🍿 Another long and busy day. But it included Toy Story 5, so that’s good. And now watching Legends, to relax. Even if it sucks (can’t tell yet), it’s an...
🙃 We’re trying to find the courage to climb the hill, and get to our cafeteria. It’s been a while since we’ve been.
🌧️ It immediately feels like another city.
😅 SPAM IRL No need for social networks, or anything else. Also, perfect timing, hanging these just before the storm hits.
🌩️ And… we have a thunderstorm now. The kind where the thunder just… keeps… on… rolling.
🧦 Needed some groceries. Waited for the rain to arrive (that was the main thing, get some rain), and geared up. Being in this neighborhood means I HAD to wear...
“ミルミル白くなる洗濯物” One feed that I enjoy daily. Always a very clever idea, beautifully executed. #photography #japan 🍜 Dairy Laundry https://miniature-calendar.com/260823
⛈️ Stormy week ahead, starting tomorrow. We got all the extras too: thunderstorms, strong winds, the whole thing!
📻 Probably a repeated song, but I needed to dance. Siza Mudjer Trabadjadera, by Ferro Gaita View entry: https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/maique/20260822
“It’s okay to be sensitive, and it’s also okay to fuck up (I’ve fucked up plenty worse myself) but when you’re a creator with a public-facing project like Pagecord, you...
🥷 The secret vandal’s blog is no more, of course. Had to let that one go.
📺 Monsters of God. Reptiles freak me out, but I like the people at A24. Let’s see if I can handle this. Set in Florida, obviously, that’s another plus.
💖 Friends come from vacation in a faraway land, and are kind enough to bring back a gift. Something that represents the local culture, something that will keep that destination...
📹 Shooting has been rescheduled. Not because the weather is turning, just a regular hangover from the aspiring actor.
🌻 Not sure where I picked this up, but enjoying the odd game of Sunflowers. Think Minesweeper, minus the violence.
☔️ Rain is coming today! It’s coming! Of course it had to arrive on the day I’m supposed to shoot a couple of clips for a friend’s audition. He was...
“They look more like a pair of retro-futuristic spacecraft that managed to land, unannounced, in the middle of a German technology park.” #architecture #brutalism 🍜 Raw Concrete ＆ Cold War...
👀 Same old corner, walked by again today.
📺 On today’s episode, Keeley Jones says, on the briefest of scenes, “Fuck that article”. Regarding an interview in Vanity Fair (from last season). Lo and behold, there IS an...
📺 I’ve been saving today’s episode of Ted Lasso for evening. That evening is upon us.
🚳 Bad photo, but the guy was speeding, WITH training wheels!
💖 As promised, here it is: just in from Turkey, my Hello Kitty jersey. Perfect.
🎉 Happy Photography Day, for those who celebrate.
😏 Had to return a camera I was considering for a purchase, so I went to the office. Not gonna lie, felt great to walk around in shorts and a...
🐈⬛ I read it’s black cat appreciation day, or something to that effect. I had trouble finding a black cat photo, but came upon this old one. Sorry about the...
🥵 I find Foreca very reliable. It’s the source Mercury uses, as well as the lovely brolly.sh. That’s where I got this, and it’s SO right! “temperature 26.7C (feels 30.2C)”
🤣 When did “chaise longue” become “chaise lounge”? Did y’all skip french class?
☕️ I had to give it a go, keeping up with the kids. Espresso number two, after the first one woke me up.
📺 Probably not the best way to start the day, but couldn’t finish this one yesterday. Scary as hell. Nazi Town, USA [YouTube embed]
🥵 Facing the heat for a quick grocery run. Let’s go!
🐈 Reminder that Catbox is a wonderful, and free, file hosting platform. You can, and should, support them with a donation/subscription/purchase, but it will work brilliantly even if you don’t.
😩 Sometimes there’s an app you actually like, but there’s something about the developer that you can’t stand. I just came upon another of those apps.
“(…) you should blog about that shallow, uninteresting stuff anyway. Write your point of view on whatever. It’s your blog, do what you feel like.” #blogging 🍜 What should you...
⚙️ Needed a bookmarklet to add blogs to my FreshRSS account. I now have a bookmarklet to add blogs to my FreshRSS account.
🐝 Also, how could I forget this, I got stung by a bee on the drive back home yesterday! In the most unspeakable place possible, if you can imagine it...
“Nowadays, however, that once state-of-the-art design is looking more than a little dated, although unlike many hotels of its generation, the Hatoya has somehow managed to survive. As have many...
💨 Weather has turned. Cloudy, colder (still expecting 30C), and windy as hell. Not sure if the usual dam beach will be an option today. We also have a birthday...
🥰 Cool ‘84 190D Mercedes Benz (yummy!), and manual windows. She’s living her best life, as the saying goes…
📈 Wondering about the number of unread items on the RSS thing, after a week of vacation. Not even checking how many I’ll have when we get back.
🔔 The church is right next door, and the tiny one sleeps through the hourly strikes! Me? Not that lucky.
🇪🇸 Spain Day was a success, despite the scorching heat. I love being on the road. Even more so with the tiny one.
🥵 Today will be an interesting day. Spain, we love you, but…
😅 Another day with too many photos. I’ll spend the whole month of September posting the photos from this week. Anyway, this is how we saw the eclipse. It was...
🛝 We’re spending the day at the dam. Lovely beach, and eclipse over the lake later on.
🚬 Needed cigarettes (yeah, I know), but there’s a very limited number of places selling them around here. That, and everything else, in fact. Tried a final place, a restaurant....
😎 I like the new brrr feature, that allows custom icons on the notifications.
😜 Too many photos, and no time to edit them. By the time tinyMovieStar goes to bed, I’m also knackered already. Since she’s my alarm clock as well, what can...
😴 Not even 7AM, already on a bus. What have I turned into?
🇪🇸 You know you’re going to The Village, when the fastest way includes a part through Spain. In, and out again.
🕶️ Truth be told, I don’t think I’ll watch a lot of the eclipse. Between shooting tinyMovieStar, and making sure her shades stay on, my hands will be pretty full.
🧳 Packing is ongoing. Many tiny dresses, and polo shirts. That’s mostly it.
🕶️ Managed to get six pairs of eclipse shades. That counts as a big win over here, they’re sold out almost everywhere.
🚌 I use Transit, even if I already know the route I’ll take. It’s practical. I like to know when the bus is coming. And, I do answer their questions,...
💨 This fan has been going for over 50 years. It’s almost as old as I am, and handled that time much better than I did. Never seen this brand,...
🏁 Quiet Sunday turned into a race. At least the morning part. Need the afternoon to prep for trip.
🏖️ Ok, so maybe one more from the beach.
🤣 Obama in the season finale of Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: an Almost History of America. Epic!
🔥 Things one does in this country, at this time of the year, if one is travelling around: check fogos.pt for ongoing wildfires in the area.
⌚️ Felt crazy, wearing the Apple Watch today. It’s been months since I’ve done that, and having to charge it reminded me of one of the reasons why I gave...
🇪🇸 Sidenote: the village where we’re spending next week is completely off-limits, as far as vandalism goes. Fingers crossed we have plenty of day trips. Thinking about you, Spain!
🧤 The staff member wears gloves to handle food, as they should. But then I see the guy handling cash, the register, everything else. Gloves never come off. And back...
📻 I believe I said it before, but if there’s a band that had an incredible influence on my upbringing, this one was it. I could spend many days posting...
🏖️ Surf Camp has ended. I believe we can go for a while without going back to Caparica.
🎨 Between waking up to early, being out and about before most people, and having WAY too much time to wander around while tinyMovieStar is busy with surf camp, it’s...
“We have a surplus of testosterone, but a shortage of weapons. The launchers are erect, but the defense secretary has them shooting blanks. The incompetence is, in a word, lethal.”...
⛰️ After Beach Week, we might head up to the North, where the mountains are, and go for the exact opposite. Fingers crossed the tiny one enjoys it, she asked...
♟️ Slow day, as far as photos go. I’m exhausted by now, and there’s light vandalism going on.
🚨 I guess that’s it for Bluesky, as far as I’m concerned. I never used it that much anyway, after the initial period. Now that EchoFeed is going away, the...
🏄♀️ She’s happiest when the van arrives. Another full day at the beach. Then snuggling, and a nap on the way back. I’m happier when snuggle time arrives.
☕️ Woke up so late today, I had to run before the first espresso. An hour later, I finally got it. Slowly coming alive now.
🚌 I could easily do without these sunrise bus rides. One more day to go!
👀 Costa de Caparica, an acquired taste.
😅 Not enough time today. After a very full day, back in the city, and it’s time to say “enough”. Tomorrow there’s another early start. I’ll, probably, still pick a...
🍺 Beach & Beer, a winning combination.
👺 Loads of photos for later. Now too busy with vandal stuff, while the little one attends surf camp. Perks of having the beach next to a town.
🏄♀️ Driving to the south bank. Traffic should be crazy, we’ve seen the interminable lines these past couple of days. We also need to find the meeting point, it’s a...
📻 Always a pleasure. Jimmy James (Single Version), by Beastie Boys View entry: https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/maique/20260804
🇵🇹 Classic. The Shade(s) Man. Living on the beach, the guy that rents shade and chairs. A staple of the local beaches. Some are fancier these days, but you can...
☕️ Two espressos, and we’re off to the races! Or the waves! Here we go, pro surfer by the end of the week. Let’s also see how many kilos of...
🥰 Full day at the beach, surfing, playing, running around. At pick up time, she asked to stay a little longer. I suggested another beach on the way back, one...
“It is simply a collection of photos that I upload daily.” Yeah. But they’re really nice. Make sure you check both links, as the two of them are great photographers....
🥰 I kept getting recommendations for FreshRSS, when I dropped my longtime Feedbin account. I wanted to test it, but I’m really cutting down on subscriptions very aggressively, firing up...
🏖️ Not a bad spot for her first surf lesson…
🚌 7:20AM. Literally two of us on the bus, conductor comes in to check tickets. Rare sighting this early in the morning.
🏖️ Here we go. Up at 6AM, time to get the surf trip on the road. I use “trip” lightly, since we’re coming back home every day.
🏄🏻♀️ Surf Camp starts tomorrow for the little one. Guess who’s spending a week at the beach, or close by?
“How you got into it, where it’s taken you, why you’re still at it. No template, no fixed questions. Just your story, told however you want to tell it.” #indieWeb...
📺 Tourism’s hidden price: Mallorca’s housing crisis | DW Documentary I know it’s going to be depressing, sad to see this happening all over. [YouTube embed] #tourism #housingCrisis
🚶🏻♂️ Walking in the other side of town. The Alamo came to mind.
🥖 You know you’re in good hands, when the bread basket looks like this, and it’s freshly baked on a Sunday. #paoAlentejanoForever
😊 I used to call this corner, The Hong Kong Corner. Based entirely on movies. Then I visited, and, somehow, I still keep calling it the same thing.
👚 I have one particular t-shirt, bought decades ago, that I can no longer wear in public. It’s been stuck in a drawer for a loooong time. tinyMovieStar used it...
🧠 Seems to be taking a little longer today. My brain is still stuck on “idle”, there is something wrong with the gear box.
📺 Dua Lipa and Ivanka Trump go head to head in Albania | If You’re Listening [YouTube embed] Albania. Ivanka. Communism. Get rich quick schemes. Corruption. Flamingos. A whole country...
🚌 The bus would look perfect in this one, but my patience for that sort of thing is very limited. I’ll wait a minute, but not longer. A lot of...
😡 Things you shouldn’t be allowed to drive in the city. Or at all.
😢 Final day at preschool. Lots of crying today. I know I will.
