tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132880352012-01-27T18:21:47.733ZDiana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.comBlogger4841100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-15044168144659638082012-01-27T17:09:00.001Z2012-01-27T17:09:43.398Z

I very well rememeber the Census in Germany of 1987. Tough I didn't live in Germany then. But the news reported daily of all the calls for boycott and the general hype and outrage people shared. As it was heard, Census takers even were attacked physically. Therefore I was somehow exited when I heard that there would be a census here in France.  Would be my first one. Yesterday, the census taker

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-66948537205839325152012-01-19T14:15:00.001Z2012-01-19T14:15:15.612Z

...on this Computer. The last photo I have on my harddisk: And sice I have nothing to work anymore, all files are on CD, I just pick up this tagging thing that Sefarina found. Its in German, therefore I'll answer it in German, too. 01. Schaust du das Dschungelcamp?- Nein. Schon die Trailers und was man sonst so hört reichen für eine Woche Fremdschämen.02. Dein größter Stolz in deinem

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-7069119899345388202012-01-18T16:21:00.001Z2012-01-18T16:21:29.601Z

My Computer used to be pretty strong. Graphic work require a lot of  resources. Years went by and the requirements increased. Especially since I'm doing Films. To make a long story short: my PC doesn't meet the requirements anymore. Its too slow, not strong enough. Its impossible to view a film that's longer than 30 seconds in a fluid mode when loaded into the editor. Therefore, a huge

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Right now I am in Basel spending some days of vacation - which doesn't mean I don't work, of course. I try to get all my projects on the way and boost my productivity. I have my first fair-attending on the last Week-End of January, on a collectors-convention in a little town next to Epinal. I don't know what it will yield, but at least, its not far away from me and Market-Stall fee is cheap. On

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Well, I hope you all had a good New Year's Eve and a good start into 2012. I don't know if I should write something like a personal 2011-review... Best things that happened: *Gaby came back into my Life. *Minggy came into my life. *Bête des Vosges DVD was done. *Lune des Loups was done. Worst things: *Georgie died. *Mom got ill with Herpers Zoster. *I still didn't had the possibility to move

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End of year is approaching, so I did some cleansing of the house. To me, New Year is a holiday as important as Yule. Maybe because the phenomenon of time always fascinated me. Minggy is a lot better today. I am surprised on how well he dealt with that surgery, both physically and psychically.

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Wow, what a day. early in the morning we had to drive to the vet with Pico for his vaccination and Minggy for his neutering surgery. This is already a bad start into a day, because of  all the concerns one has regarding a surgery and the fact that we have to rip the cats out of their home, stuff them into the car and then drive them to a place they hate. On the road then - the car -  its the

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-17404135717277762742011-12-26T14:02:00.001Z2011-12-26T14:02:30.500Z

We had very good and quiet holidays so far. I love these days "between the years". A time to take some rest all while doing new plans. Today's hike was almost a trip in early spring: Sunshine, warm air...no sensation of winter. But I don't think that this weather will last. However, the walk in the sun did us really good.

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Despite of the fact that we do Yule, December 24 is still the day we light the tree and give out the gifts. If it were just for me, I'd do all these things on 21, but especially my mom is somehow used to 24. , so I don't want to force too much changes. And after all, this way we have 2 days of celebration, why not? I entered the tree and as you can see, cats examined every twig of it. from left

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-21022435984166794122011-12-21T11:12:00.002Z2011-12-21T11:12:38.433Z

To all of you a blessed and quiet Yule. May The night of the return of the light be for you the beginning of a new cycle of creative happiness

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-91691250682052883452011-12-17T15:44:00.001Z2011-12-17T15:44:49.598Z

Geier, a talented German  artist is mostly known for doing Comics and illustrations that are for mature audience. But this time he decided to offer a beautiful and funny Christmas tale that can be enjoyed by children and adults alike! Go have a look at: http://www.dieweihnachtsmaus.blogspot.com/ Every day, a new episode is added - First episode started today. Geier did the story and the art.  A

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-64742561658542196052011-12-12T11:06:00.000Z2011-12-12T15:17:16.578Z

On yesterdays hike we found this on the field trail: A piece from an old vinyl record. It was so dirty we couldn't even identify what content it had. Well, yes, Vinyl disks were mortal. I grew up with them but unfortunately, never belonged to those people who would softly pull them out their jacket, play them with all due care and then immediately put them back into first the paper wrap

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-41119920212480543922011-12-08T18:27:00.001Z2011-12-08T18:33:56.625Z

...regarding water solble color pencils. Until recently I thought that they were pure shit, as attractive as  nuclear waste or female Body-Builders. Weeks ago, I accidentally bought one and days ago, I used it accidentally. Well, I must say, it was not the expected "immediately-wash-away-my-work" traumatic experience I was afraid of. Especially when painting buildings and building elements in

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-86246307528908685812011-12-04T21:17:00.001Z2011-12-04T22:18:15.121Z

I had some time to spare and took fun into collecting a few stereotypes that appears to exist in the movies. Not in ALL movies of course, but in several. ANIMALS * A Pet either dies in the first ten minutes of the film  - or never. No matter in how deep a trouble it gets, it will return safe to its owner at the end. Same applies for Kids. * Dogs are more likely to get killed than cats.

