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Merry Christmas!!
getting ready for tomorrow…
Christmas Card Illustration
Today I was working on an Christmas Card Illustration for a friend’s business. The lucky bastard has one of those Oldsmobile 442s and asked for Santa cruising with a bunch of presents from Nürnberg, where the company was based originally, to Neustadt, where he moved recently. Well, here you go. I will now color it
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Opening “Drucker-kolonne” Screenprint Artshow
On Tuesday our artshow “Druckerkolonne” at the Cafga in Mannheim finally started. Many nice people came out on a tuesday night to see our prints, listen to the indie band “We invented Paris” who played at the night, have a few drinks and network with people. I had a few too many I must say,
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Hanging the posters @ Kafga
Ready for the postershow tomorrow!
10 Years “Bermudafunk” – Radiostar Festival
I just wanted to let everyone know that my band Achtung Spitfire Schnell Schnell!! will be playing at the 10th anniversary of our local independent radio station Bermudafunk. The show will have 10 “stars” (bands, theater, etc.) playing at least one number that is related to the subject “radio”. We will cover of the cooler
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Framed
This weekend I finally found some time to prepare for the “Druckerkolonne” poster-show. Even though I probably won’t show all my screenprints, I decided to finally frame all of them. I already finished 5. Still a lot to do.
Vote Now for my Rock’n'Roll Wrestling Bash Posters
Carlos the mastermind behind the Rock’n’Roll Wrestling Bash entered two of the posters I did for his shows in the contest “Gute Plakate”. The award comes with 10.000 EUR worth of promotion, so should we win the poster for the next show will be literally plastered all over germany and probably (maybe) also in different forms
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Some Videos of last week’s gig on YouTube
Look what we found flying around on Twitter: Some nice person uploaded two videos of my band Achtung Spitfire Schnell Schnell!! playing at the Nachtwandel 2010 in Mannheim last weekend. For us the gig was great, and what I hear from people and read on the web the crowd enjoyed it as well. Thanks!
Achtung Spitfire Schnell Schnell!! plays in Mannheim this Weekend!!
I just wanted to let everyone know that my band Achtung Spitfire Schnell Schnell!! will play in Mannheim at the Nachtwandel this Saturday with Surf-Band Apachomatic! This is one of our rare hometown gigs that is not to be missed! On Friday the Schogettes play together with Mari and the Krauts, which is also a
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Screenprint Artshow: “Drucker-Kolonne”
There will be a screenprint poster groupshow at the Cafe Kafga in Mannheim that I will be part of. Other artists include: Anika Tisken, Barbara Grobe, Christian Fernandez, Elisa Sept, Eva Feldmann und Martin Burkhardt. The show starts at November 16th. The Cafe Kafga is located at Jungbuschstr. 18 in Mannheim. All relevant information can
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Backlog
I’m back from NY and still adding the backlog of my old works to the site. I didn’t find out a way to do this automatically so I have to transfer one post at a time manually from one database to the other. Also the new images are a little wider and of course can
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The city that never sleeps
Just arrived in downtown Manhattan. Quite flight with that lame Karate Kid remake on In-Flight-Entertainment. Now off to grab somthing to eat and then back to the hotel to prepare for the workshop tomorrow and enjoy the jet-lag. Update: I don’t get to see much else than the office and the hotel room, so here’s
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I ♥ NY
On short notice I was informed that I’ll be traveling to NYC on a business trip next week!! I must say that even though it is not the best timing for me with the baby and all I’m looking forward to go there again. Of course it will be all work and just a little
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Surfin’ Chrome Spectacle 2008 – Basel
I just found some pics from the Surfin’ Chrome Spectacle 2008 in Basel. The good guys from Friendship asked me if I would like to show some stuff there, which I did. It was a cool little show with very nice people. Unfortunately they were not allowed to have bands play there, which would have
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Spermbirds Stuff
As I said, yesterday I went to see the Spermbirds play with Youth of Today at the Schlachthof in Wiesbaden. It was the last show for YOT on that tour and the venue, which was sold out, was more than crowded. Unfortunately many people had to stay outside and decided to leave. Even some who
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Spermbirds & Youth of Today…tonight!!!
Tonight I’ll see the Spermbirds / Youth of Today show in Wiesbaden, meet the band, get my hands on all the stuff I designed (Skateboard, Shirts, Backdrop), meet Jürgen and Stefan from Rookie Records and No Balls Records, have some beers and most importantly go ape shit crazy to one of my favorite bands of
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Nürnberg calling
Here I am, back at work after 4 weeks of vacation, at a convention in Nürnberg, Germany. Tonight we had a Teamdinner at a “Brauhaus” (were veggie food is almost impossible to get) and after that we went to the Kon-Tiki tikibar, which was OK, but not great. Looks like a mix of real tiki
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“Knarrenbräute und leuchtende Totenköpfe” An article in the German daily “Wormser Zeitung”
There was an article on my posters in the “Wormser Zeitung” a daily newspaper in Germany. Here you go: “KNARRENBRÄUTE” UND LEUCHTENDE TOTENKÖPFE” KÜNSTLER GÖTZILLA ENTWIRFT KNALLIGE POP-ART-PLAKATE FÜR ROCKBANDS / BEI VERNISSAGEN GIBT’S BIER MIT WÜRSTCHEN STATT SEKT Von Christian Hoffmann 13.12.2008 – Mannheim Götz Bockstedte ist zu beneiden: Auf einem Konzert von “The
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Interview in the PUNKROCK! Magazine Issue #3 – Winter-Spring 2006/2007
Some time ago Bocky the Editor of the PUNKROCK! Fanzine, who also is a promotor for punkrock-shows here in Mannheim and for whom I created quite some posters and flyers, asked me for an interview in his magazine. Hell yeah I was interested! Here’s the Interview for you to read, but remember to get the
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Low Magazine Canvas Stories on my painting “CAN I KEEP HIM? HE’S SO CUTE!”
I was very thrilled when I was asked to submit images of my painting “Can I keep him? He’s so cute!” to the 2nd volume of LOW magazine, Germany’s answer to JUXTAPOZ if you will. Thanks to modern web-technology here is the Issue as an online version. Flip to page 63 to read my feature:
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