💸 Feedbin is next, I’m afraid. Not renewing that one. Looking for alternatives, with what I have at the moment. I’ll have to cut down on a few feeds, but...
💅🏼 Even the rougher ones got their nails done!
👓 Forgot my glasses at home today. I’m blind for everything under fifty centimeters, or a meter. Maybe this has typos as well, I can’t really tell.
🤣 What a night. Well, what an afternoon! A gang of kids, unruly parents, pizza, and beer. It lasted for hours! Photos are waiting…
🎨 Trying a new LUT with No Fusion. A bit heavy-handed, but works great with yellows.
🥱 Slightly bored, but it’s too hot outside for a leisurely stroll.
🫤 Still one of my proudest vandalism moments!
“In an era increasingly defined by biodiversity loss, Takeda’s buildings offer a compelling alternative to architecture as static object. Instead, they are designed as living frameworks: places where humans, plants,...
🏴☠️ Every once in a while, I’ll email a photo to my super secret Pagecord blog. Vandalism of the highest order!
🏗 Have you ever played Townscaper? This is a city that could have been the inspiration for that one… Just saying.
🐜 Busy day! Tiny one has been dropped off at preschool. Next up: a visit to the barber, before he leaves on holiday. Mom’s dentist after that. Finishing with the...
🎙️ Spokenly has a feature called Background Dictation, where you can start/stop dictation with a Shortcut. You can use that with the Action Button, those awkward back taps or, my...
“Everyone’s favorite cartoon animal who doesn’t sue small businesses!” #lastWeekTonight #bucOff 🍜 Last Week Tonight’s BUC-OFF SHOP https://buc-off.com/
“I have friends that gave me an odd mix of skills, from programming to configuring servers and picking the best beer.” 🍜 How AI is saving my life without magic...
💤 I wish I had the tiny one’s sleep skills. She’ll sleep for 12 hours, every day, if not messed with. Been at it for close to that today, and...
🏛️ São Tomean Roças are now UNESCO World Heritage sites. Sundy is included, of course. The Roças of Sao Tome and Principe: Colonial Agricultural System and Forced Migration https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1750
🚶🏻♂️ The Corner That Always Delivers
🎾 After The Dink, I suppose I had to watch Boom! Boom! The World vs Boris Becker. On it right now.
😎 Let’s enjoy this final cool day, before the damn heat is back.
📻 Pretty decent to go with photo editing. When I’m Small, by Phantogram View entry: https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/maique/20260725
“Those were our first three days in Scotland: a flight that wasn’t, a car that didn’t exist, a castle on a cliff, a fishing village full of tiny gardens, and...
💤 We got home, had dinner, and immediately went to bed. We crashed, and woke up many hours later. Today we have a non-beach thing to attend, but we’ll be...
🏖️ Good thing about living in town: 20 minutes after picking the tiny one from preschool, we can be at the beach.
👸🏻 It was the second queen I spotted today!
😝 I shot a roll of film with a friend’s Flashback camera yesterday, but he had the 24 hour wait period enabled. I have another seven hours before it’s developed,...
🎨 Sometimes one needs a break from all the words and numbers. She does as well.
Lisbon Motorcycle Film Fest #stickerSpotter #stickerArt #streetArt
📺 Accounts from Donald Trump’s inner sanctum revealing the chaos inside the White House | 60 Minutes https://youtu.be/QgNazm2uuLc Mind you, it’s about Trump. You’ve been warned.
😮💨 Another long day, with a lot of physical activity, helping a friend’s mom clean up her garage. At the end of it, I got lucky, and the usually closed...
🧘🏻♂️ On the bus, back from Mom&Dad’s. Breathing deeper than usual, as well as my brother. We’re trying to get Mom used to a plain old pill box (she keeps...
📷 I could see myself buying one of these, but the optical viewfinder is not working for me. No diopter adjustment, and not a great finder to start with. Sad,...
A song I’ve heard hundreds of times, you ask? This will do. The whole album will do. Paris, Texas, by Ry Cooder View entry: https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/maique/20260721
🌙 The problem is not getting home at 2:30AM. The main issue is waiting for the adrenaline rush to die down.
😅 If the resulting photo isn’t worth it, no vandalism will occur. That is one of the rules I follow. And, even when it does happen, it won’t be hard...
👀 I’ll check tomorrow, try to find a couple more photos, but this one was already edited, so… As we were leaving this morning.
🚙 Ready to leave. Next stop: Redondo! (Actually, we still need to pick up the car, and there will be stops along the way. We’ll make it there in the...
🥘 Tomorrow I’m joining Mansinho on another road trip. Alentejo, full day. Why? He has to shoot a particular dish, at a particular restaurant. Said restaurant is two hours away,...
🖼️ There is a TON of art at the new office. Both authorized, and unofficial.
😕 I would live a happier life, if I didn’t have to edit all these photos.
😮💨 Eight hours later, we left the building. Exhausted.
🔋 Getting ready to go. First day! Batteries are charging, cards have been formatted. Espresso tally: 3, so far.
⚽️ Truth be told, I don’t even want England to win. But I REALLY want to see Argentina lose.
📦 Definitely not my day. Walked to the lockers where my Amazon order was dropped, code was entered, box was empty. Cool, cool.
🏦 Of course, it had to! If an app is going to fail, because I’m running the beta thing, you can be sure it’s going to be a banking app....
🐭 The one thing I did today that’s out of the blue, out of the box, out of everything? I killed a mouse! I don’t think I can even talk...
📱 Giving Tapestry another go. I forgot I had a subscription that’s good for at least 6 months. I think this time it’s clicking. It’s different. I don’t know why.
😎 Sometimes I’m still impressed by how far we came regarding government services in this, far from perfect, country. Just got a form to sign, still for the new gig....
✔ Done. Let’s figure out what’s new, since Siri AI is just a dream for us, over here in the EU.
😳 It has been decided, I’m doing the Public Beta dance again. Waiting until I’m back home. Also, 28,05GB?? Damn!
🤓 I resisted when the dev beta was launched, and have stood firm for weeks. Now there’s a public beta, and I already know I’ll spend more time than I...
☕️ Four espresso already, getting close to four o’clock. Maybe I should eat something.
“Japan’s attention economy is what happens when traditional culture meets the very modern problems of alienation and loneliness” #japan 🍜 Why Japanese Nightlife’s “Attention Economy” Is Better Than Sex -...
⚽️ Spotted yesterday, while walking with Mansinho. COUP D’ÉTAT X LEIXÕES.
😅 Starting a new job next week, part of a (super) team. Fingers crossed some of it will be fun, as we’re certain most will be quite boring. After the...
🍀 Lindsey Graham AND Mitch McConnell? Forget the World Cup, we have a BINGO!
“Peek at what peeps are blogging about on Pika!” Love the way it’s been implemented. Keeping each post with its individual theme is so cool! 🍜 The Pika Pulse —...
👀 Late Afternoon Walk. Mansinho keeping me company, bless him.
“An incredibly regular sight then that in many ways makes them invisible. Something you generally don’t notice unless you actually need one.” #japan #photobooth 🍜 Pictures of Tokyo photo booths...
“Our mission statement is posting on your website should be easier than posting on social media.” 🍜 Introducing HyperTexting https://herd.works/blog/introducing-hypertexting/
📺 Semi-addicted to Brooklyn 99 Best Something or Other Moments, along with the same type of compilation of The Graham Norton Show.
🥱 Fell asleep at 7PM. Woke up at 2AM. Fell asleep at 3AM. Woke up at 7AM.
😇 Today’s plan includes finding a way to miss a school party.
🎨 Turns out it’s Mission Day, after all!
🍃 In other news, happier ones, there’s a slight breeze, enough to get the air flowing. It’s a balmy 22C, and it actually feels chilly, after the hell we’ve been...
🥰 tinyMovieStar just fell off the bed. She got up, back in bed (right side up this time, she had done a 180 in her sleep), and asleep, before I...
🍕 Picking up pizza for the little one.
🤮 Seems like we narrowly avoided a food poisoning incident. We had a school dinner this Friday, half the kids and parents have spent the past couple of days dealing...
📱 Giving this No Fusion camera another go. Saw it mentioned again today, and forgot I had it installed already.
🥵 Very old one, but I’m not going out while the sun’s out.
🎯 A new tote has been acquired. And by “acquired” I mean I begged for hours! Do you have any idea how hard it is to find a Target bag...
🎯 A new back has been acquired. And by “acquired” I mean I begged for hours! Do you have any idea how hard it is to find a Target bag...
📺 The second episode of Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness is pretty bland, so far, compared to the first one. In my opinion, obviously. But that part with...
🤨 I have to get back to shooting the city. It’s been months!
🧊 WaterWipes + Fridge = OMG! A very short OMG, but still an OMG.
🥵 Phone simply refuses to charge. Getting the resume-when-cooler error most of the day.
Too hot. Mali comes to mind. Tongo Barra, by Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin View entry: https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/maique/20260703
⚽️ Ok, football: check. Now, PLEASE, will someone take care of the temperature? 31C, 2AM.
⚽️ So tired, but still have to wait until midnight, the game starts then!
📜 Had to get a copy of my criminal record. Nothing. Clean. Not sure if I should feel proud, or a bit disappointed. 55 years old, not a single misdemeanor...
📋 Still doing the rounds: mom&dad visit, turn the car on and ride it for 10 mins, before parking it for another week. Also saw brother. I should get a...
🐰 We visited the new school today, they were having a graduation ceremony (we were told “party”, but… not). Anyway, just as we were getting there, this was on the...
🥰 It is, by FAR, my favorite part of the year. Not even talking about the music, or the festival, which are always amazing, but spending time with my family...
🏡 11PM. Finally home. Need some sleep, after these very intense five days.
😭 Impossible to leave this place without a bit of crying.
🪩 The motorcycle was incredibly comfortable to ride in backwards, much nicer than other times I've done it. And the helmet they got me? Chef’s kiss!
🛵 Rode in a motorcycle, pillion, facing the wrong end of the thing. Shooting a couple hundred riders, in the city maze. Then concerts. And beer. More music. I believe...
🇯🇲 Festival starts today, sound checks going on already. There’s something about reggae in a monster PA at 10AM. Love it.
🍺 Beer-wise, the north of the country is right.
🎥 Videos have been recorded, and uploaded. Still very much amateur mode, behind the scenes stuff, mobile only. Cameras still in the bag.
💤 Waking up in Chaves. I will try to get some photos and videos a little later. For now, shower and breakfast. Exciting day ahead.
🚌 Made it all the way to the Spanish border. Exhausted. The first half of the trip is fairly painless, on the highway. Then we get to the mountains. There’s...
😢 My Leica LUX subscription expires today. It was a fun year.
⛈️ Looking forward to it, crazy weather!
🪫 Lucky me, we’re travelling in an older bus, no plugs to keep the phone charged. Good thing I have two powerbanks with me, as this is always a video-heavy...
😳 Made it on time to the bus station, now wondering what was left behind.
🤦🏻♂️ Leaving in an hour, and guess who did not pack a single item yesterday? Rushing, rushing, rushing…
⚽ Fingers crossed Ronaldo doesn’t make it to today’s game. No chance that’s going to happen, but one can always dream, right?
🌺 We would be so much better with fewer cars.
🧳 I still have to pack everything for the trip tomorrow. Also need to visit my barber buddy, and do some laundry. Pretty busy day. Vandalism-wise, I’ll pack lightly. I’ll...
🏖️ Waking up to a rain warning. That’s great! Hot, humid, and now also rain? Awesome. Over 30C, and raining. I guess we finally got that monsoon we wanted for...
