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Lightsaber – The Fascination

May 27th, 2006 | 5 Comments | Posted in Gadgets

Artist LightsaberSince my first encounter with a lightsaber I was fascinated by the idea of this weapon. I must have been about 6 years old, when i saw a lightsaber for the first time on a movie poster of the original Star Wars movie. It happened on my daily walk to elementary shool. And guess what – I came late that day ;.)

It seems there are a lot of people out there on the internet who share this fascination. Doing a research on the topic of Lightsabers you will find mind-blowing things like:

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Sparks while Paragliding in the Black Forest

May 5th, 2006 | No Comments | Posted in Paragliding

Paragliding above the Black ForestToday I was out paragliding in the Black Forest. The flying site is in Germany in the south-western part of the Black Forest near Freiburg (Germany) at the Elztal. The take-off site is called Gschasi (or Hans Uhl). You can find more details on this flying site here.

Paragliding Thunder CloudsA very strange and mysterious thing happend during this flight. While holding my digicam to take some pictures of the clouds that had an icy structure on top some sparks started sizzeling around my gloves and the camera. The spectacle held on for about 5 seconds and i was quite astounded by that mini-lightning. I did not feel anything like an electric shock in my fingers and i am not sure what this phenomen was. I didn´t look like the camera produced this effect… More »

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3D Character Animation in the Beginnings

May 3rd, 2006 | No Comments | Posted in Miscellaneous

While cleaning my HD I found this 3D animated commercial. This was my first job as a freelancer. It shows a little love story on a virtual spacestation called CyberCity and advertises a modem from the company Elsa that was quite famous at that times here in Germany. The movie is about 4 minutes long and was done with the DOS version of 3D Studio. More »

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Paragliding in Algodonales

May 1st, 2006 | No Comments | Posted in Paragliding

This is my first publication in the paragliding category on this blog. I planned this for quite a while so its about time to get started with this… first greetings to all those paragliding maniacs around the world… to start with something, here is a little video of our last tour in fall 2005 to Algodonales in Spain. More »

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