Think your life is complicated?

Try surviving a day in Kaltstadt. A city born from a snowflake, it flickers between appearing and disappearing. Things vanish without a trace. Tomorrow shows up as yesterday. A bureaucratic monster, tormenting residents with pointless regulations. Everything grows increasingly dysfunctional, simply ungovernable. A catastrophe, but magnificent in a grand way.

Anyway. Where is this city, and how to get there? Kaltstadt exists in the mind of Daniel Ginelli, my mind. Getting there isn't exactly easy. Again, "easy" isn't a category Kaltstadt recognizes. Keep north.

Here's the plan. Stories are written, images emerge, music finds its sound. A map grows from fragments, designed to disorient you. For now, you can explore it here, on this website. But it won't stay that way - Kaltstadt never does. Everything remains vague, unstable - even its name can change in an instant. You can't rely on this city.

Don’t be fooled, though.‍ You wanted to visit? Careful - it's already visiting you. It appears in your thoughts and dreams. Run while you still can! Otherwise, you might end up like Carribee Joe:

"Well, you can take the boy out of the city, but you can't take the city out of the boy."