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New · NovelDer KuratorGeistreich or Geistlos?Out now →Der Kurator.
Geistreich or Geistlos?
A near future where algorithms compose our songs, judge our crimes and keep our hearts beating. Music curator Leo Linde searches the endless flood of generated songs for the last traces of human spirit, while his wife Tina quietly refuses to play along.
Fresh from the factory.
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A parody construction sim of the Trikaya festival build-up, made for everyone who ever helped build Trikaya. If you were on the crew, you'll recognise a lot.
Der Kurator
My first novel. A near future where AI composes, judges and keeps our hearts beating, and a music curator who searches the endless flood for the last traces of human spirit. Geistreich or Geistlos?
Psytrazz
A relaxed chill-psy track and its official video. AI still struggles with psytrance, this was the most usable thing it ever gave me.
Quantenenergie
Hi-tech psytrance built around one found phone call, cut word by word, stuttered, reversed and glitched. Every sound synthesized in code.
What I make.
Stickers
The city is a gallery. Some of my stickers and the stories behind them.
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Things I wrote?
A novel about a future where curating has replaced creating.
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Things I'm part of.
Festivals and parties: building them up, running them, designing the flyers.
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Things you can play.
Jump-and-runs through LabVIEW diagrams, a festival build-up simulator, shooters and a 3D board game nobody asked for.
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Things I built.
Stuff I build in long, sleepless nights. Some of it soldered, some of it coded, some of it both.
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Things you can hear.
Partyschlager about the wrong drugs, live electronics with Wired Kimchi and whatever else falls out of the studio.
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Things that move.
Kaleidoscopes, earthworms, ants and other things to stare at.
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Things I thought. 100% AI-free.
Written by a human at 1 am, with all the flaws, typos and bulky sentences that come with it.
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FAQ
What is Calmy Jane?
Calmy Jane is an independend Art and IT label founded and maintained by Calmy Jane.
What am I?
In most cases this is read you’re propably a web crawler. Or you're one of us.
Who am I?
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Where am I?
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What can I do here?
You can explore all the easter eggs in this website, play some games, contact Calmy Jane for stickers or anything else or buy merch in the shop.
Is this AI-generated?
Some of it. Many projects were made before AI was even a thing, soldered, coded and drawn by hand. Some newer things were definitely created with help of AI. Some have more parts taken by the AI, some less. That's why I added an AI score to all my projects and artworks. And besides the score it's up to you to decide wether my stuff is Geistreich or Geistlos, I'm happy to hear your opinion.
Why all of this?
C’est en faisant n’importe quoi qu’on devient n’importe qui!
The first sticker I ever printed. I created this using GIMP and the Logo was created from a designer on Fiverr. I needed it for my first game, Walking the Wires. This soon got out of hand until it became the Imperium you admire today.
By far the most famous of them and a fun story behind it. This design was originally painted on a sign on the Spruuuuz Festival in Neuses. We were decorating for the festival and painting signs for toilets, bar and so on. At the end we didnt need any signs but still had boards and color, so we painted random ones. This one I painted with a friend of mine. Then after my first stickers I wanted to make one that’s more “artistic” than just text. So I looked through old photos if I find something to play with, found this and edited it in GIMP. The result is this famous sticker that rapidly spread in the sticker community and around my friends.
Though I’m proud of the publicity this sticker has raised, I’m not perfectly happy with it’s message. As mentioned before, I want to spread stickers that have a positive message, and still it’s the one that hates against people that get’s the most recogintion and attention.
Still I think there are worse groups of people to wish bad things to 😉
The original Image I created the Sticker from.
I wanted to spread positive messages with my stickers, an ACAB Sticker would have been easy, but I decided to design this beautiful Sticker. Fun Fact: I drew the hearts with a big Edding (Sharpie) on paper, took pictures and then increased the contrast and duplicated and scaled them.
My first drug related sticker. The “Seepferdchen” (Sea horse) is a patch for your swimming clothes that kids get for doing a swim test. “Schneepferchen” is a variation that means “Snow Horse”. This idea randomly came to my mind, and I recreated the original “Seepferdchen”-Logo from a picture, since I couldnt find a digital version online. Then I modified it slightly using simple paint functions in GIMP. I wouldnt consider myself a painter, and I’m still very proud of how the facial expression turned out.
