Tormie [ Wednesday, 29 September 2004, 04:37 PM ]
Post subject: The interview of the month with Ahjah !
Here comes the long awaited interview with our friend Ahjah, the last lottery winner (500 candies for him too <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/09.gif" alt="" /> ). What about Ahjah ? I know that he lives in Germany, which is a big place not very far from here in the north direction. What I know of Germans is that they have the best beer in the world <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/droll2.gif" alt="" /> (but Ahjah is analcoholic <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_shifty.gif" alt="" /> ), that there are no speed limits on certain freeways <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> and that they are free of charges <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> (the last time I was there I tried something with my old station wagon but a serie of big bmw, porsche and mercedes humiliated me <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/crybaby2.gif" alt="" /> ). Their Gas stations are very complicated <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_think.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_think.gif" alt="" /> because they have a lot of different types of gasoline and I didn't know what to choose <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_think.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_think.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_think.gif" alt="" /> so I filled the tank of my old station wagon with a high octane gasoline <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> ...
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Ok, ok here is the interview, I hope you will enjoy it <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/smile.gif" alt="" /> !!
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- Tell us a little about yourself...personal background, family, etc. What ever you are comfortable with.
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I was born way back 1963 in a small (~ 70,000 people here) town named Detmold (Germany, former Western Germany), I´m still (again) living here, and I like it.
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It´s not too overcrowded, but for it´s the capital of our region, it´s not boring either. The environment is mainly green hills with fields and forests, not much industrie, really a nice place to live in.
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I have two Parents (!), still alife and feeling well, and one sister, a little younger than me. She´s married and has a little daughter.
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I haven´t been this lucky with partnerships, yet, so I´m living as a single at the moment, no kids, too(I think... 8-[acronym="bad smelling human gas"]al education on trumpet and piano. I allways liked painting a lot too ( but I´m not very good a that, I´m not very patient. Starting with one picture, I get 100 new ideas, and it all ends up in a mess).
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Referring to my mother, the first picture I painted was, when I was two and sitting potty with a crayon and a sheet of paper in front of me. When she asked me, what I was painting, my answer was:"poo". <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_sick.gif" alt="" />
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After school, wich I did´nt like at all (it bored me to death, so I didn´t actually finish it), I learnd a profession that maybe someting like "Brass Intrument Maker" in english, building trumpets, trombones, and so on.
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I liked it a lot, but unfortunally its not much need of people, who can do this by hand. Most brass instruments are made by machines, nowadays.
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So I work here and there, and, of course, play music, which is the greatest thing on earth,´cause I can make peaople feel good without harming anybody, and playing life on stage, I can see and feel the instant result of what I´m doing.
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I never wanted to be a million-seller record star, just want to play on stage.
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I don´t get rich this way, but I can do it MY way, at least. <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_hand.gif" alt="" />
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That´s most of the story.
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- Where are you now?
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here... there...
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somewhere in between (I´m not quite shure, really)
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- Do you have a personal site ? If yes where is it ?
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It´s at <a class="post-url" href="http://www.ahjah.de" target="_blank">http://www.ahjah.de</a> . There´s a gallery of some early Terragen and Bryce3D stuff, not updated since years... <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_whistle.gif" alt="" />
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- All the people here know that you're a musician ! Are you able to play music with farts ?
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No, when it comes to farting, I don´t have much control about.
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- Do you fart alone or do you consider farting a nice way to socialize and make new friends ?
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I don´t have much control about.
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- Do you drink beer ? If yes, what's your favourite type of beer ?
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No (no alcohol at all). I´m an alcoholic and started drinking when I was twelve (!), but I´m sober since fourteen years by now.
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There´s no drug any worse than alcohol. It´s avaliable everywere, and most people don´t even think of it as a drug, but it is.
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Just look around, it destroys the families, causes trouble of all kinds, car accidents, men beating up their women (or the other way ´round) or each other, or their children.
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If anybody is in real trouble, just have a closer look at it, and you´ll see, alcohol is the reason, in most cases.
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I was lucky. I learned to fight it. [acronym="typical behaviour of a posetteforever member"]innin:
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- How long have you been working with digital art, 3D and/or Poser?
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My first attemps, I did about five years ago with Terragen and a little Bryce and Poser2 (!!),
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but somehow it wasn´t, what I had been looking for a that time. So my head went on to other things.
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The change came, when I found a free copy of Poser3 on a cover CD of a computer magazine, ´bout two years ago.
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It came as promotion for the new Poser5, hitting the market that time, I think.
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I started seaching the web for freebies and information, discovering most of the stuff was meant for use in Poser4 already.
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I don´t have a regular income, just manage to keep me kicking. So I cannot afford buying software and stuff.
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I like fighting limitations, and got pretty good at that over the years. So I tought myself hacking .cr2 and .obj files, learned to use UV-mapper and how to create own morphs.
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This way I discovered to get most of the Poser4 stuff to work in my old Poser3 as well.
