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2023-03-16: As a follow up of this previous post, I decided to let Midjourney also generate an image based on a …

2023-03-16: “Why, then, do you wonder that good men are shaken in order that they may grow strong? No tree …

2023-03-14: Midjourney AI is amazing. I signed up and took it for a spin with my youngest daughter. We decided …

2023-03-13: 🌱 More than a week later than last year, our almond tree decided to hold its inaugural spring event …

2023-03-06: 🎵 You know you must have been doing something right when your 15-year-old comes home with an Aphex …

2023-03-04: 🎥 Back to the Future Part II (1989) ★★★ Not nearly as good as the original, but a feast for the eyes …

2023-03-03: 🎵 The Veils - …And Out of the Void Came Love (2023) A few songs were published as a pre-release a …

2023-02-28: 🎥 All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) ★★★★ Part artist retrospective, part activist cinema, All …

2023-02-28: 🎥 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) ★★★ We watched the digitally restored classic on Disney …

2023-02-28: 🎥 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) ★★★ We hadn’t high hopes for this latest Marvel …

2023-02-26: 🎥 The Batman (2022) ★★★½ Dark and moody, with a great detective-like plot and a young, inexperienced …

2023-02-22: 🎥 Im Westen nichts Neues (2022) ★★★½ Graphic, yet nuanced.

2023-02-18: Preparing my favourite food tonight: Indonesian. And all vegan this time: the meaty texture of …

2023-02-04: 🎥 Quiz Show (1994) ★★★½ Lately, I somehow daisy chain together the films I watch based on one of the …

2023-02-04: 🌱 Today was a calm, almost spring like day and I decided to start pruning the fruit trees in our …

2023-01-29: 🎥 Twilight (1998) ★★★ Probably the last film by Robert Benton I will watch. It was not a great film, …

2023-01-28: 🎥 Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) ★★½ Again a lot of visual spectacle (especially in 3D) but again a …

2023-01-28: “I believe when my work arrives at one mood, it’s as if I am praying.” – Morton Feldman …

2023-01-26: 🎥 Nobody’s Fool (1994) ★★★½ After Kramer vs. Kramer, I decided to watch another film directed …

2023-01-23: 🎵 Ryuichi Sakamoto’s latest album 12 is one of his best albums yet. A heartfelt, yet beautiful …

2023-01-22: ⚽️ FC Utrecht 1 - 1 Feyenoord, Galgenwaard Utrecht (8 Jan 2023). Every once in a while, we like …

2023-01-22: 🎥 Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) ★★★★ Somehow, I’m watching a lot of classic Family Drama films lately. …

2023-01-21: 🥾This afternoon we had an unexpected but very enjoyable walk in the wintery forests of Doorn.

2023-01-19: 🎥 Ordinary People (1980) ★★★★½ 4 times Oscar winner. The directorial debut of Robert Redford. What a …

2023-01-16: 🎥 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) ★★★½ Yet another film by Philip Kaufman. Great build up of …

2023-01-15: 🎥 The Right Stuff (1983) ★★★★ Just realised that I already watched an earlier - and just as great - …

2023-01-15: 🎥 The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) ★★★★ A young Juliette Binoche and Daniel Day-Lewis (among …

2023-01-12: Yay! As of today (and with a little help from @Manton :), I’m running my micro.blog from my …

2023-01-07: 🎥 Fear and Desire (1953) ★★★ Stanley Kubrick’s directorial debut, and I liked it very much. I …

2023-01-06: While working on a new project proposal, I came across this great quote by Albert Einstein: …

2023-01-04: 🎥 Avatar (2009) ★★★ Rewatch with the family at home, in preparation for the sequel in our local …

2023-01-02: 🎥 White Noise ★★★ Watched with friends. We agreed that it was a well made film with a lot of visual …

2022-12-30: I’m looking at the statistics on my micro.blog and I think I found my natural blogging rhythm: …

2022-12-27: “The conscious is a theatre with a single seat…” – Douwe Draaisma 💬

2022-12-26: Currently reading: Het Verborgen Raderwerk: Over Tijd, Machines En Bewustzijn (1990) by Douwe …

2022-12-25: 🎥 Scrooge (1970) ★★★½ & A Christmas Carol (1984) ★★★★ Both films bring back vivid memories from …

2022-12-25: 🎥 The Fallout (2021) ★★★★ Beautifully shot and heartfelt film written and directed by Megan Park, …

2022-12-22: Short visit to the exhibition Vensters in Museum IJsselstein, while I was there to create some …

2022-12-15: 📚 Finished reading: The Stoic Challenge by William B. Irvine. Unfortunately, not nearly as good as A …

2022-12-05: Last Friday, I went to an interesting symposium as part of the exhibition Mountains and Molehills in …

2022-12-03: 🌱🦔 Just reinstalled the camera inside our hedgehog house. Last year, it stopped working halfway …

2022-11-28: Imagine Intuition exhibition - Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden. Highlight of the show was Mother and …

2022-11-27: 🎵 My week in music (week #47 2022) The posthumously released album HOME.S. by Esbjörn Svensson was …

2022-11-20: 🌱🐝 Remnants of this season’s bumblebee nest inside our hedgehog house. Fascinating structure. I also …

2022-11-20: “Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.” ― Theodore Roosevelt 💬

2022-11-19: 📺 The Bear (2022) ★★★★ Just finished watching this excellent series. Great plot. Vivid, raw …

2022-11-15: “We cannot always control what happens in our life, but we can always control what we do with what …

2022-11-15: 🌱 The last batch of this year’s homegrown apples found their way into the slow juicer. They’re …

2022-11-14: 📚 Started reading The Stoic Challenge by William B. Irvine. Very curious how it compares to A Guide …

2022-11-13: 🎵 My week in music (week #45 2022) A lot of Claude Debussy, Herbie Hancock and Joe Farrell this past …

2022-11-12: 🎥 Back to the Future (1985) ★★★★ Enjoyed watching this childhood classic with the whole family …

2022-11-09: 🎵 Listening to Claude Debussy’s beautiful Three Nocturnes before sleeping. It has been a very …

2022-11-06: 📚🎵 Currently re-reading: Hearing and Writing Music: Professional Training for Today’s Musician …

2022-11-06: 🌱 We just unpacked the Bonsai Starter Kit my daughter got as a birthday gift, and learned about …

2022-11-06: 🎵 Sunday morning Jazz-Funk vibes with this great 1975 album 900 Shares of the Blues by Joe Farrell, …

2022-11-05: 🎥 Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) ★★½ Watched with my youngest daughter, who got …

2022-10-30: 🎵 Giving the highly anticipated new album And I Have Been… by Benjamin Clementine a first listen, …

2022-10-30: 🎥 The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) Getting ready for watching yet another Bond film, this time …

2022-10-30: 🎵 My week in music (week #43 2022) The opening track Who gives a thought on Brian Eno’s …

2022-10-26: 🎵 Recording voice-overs for an upcoming soundwalk. First time I put the pre-amps of my new Allen …

2022-10-25: 🎥 Live and Let Die (1973) ★★★ In my quest of watching every Bond in chronological order, I got …

2022-10-24: 🥾 Halo around the sun, spotted during a walk in the forest last weekend.

2022-10-23: Finished reading: In de huid van de Boeddha by Paul van der Velde 📚 This is a great book that gives …

2022-10-22: 🎵 Weather Alive, beautiful new album by Beth Orton. Introspective, atmospheric, her best album yet. …

2022-10-22: 🌱 Just saved a 40+ year old cactus from dying. At least the viable parts that were left of it. Or so …

2022-10-20: 🎥 Enemy of the State (1998) ★★★½ Started watching by chance on television and never stopped. Very …

2022-10-17: 🏳️‍⚧️ The world is getting a bit more inclusive by the day…

2022-10-16: 🌱🐝🦔 I wanted to clean up the hedgehog house for the winter, since I wasn’t expecting a lot of …

2022-10-16: 🎥 Diamonds are Forever (1971) ★★ The last Bond with Sean Connery didn’t age well… …

2022-10-14: A Day in the Life. Rainy morning commute on a bicycle bridge. Utrecht, Netherlands. 14 October 2022, …

2022-10-13: 🎵 Such a great and timeless song..! Moonlight Mile by The Rolling Stones.

