Utherworlds

It is so much more than just a book. Artist and writer Phillip Straub is known by his beautiful digital drawings. One can find many of his artwork topping the lists of sites such as deviantArt (Phillip's pfofile), CG Society. And not so long ago Phillip decided to make a book about a fantasy world he put together in past years. But as said before it is not just a book, it's a world. One can enter this world here, but to get the real feeling hot it is to be part of this world, you just have to read the book.

The book itself is a masterpiece, and I am proud to say I own one from the limited edition of 100 hardcover ones (it's number 75). The story that the book tells us is deep and addicting. It pulls you in and you just have to finish it.

It was a long time since I took time and read a book again. I sure missed reading such great works.

Objectified

A movie I wanted to see for a long time. Now I finally have. It's a great movie that tells people what design really is, why it exists and why it is mostly not what majority things it is.

It shows why and how design makes life easier, better and fuller. It also shows that designers are not some eccentric artists that just happen to have an idea, but there there is much more. That basically every design bases on some research and many prototyping. It is a real trial and error process.

I thing it might show world in a different lite for some people.

Homepage of movie: http://www.objectifiedfilm.com/

What went on this past month ...

Again there was more than a month since I've written anything here. It's not just that I'm lazy or that I don't have anything to write about (I keep a list of thing to blog about), it was mainly because of lack of time and different focuses.

Now that the Magic (oups. not magic but snow) has gone, at least in the lowlands and surrounding hills, I don't go to Ski Touring every weekend anymore. But because of warmer weather, I have started to jog again and I've even made my first bicycle trip yesterday. It was great.

I've also started to use my phone a bit more and you can find two resulting maps at the links below:

• Ski touring trip to Smrekovec (here)
• Bicycle trip to Gora Oljka (here)

There are also many new photos of our winter adventures on my picassa:

• Smrekovec (1, 2, 3, 4), and there are few others on FaceBook as well
  
• Logarska Valley (1, 2)
• Matkov kot
  

In the summer semester I have also started with teaching some practical courses at our faculty and I must say that preparations took quite a long time as well. I might even publish some of the content that I've made for these courses some day.

Well, I'm back. Again.