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I shot this photo last weekend as I took a walk around our office. It has no deep meaning or something like that, the scene just caught my attention and I like the result. I can’t tell why, it even is in portrait orientation which is quite unusual for me but it just worked better.

Hamburg Eimsbüttel, July 22nd 2012, Fuji X100.

I discovered the documentary work of Daniel Milnor already some time ago but got distracted by other photographers and styles. Now I’m back to reading a lot about his work and his thoughts as well as viewing his photographs. I’m trying to understand what he’s doing and why he’s doing it. Gone are the days of skipping over blogposts with a bunch of photos without reading the text accompanying them. Or at least that’s how I want it to be.

Daniel also does a lot of videos in which he presents photos and gives a back story and some advice. One of the best is about environmental portraits and you can watch it below.

On our trip to Bonn last week we stayed at the InterCity Hotel next to the main station. The room was okay and the breakfast good. Just the view out of my window wasn’t quite that nice, but as someone pointed out to me on Facebook, it seems to summarize the look of Bonn quite well.
No offense.

Hamburg Eimsbüttel, July 22nd 2012.

I’m sure you’ve all heard of Vivian Maier, the street photographer whose thousands of photos were discovered just shortly after her death. There was even an exhibition about her work here in Hamburg, which I stupidly missed. Below is a touching short film about her and the photos she left behind. Have a nice sunday afternoon.

The boy walked by and was constantly staring at our office.
It’s kinda cool, yep.

Hamburg, July 21st 2012, iPhone 4S.
As long as Apple is improving the camera in newer iPhones I’ll buy it. Fuckyeah!

Florian Letsch:

…there lived a hobbit. Yes, I have finally made it to Matamata, or should I say Hobbiton?

This. Is. So. Cool.

Past week the Telekom invited some people to Bonn to visit the T-Gallery and talk about the future and which role Design will inherit. It was nice to see that there are smart people working on cool solutions. I hope they can realize their visions so that you can see more of them in the future. Thanks to Markus for inviting me and all the other people. I had a lot of fun meeting old friends and making new ones, see you next time.

I hope you remember my interview with Harry Roberts of csswizardry.com. At one point we talked about his presentation at the FrontTrends conference, which is now finally available for watching online. I encourage every Front End Developer to watch it and also read his blog.