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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I had to re-install custom firmware on my PS Vita PCH-2000 series (PS Vita Slim) today because the console kept crashing after a couple of seconds into booting. Luckily, my official 64 GB PS Vita memory card seems to be fine, so I did...
Cineville asked for my top 5 favorite movies with a German theatrical release in 2025, and it was nice to scroll through my notes and come up with a list. Honorable Mentions I Like Movies (Canada, directed and written by Chandler Levack)...
Katharina ist Teil einer wunderbaren Gruppe von 25 Menschen, die seit einigen Jahren gemeinsam einen Adventskalender gestalten. Jede teilnehmende Person fertigt 24 mal eine Kleinigkeit an, so dass am Ende jeder einen Kalender mit 24...
This year, I had the honor of being one of three grantees of Processing Foundation’s pr05 (pronounced “pros”) program. My task was to develop a new Processing mode that allows to create and run p5.js sketches inside the Processing...
I’ve had one of those wonderfully serendipitous encounters today, that I wouldn’t have had if I wasn’t maintaining a personal website and wouldn’t be interested in other people’s websites: I went to the Discover section of Bear...
I use the almighty ffmpeg a lot to convert, edit, and tag my personal media. This is a living document of my most used command line recipes. Setting Metadata ffmpeg -i in.mkv -map 0 \ -metadata title="…" -metadata:s:v:0 title="…" \...
Mahr (Spindle Soundtrack) by spindle-adventure on Soundcloud Autumn time is gaming time and since I recently finished a handful of projects, I decided to treat myself to action-adventure Spindle. Developed by German indie studio Wobble...
Das Kernstück meiner KalkKunst-2025-Ausstellung steht und ich bin sehr zufrieden mit dem Ergebnis. Vor allem wenn ich daran denke, wie meine ersten Visualisierungs- und Plot-Versuche ausgesehen haben. Ich bin heilfroh, dass ich die...
Eine schöne Sache, wenn so ein Konzertgang in den Geburtstag eines wunderbaren Freundes eingebettet ist. Definitiv ein Format, an das ich mich gewöhnen könnte. Am Nachmittag luden J & A zu Ehren von A’s sich divers jährendem 18....
I am super-excited to invite you to Open Assembly on October 29, 2025, 1:00–3:30pm EST, a global online festival where artists, coders, and educators come together to present their work on and with Processing tools. This year’s event...
Der letzte Stammtisch vor der Vernissage von KalkKunst 2025—25. Oktober, 18:00, Abenteuerhallen Kalk—war gleichzeitig mein erster. Bisherige Treffen kollidierten immer mit meinen Meetings im Rahmen des pr05 Grants der Processing...
Phew, barely made Bandcamp Friday. Thanks, time zones! The title translates to “Everybody knows that it’s gonna be fucking cold in winter” and comes from Pascow’s song Gottes Werk und Teufels Beitrag. Observing how both temperature and...
I will quote today’s issue of the Processing Foundation Mailing List because it sums up all you need to know if you are interested in creative coding with Processing and/or p5.js: Our pr05 grantee Stephan Max just released the first...
I had already made my peace with missing out on Andy’s workshop, but “thanks” to Covid he had to postpone and I was back in the game! This was huge for me because Andy’s influence on my perception of and approach to web design and...
Hier das versprochene Update zu meiner Ausbeute und einigen Ausstellenden, bei denen wir besonders viel Zeit am Stand verbacht haben. Von links nach rechts, oben nach unten: Das Programmheft der Between Books mit Raumplan (die...