Rest in Peace, Heinz Stücke
I was on holiday when I found out Heinz Stücke passed away, so here is a belated post on his story. Heinz Stücke was a German man who in 1962, when he was 22 years old, quit his factory job and grabbed…
Photo Set 6/2026 – Back in the Carpathians
As always, these are basically just straight out of the camera. The panorama was stitched and a few photos had some border and angle-corrections added in Photoshop. Same ol’ setup: Fujifilm X-T30 III with the classic XF 18-55mmF2.8-4 R LM OIS +…
Photo Set 5/2026 – Sinaia
I’ll be honest about two things. First, I’m really bad inexperienced at post-processing photos in DaVinci (even less so in Lightroom). Besides playing with the exposure I don’t like to use (and don’t even know a lot about) other editing tricks. So…
The purpose is to rebel
Chris Shaw is hosting this month’s IndieWeb carnival. The theme is “Purpose”. Thank you to Chris for hosting and thanks to Andrei for always participating, I’m finally getting round to joining as well. It says something about the current state of the…
The Odyssey, a quick review
A few points about The Odyssey, though I know I’m a bit late on this… The Odyssey has quite a few qualities going for it, sure, but there has been a lot of talk surrounding it and some pundits got it right.…
A bagful of bad movies
In the past couple of months I have watched, gawked at, sat through, and got annoyed at several bad movies. It got me thinking at what makes a bad movie… well, “bad”. It’s probably easier to define great movies. They are made…
Notes on Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
(Pictured: Rhodes Cemetery, Greece. A rose cross monument dedicated to the Knights of Rhodes – I think)It’s unfair that people compare Foucault’s Pendulum to Ulysses. Ulysses is a novel that spans an entire day but some take years to finish. On the…
Cimitirul Bellu nu are legătură cu Barbu Bellu
De vreo două luni am cercetat subiectul Cimitirului Șerban-Vodă (numit popular Bellu). Inițial nu voiam decât să aflu adevărul despre istoria acestuia, pentru că toate site-urile și toți “experții” se contraziceau, sau pur și simplu nu se pupau datele între ele: În…
Photo Set 4/2026 – Rhodes
I’m too rubbish to bother with RAW files, I’d rather just have fun and snap quickly, so these are all SOOC with a few Fuji recipes.
“I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords” (it’s mandatory to do so)
Thinking about this a couple of weeks ago I had another point I wanted to make about AI, namely how it’s like smoking 100 years ago – damaging but presented as a great addition to your life. Now, as this tool is…
New old gear – Carl Zeiss Jena DDR Sonnar 135mm f/3.5 M42
Yesterday I posted an old lens I had lying around. I said it’s new but the only thing new is that I’m using it. Well, here’s another one. This is new in the sense that it’s new to me… Other than that…
New(ish) old gear – Helios-44
A few years ago I was messing around with film photography. I had my grandpa’s old cameras and a Canon I bought at a flea market. A friend gave me a very sturdy Pentax camera he wasn’t using and after shooting a…
Photo Set 3/2026
New gear starting this month, a sweet Fujifilm X-T30 III that I can’t wait to take around town for photos. My photography skills are a bit rusty, and the gloomy February weather didn’t help with the light, but it was a good…
Cultural Dispatch Ed. 2
1. Record This year has started out with an absolute bang. On New Year’s night I discovered, quite by accident, my new favourite band. It’s rather annoying because the more I looked into them I found they played Glastonbury and are well…
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I’m Seb: kind of working in IT, kind of working on other things as well – jack of all trades and master of none, and that’s how I like it.
I should have been a court’s “jester and weird artist in residence”, but capitalism made it such that I have to work during the day to support techno-feudalism and do my hobbies in my spare time. This is where I’m posting attempts at art, whacks at writing, rolls of reviews, bucket list blunders, artificial articles and a hodgepodge of hobby histories.
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