some stuff for more faceplates

the most time here i have snap up all the super sculpey in whole seattle, so don’t try to get that stuff till the artist shops get the next shipment ;) this clay isn’t available in switzerland (in fact it is, but for trice the price!!) and i hope they let me go through the airport customs and don’t take me for a terrorist with a bag full of plastic high explosives! i also found some sculpting tools and some dental tools in a army shop whitch i could grind in good shapes :) so i can’t wait to get back home and start a new design…but this has to wait another week, because i’m only a few hours in zurich and then go straight to belgium.

so this is my last night in seattle and i think i saw the most things that you should have on a sightseeing tour in downtown. i had a map, but i never looked a it and allways walked with no plan in my mind around…i think it was the most fun. an exciting bulding was the libary by Rem Koolhaas: what a huge and spacy thing! i really liked the wide proportions, the colorfull enviroment and there are still discreet places for study. good work!

downtown seattle

lunch with microsofts mastermind j allard

finally i had the chance to meet J Allard the “brain” of microsoft for lunch and talk with him one to one. first i have to say he is really a nice and smart guy and he had time for all my questions…in fact he asked me more stuff then i did :) so we were talking first about how tricky it is to order lunch in a country you don’t know the words for choosing your sandwich ingredients, about his house witch he decided to renovate very colorfull and what i should see in seattle (like the libary builded by REM Koolhas, witch is anyway an obligation for me as architectur model maker & scenographical designer).

after the smalltalk part we get more to the core… :) :) :)

futur home & seattle artwalk

i started the day with a tour on microsofts “futur home”. it was really interessting and fancy, but also a bit scarry to see all the things taged by RFID and we as totally addicted peoples to our cellphones ( for my taste some of the ideas were a bit too much bigbrother…). back on work, i tried to do two illustrator templates of yesterdays sketches. the evening we spend some time in downtown seattle for exellent shushi and checked out the first thursday of months artwalk and see what kind of new stuff the galleries have to show…

big burgers and halo II

today i had the chance to do some sketches for a xbox360 related thingy, maybe that even will be produced if tomorrow the ideas will fit and i gonna go allright with it. for lunch we were at red robin to catch some burgers and huge french fries (they more than double length here than you will ever get in switzerlaand…they must be genetic manipulated:) to call it a day, i was invited to a user research test of halo2 for pc that microsoft will relase. sharp at 9pm i was back at my hotel to zap on abc to see jack and the others in lost’s season 3…

chance to visit BUNGIE and see some cool stuff from Microsofts Game Studio

yeah i know… many of you guys out there would given away their last trousers to take a look at BUNGIE studios. so i was there this morning and saw things that i dont can talk about, but i have to say: it’s pretty cool :) and they like kings for microsoft so i better don’t want to mess with them or even more with their laywers ;)

after that, i’ve been too microsoft main campus join some other guys from minneapolis and see shortly Major Nelson for lunch and have a meeting for an hour with Peter Moore…

my week at EXG in Redmond, Seattle

yesterday i land in seattle and was picked up by a huge limo (no joke..) to visit for a week microsofts entertainment expiriences group in redmond! jep, that’s because i won the xbox360 faceplate contest with my molten stone faceplate (see last post) this trip to the states.

so i dont have to tell you, what these guys do at EXG??? yes, they design all the xbox 360 stuff and a lot more cool things for microsoft like the new zune :) this monday was very cool an exiting, but tomorrow it would be come much more fun! they’ve set me up for a tour on BUNGIE studio!!!! and i also will talk for an hour with J Allard!!!!! (… i even don’t know what to ask him by now :) and a lot more stuff for the rest of the week. updates will come tomorrow…