Who could have known that this starts a series of drug related humorous content.
This rather tough one still is one I’m most proud of. It was drawn by my tattoo artist, but I sketched my Idea as you can see below. The background is quite serious. I live close to the Octoberfest in Munich and once a year this event demonstrates the risks of alcohol consumption like nothing else. Still alcohol is responsible for uncountable deaths and suffering in our society. This sticker should illustrate the irony of peoples perspectives to different drugs.
The hand drawn sketch I gave to my tattoo artist to paint the actual heroinfest sticker for me. Still love the mockup 😀
A good friend had a sweater with this sentence, just had to make a sticker from it. As you can see the style is still pretty simple, all generated in GIMP with no experience at all.
This fun slogan again is part of the idea to spread positive messages. I actually stole this from a graffiti near to my home where somebody sprayed “Fuck Cops” to a wall, and somebody else added the “but gently, and with condom” part. Loved it! <3
This one was in my mind for quite a while since I see it on a club toilet door. The joke was so great I wanted to make a sticker to spread it in many clubs. But I wasnt sure how to design it, so I made some pretty cheap designs I wasn’t happy with. One evening a friend came over and he suggested to just steal some clothing-shops corporate design and after a few bad jokes Balleria Draufhof was born.
One of my first designs for the sticker .. uah .. ugly 😀
After watching Der goldene Handschuh, I got interested in the history of this bar and the related murder case. When I visited Hamburg I randomly passed by the place and decided to have a beer inside. I got talking with the bartender and understood the black humor the image of this place is built on. Down in the toilet, I found the writing “Willy Honka” which is a combination of Willy Wonka and Fritz Honka just to hilarious to not make a sticker out of it.
During the pandemic I started getting into the YuGiOh card game, and played a lot of goat format online. That lead to the idea for YuGiOh themed sticker.
A Sticker I made in the honor of GG Allin, an entertainer from the 80s and early 90s. Loved the calendar saying combination 😉
This is the second GG Allin Sticker I made (that’s enough I think), I just loved the joke and it’s a tribute to @bobojugend, an artist from Berlin who does several stickers with DJ Bobo photoshopped on them.
One of my favourite AI Artworks. This was created with early versions of Midjourney that couldnt generate text. So all the newspapers are individually ai generated, photoshopped with the text and then photoshopped onto the final artwork. Multiple evenings went into creating this in the style you see today. It’s an example I bring up regularily when discussing about what counts as “ai generated”. Because technically everything in the image is ai generated, though I feel like a lot of manual effort from my side went into creating this artwork. That’s why I give it such a low AI-score.
I loved this title so much that I just had to do two versions of this sticker, this is one of them.
Made this one with a very good friend of mine on a random evening. We both liked the idea, though we’re not really doppelkorn fans.
I so baldy wanted a N2O sticker, so I came up with this design, still not super happy with it, but I put quite some work into photoshopping stuff into it.
After I stopped smoking tobacco I could watch myself gradually increasing my sugar consumption over a period of multiple months until I had a Paulaner Spezi basically every day, sometimes multiple ones. I found it very addictive and my body demanded it every morning to get fully awake. That’s why I created this sticker. Nowadays I got over my spezi addiction and only consume it on special occasions.
did this after my Pipi Langstrumpf artwork to illustrate the downfall of Alice in Wonderland. It’s created from multiple Midjourney generated images as well as some photoshop editing.
This Idea came from a good friend of mine (@gans_klebrig). I found it so funny that I took the Benjamin as a Gardener cover and photoshopped it to show him with “his flowers”
I was creating this sticker when a friend of mine who is working for a newspaper was writing an article about me and my stickers. I had the idea the evening before and kept it to have something he can write about, so he watched my creative process. The version I created while he was here was a bit worse quality, especially the punisher-pills were taken from a bad photo and looked not as nice as in this current version. Still I printed 1000 pieces of this first version, because i wanted to show him the full process I go through for new stickers. The sticker was very successfull and so the 1000 pieces were gone quickly and I decided to refactor the design, now it’s much better resolution and some small things are fixed, and I can now even print it on shirts. If you want one, let me know!
This was one of my first sticker ideas and as you can see from the bad photoshopping it’s not ai generated at all but just a super simple fun Idea I think … I like rusty spoons ;)