I think it's time to make use of dA's new "feature" if one may call it like that, to change my name into something more representative of my artistic merits. I need a name that really encompasses my efforts as a photographer, a name that is more than just some alias to hide behind. I do realize that coming up with a good name is quite hard, but I kept looking at how other deviants would handle it, and some of the results were quite pleasing indeed.

And so, I have decided...

NO Artistic merits my ass...

I'm never ever changing my name.

I'm shenanigan87 on DeviantArt
I'm shenanigan87 on YouTube
I'm shenanigan87 on facebook
I'm shenanigan87 on Twitter
I'm shenanigan87 on TopGear
I'm shenanigan87 on Drehscheibe-Online
I'm shenanigan87 on Cnet
I'm shenanigan87 on GameStar
I'm shenanigan87 on MSN
I'm shenanigan87 on Wordpress
I'm shenanigan87 on 500px.com
I'm shenanigan87 on thinkpad-forum.de
I'm shenanigan87 on Epinions.com
I'm shenanigan87 on thalerwald.de
I'm shenanigan87 on DualBoard.de
I'm shenanigan87 on CGNCommunity.de
I'm shenanigan87 on fotocommunity.de
etc. etc.

I AM SHENANIGAN87

GOOGLE MY NAME AND YOU SHALL SEE!

*pant*

In all seriousness though, I am shenanigan87. Many of the accounts I listed have never been active, but whenever I join any kind of online community, I try to use this name.

And yes, if you do a Google image search, you will find pages upon pages of my photos.



And perhaps even your photos, if I commented on or fav'd them.



In other news, the Green Party is pushing for a general speed limit in my federal state, to which I say: Fuck you, Green Party! Now I may be trundling along in the right lane most of the time, to get a gazillion mpg, but at 3am, with the roads emtpy, I do want to get home as fast as the circumstances allow me to drive. I don't want the German Autobahn to loose its world-famous lack of general speed limits.

Apart from the usual arguments (fewer accidents, even though most crashes don't happen on the Autobahn, and lower CO₂ emissions, even though car traffic only contributes a miniscule amount), they also claim that it's much quieter if cars go slower. And to be honest, I'm getting tired of the fact that everyone wants mobility, cheap goods, cheap energy, cheap everything, while constantly whining about the Autobahn being noisy. Or the railway line being noisy. Or the airport being noisy. Or the wind turbine spoiling the view. In short: NIMBY!

I bet such people would be annoyed by a farmer's tractor if they'd be living in the countryside... The government should force him to build noise barriers around his field! And he should be forced to use the latest and greatest low-emission hybrid tractor, even if it would bankrupt him! And why can he plow his field while I'm taking a nap, there should be a naptime-plowing ban! But I still want organic food, and I want it cheap!

Now would be an excellent time to write "I know it's easy for me to say blah blah" but it's not.

I live in a city that was built around a factory, a city that's enclosed by three mainlines, two major Autobahn routes, and the planes coming in to land at Cologne Bonn fly a semi-circle above my house, unless the prevailing winds change. I can always hear the constant drone of the Autobahn in the distance, 24/7, 365 days a year. I can hear the ICE screaming through at 125mph, and I can hear the squealing brakes when an S-Bahn train stops at the nearby station. Hell, I can often tell whether it's an MD-11, a 747 or an A319 just by listening to the noise they make when passing by above!

And you know what? I like it here. I like to live where the action is, in the sky, on the roads, on the rails.