Tag: manga
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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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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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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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Inside Berlin: New chic?
When it comes to the the attention economy specific to Berlin, fashion is a key factor. People got their very own ways to create distinctiveness without exactly screaming for attention. In no other city have I seen its dwellers “inventing” themselves at less monetary costs and to more surprising effects. It’s a matter of re-contextualizing…
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Let your body talk: 24 hours of high spirits
Something about Pharrells 24 hours of happy-Video is hypnotizing, in a good way. To let a diversity of people dance to the same, simple tune reveals so much of their personal moods, yet by switching from one to another you can see the beauty of it all. To make it happen in different places tells…
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Sharing outcomes: Visual storytelling
After leading a workshop, I rarely have the time to pause for a review, following projects and deadlines in queue. Yet a growing reservoir of teaching experiences calls for closure, be it only momentarily. So I’ll go with a fragment for now, resuming some of the recurrent key issues I often address with the participants…
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