Past Nows

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reading Winter by Ali Smith.
listening to the self-titled album by The Olympians on repeat.
watching Midnight Diner and Samurai Gourmet.
still baking sourdough bread on a weekly basis, working on consistency – a new hobby I picked up during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
watching (some) snow fall.

reading Before the coffee gets cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi.
listening to Putting The Days To Bed by The Long Winters on repeat.
watching Midnight Diner and Samurai Gourmet.
still baking sourdough bread on a weekly basis, finally able to consistently produce a good loaf – a new hobby I picked up during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
walking Berlin.

reading How to Do Nothing (Resisting the Attention Economy) by Jenny Odell.
still listening to Home by Hania Rani, still on repeat.
still baking sourdough bread on a weekly basis, finally able to consistently produce a good loaf – a new hobby I picked up during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
walking Berlin.

reading Kudos by Rachel Cusk.
listening to Home by Hania Rani on repeat.
still baking sourdough bread on a weekly basis, finally able to consistently produce a good loaf – a new hobby I picked up during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
walking Berlin.

reading Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.
listening to Persona by Rival Consoles.
still baking sourdough bread on a weekly basis, more often than not succeeding – a new hobby I picked up during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
walking in Berlin.

reading Autumn by Ali Smith.
studying several books around the theme of walking for a photographic project that I’ve started:
- The Arcades Project and Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
- Keep Walking Intently by Lori Waxman
- Species of Spaces and Other Pieces and An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris by Georges Perec
- Situationist International Anthology by Ken Knabb.
experimenting with said photographic project over at amble.blog.
melting in the heat wave that swept over Berlin the last week or two.

studying several books around the theme of walking for a photographic project that I’ve started:
- The Arcades Project and Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
- Keep Walking Intently by Lori Waxman
- Species of Spaces and Other Pieces and An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris by Georges Perec
- Situationist International Anthology by Ken Knabb.
experimenting with said photographic project over at amble.blog.
listening to Wandering EP by Yosi Horikawa.
still baking sourdough bread, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding – a new hobby I picked up during the COVID-19 lockdowns.

reading Species of Spaces and Other Pieces by Georges Perec.
reading The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien.
listening to Resonate by Lettuce on repeat.
procrastinating
- instead of working on a photo book titled The Dew of the Morning.
- experimenting on modern flânerie by building a piece of software generating random walks for me to discover/rediscover my environment, my perception of it, and myself.
wandering according to the software I built, camera in hand, and documenting everything on amble.blog.
still baking sourdough bread, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding – a new hobby I picked up during the COVID-19 lockdowns.

reading Species of Spaces and Other Pieces by Georges Perec.
listening to Highlight by Skalpel on repeat.
working on a photo book titled The Dew of the Morning.
making the first successful sourdough bread loaves, a new hobby I picked up during the COVID-19 lockdowns.

reading Transit by Rachel Cusk.
listening to the self-titled album by The Olympians on repeat.
working on a photo book titled The Dew of the Morning.
picking up a new hobby in baking sourdough bread, like so many other people started during the COVID-19 lockdowns.