One more horror classic. One more great film!
Reminded me of Alien in a few ways.
Great special effects. Great set. Great story. Great acting.
🎬 The Thing
Feeds from people participating at the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, May 2025.
🎬 About Endlessness
My second Roy Andersson movie.
He has a unique style. And I think I still need to get used to it. Nevertheless, this was entertaining with it’s dry humor. I probably didn’t fully “get” this film, though.
🎬 Rosemary’s Baby
Another classic – from 1968! – I’ve never seen before. It’s deservedly highly respected! This must have inspired so many horror-movies after it. I can’t recall an earlier (horror) movie with that “secret backdoor” element, the “nosy neighbour cliché”, the “is the protagonist going crazy or is she right?”-storyline, or that “look through the door spy”-shot. And there are probably even more firsts in there.
Hail chocolate mouse! Hail Satan! Hail Rosemary’s Baby!
🔗 More family photos
In October, Sina came over and shot a whole bunch of photos of us. So, feel free to stalk us over on her blog.
Ihr möchtet ungern als Familie "posen", wollt jedoch gerne die Zeit festhalten? Hier eine kleine Familienreportage (Remscheid und Umgebung).
A family photo from summer. Made by Udo Fischer.
🔗 December 2019 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
Finally finishing 2019.
Meetings with friends and family. And some impressions of Düsseldorf.
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Better Options
We all want to make the right decisions. Not only because we want to be successful, but often simply because we want to avoid the negative consequences of making the wrong decision. We are risk-averse beings. So we put a lot of emphasis on the decision itself. We collect inf...
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Painting With the Web
Have you ever seen Gerhard ...
🔗 November 2019 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
I shall not fall behind more than one year! My photo selection for November 2019.
First photos with my new Rollei 35 S. A concert. A demonstration. And everything in between.
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:focus-visible Is Here
One of the most important features of a website that is built with accessibility in mind is that it can be navigated with a keyboard. Most blind users and many users with motor disabilities rely on keyboard navigation, either with a standard keyboard or with a device that mi...
🎧 Meliora – Ghost
🎧 TRILOGY – Carpenter Brut
🎧 Hiss Spun – CHELSEA WOLFE
Got into Chelsea Wolfe. Mainly her “Hiss Spun” album. It’s a bit like the heavy, less electronic, even more melancholic version of Portishead. Also reminds me of the acts that would play Twin Peaks’ Roadhouse. Love it!
🎧 Moontower – Dan Swanö
“The Big Sleep” was on some sampler when I was a teenager. I stumbled across this song again, and have now been listening to the whole “Moontower” album quite a bit. In case you don’t know: Dan Swanö plays all the instruments and does the singing, too. A true one-man-band.
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On the Design Systems Between Us
Ethan Marcotte just gave a fabulous remote talk at SydCSS on the nature of design systems and the challenges of creating and maintaining them over time. Ethan managed to comprise so many of the things I’ve been hearing, noticing, and thinking about in such a concise and clea...
📖 Was weiße Menschen nicht über Rassismus hören wollen: aber wissen sollten – Alice Hasters
Ich dachte ich kann mich halbwegs gut in Menschen reinversetzen, die konstant Rassismus und anderen Diskriminierungen ausgesetzt sind. Aber dieses Buch hat mir vor Augen geführt, wie anstrengend, gefährlich und entmutigend das wirklich ist – und wie es ist wenn man dem...
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Design and the 80/20 Principle
Over 120 years ago, an Italian engineer, sociologist, economist, and philosopher named Vilfredo Pareto made an astonishing discovery. He was looking at the distribution of land in Italy, when he observed that approximately 80 % of the land was owned by only 20 % of the popul...
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CSS Custom Properties With @property
Una Kravets has written an excellent article about a feature that has been released with Chrome 85: The @property syntax of the Properties and Values API. The Properties and Values API is part of CSS Houdini, the next generation of additions to CSS allowing developers to ext...
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AVIF: A New Image Format
It doesn’t happen every day that a new image format comes along. So it’s not surprising that people are excited that Chrome 85 has been released with support for the new AVIF format. AVIF (AV1 Image File Format) is an open image format based on the AV1 video format that was ...
🎬 Queen & Slim
A first date takes a fateful turn when a racist cop stops the two for a minor traffic violation. The cop ends up dead. They flee, and a days-long chase through the US ensues.
This film is very much fitting regarding the current #blacklivesmatter movement. It showcases on a few occasions how black people feel about the police; and how one might react when the police is rather considered an enemy than a friend.
It’s also a film about loneliness, companionship, trust and love.
Thumbs up!