Turukhtan

Monday, July 31, 2006

Not 'insomnomaniac' ...?

Tinet --
[noun]:

An immortal

'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com

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Friday, July 28, 2006

Two collages

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Monday, July 24, 2006

Porca miseria!

Finally, Eva's escapade "Asphalt mirrors" has been translated into Italian and published on the website eravamotreamicialpub.it! Go on, click it - there is a bulldog, Che Guevara, naked women, a dreamy forest and Eva on the front page!

It's so much fun to read the comic in Italian!!

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Bankhar mä!

I published some pictures of Mongolian doggies on Flickr.

Those are only the pictures from my digital camera. I'll get my films developed soon, so there will be more doggies added. I especially hope that the ones with the theme "dog chasing our car in the desert" (just like the cool photographs by John Divola) turned out okay ...

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Friday, June 16, 2006

Mitsu is gone.

Mitsu passed away yesterday, eleven years and eight months old.

Now she can run free in the stygian forests, eating bambis all day long, and not even the cancer can hurt her anymore.

She will always be my little baby.

(Picture by Ainur, frame from Venice.)

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Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Lilac skies

Back in Sweden.

Mihai trying out his new 70-200 mm lens, the night before we officially broke up.

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Monday, May 29, 2006

I photographed some kickass abandoned industrial sites yesterday.

The weather was really funny as I biked to this area. One minute it was bright sunlight, and in the next, the strong winds had blown a raincloud over my head, so that I got drenched ... but if I changed my direction a bit, I got out of the rain again.

See all of the pictures on Flickr.

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Friday, May 26, 2006

Gouache

I've been asked to do a reportage for the main Swedish magazine about comics, Bild & Bubbla, about the publishing company where I'm working as a trainee. I just found out that they want me to do it in comics form, 4 pages.
At first I was somehow a bit annoyed, and thought, "I see ... so they think I can't write well enough!!?"
Then I stopped to think ... and realised something: "WAAAH! This means they actually want me to draw comics rather than write articles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

The latter was actually a bit of a no-brainer, since it's a magazine about comics for people who love comics, by people who love comics. But this episode is an interesting example of how I've brainwashed myself to regard drawing comics as something of less worth than, say, writing. Bad Tinet. Baaaad Tinet ...

Anyway, I have the option of doing it in colour, and that will surely be interesting. I've never ever made any comics in colour, and I haven't been painting seriously with colours for many, many years now.

To make it worse, I got the impulse to try a medium for it that I've never used before - gouache. Now that I've tried it a bit, I rather like it. It can be opaque like oils or acrylics, but also transparent like watercolours, and it has a slightly rough, grainy quality. It seems like the perfect middle thing between the three, all of which I've always felt a little bit unsatisfied with - oils stink and take a week to dry, acrylics have a too 'plastic' quality, and watercolours are hard to control and almost impossible to make opaque.

I made character studies of my coworkers to test my abilities and different techniques:

I suppose that in the comic I'll go for a style closer to the one I used for my boss (to the left), because it's a pain in the ass to colour people's skin ...

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Mum came for a short but intensive visit this week, and there are some new pictures that can be viewed on Flickr.

Me acting cool in the staircase of the Tacheles

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Saturday, May 20, 2006

Huh?

Someone from Saudi Arabia (according to the country code) just dialed the wrong number and called my mobile phone. Unfortunately, he seemed to be just as confused as I was, so we didn't manage to have any interesting conversation ...

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Wednesday, May 03, 2006

My new tablet

I got it for my birthday from Mihai, who is easily the finest man to ever have taken my virginity. >:(:))

After the first half an hour or so of using it, I can say that it's still a bit tricky, but I suppose I'll get used to it eventually. Hardly surprising, I get the best results when I enlarge the picture a lot, since the A6-size tablet surface corresponds with the whole screen (of course, I'm working with a high resolution). The board also has a scrolling wheel* and two customizable buttons, which I set on 'zoom in' and 'zoom out'.

I like how the brush strokes respond to pressure.

But I can't write with it in my normal handwriting ...!

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* Since I'm working with an "Apple Mighty Mouse" all the time at the office, I kind of miss the scrolling ball that lets you scroll not only vertically, but in any direction ...

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