Ben Sahlmüller
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Burn the Boat
My first evening off since L’s birth was on the night of October 4th. A friend of mine was heading south for a 24 hours adventure and offered me to join for the Donggang Welcomes the Kings Peace Ceremony 東港迎王平安祭典, a triennial spiritual event I had filed in my head under The Big Boat Burning…
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On the work of Krzysztof Kieslowski
Krzysztof Kieslowski was a Polish director and screenwriter most popular for his films of the 1990s. Given he usually collaborated with the trial lawyer Krzysztof Piesiewicz, it might be warranted to address ‘him’ as The Krzysztofs, but I’ll stick to hagiographical third person singular common in the auteur sphere. Kieslowski’s movies have a timeless, often…
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![A photo of an iPad, featuring the MUBI subpage of Herzog's movie Grizzly Man.]()
Werner Herzog, Grizzly Man
An existential portrait of Timothy Treadwell, an outcast living with grizzlies—until they killed him.
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Notes on Taking Very Many Screenshots
Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella introduced a new feature called “Recall”. The idea is simple: Your Windows computer will take automatic screenshots every few minutes and store them locally on your computer. This will create a memory stream for an integrated AI bot – which in turn means you can talk with it about much of…
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Notes on Storytelling
How stories help us to address the big challenges of our times. And why our obsession with them makes it almost impossible.
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Notes on Malcolm Gladwell
Notes on Malcolm Gladwell. “You can be fun and playful and earnest nonetheless.”
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![A curled young woman standing on a stone path on Maokong hill close to Taipei. The sun is shining through the leaves around her. She is smiling warmly.]()
Anna
Photo Journal | 2023-11-30
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![A portrait of a woman, wearing a white shirt and a grey jacket and smiling into the camera. The image is taken spontaneously in the streets of Jiufen. Some of the houses can be seen warm and blurred in the background.]()
A Different World
Photo Journal | 2023-11-29
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![Taipei 101, as seen from a street below it. The branch of a tree seem to stretch towards it. There are warm fairy lights on the branch. At its north side, Taipei 101 is dressed by a giant LED screen which points towards us. The LEDs are lightened in rainbow colors.]()
Proud & Open
Photo Journal | 2023-11-28
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Be Water My Friend
Photo Journal | 2023-11-27