👀 Should have taken a lot more photos.
🚌 Bus tickets have been acquired. Still pretty cheap, considering these are, for all purposes, last-minute.
🏖️ Kindergarten beach week starts today, meaning we must be ready 30 mins before regular time. This is going to be fun…
🇯🇵 I should have worn my Japan scarf today, but they didn’t even need the support! よくやった、みんな！
☀️ Planning to be indoors all day long, it’s going to be unbearably hot outside. Need supplies, though.
📺 Also, the little one had never seen the time her daddy played a biker for Renault. I have no idea how she managed to turn six without ever coming...
🪩 tinyMovieStar spent the night at kindergarten, with her buddies. They had dinner, went out to a party, and then they all camped indoors. They had a blast!
🚶🏻♂️ A lot less walking this past week. I just can’t find the energy to take that first step.
😢 An ear piercing fell off. One of the ends got unscrewed during the night, and my very poor eyesight at short distances (coupled with lateness) made me just forget...
😳 It’s one of those Tuesdays that feels like a Monday. Again. Yuck.
🇨🇻 Not making a habit of this, but it has to be said that Cape Verde, playing it’s first ever World Cup game, managed to end the match with a...
🍹 The whole city looks like this by now…
🇨🇻 I will not post a lot about the World Cup, as I’m the furthest away from a fan you can think of. But Cape Verde plays today, and this...
😳 Here we go, another full week. Brace yourselves.
⚽ The Sports.app thingy over at Dynamic Island is super handy to keep track of the games, when you are not a football fan, but just want to stay informed.
🔧 New tool day! The Driller has finally made its way to the shop. I seriously doubt it will replace the Krink, for me, but I'm very curious.
☕ I can already tell it’s going to be a caffeine-intensive day! A little after ten thirty, and I’m up to three espressos already! LETS GO!
🤦🏻♂️ Woke up thinking it was Friday, I was THIS close to waking up the little one for school! I was about to turn off the alarm, when I noticed...
😅 My least favourite day of the year in the city is tomorrow, tomorrow night. God, do I hate the absolute craziness of Santos in the city! So, we went...
☕ Quick coffee break. Pizza included. Actual coffee not pictured. Sorry.
⌨️ Came upon Grammarly keyboard, now with dictation. Really well done. Price is crazy, of course, but it’s good. The fact that you can dictate in both languages, and get...
🚌 Today I rode in one of the smaller buses. 10 seats. Shitty photo, I’m afraid. The experience was unexpected. The people riding in it were mostly old women, and...
🚵🏼♀️ I needed something from the supply shop, down by the river, and a friend had a bike at hand. I rode there, and back. An old school bike, human-powered....
🏳️🌈 Happy Pride Month #stickerSpotter #stickerArt #streetArt
🗣️ The new Voicenotes dictation mode is as nearly as good as Wispr Flow. Not there yet, but good. Since I purchased the lifetime license for this one, it might...
👀 v2.0 #stickerSpotter #stickerArt #streetArt
📺 Loved the first time, a while back, so I’m watching Patriot again. If you’ve never seen this one, give it a go. The first ten minutes are a pretty...
🛵 From “I’m sick. Can I please stay home with you, and just watch cartoons…” to “Yay, I’m fine”? A scooter ride to school!
👀 It’s been ages since I’ve been there. Today I walked by LX Factory, a place where we spent soooo much time, for so long, and then none at all....
🚶🏻♂️ With 15K under my feet, it’s time for the highlight of the day: afternoon school run! Here we go…
🛵 KM 0 of the mythical N2 road, the top to bottom, straight down the middle, epic riding road. #stickerSpotter #stickerArt #streetArt
☺️ Afternoon at the park, now that I’m back in town. A handful of kids from school, with the parental units attached. I think we have more fun than the...
😩 Back home, after another 6 hours stuck in a bus. This time with no company but the streaming services.
🤪 For fun, today I decided to shoot a friend’s concert with two cameras I’ve never used before. Lenses are not what I’m used to, but some photos will be...
🚌 On the road for five hours already. Three stops along the way, five minutes each. Lucky me, yet again, a friend has joined me for the ride. I didn’t...
😢 The city has, however, issues, as all do. The number of unhoused people has increased. A lot.
🧳 Packing now has an added extra, with the vandal stuff. So many cool tools, which ones will make the trip? A couple of days only, so I can’t go...
🕵🏻 Some big, others smaller. #stickerSpotter #stickerArt #streetArt
🧺 Making the best of shitty weather: laundry!
🏴☠️ Really looking forward to the trip on Thursday. Never mind the six hours I’ll spend on a bus (and I HATE those), and the 6AM departure time. I’m ready...
🤘🏼 I’ll do my thing, and help with our thing. There’s time for everything.
🥱 Three hours of bedtime isn’t nearly enough. Not at all.
😅 Finally edited last week’s assignment. I was dreading the moment because I knew the photos were really underwhelming, but I had to FTP them before this week’s trip up...
🛹 What could top yesterday’s pizza event? Maybe a trip to the skate park. Lucky us, another friend is a very accomplished skateboarder, and gave the rookie a few rides....
🍕 Some of the parents started organizing Friday Pizza Extravaganza (not the official name). It starts with margaritas, beer, and wine. Add 11 pizzas. A pinch of 80s music. A...
🥘 Yesterday, somewhat unexpectedly, I joined a friend, and we went to a birthday party. I did not know the gentleman who was throwing the party (my friend did), but...
😶 I’m not sharing as many photos as before, I’m well aware. But I keep shooting all day long. I just lack the energy to post them.
Mission accomplished! We did our thing. I did mine, and was so thrilled with how it was coming along, I couldn’t do the usual sad face. Went with happy....
🔋 Brighter news: I thought my AirPods Pro charger had finally died, as I couldn’t get it to work for two days! Turns out I’m just not that great at...
🩵 I missed, by a few years, the KRINK X Tiffany colab, but this is pretty close (at least for me).
💈 Haircut has been accomplished, supplies for field trip has been acquired. Next stop: lunch.
🖼️ In, somewhat, related news: there’s also a vandalism field trip, later today. We’re driving for a bit, and meeting up with a friend. Should be fun.
🚌 In a week I’m going north, visiting the festival’s venue. Can’t wait. Tired of being in the city.
🤷🏻♂️ Also, the people you meet after midnight, they are completely different from daytime people. Someone wanted to touch my beard (normal), and my hair (not normal). Met a punk-hardcore...
💤 Close to 1:30AM, waiting for my fellow vandals. I’m too old for this, I’m a very strong supporter of daytime vandalism! I’m starting my own crew: MLC, Mid Life...
🦪 Saturday night vandalism. Five minutes, and five meters, between the two photos. That’s how we, sometimes, roll.
☕️ It was coffee all along! Scaffolding just outside a friend’s place. I was having an espresso, and it seemed like a fun walk.
🤪 Psycho weather! Just had lunch in the sunshine, and now the world is about to end??
🏴☠️ Super dangerous stuff, or just out for coffee?
🚶🏻♂️ On top of therapy, vandalism (and vandalism-adjacent) activities, are also a great alternative to the gym. This is all the exercise I do, if I’m not counting carrying the...
👀 On the way back from the food trucks, I walked a bit too (total today: 19033 steps, 42 floors), and that included the Revolução dos Cravos graffiti gallery. A...
🥙 First assignment done, and we even had a wonderful gyro. Tram ride home now, along the river.
📷 Assignment at lunch time, and another one after dinner. One in the city, another away. Also a birthday party. Kids. We had another one just yesterday. Busy, long day.
🍜There is a place called, in the original, “Late Night Snack Research Institute”. They didn’t even bother with a Portuguese translation, they just went with “Chinese Restaurant”. Turns out they...
Toilet at the best beer spot in town. They get us.
🚶🏻♂️ Walked to the river, got on a ferry, walked by the river (south side), up the cliff, a bit more walking, then a tram. Finally, a train over the...
🥰 Monday morning. We’re both starting the week with some left over paint, stubborn, on our hands. And proud as can be, both of us.
🎉 Mother’s Day AND Dad’s bDay, all rolled up in one. Heading out of town for the celebration.
🖼️ Some are really nice, even if vandalism is involved.
🌧️ Looks like it’s going to rain again. Why?? I thought we were done with this nonsense. I have my walking to do!
⚙️ Testing sourcefeed.app. Wondering what I could use it for, it’s a cool idea.
🎒 I have made three purchases from Vinted this week. Needed a used backpack for the tools of the trade, ended up with two, and a waist pouch.
🦥 May 1st. Waking up, slowly. The little one already drawing. Lazyyyyy.
👩🏻🏫 Back from meeting with the principal of next year’s school, hopefully. We got a posse of parents together, and went on a mission: charm the hell out of that...
🚓 Definitely, not my week. A couple of days after the principal’s office episode, I ran into the police. Better, the police ran into me. Pink-handed, mid-vandalism. A bit tense,...
🔫 Finished season 2, moving to the next one. Still Fargo-ing!
💣 Nuked Boo! I had, somehow, incomprehensibly, lost access to it. Also not sure when/if I’d ever post there again. Gone.
🕵🏻 Still looking for that elusive full-time job. Tired of freelancing. Today, another lunch, maybe this is the one…
🥶 Why did I wait so long to start watching Fargo? Hooked.
😅 Called into the principal’s office. First time in many decades, seems like I still have what it takes! Also, sorry, not sorry.
😱 18 hours later, back home. Walked 20Km. I’m tired.
✊🏻 We said “ENOUGH” to a 48-year old dictatorship. I’m sure you guys can do the same to whatever you have going on in your county. Happy Revolution Day.
⏰ Another early start tomorrow, for the revolution’s anniversary. If everything works out, I’ll still be able to make it to the party later.
🙌🏼 Good thing about being new to the field: I discover new, amazing, artists every day.
🍰 Here we go, BIG DAY is upon us. See you in the morrow.
🦶🏼 Why are you doing this, dear foot? It makes it harder to walk. Silly foot.
🚶🏻♂️ Another long walk, a few more stickers were spotted.
🏃🏻♂️ School run, walk 6K looking for photos, back home, phone call not 5 mins later, ride to supply shop, ride again to meeting point, hours at abandoned factory, ride...
Better part of the morning spent in an abandoned school, training. It was a good morning.
🍕 We’re heading down to the square for pizza in no time. We’re lucky to have so many yummy places in the area.
Markers, squeezers, and mops. The collection keeps growing.
🛵 Since last week, when she first tried it, tinyMovieStar wants to commute on an electric motorcycle every single day. Back and forth. Five years old, enjoying the city slalom...
🚇 Empty trains in the morning. Always tempting.
❌ Still mostly offline, still doing my vandal internship.
🚶🏻♂️ Also back to walking. A quick Miguel change, and we’re back in business!
🫣 Turns out I shoot a lot of video. Over 900 clips from the three days we spent on the road. It’s going to be hell to edit.
👀 Walking for a bit, then I had to get on one of those electric motorcycles, they’re just too fun. Perfect for today’s chaos in the city: housing crisis demonstration,...
🍷 Seems like I’ll be back to wine-related assignments next week. Another (very welcome) opportunity to shoot video for the paper. Three days on the road, if everything works out.
🥰 I will never not love tinyMovieStar’s kindergarten’s tiled floor. I will miss this place when she moves on to first grade.
🚶🏻♂️ You guessed it, I went out for a stroll.
🎨 It was a very colorful night, I’ll have to admit.
🇧🇷 This is the photo that made me think about Cássia.
👀 One from the morning, and three from half an hour ago. Also, what the hell is “bourgeiosie”?
