the depth of TOXEs entry caused me to experiment with using the kitchen as a backdrop for the still life. so i placed a table in the middle of the room and angled it a bit to make the composition more interesting.

the neighbors apartment, visible through the window is an actual photo of my neighbors apartment, modified in photoshop and applied to a vertex wall. i made a luminosity map for the glow channel and faked emitted light with a spot coming from behind the neighbors window. logically, the vertex wall was set to not cast shadows.