- Ride the meticulously clean and comfortable public transport.
- Hear people talk and realise it has nothing to do with the spelling of the words.
- Look at all the beautiful buildings innovative architecture in Copenhagen.
- Visit the Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Odense and realise it’s been too long since you read any fairytales.
- Count the blonde people.
- Visit Frederiksborg Castle in Hillerød and hope you miraculously are descendent of Danish royalty.
- Spend a lot of money (it’s really easy).
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Categories: Places
May 17th, in the middle of the night, I suddenly found myself wondering: why can’t alternative music sound like other alternative music? I’d been to a concert, one I’m about to review, and my friend told me: “If you are going to write a review, you have to listen to Martha ‘Stewart’ Wainwright and Joanna Newsom first”. So, after figuring out she meant Martha Wainwright and not Martha Stewart, I realised I know her songs, and I googled Joanna Newsom, and yes, my friend was right. The music of Angus and Julia Stone sounds similar to that, I however fail to see the problem. And really, they are quite different. While Julia Stone has a trumpet, Joanna Newsom has a harp, and Martha Wainwright has … Rufus Wainwright.
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Categories: Discoveries · Melodies
Report of “Hello Creative World”, 24 April 2008.
The website for “Hello Creative World”, a conference on entrepreneurship in arts and creative education, informed me this event would “show a diversity of interactive tours, challenging climbs, relax cabins, physical training, exciting landscapes, and plenty of opportunities to share your knowledge and experience with a wide variety of Art Schools in Europe”. So, all prepared for an expedition, I arrived at the Dutch Design Center in Utrecht, a former furniture factory. Red and yellow ribbon led me to the Zagerij, where I was invited by the crew into a conference setting, beautifully decorated by artwork hanging from the ceiling. My visitor’s badge, very appropriate, was a Swiss army knife. I was very curious what this day had in store, because my background is not in arts. My drawing has never exceeded that of a ten year-old, and I would not consider myself very creative. I do have an interest in arts and education, and looked forward to hearing different voices and learning new things.
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Because this is a blog of reports and reviews, I thought it would be nice to share with you my new backyard. Just a few minutes away from my modest rooms in a shared house, lies the Vroesenpark, next to Blijdorp Zoo. |
I live in the middle of the city, and what is a city without a park? So I searched on Google Maps, and there it was, all shiny and green. I grabbed my bicycle, my camera and a book, and ventured out into the undiscovered.
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Categories: Discoveries
Report of “Test_Lab: Topology” at V2_ in Rotterdam, 17 April 2008.
Drawing parallels with the seminar on mapping at the Piet Zwart Institute, V2_ focused on the term topology in their latest edition of Test_Lab. V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, is located just off the Witte de Withstraat, the center of creative ideas and artistic outlets in Rotterdam, and thus the ideal location for this bimonthly event, which in this edition focused on how the term topology can be applied to various fields of art and research.
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Categories: Reports
Tagged: lab topology
Crossposted to Institute of Network Cultures Weblog.
Verslag van de bijeenkomst “Grenzeloze Nieuwsgierigheid”.
Op 31 maart 2008 vond in de Cruise Terminal in Rotterdam de bijeenkomst “Grenzeloze Nieuwsgierigheid” plaats. Naar aanleiding van een Manifest voor Nieuwsgierigheid, opgesteld en ondersteund door 23 van de grootste Nederlandse instellingen op het gebied van cultuur en ontwikkelingssamenwerking, werd deze bijeenkomst georganiseerd. Grenzeloze Nieuwsgierigheid was een middag vol debat én samenspraak met als doel nader tot elkaar te komen op het gebied van internationaal cultuurbeleid.
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Categories: Reports
Tagged: cultuurbeleid ontwikkelingssamenwerking conference
Hello people,
Welcome to my blog. This blog is meant for reports on conferences, events and anything else I want to voice my opinion about. I will be writing in English mostly, however the occasional post in Dutch might appear.
The past few years, I have been a New Media and Digital Culture major at Utrecht University, from which I soon will be graduating. I plan to finish a second Bachelors degree in English Language and Culture, before I venture out into the world and go look for a career… or something that pays the bills at least.
My interests are new media, people, music, film and everything that combines those. On the 31st of March I attended my first conference that I reported on, and I plan to do this kind of thing more often in the future. The report (in Dutch) will be in the next post.
On Thursday April 17th, I will be attending “Testlab: Topology” in V2_ in Rotterdam.
Categories: General
