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Marcel Eichner (vcf, pdf) wurde 1983 in Berlin geboren. Er lebt in Berlin als Programmierer, Webdesigner, Film-Blogger und Illustrator. Studium des Kommunikationsdesigns an der FHTW Berlin. Selbständiger PHP-Programmierer. Arbeitete für/an verschiedene Web 2.0-Unternehmen und Open Source Projekten.
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ACTIVITIES
I’ve been working for various clients and agencies in the past years:
A++, Deutschlandrock, Elementar Mediadesign, Junge Wilde Digitale, NoMoreSleep, TripsByTips, Escapio, StudentSN
And I used to make life visuals, video clips and art with the Superpositioners VJ-Crew and I’m base member of the emotion effects network and creator and publisher of the great Horrorblog Blog about horror and fantasy movies.
Very good knowledge in
- PHP 4/5 (PEAR, OOP, Smarty, CakePHP)
- SQL bzw. MySQL 4/5
- (X/D)HTML bzw. XML/XSL & CSS (HAML & SASS)
- Java-Script (jQuery, Prototype, AJAX)
- Action-Script 2/3 & Flex
- Bash/Shell
Experience in
- Design-Patterns
- Performance-Optimierung
- Refactoring
- Usability-Optimierung
- Normalisierte Datenbankdesigns
- Agile- & Pragmatische-Programmierung
- Security-Tests
- PHP-Frameworks
- Versionskontrolle mit SVN/CVS/Git
Basic Knowledge
- Nagios & Munin
- Apache-Administration
- SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
- Python
- Ruby & Ruby on Rails
- Max/MSP/Jitter
- Java
- Visual Basic
- C++
- Objective C
- BASIC
- Turbo Pascal
APPEARANCE/INTERVIEWS
- 2010/09-2011/01 Gastdozent im viermonatigen Seminar Lebenskünstler der Berliner Gazette
- 2010/11 Gastexperte (Bloggen & Social Media) beim Projekttutorium Vernetzt Schreiben an der HU Berlin
- 2010/06 Kurzvorstellung Franklin auf dem LinuxTag 2010
- 2010/05 Gastexperte beim Projekttutorium Vernetzt Schreiben an der HU Berlin
- 2010/02 Horrorblog.org Interview at Rebell.tv
- 2008/12 Interview and Illustrations in NewWebPick Issue 19
- 2006/05 First Exhibition with One-Week at ZMF/Berlin
- 2005/09 Workshop with Conny Neumair about Max/MSP at Inframe VJ Battle Berlin
PRESS/PRINT
- 2008/05 Zeixs Websites 2
- 2007/08 ZEIXS - Illustration
- 2007/05 Illustration-Tutorial Article in VISUAL-X Magazine
- 2007/04 Cover Illustration for NOVUM Issue April/May 07
- 2006/06 Article about Susanne Paschke’s Website in Visual-X Magazine
- 2006/03 Web Design Index 6 Book
- 2005/02 PAGE Magazine mentioned my Illustration for Fontmonster Book
- 2004/10 Freewave Fontmonster Book
- 2004/07 Spatium-Website in Book Websites by Feierabendverlag
- 2004/06 Title Illustration for Mex Magazine, Schwitzerland
- 2003/09 Design made in Germany featured in Taschen's 1000 Favourite Websites
- 2002/10 Design made in Germany featured in PAGE Magazine
MOVIES I LIKE
Children of Men (Regisseur Alfonso Cuarón), Coffee and Cigaretes (Jim Jarmusch), THX 1138 4EB (George Lucas), Elephant (Gus Van Sant), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Human Nature (Michel Gondry), Adaption (Spike Jonez), High Fidelity (Stephen Frears), Man on the Moon (Milos Forman), Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly), The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson), SPUN (Jonas Åkerlund), American Beauty (S. Mendes), Barton Fink, The Man who wasn't There, Fargo, The Big Lebowski (J. & E. Coen), 12 Monkeys (Terry Giliiam), The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola), About Schmidt (Alexander Payne), Cube (Vincenzo Natali), Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson), Tron, Monster, AI (Steven Spielberg), Arlington Road (Mark Pellington), CQ (Roman Capolla)
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MUSIC I HEAR
From Monument To Masses, Royal Headache, Bonobo, Junip, The Redneck Manifesto, The Egg, Rustie, Talk Talk, Little Hurricane, Blockhead, Pele, Foster the People, Crooked Fingers, Hammock, Slugabed, Nickel Eye, Giardini di Mirò, Zion Train, God Is An Astronaut, Photek, My Education, By the End of Tonight, Tor Lundvall, Metric, Radiohead, Oval, Saxon Shore, Moonlit Sailor, Beach House, de la Mancha, Here We Go Magic, The Strokes, Bloc Party, Kings of Leon, Death Cab For Cutie, Sonic Youth, Seidenmatt, Mogwai, Explosions In The Sky, Shout Out Louds, Broken Social Scene, The Shins, Belle and Sebastian, Death From Above 1979, Q and Not U, M83, Tocotronic, Couch, The Cribs, From Monument To Masses, Saxon Shore, The Clientele, Do Make Say Think, Arctic Monkeys, Jon Brion, Karate, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Ratatat, Kettcar, Phoenix, Foo Fighters, Honey For Petzi, 65daysofstatic, Tomte, The Spinto Band, ter haar, The Cure, Slint, Olli Schulz & der Hund Marie, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Knife, Die Sterne, Nada Surf, Daft Punk, The Books, Her Space Holiday, Shellac, The Notwist, Dosh, The Drums (this list is automaticly generated using the last.fm API)
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BOOKS I’VE READ
Der Plan von der Abschaffung des Dunkels (Peter Høeg), Unten Am Fluss (Richard Adams), Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse), 1984, Auftauchen um Luft zu holen, Erledigt in Paris und London (George Orwell), The Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger), Eiland, Brave New World (Aldous Huxlex), Die Verwandlung (Franz Kafka), Homo Faber (Max Frisch), Die Säulen Der Welt (Ken Follet)
ARTISTS I LIKE
David Carson, David Lynch, Walter Dexel, Thomas Lenk, James Rosenquist, Robert Rauschenberg