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-31080963420846881572011-11-29T17:57:00.001Z2011-11-29T18:16:21.742Z

I'm recovering from the surgery and each day is a new step into normal life! Tomorrow, I will drive to town, in order to get us some goods we're out of. I think that I'm now able to achieve this "work". When I tried to ride the car a day after I went out from the hospital, it was pretty painful and not a good idea. I'm also slowly finishing the Script for the Merula Dawn Film. This Phase is

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-41543373445592248592011-11-26T10:03:00.001Z2011-11-26T10:12:32.828Z

So happy that I am back home again. Surgery went well, aside of a few complications that resulted in much more and bigger holes in me than they initially said. It's like I received a blast with a shotgun in my belly. It's awful hurting and I'm feeling allover very weak. The communal Nurse passes every day to give me injections. But I am at home and surgery is over, that is what counts. I slowly

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-15022223005973531312011-11-19T13:10:00.001Z2011-11-19T13:35:41.349Z

Tomorrow I will have to check in to the hospital. Gall Bladder Surgery is scheduled for Monday, November 21. It will be mostly a routine job. They will grab out the gall bladder and the stones trough little holes they drill into me. When all goes well, I even can go home on Tuesday 22...Spending JFK's death day at least partly at home. That would be great. If not, it will be Wednesday. Only if

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-13474571839749608792011-11-14T15:13:00.001Z2011-11-14T15:35:09.454Z

Today we went for shopping in Xertigny, a town 15 car-minutes away from our village, where you can find a bit more shops than in Bains-lesBains, our next town. On the way back we saw a big Garbage Truck lying on its side. Fire came out of the bottom.  Two men were still inside the cabin. First, I thought that they were Firefighters, due to their reflecting vests. But they happened to be the

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-42833570941022266292011-11-10T16:17:00.001Z2011-11-10T16:17:35.451Z

Speeking of new projects, another one is Georgie the black Kitten. Georgie has been originally created as T-Shirt Design for Spreadshirt and turned out to be the most popular of my designs there. Therefore, I decided to go a little farther with this character. Planned is an universe of Postcards, Trading cards and little Films. The Films shall be suited even for the smallest Children. same age

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-12357890337583502982011-11-09T17:33:00.000Z2011-11-09T17:33:08.921Z

After the finishing of la Bête des Vosges, I have now dived into the new projects. There is Thyla of course, which I entirely rework in order to make it a widescreen Movie. And then there is "Crazy race" a little Film I started years ago and which I should finish just because there's already a lot of material done. And there is my most ambitious project: "Merula Dawn". It is a film that also

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-30961147574988008772011-10-31T11:43:00.001Z2011-10-31T11:43:41.451Z

And a very blessed Samhain! We made Pumpkin Soup out of a big specimen this year's harvest yielded. There's fog outside, the trees are in full color - it's Samhain the highest time of the year! May you all have a great time!

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-91891677108017118982011-10-29T11:26:00.002+01:002011-10-29T13:29:24.256+01:00

This morning I went down to the post-office.  There I saw the presumed Father of Benni and Winzy dead on the yard of a house. Difficult to say if he has been killed by a car or if he just perished because of his various illnesses. He was a stray Tomcat, filled with parasites and with half of his back-hair fallen out. If he had owners at all, then they were careless ones. He had that special

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-14492245851337063452011-10-23T16:10:00.000+01:002011-10-23T16:10:10.529+01:00

At todays hike, I found this splendid Amanita muscaria Mushroom. Fortunately I had my Iphone in my pocket. They are said to be a luck-bringer. Hope that's true. Well, the last time I saw some in the wild was in Germany, more than 15 years ago.  Yesterday I finally got a replacement car so that at least, I am not anymore immobilized. But my own car is still in Thionville. Problem is that a

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-51423906740677428442011-10-17T13:15:00.000+01:002011-10-17T13:19:14.595+01:00

I'm back from the Comic Fair of Arlon, Belgium. It was as usual, meaning the best of it  was the time before the event itself, with its sweet illusion that it will be great this time. And then of course, it wasn't,  and ended with a car-drama. I drove away 04:30 AM Saturday Morning, in order to be in Arlon at 08:00 AM. In Epinal, I noticed the white smoke coming out from the cars rear end, but I

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-2812497941186647082011-10-12T17:50:00.001+01:002011-10-12T17:50:17.811+01:00

I did this little shit Video - although I don't have the time to do such useless crap. I did it anyway. Now I can go back doing real work.