2022-10-09: Had a lovely weekend in Alkmaar, with delicious vegetarian Indian food and an exhibition in …

2022-10-02: Found the perfect destination for this year’s harvest of almonds: toasted and crumbed, on top of a …

2022-09-29: 🎥 Hellraiser (1987) ★★★★ I guess it was time to finally watch this 80s classic. A proper horror …

2022-09-25: 🌱 Cracking almonds can be a fun and even mindful activity (once you get the hang of it and only when …

2022-09-24: First time making jam from grapes from our garden. Found an interesting recipe with rosemary, …

2022-09-24: 🌱 Harvest time! A modest but first ever batch of black grapes, a plentiful harvest of almonds and …

2022-09-24: “If you have a garden in your library, we will want for nothing.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero 💬

2022-09-18: 🎥 Lightyear (2022) ★★ & Luck (2022) ★★½. Knowing ‘Lightyear’ was Andy’s …

2022-08-29: 📚 My oldest daughter and I are starting a new experiment: reading the same book together, chapter by …

2022-08-28: 🌱Tulips in the garden of our old house (2006, one of the first photos taken with my old Nikon dslr) …

2022-08-28: I love new technology and gadgets, but pride myself on being pretty conservative regarding upgrading …

2022-08-21: 🎵 Great album, great backstory: In the 1970s, Jamaica, and in particular its reggae musicians, …

2022-08-20: It was pretty crowded along the track of the first stage of La Vuelta in Utrecht, a team time trial. …

2022-08-13: 🌱 Made a delicious pasta dish tonight, with a creamy sauce with homegrown sage, parmesan and lemon. …

2022-08-10: 🌱 Last year we finally could harvest some plums, after waiting in vain for about 5 years. I remember …

2022-08-07: 🎵 This song by the great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is one of the best and most intense examples of …

2022-08-07: 🎵 The Amsterdam based Radio Garden project keeps getting better and better! From time to time, I …

2022-08-06: While watching a timelapse of the recent blooming of an Amorphophallus Titanum in Leiden, I read …

2022-08-06: 📺 Ms. Marvel (2022) ★★½ A Marvel series that checks all the storytelling boxes. Colourful and vivid, …

2022-08-03: 🌱 Unfortunately our hedgehog house isn’t in use this season, despite plenty of hedgehog activity in …

2022-07-29: 🎥 You Only Live Twice (1967) ★★½ Except maybe for the gigantic stage designs, I didn’t like anything …

2022-07-29: 📚 Excited to begin reading Synesthesia by Richard E. Cytowic. Very curious to find out how the field …

2022-07-28: Went to the exhibition Come Alive, on eroticism as a creative energy, in beautiful Muntgebouw in …

2022-07-25: Short visit with the family to beautiful Landhuis Oud-Amelisweerd, just an half hour bike ride from …

2022-07-24: 🌱 Upon arriving home after a short holiday, I found this ‘fledgeling’ in our garden. Probably left …

2022-07-24: Finished re-reading: Ja-maar wat als alles lukt? / druk 1 (2005) by Berthold Gunster. A …

2022-07-21: 🌧 Rather enjoying a drizzly, rainy day today, a welcoming contrast with the heatwave of the past …

2022-07-18: 🎵Enjoying a much needed short holiday at the coast (and arrived just in time for the incoming heat …

2022-07-15: 🎥 Thunderball (1965) ★★★ I was pretty skeptical beforehand, but I actually did enjoy this one. Maybe …

2022-07-13: 🌱 Synchronised Nuptial flight of three (?!) ant colonies in our garden. Different colonies of the …

2022-07-04: 🎥 Goldfinger (1964) ★★★½ You can’t deny the blatant misogyny in this third James Bond …

2022-06-30: Enjoying the final projects of my hard working students, during the graduation show of the HKU …

2022-06-26: Today’s pale colour palette pretty accurately matches my current mood…

2022-06-26: 🎥 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) ★★½ Stephen Strange, somewhere, in an …

2022-06-23: 🎥 From Russia With Love (1963) ★★★ To me, Lotte Lenya as Rosa Klebb was the real Bond Girl here.

2022-06-23: 🌱 There’s nothing like the fresh smell of boiling jam from homegrown raspberries and redcurrants…

2022-06-12: 🎵 Andrew Bird - Inside Problems ★★★★ Great new album by Andrew Bird, harking me back to the great …

2022-06-11: 🌱 Blooming sage in the morning sun. For the first time since we planted it years ago (but used its …

2022-06-11: 🌱 There are literally hundreds of ladybird beetles living in our garden right now. I already spotted …

2022-06-07: 🎵 I finally found some time to edit the field recordings I made during our recent trip to …

2022-06-06: Tried out three new Indonesian recipes tonight: Bebotok Ikan (spicy fish packets), Sayur Lodeh …

2022-06-04: 🏳️‍🌈 Grateful and proud to be living in such a welcoming and vibrant city! Utrecht Canal Pride 2022 …

2022-06-04: 🎥 Dr. No (1962) ★★★★ The one that started them all! I had pretty low expectations, but I enjoyed it …

2022-05-29: 🎥 Belfast (2021) ★★★½ Beautiful cinematography, strong dialogues, but with too little character …

2022-05-28: 📺 I never gave a 10/10 rating to a TV series episode before, but the mid-season finale of Better …

2022-05-09: Humanity’s broken risk perception is reversing global progress in a ‘spiral of self-destruction’ …

2022-05-06: 🎵 Since my recent purchase of a Bansuri, I like to study Indian classical music from time to time. …

2022-05-05: Clean up the web! Due to mounting pressure, Google announced it will eventually block third-party …

2022-05-05: Bartosz Ciechanowski creates interactive articles about physics, math, and engineering, and his …

2022-05-04: 🗞 Another great photo-essay in the World Through a Lens series from the New York Times. This time by …

2022-05-03: 🇬🇷 Enjoying a much-needed holiday in beautiful Greece with the family! Friendly people everywhere, …

2022-04-25: To those worrying about data ownership now Twitter just became a privately owned company, there is a …

2022-04-23: Yotam Ottolenghi is definitely one of my favourite chefs. I tried two new recipes tonight: potato …

2022-04-23: Currently reading: In de huid van de Boeddha by Paul van der Velde 📚

2022-04-14: Just made my first (vegetarian) Pissaladière, a pretty simple dish of flatbread / pizza dough with …

2022-04-10: 🎵🥾Made some beautiful field recordings of this morning’s dawn chorus. This spot is one of the last …

2022-04-08: 🗞I love the World through a Lens series in the New York Times. The Transfixing Beauty of Starling …

2022-04-04: 🎵 Fat Freddy’s Drop - Boondigga Love this song, one of their best songs. Still have to see them live …

2022-04-04: 📺 “Better Call Saul Remains One of TV’s Best in Tense, Exhilarating Final Season” Most critics …

2022-04-03: 🥾 During a short walk with my daughter (while watching out for the just returned black-tailed godwit …

2022-04-02: 📺 Seinfeld - The Soup Nazi (1995) ★★★★½ Best episode of Seinfeld, period.

2022-03-31: 🎵 Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids (1980) ★★★★ To me, Japan is one of the best New Wave bands that …

2022-03-27: 🎥 Marriage Story (2019) ★★★★½ Poignant film about love, with great acting (and even great singing) …

2022-03-18: 🎥 Philomena (2013) ★★★½ Based on true events, this film shows in an excellent way two different …

2022-03-17: 🎥 A Serious Man (2009) ★★★½ Beautiful art direction and of course brilliant dialogues, but …

2022-03-16: 🎥 Zulu Dawn (1979) ★★½ & 📺 Shaka Zulu (1986) ★★★½ I expected Zulu Dawn to be a less problematic …

2022-03-16: 🎥 Barton Fink (1991) ★★★★ Strangest Coen brothers film I’ve watched so far. John Turturro as …

2022-03-13: While fighting a (mild but nevertheless serious) Corona infection I had plenty of time to watch the …

2022-03-13: 🎥 Turning Red (2022) ★★★ My daughter hated the boy band songs at first, but then she found out they …

2022-03-10: 🎥 Raising Arizona (1987) ★★★½ “Everbody freeze! Everbody down on the ground!” …

2022-03-10: 🎥 West Side Story (2021) ★★★½ Steven Spielberg at his best. A feast for the eyes and an ultimate …

2022-03-10: 🎥 Miller’s Crossing (1990) ★★★★★ In many ways the perfect film. Top notch acting, and written and …

2022-03-08: I have been using Chronosync for years for my backups. It now allows you to sync to and from iCloud …

2022-03-07: 🎥 Shame (2011) ★★★½ I very much love the work of Steve McQueen, both his films and his art …

2022-03-03: 🌱 It’s official. The spring has started on our side of the planet.

