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Hi, I'm Martijn Vreugde this is a collection of my rambling thoughts on modern media, inspirational design and... well pretty much anything I found interesting enough to share with you fine upstanding folks of the internet.

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HI! I’m Martin Grohs, a 24-year-old ditigtal artist and designer based in Leipzig, Germany. 

I’m interested in all kinds of arts since my early childhood, particularly in digital art. The contact with photography took me to the image processing in Photoshop and Illustrator.

And now I´ve been creating digitial art for 4 years.
Meanwhile I have specialized in photomanipulation and use Photoshop, Illustrator and Cinema4D to express and visualize my Ideas.

I work for commercial clients in United States, Germany, Brazil, Greece, Singapore and India. I’m also a member of several art collectives such as Intrinsic Nature, Heartsurge, Espadon 21 and the Revuh Network.

Let’s have a look on my Folio martin-grohs.com

Lets work together! Have a project in mind?
Or can I help you with anything else?

Feel free to contact me for any questions_
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STAR WARS PORTRAITS ASK, “WHAT FORCES SHAPE YOU?”

In a series of portrait ads created for a Canadian museum exhibition, several iconic Star Wars characters’ personalities take shape.

While the Star Wars brand may have sustained some damage during the past 13 years, over which time three tepidly received prequels were released, the force of the franchise seems as strong as ever. The latest homage to Lucas’ creation is “Star Wars Identities: The Exhibition,” which the Montreal Science Centre is promoting with a series of dazzling posters.

Lucasfilm and X3 Productions, which previously collaborated on “Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology,” have teamed up for the exhibit, which explores the science of identity through the prism of Star Wars’ eccentric cast of characters. The focus here is on what makes these characters who they are, and this theme of identity is brought home, and turned on the audience with the tagline, “What forces shape you?”

Montreal agency Bleublancrouge developed the exhibition’s visually arresting posters, which feature collage-based portraits of several Star Wars characters, made of elements that reveal who they are. Stormtroopers, for instance, are portrayed in the movies as unthinking automatons whose strength is in numbers, and so the Stormtrooper poster shows a single helmet made from a multitudinous horde of the space soldiers.

Photoshop comes to the iPad

Photoshop maker Adobe Systems, Inc., released a long-expected iPad companion aptly named “Photoshop Touch.” The Android version demonstrated at Maxx earlier this year and released shortly afterwards.

The first in a series of six touch-optimized apps (the other five are Collage, Debut, Ideas, Kuler and Proto), it supports Photoshop layers—arguably the basic and most-oft used Photoshop feature. With simple finger gestures, users can combine multiple photos into layered images, make popular edits, and apply professional effects. It also provides advanced selection tools and adjustments.

According to Adobe’s website, the tablet-exclusive Scribble Selection Tool lets you extract objects in an image by simply scribbling on what to keep and then what to remove. With Refine Edge technology from Adobe Photoshop, even hard-to-select areas with soft edges, such as hair, are easily captured when making selections. Photoshop Touch also plays nice with Creative Cloud—a brand new paid cloud storage service from Adobe for seamless sync of your Photoshop files between desktop and iPad.

Social sharing is also supported through Facebook or email. You can also import images from Facebook, Google Image Search, and your iPad’s camera roll. Photoshop Touch works only on iPad 2 and requires iOS 5. The app is a $9.99 download from the App Store. Photoshop Touch became available on Android devices last November.

The wonder and beauty that is the human mind

I notice it’s the fact that I seem to have a better sense of will in regards to going to gym or going for a run than others, I wonder that comes from. What’s more strange is that it’s not pervasive, for example my will dissipates when I know I have to do some work I don’t want to do when I also have a cool series yet to be watched.

The liquor on you lips makes you Dangerous…

Animation, Old style film, Black & White… and a sultry voice what more could you want.

First time I’ve heard of Lana Del Rey but wow, what a voice. There is a Youtube Mix of her if you like to check her out. Though I should mention that she has a rather sad soft melodic style, most if not all are about love and usually tragic. So this won’t be played in any dance club anytime soon but I more a dark smoke filled whiskey lounge type blues joint… you know my kinda place.

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