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Catching Up: Projects and Creative Reflections

Some thoughts on recent work, with gratitude for the opportunities along the way.

Marius Jopen

Sep 13, 2024 — 3 min read

Dear friends,

the last months were a bit busy with running after deadlines for various projects.

But now things are calming down and I finally have some time for creativity and reflection.

Here is a quick breakdown:

100k Studio / Websites

As mentioned some weeks before, we just finished the design and development for Ventana. Now we are working on the website for a renown advertising agency from NY.

We feel lucky that new exciting projects are always lining up and that we are collaborating with creative, talented people worldwide. 🙏

Graphic Design

I’ve pretty much moved away from graphic design. Those jobs don’t pay well, and clients usually change everything, making it more of a headache than it’s worth.

Nevertheless I am currently working on an exciting branding project which I hope to present to you soon. I am collaborating with the talented illustrator Jens Roth on this one.

Live Visuals / Touchdesigner

I still love performing live visuals, but my style, especially with TouchDesigner, has started to get a bit boring for me.

I’m thinking of preparing AI videos to mix live. Programming 3D live-reactive graphics just doesn’t excite me at the moment.

AI art / images / animations

I feel that also here I reached a point where I start to repeat myself. I stopped uploading my AI-morph everyday because of this reason.

I am thinking of how I can create my AI work in a broader context.

This can be an exhibition, the combination with traditional painting, telling a story or setting up a creative system which other people can use.

Thank you for reading my articles and newsletter ❤️ It means a lot to me!

I can see how the audience is slowly but constantly growing. In the next weeks I want to give it a push and see how I can reach more people by advertising on the social channels and spreading the word a bit more.

If readers tend to be completely inactive I delete them. I am proud to have a small but strong community of readers. Thank you 🙏

Also I am currently publishing my newsletter on the two platforms Medium and Substack. If you read this in an email, you are reading this article on Substack.

I am considering to stop publishing on Medium, because I don’t get that many readers from there.

Making Movies

Last but not least I want to talk about making movies.

Malak Haynes on set of his first movie Aquarelle

In the beginning of this year I travelled to Bangkok to write the script for my new movie. In the last couple of months I took a healthy break from it — an emotional distance is important sometimes.

Malak Haynes, a very good friend of mine started to produce his first movie called Aquarelle. Like me he had absolutely no clue of how to produce a movie — but just went for it.

Visiting him on set yesterday and seeing all those people working smoothly together was such an amazing and strong experience. I was instantly back in movie mode and realized how I miss those people.

That’s one of the most beautiful parts about making movies: Collaborating with all those amazing and creative people.

The movies got me back. My creative break is over 🚀