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For those of you who are curious enough, here's what's going on in my life right now. I'll try to list all my professional and personal projects here to better bridge the gap between ideation, creation and presentation. I'll try to update this page regularly, so hopefully I see you coming back soon.

  • My interest in automation and automation tools continues, though I have to say I didn't have much time to explore this field any further since my last update. So I leave my remarks here more or less unchanged. In the recent months I bought several apps to make my output, both in written words but also in photos more fluent. The apps on my Mac I currently make myself familiar with are tools like the Alfred app, Keyboard Maestro, Retrobatch, the Hazel app or command line tools like SIPS or EXIFTOOL. I'm about to stitch together several macros and workflows for different image formats, sizes and use cases.

  • I'm also debating with myself the launch of an alternative website that focuses more on my theoretical, scientific and technical interests. It's more about the geek in me, not so much about the artist. I wonder if this could also be a place for some book reviews. Naming is hard!

  • In the meantime the three quite lengthy but also very detailed and comprehensive slideshows of my recent trips are up on YouTube and are ready to watch. The first one is about Gran Canaria, the second one about Tuscany and the last one for now is about Venice. I'll keep an eye on the numbers and will decide later on if I want to continue with that format.

  • There was an "iPad for Architects Summit" going on this week, put together by David Drazil. For two or three years now he's selecting a group of architects, designers, illustrators and presenters to showcase their work in the form of some video tutorials. All these workshops are centered around the use of the iPad as a creative tool. I followed along these videos with great interest and curiosity.

  • An ongoing project is the transcription and summary of art focused podcasts. I've always been very interested in art, but my background knowledge, especially my biographical knowledge of the various artists has always been poor. By making room for such summaries I hopefully can create a back catalogue of information that I can easily refer to whenever I need it or I'm curious about a certain detail. I'm using the MacWhisper app for these transcriptions, the summaries though are completely written and thought through by my human brain.

  • One book I'm currently reading is the very long and rather mathematical work of Douglas R. Hofstadter "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid". I'm half way through the book now. The mathematical stuff is way over my head but there are some interesting real world examples and comparisons that are worth thinking about.

  • Another book I'm currently reading before bed is the wonderful novel "The City and Its Uncertain Walls" by the famous Japanese author Haruki Murakami. I'm glad I've set aside a bit of time each night to enjoy the soothing power of words.