Hi, my name is Raphael Baumann I’m a lot of things and nothing at the same time. Ever since I’ve known what I wanted to do I’ve never been able to explain it without sounding like an idiot. The issue isn’t that what I do is dumb or weird, but that I either have to give you a platitude or you better be ready for an hour-long ramble.
Luckily this is a website and I had plenty of time to make it as concise as it can be. So here we go:
I create stuff.
Creating is the only word I feel comfortable using because it doesn’t carry much implication. I have drawn, built, spent thousands of hours 3D modeling, gotten into photography, filmmaking, and also worked as a web, game and app developer. At first glance, the relationship between these activities isn’t obvious. Some of them could fall in the art category but some others challenge the definition of that very word. The fact that I would have to define what an artist does to describe what I do would only make things worst, but for a long time, that was the best definition of what I did.
Fortunately, I recently figured out what I was doing wrong. I was trying to define my passion with a job description while I should have been looking at the core of what I was doing. Which by now you probably figured out, I was creating things.
This blog will serve me as a window to what I do. From now on when someone asks me what I do I’ll be able to show them this website. But I won’t. Because who does that? It’s weird! I’ll just tell them I’m a media engineer and leave them wondering as to what a media engineer does. But you! Reading this. You get the real answer.