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the YAGE

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:45:00 +0100

If you're "on MySpace", you will get alot of friend requests. Some of them are ... well ... let's not dive into that Anyways I've had a DJ profile on MySpace. Over the time quite some muscial stuff has been gathered. When I deleted this profile, I've drawn almost all friends over to my shaded ARTS profile. Accordingly this profile gets alot of friend requests of musicians, bands and DJs. Why do I tell this? Is there are a point? YEP. theYAGE is the point. And what a point indeed! "Classical/Experimental/Breakcore - It'll make you hate God!" Harsh statement. It's indeed breakcore. Very playfull. Very experimental. Very cool!

Fairystardust

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:42:00 +0200

(07/2009) Once again it took a "little while"... The shooting took place in the cellar of our house. Me and my brilliant ideas... That day in the morning I tidied all up and... well, I swept the floor. Sure it would've been a very good idea to spray some water beforehand. That would've kept the dust under control. But some things come to mind only afterwards. Anyway it took more than two hours for the dust to settle. I was already worried... Eventually we could enter the cellar again Only light was a flash head with honey comb laying on the floor. to the gallery

SLR shutter in slow motion...

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:17:00 +0200

Just stumbled across this on the net (via canonrumors). The original post is not actually very "fresh" anymore; but nonetheless I thought it would be nice to share it here. I only wonder, how the mirror can actually withstand the promised/estimated 100.000 exposures BTW: It's a Canon 5D

Website: GODEX

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:09:00 +0200

Former Thora frontman Tommy comes up with a new project: GODEX First album: "Gates Of The Universe" (on October. 26th 2009 on afmusic). Once again Peggy Graßler (www.pg-design.de) did the design (incl. promos, CD/booklet and myspace-site). I've contributed the photographs and the Godex website (godex-music.de). The website has been built with TYPO3 and is online since last week.

New area: "Under the hood"

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:38:00 +0200

On shaded ARTS there's now a new area:"Under the hood" Tutorials, tipps and tricks to photography, image manipulation, webdesign, and web programming/TYPO3. It starts with the following articles: 301 Redirects via .htaccess TYPO3 TypoScript Snippets Modification of the TYPO3 Extension mc_googlesitemap Once in a while there will be new articles and tutorials. If you like you can even make a request But don't worry... shaded ARTS will not mutate to some sort of tec blog

Dispensable

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:14:00 +0200

(04/2008) Model: Dispensable Once again this shooting took place in my "micro studio". For the puppet pictures I replaced the originally white background with something more "grungy". Only light was basically one flash head with honeycomb. to the gallery

Vi Vacious : Party Now!

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:48:00 +0200

(03/2009) Model: Vi Vacious Location: Washroom The idea came up due to the "size" of this washroom and the fact, that this tiny room is completely tiled in white. The only light is a flash head on the floor just behind the toilette. So the background is actually overblown but there's more than enough reflection light for having the front of the model lighted as well. The window is coverd with a (not colored) foil, for having some privacy while "doing things". At the time of the shooting it was already dark outside. So the foil is only lighted from the inside. Due to the white balance and probably due to some sort of light refraction within the foil it's getting this particular blueish look. to the gallery

Focus, baby! Focus!

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:28:00 +0200

That means basically, that from now on I will concentrate myself on the important things. That again is without doubt shaded ARTS. This "threefoldness" I was performing in the not so distant past didn't actually pay off. If you have to explain to folks what you are actually doing... Or if you see more friction loss than actual worthy results... Well, then you come to ask yourself, if you maybe picked the wrong turn in some way

I myself am on my way back!

For shaded ARTS it means, that I'm going to put also the things online, that I'm doing "beside" photography. It started with all the party flyers I've done until now. Sheesh, I was surprised myself how many flyer contributions to this town's party scene actually have come from my desk...

Furthermore I'll add my "dark" webdesigns. And last but not least the recent photo shoots (three by now), which quite some are eagerly waiting to finally see here. Hmmm... maybe I should stop writing stuff and get back to work, aye?

Website: Dark Celebration Party

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:12:00 +0200

darkcelebrationparty.com has been updated with a new design. I've taken the old design and improved it with new elements. Basically a refurbishing. So the new design is not that "spartanic" anymore The website functions have been brought to the actual state of technology: Better party date maintainance and display Guestbook with Gravatar suppport and honeypot spam protection Newsletter with improved maintainance Galerie with improved maintainance and display The new website has been build with TYPO3.

On own behalf

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:01:00 +0100

Once again I've updated shaded-arts.de. Well, I rearranged some bits. Newsletter, guestbook and links have been removed from the top navigation. The news area is a blog now. The newsletter subscription form went into the blog. The links will show up there as well, as soon as I've time. The guestbook is gone for good. But of course you can comment the blog entries. There is no pingback and trackback for spam reasons. But you're having Gravatars in the commenting system. That means, if someone has added her or his email addy at gravatar.com, a comment along with this email addy will show her or his Gravatar picture. Nice, isn't it? Oh and I've updated the gallery viewer with a decent thumb preview. That was somewhat overdue. Have fun

Charade & Vi Vacious : Black Metal

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:20:00 +0100

(11/2008) Models: Charade & Vi Vacious Visagist: Ilka Küting This shooting was inspired by "Black Metal", a comic book by Timo Wuertz, Niki Kopp & Julia Niemann-Kopp. to the gallery

Belain

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:00:00 +0100

(11/2008) A very inspiring shooting withBelain , a model from Cologne (Germany). Visagist: Ilka Küting Pictures from this shooting will be used for Dark Celebration Party flyers. Actually I've already built one. Just the "rest" of this series took a little while longer to the gallery

