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Blog kinda abandoned

2009-02-13T19:54:55Z

derbene.deviantart.com

I wonder if this works

2008-07-21T19:47:37Z

jumping the line by ~derBene on deviant ART

lifter by ~derBene on deviant ART

Hang on to your bratwursts!

2008-02-09T01:05:15Z

Here comes Rex Steele: Nazi Smasher

[ homepage ]

yay, I can repeat

2008-02-05T20:28:45Z

Trying some stuff...

2008-02-01T18:10:32Z

To get selected doesn't necessarily mean to gain faith in yourself immediately. So I experimented a bit...
But atm I got distracted again.

Why it was so comfortable with Saddam around and why Afghan civilians are only worth 200$

2008-01-30T11:58:04Z

Volker Pispers
(German cabaret artist, completely english subbed show)

"I'm already fully occupied with my little bit of being human,
it's very rare that I get around to be German."

< The full show of five clips at YouTube >

yes, I fall for silly quizes now and then

2008-01-12T12:42:47Z

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2008-01-01T16:56:32Z

Yay, Secret Santa image for a member of the War for Arcadia comic battle forum!

It was for Shadowkaisen. He didn't care about what he'd get but it should contain a crab not a lobster ^^'
Stretched that idea a bit, hope he's not disappointed because it's no fanart of his character. He didn't visit since then :|

Also: Happy new year to whoever reads this :)

personal note: got accepted to...

2007-12-10T23:07:06Z

Now I got a real chance to get into the exciting world of animation. Starting next year in march.

Now I got to practice even more and FOCUS. Damn, focus on me and my goal. Which is no particular goal but it will find its shape next year.
[ Search for stuff, produced at the ASH ]

It's trailer time guys :)

2007-12-10T22:58:20Z

By the director of City of lost Children and Delicatessen: Dante01;

Kirsten Dunst, Gillian Anderson, Simon Pegg, Jeff Bridges: How to loose friends & alienate people;

Written and produced by Luc Besson, featuring Liam Neeson: Taken;

Old director guy gets himself up to help young film maker: Man in the chair;

Sci-Fi-Mix of Alien, Cube and maybe a bit of Blame? Eden-Log;

more YouTube: Mr.Thompson & speaking cats

2007-11-22T15:16:00Z

"Hey Mr. Thompson"

"The two talking cats"

Killerspiele (again)...

2007-11-21T18:11:12Z

..but this time it's raining well built criticsm from the gamer side. A well edited video at YouTube points out the errors. Errors which could be mistakes made by people who don't know anything about the issue, or made on purpose to frighten the audience.
No matter which option is the right one, both are showing how poor german TV is made. SHAME ON THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE!

Now, without any more delay: Killerspiele in ARD, ZDF und WDR

yay smashed dreams?

2007-10-20T23:39:50Z

Sometimes it's better to give up certain stuff.
Realized that I don't have what it takes to become an cartoon animator for a living. I didn't draw all my life, I have a really hard time to draw when I have to. And the second one is the most important, so time to wake up.
But maybe that's good. Because I also quit my part time job, which was a nice counter part in my day but evolved to being pretty ass. Next week will be my last one for delievering packages.
So, I'm not going to be tired in the afternoon anymore and I have the chance to find back to the joy of drawing again.
Hm, guess I reinstall HL2 again. To check the level building tools. I want to continue my search for the right job. Something I can do all day long at best. Leveldesign could be it...focused on architecture. I love architecture.

Also: The War for Arcadia continues!
check out the forum and the new page, my battle is this one

Going postal in lovecraftian streets

2007-10-13T15:02:28Z

A good start for my part time job.
I swear, there are streets in our town which are built by the elder gods in order to swallow you and never let go. Or maybe the nazis planned them to confuse the american tanks. Everytime when I thought I found the right direction someone already had put up obstacles for cars, the way ended into a foot path or the map was just wrong. Yay.
Fact is, street plans which read and drive like a maze are not speeding up your package delievery.

My flu also seems to develope very well. Congratulations. Guess I will hit the pillow early today with some hot drink and a new episode of Dr.House / House MD and Monk.

lol internet

2007-09-11T22:38:41Z

You want more? You get it.
Bienenhalm.de

another one has to go

2007-06-13T23:51:51Z

Benstruation leaves the comic battle because he joins the military.
But the next Comic Battle will definately come, next year.

probably best geek movie ever

2007-05-29T10:04:38Z

Found at 4colorrebellion (again):