2022-03-02: 🎥 Zero Kelvin (1995) ★★★★ At the time, this was one of the most thrilling films I had ever seen, …

2022-02-28: I always thought Wentelteefje was a peculiar Dutch name for a dish as simple as French Toast. It …

2022-02-26: 🎥 My Own Private Idaho (1991) ★★★★ Loved the improvisational style of many scenes by River Phoenix …

2022-02-25: For some reason, the Brewdog beer brand is very popular over here. This ‘post modern classic’ Punk …

2022-02-25: 🎥 A Humble Life (1997) ★★★★½ While preparing for an upcoming lesson on ‘portraits’, I stumbled …

2022-02-21: 🎥 Spider-man: No Way Home (2021) ★★★★ After weeks of Corona related madness at home, my daughter and …

2022-02-21: 🎥 Point Break (1991) ★★★ I liked this one by a little bit better then the one I watched a few days …

2022-02-15: 🎥 Blue Steel ★★ Written and directed by Kathryn Bigelow, produced by Oliver Stone. I expected …

2022-02-13: 🎥 Drugstore Cowboy (1989) ★★★★ Beautiful, raw film by Gus van Sant. Matt Dillon and William S. …

2022-02-13: Made a remarkably easy – and remarkably tasty – dinner tonight, with gnocchi, Brussels sprouts, …

2022-02-11: 🎥 Tucker: The Man and his Dream (1988) ★★★½ A young Jeff Bridges shines in this lesser known Francis …

2022-02-06: 🎵 Two Pages by 4Hero (1998) ★★★★★ This is perhaps one of the best albums of the 90s, but I somehow …

2022-02-06: 🎥 Thor: Ragnarok (2017) ★★★½ I liked this one better than the first two Thor films, mainly because …

2022-02-05: 🌱 Cuttings from our white butterfly bush, for planting out in the school garden later this year. A …

2022-02-04: 🎥 Zulu (1964) ★★½ I liked it for its beautiful cinematography; this must have been an epic challenge …

2022-02-03: 🎥 The Heroes of Telemark (1965) ★★½ In spite of some dubious directing choices (Kirk Douglas as a …

2022-01-28: Our first take on baking simple white bread rolls didn’t turn out too bad!🍞

2022-01-25: 🎵 I recently added a new musical instrument to my collection: a traditional Indian Bansuri flute, …

2022-01-22: Currently reading: Mirror, Mirror & A History Of The Human Love Affair With Reflection by Mark …

2022-01-16: 🎥 House on Haunted Hill (1959) ★★★½ Fun little murder mystery horror movie. Enjoyed the music as …

2022-01-15: I was very pleasantly surprised to find out that my recently re-discovered e-mail archives from 2000 …

2022-01-12: “All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or …

2022-01-09: Also at MuHKA was an exhibition on sound art and the ways the museum historically paid attention to …

2022-01-09: Due to Corona restrictions our Dez Mona & B.O.X. concert in Antwerp got postponed. Since the …

2022-01-06: 🎥 Ben (1972) ★½ Watched this one out of pure nostalgia, and was pretty sceptical beforehand. I …

2022-01-05: 🎥 Matilda (1996) ★★★★ I didn’t see this great comedy at the time and I also kind of regret that I …

2022-01-04: I love slow television. Watching the full re-broadcast of the last held Elfstedentocht from exactly …

2021-12-30: Enjoyed preparing an Asian meal today (the last normal one this year..!), with an attempt on my own …

2021-12-30: 🎥 Spider-man: Homecoming (2017) ★★★½ & Spider-man: Far From Home (2019) ★★★ Yesterday we watched …

2021-12-28: 🎥 Encanto (2021) ★★½ Great story, but too ‘musically’ for me. My daughter didn’t agree.

2021-12-27: One of the great scientists of the 20th century has died… E.O. Wilson, a Pioneer of Evolutionary …

2021-12-23: 🎵 Finally took the time to edit and upload the field recording I made a few months ago in …

2021-12-23: 🎥 Hawkeye (2021) ★★★★ Watched this Marvel mini series with my youngest daughter, and we enjoyed it. …

2021-12-19: 📚 Halfway through Warren Ellis’ Nina Simone’s Gum and it’s great! This fragment made me …

2021-12-09: 🎵 Hear & Now - Don Cherry (1976) ★★★★ Jimi Hendrix meets Miles Davis meets Gong meets Free Jazz …

2021-12-09: 🎵The end of the year is near, which means listening to a lot of best-albums-of-the-year playlists, …

2021-12-04: I love it how every now and then, a quote by one of the great Stoics comes to the rescue in everyday …

2021-11-28: 🌱🦔 I’m experimenting a bit more with live streaming from within our hedgehog house in the garden …

2021-11-28: 🎵🎥 Elvis: That’s the way it is (1970) ★★★½ Great documentary with a lot of behind the scenes and …

2021-11-16: 📚 Very excited to read this book I got as a gift from friends! Written by one of my favourite …

2021-11-14: 🎵 Today, I had a lot of fun upgrading and rearranging my home studio. Even with a fairly simple …

2021-11-13: 🌱 I’m glad I took a moment to photograph some lovely autumn colours in our garden on this dreary …

2021-11-06: 🎥 Black Panther (2018) ★★★½ Enjoying my favourite IPA Gulpener Ur-Hop, while watching our next …

2021-11-05: 🌱 Made a simple yet very tasty pumpkin soup from the biggest pumpkin we harvested from our garden.

2021-11-04: I just discovered this 13th century poem by Rumi, and it made a very profound impression on me… 🙏 …

2021-11-03: 🎵I Don’t Live Here Anymore - The War on Drugs ★★★★ I couldn’t resist to play the second …

2021-10-30: 🎥 The French Dispatch (2021) ★★★★ Had a great night out with some old friends yesterday. It had been …

2021-10-22: 🎵 Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Night Moves (1976) ★★★★½ My favourite classic rock album …

2021-10-21: Visit with the family to the Re_Nature contemporary art festival, ‘s Hertogenbosch.

2021-10-18: 😱Just purchased the new ‘entry level’ 14” MacBook Pro, minutes after the announcement. That could …

2021-10-17: Homemade potato chips made by me and my youngest daughter. Oven baked and with a top secret recipe …

2021-10-16: 🌱 Today’s harvest. Two different apple varieties, one pumpkin (variety unknown) and some more …

2021-10-10: Yesterday, we enjoyed a nice private canal cruise with friends on the canals of Utrecht. The city …

2021-10-03: 🎥 Sex, Drugs & Bicycles (2020) ★★½ Documentary by Jonathan Blank on Dutch culture and social …

2021-10-03: 🥾 Short walk near Oud-Maarsseveen, in pouring rain. The Dutch language has a lot of different …

2021-10-02: 🎥 Nebraska (2013) ★★★★ Tonight, we watched another great film by Alexander Payne. Beautifully shot …

2021-09-28: 🌱 This is one plant. Amazing how just one little pumpkin seed manages to take over almost our whole …

2021-09-25: Pretty happy with the new semi-permanent setup of the electronic drum kit in my youngest daughter’s …

2021-09-24: 🎥 The Descendants (2011) ★★★★ Loved this film by Alexander Payne. Despite the very tragic story, …

2021-09-19: 🌱🦔 Making progress with a new version of our hedgehog garden camera. This time I’m hoping to get a …

2021-09-19: 🎵Another beauty from my favourite Belgian band: LUCY - Dez Mona & B.O.X

2021-09-12: 🥾 Short walk with the family in Westerheide nature reserve. We very much enjoyed this year’s …

2021-09-11: This week, I paid a visit to the beautiful Klok en Peel museum in Asten, a small museum with an …

2021-09-10: 🌱 Fermented plum sauce made with the first harvest of plums from our own garden.

2021-09-05: 🌱 Can’t think of a better colour palette that captures the mood of this bright and friendly sunday …

2021-09-03: 🌱 Our living room Melissa seems to be glowing because of the evening sun shining through its leaves.