🎟️ The Editor One of the things I miss from the old newspaper days, is editing under pressure. Not every day, but once in a while. It takes a toll....
🖊️ A set of Sharpies has been ordered. Need to step up my drawing game.
🇹🇭 I didn’t find a yummy Khao Soi in town, and decently priced as well, did I? I DID!
🤩 Long Day, Part II Car dropped at mechanic, beach session, ride back to the city, lunch at cool tasca, shopping for supplies at the cool kids shop, fun and...
🌊 In the meantime, we’re surfing away our morning. At least one of us, some have to document our lives.
🥰 One of my favorites from the neighborhood. Love their stuff too.
🏳️🌈 One more from yesterday’s party, Baile da Graça.
🤷🏻♂️ What in one supposed to do, when the club also has a view?
🪩 We did not intend to go out again, but there was a special party today. So, off we went clubbing. Sunday afternoon.
If anyone else is looking for brrr + IFTTT Webhooks integration, this is how I got it to work: My use case has these, but there are a few more....
😝 Instagram is becoming manageable again. Unfollowed around 2000 people, Close Friends list down to 15.
👽 The Alien Kid #photography #monochrome #blackAndWhite
🙄 Fear not, the classics are represented. Cars, and houses, they keep calling my name.
🚇 Back from a rather intense afternoon, complete with a cool train ride. Attended a book presentation after that. A huge (600 pages) about graffiti on subways, 30 years of...
👀 Walked by the old art school where I got my photography education, the building long abandoned, school moved to a new one, not as fun. Right next to it,...
😬 I’m sure some of these pairings only make sense in my head, but I get to share two photos at once, you’re only troubled 50% of the time. That’s...
🇯🇵 Intermission: We just came back from YoiZaru, a magnificent izakaya, 5-min walk from home! I had never seen it until this week, when tinyMovieStar made me look. We have...
📱 Quick one: Miniroll looks like a really nice idea. Goes without saying, I had to try it. Wonderful project by Chris Hannah!
💖 Special edition, guest starring tinyMovieStar. A new take on the original logo, and still no idea who makes these. #stickerSpotter #stickerArt #streetArt
😴 Got there early, too early. And can’t decide when the clock’s showing this time. Posting two. Special prize (a big virtual hug), if you spot something odd in this...
👀 Standing Tall Also, I might be a little addicted to the A10 Pro VSCO filter. It feels suited to the current times,… the muted tones, the mostly colorless life.
Alexandra posted about The Blog Question Challenge, I had to follow suit. And, the questions are: Why did you make a blog in the first place? I don’t really remember...
💚 Don’t even like the photo, but it was all so green, and odd.
🥺 While we’re in “down the lane” mode, today I also came across an old wallet. Inside, a gloomy memory. One of my all-time favorites in town, an incredible chef,...
🥇 All this talk about RSS readers in the past week got me thinking: I LOVE Feedbin, as backend, but mostly it’s UI/UX as well. I use it without a...
🛵 Today’s morning ride (I walked back) took me down memory lane. Rode by the first newspaper I worked for, back in 1995!
👀 We went clubbing, but walked around most of the afternoon, before we headed to the venue. #photography #monochrome #blackAndWhite
🛵 At least the weather seems to have improved. 20C at the moment, feels like summer.
🪩 Afternoon session at the hottest club in town, two huge DJs (for our niche demographics) are coming home. It’s been a while since I’ve spent a Sunday afternoon over...
🐼 Today’s pandaPixel is a bSide of a photo I posted earlier. Couldn’t find a decent one, sorry about that.
☕️ First coffee still mostly in the cup. Sipping slowly. Since waking up, another user was added to my omg.lol account, email has been setup for one of the new...
👀 I promise I don’t go out looking for them, it just happens. Another vintage car just lounging around? Sure, I’ll bite.
🐼 We rode back on the motorcycle, imagining I was shooting for a magazine. That kept me from thinking about the fact that it’s a very old bike, in less...
🚂 We took the train today. Not to a usual spot. Can you spot the human on the last photo?
🤩 Provably my favorite building in the neighborhood.
💴 Flickr Pro has been paid for two years. On with the uploading…
☀️ Still cold, but the sun is out. We might go get Nozi’s Dominator, it’s time to pick it up from the mechanic. Motorcycle time!
#stickerSpotter #stickerArt #streetArt
🤩 Wait! There’s a 9:16 minute long Harlem River version, in Apple Music?!?
🚪 We have doors older than some countries.
🎵 Music MiniPlayer for macOS. Awesome, and still runs on iMax!
💴 Plot twist: this Monday actually turned into a Frid…, niet, into a holiday! Love it when clients remember they have unpaid invoices!
⚖️ Withings scale re-connected, 68,86 Kg. Palindrome weight!
1️⃣ Cars are a recurring theme, and I’m not even a car expert. Or fan.
💖 Lost my pink glasses today, no idea where. I’ve walked a lot trying to find them. They’re pretty cheap, but the site will not even work here. Thankfully, a...
😱 O.M.G. "VSCO Film presets for Adobe Lightroom are back for a limited time only. " VSCO FILM 02!
🚋 Not the best possible, it is what it is…
☂️ I’m on my fourth umbrella this month. By now, this has turned into a very expensive subscription.
🫣 Worrying about a 5th Monday? Fear not, it’s Friday 13th!
🎭 There is one holiday I hate more than NYE. That’s Carnaval! It’s now upon us.
🌧️ Rest for a bit, trusty raincoat, rest…
👀 Camera sent back, playing with same old toys.
☀️ The sun is out. At least for a bit. Still very much a Monday. A very monday-ish Monday.
🤍 In other news, I just leaned against a freshly painted white garage door… Welcome to Monday afternoon!
🪓 Decluttering my, now unused, Instagram account. Probably won’t go back anyway, but I cleaned up over 1000 accounts today.
👀 Another oldie. It’s raining a lot, better dip in the archive.
🌳 At least our commutes are beautiful.
☕️ Just dropped an espresso over my leg. Literally. Over my already very wet leg. How’s your Monday going?
🤬 Tried to figure out the menus (not that easy on the little one), and how to remove the date imprint. While riding in a car, in the dark. We...
🤩 I’m getting 30 minutes with a real X Half. One that was purchased today, and returned tomorrow. Mansinho did not enjoy the experience that much. I’m using whatever is...
🇰🇷 I’ve been having so much Yang Nhom Chicken, I might start a k-pop band next week.
🫤 Cash-only, if you’re ever around. Not cool.
🥰 Perks of having street artists as friends.
🌟 Revisiting old ones, with a little help from VSCO.
😶🌫️ The mood is not improving… Please bring back the city, I’m tired of living in Yakutsk.
📐 Neatly Arranged #photography #monochrome #blackAndWhite
🪠 Plumber on the way. Fingers crossed this is the highlight of the day.
😕 Commuting in the city today… While trying to find a plumber, to fix a clogged toilet. Yup, still Monday.
🥵 My biggest nightmare, work wise? That briefcase right there. Inside you’ll find a Leafax 35, from the Associated Press. I’ve written about it in the past, and will probably...
🇻🇬 There’s a street in the city called “Paulo VI”. For fun, I used Apple Maps to get there. And, by there, I mean “Paulo Virgin Islands”. That is how...
💖 When Robb compiled a list of all the blogs taking part of the Duel of the Defaults! craziness, he also added a feed to that page he created. A...
🚇 Can’t get on a subway without considering a Hijack season 2 situation.
💧 Mansinho sent a photo of the videographer.
🫥 I’m 15Kg lighter. Might need some new pants, or just keep using the same, and embrace the baggy look. Kids do it, so why not?
⚒️ Also a while since I’d last seen this. Vhils commission, at the old mine.
😝 Insomnia this week properly documented by Last.fm. DJ maique’s shift is, in fact, 00-06am…
🏆 We all made it to the weekend. That must mean something.
🚶🏻♂️ The Perks of Walking Took the old Leica Lux for a spin. Still like it.
🌪️ I used my trial kDrive (https://www.infomaniak.com/en/ksuite/kdrive) to send the video files yesterday. Blazing fast. 1TB will set me back €19/year. Seems incredibly fair. Can’t figure out why some people...
🚙 Getting ready to go again. No idea where yet, we’ll know in a couple of hours. Felt good to be back on the road yesterday, with a team. We...
#photography #monochrome #blackAndWhite
🦺 Not a lot of photos to show, time was spent shooting video, and doing behind the scenes shots of Mansinho. Heartbreaking to see a city I like so much,...
🎥 One day as a videographer, almost no photos were taken. Don’t judge me!
👀 Joining a friend, and we’re driving down to one of the disaster areas today.
💥 The sound of the falling rain woke me up, minutes before the alarm went off. Hope you have a great Monday!
🏁 Made it back home. Surprisingly, I made it all the way without getting wet.
🫥 Current mood. If you look closely, you can see the eyes, the hair, the beard. Trust me.
😶 Still very much a Monday, I’m afraid…
😩 Also, as a person who loves surprises, I did not enjoy the way this third Monday has started.
🤿 Good thing I have a couple of scuba courses under my belt, today is not going to be an easy day to get around town.
🌴 I’ve only witnessed this kind of rain in tropical settings.
“I’m sure I’ll fall for that voice in my head many more times. And I hope I’ll manage to crawl back up again and again.” #blogging #indieWeb 🍜 Writing with...
😳 I’m not going crazy, am I? This wasn’t here yesterday! Is there something they’re not telling us?
☔️ The one time it rained? School run. Not before, for a while, not after, still. The umbrella is now bent. Not enjoying these back to back Mondays.
🤔 I have never found a company with a tier structure as confusing as Infomaniak! There’s NO WAY anyone understands how mykSuite, kSuitePRO, kDrive Solo, kDrive Team, kDrive Pro all...
🌧️ Ingrid, Joseph, Kristin,… When will all this rain end? Sick of it.
💾 Have you ever wondered how big is your blog? I was aware mine was probably a little larger than usual, as photos are uploaded full size, and there are...
🚋 I bet you can even get a seat on the fabled 28 tram these days.
For a while, back in another life, when I had a break from picking photos in front of a computer, I would use my free time to dedicate myself to...
🐽 2.30am. Gale force winds, heavy rains. Feel like the little piggies, a wolf patiently waiting outside… And, no, I’m not going to visit Porkbun next…
🎧 Glad I never gave up on my Last.fm account, even though I didn’t use it for over a decade. Still fun, now that I’m back scrobbling.…
Yesterday, I found myself editing my first post in a while, and noticed it was not as fluid as before. I thought I might be a little rusty, but quickly...
One of the many sites I came across because I’m lucky enough to be a part of omg.lol, is Crucial Tracks. The tin says: “A crucial track is a song...
🐅 ROAR!! tinyMovieStar did the tiger, and a tattoo artist friend took it from there. There’s a crazy unicorn on the other foot.
📷 It’s official!! VSCO, one of the apps/products I’ve been using for the longest time, is organizing a Photo Walk in Lisbon. The first one outside the US. Guess who’s...
🎹 tinyMovieStar (gotta upgrade this name one of these days) will have a piano lesson later today. Will she love it?
As so many were doing it, and it seemed easy enough, here is my list: 1. Do you floss your teeth? No. Brush. 1. Tea, coffee, or water? Coffee, and...
📖 I guess it’s time to read the mandatory camera review… iPhone 17 Pro Camera Review: Rule of Three
📷 For over 30 years I have found myself in the most incredible places, and situations, because I’m carrying a camera. I will never stop being grateful for that.
😩 Not looking forward to tomorrow morning. We’ll be joined by a LOT of journalists following the party’s leader around the country. Always my least favorite day of the campaign,...
