🎵 My week in music (week #48)
🎵 My week in music (week #48)
Made a short visit with the family to ‘Self-publish or be damned’ at AG Utrecht. A beautiful ode to DIY publishing in various local subcultures in the past and present.
Made a short visit with the family to ‘Self-publish or be damned’ at AG Utrecht. A beautiful ode to DIY publishing in various subcultures in the past and present.
🎥 Avengers: Endgame (2019) ★ ★ ★ ½
🎵 I hadn’t heard of the tragic story following the death of Guru in 2010. Glad it all worked out eventually, mostly because of the perseverance of DJ Premier.
🎵 My week in music (week #47)
🎵 My week in music (week #46)
🎵 Concertino appears to be a very promising project, that wants to make Apple Music finally usable for classical music. Although the webapp is still very buggy on my iPhone… But an iOS app is in the works!
🎥 Return of the Jedi (1980) ★ ★ ★
🥾 Sunday afternoon walk in one of the oldest Ash forests of Western Europe. In use as a coppiced wood since the 13th century, it provides 85% of all ash wood demand in the world.
🎵 My week in music (week #45)
🎵 Music + Activism ❤️ Place: The Netherlands
”The Netherlands positions itself as progressive and open but to People of Colour and other minority groups it is very different. LGBTQIA+ refugees are the most marginalized and the most at risk.”
Sensory Optimization: Neural Networks as a Model for Understanding and Creating Art
This is not the best Hitchcock film, but I loved the monumental murder scene on the steps in the pouring rain. And hearing the actors trying to speak dutch phonetically made me laugh out loud.
🎥 Foreign Correspondent (1940) ★ ★ ★ ½
Love this idea of six seasons in a year by Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut: “There Are Six Seasons Instead of Four” (kottke.org)
Video and sound workshop on ‘Identity’ at Academy of Theatre and Dance Amsterdam
Had a great start of a new video and sound workshop at the Academy of Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam. We had a brief discussion on the fine art of mass manipulation, and on the uncanny similarities between this fake news fragment from a few days ago and the famous ‘Lambeth Walk’ parody of Nazi propaganda during the Second World War.
Already miss summer… (Bucharest sunset, august 2019)
🎵 My week in music (week #44)
Watching the most beautiful woman in the world comes at a price...
📚 Yet another book on my wish list. Reporting a year after the fact would be unheard of today Mr Straight Arrow: The Career of John Hersey, Author of Hiroshima
”All news was slow news. Emphasis was on style, substance and accuracy. Now it is on speed and sensation at any cost”
“Send your designs straight to hell”
🥾 Afternoon walk
🎵 My week in music (week #43)
World’s oldest pearl found in Abu Dhabi
“The discovery of the oldest pearl in the world in Abu Dhabi makes it clear that so much of our recent economic and cultural history has deep roots that stretch back to the dawn of prehistory.”
