We had a little Meet your Idol moment when we visited Laura Kampfs Workshop near Cologne last week. If you do not know Laura Kampf yet you can check out what she is doing on YouTube. Laura is a maker, artist and recently became the unofficial janitor of LA. We love her work and values, [ ]
We went to Museum Ludwig and visited the amazing exhibition Kids Take Over by Francis Alÿs. The exhibition shows children from around the world at play. It was amazing, I can definitely recommend visiting that exhibition if you got the chance. At the end there was an interactive room where the visitors could invent own [ ]
I noticed that I love tinkering with my website — creating new pages and improving the site overall. However my initial plan was to start a website in order to write more and learn English, so lets write this article about my desire to write more. Ideas to write more often So how do you [ ]
I recently discovered the Album Saturno 2000 and totally fell in love with cumbia rebjadas slowed-down, pitched-shifted cumbia songs. The genre started in the 70s when the turntables of DJ Gabriel Dueñez short-circuited during a set, playing the records at lower speed. I love it when a music genre starts with such a happy [ ]
This website is my happy space in the web. A space where I can write what comes to mind, without the urge to publish regularly. A space to explore and experiment with web design ideas, fully embracing the fact that it may be a work in progress and not necessarily finished anytime soon. A space [ ]
I have to admit, I have a soft spot for interactive elements. However, I understand that not everyone experiences the web in the same way. Many people either dislike or get distracted and disoriented by animations that cannot be paused. It s important to me to respect that. That’s where the prefers-reduced-motion media query comes into [ ]
Im a bit obsessed with a certain ballet piece which I first saw in my childhood and a lot of times since then. As a matter of fact its playing right now, wile writing these words. It is full of animals and just magical: Tales of Beatrix Potter (1971) I always imagined living in this [ ]
A couple of weeks ago I finally started my membership at the local library (@stbibkoeln) and now I wonder: Why didn´t I do that 12 years ago when I moved to Cologne? I really love the priniciple of renting over buying – libraries feel like the perfect embodiment of that sharing economy. So it was [ ]
As children, we were thrilled when we first got a computer—a 286 MHz model, if I remember correctly. I knew that computer games existed, but I had no idea what they actually looked like. One of the programs I enjoyed was an IBM typing practice tool designed to teach 10 finger typing. My sister and [ ]
Im officially part of the cool kids club of the decentralized web: I federated this WordPress blog with the ActivityPub Plugin by Matthias Pfefferle @pfefferle. It seems to work: The plugin has created a mastodon profile that anyone can follow. New blogposts are automatically posted there. Not sure if I can comment or reply with [ ]