2021-08-23: 🥾🎵Short walk around one of my favourite polders. The Teckop polder is designated as a stiltegebied …

2021-08-23: 🎥 Thor (2011) ★★½ Now both of our kids are getting old enough for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I …

2021-08-22: 🎵 I decided to change my quasi automated week in music to my month in music, to make it feel less …

2021-08-21: 🎵This legendary DJ-Kicks album by Kruder & Dorfmeister turned 25 years old this week. At that …

2021-08-14: 📚 After years (!) of off and on reading, I finally finished A Phenomenology of Landscape (1997) by …

2021-08-13: We went to a great exhibition at AVL Mundo in Rotterdam today: Fake Me Hard. On the cutting-edge of …

2021-08-10: 🌱 Fresh pumpkin tendril in the morning light. Fascinating phenomenon..! “The mechanism of …

2021-08-08: 🎵Afro-Harping (1968) by Dorothy Ashby ★★★★ One of the most peculiar soul / jazz albums ever made, …

2021-08-05: 🎵 Made some great field recordings today of the Waddenzee at low tide. The weather was calm, so were …

2021-08-04: I ❤️ Terschelling. 👟 This morning, I enjoyed a short run around Midsland, almost 10 years since my …

2021-08-01: On our way to the next destination of our summer holiday. Always a good feeling to drive down the …

2021-07-28: Enjoying a relaxing day at home. Making a lacto-fermented mango chutney, while watching the summer …

2021-07-27: Made a variation on a Coulibiac, a stuffed pastry shell with salmon, cabbage, rice, eggs, mushrooms, …

2021-07-27: “Photography is truth. The cinema is truth, twenty four times a second.“ Jean-Luc Godard 💬

2021-07-26: 📚🎵 Re-reading In the Field - The Art of Field Recording. I recently upgraded my audio recording kit, …

2021-07-25: 📺 Yesterday, we finished the second (and final) season of Feel Good. After a somewhat lukewarm start …

2021-07-24: On our way back from a great first week of our holiday, we went to beautiful Museum De Fundatie in …

2021-07-18: 🎵Due to its geographical location in the northeast, Norg must be one of the quietest places in the …

2021-07-13: Whisper Aero. Great name for a startup. The startup, which came out of stealth this week, is aiming …

2021-07-11: 🎵 🎥 Mister Soul: a story about Donny Hathaway (2020) ★★★½ Very intriguing documentary by Dutch …

2021-07-10: 🌱 Found this little heroine underneath our picnic table. She managed to get to full bloom from …

2021-07-03: In true Dutch fashion I repaired (almost) all family bicycles at once today😅!

2021-06-19: 🎵 Several Blue Note classics from the 60s have been remastered in Dolby Atmos and to me, …

2021-06-17: 🌱 The summer has yet to start, but the new pumpkins are already coming along nicely.

2021-06-12: “As we live our lives ever more publicly, we have come to prioritize arguing—the flashy, viral, …

2021-06-09: Took a little detour to the outskirts of Utrecht today. It was more than worth it. Blauwkapel, …

2021-06-08: 🎵 Testing out the new Spatial Audio features of Apple Music. I like the genre-specific playlists …

2021-06-06: 📺 Yesterday, we watched the first season of Feel Good and we loved it. Excited for season 2! The …

2021-06-05: 🎥 Iris (2001) ★★★★ True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband …

2021-05-30: 🎵 My week in music (week #21 2021) Alex Paterson and one time collaborator Andy Falconer on their …

2021-05-29: Watching today’s mountain stage of the Giro d’Italia while enjoying one of my favourite Belgian …

2021-05-25: ”Eventually terrible memories turn into great ones. So if they call you, embrace them. If they hold …

2021-05-23: 🦔🌱 Recently ‘our’ hedgehog woke up from hibernation. To help it get its strength up …

2021-05-23: Our two kittens have been spayed recently and are now old enough to go outside on their own. …

2021-05-16: 🎵My week in music (week #19 2021) Very much enjoyed the new album Medieval Femme by Fatima Al …

2021-05-15: 🌱 Just like some other older plants in our garden, our climbing hydrangea will be fully blooming for …

2021-05-15: 📚 The current situation in Gaza made me think again about this thought provoking book by Dominique …

2021-05-14: Pretty happy with the results of my dinner table renovation project.

2021-05-05: The only ads I really would like to see!! Signal >> Blog >> The Instagram ads Facebook …

2021-05-04: 🎥 On the Rocks (2020) ★★★ Certainly not Sofia Coppola’s (or Bill Murray’s) best movie, …

2021-05-03: 🌱 The blauwe druifjes (grape hyacinths) in our garden are blooming remarkably long and beautiful …

2021-04-26: 🌱 Today, I saw several Bombylius Major (large bee-flies) sunbathing in our garden. Not a bee, but a …

2021-04-22: 🍺 Brewdog’s Dead Pony Club session IPA. ★★★★ Strange name, excellent low-alcoholic beer.

2021-04-18: 🎵 My week in music (week #15 2021) This album is an excellent sampler of early sixties jazz by “The …

2021-04-17: 🎥 Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain (2001) ★★★★★ Tonight, we watched Amélie with the whole family, …

2021-04-13: Just received two of these (tiny!) ESP32 CAM modules through the mail. Crazy cheap, built-in WiFi, …

2021-04-11: 📚 Finished reading The places that scare you by Pema Chödrön. This book proved to be an excellent …

2021-04-09: 🌱 Plum flowers. Big chance we finally will get a good harvest this year (for the first time in 5 …

2021-03-25: I’m embarking on a new cooking adventure: exploring the fine art of fermenting with this …

2021-03-21: 🎵 My week in music (week #10 & 11 2021) Two new albums that stood out to me were Aai by Mouse on …

2021-03-21: We had general elections last week and it didn’t turn out the way I hoped: the left got decimated, …

2021-03-14: 🌱🐝 Bumblebee queen feeding on our blooming almond tree (totally ignoring the prepared bumblebee …

2021-03-12: 🎵 🇳🇱 Lou Ottens, inventor of the cassette tape, dies aged 94 He not only invented the cassette, but …

2021-03-07: 🎵My week in music (week #8 & #9 2021) Last week I discovered the atmospheric sounds of Sarah …

2021-03-06: Finally received the custom made picture frame for a great birthday present I got from close …

2021-03-05: 📚 According to my Goodreads list I already started reading A Distant Mirror years back, but the …

2021-03-04: 🎥 Captain Marvel (2019) ★★½ 90s music in The Marvel Universe… It just didn’t work for me.

2021-03-03: 🎥 Billie Eilish: The World’s a little Blurry (2021) ★★★½ Katy Perry, backstage with Billie …

2021-02-28: 🌱🦔 Meanwhile our little hedgehog is still fast asleep, hibernating in its shelter. Couldn’t resist …

2021-02-28: 🌱 🐝 Cleaning and preparing our bumblebee houses for the new season. Some people already spotted …

2021-02-26: 🎥 Nomadland (2020) ★★★★½ Definitely one of the best films of the past year. Written, directed ánd …

2021-02-25: 🍺 Razende Swaen Tripel by our local brewery De Leckere ★★★★

2021-02-25: 🌱 Just a matter of days before the new gardening season breaks loose…

2021-02-21: 🥾 Some last traces of snow and ice served as proof that it was still winter, but otherwise it felt …

2021-02-21: 🎵 My week in music (week #7 2021) I’m getting at an age where a lot of my longtime musical …

2021-02-20: Sometimes you just need to follow the recipe! (From Flavour by Yotam Ottolenghi & Ixta …

2021-02-14: 🎵 My week in music (week #5 & 6 2021) The past two weeks I delved into the beautiful sounds and …

2021-02-12: 🎵 RIP Chick Corea. I vividly remember first listening to his music. The CD Verve Jazz Masters Vol. …

2021-02-05: 🎥 Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) ★★★ I was pretty sceptical at first, but it was way better …

2021-02-03: 🎥 The Fly (1986) ★★★★ I almost forgot that I had already seen this film in my teenage years. Jeff …

2021-01-31: 🎵 One of the positive side effects of the pandemic: we just made a last minute decision to attend a …

2021-01-31: 🎵 My week in music (week #3 & #4 2021) I took some time to update my meditation playlist with …

2021-01-24: 🎥 Animal House (1978) ★★★ A bit underwhelming, but typically John Landis. And at least John Belushi …

2021-01-23: Yesterday, we were pleasantly surprised when a friend decided to watch an exclusive livestream of a …

2021-01-19: 🎥 Trading Places (1983) ★★★½ This comedy is about as 80s as you can get. A lot of humour aged very …

2021-01-17: Pretty happy with our first month of supplying solar power to the grid. It’s a modest start, …

2021-01-17: 🎵 My week in music (week #2 2021) David Byrne / Talking Heads are among my favourite artists ever. I …

2021-01-16: 🎵 I’m not an avid fan of Jacob Collier, let alone that I ever really listened to Charlie …

2021-01-10: 🎵 My week in music (week #1 2021) Thundercat’s music is definitely not for every occasion, but It is …

2021-01-10: 🗞 Great essay by Timothy Snyder: The American Abyss “The Republican Party is a coalition of …

2021-01-10: 📺 I.M. (2020) ★★★★½ The true story of the all-consuming love between writer Connie Palmen and …

2021-01-03: 🎵 My week in music (week #53 2020) Of course, in the last week of the year, I listened to a several …

2021-01-02: 🥾 Made a nice walk with friends and the family in nature reserve De Stulp near beautiful Lage …

