Leitha Matz

@leithamatz.com

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Working online since forever. Technology product person by profession, artsy/athletic in my free time. Space adventure “Oh,That Night!” / “Ach, Diese Nacht!” is available now!

Design differences: Oxo Vegetable peeler 2026 edition (left) and 2020 edition (right)
Elegant green origami shape by Erik and Martin Demaine
Penny on the cobblestones
Paperback book: The Web 2027 by Graham Joyce, Peter F Hamilton, Maggie Furey
“Childhood’s End” describing a disturbing utopia. “Do you realize that every day something like five hundred hours of radio and TV pour out over the various channels? If you went without sleep and did nothing else, you could follow less than a twentieth of the entertainment that's available at the turn of a switch! No wonder that people are becoming passive sponges - absorbing but never creating. Did you know that the average viewing time per person is now three hours a day? Soon people won't be living their own lives any more. It will be a full-time job keeping up with the various family serials on TV!”
Ed Crumb, a large soft sculpture, sits in a chair beside the bookcase holding a copy of the “Oh, That Night!” book.
Person smiling in a home setting and holding a child with two picture books.
Black smoke rising above a quiet street.
A power socket that appears to have eyes, a mouth and a nose configured in a position that resembles surprise.
The meeting point of two train cars in the Munich train station with headlights that seem line up like silhouetted faces.
Sign in an orchard near Feltre that says, “Attenzione - Robot in Movimento”
Screenshot of the Merlin Bird App, which identified the 6am songs of the Eurasian Wryneck, the European Serin, the Common Redstart and Chatfinch and of course, the Eurasian Blackbird.
My bike at the Ortler Hof Self-Service Apple stand outside of Schlanders. Cup of cold apple juice, 50 cents.
Section of a tourism sign along the Via Claudia Augusta bike path in English, German and Italian: “8.000 italian "names" of villages, mountains, rivers in South Tyrol were invented by the fascist dictatorship in the process of "italianizing" our region. As Europeans and democrats we Tyroleans condemn this cultural crime. The democratic governments of the Republic of Italy have never apologized for the actions taken during the time of the dictatorship - let alone reversed them. South Tyrol, in the 21st century Tell that Your friends!”
Selfie of me and my bike at the top of the Fernpass in Austria.
A Via Claudia Augusta path sign at the top of the Fernpass section, describing the various historical deities that travelers dedicated prayers and coins to honor, including Hercules, Mercury and Epona.
Wood-fired pizza with pepperoni, onions, peppers and cheese.
Image of the Alps looming in the distance above a German town.
An image of me with my bike, packed up for a journey on Car Free Day.
Touring bike in the window of a hotel room.
Paper-cut illustration of space and one of the geysers on Triton, a moon orbiting Neptune.
Pile of books (in English) including “User Story Mapping,” “A Gentleman in Moscow,” “Quiet,” “Value Proposition Design,” “Fight Club,” “Père Goriot” and “Lonely Planet Berlin”
Screenshot from the Flora Incognita app from Technische Universitat lImenau
Merlin Bird ID app screenshot featuring their bird of the day, the Merlin.
The laundry app, AppWash displays a message that it cannot reach the server and therefore cannot log in.
John Heartfield’s „Die Saat des Todes“ (The Seeds of Death), depicting a skeleton that strews little swastikas across the ground.
Picture of me with my bike in the park back when the gears still worked.
Hasenheide parkrun volunteer photo with photobombing by the RD.
Pedestrians, small children on push bikes and chalk drawings on the street and sidewalk.
A poll at the local polling station, displaying signs for accessibility and pointing to the local election voting location.
Comparison of the public housing double bedroom in six countries, smallest to largest: Chile, China, Spain, Netherlands, England and Switzerland.
A bunch of flowers and a salad bowl in the aisle of the supermarket.
Elevated U1/U3 Metro line alongside the Landwehr Canal stretching out into the distance with clouds reflected on the still water.
Two tall, bare-branch trees with at least 25 crows in them and one more still in the air.
Damp, cold Görli Bahnhof train tracks under cloudy, pigeon-filled skies on the winter solstice.
Dramatic lighting over a stage with three guitar players, a synth player and drummer and a female vocalist.
Bear Creek Greenbelt parkrun
Dish of Bric-à-brac, including a screwdriver and a carved crane in flight at the Puces de Canal in Lyon.
Dresden Hauptbahnhof platform illuminated with long shadows on a short December day.
Enormous, fuchsia peony blossom against a sunny white wall.