👀 If you’re not a fan of Instagram, and Stories (and I’m aware a lot of you are very much against it), a lot of them make their way to...
😅 Work WhatsApp group chat comes alive at 11PM. We all have small children that have to be fed, and put to sleep.
✊🏼 Another day came and went, and we’re growing visibly tired. Ten hours a day of walking (almost) non-stop will do that, I gather.
🌈 Love the morning light on the ferry. It’s been one of the highlights of these days.
👨🏻🔧 I need to buy a can of WD-40. It will be the first time I purchase a can of WD-40. Ever.
💈 In good company, it makes working a lot more agreeable.
📌 Going through the Downloads folder on the laptop, cleaning up… Can’t remember where, or why, I shot this one.
🌻 I should carry missQ with me more often, when I’m driving, it’s been a while since I’ve done it.
🗻 We had to go into a mall today, against the wishes of most of us. Trying to make the best of it, I got today’s “Mt. Fuji” photo while...
“If a genocide takes place but you prevent foreign journalists from observing it, kill the key witnesses and spend hundreds of millions of dollars on propaganda, then will anyone care?”...
“It revealed how Azure was being used to store and process the trove of Palestinian communications in a mass surveillance programme.” #microsoft #israel 🍜 Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its...
🥘 Needed a bathroom, ended up having dinner at a nice Nepali restaurant. Next to the venue for the next event.
🐔 Out days are long, but varied and fun.
🗻 About to start editing today’s batch, but this was the first one in the folder.
Everything that happens after lunch is WAY harder. Adrenaline only works in the morning. Caffeine too.
🗻 The game is keeping me motivated, and god knows we all need some motivation by now…
😑 Here I go, ready for another day on the campaign trail. movieStars still asleep.
🤷🏻♂️ I’ll pick whatever I’m wearing in a flash. And then spend an hour trying out watches, and failing to pick one.
☁️ That Koofr lifetime account? Certainly one of the best purchases I made this year. I’ve been using it daily, to upload and share hundreds of photos, with over a...
🗻 Today’s Mt. Fuji sighting, again while stuck in traffic. Almost two hours to get back home, when I’d usually make it in 30 minutes. I would die if I...
🥵 Note: we’re back to the 30s, temperature wise.
🥰 Tomorrow I rest. Meaning I get to drop tinyMovieStar off, pick her up, have ice-cream with her, and go to the playground! Favorite day of the week right there…
😊 Back from a very long working day, but feeling great. It was a lot of fun. On to check the photos…
🇫🇷 Still one of my favorites, and happy to see it making a comeback. #stickerSpotter #stickerArt #streetArt
“I trust Apple more than anyone else to handle the data for this (given that processing will happen on-device), but I wonder how far we are from the dystopia where...
📷 I shoot almost exclusively vertical when I’m using the phone, and mostly horizontal shots when I’m using a real camera. Even though during my whole professional life I’m (I...
😭 Got another assignment before the beach one, too early for the movieStars. Damn, no beach for them!
💛 Do you also play “Yellow Car”? It’s the one time I don’t mind getting slapped!
🏖️ Today’s venue is a beach bar, and the time is afternoon. Mid afternoon. I guess that means the movieStars are coming along! Yay!!
🌅 Back from today’s event. A beautiful venue, (almost) perfectly timed for the sunset. Let’s look at the photos, barely over a thousand today.
🚚 Time to leave. There is plenty of time left, but traffic gets crazy on the bridge in a little while, and I don’t want to get caught up in that...
“I have to say, it’s pretty hard watching Tim Cook gushing about his own products when he’s spent so much time recently needlessly sucking up to a fascist dictator. He’s...
😅 Damn! Close to two hours of work, 1410 photos! I. Have. To. Shoot. Less!
⛴️ Work starts after lunch, and I’m taking it slow today. Not going to drive there. I’m using a scooter, a ferry across the river, and a sort of train...
🗻 This will be my Mt Fuji for the month.
😅 Today we’re visiting a “problematic” neighborhood. As usual, nothing “problematic” will happen, except meeting some nice people with a lot on their plates, and a few complaints.
#photography #monochrome #blackAndWhite #xHalfWannabe
🕵🏻♂️ Seems like Almada is where I’ll be spending most of next month, so I’m reading stuff, trying to get up to speed.
😢 National mourning has been declared. Rightfully so.
🌐 I used Rego in the past, and I’m sorry it feels like it’s stuck back there. It’s a lot more complicated than it should by now. Not happy with...
🗳 Got the call, seems like I’ll be spending another month and a half on the campaign trail. Thankfully closer to home, meaning less travel time. Home a bit more....
👋🏼 Reminder: I still have to pay Flickr, and 1Password. Both have expired. Both are needed.
📚 Two weeks ago, when I visited the old prison (and awesome museum) in Peniche, I almost bought a book. I kept thinking about it, and finally purchased it yesterday....
😥 Hard to believe we’re back to Regular Life ™ tomorrow! Back to school, back to freelancing, back to every routine… August, you will be very missed.
👀 Back from today’s gig, on the campaign trail. Another fairground. Good. Past 1AM, just got home, time to take care of the photos. Sleep later.
👨🏻💻 Back from the Alentejo. 1AM, about to start picking, and editing, photos. Will probably take a couple of hours.
🏡 House hunting is ongoing, we saw one just now. movieStar liked it.
👨🏻💻 Editing, editing… Got to have these ready before I head out to Grândola, for today’s assignment. It’s going to be a long day.
🇺🇸 American cousins are on their way back to Colorado, and we miss them already. The girls had never been here, and it was amazing to have four of them...
🤔 A day later, I finally got to the photos from yesterday’s assignment. On the card, another try at the “Pátria” photo. This time with the camera, not a phone...
🚶🏻♂️ Back from photo shoot, ready for a walk around town with cousins. Happy moment, met an old friend from school (kindergarten through high school) at the shoot! Hadn’t seen...
🔋 Batteries are charging, I have a small shoot tomorrow morning. We’re hosting our American cousins for the day, hope I’m done with work in under an hour. We’re doing...
📱 I guess I did have that second marshmallow!
💴 The amount of emails I’ve been snoozing for close to a month is impressive! Also, most of them are from people who want to pay me!
😩 Getting back into work mode will not be easy. This August was a blast.
🤓 1Password renewal coming up. Again. I should try to cancel this one as well, but can’t find the energy to move everything to another, cheaper, service. Also not a...
🪩 Today marks the end of summer, in a way. We’re back in town tomorrow, but there’s still a party to attend before that: Auntie’s 80th birthday. Complete with a...
🏖️ I will miss driving down the middle of the beach every day, multiple times a day… Disclaimer: not a savage, there is a “road”, and it’s the only way...
🗝️ After a visit to Tarrafal when we were in Cape Verde, it was mandatory to visit the Peniche prison, now a really nice museum. This was the Summer of...
🏖️ I’ll have to write a (very) long post about this month. So far, EPIC!
🇨🇳 Brother-in-law is coming back from two weeks in Shenzen. The amount of stuff he’s packing in his bags is incredible!
🚶🏻♂️ You can take a very small boat ride to get to the beach island, or you can find an alternative.
🍿 Saw this one yesterday. Still think it was worth my time.
🏖️ We’ve had the most wonderful week. Plenty of fun, extra warm sea, most incredible beach time in years. Now pit stopping, and then off to a very different beach...
🌐 Will try to survive without Feedbin, and just deal with RSS shenanigans in Readwise. Will have to cut down feed subscriptions down, a lot, but can’t keep up with...
🏖️ Yet another crazy day. Ended in a very nice restaurant, and we deserved it!
🏖️ Crazy day at the beach, but very beautiful nonetheless. We were joined by cousins, turning a three-person beach day into an insane extravaganza. Party of fourteen.
🛝 Yesterday was a very eclectic day. Fun too.
🛝 Spain has been postponed. tinyMovieStar heard “Aqualand”, and she speaks English since yesterday. Managed to stay away from water theme parks for 54 years, not a bad run. Wish...
🇪🇸 I believe today is our mandatory “Go Abroad” day, we’re crossing the border and having Spanish treats and beer!
🏖️ 10:15. tinyMovieStar still peacefully sleeping by my side. We’re driving down to the Algarve when she wakes up.
📱 Updated my data plan. From 1000GB/month to Unlimited GB. Paying €1 less. Same provider. I call that a win.
🤿 Ready for a couple of weeks of intense beach/pool activity. Digital, or “analog”, both will do just fine…
🥰 Back from Chaves. Incredible, as always. tinyMovieStar got a very privileged seat, for Dino D’Santiago’s amazing show. The whole festival was great.
👨🏻💻 Editing. Then picking up the movieStars, and moving out of town for the weekend. We need it. Can’t wait for the music festival next week.
🇪🇬 Yesterday’s venue looked nicer, but today’s Egyptian finger food was delicious.
🥪 Bifanas for lunch. Enjoying the small things in life.
🥞 tinyMovieStar now asks for banana pancakes for breakfast. Every day. Guess what we’re now pro at?
🏖 We’re going north, for the festival. Then south, for the beach. Then north again, to the center, for more beach. That’s August for us.
🤩 Some kids have confidence. And then there’s tinyMovieStar. Coolness is her middle name. Very decent tan by now, as well. As happy as can be.
🍿 A long time since we’ve been to the movies. We should have waited a little longer.
🚕 Sometimes you can still catch a glimpse of what the city used to look like, before the invasion.
💻 Love turning the VPN ON, and OFF, in the Terminal. No need to have another app running on this old laptop, I have no need for a GUI for...
😎 Days have been long. Almost no work, but plenty to keep me busy. Still not in the mood to get back to posting as I did before.
👀 Shot a campaign event today. True, we never really stop having these. It was fun.
⚙️ American cousins bought a car, to use for a month in the country. When they were driving to my in-laws, for a day, car broke down. Four days later,...
🍉 I should be posting, but we’re “running” a summer camp over here, 9 girls now, and counting! Too. Many. Cousins!
🏊♀️ tinyMovieStar spent over 6 hours in the pool. And she met her four cousins from the US for the first time. I did too! Their parents hadn’t been in...
🚂 We drove up earlier, movieStar took a train, later. I picked her up at the station.
⏱ Spent over 3 hours at the first assignment today. Checked camera timestamps to see how much of that was actually shooting. Care to guess? Hint: under 5 minutes! What...
💨 The Cigar Smoker #leicaLUX #iSeeFaces
It’s back. Or is it? It’s been a while! Busy, and then not so much. A lot has happened since the last thingsThisWeek. I had work, long exhausting work, and...
☕️ Popped a capsule in the espresso machine, and turned it on. Forgot all about it. Got out of the house, rode a motorcycle to the Mexican grocery story, picked...
✏️ Maybe I should get back to blogging. I’ve been posting photos on VSCO, and not a lot else, these days.
😎 The city, although challenging, has been kind to us. Perks of having family living here. And they have the most wonderful friends too…
🚙 We’re moving tomorrow. Out of the city, to Tarrafal. Road trip! Car rentals over here, by the way, are my kind of deal: no contract, no anything. Just get...
🇨🇻 Still here. Not a lot of free time, will share more later. In the meantime, Instagram is still the place for updates, as well as the newly revived VSCO...
🇨🇻 One day to go. No packing has been done, and a lot else still waiting to be dealt with. tinyMovieStar has been counting the days!
🌐 Not sure why, but just signed up for another year of VSCO. Not the first time this happens to me, and I’m certain it will not be the last...
🥳 Made it through the weekend. Father-in-law birthday, swimming pool, and Children’s Day (with an afternoon at the playground in the garden, and dinner with friends). Even met a fave...