5-25-1977
(Even after 30 years...you always remember your first time)

weekly stuff...put shortly

2007-05-27T18:00:38Z

- Return to Mana frozen, the team is overwhelmed by the work for the very well looking mod.
- 4colorrebellion: life size whale, just amazing but needs a fast internet connection.
- 4colorrebellion: nice news about Indy4, yay :D
- 4players.de: Fable2 developer's introduction shows how to bind players emotionally.
- Blacksite Area51, another first person shooter with an excellent presentation.
- CellfactorRevolution needs an extra accelerator card for physics.
- Joystiq.com: Real life text bubbles and their influence on real people.
- Grosteque, finally it seems like germany produces another orignal RPG.
- Gametrailers.com: Countdown of top ten worst consoles, very funny and also lots of console you never knew of.
- Legend of the blood ninja, messes up every virtual sex life, hilarious.
- Penny-Arcade: My favorite comic strip xD
- 4players.de: Another Wolfenstein is coming :D
- German Webcomic: Selektive Erinnerung about the new SpiderMan movie. Hilarious series xD
- UnrealTournament3, go and dl that high def trailer, it's awesome oO
- Gottfried Helnwein got his own virtual museum in Second Life
- Joystiq.com: What I know about violent video games, funny and not so far from reality.
- Watch the StarCraft2 cinematic trailer, it's awesome. Which is the ingame trailer, too...okay it's all awesome.

You-Tubery:

Charlie Brooker's ScreenWipe - US Special

David Blaine Street Magic: YouTube Edition!

Monty Python - Mr Clean-Air System, the Boxer

Star Trek Frasier

Tales of the Abyss AMV - Akatsuki no Kuruma

They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard

Tuesday

WE NEED GIRLFRIENDS - EPISODE 1

Penny Arcade PCGamer Game Trailer

throw away all the stuff!

2007-05-26T13:44:06Z

Just deleted a lot of stuff yesterday. It's awesome to have to over 30G diskspace again. I had to cope with an average of 4G in the past. I'm still going to collect lots of videos, trailers, graphic demos and so on but I'm going to collect it for me.
Why do I always have the urge to collect stuff others could like? Probably because I'm wasting time in other stuff than just drawing the pictures I want to. Damn.

Comic Tournament:
Mi 23 -
Do 24 -
Fr 25 Story

Sa 26 Story
So 27 Story
Mo 28 Bleistift/pencil
Di 29 Bleistift/pencil
Mi 30 Bleistift/pencil
Do 31 Bleistift/pencil
Fr 01 Tusche/ink
Sa 02 Tusche/ink
So 03 -
Mo 04 ABGABE/POSTING DAY

Also it's class reunion from GTA training today. That's going to be interesting.
"Hey Bene, what have you done the last three years?"
"WoW, internship, drawing school, avoided normal work."
At least there are interesting stories for me to listen to. Man, I have to make it to the Animation School Hamburg.

...have to not forget the marshmellows...

Happy Birthday to the Phil!

2007-05-20T10:50:50Z

This is is his present ^^ For really likes Warhammer: Mark of Chaos and the armies of the chaos.

That was fun :D Especially those wings.

links from the beyond!

2007-05-05T12:19:39Z

Just kidding, wanted to create the right atmosphere for the dozens of links I collected over the week.

TV:
German tv show Polylux again had some really interesting topics. Like the first ingame TV-show of second life. Also: learning chinese, preparing for cooperation with the giant from the east. (You can rewatch every topic at the homepage)

Games, playing keeps you young ;)

The guys from penny arcade are finally doing their podcast again, YAY!
- The Broodax empire (Settlers of Catan)
- The lidless eye (PS3 cam)
You can also subscribe to their podcast via iTunes.

Odin Sphere at Seniorgamer (german page) (awesome musical score and stunning visuals, a festival for the senses)
Seniorgamer again with a retro impression about Chrono trigger (also has the awesome soundtrack embedded)

This boxing game is awesome, fun and realism combined!

Beautiful: this japanese rpg looks like a full feature movie for cinema!

Guitar Hero II: Less talk more rokk by Freezepop, awesome game, what a pity I'm too slow for it. But it's still been fun.

Kotaku about the camera gimmick of PS3, combining real card games with virtual ones (Penny-Arcade had a funny comic strip about it)

Interesting game mix of adventure and stalking: Experience 112. You have to help a woman on a research tanker via observation cams.

Disney becomes more and more strange: they're not only publishing animes but also games like the new Turok (which looks like absolutely adult entertainment)

The third round of the Disciples round strategy game has fantastic looks. Be prepared Heroes of Might and Magic.