2020-12-27: 🎵 My week in music (week #52 2020) Finally sat down to give Bob Dylan’s Murder Most Foul a …

2020-12-26: 🎥 Critical Care (1997) ★★★ If you watch this as entertainment, this is not a good film. But as a …

2020-12-25: 🎥 Soul (2020) ★★★★½ What a great new Pixar movie! We watched it with the whole family on Disney+ the …

2020-12-23: ❤️ this stoic tweet: With no intellectual framing: A bad day ➡️ a day A stupid person ➡️ a person …

2020-12-20: 🎵 My week in music (week #51 2020) Highlight of the week was definitely Sounds of Sudan (1986). I …

2020-12-19: 🎥 The Mandalorian ★★★★ I’m not a big Star Wars fan, but The Mandalorian was totally worth the watch. …

2020-12-18: 🎄Made a short visit with my youngest daughter to the ‘world’s tallest Christmas tree’ (370 m): the …

2020-12-13: 🎵 My week in music (week #50 2020) Particularly enjoyed Paolo Conte’s Azzurro and Gli Impermeabili. …

2020-12-12: We really live in the anthropocene: Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass

2020-12-11: 🎵Cabaret Voltaire are still going strong. Love their latest album Shadow of Fear ❤️

2020-12-11: I’ve been writing in my personal journal for 2 years now and I must say it truly changed my life. I …

2020-12-08: 🎥 Mother Dao, the turtlelike (1995) ★★★★ Entirely consisting of archival footage, this intense …

2020-12-06: 🎵 My week in music (week #49 2020) The Bleep Top 10 Albums of the Year 2020 list is one of my …

2020-12-05: 🌱 Had a nice day cleaning up our garden for the incoming winter. Our 🦔 guest is probably already …

2020-12-04: 🎥 Kerstmis in Floradorp (1997) ★★★★ A great documentary by René Roelofs on Christmas celebrations in …

2020-12-03: 📺 🇳🇴🎄The Norwegian series Jul i Svingen (Christmas in Svingen) (2006) has a cult-status over here in …

2020-12-01: The chosen ones. It took some time, but I’m really getting used to using Siri and the new Widget …

2020-11-30: 🦔🌱 Our little hedgehog is preparing for hibernation in our garden! Carrying leaves and other …

2020-11-30: 📚Thrilling excerpt from John Lennon, 1980: The Last Days in the Life in Smithsonian Magazine. I just …

2020-11-29: 🎵 The Prodigal Son - Ry Cooder (2018) ★★★★★ What a boss. Nobody’s fault but mine is my favourite, a …

2020-11-29: 🎵My week in music (week #48 2020) These little ones were just added to my collection of decent …

2020-11-28: 🎵 Alphons Diepenbrock: Symphonische Suite ‘Elektra’ Alphons Diepenbrock (1862 - 1921) …

2020-11-25: 🦔🌱 New hedgehog adventures from our garden. Our adorable little hedgehog really seems to be …

2020-11-23: 🎵My week in music (week #47 2020) Listened to a lot of great work from the 80s by percussionist …

2020-11-23: 🗞 Great interactive article on ubiquitous generative adversarial networks in The New York Times …

2020-11-18: 🎥 Little Women (2019) ★★★ Excellent acting by Saoirse Ronan. The intertwined storylines with lots of …

2020-11-15: 🎵 My week in music (week #46) Dirty Sanchez is the best song on Iggy Pop’s Free, though the lyrics …

2020-11-15: 🦔🌱(This one is for @macgenie 😀) New footage from the hedgehog cam in our garden. The little creature …

2020-11-12: ”Where’s that bee and where’s that honey? Where’s my God and where’s my …

2020-11-11: The older I get, the more I am affected by the daylight-saving time changes. A few weeks later, I …

2020-11-09: 🦔 📹🌱 First test with the hedgehog surveillance cam in our backyard turned out to be successful. …

2020-11-08: 🎵 My week in music (week #45 2020) Pole - Fading ”Inspired by his mother’s Alzheimer’s, the German …

2020-11-05: 🌱🦔 First prototype of my weather proof hedgehog surveillance cam is almost ready to be installed in …

2020-10-29: ❤️ Exploring the Dutch Green Heart landscape through Google Earth Studio.

2020-10-29: 🎥 The Trial of the Chicago 7 ★★★★ Aaron Sorkin at his best as a screenplay writer. The real events …

2020-10-28: 🎥 Film Ist (1997) ★★★★★ Gustav Deutsch explores the essence of film in a multitude of ways. I …

2020-10-26: Reconnecting with Max/MSP while getting into the fine art of campanology for an upcoming project on …

2020-10-26: Kris Provoost captures "immense density" of Hong Kong's housing Stunning photography.

2020-10-26: 📚 Gilles Deleuze, A Stoic When one thinks of Gilles Deleuze, Stoicism might not be the first thing …

2020-10-25: Stanford materials scientists borrow solar panel tech to create new ultrahigh-res OLED display …

2020-10-25: 🎥 Over the Moon (2020) ★★ The film started as My Neighbor Totoro, then quickly transformed in a …

2020-10-25: 🎵 My week in Music (week #43 2020) Sault, Dinosaur Jr., Actress, Jefferson Airplane, Bernard …

2020-10-19: 🎵 My week in music (week #42 2020) Swell - 41 is still one of my favourite albums by one of my …

2020-10-17: 🎥 Burn After Reading (2008) ★★★ ½ CIA Supervisor: Jesus Fucking Christ. What did we learn, Palmer? …

2020-10-14: Love working on these little side projects in the evening. Motion triggered Raspberry Pi Hedgehog …

2020-10-14: 🎵 My week in music (week #41 2020) I was amazed by the recording (and / or mastering) quality of …

2020-10-10: 📺 Unorthodox (2020) ★★★★ Just when you think of cancelling your Netflix subscription, a great mini …

2020-10-10: 🗞The President’s Taxes. Some serious investigative journalism by The New York Times, that reads like …

2020-10-04: 🍂🍁🦔🌱 We found new traces of hedgehogs in our garden, so, in the spirit of World Animal Day, my …

2020-10-04: 🎵 My week in music (week #40 2020) In the Heart of the Moon (2005) remains one of my favourite …

2020-10-03: 🎥 Mindhunter (2017-2019) ★★★★ ½ This past weeks, I finally took the time to watch the second season …

2020-09-28: Stuffed pattypan squash with crème fraiche, mustard and parsley, topped with grilled parmesan …

2020-09-27: 🥾 Close encounter with strange and fascinating organisms during a walk in the forest.

2020-09-27: 🎵 My week in music (week #39 2020) Managed to listen to only one album this past week, and it wasn’t …

2020-09-27: 🌱🍂 Autumn has arrived! First batch of patisson (pattypan squash) from our garden. ”In fine cuisine, …

2020-09-20: “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” Anne Frank 💬📚 …

2020-09-20: 🎵 My week in music (week #38 2020) Was a bit underwhelmed by Sarah Davachi’s new album. Jozef van …

2020-09-13: 🎵 My week in music (week #37 2020) I liked watching this interview with Mick Jagger and Adam …

2020-09-06: 🎥 Silent Rage (1982) ★★ ½ Watching a mediocre B movie with Chuck Norris to wrap up the weekend. …

2020-09-06: “Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing” John …

2020-09-06: 🎵 My week in music (week 36 2020) Listened to a mix of classical and folk music this past week. Of …

2020-09-02: ”After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” Aldous …

2020-09-01: Radicchio salad with dried dates, halloumi cheese, mustard seeds and red onions.