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-91963061352739092392011-10-08T13:36:00.001+01:002011-10-08T13:37:11.235+01:00

Ah, the Lune des Loups book was sent out by the printer - in time, I got it yesterday! Printing came out really cool! Clean and of fine quality. I am so happy that I managed to produce this book in time so that I can take it with me to Arlon... Really wonder how the balloonless Formula will be accepted by the audience. If it is well receveived, then it will definitely be the way to go for me

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-15565131473903741442011-10-02T16:09:00.002+01:002011-10-02T16:10:15.254+01:00

Health is a lot better now and I am preparing my next short Trip to Basel (the usual, monthly one.) Today I decided to stop the daily scanning of the art I produce - I will take the whole load to Basel and scan it there, where I have a scanner that is a lot faster. I'm loosing so much time with my old one here. Instead, I will process the stuff already scanned that is in the waiting line. That

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-21048093790394596162011-09-28T15:04:00.002+01:002011-09-28T15:05:31.546+01:00

Wow, Dear Dryade is giving out a very cool Blog candy, here: http://dryadesgedanken.blogspot.com/2011/09/blog-candy-fur-euch.html Of course I participate! I almost missed that post because of all that health-trouble. It first started with a suppurative frontal sinusitis, the kind of shit I'm used to. But then, during the night, the whole thing evolved into in an additional pain, a hard pain

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-77487329029777846852011-09-27T12:38:00.004+01:002011-09-27T12:38:42.588+01:00

Yesterday, at 3:00 AM I had to be carried to the hospital as an emergency. I was released in the afternoon, but I'm still very weak. So this is why I'm not very realiable in Blogging these days. But I'm well so far, don't worry ;-)

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-64104918490584415162011-09-21T18:40:00.000+01:002011-09-21T18:40:22.358+01:00

First of all, I wish you all a blessed Autumn Equinox, Mabon or Alban Elued, or how ever you call it. I didn't have the time to make a special drawing for the event this year, sorry. Therefore I let Minggy be the greeting card: When you are so busy with a variety of projects, you really don't realize how quickly time passes! We are entering in the dark season of the year and soon the year will

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-63439938417875340612011-09-16T15:03:00.001+01:002011-09-16T15:03:53.806+01:00

You may remember when I was so frustrated because the entry of the Vosgian Beast Movie seemed to fail because I had no third party site about it. Well, some nice folks created a Facebook fan page and also did  the DVD had a review. With these links in my pocket, I made a new attempt to complete that awful form - and now, a week later, YAY! I made it! The Film is now part of the Imdb database: 

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-27310082891494560172011-09-08T06:35:00.001+01:002011-09-08T06:35:11.211+01:00

I'm back from Basel and have a new load of drawing paper. What a relief ! :-) Now that the Lune des Loups book is finished (I still wait for the proofread tough, so I can send the whole thing to the printer) I'm concentrating myself on the next project. This will be my "pagan tarot" card set. I have this project in the back for a real long time, with several cards already done - so its really

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-39262921670236213932011-09-03T13:46:00.000+01:002011-09-03T13:46:03.508+01:00

Yesterday, I ran out of drawing paper. We will drive to Basel next Monday, where I can buy me some new. But until then...2 horrible days without drawing paper. 2 days ! Can you imagine the Awe I'm going trough? Ok, I can work on the Computer. I can make some animations, for I still have plenty of tracing paper. But this doesn't help. Its the sole knowledge that I can't draw on paper even tough I

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-11375708823133399392011-08-29T14:42:00.000+01:002011-08-29T14:42:49.010+01:00

Today, a review of the Vosgian Beast went online at Movieworld.com Read it here: http://www.movieworlds.com/filme/dvd/Das_Vogesenbiest.php#DVD After the strong negative feedback of my friend, this review did me some good ;-) The reviewer mostly describes the work behind the film and the few rating statements are positive. I'm pretty happy! I have to say that the people behind the site were very

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-32436249913701360752011-08-26T11:20:00.000+01:002011-08-26T11:20:49.810+01:00

