I took an unwanted pause after episode 8 of my little podcast called TWUMBLE. This was not planned and just happened as I had too much work with my last beyond tellerrand event and some family reasons needed attention. But now I am starting over again and am happy to finally managed to get Joschi Kuphal on the show, which we planned for quite a while.
Check episode number 9 of my German show called TWUMBLE.
Wow. Just recently stumbled over the work by Austrian Artist Peter Kogler. Since more than 30 years he is creating this kind of work. Fantastic.
I don’t have a new year’s resolution, but a wish.
May wish actually is, that I want to see less negativity and more positivity out there.
I myself post less on Twitter, Facebook an Co. A reason is that I’m a bit annoyed by the general negativeness of posts and tone of voice. Another reason is, that I stop myself before hitting the “post” button, every time I write something and ask myself Do I really want to post this?. An often times I decide, it is not really something I need to post.
So my wish then also is, that you reflect and ask yourself, if you want to post the text or maybe even just have another, a second look on the text you are about to post. Maybe you decide, that you don’t post it. Maybe this helps, that less negative posts and emotions are spread.
Maybe.
On January 18th, sipgate is running their 24th edition of the free LeanDUS meetup. This time with a German talk about accessibility with the title “Barrierefreies Webdesign – WCAG 2.0 erfolgreich umsetzen” by Jan Hellbusch.
Get your ticket and see you there.
⇾ Visit: LeanDUS on January 18th – “Barrierefreies Webdesign”
Has the Internet Killed Curly Quotes?
Smashing Conference in Barcelona already took place in October this year. I have been there and took photos, but a few things made it difficult for me to release them up to now. I was organising my beyond tellerrand event edition in Berlin, my wife ruptured her achilles tendon before this and I was complete exhausted after Berlin. Sorry for the long wait. Here are a few impressions from this year’s SmashingConf in Barcelona.
Jeremy Keith has written a book again. It is called Resilient Web Design, similar to the talk Resilience, he gave earlier this year at beyond tellerrand. But instead of printing and selling it, he put it on the web. You ca read it right there. For free. What are you doing here still?
I often have a smile on my face, if I read another of many Facebook posts by Yuko, where she rants about the emails she gets from people asking her to work for free. Or I love the part, where Mr. Bingo talks about the many tries, where people want to have him working for free for a certain project. Lately, at beyond tellerrand in Berlin, Jeff Greenspan gave a lovely and entertaining talk, in which he also speaks about pitches, where someone says how much reputation he can gain from working for this project in parts of it and I could go on listing friends and people, who continuously get asked to work for free. Which in the first place is noting bad at all, but the people/companies asking them are not those who can’t afford paying them in these cases. There are mostly well-known and big companies who earn so much, that they should be able to easily pay those artists for their work.
The reasons for writing this is, that Jessica Hische, who also often gets ask to work for no profit by and for-profit company, posted a great email reply on Twitter. What I like in her reply is, that she is neither going crazy, because she is super angry, getting asked the billionth time nor is she getting sarcastic. She has written a well understandable and calm reply. A good template for everybody who is in a similar position.
My set of photos from “A day with Shopify”, which took place in Bristol on December 5th, 2016.