Looks like I'm traveling a lot recently. Guess I am not going to heaven because of my CO2 balance.

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.

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€.

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.

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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!

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.

2008 was a very productive year for still so it's nice to hear, that we have been nominated for four scene.org awards:

- "Best demo" and "Best direction" for The Seeker
- "Best 64k-intro" for Invoke
- "Most original concept" for Passing

I am convinced that we don't have a chance in any of the categories, but hey: It's a nice ego-booster anyways. Thanks for nominating us.

I survived CeBIT 2009, and Pirx made some progress with his Ph.D. So we got a bit more active with Tooll. One of the things we invested some time into is sound frequency visualization combined with "slit-scans". I am still amazed how much more you understand a soundtrack if you "see" it.

But I was completely stunned when I stumbled across the 2007-showreel by OneSize. I wanted to check how they deal with editing in sync with the sound and was completely blown away by an interesting discovery.

I finally found some time update the projects section.