Today I received the most negative Feedback so far, for the Vosgian Beast Film. It was from a long time friend. All while I appreciated that he's sincere rather than trying to avoid hurting my feelings, its of course painful to swallow. Also because of the length and the sheer amount of all the negative points. He even critiqued details like "too much flying dead leaves". It was not totally

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-39593879745614567992011-08-24T17:16:00.002+01:002011-08-24T17:17:38.217+01:00

"Lune des Loups" is advancing quite well. I may finish it in the first week of September, yay! It has still got to be proofread, of course. I hope, I made the right choice when deciding that - at least for the first version - it will be in french. I did so because of the Arlon Festival, of course. But my professional counselor suggested that it may have been a better idea to publish it in German

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-56534740745169318472011-08-21T16:12:00.000+01:002011-08-21T16:12:35.416+01:00

Dear and talented Sefarina has decided to offer an unique peace of her art at a drawing lot! Watch the video to admire her work - isn't that beautiful? I'm in, for sure. If you want to participate too, here is the link to the post in question Write a comment stating your intent to participate and do also write an entry into your own blog about it. As a fair player I wish you all good luck - 

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-12001906421297565592011-08-19T16:23:00.000+01:002011-08-19T16:23:14.199+01:00

Yesterday I discovered a tiny black spot in the lesser right corner of my computer monitor; Today, this black spot has grown and almost entirely covers the clock on the toolbar. There's a sort of yellow glow surrounding the black hole, making it look even more frightening.Any clue what that is? Antimatter? A black hole? Looks like my monitor has cancer or something. I hate the thought of being

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-24205944519703816822011-08-19T16:21:00.000+01:002011-08-19T16:21:58.565+01:00

Yesterday I discovered a tiny black spot in the lesser right corner of my computer monitor; Today, this black spot has grown and almost entirely covers the clock on the toolbar. There's also a sort of yellow glow surrounding the black hole; Any clue what that is? Antimatter? A black hole? Looks like my monitor has cancer or something. I hate the thought of being forced to buy a new monitor, if

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-75592285492209649982011-08-13T17:28:00.000+01:002011-08-13T17:28:53.070+01:00

Like every year at this season, I am beginning to work on my next year's Dreambook. The cover, with the mandatory collage of JFK and the moon is done: The inside will be much more work. This is why it is wise to begin the task now.

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-55948958917550529022011-08-12T17:39:00.000+01:002011-08-12T17:39:45.064+01:00

It's definitely fall here in Basel. The leaves fly around and the air is mild, but not hot. Beautiful. Next Wednesday I will go Home to France, therefore I will enjoy the last days of my vacation in Basel with long walks, another Meeting with Gaby and hopefully my Aunt, too. Since the Swiss Franc is extremely strong and almost worth one Euro now, a lot of Swiss people are buying houses in France,

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-25848540056901377612011-08-08T14:27:00.000+01:002011-08-08T14:27:55.498+01:00

Most of us had a best friend during childhood. So did I. Some of us keep the friendship - sometimes during the whole life. My best friend in childhood in Basel was a Girl named Gaby. She was born in the same year I was and  lived in the same building and on the same floor, but the entrance to her part of the building was on the other side of it. We shared the same balcony row tough, our

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-35857450403045714422011-08-06T15:53:00.000+01:002011-08-06T15:53:54.014+01:00

Today I took a long walk trough Basel and finished it by visiting the Flea-Market at the Petersplatz, which ist pretty popular. Found a lot of very cheap DVD's - this will make my mom happy, she is a passionate lover and collector of DVDs and movies. The coming fall can not be overseen. Everywhere, leaves fly around and the trees get a tired color. Fall may come very early this year, but I enjoy

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-10235758806240961812011-08-03T17:41:00.000+01:002011-08-03T17:41:22.620+01:00

Since I am decided to take also a new printed work with me at the Festival in Arlon, I started a new book project: This one being a "comic without balloons" or something like that. Since I have a very short deadline, I had to put my current Film-Projects on hiatus. The Book is entitled "Wolves Moon" and is in French. (Lune des Loups) It is a tale out from JFK's campaigning time. Wolves Moon is

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-18252336911321918102011-08-01T10:36:00.000+01:002011-08-01T10:36:44.775+01:00

Finally, the Exhibit-July is over. Yesterday, I arrived here in Basel, where I will stay for 2 weeks in order to get something like a bit of vacation. I have some real active weeks behind me. Last one being the Exhibit in the Val d'Ajol. I was there every day, except Monday 25, when I traveled to Metz, meeting a representative of  Lorraine's Film department. I sold one or two DVD's a day in the