2020-08-30: 🎵 My week in music (week #35 2020) Deep Cuts by The Knife still sounds as contemporary as it did …

2020-08-29: That lazy feeling of an afternoon nap on the couch while listening to sounds of ‘motards’ and …

2020-08-26: 🎵 I wrote earlier about Concertino, the great project by Open Opus, that makes classical music ‘just …

2020-08-21: Enjoying our last week of the summer holiday in beautiful Zürich🇨🇭

2020-08-16: Currently reading in the hammock in our garden: On the Shortness of Life by Seneca 📚

2020-08-16: 🎵 My week in music (week #33 2020) I didn’t listen to a lot because of our short holiday amid the …

2020-08-13: 🥾 Had a nice walk in the beautiful Millingerwaard, along the floodplains of the Rhine and Waal …

2020-08-12: Made a visit to Museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen, where archeology and modern art meet. Especially …

2020-08-09: 🎵 My week in music (week #32 2020) Amidst the heatwave, while tidying up our study a bit (in …

2020-08-08: 🎥 Desi (2000) ★★★★ Beautiful documentary about Desi, a young girl in Amsterdam. Everyday after …

2020-08-06: Currently reading: Space and place by Yi-fu Tuan 📚 So far, it’s a very inspiring read. The book …

2020-08-03: 💬 Excellent episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, about U.S. History (although it could be …

2020-08-02: 🎵 My week in music (week #31 2020) Enjoyed listening to the reissue of African Rhythms 1970-1982 by …

2020-08-01: 📺 X Files: X-Cops (S7E12) ★★★★ I wonder if they used the original Cops crew for the actual shooting …

2020-08-01: 🌱 First Indian Cress flower in our front garden. Known for Das Elisabeth Linné-Phänomen. Its colour …

2020-07-29: Microbes in the “deadest” part of Earth redefine boundaries of life Microbes may be …

2020-07-27: 📺 North and South I’m rewatching one of my childhood favourites. I was expecting the worst, but I …

2020-07-26: 🎵 My week in music (week #30 2020). Highlight of the week was ‘Hound Dog’ Taylor, a ‘true’ blues …

2020-07-25: Love this ‘stoic’ quote by Viktor Frankl: “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that …

2020-07-23: 🌱 This year promises to be a record year for the raspberries in our garden.

2020-07-20: 📚 From A to B and Back Again - The Philosophy of Andy Warhol ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

2020-07-19: 🎵 My week in music (week #29 2020) Listening to Jonny Greenwood’s excellent soundtrack for Norwegian …

2020-07-19: Perhaps? nytimes.com: “Perhaps one of the greatest failures of presidential leadership in …

2020-07-17: 📚 Books to read (or to finally finish) this summer: Andy Warhol - From A to B and back again - The …

2020-07-17: 🚴‍♂️ Will be cycling across the Green Heart of Holland today, en route to our holiday destination on …

2020-07-12: 📚💬 I keep on quoting Andy Warhol. In unexpected ways he can be like a kindred spirit of mine whilst …

2020-07-12: 🎵My week in music (week #28 2020) Listened to an older work by Sarah Davachi, anxiously awaiting her …

2020-07-08: The best description (by Ben Dolnick in the NYT) I’ve read so far of our collective experience of …

2020-07-05: 🎵My week in music (week #27 2020) The Trip (2006), curated by Jarvis Cocker and Steve Mackey is one …

2020-06-30: 🎥 Scarface (1932) ★ ★ ★ ★ Apart from enjoying a great classic gangster movie, I also got intrigued …

2020-06-28: 🎵My week in music (week #26 2020) Listened a lot to Alva Noto this week. Bleep.com: ”Much like …

2020-06-16: 📚 Currently reading On the happy life / On the shortness of life by Seneca. A great book with a lot …

2020-06-10: 📚 Currently reading Space and Place - The perspective of Experience (1977) by Yi-Fu Tuan, as part of …

2020-06-07: 🎵 My week in music (week #23 2020) Enjoyed this new issue of Bach’s Concertos for Harpsichord and …

2020-05-31: 🎥 🎵 My week in music (week #22 2020) I very much enjoyed watching the classic “Live in Siracuse” …

2020-05-27: 🌱🐸Today, our tadpole-raising-mission came successfully to an end! We released the tiny little frogs …

2020-05-24: 🎵 My week in music (week #21 2020) It would have been a quiet week music wise, but the death of Mory …

2020-05-24: “American money is very well-designed, really. I like it better than any other kind of money. …

2020-05-24: 🎥 Onward (2020) ★★ ½ Just a great new Pixar feature meant to be watched by the whole family.

2020-05-23: 🎥 Hala (2019) ★★★ A solid, somewhat monotonous coming-of-age-film about Hala, a young Pakistani …

2020-05-22: 🎵 R.I.P. Mory Kanté, the great griot voice of African music. Different versions of Yeke Yeke …

2020-05-17: 🎵 My week in music (week #20 2020) Favourite handpicked playlist I listened to this week: “Early …

2020-05-10: ”We aren’t allowed to have any opinions. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn’t …

2020-05-10: 🎵 My week in music (week #19 2020) Didn’t listen to much, but was struck by the death of two 20th …

2020-05-09: 🌱 First white roses of the season in our backyard. Many more to come.

2020-05-09: “Rage is a really fun place to dance from - expressions of anger sublimated into something beautiful …

2020-05-08: ”We are reviled but we do not intend to speak evil in return. We are in desperate straits but do not …

2020-05-07: “Dear friends, much pain has been endured in the past, and that pain is no longer designated to …

2020-05-06: ”What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine …

2020-05-05: “I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.” …

2020-05-04: “I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much …

2020-05-04: Right after posting my first entry for this week’s micro.blog challenge, I suddenly realised that …

2020-05-04: “How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it” Marcus Aurelius 💬

2020-05-04: 🎥 Jack (1996) ★★ A 10 year old kid, trapped in an old man’s body. One of the oddest films directed …

2020-05-04: Did some overdue home improvement and combined it with this year’s spring cleaning. We finally …

2020-05-03: 🎵My week in music (week #18 2020). Played a lot of random music from my library this week. I love …

2020-05-01: I was going through my sound archive and found a bunch of MiniDiscs. No way I will ever play them …

2020-04-30: ”A person can cry or laugh. Always when you’re crying you could be laughing, you have the choice. …

2020-04-26: 🎵My week in music (week #17 2020) Didn’t listen to a lot of music due to a crazy busy online work …

2020-04-25: 🌱Homemade ravioli with homegrown sage, oregano, parsley, celery and even some ‘homegrown’ stinging …

2020-04-20: Disappointed that the public/private joint venture privatetracer.org was withdrawn out of the …

2020-04-20: Great comment by an IT professional on the lack of expertise with respect to privacy technology …

2020-04-19: 🎵My week in music (week #16 2020) Listened to a random and eclectic mix this week. Highlights: Teiji …

2020-04-16: A much better mindset for the long run: “Everyone wants to know when this will end,” said Devi …

2020-04-12: 🎵My week in music (week #15 2020). I particularly enjoyed Alva Noto’s just released cover version of …

2020-04-09: 🎥 Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) ★★½ I watched the film I remembered so vividly from my teenage years …

2020-04-05: BBC News: Coronavirus: Why Dutch lockdown may be a high-risk strategy “The Netherlands has tried to …

2020-04-03: 🎵R.I.P. Bill Withers… As a young kid, playing Lean on Me on the piano made me believe that I …

2020-03-29: 🎵R.I.P. Krzysztof Penderecki… Listening to A Polish Requiem: XII. Agnus Dei

2020-03-27: 📺 The Morning Show (2019) ★★★½ Great acting by a top notch cast (including even Jennifer Aniston). …

2020-03-25: “I’ve never met a person I couldn’t call a beauty” Andy Warhol 💬

2020-03-24: 📺 E06S05 of Better Call Saul was the best episode of the series yet. Story wise, the Saul vs. …

2020-03-23: 🎥 Up next in our Quarantine Ghibli Film Watching Experience was: Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989). ★★★ …

2020-03-21: Pretty happy with the new work desk at my shared workspace. Now let’s work from home for the …

2020-03-21: 🎵 I very much love this idea for a collective drone concert in quarantaine. Hope it works out as …

2020-03-17: Total lockdown vs. herd immunity So, yesterday was quite a surreal day over here in the Netherlands. It was the first, sunny day of …

2020-03-16: It’s median age. Age and Coronavirus - Professor Robert “Of the oldest 50 countries, 43 have …

2020-03-15: 🎥 As part of our social distancing regime, we’re watching Ghibli films on Netflix with the family. …

2020-03-07: 🎵 McCoy Tyner, Jazz Piano Powerhouse, Is Dead at 81 - The New York Times ”When you are thinking of …

2020-03-05: Great advice from Craig Federighi in his lecture at UC Berkeley: “Assess the situation, make a …

2020-03-01: Looking back at an interesting February Photo Blogging Challenge. It mostly worked out the way I had …

2020-03-01: It’s easy to get cynical about the sustainability goals of our governments, but I’m grateful that my …

2020-03-01: ”There comes a time when silence is betrayal.” Martin Luther King jr. 💬

2020-02-29: 🎥 Downtown ‘81 (2000) ★★★★ Jean-Michel Basquiat, Debbie Harry, Arto Lindsay, John Lurie, Vincent …

2020-02-29: Houtzaagmolen De Ster (1739), Utrecht. Wood sawmills from the 17th and 18th centuries were able to …

2020-02-27: Had a great day at Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar. We very much enjoyed works by Louise Bourgeois, …

2020-02-26: Bruntscameren (1621), Utrecht. These “God’s chambers” were small houses with only one room. They …

