Articles by MrMantramonty

Schloss Buchhaufenstein in Süd-Literatüringen

Book World

A Good Book is like a Good friend. Yes.   Sup­port Your Local Book Store Where I live it’s usu­al­ly just as fast as Ama­zon! Book Fairs Near You MISS READ: The Berlin Art Book Fair & Fes­ti­val 2026 Fri 06/26/2026 — Sun 06/28/2026 Fes­ti­val Beton­halle   06/26: 5–9 pm06/27: […]

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Traffic – it’s a conundrum

Oh the many ways I’ve tried to tell my Image Cre­ator, that cars on a road usu­al­ly go in dif­fer­ent direc­tions – in one lane they come up towards the view­er, in the oth­er we usu­al­ly see them from behind because they are … AI does not seem to know […]

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AI Image Generation

Glossy but Faulty: The Illu­sion of Per­fec­tion At first glance, AI-gen­er­at­ed images daz­zle with their pol­ished aesthetics—vibrant col­ors, intri­cate details, and styles that mim­ic famous artists or futur­is­tic visions. Yet, the clos­er you look, the more flaws emerge: dis­tort­ed hands, unnat­ur­al light­ing, or sur­re­al land­scapes that defy physics. The pur­suit […]

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What is Life?

What Is Life? Let’s begin with the obvi­ous: you’re alive. Con­grat­u­la­tions. You’ve made it at least this far, which—statistically speaking—already sets you apart from a vast num­ber of missed oppor­tu­ni­ties at the very begin­ning of your exis­tence. But what does it actu­al­ly mean to be alive? Is it the way […]

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International Monkey Day

Mon­key Day, cel­e­brat­ed annu­al­ly on Decem­ber 14, is an unof­fi­cial glob­al hol­i­day ded­i­cat­ed to appre­ci­at­ing mon­keys, apes, and oth­er pri­mates. It is wide­ly used by activists and wildlife orga­ni­za­tions to raise aware­ness about pri­mate con­ser­va­tion, protest the exot­ic pet trade, and advo­cate for eth­i­cal ani­mal rights. If you dis­ap­prove of zoos, […]

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Kitsch

Accord­ing to Wal­ter Ben­jamin, kitsch, unlike art, is a util­i­tar­i­an object lack­ing all crit­i­cal dis­tance between object and observ­er.

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Tintin’s Timeless Appeal

Hergé’s Tintin is a com­ic clas­sic, a genre-defin­ing oeu­vre that still holds it own among a mod­ern media world of Man­ga and ani­ma­tion. But what exact­ly is it that makes it so unique and so durable?

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