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New Creatures

2012-01-25T17:56:00.006+01:00

about a certain european capital...

2011-12-30T03:11:00.001+01:00

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More creatures

2011-12-04T15:50:00.007+01:00

Early stages of character development for top secret project ;)

Mollski

2011-09-13T12:52:00.003+02:00

Sometimes I draw what I see, but not exactly how I see it

A Recipe

2011-06-17T18:29:00.002+02:00

The Nonsense film

2011-04-28T09:26:00.013+02:00

I officially quitted playing hard to get, so there you go - the whole thing

also to be found in the 2010 Romanian Visual Survey called Incotro

Love, Boogieman and The Farting Lady

2011-02-28T00:04:00.008+01:00

Sketches

2011-02-25T16:40:00.004+01:00

Blue ppl

2011-01-28T11:00:00.001+01:00

Die Hard George

2010-09-27T18:06:00.002+02:00

the rest at Anim'est

2010-09-14T14:01:00.007+02:00

phlegmatic worm

2010-09-04T13:10:00.000+02:00

Faintin' Liz 2

2010-08-30T21:04:00.000+02:00

One fainting liz

2010-08-28T10:50:00.000+02:00

Serial Experiments Hamster 04

2010-08-24T21:17:00.000+02:00

Silly east european dystopia

2010-07-06T11:12:00.003+02:00

Just finished this short comic for romanian magazine DOR (Decat O Revista) #3.

It was kind of experimental for me and, of course, I couldn't keep it simple... again.

Mushrooms

2010-07-05T22:14:00.006+02:00

beautiful deadly mushrooms...

this one in Belio new book- Dystopia issue

Limp Fat Fairy

2010-05-13T10:54:00.001+02:00

just some video doodles

Fumetto-Luzern-die Schweiz

2010-05-10T19:11:00.004+02:00

Freshly back from Fumetto . I'll just quickly underline what's been the most. Most nice was that on the first day we found out that not only my work has been selected for the exhibition

but also Rem's.

Most interesting exhibitions were those of Souther Salazar, Thomas Ott and Dani Affolter, Chihoi, Brecht Evans, and of course Jack Kirby. Most happy I am because I got to meet and talk to Dan Perjovschi, an artist -in the old sense of the word- who's works I admire for a long time. Most thankful I am to David Schielter , maker of Kus magazine and The Last Match, cause he introduced us to most of the people we met there. Most fond, I am of Juanita, romanian german gipsy vampire, born in Sighisoara (thats 52km from my hometown), living in Berlin and making beautiful comics. Most annoyed I was of the prices in Switzerland. Most impressed I was with the screening at the KTv night - all animated music videos, but twisted as they can be. Most sorry I am, we didn't have more time to spend with our hosts Gisela and Markus from Couchsurfing.

Most delightful bar decoration:

most white baloons

mostly graffiti

most touristic photo (you really couldn't resist the view)

24h Comics in Romania

2010-05-05T14:44:00.004+02:00

So - it looks like it's gonna happen. Thanks to the Jumatatea Plina bookshop and Lente Cafe which is going to host it in Bucharest. But the one that really made ends meet is sweet Suzi who wanted this very badly for her event - White Night of the Galleries - big artsy places crawl .

I just hope I won't jinks it ...

Musee du Jouet

2010-04-30T10:35:00.007+02:00

Well - went to Brussels... and very touristicaly to museums, but let me tell you I didn't enjoy so much the BOZAR or the Centre du BD , as I did this creepy, lovely place

Around and about

2010-04-21T22:54:00.007+02:00

S'Hertogenbosch, or Den Bosch- lovely hometown of Hieronimus Bosch

Serial Experiments Hamster 03

2010-04-12T13:30:00.002+02:00

Romanian Visual Survey

2010-03-31T18:30:00.003+02:00

A couple of days ago Incotro 2009 has been launched. As it says on the main page, this collection of romanian artworks made in 2009 is not an exhaustive list of the best, but a representative sample. I'm honored to be among the selected artists. Some of them I knew before, some I've just now discovered.

