https://www.marcelwinatschek.com I’m an artist, writer, designer, photographer, hacker, typographer, illustrator, director, traveler, and popular culture enthusiast who has lived, worked, and studied in Germany, Japan, China, Spain, France, Britain, Italy, Canada, Portugal, and the United States, among other inspiring places. My passions include apocalyptic cinema, millennial tunes, and deliberate sustenance. This notebook is a collection of my stories, thoughts, and experiences, including philosophical essays on life, art, music, books, technology, movies, fashion, travel, games, and food, as well as photos, videos, and interesting discoveries I stumbled upon on the internet. en https://www.marcelwinatschek.com/2026/4/1/websites-i-like/ Websites about life that I like: Be Wrong, Bix Frankonis, Brian Koberlein, Conception of Concepts, Coda, Cory Doctorow, Craig Mod, Culture: An Owner’s Manual, From Jason, Go With the Flow, How to Japanese, Jose M. Gilgado, Kai-You, Keenan, LessWrong, Longest Voyage, Lux Magazine, Matt Alt, Manuel Moreale, Monocle, New Scientist, One From Nippon, Open Culture, Pink Tentacle, Pluralistic, Popular Science, ProPublica, Quanta Magazine, Read Something Wonderful, Real Life Magazine, Rest of World, Sabukaru, Scrmbl, Secretorum, Some Studies, SoraNews24, Starbreaker, Tatsumoto, The Atlantic, The Creative Independent, The Dial, The Guardian, The Intercept, The Japan Times, The Nonfiction, The Stone Bridge, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Public Domain Review, What Japan Thinks, Wikipedia, Work in Progress, Yokogao Magazine. https://www.marcelwinatschek.com/2026/4/1/websites-i-like/ Wed, 1 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.marcelwinatschek.com/2026/3/11/the-depressed-girl/ Chiaki’s dead, comes a quiet voice from the other side of the table. Ichika’s eyes search for sympathy, but Kana doesn’t understand a word. Chiaki… which Chiaki? Chiaki Sano? Ichika replies. We were in the same class. The curly-haired one? Ichika nods. What happened? I don’t know. She didn’t leave a note. She killed herself? Yes. With a door handle, at her parents’ house. She used her Mac charger. Was the cable long enough? No idea. https://www.marcelwinatschek.com/2026/3/11/the-depressed-girl/ Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.marcelwinatschek.com/2026/3/10/a-weekend-among-dreamers/ Video games are the only art form that can distract my self-diagnosed ADHD brain to such an extent that I don’t constantly slip into self-destructive thoughts or reach for my phone to let pseudo-social media wash over me. https://www.marcelwinatschek.com/2026/3/10/a-weekend-among-dreamers/ Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.marcelwinatschek.com/2026/3/8/the-man-between-masks/ Philipp has probably long since forgotten why his evenings consist of sitting alone in his small apartment somewhere in Tokyo, enjoying a modest bento box with a cold canned beer, staring out the window and watching people on the other side whose lives have taken different directions. https://www.marcelwinatschek.com/2026/3/8/the-man-between-masks/ Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.marcelwinatschek.com/2026/3/7/my-only-constant/ The questions that occupy me most when designing this website are: Who am I? What do I want? And what’s the point of any of this? 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