Bye-bye Blick

After 15 years as Infographic Designer and Web Developer, it’s time for me to leave Ringier and the Blick Newsroom behind.

April first, 2024, I will start a new chapter in my professional life as a healthcare Data Manager.

But it wouldn’t be much of a sendoff without some sort of visual representation, would it? That’s why I’ve created this faux comic book cover to commemorate the historic transition.

«The Data Manager»

As it turns out, AI did most of the work. Artificial Intelligence, not AL, that is.

The cover is – obviously – a pastiche of the iconic panel in the «Spider-Man, no more» storyline originally published in Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 #50 in 1967:

Panel from The Amazing Spider-Man #50, Marvel Comics 1967

My gratitude goes to all my colleagues for sharing countless moments of triumph and struggle, tears and excitement, frustration and joy, insight and challenge, and above all, laughter in my far too many years in the newsroom. I wish you all the best.

Addendum

Probably my last entry on the Blick homepage in my last week: The tried and tested Lottery-Winnings-Calculator:

Screenshot blick.ch (2024-02-28)

Photo Gallery

Some of my pictures taken with the Canon EOS 70D, Sony FX30 and the iPhone (15 Pro or 10XR).

Chicago 2024

Chicago S Wacker W Monroe, 2024-03-30
Chicago – DuSable Bridge, 2024-03-30
Chicago – Sears Tower (Willis Tower), 2024-03-30
Chicago – Chicago River, 2024-03-30
Chicago – Board of Trade Building, 2024-03-30
Chicago – Portillo’s, 2024-03-31
Chicago – Navy Pier, 2024-03-31
Chicago – John Hancock Center, 2024-03-31

Nature

Eidechse, 2024-05-26
Eidechse, 2024-05-26
Plan Bee, 2024-05-11
Winter Wonderland, 2023-12-03
Biotope, 2023-10-05
Schmetterdings, 2023-10-01
Leaf, 2023-03-31
Dragonflies, 2021-06-13
I want you to photograph me like one of your French girls, 2021-06-08
Fly, 2021-06-08
Beetle, 2021-05-30
Comet Neowise, 2020-07-20

Food

Mac and Cheese with vegetables, 2024-02-15
Dish, 2023-06-04
Dish, 2023-04-08
Dish, 2023-02-04
Dish, 2023-01-29

Ceci est fongible.

Welcome to the future! I don’t know how, I don’t know why, but I just did a Non-Fungible Token!

This may seem like an unreasonable expensive experiment (it certainly does to me) but for the first time (almost) it creates the opportunity to buy (in a way) an original piece of the rafeman! So grab your Ethereum and…

…buy now!

Meta-humor in a meta-verse – Layers, man…!

https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e/54093682172971068248754049118676090532059104389215525943016410091144834187265/

rafenew.world erweitert Portfolio

Bereits wenige Minuten nach der Lancierung zweier Spartenmagazine entschliesst sich die neu gegründete «rafenew.world publishing company» (zu der auch das Portal rafenew.world gehört) mit zwei neuen Publikationen den Kulinarik- und Gastrobereich aufzumischen: «Brote der Urschweiz» und «Die kulinarische Welt der Landbrote».

Brote der Urschweiz, Die kulinarische Welt der Landbrote
Boote der Urschweiz, Die unglaubliche Welt der Landboote