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The second screening of the Film attracted a lot less spectators of course. But at least, this time, the DVD player didn't give up, and two people bought the DVD. Also collected some addresses of people interested to receive news about my work. Next Wednesday I will go in the Val d'Ajol installing "my" corner within the next Exhibit. The Art'Expo is held every year since over 25 years now, in the

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Well, yesterday, I had it the other way. It  was the first public viewing of the Vosgian Beast Film. It was displayed on a big flat screen TV in a Basement hall of the Tourist's Office and meant to be the Highlight of the Exhibit. I really didn't look forward for it. My main concern was that there would be no one attending the show, hence I'd sit there, alone, like a complete Idiot. When I

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Well, I already wrote about how much difficulties I encountered in my attempt to get Press involved into my efforts to make the DVD known. On Monday Evening the Tourists Office called to tell me that the Journalist of the local Newspaper who until then successfully avoided all contact with me, would meet me on Tuesday at the office for an Interview. Apparently the pressure both from Mrs. and Mr.

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While I am writing this, I still can't believe that that I have to write it. A few hours ago all was still normal. I was working in the kitchen. The cats were playing in the house, running up and downstairs. Suddenly, I heard a loud moaning. I first thought that there was a fight, because it sounded a bit like the groan a cat makes when facing a stranger cat. I looked at the staircase from where

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Tomorrow I will go to the Tourists Office in order to install the Exhibit. Not that I am expecting the slightest thing from that by now. Posters were sent out to lots of Shops and offices, but NO ONE did hang it out - unlike the posters for the exhibit that comes after mine, which you can already see here and there. I am deeply frustrated by the huge blocking wall I encounter from the instances

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I'm just coming back from Basel. Usually it takes me one or two days of rest to get over the stress of that journey - but tomorrow, I have to go off again, to a Kinesiology seance, for my back. And Sunday I'll have to go to the tourist office, preparing the Exhibit that will take place there during the next week. After that I will have one week of Exhibition in the Val d'Ajol. These Exhibits

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To make a long story short: Since the death of our red cat Wincent around 1995 we - and especially my mom - dreamt about finding another red cat. Winzy met the color a bit, but not really, he's more tan/ light brown. Today the veterinarian's assistant called us and told us "its urgent, we have a red kitten that was promised for someone - who does not want it anymore. Since you are looking for a

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Today I finished to convert the last scene of the Intro Sequence in Thyla. But this is just a stop. I have more than 60 clips left. All to be reworked from the 4:3 format into large 16:9 Lots of backgrounds to redraw, but also lot of animation work to improve. Meanwhile, my freshly bought Vegas Movie Studio 10 - well "fresh" meaning last November - tells me, that there's a new version and wants

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It's hard to believe that the first half of year is already over - wasn't it yesterday we celebrated Yule?  The mellow Midsummer will end, the hot High Summer will take place. As for me, the first months of the year were mainly marked by the work on the film and by the illness of my mom - she had Herpes Zoster and is still struggling against it. Interesting enough, the hooning by the

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Everyone who ever published a book (or a DVD - or any other cultural good) will know that the most difficult part of the whole process is to find resellers and distributors. As for the Vosgian Beast DVD, I was pretty lucky, because I found a German Distributor in no time: It's Edelstern: http://www.shop.edelstern.com/product_info.php?products_id=34 So if you live in Germany and still don't own

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When I was in Basel days ago, I originally planned to go to my art shop buying some Ecoline Inks I was out of. I somehow missed to go to the shop as I had heavy back-pain and it would have been an extra hike. But since I was in the area I visited the second-hand shop. There's always something to discover there. Big was my surprise when I saw a few pots of Ecoline there - and almost exactly the

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The mood you are in when between two projects can be weird. Yesterday, I tried to commit suicide by eating a salad I bought in a German supermarket. It didn't work. Today, I worked hard to achieve all the task on my To-Do List for the Promotion of the DVD. Several people do help me and I think the least I can do to show my gratitude is to do any effort possible on my side, too. Other than this,

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L'actrice! 3 Readers went into the drawing lot pool for the original art and L'actrice was the lucky one. Congratulations to you and many thanks for participating to the others.