Like Otilia Cadar

the Random Cat

2010-03-21T18:02:00.001+01:00

... at the moment of randomizing :)

24h-comics

2010-03-20T13:05:00.005+01:00

We're just back from Leipzig where we've been into a 24hComics "competition"- I don't think it will be considered a competition since we were only 5 people in the event. But we were in for the fun. Most awesome is that we both (me and Rem) finished the 24 pages required. I never thought we'd do it after reading about the event on the net. The 24h Comics was started by Scott McCloud famous comics theorist in 1990 and since then it has spread world wide. But here's the data in wiki

The organizer and MC of the event was Jan Hartmann - a crazy guy from Frankfurt who just got the idea to do this aside the Leipziger Buch Messe, and, not knowing anybody in Leipzig, just gave a shout on Couchsurfing and the locals managed to find a place, a DJ, a vocal singer, catering and make this possible. And have a party at the same time. The people from the Essential Existence Gallery were also great - they took care of us , and fed us and stayed up the whole time with us .

We also tried for the first time the Mitfahr thing (very organized riding-together system they have in Germany) and Couchsurfing and we were lucky to find some very nice people. Especially Anja, our most patient host.

Thanks everybody.

No pictures , though... cause silly us, we went there with the camera's battery empty and no charger. But there are pictures and there will be a film also, I guess, on the event's blog

...

we got also some time to visit Leipzig - beautiful city center and nice parks with squirrels :)

So here's my chef d'oeuvre :P

Editorial illustration

2010-03-16T08:50:00.001+01:00

...sort of

The thingie

2010-03-05T22:13:00.003+01:00

the Defulator 2000

2010-03-01T10:02:00.002+01:00

I found this drawing yesterday. It was made for the Aoleu "newspaper" but it didn't get in because the lettering of the "article" related was ugly and I never found time to correct that. I know it doesn't make much sense if you haven't been at least once walking through downtown Bucharest - with the traffic jams and the continuous honking, with the danger of being hit on the pedestrian crossing on green light and so on. I always wanted to have a loud speaker so I could shout back at the idiot drivers and also a pair of ice climbing shoes so I could walk on the sidewalk even if it was full with parked cars.

Hamantaschen

2010-02-28T13:50:00.005+01:00

Freshly out of the oven.

And another victory in the jewish cooking adventure, for me... Not that I'm going "Julie and Julia" to the book of Kosher, but the pictures from Wikipedia - where I go to read about traditions and holidays - like Purim (which is today) make me wanna try and cook stuff. especially sweets ;)

Oh, and tradition says - you have to drink till you don't know what's what(till you cannot tell friend from foe) on this day. We'll proceed to that later.

Heads and Tail

2010-02-27T11:24:00.004+01:00

Somebody is getting hitched. No , not me. A friend. And he asked me to make the invitation illustration. I really enjoyed doing it . So much that I didn't even charged anything ... hehe;P

... i really, really want a red panda

Deutsche Bauarbeiter

2010-02-26T19:29:00.007+01:00

I was walking by a construction site , the other days , an I saw a worker coming towards me. I had a little frown inside... remaining of the times I was walking past construction sites in ro. and always had to hear some stupid shit - so I kinda looked aside
And then , right before the worker past me by, I look at "his" face. Pixie face

Serial Experiments Hamster 02

2010-02-18T19:20:00.001+01:00

Ligatura comics festival

2010-02-11T12:05:00.013+01:00

Poznan - Poland, 3h by train from Berlin

lovely little town, with a really beautiful old center

and some surprising encounters,...but as the shallow girl that I am, I've been hanging around the mall a lot...

this mall:

no, it's not Takashi Murakami, but I didn't find out who made this

In-between the visits to the mall, I've been to some comics exhibitions , some pitching, some comic related projects presentations and I would have gone to the conference, but it was all in polish. I made some interesting acquaintances, talented and passionate people and we drank every evening at the festival's club... A good time

I should do this more often, especially if I can arrange to get invited :P

Color pictures

2010-02-03T10:32:00.002+01:00

My latest comic, done for a contest in Switzerland with a given theme "you+me=us" and a limit to maximum 4 pages (that's why so short)

Birthday present Photo Boot session

2010-01-31T21:56:00.002+01:00

Bansko

2010-01-28T22:33:00.003+01:00

First day was like this:but then it got better

well it's not Austria, after all, may there be english money, it's still bulgarian administration (Romania is not worth mentioning)

... all in all, a good experience.

Not recomanded

2009-12-19T22:29:00.003+01:00

-14 degrees Celsius and on a bike

It feels like a lot colder... It's true, we didn't see many others "heroes" like us.

the germans know.

old folder findings

2009-12-09T22:57:00.008+01:00

I found some"pictures" from my university years.

