Websites and blogs of people that attended a Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf.
🎬 Christine

Another classic where I don't know whether I had seen this as a teenager. But I really couldn't remember any scenes. This was fantastic, though. Apart from obvious technological or cultural clues, you wouldn't think this is such an old movie. It really holds up.
Now, the film actually manages to portrait Christine as and actually evil car. The stunts are top-notch - oh my, the whole scene at the gas station! - and the special effects when Christine repairs herself are an absolute sensation. Great characters, too - it's been quite clever how the evilness progressively affects Arnie's own mood.
Bonus was seeing this on the big screen, getting to fully experience the film's awesome sound and music.
🎬 Longlegs

Has tons of atmosphere and Nicolas Cage as Longlegs is actually really creepy. Lovingly filmed. And great acting. I thought the plot pace was a little odd (it's high-paced in the beginning and the end, and in the middle quite slow), and the resolution was not all that satisfying. Overall, though, I was really into it, and didn't notice how time flew by at the cinema.
The new Reeder app is fantastic. One of my favorite features: You can open feed items directly in the in-app browser!
It has to be set for each feed individually:

I always prefer visiting people’s websites directly, where they present their images (and words) in a way that they deem best for their work and where they put all the effort into.
Great work by Silvio Rizzi!
Weeknotes 2024-09-02
3x2 Photocast
OMG. I just logged into my micro.blog account, which I haven’t done in quite some time, and it seems my photo blog is still automatically shared over there via my RSS feed, and I got all these nice comments on my images, which I never replied to! 😱
🎬 Possessor

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Uff! Brutal! And really menacing and suspenseful. Liked this a lot! The gore effects, that sequence when she enters the other body, and how this looked, sounded and felt in general. A few minus points for missing explanations and the what I felt not-so-logical ending. I'd watch this again!
My photo stats plugin is now also part of the official Kirby Plugins page. 🙌
Thanks Nico, for adding it!
I will be attending WordCamp Karlsruhe in October. 🙌 First time back in KA since… I think 2016. (I lived there for four years from 2010 to 2014.)
Little easter egg from my photo blog: You can use the help modal on mobile to toggle image meta data on or off. Clicking/tapping on any one of those keyboard input elements will actually dispatch a key press event for said key. ✨

Weeknotes 2024-08-26
🎬 Challengers

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I wasn't planning on joining Nicole when she put on this movie. But then the characters and plot drew me in. I wanted to know how and why the three ended up where they ended up (the film is very non-linear, which I liked for the most part). The acting was great, too.
But unfortunately, it's downhill from there. It's increasingly less about Art - the only really likeable person - and only very slowly unveils more and more about the relationship between the other two. The soundtrack was irritating. And the ending is not very plausible and it's a collage of infuriatingly endless slow-motion shots.
Weeknotes 2024-08-19
Weeknotes 2024-08-12
🔗 June 2023 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
One more month of photos.
A family trip to Belgium, Folkerdey, quite a few things in between, and of course our camper motorway crash false start into the summer holidays.
📖 Tiere essen – Jonathan Safran Foer
Es ist ja nicht so, als hätte ich mich nicht schon öfter mit diesem Thema auseinandergesetzt. Aber diese Buch hat mir den notwendingen Anstoß gegen keine halben Sachen mehr zu machen und mich vollständig vegetarisch zu ernähren. Diese Buch ist natürlich keine leichte Kost. Aber das sollte es bitte auch nicht sein, wenn doch die industrielle Fleischproduktion und Massentierhaltung so ein riesen Haufen barbarische Scheiße ist.
Der Autor selbst geht trotzdem noch recht diplomatisch an die Sache ran, und versucht nicht einem (s)eine Meinung aufzudrücken (obwohl er diese trotzdem für sich sehr klar formuliert). Und mir gefiel auch, dass verschiedene Stimmen und gar Kompromiss-Lösungen beschrieben werden. Für mich aber lässt das alles nur eine Schlussfolgerung zu.
📖 Die Verwandlung – Franz Kafka
Ist die Verwandlung eine Metapher für eine (schwere) Krankheit, habe ich mich gefragt. Jedenfalls fand ich diesen Klassiker sehr interessant und unterhaltsam. Die unterschiedlichen Reaktionen der Mitmenschen auf seine Verwandlung sind einfach gut und glaubhaft beschrieben. Und zudem fand ich Kafkas Schreibstil sehr ansprechend. Hat diese Buch auch vielleicht “Die Fliege” inspiriert?
🎬 MaXXXine

Another very entertaining part of the trilogy. The story – especially at the end – has its weaknesses IMHO (and I couldn't help but be reminded of Once upon a Time in Hollywood). But this just looks fantastic once again, has great acting, and a lot of excellent scenes.