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Wheeew! What a day! While I was eating my dinner with Mom, a big Truck stopped at our house. I knew what it was. And indeed: The whole stock of the DVD copies! I cannot describe the feeling when I opened the first box and saw all these beautiful DVD cases. Now the Discs just had to work, too! We immediately stuffed one in the DVD player. I never was this anxious in my life. But the whole thing

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Today it has been 6 years, since this blog exist. First post is from May 30, 2005. 6 years of Sun over Stonehenge - with some long periods of hiatus, tough. Nevertheless, a reason to celebrate it a bit. So there is a little Blog candy for you today! This original drawing: will be given away to a lucky reader via drawing lot!The drawing was made for the Bonus Material included in the Vogesian

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Again an other year. Thank you for being my muse, my guiding light, warm and strong as the morning sun. Thank you for being patient, for your contradictiions, for your teachings. You let me see, the grandeur that is in little things. Thank you for showing me the beauty of the world.

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This early morning I attended the dentist. While he was drilling my tooth, his cell phone got a call. The assistant answered and apparently, tried in vein to find out what the caller wanted. She then handed the phone over to the doctor. Maybe a patient in distress who couldn't barely speak? It quickly turned out that it was a commercial call. "No, I am not interested" I heard the doc repeating "I

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Wolfgang Mittendorfer, the Composer of the Soundtrack in the Vosgian Beast Film didn't charge any fee for his wonderful work . Instead of that, he just asked that I add the movie to the international Movie database. He said: "a lot of producers "forget" this step." But it's be important, because it would add a new reference to his list. His official imdb Site hence displays much less films than

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When the British WW1 Veteran Claude Choules died at the age of 110 on May 5 2011, many medias reported that there are now no WW1 survivors on earth anymore. Well, we can't know this exactly, there may be an unknown survivor somewhere. However, with the departing of the last verified veterans, WW1 definitely becomes history for good. It's a bit an odd feeling for me. As some of you know, I spent

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My spine is as rotten as was once JFK's - we have this in common and this may be a reason for our bond ;-) But well, my back was so nice to wait with a new breakdown-crisis until the DVD is finished. But then, yesterday, it was the big blocking. I had cold in my bed because I could not move to reach out for the second blanket. All my back was frozen in pain. No way to get up for a piss or so.

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The final DVD copy of the Vosgian Beast Film has been packed up and will be sent off tomorrow, on its way to the pressing factory. A couple of really hard days are behind me, days of pure desperation, because every time when I believed that a problem was solved, another one emerged. It was like a curse. And yes, there are STILL hundreds of things that I sincerely wish to redraw, re-animate or

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Since I have to rebuild the entire film, I also decided to rework on some animations. The Clip introducing JFK riding trough the woods was simply too crappy. I redrew the entire animation and I must say that I am pretty pleased with the result. It was worth these few days of extra-work. Don't worry, I'm not gonna redraw the entire film, despite the fact that I probably should. Old Version: New

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The Problems I am encountering at the building of the German and English Versions seem to be unsolvable. I don't know how many test-DVDs have been thrown into the Trash-Bin by now. I believe that it is my old, buggy Program; Adobe Premiere Pro. I have bought a new Program, Vegas Platinum 10, from my inheritance, but since the whole Project was built up in Premiere, I wanted to finish it there,

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Well, I finally managed to get at least the French version of the Film ready. I burnt it on DVD and sent it as submission to the Festival. It was hard to admit that the moment was there when I had to say "okay, its done, it is far from being perfect, but there is not any more improvement possible. I did all what I can. THIS is the final result." Now I am working on cleaning up the German and the

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I really thought that once the film is finished, the hardest part will be done. Well, it's not. The hardest part is building up that damned DVD. How many time have I reviewed the Film on my TV? And EVERY time I discover a new error, a new flaw. Some kind of little shit I didn't see or hear before. Corrected the too loud sound in sequence 2 of the French version. Fine, it works, but now, the

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When I I took this Photo of our magnolia Tree two days ago, I reflected about the possibility that it may be the last time I see it in full blossom. Rain was announced that torn off the flowers. And the next time it will bloom - April 2012 - we may not live here anymore.I planted this tree 12 years ago, when it was just a twig with exactly three flowers. It has grown up almost 3 Meters in height

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Finally - I managed to build up the menus on the DVD. Was not as tricky and difficult as I was afraid it would be. Now I am re-working on the entire audio, adjusting voices, music and sounds. As for the DVD Cover I definitely chose Nr. 1 But since there's such a beautiful spring weather, hence Ialso spend lots of time in the garden, planning, digging and planting. My mom who fell ill with Herpes

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I I worked a bit on the covers, here are the actual versions: Nr. 1 A totally new version where I tried to combine the advantages of the previous two versions: Nr. 2 Head of beast faded, but with lighted eyes. Nr. 3 old version 2, but with the new title font. Nr. 4: faded head, faded eyes, too.