Just a few... but I must have had over a hundred. I didn't have a camera then... a digital one, I mean. I had an old Zenit which worked occasionally. But I guess this way was better - i really captured in these drawings some essential moments. And I was in the picture too.

I got so nostalgic... where are you, guys?

Feuerkopf

2009-11-23T11:48:00.003+01:00

I remembered something : the sole time somebody shouted something at me on the street, since I live in Berlin... it was in the Turkish market and it was : " Hey , Feuerkopf!" ...

I took that as a compliment ;)

I am Not Legend

2009-11-22T11:10:00.021+01:00

Mauer Mob

2009-11-19T13:27:00.006+01:00

When in Berlin - do as berliners.

Two weeks ago was the celebration of 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

There was a big havoc all around the city, so we couldn't completely miss the action (as we did with the traditional police fight on the 1'st of May), especially since we had guests... So we enlisted, guests included in the Mauer Mob - that aimed to place people with lights all along the trace of the wall.

We went a bit further from our home , even though the wall used to pass really close to our place, thinking that maybe after we could go see what's on at the Brandemburger Tor... Not a chance! there must have been a million people out in the street there

SErial Experiments Hamster -01

2009-11-18T14:34:00.002+01:00

Me&sis, artsy-craftsy

2009-11-17T21:28:00.012+01:00

stuff me and sis did together

So it's like this...

2009-11-17T18:49:00.006+01:00

We were in Ro...

(I'll skip the complaining - nothing changed for the beter, that's all)

So... we got to see ppl... best thing - I spent a month with my sis, doin stuff together an' all.

-went to a most awesome IAMX concert. Brilliant, just brilliant! Sound was better than in Berlin.

Then there was Anim'est - the animation festival of Romania. An exausting week , I put myself through a workshop, as well, held by two very nice girls from Belgium, it turned out pretty nice , but very chalenging - given the conditions... Here-s the result!

The festival was great, wonderfull movies - my favourite feature was Lascars - delirious french hood story, great hip-hop soundtrack! Lots of good short animation, gorgeous videos like Blame - I love Motomichi Nakamura's work!

Of course the national competition started a scandal... Anyway, even if his film wasn't the best in competition, the Vali Chincisan is one of my favorites romanian video artists.

Next : OTAKU- End of the World launch. It was raining ... not nice weather , not nice at all!

... but we had a fridge, a broken TV, some candles from the mitropoly, some incence and a corporate chick that breaks up often with her boyfriend... Big success, what can I say...

Oh, I almost forgot: thank you IDEA design&print for printing our magazine in the required quality at first try and on a lower cost than Poligrafia Codex did.

Next - the BD Saloon in Constanta - I was invited to represent Romania... People were nice but I kind of felt like at the wrong place at the wrong age ...

Same time - there was Nijikon ongoing in Bucharest, luckily we still got to se a part of it... Wrong age again! :)

So this was pretty much it - our month in Ursus Country

Oh : - I got dreads!

Prepare for the...

2009-09-07T19:43:00.003+02:00

my chair

2009-07-13T13:23:00.003+02:00

Sehr komfortabel- von IKEA

Tutorial

2009-07-10T13:48:00.033+02:00

Back again... to show the result and some of the process of our, almost 3 months work... Not that we worked only at this.

How to do:

- first measure the room- the space where it will be built.

- go to Hornbach or other DIY supplier and search for materials and compare prices

- make project. Better if you have architect boyfriend to do it

- go back to Hornbach and get the supplies speaking terrible German and confusing all the shop assistants. Fun , though...

- home- sort the wood pieces , see what cuts do you still have to do...,cause they don't cut at angles ...

- cut then grind the wood, with the electric sander you bought- because it was cheaper to take the raw wood and the tool then to take the wood already smoothed.

- then it is best to aply some drench treatment to the wood

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- all wood prepared proceed to assemblage.

- first make the floor structure

- ad pillars

- get friends to help you overturn the structure

- overturn structure

- be happy about it!

- make stairs, and remember to strech your back once in a while

-attach stairs to the structure

-if stairs prove too big - adjust with a saw

-that felt stoopid

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- ad hardboards to structure

- NOW move up all the furniture you want to put there.

- you can put up the balustrade now...

- the last screw...!

- wake up the next morning, well rested and pleased with your work

Le Spot

2009-04-29T18:28:00.004+02:00

with a bit of help from my beloved...

