🎵 My week in music (week #10 2020)
🎵 McCoy Tyner, Jazz Piano Powerhouse, Is Dead at 81 - The New York Times
”When you are thinking of Coltrane playing “My Favorite Things” or “A Love Supreme,” you may be thinking of the sound of Mr. Tyner almost as much as that of Coltrane’s saxophone.”
So true.
Great advice from Craig Federighi in his lecture at UC Berkeley:
“Assess the situation, make a choice, and then commit to it for a while, give yourself the opportunity to really experience it. Set yourself a deadline, and then assess what you wanna do next”
🎵♥️ Suddenly - Caribou ♥️
🎥 My neighbor Totoro (1988) ★★★
📚Currently reading The Act of Will by Roberto Assagioli.
Looking back at an interesting February Photo Blogging Challenge. It mostly worked out the way I had hoped, although the decision to challenge myself to only post photos from my hometown felt a bit too restrictive sometimes…
It’s easy to get cynical about the sustainability goals of our governments, but I’m grateful that my own local government of Utrecht at least has a vision regarding durable mobility, with plenty of cycle paths, bicycle bridges and even ‘bicycle highways’ like J. C. Verthorenkade.
”There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”
Martin Luther King jr. 💬
🎵 My week in music (week #9 2020)
🎥 Downtown ‘81 (2000) ★★★★
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Debbie Harry, Arto Lindsay, John Lurie, Vincent Gallo, Kid Creole, Fab 5 Freddy, Amos Poe, and the list goes on..! A strange but fascinating depiction of the NYC 1981 No Wave scene.
Jopen - Hop zij met ons gluten free IPA. ★★★
Houtzaagmolen De Ster (1739), Utrecht. Wood sawmills from the 17th and 18th centuries were able to mechanically saw wood 30 times faster, a great leap forward in those days. This invention contributed to the technological progress made during the Dutch Golden Age.
View from below rail station Utrecht Vaartsche Rijn
Watching a flock of geese, together. Kamerik Polder, Utrecht.
Had a great day at Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar. We very much enjoyed works by Louise Bourgeois, Anselm Kiefer, Anish Kapoor and Rineke Dijkstra, among others.
Bruntscameren (1621), Utrecht. These “God’s chambers” were small houses with only one room. They were built by both Catholics and Protestants to provide free accommodation (and often food and money) for poor people, as a way to escape the often harsh life in the city.
Medieval ingenuity: wharfs along the canal, used to unload merchandise from the ship straight into the wharf cellars without any hurdles. Nieuwegracht, Utrecht.
Double helix-shaped watchtower in Máxima Park, Utrecht
Entrance of Utrecht Central Station.
🎵My week in music (week #8 2020)
🌱 Sowing seeds collected from the nearby park.
Visual spectacle on Stadhuisbrug, Utrecht.
Progress (depending on how you look at it…). Utrecht is the fastest growing city in Europe: 39% relative growth from 1995-2014…
📚Very excited to read From A to B and Back Again - The philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975)