👯 One of my favorite hashtags, #redRules. #xHalfWannabe
👀 Still finding stuff from last month’s assignment. I guess I will for a bit.
🇨🇻 Talking to my cousin on the island. A bit over a week until we fly over, and we’re getting pretty excited.
😝 Also, 6000+ unread articles on Feedbin. Great, yeah? I’ve been mostly offline for so long now! The one place I keep updating regularly, even when I have no time...
😝 I have a thingsThisWeek post in Drafts, for a couple of months now. I’m starting to feel it will never see the light of day.
😎 “Why can’t I do stuff on my own, without you, mom & dad, like the other teenagers do?” – tinyMovieStar, 5 years old.
👀 Those were very different times. Those were also very similar times. Photo by Jean-Claude Francolon.
👀 Odd day. Awesome show (photos still embargoed), including a ton of Salgado’s work. We was supposed to visit later in the month. If you’re around, it’s very much worth...
🌮 Breakfast today? Tacos, and margaritas. Yeah. Late in the day, but still…
🍿 Really nice. A very entertaining, and educational, hour.
👮🏻♂️ Brooklyn Nine-Nine is on pretty much all day. I watch about 15% of it, but enjoy having it as background noise. Great show, but I’ve watched it too many...
😶 Doing nothing but family chores. I’m doing just that until the end of the week. At least.
⏰ No alarm clock for me, today. It’s a big deal.
🥰 Time off, half the afternoon. I’m picking tinyMovieStar up from kindergarten! Yay!!
🪩 These days I feel a bit like a son of Hunter S. Thompson, doing a bit of Gonzo Photojournalism. Fun.
🤦🏻♂️ Daily report: close to 1AM, just getting home. Today’s tally? 2804. Yup.
🐌 Here I find myself, again, bleary eyed, editing photos through the night, after being up for way too many hours.
⏰ Can’t remember turning the alarm off today, but I did oversleep. It was an (almost) unique event for me, as this is something that just doesn’t happen. movieStar was...
💭 Afternoon at a small conference, morning spent in the market. Tiny market, nearly no photos. Backlit conference table, nearly no photos.
💻 377 on the first round. This is going to take a while.
🦥 Home again after midnight, with loads of photos to go through. I’ll leave in under 7 hours, with under 4 hours sleep time. If I’m lucky.
😔 Girls went away for the weekend, I had to stay behind. Shit.
🐮 Kids having fun with cows. Cows are not having fun.
💻 Past midnight. Just got home, about to start editing today’s photos. Too many. Fun day, though.
💡 As soon as the power went out, we had a mission: get toilet paper! We had talked about it hours earlier, by chance. We found it. Then I had...
🎉 Nine hours later, power seems to be back. We handled it with aplomb (thank you, Principe). Thank you, everyone, we’re good.
Photo-heavy day, and still managed to get some “for me” shots.
🥺 Getting ready to work at 10PM. Fingers crossed it’s not a very long event, tomorrow morning we’re having a birthday party! And more work after that…
😫 Must find the time to get back to dinkiwinkiminkiwinki and Boo!
🔴 Another walk to the market, carnations have arrived. Almost ready to party.
😎 First day as a five year old: she needs shades!
🔴 Walked most of the way, but enjoyed the electric motorcycle ride very much. I miss riding motorcycles.
🏃🏻♂️ Today, so far: ✅ Order carnations at the market ✅ Print photos ✅ Fill-up balloon
🔴 Two weeks free trial were good enough to make me subscribe. One more month with Leica LUX.
🥰 Very early rise tomorrow. Shooting the start of a pilgrimage on horseback (should be fun), and then racing back to the city. tinyMovieStar turns five tomorrow, and I’m not...
📦 By the way, waiting for two packages, and there’s a very serious chance they’ll both get here late for the party. Even with Express-Priority-VIP-Expedited-Quick-Quick-Delivery, they’re just taking too long....
🌪 Easter, tinyMovieStar’s 5th birthday prep, work… It’s been a bit crazy.
🥦 Happy 4:20, to those who celebrate.
🏃🏻♂️ We ran again. Much shorter distance, can’t afford to spend the week recovering.
🔴 Before the assignment later today, while I was still in the same city as the movieStars.
🐰 That’s a first for me: the Easter Tree.
🍿 High expectations, underwhelmed in the end.
👀 Most of the day away from the internet, loads of family members around, plenty of kids, no time left. Walking the dog, and looking for a cat. That’s it.
🎞️ Re-editing some photos, at the request of a very special client: movieStar. Hope she likes them. #photography #monochrome #blackAndWhite
💈 Visiting my barber today, and I’m taking tinyMovieStar with me. She’s skipping school today. I bet she’ll enjoy the hell out of it. I will too.
📺 Meh. I guess that’s exactly what I was going for. [IMG_3384.jpeg]
😷 I’ve been coughing for a couple of days. No fever. Thought I’d let you know. I’m fine.
🗓️ Giving Timepage another go. They won’t be using the Moleskine brand going forward, but the apps should stay the same.
🔴 Rain is back, and so is our walk-to-school routine. Much later in the morning today, as we’re all a bit hungover. tinyMovieStar is joining her friends for lunch.
🔴 Feeling super lazy, and extremely tired. Posting a collage. I’m truly loving the #sooc this pricey app delivers. It looks SO MUCH like the jpgs out of the camera!
🎧 Ended up as a DJ. Thankfully the party had ended by then.
📺 Finished The Residence. A second season would be lovely.
🔴 10 minutes, that’s how much we lasted today.
🔴 Did not expect to enjoy Leica LUX this much. Still bloody overpriced, but nice.
🎉 Short, but nice. That’s tomorrow’s party. Today we’ll have another go at this, but first we must attend a birthday party in the city.
☺️ Day mostly away from the socials. Heck, weekend will be mostly away, I think. I did install The Lounge, with PikaPods. So I’m now also on omg.lol’s IRC.
🧸 Out of the city today. There’s a big party in the evening. It will last 72 hours.
🎙️ Voicenotes has a pretty cool new feature: Pages. Record, save, share. Instant podcast. I’ll probably skip this one, not sure I have anything worth listening to, but I’d be...
🤗 You know what I missed? Having the windows open at 11PM, and feel good. Not cold, not rainy. 21C at this time. Disclaimer: Rain, and lower temperatures, are coming...
🇹🇭 Bangkok vibes in today’s morning commute.
🇵🇹 Good morning… Wednesday already, thankfully.
🔴 Sun is out, 26C expected today. We walked to kindergarten.
📺 Finally watched the season finale of The White Lotus. God! Damn!
🔴 Like the UI, but app froze mid-shoot. Not just app, but iPhone.
😎 Leaving for kindergarten earlier today, and will shoot the free 36 shots with Leica LUX on the way. That’s how I… well, roll?
🐒 We have one unwatched episode of The White Lotus. Maybe tonight is the night?
☁️ Move along, move along, nothing to see here… Just a little sad that Koofr is still not showing up in Files.app.
🤷🏻♂️ Uptime monitoring service emails me, letting me know I haven’t visited in a month. I should. Or they’d stop monitoring. Isn’t this a set and forget kind of service?...
💨 While still looking (because one always does, right?) at cloud services, Infomaniak has been mentioned often. I’m researching their offer, but have already used SwissTransfer, and it was good....
🥺 It’s been weeks since I’ve visited Feedbin and Readwise.
🤭 I think I’m going to need a couple more days to wrap up this week’s thingsThisWeek. I’ve been taking notes, as usual, but none of them has been turned...
🦉 “You know when the owl has this hole in a tree? When he doesn’t like this hole any longer, how does he go about it?” • tinyMovieStar, 11:38PM
😶 It looks like I’ll be spending the next month driving around A LOT, and that means a lot of podcasts, a lot of early rising, a lot of late...
😊 Visited the old office today, trying to pick up some strobes that weren’t there in the end. I’ll have to go somewhere else later in the day… Still fun.
⛈️ Storm Nuria incoming. Shitty weather, right after we were able to wear a t-shirt for exactly ONE day!
📺 Glad I bumped into this one, not sure how I hadn’t before. Enjoying Hugh Laurie as the bad guy.
👂🏼 tinyMovieStar wanted to pierce her ears. Off we went. Then she wanted someone to do it before her, so she could see how it was done. Short story short,...
😎 Quiet day. Send the budget for the campaign, finish tinyMovieStar’s book, have a couple of coffees, watch an episode of something (The Night Manager?), and figure out if we’re...
☁️ Uploaded edited photos to both Koofr and pCloud, simultaneously. Around 330MB, used Network Drive (?) for both. Don’t have exact times, but Koofr took around twice as long to...
🤬 Sometimes the “You’re right, that’s 100% on me”, “I’m really sorry for the mix-up”, “That’s 100% on me, and you’ve been beyond patient”, “You’re absolutely right–and I owe you...
📷 Off to shoot a street artist’s latest work. As usual with this particular artist, little information is provided. Always feels like a spy assignment: a rendez-vous location is set...
#photography #monochrome #blackAndWhite #caturday
⏳ My four year old daughter feels something is wrong. Dinner? Now? She looks outside, as if checking something, and goes… “But this is not dinner time”. Damn you, DST,...
🤪 I’ve been having a lot of fun with it.
Slow week. One assignment, a few ice-creams, and not a lot else. 🏃🏼♂️ The weekend was crazy. It included running. Running!! How? And, most importantly, why?? So, one of my...
💥 Tried the vintage comic thing. Liked it.
🚌 Back home, after a short errand run. And drove all the way to Mom’s place too.
☀️ Good morning, people of the world. For better, or worse, we made it to another Friday. Congrats.
📺 TLDW (almost). A 90 min documentary would have been enough.
🚶🏻♂️ Walking home after a very long afternoon (and dinner) with friends. The five kids decided they wanted a play date, what could we do? Say no??
💴 Added pCloud to the Affiliate Links page on the blog.
☁️ The pCloud app for iOS acts like an iOS app, while Koofr feels like it was oddly ported from somewhere else. Working with one, wrestling with the other.
🤞🏼 Slower day today (surprising, right?), but expecting the upcoming election to provide a few very busy weeks.
🍓 It was a #redRules kind of morning…
😡 Up since 4AM. Two hours later, I’ve given up hope I’ll go back to sleep.
🛣️ On the road again. Happy, even if it’s only for a day.
📷 Assignment tomorrow, and one I might actually enjoy: visiting a school in the countryside. Yay.
📺 Made it to the end of Zero Day. Happy I did, but it wasn’t that easy to keep going. Felt bored most of the time.
🤓 If you’re using Kagi, you should take a look at Jason’s themes. They make the experience even cooler. By now there are three of them (catppuccin, tokyo-day-night, and kanagawa)....
😝 Not doing a lot today, but I’m picking up the little one next. Some things are mandatory.
🎀 What’s the point of TikTok, they asked…
🍿 Can you guess who picked the movies today?
🏃🏻♂️ Turns out I needed more than luck. Super pace for 2K, then my shins wanted to give up!
🏃🏻♂️ I’m going running. With a brother-in-law, and a cousin. Haven’t done that in… 35 years? Wish me luck!
“America’s position in the global hierarchy isn’t guaranteed. It can be lost with stunning rapidity when an economically illiterate con artist and a cadre of ideologues are drunk at the...
“With an expected downgrade to the status of electoral autocracy, the US will share its label with Turkey, Hungary, Iraq, India, and Russia.” #security #privacy 🍜 How to Avoid US-Based...
Final days of Daughter-Daddy week, late birthday party, wedding day celebration, and Father’s Day. Uff! 🍧 Friday, Day Off! tinyMovieStar didn’t want to go to school. So she didn’t. We...