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

Otaku Festival3

2009-04-21T10:11:00.007+02:00

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

2009-04-18T11:31:00.009+02:00

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

2009-02-11T21:11:00.000+01:00

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

2008-06-18T11:36:00.000+02:00

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

2008-05-19T12:40:00.000+02:00

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

2008-05-14T11:58:00.000+02:00

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.

da spot!

2008-05-07T13:32:00.000+02:00

me worked hard these last 4 days... I'm not extremely satisfied with the result but it is as much as I could do in such short time. Of course half of the whole thing is the music and sound design, which I couldn't have done by myself. So I proudly give you Mr Gheorghe Farcas - Audiofresh Studio from Cluj Napoca

this site: www.otakufestival.com

Final Poster

2008-04-30T16:01:00.000+02:00

Otaku Festival returnes

2008-04-22T10:30:00.000+02:00

news,news, news
we are going to have a second edition of Otaku Festival on 17,18 May
this is a draft of the festival's poster .
I'm thinking of a ghosts and creatures carnival theme,but I guess whatever the vibe turns to , will be OK

No Sugar

2008-04-10T13:32:00.000+02:00

Another one from last year... I like the song and it was really inspiring for the artwork, but you have to be from Romania to understand the lyrics and to know who are they mocking (politicians and showbiz "VIPs"). Besides that this is a spoof of Acon's "Smack that" video... At least I hope you can recognize the Lamborghini Gallardo
hi,hi,hi

Toyz

2008-04-10T10:26:00.000+02:00

Here's something more I want to share with you. My little impression of a toy designer :P. For quite some time i've been wishing to make vinyl toys. Since that is not going to happen very soon, I resorted to something I am accustomed to : plaster. I made an army of blankies - of three kinds and then I gathered a bunch of people to customize them. See what came out!

Black&white stripes

2008-04-04T12:40:00.000+02:00

So, the video feature works peachy... here goes another one: Children of the Mermaids. This is from the last year

New music video

2008-04-03T14:30:00.000+02:00

this is our latest commercial work. (Us being me and the team I work with at "Animat Planet Show")Many say it's great - I'm not so pleased... it's far from what we can do. So - near future resolution: Do something that proves your full creativity- no more patchworks!

Start again

2008-04-03T13:04:00.000+02:00

I upload stuff now. I don't care to explain anything about why I was away so long. This my manga for OtakuMag04.Enjoy.Cheers

Ch 4

2006-10-14T09:22:00.000+02:00

ummm... hello.

Remember me? been away long time, I know... but with some good results. Me and some friends put up a magazine - actually i didn't do so much for the publication itself - but for promoting it. We thoght of how to make it's entry and we began organising an event... wich grew by itself to the size of a small national convention... So we called it "Otaku Festival" - if you don't know what an otaku is - pls go wikipedia
Well, there were loads of work and it didn't all turn out right - like ... we didn't actually had the magazine out of print for the event... ha,ha, but noone seemed to mind that much. The atmosfere was so right, people were enthusiastic and squirming around making new aquaintances, watching anime, documentaries and other video stuff ,or playing GO, or competing in a video games chalange... to bad the shop area wasn't very well supplied- they would have bought anything :D
There have been thousands of pics taken. We are still colecting and selecting...
The mag is out now and we are trying to make a good promo for it, but the publication speaks for itself cuz it is a masterpiece. Leave alone the special quality of paper, the content is highly proffesional , still widely accesable... (don't mind my speech- i'm PR training these days) In other words the thing is bloody good and we are very proud of it :P
Another reason for wich I didn't post earlier is that I wanted to finish one more strip. Thing is that nothing really happened with the Beer Architects the meanwhile... See for yourselves why:

...and gone she was... the time stood still for The Beer Architects...

Ch 3

2006-08-10T12:37:00.000+02:00

well, it's been some time... I got plenty excuses, but I won't bore you with that...
In stead ... check this :
"the opening party incident"

Ch2

2006-07-24T11:49:00.000+02:00

B.E.E.R. architects - "The Dawn of a New Era"
I finally found some time to start this project too... Any resemblance to real persons is not pure coincidence ;P

Ch1

2006-07-23T16:43:00.001+02:00

so...let us show you something...
the insides of a desertet glassware factory.
This is my new favourite sport Urban-hiking.
No entrance fee (except for the little hole in my pants) and as much as you can carry "souvenirs"
;D
Busted...
thanx Dan!

Ch0

2006-07-23T14:53:00.000+02:00

well... it's done. I added a new branch to my urban identity. thing that made me terribly tired, so I'll have to take a break before adding anything else...