2020-02-25: Medieval ingenuity: wharfs along the canal, used to unload merchandise from the ship straight into …

2020-02-21: Progress (depending on how you look at it…). Utrecht is the fastest growing city in Europe: …

2020-02-21: 📚Very excited to read From A to B and Back Again - The philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975)

2020-02-21: “Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning …

2020-02-20: In the scale of things, the St. Martin’s Cathedral (or Dom church) is a small cathedral, but this …

2020-02-19: Three solar system objects aligned in space. Solar eclipse of 20 March 2015, as seen from the garden …

2020-02-18: Interesting reflection on the opposing side. Rhijnoord viaduct, Rijksstraatweg Utrecht

2020-02-17: From way back, when the world still was a couple of degrees cooler… Julianapark, Utrecht …

2020-02-15: In balance. Gone with the wind, by HeHe (Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen). Near Utrecht Central …

2020-02-12: Attachment of a hammock to an old church, now in use as a breeding ground for creativity. …

2020-02-10: “Fietsstraat, auto te gast” traffic sign, Kanaalweg, Utrecht. This road sign indicates that a road …

2020-02-09: Banklok, Buurtoren, Utrecht. For centuries, the most important city bell of the municipality of …

2020-02-08: Sunset causing interesting contrast effect on bottom of clouds. Haarzuilens, Utrecht, 2016.

2020-02-08: L'Arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat (Louis Lumière, 1896). In AI upscaled 4K, 60fps ?

2020-02-07: 🎥 Socrates (1971) ★★★½. Probably not the best work of Rossellini, but certainly an impressive …

2020-02-07: The new Utrecht Central Station from above. Taken from atop the Moreelse Brug bicycle bridge.

2020-02-06: Snowdrops and crocuses, the first blooming plants of the season, in front of my new workplace, De …

2020-02-05: Huis Oog in Al (1664), Utrecht. A former ‘buitenplaats’. Now a hidden treasure in the city.

2020-02-04: Sonnenborgh Observatory Utrecht. A place to spot stars. At this historic 19th-century observatory, …

2020-02-03: Johan Wagenaarkade, Utrecht. Household and street lights reflect on the surface of the …

2020-02-02: I decided to combine the February Photo Blogging Challenge with my New Year’s resolution to post …

2020-02-02: Three sights in one view: bridges over the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal, Utrecht.

2020-02-01: “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how” Friedrich Nietzsche 💬

2020-02-01: Dafne Schippers bicycle bridge, an open entrance into downtown Utrecht, by NEXT Architects

2020-01-28: “Music is everything one listens to with the intention of listening to music” Luciano Berio 💬

2020-01-26: “When we are no longer able to change the situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” Viktor …

2020-01-25: Making a very easy soup tonight with courgettes, spring onions, lemon and mint.

2020-01-25: 🎥 Currently watching A message from Akira Kurosawa (2000) ★★★ Pretty informative documentary on his …

2020-01-25: ”The practice of art isn’t to make a living, it’s to make your soul grow” Kurt Vonnegut 💬

2020-01-22: 🎵 Listening to one of the oddest (and one of my favourite) World Music albums ever: Fly, Fly My …

2020-01-21: After a week of several Mid Year Assessments at HKU, I’m tired but very satisfied with all the great …

2020-01-19: 📺 The Crown (Season 3) ★★★★ Loved reading the trivia on IMDb: Changing her eye color in …

2020-01-18: Just learned about word vectors and some cool tricks you can do with them for creative applications. …

2020-01-15: 4000 axe-monies returned to Mexico Intriguing mixture of folk art, economics and technology from 800 …

2020-01-12: 🎥 Rashomon (1950) by Akira Kurosawa ★★★★★ 4 contradictory accounts of one incident: a classic in …

2020-01-11: Cooking Indonesian tonight. Inspired by recipes from a Dutch classic Indonesian cookbook from the …

2020-01-05: 🎵🎥 Monterey Pop (1968) ★ ★ ★ ★ The documentary ends with a classic raga performance by Ravi Shankar. …

2020-01-04: 🎥 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) ★ ★ ★ ½ We watched the final chapter yesterday to finish …

2020-01-01: Days since last Facebook scandal Just another nudge for those hesitating to quit their big social …

2019-12-30: What is monoculture? ”Is there less monoculture today, or is culture more mass than ever? Are we …

2019-12-27: My favourite Alternative album of the year 2019 is schlagenheim by black midi. A very unique sound …

2019-12-25: My favourite electronica album of the year 2019 has to be Utility by Barker. Contemporary, but also …

2019-12-24: Preparing pasta dough for tomorrow’s Christmas dinner and testing out the new pasta machine.

2019-12-23: “A present for the European Union” Talking about educating the people. Finland is one of the few …

2019-12-21: 📚 Finished pt. 1 of Man’s search for meaning by Victor Frankl and it really is a life changing book. …

2019-12-12: Very proud of all the participating students of the video and audio workshop at the Academy of …

2019-12-08: 🎥 Andrey Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer (2019) ★ ★ ★ ½. A carefully made documentary by his own son, …

2019-12-04: 🎥 Finally had a chance to visit Andrei Tarkovsky: the exhibition in Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam. The …

2019-11-30: Made a short visit with the family to ‘Self-publish or be damned’ at AG Utrecht. A beautiful ode to …

2019-11-24: 🎵 I hadn’t heard of the tragic story following the death of Guru in 2010. Glad it all worked out …

2019-11-14: 🎵 Concertino appears to be a very promising project, that wants to make Apple Music finally usable …

2019-11-10: 🥾 Sunday afternoon walk in one of the oldest Ash forests of Western Europe. In use as a coppiced …

2019-11-10: 🎵 Music + Activism ❤️ Place: The Netherlands ”The Netherlands positions itself as progressive and …

2019-11-09: Sensory Optimization: Neural Networks as a Model for Understanding and Creating Art

2019-11-09: This is not the best Hitchcock film, but I loved the monumental murder scene on the steps in the …

2019-11-09: Love this idea of six seasons in a year by Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut: “There Are Six Seasons …

2019-11-07: 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 …

2019-11-03: Watching the most beautiful woman in the world comes at a price... Before Easter After

2019-11-03: 📚 Yet another book on my wish list. Reporting a year after the fact would be unheard of today Mr …

2019-10-29: “Send your designs straight to hell” Hellvetica.ttf | Kern in hell

2019-10-25: World’s oldest pearl found in Abu Dhabi “The discovery of the oldest pearl in the world in Abu …

2019-10-24: ”We have a highly flexible approach to outsiders: we are capable of being highly tolerant – …

2019-10-23: “Musical innovation happens from the bottom up and the outside in.” 'Music: A Subversive History,' …

2019-10-21: Our little hedgehog feeding station experiment worked! 🦔 🍂 🌱

2019-10-18: 🎵Just introduced my 11-year-old daughter to the early work of Massive Attack. She enjoyed it very …

2019-10-13: We’re getting there... ”So why not log off social media, get yourself an RSS reader and wise up?” …

2019-10-12: “Noise is treated less as a health risk than an aesthetic nuisance [...] Complaining about noise …

2019-10-11: 🎥 El Camino was everything I had hoped for. It ended on a hopeful note, and the brief flashback with …

2019-10-10: Just a webpage showing how much CO2 is emitted by Google every second... …

2019-10-06: Ran 10k today, during Holland’s oldest street run: Singelloop Utrecht.

2019-10-04: Veertien Nederlandse natuurbeschermingsorganisaties reageren in een open brief op de stikstofcrisis. …

2019-10-04: There’s nothing like waking up on a rainy day with a new album by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. 🎵 …

2019-10-03: 🎥 It’s been a long time since I’ve been so eagerly waiting for an upcoming movie premiere. The …

2019-10-03: 🎵 Iggy Pop’s latest album is getting mixed reviews, but I’m loving it.

2019-10-02: “It is here that the well-educated person enters the picture: someone who studies a subject not to …

2019-09-29: 🥾 We found a variety of beautiful mushrooms (some of them very smelly) on our first autumn walk in …

2019-09-25: Hi @manton, love the new version of the micro.blog app, but I’m unable to log in to my Wordpress …

2019-09-22: ”I wanted to put it all together under one roof so people could see how these things are inevitably …

2019-09-19: How sleep makes the brain forget things “Research does indeed show that, in order to remember what …

2019-09-15: And the war of the blackest blacks continues… “MIT engineers report today that they have cooked up …

2019-09-11: Intriguing video by BBC Ideas: What Would Michel Foucault Think of Social Media, Fake News & Our …

2019-09-08: Great news for Utrecht’s creative industry. Utrecht wil investeren in innovatieve locatie voor film- …

2019-09-08: A short visit with my daughter to the Abstractionpark 7090 at Gaudeamus Muziekweek

2019-08-29: Another piece of our own puzzle. Rare 3.8-million-year-old skull recasts origins of iconic ‘Lucy’ …

2019-08-29: Bootcamp with students of the new bachelor Crossover Creativity at HKU Utrecht.

