Yesterday a kestrel was chasing a songbird through my garden. He swooped down past the roof, the tiny bird in front of him making a hard break to the left.

Meine Kurzgeschichten-Sammlung mit dem Titel Bravour ist auf Amazon erschienen. Sie handelt von dem Werbetexter Rowini30, der für die Wiener Agentur Bravour Abenteuer auf der ganzen Welt bestreitet.

I was doing Chess Puzzles while listening to France Musique, and after a while a show started that was dedicated to variations on Pete Seeger’s Where Have All the Flowers Gone. Read more in this week’s edition of the R30 newsletter.

A play I wrote around the end of 2022. It’s a take on the Odysseus saga, featuring the heroes and their deeds in a modern setting. It’s written in verse, kinda. An important step to Bravour.

My first Youtube interview. Talked with Devin Holody about ’the pitfalls and opportunities of Art & Artificial Intelligence’. Too long. Not edited. The next talk will get cut down to ten minutes.

Cat on the Olive Mount in Jerusalem. I guess I called it ‘Temple Mount Cat’ because it sounds cooler. But actually this kitty was crawling up an olive tree on top of the other Mount. Nice scene. Afternoon light. Serene.

This is based off a photograph I took in Jerusalem in 2014. People holding a funeral service at the graveyard near the Olive Mount. The text is some poem I wrote on the fly. When I painted it. See below for translation.

Vineyard in Lower Austria, where I lived at the time. Nice, serene. Not too unhappy with this one. Figured a wine-maker could use it for promotional material. You still can! Just contact me.