😳 Some days I’m really happy that noise cancellation works so darn well on the AirPods. Related: I thought that beggars playing the accordion on the subway were a thing...
📐 Final entry! This is the last photo for #TheCompoChallenge. This last week was a struggle. I couldn’t find the time to go out and look for stuff, so just...
🚇 A friend I haven’t seen in a while is in town today, giving a talk at an event. I want to join him, but not sure I can make...
🪵 We drove past SO MANY trees that fell down during the storm last night. A really impressive number, and big ones too!
📐 Second shot for the Spiral of Death theme. One more to go. #TheCompoChallenge’s last week is hard!
🔐 I can’t have free time! Purchased Cryptomator iOS lifetime license. Now installed in both macOS and iOS, using it with a folder that lives in Koofr. Even though Koofr...
I’m lucky, I have the privilege of being the father of the sweetest girl that has ever lived. “When mom’s not around, because she’s having dinner with friends, or away...
💖 We’re celebrating Father’s Day today. Unsurprisingly, that’s my favorite day.
🇨🇭 I’ve never met a country that’s so tunnel-friendly as Switzerland. There’s one at every corner, big or small, or HUGE.
🤚🏼 It was not the most brilliant portrait session ever, I can tell you that much.
📐 First one this week. #TheCompoChallenge is ending soon, and this is the hardest week so far. I don’t think I’ve ever even considered the Spiral of Doom!
☺️ Family back together, and back home. Tomorrow I have a quick shoot in the morning, right after dropping the tiny one off at kindergarten. Luckily, it’s a 5 minute...
🌴 Still #palmLove, after all these years.
🥰 We’ve been through this dozens of times by now. As long as I’m in town, she’ll never take a cab home. And there’s only one arrival time for this...
✈️ movieStar’s flight lands at 4:40AM. That means I’ll leave at 4AM, drive to the airport, pick her up, drive back. If we’re lucky, she can climb into bed, and...
😊 Final day of just the two of us. We have a full day planned, with lunch at mom&dad, birthday party in the afternoon, and trip to in-laws after that....
📺 Not entirely convinced, but I do like Bob De Niro, and I’m willing to give the show another shot.
🖕🏼 Fuck you, Meta! Meta puts stop on promotion of tell-all book by former employee - The Guardian Buy Careless People - Sarah Wynn-Williams - Bookshop.org
🥳 tinyMovieStar decided to skip school today. I said yes, of course. She’s just too tired of all the fun we’ve had this week, I guess.
🏃♂️ Another Friday, another assignment. This one lasted all through the weekend. It’s the, by now usual, Lisbon Marathon weekend. I was, again, working for one of the sponsors. Not...
📐 I’m using housecleaning as inspiration. This time, my Downloads folder (currently 661 items). Found this one over there. I believe if fits the Object Isolation prompt. That’s it for...
🚶🏻♂️ I’m walking here! #photography #monochrome #blackAndWhite
Extra long sticker spotter post, because why not? #stickerSpotter #stickerArt #streetArt
📷 AgBr is finally out! A B&W Film Emulator, Nuevo.Tokyo X Héliographe colab. One-time purchase, discounted for launch, all future presets included? Done.
📐 I’ll use the fact that it’s permanently raining as an excuse. Still no decent photos for “Subject Isolation + Contrast” outdoors, but did bump into this one while cleaning...
🤷🏻♂️ One thing I must do from time to time, clean up my Lightroom. Delete hundreds of photos that felt good at the time, but didn’t after a while. Sometimes...
🥰 Having the time of my life with the little one. We’ve been mom/wife-free since Sunday, and it has been a blast! We miss her, of course, and she’s coming...
🐰 Of course I’m (very) happy with Koofr. Of course that doesn’t stop me from wasting time.
🤬 Tried to move my Photos.app library to an external SSD. Should not have done that so close to tinyMovieStar’s pick up time, of course. Now swearing all the way...
✋🏼 Hey, StackSocial, that was a nice discount (and I appreciate it), but I don’t need 2/3 daily emails landing in my inbox, in perpetuity. Thanks.
👀 Leftovers from the weekend. I would have loved to have a lot more, but the weather was so shitty, I had trouble getting work photos, let alone personal ones…
👀 Same spot, looking at opposite directions.
🌧️ Half my phone’s notifications these days are “Rain expected now”, “Rain expected to last…”, “Rain not ending soon”. Mercury, I love you but you’re bringing me down.
📐 Subject Isolation + Contrast. That’s the theme. Welcome to Week #4 of #TheCompoChallenge. First submission is from a few days ago, as my mind immediately went to this one....
😳 Why am I waking up at 5AM every single day now!?
🫥 Trying to do as little as possible today…
🏃🏻♂️ It was pretty messy. Not a lot else to share.
📐 Can I please use this one for the Framed assignment? It’s Sunday already, I’m dead tired, and movieStar flew out today… This could very well be the plane she...
🏃🏻♂️ Sunday, 7AM. On the subway, 99% of the riders are participating in the marathon. It’s freezing cold, and they’re all geared up already, in their tiny shorts, and camelback-like...
🥺 Today we started at 5:45AM. movieStar already on her way to the airport, I’m getting ready to leave for another morning out in the rain. Can’t wait for this...
🌧️ Hours later, I’m still wet. It was as crazy as we expected.
🌧️ Who wants to join in, and go for a run? Maybe some rolling around in the muddy grass? Got here a little earlier than required. AMA.
☔ Day Two of the assignment. Still raining. Today we’re going outside. Should be fun.
☁️ Putting that 1TB to good use by backing up my Instagram account. Instagram, according to Wikipedia, was created on Oct 6, 2010. That’s how old my account is. I...
📐 Second one for Assignment #3 of the #TheCompoChallenge. A DoubleFramed in this one! One left to do!
☁️ Testing Nextcloud, via Hetzner’s Storage Share. Pretty nice, but might be overkill for my needs. Still, considering I might use it to store a ton of client photos (they...
🌧️ Rain (a lot of it) expected for the weekend. A weekend when I’m shooting outdoor activities. I suppose the pros will still come for the Sunday event, but I’d...
🙌🏼 Bingo! If an app truly deserves the Swiss Army Knife of Apps award, it is the most versatile app out there: PhotoSync! Of course I can use it to...
Italy is over, we’re back home. No more snow, just more rain than we bargained for. Short update. 👮🏻♂️ Fresh off the airplane, nearly no sleep at all, I jumped...
🤬 Great! Wake up at 5 something AM, and find out the guy who managed the Kagi Family account on Sharesub decided to close it down. I am now family-less,...
🍿 We went to the movies. Proper movies, at the theater.
🎌 Homescreen change. Shamelessly stolen from Keita Morimoto’s Instagram account.
💕 Koofr and Mountain Duck, sitting on a tree, …
☁️ Koofr it is! Added a few more GB to the (generous) free tier, and I’m testing it this weekend. I have to send a few photos then. EU company...
🚙 For the car enthusiasts out there, a very cool vintage Italian: the Fiat Campagnola.
😕 I didn’t think I’d ever say these words, but I’m happy I don’t have to travel. I’m happy I don’t have to travel to the US later this year....
🇮🇩 Jakarta was the first mega-city I set my foot in. I was immediately drawn to it. It was, literally, in the last century. I was 27, no tattoos, and...
📐 First try for Assignment #3, Frame Within A Frame. Still at the in-laws. I’m sure I’ll be able to go outside one of these days. Let’s go, #TheCompoChallenge!
📍 Going a bit crazy with tracking stuff. One AirTag is on the way, but so is one Chipolo ONE Spot, and a Rhinokey Smartcard. Enough.
🖼️ Putting this one out there today, so I don’t feel tempted to do it tomorrow…
😎 I will fondly remember the driving part for many months to come. Mountain roads are FUN.
🥱 Rougher night after yesterday’s mom/dad situation. Conjunctivitis is better though. I guess that’s a 50/50 I’ll have to live with today.
📍 Follow up: I have ordered an Air Tag, my father is getting a new key ring.
😫 What a fucking scare! My father was MIA for a few hours. My brother was already out looking for him with my mother!
📐 Stuck in the sofa, with an out of order eye. Not perfect conditions for #TheCompoChallenge. I had to cheat on the last one for this week, it was shot...
👀 Biggest annoyance of the day: having one eye open, while the other one is closed, is messing up the phone unlock.
🛞 I thought these chains were meant to provide extra grip in the mud/snow. Turns out there’s another reason why they’re installed. HUGE tires too. Quiz time?
💣 For the second month in a row I was billed 3 USD by Mailgun. I’m on the free tier. Today I tried to figure out why. Seems like I...
📐 Still trying to find lines for #TheCompoChallenge. One shot a couple of days ago, while touring our friend’s marble quarry.
😵💫 This will be an odd week! School is out until Thursday. I’m working from Friday through Sunday. movieStar leaves for the island on Sunday. Monday is my birthday. She...
📐 First photo for this week’s #TheCompoChallenge. Starting with a lazy one, just like last week. Also very late. Sorry about that.
🧟 I can easily see this as the setting for an horror movie.
🚓 Done! Next up: picking the book up. Thankfully the bookstore is a 2 minute walk away.
🤘🏼 Exporting, almost done with the first item on my list…
⛄️ You didn’t think we were done with the photos, did you? Some more italianBsides coming up, I’m sure.
💧 Plumber will probably come today to check things. I have a book to pick up from the bookstore. Photos need to be sent to agency. Girls need to be...
🇮🇹 Friday! Finally. Italy! Yay! Ciao, Italia. We got a Bolt, then an EasyJet, and soon we were landing in Milan Milano. Easy. The flight was very uneventful, regular. It...
👮🏻♂️ It was a very different morning, that’s for sure.
💻 Editing is taking a lot longer than usual today. Harder to work with a feverish baby girl around, I only want to cuddle.
🌧️ After almost a week up in the snowy mountains (where we would walk around in a t-shirt), it feels great to be back home, where the sun never stops...
👮🏻♂️ Whole morning with cops, mostly Spanish and local. One asks me a very technical question, I had to tell him I didn’t have a clue. He said he thought...
🐝 Anyhoo, we’re back. I’ll leave tomorrow to shoot something, and then hope regular life resumes. I have photos to post, shows to watch, feeds to read. Lots of catching...
😩 Not a brilliant end of day. Landed close to midnight. Both girls with a fever. Took forever to get an Uber. Got home, and the apartment upstairs is leaking...
🏔️ Getting ready to say goodbye to the mountains. It was great.
💊 In a time honored tradition, here I am again, trying to find a pharmacy, in a country I barely know, and explain myself in a language I don’t speak.
❄️ Final full day, back to the snowy mountains. This time we went up to Macugnaga.
🛍️ Hard to find an open shop in some towns. Most things only open in the summer, when German and Dutch tourists arrive.
🚤 The lakes, of course, play a huge part in the local life.
🏔️ Snow-capped mountains with a lake next to them will never get boring for me. It’s a brilliant mix, as far as I’m concerned. Literally postcard perfect situation.
🛻 We spent the day in the area, visiting the lakes, eating, walking around. Ended up in the marble quarry. Very cool day, photos posted tomorrow. Just this one, because...
🌑 Downloaded an app I saw mentioned earlier, just to see what it was all about. Dark mode is available only as part of the subscription. Deleted. I get the...
🏔️ The way there was breathtaking. Very alien to us, snow all around the whole time. Beautiful.
🏔️ I’ll try to post more. Extra long, and super cool day.
🤩 We had a brilliant day yesterday. Looking forward to the rest of the week.
