The hugin panorama creator is a great tool for photographers who use Linux. It has great abilities to merge photos into a nice panorama image. Hugin,  The Panorama photo stitcher is absolutely great. I just tried it with two photos I took some time ago and jumped on my terrace to make a series of 6 I could merge to a single image. It worked outstandingly.

This shows how you can connect the different images with points where the same object or same pattern appears. (I know these images are horrible, I should have taken 2-3 more of that building. Btw, this is the town hall of Flensburg.

The hugin website offers a lot of tutorials which I definetly going to have a look at.Puzzling images together in GIMP can really consume a lot of time. *sigh*

Here my first results:

As you can see here, I’m gettin my hands dirty again. Yeah I know, painters and pencil artists may actually want to execute me for this expression but I mean doing creative work. This one (Solitude) is rendered for the 100 themes I try to complete (I got stuck somewhere some time, nevermind). Beyond that I also work on stuff for my new portfolio. It’s really so much fun to work with pixels, vectors and photos again. I’m also drawing a bit, but not as much as I should.

Much love to the developers and communities of:

• GIMP
• Inkscape
• Blender

Kreuzfeuer, the new album of Subway to Sally continious the path that was begun on Bastard. Not as loud as before, but still with lyrics that are worth being interrogated. The CD comes with some extras like wallpapers and screensavers (Windows only, damn you blasphemic Microsoft-loving band ) and one big disappointment. The music video for Besser du rennst. Of course, Subway to Sally has never been famous for their videos but this is really a laugh.

Really great is that you can have a foretaste of all songs on STS’s website. You really have an idea about what you will buy and nice audio comments from the bandmembers. The CD itself is not copy-protected which is a positive thing because you in Germany (if you obey the law *cough*) may not even rip it to your mp3 or ogg player if you want.

The contents of the songs are biblical or related to inter-human relationships. As mentioned, the music is not as loud as before, less metal elements but a familiar style of lyrics and song-concepts. The refrains again have a lot of importance but are not rampant compared to the rest of the text.

At last a quote from a song with a oriental disposition:

Ich bin der Krähenkönig,
zertreten ist das Korn,
gebrochen ist der Galgen,
und glühend ist mein Zorn.

Subway To Sally – Krähenkönig