Science/Interesting news/blog entries:
Henry Jenkins: A few thoughts on media violence (still have to read this myself but it sounds really interesting)

LiveScience.com: The frightening future of earth on a timeline (asy goodbye to ski)

Stern.de: Article about famous movie maker Uwe Boll and his most recent project: Postal the Movie (german)
- Postal Movie Trailer at Stern.de
- Postal Movie Trailer#2 at YouTube
- Postal Moview review by twitch.com (surprising)

"Dove Evolution": our distorted view of beauty

Sony used dead goat for God of War advertising

Scientists achieved to simulate 50% of a mouse brain

ELEPHANT by Gus van Sant (a movie about the littleton massacre, german movie page)

Quotes of Otto von Bismark, german kaiser in 19th century (smart guy, probably smarter than lots of politicians now)

Fun stuff:
Some drunk guy at police station:

Simpsons and planet of the apes: Dr.Zaius (Amadeus Amadeus);

Louis De Funes: Muskatnuss Herrrr Mueller!;

Code_Guardian
Hochgeladen von Cee-Gee-Productions

Icarus
Hochgeladen von adamswaab

Mac Spoof: PS3 versus Toaster, hilarious;

Darth Vader acts silly and annoys subordinate:

Darth Vader calls the emperor (from "Robot Chicken"):

Unreal(Tournament) kid: techno remix, it's so scary it's fun;

Counter Strike parody by fans:

Pablo Francisco: All about preview guy (ultimate fun for movie fans);

Anime comedians I: Pablo Francisco & Naruto;

Anime comedians II: David Chapelle & Naruto;

Song about attraction to cartoon characters:

Everytime you think you saw everything you discover another weird asian tv show:
Beautiful Cooking; (I still prefer Jamie Olliver)

Simpsons: Mr.Burns finest moments, priceless;

Simpsons-short: Mr. Burns is evil;

Simpsons: evolutionary intro;

Simpsons Movie trailer#3, this is going to be awesome;

Mugen: Homer versus Peter Griffin

The longest entry ever, that's for sure. Have a nice day.

Attacking the myth

2007-03-29T01:33:39Z

Song about the real George Washington xD

Let's take a look at the comments from another George Washington cartoon at YouTube ^^

hiimainsley (3 hours ago)
He had a wig for his wig, and had a brain for his heart.

Stroopinator (1 week ago)
He threw a knife into heaven.

prometheusg (2 weeks ago)
He'll save children, but not the British children.
He'll save children, but not the British children.

r34lpolitik (2 weeks ago)
Sue me if I go to fast,
but the sons of his opponents wished that he was their dad.

lechies (2 weeks ago)
Had a pocket full of horses, fucked the shit out of bears

SquirrelsFromHell (2 weeks ago)
The Present beware, the Future beware
Hes coming. Hes coming Hes coming.
did I mention his four nuts?

Saltylicious (2 weeks ago)
It was difficult for anyone to hit anything with muskets from a distance

Zaning (2 weeks ago)
Twelve stories high
Made of Ray-dee-ay-shun

hotsauceisunstopable (2 weeks ago)
He made love like an eagle falling out of the sky, killed his sensei in a duel and he never said why.

So silly, I love it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MrxfbNiDDg

derbene @ 2007-03-26T02:45:00

2007-03-26T01:00:47Z

Doing some pixel stuff again for a fighting game. Nice to have some work of this kind again.

PAACBattle07 is moving again, round 2 probably starting this week. Looking forward to switch from funny to some seriously dark stuff this time ^^

This is just hilarious (if you understand German), a cartoon about a unemployed father who decides to become a super hero xD Thanks to Piet for showing me the site.

Oh and my friends and me made a podcast. So, if you like to hear some german show about anime, games and other media stuff, tune in with our xml-feed (you can just download the episode from there or even subscribe to us with your iTunes).

Stopping by again

2007-03-18T12:30:35Z

Whew, it's been some time since my last post ^^'
But I realized that LJ is way too good to dissolve myself in stuff and concerns that are not really related to me ^^' Yeah...weird, whatever.
Taking a look into LJ and posting something one time a week at sunday will probably be a good comprimise.

So...Penny-Arcade-Artist's-Corner-Battle07 is now rolling for sure. First round of battles between the artists of The Celestial Empire and La Revolution has ended and the voting started. So please take a look at my battle with Prospicience the plumper.
And when you're already there, stop by at my friend's fight, he's Pandamonium and fights Multimoog. Awesome action going on there.

Here's a small preview from my pages ^^

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I also bought some good comic stuff recently. Scott McClouds Reinventing Comics and Blacksad by Juan Diaz Canales & Juanjo Guarnido.
McCloudsComicbook is probably more for people who are interested into comic industry but Blacksad is an awesome made animal fable for adults.

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Entainment-Stuff: YaafM#12-militant muslims, Animator vs Animation 2, Lasse's new stop motion music action, The music of Erich Zann stop-motion

<< clicky
(Make up your mind, it's not about the average muslim who doesn't harm anybody)

Animator VS Animation II

enhanced LJ + You Tube = YAY

2007-01-15T01:11:09Z

Evil Twin: Cyprien's Chronicles

Berserk for PS2, successor of Sword of the Berserk for Dreamcast

Susuma Hirasawa creates such awesome music, really fits to Kentaro Miuras story.