Obviously nothing has happened here in quite a while. And this won't change for another few weeks, while I take care of a few things. But on May 1st, 2010 this Blog will be rebooted and rise from the ashes, better, stronger and sexier than ever before...
Promise.
I found an impressive aerial virtual tour of New York City. In the screenshots above I marked my workplace (pic #1, click on the Times Square bookmark in the tour) and the location of my apartment (pic #2, click on the Brooklyn Bridge bookmark in the tour)...
Related Link:
http://www.pixelcase.com.au/vr/2009/newyork/
Sadly, I don't really have any videoclips from this show. The first reason for that is the extreme strength of Modeselektor's base versus the poor quality of my camera's microphone. The second and even more annoying reason is, that I got jumped by security whenever I took my little camera out of my pocket for only a few seconds... So without any own footage to back it up, let me tell you that the show was absolutely worth its money and both Modeselektor and their supporting act Housemeister had everyone dancing all night long... Highlights of the show included a champagne shower for the dancefloor and a guy dressed up as a pig in butcher clothes butchering and later on fighting with a guy dressed up as a chicken...
Related Link:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bowery+ballroom+modeselektor
If you're a headhunter, don't even bother... Anyone else is more than welcome to talk business or simply say hello...
Related Link:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jensfischerus
I finally did it. I bought a Macbook Pro and thereby became a traitor to my own preachings, being a PC and Windows Fanboi and all that. But it just feels so damn good. Apple's product design is amazing and I am now owner of a notebook that is fast enough and has a resolution which is big enough for me to actually really design and develop with it and not miss my Dell-PC at all. The only thing I really missed is Windows. I guess this part of my preachings was correct. OS X looks nice and everything, and I admit that it has some really nice little features, but Windows XP is just so much more powerful. It runs fast, has more games, allows me to have more control over what to do and how to do it, all the programs and games I use on a daily basis run on it and last but not least has such a wide range of available software. Oh and did I mention games? 
So I became a traitor again and installed XP on m Macbook. And I have to say that this is the perfect setup for me. It runs fast and stable AND runs on a machine that looks beautiful.
On a further sidenote: I also installed Parallels Desktop which allows me to run Windows and OS in coherence mode. Windows is running as a virtual machine on top of OS, but it seems and feels like one operating system that is a combination of both. As you can see on the picture above: The taskbar lies over the dock, Windows and OS-windows are existing in peaceful neighborhood and you can drag files from an XP to an OS window... This one awesome piece of software...
Oh... My... God... The last two weeks have been so insanely annoying; apartment hunting in New York is torture. Maria and I were looking for an apartment in Manhattan and now we've seen it all. I especially liked the so called "bait offers" where exactly the type of place you're looking for is shown to you for the price you're willing to pay and then suddenly the place is not available anymore for some obscure reason and you can only get the worse, yet more expensive one which could also be defined as a closet for $3,400 a month. After a couple of days we started to just walk up to a building that looked nice from the outside and asked the doorman if there were any places available.
In the end we got lucky tho and found a great alcove studio on Wall Street. Yes, that is correct. I will be living on Wall Street from now on. 37 Wall St (http://www.37wall.com) is a luxury building, with amenities such as doorman, elevators, free gym, pool billard and laundry inside the building, and last but not least the apartment has really modern, nice, European looking appliances. Move-in date is April 15th, and then I will finally be able to really concentrate on work and life in New York and not roam the streets like a madman, looking for a place to stay.
The Art of Rawr is the blog of interaction designer & developer Jens Fischer. I'm 26 years old, was born in Germany, but live in New York where I work at firstborn as a flash developer.
This blog's main purpose is to keep everyone up to date on what I'm working on and what's going on in my life. As you can see there's three main sections; blue for personal things, red for work related stuff (somehow this topic seems to have the upper hand) and green for interesting links that I randomly post every now and then...