Which could be translated into:
In the champions category "PC-Demos", Still won with "Finally Inside". This demo does not make a secret of its political orientation: One surveillance camera becomes many; later you see a gallery of politicians and finally the camera is flying through the remains of a destroyed city.


Can't wait, to the police searching my home :-)

Screenshot of the day

17 days ago by pixtur
7 days to Evoke.
Sharpen unmask works (2010) - Screenshot from Tooll / OpenGl

Evoke, we a coming!

30 days ago by pixtur
Just came back from vacation, and didn't do any work on our production for Evoke 2010. But at least, I got not too distracted by the beautiful temptations of the Adriatic Sea and worked a little bit on the Interaction Design of Tooll2.

Right now, the demo looks like this:
10 FPS (2010) - Screenshot of a wannabe realtime demo

Shopping in Paris

43 days ago by pixtur
MFX II (2010) - Paris / Nokia N900
Looks like I'm traveling a lot recently. Guess I am not going to heaven because of my CO2 balance.

From Russia with love

80 days ago by pixtur
Waiting for the next metro... (2010) - Moscow metro
Very surprisingly, my company sent me to Moscow. I am quite amazed how much the city was not what I expected: Extremely friendly, clean and sunny. And expensive.

I played around with my N900 and was quite surprised by quality of the built-in camera.

Geeks can dance / 24. April at c-base Berlin

171 days ago by pixtur
Together with our friends from c-base, we organize a party to celebrate the death of demoscene culture.

Pixtur will show his favorite productions from last years. After this we will flood the dance floor with electronic beats. Live visuals will be delived by raytrayza and pixtur. We got two top DJs (Ronny Pries from Farbrausch and Fraktral from Icon), barbecue and friendly people at the bar.

Entrance will be less than 5€.

Life on speed

339 days ago by pixtur
On my way to Main-Party in Arles / France (2009) - (iPhone quality)
The last weeks have been quite exciting. And with some luck I will survive the next couple of days. Most of friends already noticed that I started my first full-time job ever! In the Berlin office of Nokia I work on user experience for next generation's web runtime eviroment. This is a drastic change from my 10 years of freelance work.

But right now I am in south France, waiting for the delayed demo competition at Main Party. I spent that last 48 hours working on a release. After a short nap I will fly to Boston.

Life rushes buy, almost too fast to appreciate the details.
Main party place (2009) - (iPhone quality)
Watching the "big" screen competition at Main party (2009) - (iPhone quality)

Evoke is over! Mainparty is coming

394 days ago by pixtur
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Sometimes Germany makes me angry

469 days ago by pixtur
I notice with increasing disbelieve how history is repeating itself. I can understand that soemthing like this happens in the USA but here we already had two totalitarian systems and are just about building the third one. First jews, then imperialism, and now pornograhpy. There is always an excuse because, you are a terrorist!

Survived CeBIT 2009

542 days ago by pixtur
Line-patters (2009) - realtime renderings with open-gl, GLSL
After two very intense months, I successfully finished the latest project for my long term client q~bus, a design agency specialising in exhibition design and interactive display solutions. This time I was not part of the multitouch team (damn, it would have been nice to see Angela Merkel and Arnold Schwarzenegger playing with one of my projects, but still). Instead I was responsible for the rendering of the stage LEDs. After all it was a very nice project with a beautiful result. It's quiet a catch to see that Deutsche Telekom was pleased with the demoscene-like style on their main display.