My photo selection for September 2019.
The holiday month. Photos of various stops in the alps. But mainly street photographs from Venice.
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Sitting on the balcony. It’s finally cooling down again at night. Listening to Purple Hill Witch. Drinking a cold beer. Culling photos for the September 2019 entry. It was the holiday month. Struggling a little going through that many images.
🔗 Petition 113349: Durchführung einer Studie zum "Racial Profiling" bei den Polizeibehörden des Bundes/der Bundesländer vom 06.07.2020
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Unterzeichnet!
Mit der Petition wird die Durchführung einer Studie zum "Racial Profiling" bei den Polizeibehörden des Bundes und der Bundesländer gefordert.
📄 August update
An update on how we have been doing recently.
Now that Zoe and I got our first band photos, we should probably start an actual band, too.
Photos by Sina Frantzen.
🎥 3 Minutes Of Basketball
This morning, I had time to play some basketball. So I went to the court to throw a few throws (like I said I would).
I was pleased to notice that my throwing hasn’t gotten completely terrible after years of not playing. I spontaneously recorded 3 minutes of it.
📄 Pedalboard update
My pedal board has a new layout.
Now that I’m running iOS 13 on my new iPhone, I’ve installed the Corona Warn App.
📄 New Macbook Keyboard
Recently, I had my Mac’s keyboard replaced. Because, unsurprisingly, I started having regular double-types, which got increasingly annoying. Luckily, Apple acknowledges the problem and offers a free repair program.
📄 Last Week's Purchases
Last week was unusually purchase-rich for me, buying three new items.
🔗 August 2019 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
📷 “August 2019” is now up in the Photo Journal: https://photojournal.danielpietzsch.com/2019/August. 📷
Desperately trying to catch up… ;-)
A family gathering near Brussels, commuting photos and the usual documentation.
So, no German Corona Warn App for me: my iPhone 6 Plus is stuck on iOS 12. And you need to be able to run iOS 13 (which came out last year) and above to run it. A shame.
I’m probably in the minority of iPhone users on such an old device, though. Still, I wonder how many people have a similar problem (at least Android devices only require Android 6, which is five years old). And how many people won’t even bother installing it.
Furthermore, the seemingly extraordinary high development costs of €20 million - plus an additional €48 million running costs until the end of 2021 - makes me wonder whether the money could have been used more wisely. Time will tell I guess.
It was moving to see some 20.000 people showing up for the #BlackLivesMatter protest in Düsseldorf yesterday.
Soundtrack for the weekend:
Body Count - Cop Killer (Live at Hellfest 2018)
YouTube video: Body Count - Cop Killer (Live at Hellfest 2018) Sepultura - Anticop (Live)
YouTube video: Sepultura - Anticop (Live)
Here’s a Twitter thread (scroll up and/or down from the linked tweet) of some 300-plus-and-counting videos of police brutality: https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1268391718086422528.
This is only from this past week.
Not any of these assaults is even remotely justified. Absolutely unbelievable – in the worst possible way. And this is just a small subset of the incidents that have been published or have even been recorded. Any single one of these violations on its own is outrageous! And all this is happening during peaceful protests against police brutality.
📄 On the horrifying situation in the US
The current situation in the US is absolutely insane! In a lot of cities and areas police forces are violently attacking protestors and press. And their racist, evil, idiot president only keeps adding fuel to fire, insulting protestors and anyone else not getting in line with him. His recent speech was unbelievable: disrespectful and dangerous.
2 songs. 1 issue. 25 years apart. 0 changed.
Rage Against the Machine – Killing in the name.
YouTube video: Rage Against The Machine - Killing In the Name (Official Music Video) Body Count – No Lives Matter
YouTube video: Body Count - No Lives Matter (official video)
📄 Black lives fuckin' matter
How can one not sympathise with the #BlackLivesMatter movement? Generally, and especially right now. George Floyd was – unnecessarily, intentionally, almost casually – killed by a white police officer. And he was only the most recent case of many many many others in the past.
📄 How I publish to this website using iOS
Describing my workflow of how I use GitLab, Jekyll, Working Copy and other iOS apps to publish to my static website.
This is a test post from iOS using the Working Copy app. Also trying out an external markdown editor called Pretext.
I bought yet another pedal…
📄 First VP-6000 Darkroom Prints
I made my first set of black and white prints with my new Kaiser VP-6000 enlarger. It’s been a bit of an experimental session figuring out all the settings and my personal preferences. But so far I have been very happy with the results.
Just started bulk-loading another 30.5m-spool of APX 400.
I think this film bulk-loaded is the best deal in black and white film photography. One spool is €48 at Nordfoto and gives you 18 roles of film with 36+ exposures each. That’s not even €2.70 per canister. It’s a steal. And it’s a great film.
📄 My first pedalboard
Version 1.0 of my pedalboard is done. Here it is:
🎧 City Burials – Katatonia
Their new album. What can I say? Of course, it’s great!
🎧 No Comfort – Monolord
Been listening to all their 4 albums actually. It’s low, slow and heavy. And I like it.
🎧 Dummy – Portishead
Just a wonderfully quiet and melancholic album.
🎧 Something Wicked Marches In – VLTIMAS
All-Star Death Metal. David Vincent’s vocals are just superb!
🎧 Fuck the Universe – Craft
This Swedish black metal act is growing on me.
🎧 Lotus – Soen
Still regular listening to both the “Lotus” and “Lykaia” albums.