model community website
last week has been a busy one. as some of you might know, i'm in constant trouble with model-kartei.de, as professoinal work there is very hard, and one even gets hostilities when excessively looking for good models there. not only is there a vast majority of hobbyists and only a few good people whom you intensively have to search, but people are also upset if you just so much as browse their profiles (seriously!). This is why i once again stopped doing business there, and reverted more to my own reliabilty. At the moment we are setting up high budget server racks for development of an own similar project, but very much more focused on ease of use and serious quality. A lot of high class models and colleagues have expressed interest and are rearing to go as soon as we start. Stay tuned for more!
new medieval gowns
Yesterday Phin Strange and the outstanding little witch Elina shot new medieval garments for the lost legends shop. I'm especially happy about the great session at the medieval setting, and Elina just simply rocked the kids section of our costume store. Stay tuned for all the new pictures at www.lostlegends.de
Janine is back
My lovely princess janine is back and we had an amazing shooting night yesterday, with lots of plastic, latex and fashion. Also i got my highway fu back with the latest addition to my car pool, a brand new fancy black vw touareg, which perfectly matches the horse trailer and which i just can't stop driving. Needless to say we were out for a cruise after the shoot and really enjoyed the night! life is good! :-)
Say hi to Mira
This beautiful young and noble frisian baby mare is the latest addition to our family and the number one reason why I spent the summer rather outside than in the studio. She has a really loving temper and although she's still in training, she has already got an amazingly beautiful and typically frisian trot which almost made me cry when i saw her the first time. As of this week we dubbed her mira, and i'm pretty sure she will be soon featured in lots of my future photography. ;-)
Go skydive
I'm up for a great weekend. So here's some advice for a special fellow: If you're looking for a way to feel like the whole world can kiss your arse, go skydive! If you don't shit your pants, we're even! But most probably you're stuck home with your fat ugly manic wife, while I get all the beautiful - and I don't even pity you ;-))
Adding Fonts to your iPad
This is for all my iPad buddies out there. Apples new iPad only uses a selection of standard fonts, so far Apple does not offer a solution to install custom font faces, which would be handy when working with iWork documents. This issue has been often criticised so far on iPad reviews and renders it useless for business presentations with e.g. corporate fonts, etc.
I just found a simple way to solve this issue: All you need to do, is jailbreak your iPad, and install openSSH via Cydia. Then use an SFTP client (e.g. Transmit) and upload your custom font (ttf, ttc, otf worked fine for me aswell) to /System/Library/Fonts/Cache/ on your iPad. Login as "root", default password is "alpine". Download the CGFontCache.plist from /System/Library/Fonts/ and edit it with Property List Editor.app on your Mac. Simply enter a new key under "Names" corresponding to your font name and file. Upload the .plist back on the iPad, reboot it, and you're done. Enjoy your custom font in Pages, etc.
Steam Leece
Today was very weird. On my birthday party last weekend we all certainly got really drunk, and jan scheduled three models for shooting in my studio today, which of course we all (except the models) once being sober no longer remembered. So all of a sudden today three beautys showed up and we had hell of a lot of unexpected fun. Here's on of the results. Enjoy!
iPad for birthday
hey all. i just wanted to thank you all for the amazing birthday wishes and the nice presents. we are having an awesome party over here. i even got an ipad for my birthday, which isn't yet available in germany. what an outstanding surprise. i'm so happy ;-)
girls arms
last weekend phin strange and boundless mind were visiting for our party again. not only did boundless mind break my pinball records again - but phin had this amazing rare vinyl military coat in her trunk so i just had to take a picture of her in it. in fact it were a few hundred pictures. here is a single one of the set for you all. bang bang ;)
p.s.: there will be something pink again this week, never fear!
back from hamburg
hey guys, i'm back from hamburg. we shot great material and partied really hard. i even ran the hamburg marathon (at least a few meters ;-) after three days with literally no sleep at all. (note to self: avoid snoring staff)
here's a pic i incidentally shot during the filming. thanks again to everyone who was there and made the whole thing thee best few days so far this year. btw faderhead already posted a little teaser preview of the film, which will be released in september.
filming in hamburg
as of tomorrow i will be filming a special feature in hamburg until next monday for the upcoming album of ass kicking electronic artist faderhead, together with some other major bands of the genre. we will have a big party in hamburg at one of our filming locations on saturday evening. if you're interested in meeting me there, drop a line ;)
i face hatebook
Everybody hates it, still though everybody has it, and everybody talks about it. So i too became part of the herd and set up a facebook page. If you like my photography, please feel free to become a fan at facebook. ;-)
strange goes medieval
this weekend phin strange and boundless mind were with us to join a party at a friends house, in retrospective one of the best so far, though i really don't remember much of it at all. phins wodka-red bull mixing ratio knocked us out completely (this includes herself ;-)
but before the party started we made a few spontaneous pictures in the medieval studio. since phin mostly works as an alternative/goth model we always wondered if she might even fit into a medieval set compellingly - and guess what: she looked outstandingly amazing. enjoy the pic. we will feature more images of the shooting on various pages of our shop soon.
lu was here
Say hi to Lu who has been rocking the plastilicious set with her italian charme last friday. despite the usual i experimented with a very different wide angle picture layout this time to expand the pink space beyond reality. It turned out really nice. love it.
bride of pinbot
never ever would i let someone sit on one of my prescious pinball machines - except for a very special someone who became my bride of pinbot this weekend. there was a long discussion at the pinball forum prior to the shooting, as to whether the cover glass would break with someone lying on top, and the answer is no! ;-)
wings
Here's some with andy and angel wings. to be honest - i totally hate wings. these are actually real ones. they are heavy, they are expensive, and they are a real pain up the arse to handle, and an even bigger pain to store. yet on the other hand - they make a great picture. so please enjoy ;-)
girls booze and rock ānā roll
last weekend was outstanding, though i cannot really remember if there was rock 'n' roll involved. the other two definitely were! not only did we have an insanely awesome cocktail party but went to the studio studio totally drunk at half past six in the morning, then partied on there. here's a shot of leece being the last girl standing still straigt on the paper, and still looking awesome after what would have knocked most of the others out. take an example, girls! we love ya leece!
new star born
Yesterday i shot a very special someone, the most amazing shoot i had for a long time. We have been planning to recreate some old ideas with new state of the art techniques for a few months now, to replace some former art which suffered from poor model skills an lack of expression. Here is the first piece of work, imho one of the most beaufitul pictures i have ever done. Thanks for all your love and support and for showing me true friendship, and how easily replaceable and worthless false and poisonous people are. Can't wait for more. You rock!
Maria’s back!
Finally back on the pink today with russian plastilicious beauty Maria who really rocked the studio out of mid-season break. This is the only girl you can have a whiskey cola with at early mornings! ;-)
Abmahnung
Much to my continuing surprise, there are still many people out there infringing my rights, stealing my work, texts, pictures or even music - not for their private but own commercial use. even though I am quite honored by my popularity, let me enlighten you on one thing: stealing is not cool and will be rightfully prosecuted. Please be aware that I am not ethically responsible if this causes you any damage!
You are always free to apologize and ask for an amicable settlement. But incapability to comply or even denunciating my name on the internet for prosecuting my rights will only result in more expense on your side and is predominantly an unwise step to achieve any settlement in an existing lawsuit. Believe it or not, the rules out there apply to you the same as they do to me. I have to follow them, and so can you!
If you are interested in using my work legally, you are always welcome to inquire for a license quote. Despite my reputation, i do not bite at all - if you ask nicely, though! ;-)
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