The Backend
Wow, that was awkward – «Moonlight» wins best picture. Six Oscars (none for best picture) go to «La La Land» – one for best direction by Damien Chazelle, the youngest director (32) ever to receive the award. #merylsayshi
Find all the winners and 89 years of Oscar history overload on Blick.ch:
Due to change in weather, I’ve decided to update my current header pic project from snowy to springy. I shot some more pictures and learned from the mistakes I’d made while creating the first panoramic images as lighting and reference material (E.g. not to change camera settings or PTGui won’t recognize bracketed exposure sets).
In other news: Because my old MacBook Pro just wouldn’t deliver, I’ve acquired a shiny new HP Z2 mini Workstation which seems to handle the workload quite well. I switched back to Windows 10 for this project because a new comparable Mac would’ve been just too expensive. (Money I badly needed for a new Adobe Creative Cloud License.)
In other news: I’ve learned that if you need some real-world terrain meshes for reference or modelling purposes, you can get them via SketchUp and it’s built-in geolocation system.
And for anyone who’s wondering what all this might be leading up to some random design sketches:
Die Schweiz hat abgestimmt. Alle Resultate zu USR III, Einbürgerung und Strassenfonds auf Blick.ch.
I may just have spotted Groot in this piece of art in Horw, Lucerne. And by the looks of it, it’s a male.
Art by Laurent Possa
I’d really love to see Kate Mara starring in a good movie… mostly because I really like to see her in just about anything,… getting lost in that gorgeous pair of brown eyes…
But «Morgan» sadly, surely isn’t that movie.
It’s just a really beautiful looking (cinematography, locations and production design are admirable) disappointment which might have worked well as an episode of «Black Mirror», but as a feature length film it’s way too predictable and much too thin – the script, of course,… not Kate. She’s perfect!
Also, Paul Giamatti is in this, stealing every scene he’s in… all one of ’em.
Am 9. Februar 2014 sagte die Schweiz Ja zur Masseneinwanderungs-Initiative.
Es war ein Schock für Politik und Wirtschaft. Wie geht es dem Land drei Jahre danach? Artikel und Infografiken auf blick.ch: http://bit.ly/2jS9Phr