Le Spot

with a bit of help from my beloved...

Forgive me the sound design... it's my first collage.

Otaku Festival3

 Looks like there's gonna be an Otaku Fest 3 after all... We were convinced not to do this anymore because of all the shit we got for all our efforts to do something good ... This time

we were persuaded to be co-organisers. The event is happening on the occasion of  50 years of diplomatic relationship between Romania and Japan ... or something like it. 

We were supposed to return to Ro again for this but we gave that up... especially because it was advanced one week. We are now joyfully in the process of creating its identity. 

since the theme is gonna be PLAY - for the event too  I looked up some old games graphics for reference... It's an area I've never been before, since I only had a Brick game as a kid and the only games I played were Sanitarium and Armageddon Worms. But now I stumbled on this Nintendo website  and  the research period got veeeeeeery long... :P

I guess it will be fun, much better organised than the first two editions, now that we have help, a better space... somehow  I'm sorry for not being there... We'll do our best from here.

OTAKU Magazine 5

Long break again... Been away...

 To "sweet homeland" actually. To get my nose rubbed in it again... Each time i go there  it's sure to get piled up with things that just don't work right... More and more I understand that saying of a Romanian TV show man: "we live in Romania and that is what eats up all our time"

I happened that we had a launch to do - number 5 of our Otaku Magazine- PLAY issue...  

Here's the cover I made

We went back to Ro for that - because the plans to have the magazine out at the beginning of march when we were there also, didn't work out... Anyway, not small of a surprise was to get the magazine all fucked up  from the print house. (famous Codex print house- whose manager insisted to have Otaku printed there "cause she just loves it") So we had a draft launch in Bucharest on the 28 of march. Thanks to OTA who was our host, to Minus who performed some of his crazy 8 bit music and to everybody that came and had a good time and cheered us up, it was a nice evening.

 Anyway , we returned to Berlin  and Otaku was supposed to be relaunched in Cluj at Yume-Tea House... And thanks to the same print house it was a draft again- they couldn't make things right in two weeks. 

Now, i've  heard  it is finally ok. Just one month of delay... Hopefully  I'll find some print house in Germany that can do the job in a common sensed time.

 

Zuruck to za niet

Got a big hole in my blog again... I'll be trying to mend it a little

first- meet Zmeia

she is an Ikea lamp that we inherited from the former renter

of our appartment. actually she was- now is a she-dragon...

Ah and on the first pic - there's also Kutzu

what is now- is that I'm 29, -it all came and went by preety fast- depression an'all...

Actually, I still got some drinking to do with some people...

-preparing to go to Romania for three weeks to see sis, mom and dad, lots of friends, doctors and  some snow , we hope

-speeding up work for OtakuMag -PLAY issue

what else?- oh I went ad met the father of Pictoplasma , talked a bit, did an article ... 

oh , yes... that I could do because I live in Berlin now- me and my love... It's good.

We came 4 of us together from Bucharest: me, Remus(my better half) , Tudor(the all acclaimed director of Animat Planet Show) and his love- Dana(beautiful and talented actress and puppeteer)...and we're up to great deeds. 

oh! that was in october...

October was crazy- we lived 5 people in one room at Popica's place- he's one of the animators at AP and came to Berlin 2 years ago. We had a really hard time finding our own places to stay,

 cause here they got rules! And none of us as much as understood at first what we were asked for...as we don't speak deutsch at all... So,  with stress accumulating and running around seeing apartments all over Berlin (almost) we still managed to do this clip. 

November... preety dull- we moved in our apartment-contracts with gas , electricity and internet.... stuff like that...

 funny thing! - Tudor and Dana found themselves a place just around the corner from us... what were the odds? Then another girl came from Bucharest, Alina, who was lately working with us

 and she is now living on the same street with Tudor...Spooky. Berlin has more than 3 streets, you know... 

December... what was in december?

 - we worked till the evening of 25.But... next morning we were off to Innsbruck. And then to Zell am Ziller

We came back on the 4th of january and since then I long for the slopes and the mountains. 

bad news, the world in crisis, Animat Planet terminated - maybe to be replaced  with another show on another TV channel... but also some good stuff - like old friends getting in touch with each other ...

Night of the galleries

Kollector was in the galleries circuit and we held a remix live drawing session. The ideea was to work on or near somebody else's drawing. I did the two headded blue dragon lady with the fancy stockings. ;) It was really fun.
The event has it's own blog http://noaptea-galeriilor.blogspot.com/ - u can see a lot more there

conclusions

Well...pfiuuuu. OtakuFest is over.
It was good. not perfect, a lot of things did not work properly , others did not work at all... but others worked great and the general feeling is positive. The internet is going to be full of pictures and movies so I'll just upload something I worked at for the festival. There is a "Kaidan/Scarry Creatures" exhibition at the Kollector gallery. Here is my piece.
Other pics here

News about the festival: we have a veeery speeshul guest for our toyz workshop. Mr Ciubi aka Square Cat (Pisica Patrata). Actually he was the first to do a collectible designer toy attempt in Romania. Flyer by him also...oh, and Sidekiks would be me and my boyfriend, Remus.