Stephan Max
Stephan Max
Stephan Max
My website is a personal website about all the little things that shape my existence; from the concerts I went to, over Creative Coding projects, to random thoughts on life and the people around me.
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Processing Community Lead Raphaël de Courville just posted Building Bridges. Wrapping-Up the 2025 pr05 Developer Grant Program, which is a great write-up of one of my professional and personal highlights of last year. Triggers some...
I think Jonathan Snook summarized it perfectly when he made Organize around passions, not destinations one of his travel tips. One of my passions is cooking and I try to take a cooking class wherever I go, preferably in a home or small...
Going Home/Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 by Albie Sachs; recording by Warrick Swinney When Dr. Phokeng Setai—one of six curators of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa—finished our tour at the old Dusthouse—an architectural remnant...
We did a museum day today and visited the Iziko South African Museum and the Iziko South African National Gallery. Iziko is isiXhosa for “hearth” and an organization that operates 11 national museums in Cape Town under the label Iziko...
With circles we enter the world of pi, astronomy, and trigonometry. Naturally, creative coders and generative artists are drawn to this shape as well. This is the accompanying note for the eponymous zine that I created for Zinetausch #10...
The square; four straight lines of equal length and four equal angles. What sounds like the most boring of the quadrilaterals has an almost magical aura. Think about the sides of a dice, the chessboard, or the floor area of the Egyptian...
I did it! Yesterday I finished my three zines—well, six, because three are Jenni’s return-of-investment—zines.cool’s Zinetausch #10—mere hours before our flight to Cape Town. I am so happy that I made it and it was incredible fun! But...
The first Bandcamp Friday purchase of 2026 is a nod to the random happenstances that are music recommendations and my eclectic taste in music. Macrowaves (including the absolute banger Skylight) and Firing Squad (new-ish track feat....
Ich arbeite mich immer noch durch Schöpferisch leben von Verena Kast. An einigen Stellen habe ich das Gefühl, mein Lesen würde von einem Psychologie-Studium profitieren, aber dann versorgt mich das Buch auch wieder mit den perfekten...
Das PhilharmonieLunch hat nichts mit Essen zu tun. Stattdessen ist mensch eingeladen die halbe Stunde von 12:00 bis 12:30 bei einer Probe in der Kölner Philharmonie kostenfrei zu verbringen. Ein starkes Konzept, von dem ich schon einige...
This is the accompanying website for the eponymous zine that I created for Zinetausch #10 by zines.cool. Here I collect further information and helpful links, and I hope—although conceived as auxiliary information for the physical...
I saw the trailer for Bryan Fuller’s first feature-length film Dust Bunny at the movies yesterday, and that reminded me of a snarky comment I heard in one of Fuller’s amazing TV series the other day. When a computer loses it with a meter...
Wirf deine Angstin die LuftBaldist deine Zeit umbaldwächst der Himmelunter dem Grasfallen deine Träumeins NirgendsNochduftet die Nelkesingt die Drosselnoch darfst du liebenWorte verschenkennoch bist du daSei was du bistGib was du hast...
Da die letzten Tage etwas bewegungsarm waren, „besteige“ ich heute zum dritten Mal den Monte Troodelöh. Das habe ich vor, seit wir Stempelkissen im Haus haben—doch dazu später mehr. Das Wetter ist gerade unter aller Sau, daher sind die...
Die gute Lisa—die du vielleicht schon von ihren Kurzvideos zum Thema Tierschutz kennst—hat ein Workbook für Kinder mit dem Namen Fühl mal, wie es den Tieren geht geschrieben und jetzt in einer Auflage von 1000 Stück drucken lassen. Eine...