😩 We’re leaving for Switzerland in a couple of hours, and will spend the day with no phone coverage. It is not part of the EU, and I’m not willing...
🇨🇭 We’re crossing the border tomorrow, for the ski championship. First, and most likely only, time I will be attending one of these live. Today was epic. tinyMovieStar saw snow...
☕️ Let’s get the show on the road… Or maybe we let the movieStars sleep a bit longer.
🐌 Internet speed kinda sucks over here in the mountain. Couldn’t be perfect, right? Or, maybe, it IS perfect!
🐻 While having the nicest dinner at their cute mountain house, our friends, telling us about a bear that sometimes comes and steals their honey, casually mention we might go...
🇮🇹 We made it. Landed, got the car, and drove off. After sunset when we left the airport. The house is awesome, and we had dinner with friends, in the...
🛞 One thing I’m very much looking forward to, as usual, is driving on unfamiliar roads. Cherry on top: mountain roads.
“In the long history of our civil religion, an American President declaring that he was a king would have been roughly equivalent to the Pope cheerfully tweeting out the news...
🔴 Already in bed. One thing left to decide for tomorrow: should I take missQ along for the ride? Or do what I always do, and go iPhone-only?
“A nation’s word is its currency in international relations, and America’s checks are bouncing.” #usa #usPol #world 🍜 The American Guarantee Is a Joke https://www.theindex.media/the-american-guarantee-is-a-joke/
Shorter than usual, I’m afraid. The week flew past, slow and quick at the same time, oddly. 💖 Friday, lovely Friday. Slow, as most days are now. This particular one...
⚰️ I believe my Kobo is dead. Too young to die, but here we are. Odd too, since there’s a stuck book cover on the display, after over a month...
😶🌫️ At least it’s beautiful outside.
✅ Done with sticker spotter and panda pixels for the day. Time to get up, and start taking care of stuff. Coffee first, of course. Than wake up the girls,...
🏃🏻♂️ Still a few things to organize before we leave. Tomorrow will be an errands day.
📐 Third photo for this week’s #TheCompoChallenge. Do visit the hashtag, a lot of cool photos to see.
🗺 TomTom has a pretty neat web-based planning tool, so I’m giving it a go. I’ll try to navigate in Italy with it, knowing that Waze is always ready to...
🥋 tinyMovieStar got promoted, she’s now a full yellow belt athlete! She’s SOOOO proud, and yet we’re even more so!
😬 Damn, impressive list, I still have a couple left to try…
📐 Second photo for this week’s #TheCompoChallenge. Welcoming us today at the barbershop, MissTrouble.
📐 My first photo for #TheCompoChallenge. Uninspired, sorry about that. But I really needed an espresso.
💈 Barber Day. Can’t show up at Italy’s doorstep with my hair looking the way it does now.
⛪️ The Righteous Gemstones IV is coming! First episode available on my birthday, no less!
😎 I might visit my friend the brewer today. Saw him when we were dropping off our kids, he invited me over. I have no other plans for the day.
🍕 Let’s go!! A few more days, and we’ll be eating pizza where pizza should be eaten!
🇲🇦 A few years have passed since the last visit (2017!), but it still remains the place I visited more times. This one was stuck at the bottom of my...
🍿 I don’t even know how to feel about this one right now. Loved it. Feels like I was punched in the gut.
Emailed Flickr. I asked them that, if we would also get the discount applied to our next bill. Got an automated reply. Saying that us, Pro users, should get a...
🍿 I do like them both a lot. Despite everything.
🇮🇹 Sempre più vicini… Ancora pochi giorni e partiamo!
✈️ Starting a new series: flyingHigh. Photos in airplanes. Photos of airplanes. Photos with airplanes. Pho… you get the picture.
🧠 Perplexity also handles the task with aplomb, but it takes a while for each photo. Mimi, where are you??
💸 Topping up OpenAI account with a handful of euros, need credits for the Alt Text creation shortcut.
💡 One of my favourite folders in Feedbin is the one I created with the OPML file found at the bottom of defaults.rknight.me/. I had to edit/trim a bit (mostly...
“It couldn’t last. There was no doubt about that. Demolition really was inevitable.” #japan #tokyo #photography 🍜 The inevitable end of a lovely little Tokyo building https://www.tokyotimes.org/the-inevitable-end-of-a-lovely-little-tokyo-building/
🍿 Wanted to like it a little more, but kept getting distracted.
🧅 Now with added Onion… Kagi has added Tor Onion service to the feature set. Available at kagi2pv5bdcxxqla5itjzje2cgdccuwept5ub6patvmvn3qgmgjd6vid.onio More info at Introducing Privacy Pass authentication for Kagi Search.
💖 A rather chaotic, poorly organized, incomplete, view of (one of) my decades long obsessions: loveProject. Also here.
Work, family weekend, uneventful week. 📷 My first assignment of the year had to happen just before leaving for the weekend!! Of course. Not complaining, obviously, but it’s funny how...
🍿 A different kind of Ghibli, but very nice all the same.
🛴 Rode halfway across town, got home just in time to pick the little one from kindergarten. Happy!
👀 On the way to lunch. Ended up in Alvalade, a nice neighborhood I don’t visit often enough.
🤩 Meeting my old editor for lunch today. He’s the one you hired me for the position that would change my life. I would later have his job, long after...
😶 It was a very nondescript day. I have absolutely nothing to add to this information.
Drove both movieStars to their workplaces today. A boring 30min chore. Took the opportunity to shoot from the driver’s seat, one of my favorite hobbies while driving. Today I used...
🥘 Back from a birthday party, and dinner afterwards. As it often happens when we eat Indian food, I’ll only stop when I’m bursting!
A site is being shared around the socials these days, warning us about how much a photo can tell about you. A lot more than the traditional 1000 words, maybe?...
🌧️ Looks like it’s another one of those rain-all-day kinda days.
🔪 1AM. Just ordered a couple of knives. I’m taking tomato slicing to the next level. Also, I should be sleeping.
🍿 Too lazy to look for something else. It was on my list, now it’s done.
🌈 Today we have Love Makes a Family, by Sophie Beer. Lovely.
🍺 Now that I’m back on the Dry(ish) February train, the nice people at our local restaurant were kind enough to serve me water in a beer glass. There are...
🥰 Just like that, the toddler that woke us up at 7AM the past couple of days, with cries of “Breakfast! Pool!”, is now unable to get up, at 8AM....
🏝️ Another nice article with some photos from the island. Príncipe transformed: a taste of paradise on a rainforest island
🌊 Too tired to write. We had a great time, but an exhausting one.
🗺️ More later, but Apple Maps led us through an adventure yesterday. Again. I appreciate the amazing looking maps, but maybe I don’t need to drive miles in farm dirt...
🏊♀️ Again, much nicer in the morning. 8AM pool session with tinyMovieStar. We left at 11AM.
👀 Not a lot of photos this weekend. A lot of taking care of tinyMovieStar.
🧘🏻♀️ Golf course next to the room, and pools. Spent the whole morning at the indoor one. Welcome to the Marriott.
🌅 We made it to the hotel late in the day. No photos until tomorrow.
🏃🏻♂️ Plan for today: drop tinyMovieStar at kindergarten, drive to assignment, shoot, drive back, edit/send photos, pick up tinyMovieStar, pick up bigger movieStar from doctor’s appointment, drive to hotel for...
🍿 Always a fan of British shows, this one does not disappoint. Sad that seasons are so short.
🍾 First assignment of the year, scheduled for tomorrow! Huzzah!
Meh week. I’m getting a few of these. Some highlights, thankfully, but… 🚶🏻♂️ Friday. Went out for a very small walk. I was meeting a friend, but then movieStar came...
🥋 Hopefully tinyMovieStar wants to skip Judo class today, and we can spend that time having fun together. Not great parenting, but… She likes it too.
☕️ This is going to be a fun series, I hope.
💧 All the technology in the world, and I can’t wash my hands in the kitchen, without someone yelling “COLD!!” from the bathroom!
🤩 A friend who spends most of his time on the island is in town! He’s meeting me now, and we’re both picking up the little one (she felt well...
📱 If an app has a ton of customization settings, and allows me to easily create a theme (and change fonts to whatever I please), there’s a good chance I’ll...
Long before I even thought about moving to Pika (was there even a Pika back then??), I signed up for another service by the Good Enough people: Letterbird. It solved...
🤒 Sick Day, Part II. We’re having a great time. Sitting across from tinyMovieStar, taking turns with the pens. (Photo has been rotated, for your viewing pleasure)
“If you would have asked me a week ago, I’d have told you that this kind of thing would never in a million years happen. But now, who the fuck...
🇯🇵 Still not finished, but happy to report that part of bSides has moved over already! Here’s one from Kyoto, for the Japanese stash.
🇮🇹 In a way, we’re always practicing for Italy…
📰 Paid for a year of Wired. Mostly fueled by nostalgia. I used to buy every single issue when I was much younger. I don’t read it that much these...
“Lung cancer in people who have never smoked cigarettes or tobacco is now estimated to be the fifth highest cause of cancer deaths worldwide” #pollution #health 🍜 Lung cancer diagnoses...
🍿 This one was in my watchlist for a while, I’m really happy I finally got to it.
🇮🇹 It’s been a while since I last visited, and I’ve never been with the movieStars. We’re going to a small village in the north, fingers crossed we find snow!
🇮🇹 Scratch that, we might be going to Italy.
📬 Happy that {maique} has been added to minifeed’s list of blogs. If you’re a user of the service, feel free to follow here.
🥇 In the Services That Just Work And I Don’t Mention Nearly Enough series: updown.io. Does exactly what it says on the tin: Simple & Inexpensive Website Monitoring. Been using...
👩🏻⚕️ Still on nurse-duty, taking care of a tiny patient with an attitude. Me: You really have to take this, the good doctor said this would make you feel better....
#photography #monochrome #blackAndWhite
🍿 Sunday morning, by the fireplace. Super nice.
🐯 Yesterday’s party had a particularly talented cousin in attendance. Two, in fact: one illustrator, and one that is a makeup expert.
#stickerSpotter #stickerArt #streetArt
🐌 Sunday, lazy. Everyone went to bed pretty late last night, the party kept on going. Happy to report Dry February is still on!
Since I’m giving Dry January a second try, why not throw in a little fasting as well? I’ve tried it in the past and I had great results, so I’m...
🍺 Since I failed (epically so, I might add) at Dry January, I’m now attempting Dry February. It is the shortest month, after all.
🖼️ I should use my some.pics a little more. I just don’t know what for. At the moment it’s just a way to have a nice photo at the bottom...
“Despite its modern veneer, a fair amount of Tokyo is still surprisingly old and dated, an aspect that for me at least makes the city infinitely more interesting.” #japan #tokyo...
“That’s good money for Japan. The current average hourly nationwide is 1,055 yen ($6.88). Japan’s government wants to raise it to 1,500 yen ($9.79) within the next 10 years.” #japan...
🏊♀️ Hotel booked. We’re spending the weekend away in two weeks. tinyMovieStar said she misses being in a pool.
🤩 This is turning out to be quite the week, as far as photo usage goes! The Faya site is now live. Awesome project (really!), same island as ever. Same...
Just posted this on Micro.blog. maique.eu is dead, long live maique.eu. “Hey hey. I’m moving my blog to another neighbourhood, but it’s not that far. It’s still at maique.eu, I’m...
🚶🏻♂️ Sun is out today. Walking to my friend’s brewery next, maybe a couple of photos on the way.
First full week in Pika. Not much else. Let’s go! 🍰 If a weekend has no birthday party, it’s not a proper weekend. Off we went. First, a walk uphill,...