Sinner : "experimental"

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:31:00 +0100

(6/2008) Third part of the first shooting withSinner Again this part is quite different and therefore got its own gallery as well. Here we "just" ran some experiments. The results came down to something in between of bodyscapes and "distinguished nude". to the gallery

Sinner : "something gothic"

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:31:00 +0100

(6/2008) Second part of the first shooting withSinner Since this part quite differs from the first, it got its own gallery. Nude and gothik are the key elements now. zur Galerie

Sinner

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:31:00 +0100

(6/2008) First part of the first shooting withSinner In fact it was her very first shooting For this part we went for a somewhat portrait approach for "getting warm". to the gallery

"squeaky colors"

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:57:00 +0200

(12/2007) Models: Vi Vacious und Anke The very idea for this shooting was to accomplish something "squeaky and colorful". So to say the exact opposit to dark and gloomy. In the end the set came down to somewhat "80's retro" zur Galerie

Website: thora-fans.com

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:22:00 +0100

The Thora website (www.thora-fans.com) has been redone with a new design for the album release "Baby No.666". The Design is based on the works of Irek, the Thora guitarist. This again is based on the cover and booklet art by Peggy Graßler (www.pg-design.de) for "Baby No.666". I added some shots by the way, but that's a different story Anyways I made some "adjustments", and ported it to TYPO3. Functionalitywise there's the usual stuff (guestbook, newsletter, galleries, etc.). The Thora-Fan-Forum is planned to be ported to TYPO3 as well in the near future. UPDATE (06/2008) Screenshots updated. UPDATE (05/2009) The Thora-Fan-Forum could not be reasonably ported to TYPO3. By now the original forum hosting service dropped out, and so the forum as been ported to SMF. It can be reached under forum.thora-fans.com.

Website: velaskin.de

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:38:00 +0100

Under www.velaskin.de I've established a website for my "DJ activities". The very site design is rather drawn back for having the opportunity to build some sort of site-in-site-designs. The areas "Schwarzlicht" and "klirrfaktor-pi" are build that way. These designs have been in the net on their own as dedicated websites for a while. But then I integrated them into this new website. The site has been build with TYPO3. Die galleries are flash modules with their own admin area. UPDATE (12/2008) Screenshots updated. UPDATE (08/2009) velaskin.de has gone offline. The domain now points to shaded-arts.de

Cyme In Bloom

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:01:00 +0200

(09/2007) Cyme In Bloom Band Promotion to the gallery

Kat

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:49:00 +0200

Gothmodeltreffen (Matrix, Bochum) April 2007 Actually it wasn't my turn for shooting her. I shot without flash along with another photographer (who was using the flash setup). That's why some pics are a bit blurry... to the gallery

Vi Vacious : "pissed'n proud"

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:13:00 +0200

(7/2007) Model: Vi Vacious This had been a very spontanous shooting. In the first place we had no plans of what we wanted to accomplish. In the end it still came down to some cool pictures Only lighting was a studio flash with a softbox. to the gallery

Website: vi-vacious.de

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:42:00 +0200

I have redone Vi's website (www.vi-vacious.de). The design is "half-fluid". That means, it adapts to the browser window to some extend. At a minimum width of 960 pixels it's full width. Ok, funny to explain... you might simply take a look for yourself then Other than that there are the usual functionalities. The gallery is a flash module with its own admin area. The website itself is build with TYPO3. UPDATE (08/2009) Screenshots updated.

Vi by Kalli Haun

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:49:00 +0200

Kalli Haun, a befriended illustrator and airbrusher, has interpreted a picture of my "fave model" Vi. Very brilliant work! More of his work:Kalli Haun's website (www.doc-evil.org) Why do I post this? Well... I took the picture this work is based on

Thora: Baby No. 666

Wed, 16 May 2007 16:01:00 +0200

Thora has released a brilliant new album: Baby No. 666 The cover-photo and a few more inside the booklet were shot by me, and so I couldn't resist to spent this album a blog entry The model is Vi-Vacious (aka "Vi-Suicide"). Some of you might already know her from here or from her website. The original picture can be found in this gallery. The manipulation and the overall artwork of the booklet and the CD has been done by Peggy Graßler (www.pg-design.de)

Flash Future

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:39:00 +0200

(03/2007) Flash Future Band Promotion. to the gallery

Vi Vacious : "caustic"

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:13:00 +0100

(3/2007) Second shooting with Vi Vacious The goal was kind of a claustrophic atmosphere. Location was the hallway of my appartment. The only light was a studio flash with a reflector with a honeycomb grid. to the gallery

Vi Vacious

Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:13:00 +0200

(10/2006) Very first shooting with Vi Vacious. to the gallery

Thora

Sun, 08 Oct 2006 22:28:00 +0200

(09/2006) Thora Promotion-Shoot. Some pictures will probably be used for the CD booklet of the upcoming album "Baby No.666". to the gallery

DJ Zöller

Mon, 10 Apr 2006 22:19:00 +0200

(03/2006) DJ Zöller to the gallery

Damian Plague

Sat, 08 Apr 2006 22:07:00 +0200

(03/2006) Damian Plague to the gallery

Anke

Sun, 15 May 2005 12:13:00 +0200

(5/2005) These pictures have been taken in my appartment. The shooting was originally meant as a portrait shooting for the "crew area" of a website. "Out of the blue" this shooting followed. In the living room the participants of the original portrait shooting were watching The lighting was done with two camera flashes on tripods with umbrellas. They were triggered by an IR transmitter. BTW: The backdrop covers a door to the gallery