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Okay, in order to justify the title, here's the Duck: And now, let's talk about the cover.As you may know, a lot of Comics and illustrated books have their cover done by an other artist than the one who did the inside. For a good reason: Cover Art is something special, it requires skills that the artist who may be  good at comic pages and story-telling Illustrations, lack. This is also the case

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Today is Ostara /Alban Eilir - the vernal equinox. One of my favorite pagan festivals. And the weather does fine! Sunshine and blooming flowers everywhere add to the perfect Ostara Feeling. Aside of the illness of my mother, I experience a very positive spring, that is not always the case. Often, this time in year is a bit difficult for me (for whatever reason). I wish you all a very blessed and

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We learned that a nuclear plant can explode on a daily base without causing any major damage. When radioactivity is increased, it will always decrease within the coming few hours. In order to prevent a meltdown of nuclear fuel, use a garden hose to spill some water on it. This works. I really don't know what's the point of  all you anti-nuke geeks. Every garden wind wheel is more dangerous. Well

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It may be inappropriate to talk about such things in these times - but heck, there's nothing I can do against Fukushima, so I'm enjoying my little, daily pleasures. My Mom has a cell-phone subscription since more than a decade, with two devices included, one for her and one for me. Since these phones had become very old now, it was time to choose a set of new ones. Since a long time, she dreamt

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What have Japanese people of 2011 and Basilean People of 1356 in common? They live on an tectonic active place, but didn't expect an earthquake this strong.  „The earthquake that occurred on October 18, 1356 in the region of Basel is the strongest historically documented earthquake in central Europe.“ say the scientist about the Earthquake that stroke Basel in 1356.  The upper Rhine is an active

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You probably already heard about the new and "ecological" fuel E10 that will be introduced in Europe from now on. Sure you did. It's in the news everywhere. A lot of people avoid it, because they fear that it may cause damages to their vehicle. I didn't even check by now if that shit would actually harm my Renault Clio or not. While I am certainly not amused by the thought that it may eat parts

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The more I am approaching the End of the film, the more I start to do all the non-art work related to it. Often an annoying work but which has to be done. One of it is to find the final selling price of the DVD. It is a stressful task. Because no matter how you count it, no matter how less revenue you plan for yourself and your collaborators, the DVD will end up - pretty expensive. This is mainly

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Winzy and Benni are well so far. They pretty much behave as usual today and aside from a few moments, when I think that they were a bit in pain, I guess that they are feeling good. I spoil them as much as I can. I know that there are still people who are skeptical - if not clearly opposed -  to neutering pets. Let me explain why I am all for it. First, my cats are indoor cats. Cats in heat that

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This morning I had to carry Benni and Winzy to the vet in order to have them fixed. They are 8 months old now, and it was about time. Like every morning they both came to wake me up on 7:30. But instead of receiving their breakfast  as usual, I kept them starving, just swallowed my coffee and a few bits of toast and then stuck them into the transportation cages. Really, I hate so much doing this

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Speaking of language confusion, One of my favorite OMGs-how-stupid-stupid-stupid thingies is the fact that probably 90%  - if not more -  of german speaking people think that  "Elk" is the english word for the german "Elch". It's not. An Elch is a Moose. An Elk, in the other hand,  is a Wapiti-Hirsch.  They live in Northern America and Siberia. You can see that there is a huge difference between

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When I seed out Corn salad in autumn, I often tend to forget that the harvest in the coming weeks is not the final one. Today Mrs. Whitebeard came to us and said "Since when have you been in your garden? Because there's plenty of Corn Salad ready to be taken". Well, I was in the garden a few days ago, but I didn't see it. My mom fetched up a pot and came back with a huge load of freshly cut corn

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After having been in Basel at the beginning of the Month, I can return there Friday. The landlord finally agreed to replace the old oven and someone has to be present in the apartment during installation. So happy that I will be able to flee out for the weekend. The Hooning here is worse than ever, because its now mainly during the night. And early in the morning, their dog starts to bark from 5:

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To all of you, I wish you a very blessed Imbolc. May Brighid provide you with health, creativity and poetry in your life.

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I am still working like hell. Almost no time for breathing. Last night I had a wonderful connection-dream with JFK. You know, the kind of encounter that makes your day but can't tell in detail, in order to keep my (and his) privacy. But it surely made me happy and excited. Maybe a premature Imbolc Gift? Last year, I had this sort of dreams around and at Imbolc, too. Really, nights like this and

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I am approaching the final stages of the Film. This means increasing work : for one, I am now actively looking for the voice actors who have to do the English and the German Version. Someone gave me the URL of a voice actors Forum and this was a big hit. I now have almost all the voices I need for the English version. Things are bit more difficult for the German version. For one, my "ads" have

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Here comes the second of the 4 pieces of art I do for the Exhibition "Mental sanity and insanity". It's titled "Le bruit "(the noise) It's one of the very rare self-portraits I ever done. The subject of the exhibition somehow drove me into doing pictures about my very own experiences. I do not really feel comfortable with that, but it was also something interesting.

