The wind rises
1/09/22 •
Am spending the weekend at the Utrecht appartment of our eldest girl, she being engaged in helping move a friend to Berlin. It was lovely to take morning walks in the old town, where she lives. First one yesterday – an unnaturally quiet Saturday morning, as Covid restrictons meant only food stores were open, and […]
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Futures
1/08/22 •
Have been bitten by the code bug – again – which made for a great Xmas-NwYears holiday. Inbetween decorating, visiting, cooking and eating (all very fine) I did code. Which for me is very exiting and satisfying stuff. So what happened? Well, I’ve been studying the question of how we have been shaping the Netherlands […]
Fly on my own
12/19/21 •
I’m ready to fly on my own! At least, the MailChimp people think so … Wrestled some to get MailChimp set up so I can send emails to my subscribers. These happy people have been getting my feeds via Feedburner, then via Follow.It but I discontinued this, being very dissatisfied with the ads they added […]
Don’t follow it
12/19/21 •
Horror! I noticed I am sending my email subscribers the worst sort of spam – added by FollowIt to the blogs I send out – this is NOT something I want to be part of. So if you read this – my deepest apologies. I will discontinue this service a.s.a.p. Meaning: after you have gotten […]
Call them on this
12/18/21 •
Went to Museum More in Gorssel – Modern Realism, and I’d never been. Realism has never actually been dead in the 20th century, of course, even though the art pundits organised a funeral for it with recurring frequency. The MORE people had a retrospective of the work of Pat Andrea – women in weird shapes, […]
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9/07/21 •
Style4/20/20 •
Kicked into gear4/09/20 •
Delicate balancing7/15/18 •
Next spring5/11/18 •
Villa Augustus1/31/18 •
Head-butting3/26/17 •
Thanks, Theo!9/06/15 •
Sources8/29/15 •
Itching2/21/14 •
A system that does not produce uniformity2/12/14 •
En Avant6/10/13 •
Warm embraces2/05/13 •
To transfer harmony9/09/12 •
Elegance11/23/11 •
Books11/13/11 •
Aldo van Eyck – Amsterdam nov 20115/29/11 •
Value for money – Utrecht sept 20111/29/11 •
Sometimes doing something leads to nothing – Brussel jan 20114/26/10 •
Sophie Calle’s algorithms3/14/10 •
Brilliant, orange meta-perception2/15/10 •
Huizinga: Homo Ludens2/09/10 •
Carsten Höller at Boijmans