Hello there!I used to be a full time VFX artist working as compositor, 3D artist, producer and supervisor.
These days I am mostly home-bound due to health reasons, so my focus is mostly on tending to my family as the resident cook and doing the occasional remote work for film and TV projects.
You can find my work history on IMDB or LinkedIn and I do have a rather old showreel on Vimeo. Apart from that, this is my online home. Feel free to get in touch via email or on Micro.blog.
Eggplant, tomatoes, Swiss chard, minced meat and puff pastry. What could go wrong? 🍆🍅🥬🔪🥩🥐🤤
This week‘s swimming lessons for the little one have been postponed by a week. It is just too cold outside. In the middle of August. Crazy weather. ⛈️🏊
I am amazed that a tool (http://vrscenegui.de) I last updated 6 years ago and haven‘t thought of since still sells the occasional copy. Warms my heart that it is still in use and actually works. #vray #rendering
Our big one has left for summer camp. His first time camping without us. We are pretty excited for him. He wasn‘t so sure what to make of it this morning before he left. Let‘s see how he takes to it.🏕
Everything is set up for tonight’s pizza night. 🍕
I recently stumbled over my Micro.blog pins again. Is there a way to display them on my about page I wonder?
Watching Pirates of the Caribbean with the kids (again). It is really amazing how it turned out, considering how the original script had almost no jokes and a very bland Captain Jack Sparrow. Johnny Depp really did something wonderful here. 📽
We had a family trip to the library today. They have a two months reading campaign for school kids with prizes at the end. The older one really wants to win his own Nintendo Switch. 😂 📚
While nature gets some much needed rain, my body definitely preferred the hot dry spell we had. With this wet cold all my joints, muscles and ligaments are aching. Not a fan.
I just reset my ActivityPub username to use my custom domain. It is now @alex@alexanderkucera.com Slowly getting there. Step by step. 👨💻
By the way, a friend and I have started a monthly 30 minute talk podcast. It’s on Anchor.fm right now, but I am thinking of hosting it on Micro.blog. 🎙️
It is called Sprachmixing.
Getting an iron infusion today. Ah, the joys of failed kidneys. 🩸💉
Looks like I have ironed out most of the kinks. Theme works. Custom homepage works. Custom domain works.
Currently reading: Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen Fry 📚
It has an interesting way to tell the stories. So far I like it.
After years of online hiatus I have decided to make Micro.Blog my main site. Of course, it is not as simple as it sounds. For example, none of my already existsing posts show on the homepage (https://alexkucera.micro.blog). Also I have issues with pointing my domain (alexanderkucera.com) to my Micro.blog page. But I am slowly chipping away at my issues. I am sure I will prevail. Eventually…
Yesterday I came across one of the most German things I have seen in a long time. Apparently there is such a thing as an “Arbeitsschutzgetränk”, which means “worker protection drink”. In essence it is an isotonic drink for workers in high heat work places. But I find it hilarious that we Germans felt the need to come up with a convoluted word for it.
Drive Act 2 is on Kickstarter! Go get it if you even remotely like science fiction and/or comedy.
