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5 movements I learned this year
Calisthenics, dancing, acroyoga/acrobatics - I cannot stick to one thing, so I do them all
an evening walk after a busy week
Are you in control
Just walked past Gruga Halle. Hundreds of people are waiting to go inside where apparently some TikTok and YouTube stars will fight each other in a boxing ring? I am happy to report that I don’t know a single one of these “stars”.
This is so well put and ever since having kids, I have described it exactly the same: Your heart now lives outside your body.
This is so well put and ever since having kids, I have described it exactly the same: Your heart now lives outside your body.
This is about to become a much more colorful thing. Then it’ll become an upsetting thing.
🎃 Mule SpOoKy sChOoL 🎃
TOMORROW! How to Negotiate! The m...
Importing iCloud Shared Albums into Immich
I recently moved my photo library from iCloud onto a self-hosted Immich instance running on an old MacBook Pro in my living room. Importing the main library went pretty smoothly. The (shared) albums: not so much.
The starting point
My main library was already in Immich: A...
📄 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.
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)
🎬 Project Hail Mary
It’s a space movie. I like space movies. But this is not the best of its genre IMHO. I can’t complain about how it’s made, really. I definitely enjoyed the acting and most of the visuals and sets.
Rocky is very cute and I like how their friendship develops. I found the flashbacks on Earth were a bit too silly. And this could have been shorter. So, this is definitely more on the “light entertainment” side of space movies. I guess I generally prefer my space movies more doomy and gloomy instead.
But was ok overall.
🎬 Fantastic Mr. Fox
A lovingly made animated film. Not only is Mr. Fox fantastic - everyone is. And so is the story, the sets, the music. And as typical for Mr. Anderson, it sometimes difficult to appreciate all those little details during the first viewing.
👍 Recommended!
A second bridge appears
What is hidden will be revealed
🎬 The Martian
It’s a space movie. I like space movies. But this is not the best of its genre IMHO. I can’t complain about how it’s made, really. I definitely enjoyed the acting and most of the visuals and sets. But the story is a bit so-so. I found it a little awkward making everyone explain everything all the time. And Mark Watney’s good mood with its constant funny-cool slogans went a little on my nerves (together with the partly cheese music). The final space scene is just bonkers. So: “ok”, I’d say.
🎬 Big Trouble in Little China
letterboxd.com/danielpietzsch/film/big-trouble-in-little-china/
This is so absurd, you can not not be entertained. And if you just take Jack Burton’s view and go with it, you can just indulge yourself in this. Chinese clans fighting themselves in back alleys? Sure! Superfighters flying in form the sky? Why not! Cursed villains with superpowers? Ok!? Surprise monster? Ok, what the hell!
It’s a weird Carpenter movie. I liked the old-school-ness of it all. The humour was actually pretty great. But it’s not my favourite from him.
🎬 Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
letterboxd.com/danielpietzsch/film/metallica-some-kind-of-monster/
I always love a good band documentary. This pretty much explains, how they made their by far shittiest album. But I really would have liked to know how they landed on the decision about that snare sound.
👍 Recommended!
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🎬 From Dusk Till Dawn
Ahhh, yes. Haven’t seen this in a long time. That’s a mistake. So good from start to finish.
👍 Recommended!