Tag: illustration
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Concrete Dreams: Tokyo Wandering.
To visit one of the busiest cities of the world with no other purpose than just walking around seems incredibly futile, right? Yet I did it, every single one of my own steps on heated summer asphalt encouraging me to go further. (tbc) *Warming up for my new yonkoma series ‘Tokyo Mosaik’, tribute to a…
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Concrete Dreams: Morning Rituals.
‘Tastes strange’ was how I would label Japanese tea while I was in Tokyo. Drinking it anyway eventually changed me, though. Since I left, I can’t get enough of sencha anymore. It reminds me of morning rituals, and of the fact that there is a country on the other side of the globe where people…
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Concrete Dreams: Tokyo.
Has the thought of living in a giant concrete ocean ever frightened you? It’s a reality, after all. Most of us are dwelling in cities, making our planet an inreasingly urban one. (tbc) *Warming up for my new yonkoma series ‘Tokyo Mosaik’, tribute to a magic city.*
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Inside Berlin: Die Mauer.
More than a look at the few remnants of today’s Berlin Wall, a certain documentary film evokes the spirit of change linked to that symbol of separation. Jürgen Böttcher’s documentary “Die Mauer” has captured the immediate aftermath of the peaceful German revolution in 1989 around the wall. His aesthetic brilliance adds to a discrete narration:…
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Storytelling connects: How manga meets football and motivates.
When the place you inhabit becomes too narrow for your dreams, move out!” … said the bird to the wanderer, so wander we did. When a journalist recently asked me to draw a manga sequence for a TV feature about two Japanese players from the Berlin based football club Hertha, it kinda made sense. I’m…
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Beyond imaginary prison bars
So, the tighter you’re gripping the bars, the more they restrain you? Let go, then. Think of what’s beyond, and we’ll see how fast you’ll make it disappear: a prison of thoughts and habits holding you back from the next step towards more awesome things. Big thanks to André for encouraging thoughts on the freedom…
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Chileno must be happy, now
You may not care much about football history, but to see an era of said history coming to an end sure is fascinating. How the Chilean team just sent home to Spain the former world champion… made me remember about Chileno, a friend from Santiago de Chile who used to play Capoeira with me while…
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Inside Berlin: Barefoot Nonchalance
Stormy weather is approaching the city, yet in the metro I see a barefoot beauty with blonde dreads taking a seat in front of me. This reminds me of a “Death Note” dialogue, where the always good looking, psychopathic main character named “Light” asks his opponent, the always messy, strange looking and sharp minded “L”,…
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Storytelling in four comic panels: Yonkoma practice
The vertical four panel comic is a format commonly used in Japan, for good reason. A yonkoma, as it is called in Japanese, serves wit and humor in a nutshell. It provides a reduced, very efficient framework to train visual narration – a reason why I’m using this format in my workshops to get creative…
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Another filmic tribute to Hong Kong: That Demon Within
Once again, Hong Kong film director Dante Lam turned the city itself into the main actor of his new motion picture, “That Demon Within”. His work caught my interest first in 2009, when he presented “The Beast Stalker” at the Berlinale film festival. Despite the predictability of the action movie genre with all its exaggerations, climaxes…
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