Your first foot is out of the door already. The rest of you is still in between. There you’ll hear it. Muted. Soft. And chill. A wave of silence that makes your ears really listening again after a long time. It’s gently squeaking, chirping. It’s a bit like in a foam bath with its tiny bubbles burs...

Some changes are happening early this year. As I was tired of looking at my old website built with the Yellow CMS and having only limited design choices available, I started shortly after New Year's Day on my new 2026 website design for aboutgrau.com.

The new design is now based on the Grav C...

The Blark black and white camera app is a rather new addition to my most used camera apps on my iPhone these days. I want to mention it here quickly because even though it's not perfect, it's doing a lot of things right. The Blark app is a pretty new app, it was first released in 2025, so at the p...

Berlin. 2025. History wherever you go. Like in many other major European cities you can't move a single cobblestone without revealing endless stories of the past. The future in such areas is always relative, it never exists without the things and stories that have existed before. Every decision come...

The summer of 2025 is almost over already but I still have some pictures to show you that hopefully bring back that summer vibe. Back in June I've been visiting the small Italian island of Elba for the very first time. Elba is best reached by car via a ferry boat from the mainland. The obvious route...

Big, huge, vast, impressive, intimidating, monumental, majestic, colossal. It's these terms that start spinning through my head when looking at the unfinished tons of brick and granite of the Congress Hall (German Kongresshalle) in Nuremberg. The often so called Coliseum has been designed by Franz a...

Consciousness is one of these terms that comes up again and again when talking about the newest iterations of current AI systems. But what is consciousness? Honestly, the term was already hard to define even before the advent of AI. I guess the most common explanation these days is still that consci...

For now this will be my third and last slideshow video of my recent trips. Again the slideshow is almost an hour long and condenses a week of adventures into a continuous stream of images and short clips. So let's dive in.

This video is about my trip to Venice in late summer of 2024. My main focus...

In this ongoing series I'm trying to present you my most important images of 2024 in a new way. For each of my trips I have put together a slideshow that compresses roughly one week of images into a slideshow of roughly 1 hour, usually less. I know this still means quite a lot of commitment and also...

As I've already mentioned here before I've been putting a lot of effort into the creation of some yearly slideshows towards the end of the year. Usually these slideshows are meant to be watched by some friends and by the greater family. They've become part of our family Christmas tradition. And it's...