Graduation (0)
9/01/10 •
Graduation ceremony yesterday – and a surprise: I graduated cum laude (with distinction). Now that is really cool!
Pic shows the dean of MaHKU and the heads of the 5 departments at the graduation ceremony. Klaas Hoek, who heads Fine Art (the one with the glasses) had a funny little speach prepared for all us Fine [...]
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You buy it, but it owns you (0)
8/31/10 •
As today is graduation day I’m ruminating on what all happened these last 12 months. Had a look through the pics that I have uploaded to this blog, the one you see here being the very first one. Funny to see that even then I had ‘play’ on my mind, even though the idea was [...]
Grownups around (0)
8/30/10 •
Yesterday was another Open Atelier day. Took the little girl and went early. Had a lot of visitors, FFF mainly and very nice to see them all in this setting. I don’t talk about MaHKU a lot and most were very surprised about the international orientation. Pic is of the little girl playing my essay.
Lots [...]
I don’t know (0)
8/29/10 •
My games usually create a sense of unease in grownp-ups, and nine out of ten ask the famous ‘what do I do’ or ‘what is this about’ question. I had one lady asserting that a game cannot be art, as these two are different categories.
I try to talk about the underlying idea of my games [...]
Only throw the soft balls (0)
8/29/10 •
In an earlier post I said that kids are the best experimenters. This seems not to be entirely true, as you can see.
Another observation: when kids play, parents start making up rules. “You can only bounce balls off that wall”, “Only throw the soft balls”. No doubt they don’t want their offspring to break things [...]
