It was moving to see some 20.000 people showing up for the #BlackLivesMatter protest in Düsseldorf yesterday.
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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
🎧 No Comfort – Monolord
🎧 Dummy – Portishead
Just a wonderfully quiet and melancholic album.
🎧 Something Wicked Marches In – VLTIMAS
🎧 Fuck the Universe – Craft
🎧 Lotus – Soen
Still regular listening to both the “Lotus” and “Lykaia” albums.
🎧 In Cauda Venenum – Opeth
Ever since seeing them live last time, I can’t get “Allting tar slut” out of my head.
🎧 Blood Year – Russian Circles
Their latest album. Would have loved to see them live last month. But as everything was cancelled, this will need to do – which is not bad at all.
🎧 Fear Inoculum – TOOL
Still in rotation.
📄 Corona update 3
It’s been a while since I wrote about “the situation”. In summary: we’re mostly at home, but not really quarantining ourselves.
Yesterday, I spontaneously acquired a new (used) darkroom enlarger that was on offer locally:
It’s a Kaiser VP-6000. And it included everything I need to make prints from 6x6 medium format negatives. So now I can finally start printing the photos I have been making with my Rolleiflex!
To get a little impression of what Düsseldorf looks like during the Covid-19 pandemic, you can check out Andreas Schiko’s blog where he currently posts photos of empty Düsseldorf streets.
Ok, my “Fuck you, Instagram!” bookmarklet stopped working again. Bloody annoying. At least permalinks still work on their own and right-clicking hasn’t been disabled (yet?). So “Open Link in New Tab” still works.
The URL for subscribing to a YouTube channel via RSS:
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=ADD_CHANNEL_ID_HEREYou get the channel_id from the URL of the channel.
📄 Düsseldorf Webcams
The city of Düsseldorf offers some surprisingly high-quality webcams. Embedded here for my own convenience, so I can watch them all at once.
📄 My fluid website layout
I'm using a viewport-based CSS layout for this site. What this means and why I do this is all explained in this post.
I’m currently watching the documentary about Dieter Rams by Gary Hustwit and it’s absolutely wonderful. Still free to watch today.