Mike vom Mars Blog

Many years ago I met a small group of artists from Mongolia who mastered a fascinating singing technique that sounds almost extra-terrestrial: throat singing. What would be the result of mixing this ancient tradition with modern trance beats? Hear for yourself.

This video intro for my aerial videos simulates the Phantom flying through a dense, vivid landscape. The landscape was not created in the video editor, it was entirely created and rendered in Cinema4D.

On hot summer days it’s a pleasure to hike through the cool and shady forest – and to use the camera drone there to capture atmospheric, almost mystical pictures and videos.

(German) Wie sollte man sich momentan verhalten? Wie kann man sich infizieren (und wie nicht)? Woran erkennt man, das man sich mit dem Corona-Virus infiziert hat? Antworten auf die wichtigsten Fragen.

(German) Zumindest auf dem Papier ist Russland eine Demokratie. Doch wie “frei” ist Russland eigentlich wirklich?

If you are eager to fly (or a test flight needs to be done), the ‘grassland next door’ is a good choice. That’s me, flying in first-person view with my Fatshark goggles.

Graveyard headstones, steles und memorials seem to live in the shadow. No one really takes account of them. Nevertheless most of them are very poetic and beautiful.

A mysterious crop circle in Bavaria has attracted thousands of visitors since it was spotted in a wheat field in June ’14. It’s just a 40 min. trip from my home, so I grabbed my Phantom and went there.

(German) Steht es um Deutschland wirklich so schlecht, wie AfD-Wähler uns glauben machen wollen? Ist die ständige Jammerei unserer ostdeutschen Mitbürger wirklich gerechtfertigt? Schauen wir uns mal die Fakten an.

(German) Die russische Teilmobilmachung gilt als Beleg für den Misserfolg der Truppen. Kanzler Scholz sprach von einem “Akt der Verzweiflung” Putins. Was aber bedeutet diese Ankündigung für die Russen? Wie könnte sie den Kriegsverlauf beeinflussen?

After crafting more and more complex papercraft projects, I felt the need to go back to the roots and create something simple, but cute. Meet the little windowsill flower!

Following his divorce, this German man appears to have decided to split all of his belongings with his wife—literally.

(German) Deutsche lieben Sprichwörter wie kaum ein anderes Volk. Doch woher kommen Redewendungen wie “des Pudels Kern”, bei jemandem “in der Kreide stehen” und “etwas im Schilde führen”? Hier die Antwort.

Brain training is boring? No way! Arcatris 2, the fast-paced and FREE Tetris clone for Android proves otherwise. The game features awesome arcade effects and a global ranking list -can you beat the top 100 players?

Somehow I came up with the idea to put my favorite emoticons into my shelf -as papercraft models. Pixies are funny and colorful eye-catchers that are also easy to build.