Peut-être we can ignore ziss Abwesenheit

I grew up in a country where people are used to watching films with subtitles. So I don't mind them - I actually quite like having them especially if you cannot turn up the volume due to a sleeping kid in the room next door.

However, the subtitles one finds in the Internet are often quite crappy. Painful to watch to the point where I decided they need to be improved. So I chose one of the films with the worst subtitle/film quality ratio and started correcting it.

Did you guess which film it was from the title of this post?
La Grande Vadrouille!
Aber natürlisch.



And yes, it is challenging to translate this tri-lingual film. Here some examples:

"Do you promise me que if I bring ici the Big Moustache, you partez avec lui ?"

- Qui êtes-vous ?
- Ich bin mari de la patronne, ich bin maître d’hôtel.
- Ah, comestible, gut, gut « guénéral »
- Non, non, non, je pas essen officier allemand.

The funny this is that after reading this melange of French, English and German, it takes me a few seconsd to realise which language I'm currently translating from. So confusing.

Currently...

... I'm not feeling well.

What helps me to get through these days are:
The Veils - The Leavers Dance
The Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight
Madrugada - What's on your mind
Ludovico Einaudi - Primavera
Kronos Quartet - Kutambarara
Pink Panter - the complete series.

If you have any suggestions how to broaden my horizons, please share them with me.

Oh, and to add to my depression: my camera's got some dust on the sensor that needs to be cleaned before I take another picture. I guess high technology and desert do not go together that well.

Vector drawing

For quite some time I've been drawing for a friend of mine so it's about time I share some of my drawings with you... I know they're not perfect mainly because I don't have enough time to finish them properly - but they are not bad. I think ;-)

So embarrassing

It's not that I haven't been doing anything lately! On the contrary, mes amis!

I've been reading books:


I've been updating my webpage (although you can't seen anything yet it will be updated soon):

I've been watching films:

And no, I'm not converting.

Arabic writing

Well, Faux Arabic writing. I've spent quite some time figuring out how to write something that would look like Arabic without being Arabic. I think I managed it quite successfully.





I definitely fooled my cousin, who started reading the text from right to left (-:

My absence is excused!

Carnival is approaching

Carnival is rapidly approaching and although I won't be here next week (travelling, yeeah) I have to prepare a costume for MiniMojcek. It must be in my nature as I decided to make a costume that he would be able to wear afterwards, not just for one day.

Let's see at what stage you recognise the costume:

The basic trousers and the top:

The belt is added with a sword and magic potion:


... and a "sanglier"...


... with the helmet...


The perfect Asterix!



But I'm sure you knew that :-)