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-13211936603900724952011-01-14T16:37:00.000Z2011-01-14T16:37:01.835Z

Now that I have a serious deadline for the Film to be finished, I am working on it every minute and don't have time for almost anything else. Nevertheless, I do have other things to do, such as commissioned work and a series of art for an exhibition planned in March. The Exhibition is part of a national week of awareness regarding mental sanity / disease. Fortunately I am allowed to contribute

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-23346616263838370322011-01-09T19:11:00.001Z2011-01-09T19:11:38.988Z

I'm not really into Memes too, but I found this one at Magalys Blog and decided to just go for it. B A S I C SDo you have a magical/Pagan name? No.What does it mean?  N/AHow did you find Paganism? I always felt like a pagan but thought that this was something bad an evil force placed into me. I learned and find out it was my true nature.How long have you been practicing? 14 years (gee, already

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-87532538562249427742011-01-07T15:30:00.000Z2011-01-07T15:30:15.220Z

Shortly after I got up in the morning, I heard a desperate and loud twittering in the kitchen. Pico, Benni and Winzy were after a mouse. Benni was the one to catch it. He growled like an angry Pitbull with the prey between his jaws - it was impossible to take it away from him. So I had to "endure" the fact that they played with the dead mouse for two hours. Its the same each winter. Cold drives

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-8303844540037942952011-01-02T15:37:00.000Z2011-01-02T15:37:56.389Z

We passed a very good December 31. The Star of the evening was - well, our new fireplace. Our former one was more than 100 years old. We "inherited" it in Germany, as it was part of the furniture in the farm we rented back in 1990. We took it with us to France in 1996. Since one or two years, it began to slowly decay. It made a hell of a smoke when fired up and I was pretty concerned about the

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-90889204908988460772010-12-31T16:28:00.000Z2010-12-31T16:28:05.218Z

Happy and lucky new year to all of you! May all your wishes come true!

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-64327819636127608862010-12-30T13:00:00.000Z2010-12-30T13:00:12.326Z

Yesterday, I received a package of dear Sefarina. She sent me some incense and scent goodies. So wonderful - especially since I'm pretty out of incense stuff. Incense burning during the twelve Nights has been saved! Thank you so very much, Sefarina! This is a truly wonderful present. The other notable Yule Gift was a new outfit for the JFK Doll made by mom. I especially love the Jacket. It

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-89509711822574698342010-12-29T16:46:00.000Z2010-12-29T16:46:41.883Z

One of my "hobbies" is to create collages using my huge collection of JFK Photos and making computer-wallpapers out of them. Often, they are season related. The newest one is for New Year. Since I think it did come out nice, I'd share it with you. Click on it to see and download it in full size.

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-54880184205755222102010-12-27T16:54:00.000Z2010-12-27T16:54:09.399Z

I really don't know why I have so much mood swings, these days. I find myself irritable and with a low level of tolerance when it comes to little obstacles or when I have to change my plans. I'm not like this, usually. Pre-Menopause? It doesn't evolve into arguing, fortunately, but only because my ratio can hit the brakes at time when I'm at the edge of saying something stupid or aggressive.  I

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-38276019894955380912010-12-26T13:06:00.000Z2010-12-26T13:06:07.648Z

Despite the fact we do celebrate Yule, meaning the midwinter solstice, we kept the tradition of lighten the tree on December 24 and also letting this be the evening of unwrapping the gifts, eating smoked salmon, home made salad olivier and so on. Dressing a decorated Tree in a home with two young cats is a risky challenge. Benni has become much more mature and calmer within the last months, but

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-19254934214047542010-12-23T16:20:00.000Z2010-12-23T16:20:27.081Z

Depending on the way you count, we are now within the Twelve nights, also called Rauhnächte in German. We are performing a card reading every day that is supposed to represent every month of the year. And of course, dreams are even more carefully observed and written down than usual. So far, I didn't have very exciting dreams until now. For one it's due to the cats who wake me up several times

Diana Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084754858302298249noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13288035.post-35270408599756615732010-12-21T13:44:00.000Z2010-12-21T13:44:13.685Z

To all of you a blessed an quiet Yule. The sun will be born again and and may its warmth be in your heart where ever you are and where ever you go.

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