Music. Photography. Thoughts.
Museum Ludwig in Cologne currently has an exhibition called Smile! How the Smile Came Into Photography, and it can be seen until March 22nd, 2026. For those who understand German, here’s a short teaser video about it.
I usually don’t smile a lot in photos, but with a liitle help from our furry friend Bella the cat I just had to. Heavily cropped:
And as always, thanks for viewing 🙂
The Independent has excerpts of an interview with Matt Groening, maker of “The Simpsons”. In it, he said things like:
“The Simpsons predicts kids across America will liberate their Republican parents from the cult of MAGA. And here’s how you do it. Grab the TV remote, go to menu, go to controls, vertical controls, look for channel list and delete Fox News.”
Sadly, there’s no button (yet) to delete printed garbage like Bild… 😉 But maybe banning hate speech echo chambers like Twitter/X from our phones, and everything Bytedance as well would help? Not to forget all sites and apps by Zuckerberg?
Oh, and while we’re at it: calling Windows 11 ‘malware’ is just the right word for it. But the solutions aren’t workarounds, but simply to abandon it for good.
Found here.
Today, 14 years ago, Wikiloops founder Richard opened the gates, and now at more than 250,000 uploads and tracks later, we can all only thank him for it. Read what he wrote, and/or do this:
Go to my profile, and in it, select the tab “Playlists”. Scroll down a bit past my albums, and select the playlist called “Even more hit singles”. Enjoy, and then submit a few dollars or Euros to keep the thing running, so that we all can provide more like this to you. Thanks!
And thanks to Richard and his family, and to everyone who contributed until now – it’s greatly appreciated!
And: still remember this one? It’s also in that playlist, the music was made by some fellow ‘loopers:
As always, thanks for reading.
Richard, founder of Wikiloops and host of the 2024 members’ meeting just wrote his official report about the meeting which took place last month, and to which I also attended. Read, see, and hear all about it on Wikiloops. You can also watch the videos on Youtube, and/or see the photos in Diana’s gallery. Here are two of these photos:
Some of the attendees who were either late or had left the day before already had to be “‘shopped”, as they say, into the picture – you probably see it because of the very different lighting on some of the faces.
The videos have very different maximum resolutions sadly, from 480p to 1080p, and for my taste I’m a bit over-represented in the first one, the second one shows me playing a tune from a lead sheet which I hadn’t seen ever before, so excuse my uncertainty at some times (for instance on when the outro was about to start, couldn’t exactly read this). Oh, and before you ask: no; playing from lead sheet or from notation isn’t what’s representative of the “normal” jamming – but I’m always glad if people put up the chords to their songs anyway. And I love playing OliVBee‘s songs. And the ones from Moonchild of course 🙂
Anyway, enjoy, and like always, thanks for viewing and for reading.
This is what I wrote in the song description on Wikiloops:
“I’ve been at the Wikiloops meeting 2024, woohoo! But like all good things in life, it had to end, somehow – and that reminded me that I wanted to play on this awesome track of Isa and Devin. And since both my upright and myself aren’t really up to the task right now, I had to take the fretless instead to noodle around on this a bit. Thanks to Isa & Devin, and I hope you’ll like it…”
So here is it:
And like always, thanks for listening, and for reading. If you’re a musician, consider to join us and to play with us.
After first watching the Tour de France, followed by the Tour de France Femmes, and now even the start of the Vuelta, this made me laugh:
Like always, thanks for viewing.
Wikiloops member ivax just created a new album on which he included a remix of a track which also involved me. Listen:
So gracias Xavi, and thanks to you for listening.
While searching for one of his most famous quotes, I found two others which fit the times (upcoming EU elections and all the stuff you see on the telly about it):
Like always, thanks for viewing and reading.
Got a wonderful remix on the ‘loops lately. Hear Lady Anne singing the Blues on a track from Don_T, peatric, and myself:
Thanks dear Anne – and thanks to everyone for listening.