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Sunflowers in the Sky
“I wonder what it’s like – “
“You can keep wondering”, said Oliver, interrupting Jenny. “It’s not real. It can’t be real. I mean, you’re studying physics. Tell me on what basis people could fly.” Oliver was a terrific tutor, but never quite mastered the art of tact in conve...
Pages
What can hold the essence of day and night, warmth and cold, art and story, and time and space? Pages. (and hearts.)
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When I look around, I see and feel the presence of pages in my life. To my right are two textbooks – one on art and its environments, the other on cre...
📄 FLE updates
Last week, I received a nice comment about my little 35mm Focal Length
Equivalents site (short: FLE). And that was enough motivation to improve
the site. I still had - and still have - ideas to improve the site, and so
I spent some hours to make it a little better.
Just ordered my first Shure mic. And no, it’s not an SM57 or an SM7B, but an MV88+ to record my son’s violin concert in stereo. Let’s see how it goes … 🤞
Autumn days
Gusts of wind blow away the red leaves on the tall tree, propelling colour into the air that washes over the sky and slowly falls to the ground with the invisible current. In the foreground, small drops of rain are blown sideways. Standing by the window, I am watching autumn...
My favourite tracks on The Life of a Showgirl: Encore
I visit the Taylor Swift Subreddit regularly to follow along with news in the community, to read fun questions, and to see art made by fans. Lately I have been thinking along the lines of slashdiv that it would be good to see more fandom discussions in the small web. Then, l...
A country that livestreams an execution has lost its sense of humanity.
The last few minutes of this fantastic interview are the answer to why AI will never make beautiful music. Ever.
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
A Past Tense Word
Rick Beato just published another one of his long-form interviews. This time, he interviewed Josh Homme.
Josh is from Palm Desert, California, where there were no clubs, so his band Kyuss, which he founded when he was 14, played parties outside in the desert. Out there, as ...
June 2026
Visiting the Kunstpalast, "Deine Freunde" concert, beer and bike riding at Frankeninferno, a work trip to Belgium, and school singing at the Tonhalle. (66 photos)
Sunset
Frozen light yellow clouds hover under a grey sky, illuminated by the horizon sun.
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“I have never seen the sky like that before”, I thought to myself while gazing with my whole mind and body in wonder. Fluffy yellow clouds under grey clouds?
The colours of the sky ha...
✍️ New post: A Past Tense Word
What I took away from a wonderful Josh Homme interview. And yes, it somehow turned into a post about working on the web again …
I need to get my battery below 25% before I can replace the display. The best way I could think of: opening the LinkedIn app.😁
Any ideas what I could do while I’m there? Tricking people with a cliffhanger into clicking …more? Posting an AI-generated list of 7 things successful people do before 5am?
Sleazebag
Snake-oil
“sexy”
What does the S in SI *actually* stand for then? 🤔
So … it’s “SI” now? 😂
This is all so comically absurd.
Song
I want to give all my breath to the song, listening to every transcendent, liminal, spooky note, accompanied by intertwined tracks of coded and pure voice. I want to sing out the words I know loudly, and read all those I don’t know so that I may sing as much as I can with al...