Category Archives: Allgemein

A photographer from the UK named David Taylor-Hughes (also known as ‘soundimageplus’) recently bought the new Leica X Vario Typ 107 camera – basically the first one with an APS-C-sized sensor and a fixed, non-interchangeable zoom lens. Now he asked … Continue reading →

For a change – and probably only for today – I have some links concerning vehicles. Plus most of these will lead you to pages in German, so to halfway understand some of them (doesn’t work well with some), consult … Continue reading →

See Sebastião Salgado’s 17 minute talk at TED. And thanks to Michael for pointing me to this. Please also consider his exhibition at the National History Museum in London, or, if you can’t go there, to buy his new book … Continue reading →

“I’d rather trust a countryman than a townman, You can judge by his eyes, take a look if you can, He’ll smile through his guard, Survival trains hard. I’d rather trust a man who works with his hands, He looks … Continue reading →

This morning when I went to work, traffic slowed down a bit at a motorway junction called “Autobahnkreuz (Frankfurt) West”. That isn’t unusual by itself, as it’s a bit curvy there, and many people are afraid of curves and always … Continue reading →

“Wahrlich, es gibt Dinge zwischen Himmel und Erde, die nicht bloß unsere Philosophen, sondern sogar die gewöhnlichsten Dummköpfe nicht begreifen.” – Heinrich Heine, Die Stadt Lucca, Kapitel I “Really, there are things between heaven and earth, which not only our … Continue reading →

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Click on it to open the original site at xkcd, and to see it a bit bigger.

Just now at work, while having a smoke in front of the building: A taxi driver drew from the sidewalk onto the road, after which he had to stop to let some people walk over the zebra crossing. Several cars … Continue reading →