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It still has to work for me.
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- Do you consider yourself an artist or a hobbyist when it comes to digital art?
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I´m a hobbyist and will ever be. If it comes to art, I play music. I´m better at that.
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- Do you use a particular tecnique ?
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No, I just let go (just like farting).
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- What got you interested in digital art?
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I´ve been interested in photography for a long time.
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For me, digital (3D) art is quite similar to photography, but with the advantage of complete control over the motiv.
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Maybe that´s why I don´t like to postwork my renders in most cases, I´d never paint on a good photograph, either.
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(the other reason is, I´m really [acronym:252f39f57f="typical behaviour of a posetteforever member"]lazy[/acronym:252f39f57f], too)
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- We know that you're a pure Posette/Dork artist, why ?
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One of the reasons is the permanent lac of money I mentioned above. But there are more.
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I´ve tried other free figures, too (H.E.R., Sara, Kaedeko, LaLaLa, the Mike and Vickie LoRes freebies, Stacy Lo Res, Maya Doll..., are there more? Did I miss one?).
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None of them really fit my expectations. The Posette3 that came with Poser3 worked pretty well for me.
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But I was lucky. One day I downloaded a P4F char zip from the web (I was looking for some headmorphs, they work for P3 and P4),
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and found a Posette4 like obj in it, that should not have been in there, I know. It doesn´t work with Objaction Mover, I cannot decode me an Eve or April´s Vickie-mapped Posette.
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But all the standard Posette4 morphs and textures work with that mesh, at least.
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This is the Posette, you can see in most of my renders, and for me, she´s still the greatest of them all. <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/heartbeat.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/heartbeat.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/heartbeat.gif" alt="" />
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- Do you have formal training or are you self taught?
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I´m self tought and learning by looking at and inspecting what other people do ( think, it´s called osmosis?).
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- What's your favourite artistic style?
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Nothing special. If it touches my heart and soul, it´s right for me.
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- We already know you are a musician. Do you have other hobbies or special interests?
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I´m interested in politics, and active in an oecological and antifascistic community ´round here.
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And I love walking barefoot, from spring to autumn I don´t wear any shoes at all.
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- Do your farts smell very bad or no one notice when you make them?
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Ask the people around me... <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/icon_redface.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
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- Where is your strength coming from?
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I don´t believe in God. I believe in the universe as one great unity. Every creature, every tree, stone, butterfly, good or evil, is a part of it.
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Everything and everybody has it´s place, and the right to be there and to be just like it is. Otherwise this universe wouldn´t be, like it is, and no one would be there to ask and answer any question.
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Respect is the key.
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- Where is your hat coming from ?
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Wich hat? The hat I had on my head, when I had a hat on my head, or the hat that I had under the hat that I had not on my head when I had no hat on? <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
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- Where is this marjuana coming from ?
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Maria, who, Anna? <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_think.gif" alt="" />
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- Do you know what is a "[acronym:252f39f57f="Unknown word, a mistery..."]schicken[/acronym:252f39f57f]"?
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I think so, but I won´t tell. [acronym="bad smelling human gas"]en to Oktoberfest ?
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Not my style, I prefer the Woodstock kind of festivals.
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- Do you use to fart when you're in the tub just to see all those bubbles ?
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I only have a shower, unfortunally.
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- What's your favourite digital art site ? (*wink* *wink* *blink* *blink*)
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posetteforever (what else?)
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- Have you a suggestion for posetteforever ?
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Only one thing, some of the graphics on the top of the pages, especially on Posy´s Playground are quite heavy and are loading really slow on a dial up connection.
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Besides this you and Posy are doing a great job here and posetteforever is actually the cosiest place ´round the web.
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- What's your favourite book?
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I´m not reading too much, mainly non fiction. But if I think about it, yes, there are some.
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D. Adams´ "Hitchhiker´s Guide..", and some Stanislav Lem stuff, I don´t know the english titles.
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- What's your favourite music band or singer (except you and your band) ?
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That is not easy to answer. I use to listen to all kinds of music. First of all, there are the three big "B"s (J. S. Bach, L. van Beethoven, the Beatles)
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I grew up with Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin, AC-DC. I love blues from the early days as Leadbelly up to Chicago style Muddy Waters.
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Playing reggae, theres Bob Marley, of course, but a reggae band from Berlin, Seeed, too, who mix english and german lyrics in a really fresh and modern way.
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I adore Bobby McFerrin, and his philosophy of music, and there´s much, much more....
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- Do you use to sing under the shower?
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Not only there, but too.
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- What's your favourite movie?
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To mention just two, there´s Star Wars (the first one, released in the ´70th), and Monty Pythons´ Life of Brian
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- Where you would go now ?
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to the mall, buy me some food. My fridge is really empty.
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- Are you the one who wants to kill Tormentor ?
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nope! <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_snooty.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_snooty.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_snooty.gif" alt="" />
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Thank you Ahjah <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> !!