Note to myself: Just do it.

Recently i tried some stuff with ps to do something on a drawing chu bei did of me. i wanted to check how i would 'design' or play with an illustration and of course i wanted to fiddle a bit with the buttons of the adobe software. after a while i knew what i wanted to try, that was to seperate the drawn lines from the white of the sheet first, to paint then some colorful motivs on the background and put the drawing back on the sheet.

sounds easy and like a job of a few minutes.... since i was not able to do that (or because its too much work the way i would do it) i did a completely different thing with the goal: colors.

it took me then almost 2 hours and im still not satisfied with it, so i see it as not finished.

here it is

Afterwards i could interpret that i did this regarding the movie "Das weisse Band" - nothing in the light, story in the shadow... its late and i drift off.

however, once i was in the photostudio with a chinese friend, zhouhanlin, she already finished her study of photography and had to shoot something for her job. i was invited to join and i got to get the experience how it is to use the camera in a studio! i did some shots but didnt really have a plan so i talked a lot with the 'models' (our friends) and fired away here and then. i like the following picture the most from all shots.

中国朋友 - Chinese friends

I would like to make a short introduction to some friends a got to know recently or longer ago.. chu bei (paypay) & yue lin (angela), last week we spent some days together and it was really great, since chu bei is very into photography and also a real busy guy at the university and yue lin is a beautiful girl who likes to get photographed. we went to a little exhibition downtown, there were some pictures of of the girls angel & angela, shot by chu bei. some days later we have been to a lecture about analog & unmanipulated photography at Ningbo University which is quite far away from Wanli university, it was a taxi ride about 40 minutes. Of course we were late and the lecture already begun. it was all in chinese but i got a instant translation of the most important things from yue lin.

Angel, Yue Lin & Chu Bei

Kevin is a guy who studies chinese language. if i remember well this study includes historic chinese and new literacy - but im not sure now, maybe its bullshit - but he is studying english as well, for sure. his chinese name is he xiaping. He might be one of the best english speaking persons in Wanli even though here and then it gets confusing talking to him. we like to call him kevinem because he is into hiphop, rap and everything where pants are worn under the ass. of course also basketball.
A really nice guy who helped some of us out when we actually needed it and he has the heart at the right place.

We play tennis since i got to know maggy and her friend whose name i will always forget.

They invited us to play tennis again and again and as i remember the only activity we did together was playing tennis and having dinner once. Anyway they become good friends and they are nice to hang around with or to play tennis with.

However, they are all nice poeple and im looking forward to seeing them this evening at the dinner of Fredriks Birthday. And im glad i met you!

Maybe it is yet a nostalgic moment cause i see there is only a month in china left the future. and how the hell did that 4 months pass?