Processing Community Lead Raphaël de Courville just posted Building Bridges. Wrapping-Up the 2025 pr05 Developer Grant Program, which is a great write-up of one of my professional and personal highlights of last year. Triggers some sweet, sweet memories! Along with my fellow grantees Claire Peng and Vaivaswat Dubey,...

I think Jonathan Snook summarized it perfectly when he made Organize around passions, not destinations one of his travel tips. One of my passions is cooking and I try to take a cooking class wherever I go, preferably in a home or small restaurant kitchen. There just is something about cooking classes that allows me...

Going Home/Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 by Albie Sachs; recording by Warrick Swinney When Dr. Phokeng Setai—one of six curators of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa—finished our tour at the old Dusthouse—an architectural remnant from the museum’s former life as a huge grain silo—and told us to go in there one...

We did a museum day today and visited the Iziko South African Museum and the Iziko South African National Gallery. Iziko is isiXhosa for “hearth” and an organization that operates 11 national museums in Cape Town under the label Iziko Museums of South Africa. The two museums we visited are next to each other and a...

With circles we enter the world of pi, astronomy, and trigonometry. Naturally, creative coders and generative artists are drawn to this shape as well. This is the accompanying note for the eponymous zine that I created for Zinetausch #10 by zines.cool. Here I collect further information and helpful links, and I...

The square; four straight lines of equal length and four equal angles. What sounds like the most boring of the quadrilaterals has an almost magical aura. Think about the sides of a dice, the chessboard, or the floor area of the Egyptian pyramids. And in creative coding, too, the square makes for a formidable...

I did it! Yesterday I finished my three zines—well, six, because three are Jenni’s return-of-investment—zines.cool’s Zinetausch #10—mere hours before our flight to Cape Town. I am so happy that I made it and it was incredible fun! But what is a Zinetausch, you might ask. Well, it’s a German word and translates to...

The first Bandcamp Friday purchase of 2026 is a nod to the random happenstances that are music recommendations and my eclectic taste in music. Macrowaves (including the absolute banger Skylight) and Firing Squad (new-ish track feat. Method Man) by Rob Overseer. Haven’t listened to this gentleman in a long time, but...

Ich arbeite mich immer noch durch Schöpferisch leben von Verena Kast. An einigen Stellen habe ich das Gefühl, mein Lesen würde von einem Psychologie-Studium profitieren, aber dann versorgt mich das Buch auch wieder mit den perfekten Worten für etwas, dass ich selbst auch schon eine Weile beobachte. Gerade geht es um...

Das PhilharmonieLunch hat nichts mit Essen zu tun. Stattdessen ist mensch eingeladen die halbe Stunde von 12:00 bis 12:30 bei einer Probe in der Kölner Philharmonie kostenfrei zu verbringen. Ein starkes Konzept, von dem ich schon einige Male gehört hatte und heute endlich die Zeit auch mal teilzunehmen. Ich kam vom...

This is the accompanying website for the eponymous zine that I created for Zinetausch #10 by zines.cool. Here I collect further information and helpful links, and I hope—although conceived as auxiliary information for the physical zine—that this also works stand-alone.However, this is not a tutorial. The idea is to...

I saw the trailer for Bryan Fuller’s first feature-length film Dust Bunny at the movies yesterday, and that reminded me of a snarky comment I heard in one of Fuller’s amazing TV series the other day. When a computer loses it with a meter maid, or kills itself ’cause it thinks it’s too fat, then I’ll believe in...