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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Since I missed Electric Callboy’s Tekkno World Tour, I thought I’d treat myself to the next best thing: The Pizza and Dosibier Tour of Electric Callboy guitarist Daniel Haniß’ side project Samurai Pizza Cats and Germany‘s rapcore enfant...
My dad, Ingolf Max, has a Wikipedia entry. (German only.) That’s it. That’s the story. And as good a reason as any to tell the Internet that I am proud of my parents. Not for making it onto Wikipedia, but for leading a life of curiosity.
It’s KölnTag and I had the chance to visit two very different sights today: A 2,000-year-old hidden monument and a museum full of contemporary art and design. The Ubier Monument Hidden between normal residential houses, you will find the...
My wife and I started to read a couple of pages of illustrator Christoph Niemann’s book Sunday Sketching every single morning over a hot beverage—a custom we established and came to really enjoy over the last year. It was not until...
Hallo Leipzig, du stadtgewordenes Potenzial, Partizipation und Subkultur. Grün bist du! Frischluft begeisterte Studierende treffen an Tischtennisplatten und in Parks auf sportliche Senior*innen. Gründer*innen erwecken alte Gebäude mit...
PROCJAM is back! The game jam, that is about making something that makes something, started its 2023 edition on itch.io. I am afraid I won’t have time to submit anything although the rules are very relaxed: You can even submit after the...
I just recently learned about post-hardcore trio Future Palace from Berlin and immediately fell for their sound. What a pleasant suprise that they would not play one, but two live shows in Cologne in December. Unfortunately, both shows...
I stumbled upon the album Tekkno by Electric Callboy, formerly known as Eskimo Callboy, while looking for new metalcore music. After having been treated with ten absolute bangers of sheer genre-mashup-madness somewhere between metalcore,...
The reMarkable 2 is a wonderful device that has served me well for more than two years now. I use it daily for tasks ranging from bullet-journaling, over e-reading, to working through and annotating scientific papers. One of the biggest...
I owe much more to this city than the following notes. But until time and writing skills allow me to properly pay tribute to Valencia, this will have to do. Getting from A to B Get EMT’s Bonobús card for €8.50 (+ 2€ deposit for the card)...