The #indieweb is more than #independence. It’s also a web, of both personal sites and “third place” sites like aggregators, bridges, proxies, directories, indexes, and other community sites.Broadly speaking, such “third place” sites include places we collectively contribute t...
Feeds from people participating at the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, May 2025.
January 2nd, 2025
Good to be beside the sea and soaking up the first sunny day of 2025
When we say #ownYourData we mean whatever data is important to you, like the data services aggregate about you and present back to you. Owning that data means extracting it into a form you can hang onto regardless of what the service does in the future (or disappears), and pu...
The first of a new year seems like a good day to assemble, aggregate, summarize and publish various year in review posts for the prior year.When various online services create a year in review for you many weeks before the end of the year (whether #Spotify #Wrapped or #Strava...
Welcome to 2025!15 years ago today I began posting notes on my own #indieweb site first, and only later on #socialMedia: https://tantek.com/2010/001/t1/declaring-independence-building-itYou can too.I am once again encouraging you start the year with:1. Getting a personal doma...
Last 2024 #donation request: please #donate to any/all tonight!I donated to these, pick ones that resonate with you:@ACLU@NAACP@InternetArchive@Wikipedia@PPact@Mozilla**@EFF@CalAcademy@deYoungMuseum@Exploratorium@MontereyAq@SFMOMA@SFParksAlliance**Disclosure: I work for @Mozilla, on & with open web standards & communities @indiewebcamp @microformats @W3C @WHATWG supported by @Firefox to provide a more human-centric, private, and secure web for all users.Previously: https://tantek.com/2019/365/t1/today-donate-renew-arts-science
Last day of the year and last chance to #donate to worthy causes for 2024!I post a lot about the #indieweb but I’m not asking you to donate to that.Starting this series of non-profit #donation posts with asking you to consider donating to the #independentArts.Choose an #arts organization local to you or one that friends or family are directly involved in.For example: @theatermitu.org (@theatermitu @instagram.com/theatermitu)Theater Mitu is an independent theater arts organization, space, and community that supports numerous artists, shows, and incubates and produces new work!Donation link: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/theater-mitu/the-decade-ahead-10-more-years-of-mitu-in-brooklyn#TheaterMitu #NewYork #NYC #Brooklyn
🔗 November 2023 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
Nearing the end with my photos from 2023.
Photos from the Alpeninferno plus some random shots.
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🎬 Anna and the Apocalypse
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🎶 "When it comes to killing zombies, I'm at the top of my game…" 🎶
Very entertaining and funny musical zombie film. Good songs – I enjoyed the one cited above, the "filthy" one, and the "brand new day" – some good kills, likeable characters, and just a great sense of humour. The whole scene with the snow man is bloody golden.
Not all is perfect – partly the makeup, the effects; and towards the end it loses a bit of tempo – but overall this was a very worthwhile christmas movie.
🎬 Black Christmas
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The kills in this were partly quite nice. But it's always about the eyeballs. I would've enjoyed some more kill-variety. But apart from this, this lacked suspense. And I think it was unnecessary to uncover all of Billy's backstory. This also reminded me of Scream – which I liked – but all characters in this were unlikeable IMO. Little bit of an annoying one.
🎬 Black Christmas
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The kills in this were partly quite nice. But it's always about the eyeballs. I would've enjoyed some more kill-variety. But apart from this, this lacked suspense. And I think it was unnecessary to uncover all of Billy's backstory. This also reminded me of Scream – which I liked – but all characters in this were unlikeable IMO. Little bit of an annoying one.
🎬 Silent Night
Eh, no. It's not like this was all bad. But there's absolutely zero backstory to the approaching apocalypse, that fog looked awful, and the characters were all well over the top. And this would've been fine, if the movie decided to go all in on its funny side. But it also had this seriousness. And this was all confusing IMO.
🎬 The Name of the Rose
Nice atmospheric middle age murder story. Great characters, great acting, great makeup, great setting, great fog.
🎬 The Limits of Control
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The protagonist is like an anti James Bond: no action, no talking, no sex, no drama. And he still gets the job done. And the movie still manages to be suspenseful and entertaining despite all the "missing" bits. The end left me a little confused, but other than that, this was ace. Jarmusch just makes movies I like.
This also has a brilliant music scene with flamenco guitar playing, -dancing and -singing. And it's probably all done while the camera was rolling. I can rarely tolerate music not matching the instrument on camera, but this was the exact opposite. Kudos!
And I enjoyed the soundtrack, too.
Been watching Interior: Chinatown on Hulu. Didn’t read the book, but interesting story.
🔗 October 2023 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
Another one!
We went to the middle age market again. And our group of friends filmed a music video as a birthday present one afternoon.
finished the #InsideTrail Woodside Ramble 35k #trailRace in 7:42:58!21+ miles for the 21st. Happy Winter Solstice!One last dance for 2024. Drove down 101 and saw the orange sunrise between the East Bay mountains and stormy cloud cover. Made it to Huddart Park, parked, got my ...
Skyliner is nice.
🔗 September 2023 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
Another one!
Photos from the hospital, Zoe's birthday, and a fat cat.