2019-07-24: ”I’ve seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've …

2019-07-08: Operation Night Watch begins today. Not your average restoration: ”Imaging techniques, including …

2019-07-07: Jim Jarmusch: ‘I’m for the survival of beauty. I’m for the mystery of life’ Film - The Guardian

2019-07-07: ”According to Lorenz, the same visual cues can arouse us to equally intense caregiving when we …

2019-07-01: ”For the 2019 film, it would take between 60 and 160 hours just to render a single frame.” Toy …

2019-06-25: ”After decades of rightwing dominance, a transatlantic movement of leftwing economists is building a …

2019-06-23: Some true gems to be found here! WARP take over NTS radio with 100 hours of Eno, FlyLo, Autechre...

2019-06-21: Plants are the oldest sensors in the world. Could they be the future of computers?

2019-06-15: Some postmodern thoughts for the weekend. So much to comprehend! ”No other idea from the humanities …

2019-06-07: You will be dearly missed, mr. Rebennack... Mama Roux - Gris Gris (1968)

2019-06-06: Teaching a Neural Network How to Drive a Car ”One of the reasons I find neural network training so …

2019-06-05: Following Schrödinger’s cat to its death and giving it a reprieve “Quantum mechanics encourages …

2019-06-03: Very curious about this book. The Penetrating Gaze of One of America’s Most Brilliant Art Critics

2019-05-30: “This tiny creature, with a brain the size of a pinhead and no opportunity to learn from older, …

2019-05-24: Help the elderly, and the results will help many more, including yourself, someday. Don Norman on …

2019-05-23: Jumbo the privacy app just got a lot better. Love the smart privacy settings for Google and Twitter. …

2019-05-22: ”Facebook has time and time again exhibited a complete disregard for our democracy, freedom of …

2019-05-20: Getting re-inspired through tidying up the archive from my college days and short thereafter. Both …

2019-05-16: I enjoyed reading this essay: Bring back science and philosophy as natural philosophy Keep alive …

2019-05-08: Final two weeks of my sound installation at Eye Filmmuseum! (The parallel exhibition A Tale of …

2019-05-05: Exploring cultural history through storytelling. Huai Mo Village(2012),Chia-Wei Hsu. At A Tale of …

2019-05-03: “Many people wonder if there could be a genius like Leonardo today, or what a person of his …

2019-05-02: Excited to see Fatoumata Diawara listed as one of the guest curators for Le Guess Who 2019. …

2019-05-01: Hundreds of Protesters Wielded Bananas After a Polish Museum Censored Feminist Artworks The banana …

2019-04-26: J.J. Cale - Stay Around (2019). The long awaited posthumously released album of the …

2019-04-26: l’Homme fidèle (2018) ★★★☆☆. By/with Louis Garrel, and with a convincing Lilly-Rose Depp. Everyone …

2019-04-15: Beautiful behind-the-scenes photography (and much more) from the just-launched Charlie Chaplin …

2019-03-31: Shell Shock sound installation at Eye Amsterdam I made a commissioned sound installation for the Shell Shock programme in Eye Filmmuseum! You're …

2019-03-23: Just imagine this: No retweets, no trending hashtags, no unlimited global search, and no …

2019-03-20: Having fun building a commissioned sound installation for the upcoming Shell Shock programme at Eye …

2019-03-05: “Why does our perception and evaluation of an artwork change simply by learning it is a forgery?” …

2019-03-04: “The real, underlying issue here is that brands are producing way too many clothes–and they’re …

2019-02-28: I really loved this atmospheric video installation. Shot in near-total darkness and silence. …

2019-02-28: Gaufrettes Sequence Randomly, Ann Veronica Janssens, (2018). De Pont museum, Tilburg.

2019-02-27: Beautiful film props from the surreal cinema of Jan Švankmajer, on display in EYE Filmmuseum …

2019-02-26: “I choose for my family. Maybe others are capable of doing it, but I can’t go on tour and be a good …

2019-02-21: Dirk, the vagabond robot, Electric Circus, 2014. On display at Robots Love Music exhibition, Museum …

2019-02-21: The Android Clarinetist, Cornelis Jacob van Oeckelen, Breda, the Netherlands, 1838. On display at …

2019-02-19: Of course the Dutch couldn’t rule the seas without some migrant workers from pretty much all over …

2019-02-18: Eric Kandel on neuroaesthetics: ”The purpose of a scientific approach to art is not to take the …

2019-02-17: Moving Image Course at HKU This week I started a new Moving Image course at the HKU Brede Basisopleiding (University of the …

2019-02-15: Capitalism at its finest… 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'

2019-02-13: The article is in Dutch, but a picture is worth a thousand words... If no action is taken, this will …

2019-02-05: Finally, a great new album by Belgium’s best kept secret: Dez Mona - Book of Many Darkest Hour

2019-01-30: That we end up being misled by our senses is a widely-accepted truism, as most humans mistake the …

2019-01-27: Paths of Glory (1957) ★ ★ ★ ★. Another Stanley Kubrick masterpiece. Hard to believe he only was 28 …

2019-01-24: “Socrates Wants You to Tidy Up, Too” Socrates Wants You to Tidy Up, Too

2019-01-24: “Finally, couture that gets us” Viktor & Rolf Just Sent Out The Snarkiest Haute Couture Collection …

2019-01-21: “The headline story is that it’s not so much about the nature of digital technology as about a new …

2019-01-18: Very interesting read. All great art is prophetic. Michel Houellebecq Hated Europe Before You Did

2019-01-10: This is such a simple yet powerful idea: an AR app "AR Sensor" to measure and visualize various …

2019-01-06: I still find all this very difficult to grasp, but it’s always fascinating to see how art can help …

2019-01-04: A must read, if you ask me: Childhood's End, by George Dyson. ‘Most of us, most of the time, are …

2019-01-03: Some hits, some misses... 35 years ago, Isaac Asimov was asked by the Star to predict the world of …

2019-01-02: ‘Thanks to our growing familiarity with computing, virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence …

2018-12-28: I very much enjoyed Oskar Kokoschka. A retrospective in Kunsthaus Zürich today.

2018-12-27: How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Everything that once seemed definitively and unquestionably real …

2018-12-22: Every year, the raspberry in my garden manages to bear fruit until the Christmas holidays. This …

2018-12-21: This quote from What art is is a pretty good summary of Arthur Danto’s philosophy of art in general. …

2018-12-20: Who would’ve thought that Nick Cave would lead the way to a better, more compassionate way of online …

2018-12-19: Dermorphis donaldtrumpi ? Amphibian that buries head in sand named after Donald Trump

2018-12-18: Is God real, or is religion an evolutionary adaptation? Or even a by-product of a number of …

2018-12-16: Deep-learning technique reveals “invisible” objects in the dark, requiring only one photon per pixel

2018-12-11: Intriguing. An ant colony has memories that its individual members don’t have

2018-12-10: Governments and private companies are deploying AI systems at a rapid pace, but the public lacks …

2018-12-07: Human creativity is technology agnostic. Technology truly is just an extension of man. iPhone …

2018-12-06: Interesting, but somewhat sobering read.. The bad news on human nature, in 10 findings from …

2018-12-02: Good series on machine learning by MIT Technology Review: Inside the world of AI that forges …

2018-11-28: This artist is calling on scientists and artists to work together to engage people emotionally in …

2018-11-27: To live and die in L.A. (1985). Basically an updated version of The French connection. Reminded me …

2018-11-23: Sorcerer (1977). Another great movie from William Friedkin. In all his movies there seem to be only …

2018-11-20: Today is Universal Children’s Day. A nice occasion for the Dutch parliament to start the hopefully …

2018-11-18: 🎥 The French Connection (1971) This must have been the best crime thriller I’ve ever seen. The dense …

2018-11-14: “They run through my garden with their whole families. We're sitting drinking tea in the sunshine, …

2018-11-13: Another good one from the seventies, with a young Nick Nolte. Plot line a bit disappointing, but …

2018-11-12: Enjoyed watching some great films from the seventies lately. Night Moves (1975) certainly was one of …

2018-10-06: Proud to cycle over this bridge and to bring my kids to this school everyday! …

2018-07-05: “Maybe it was too beautiful, but it was the only way to do it” Great quote from the late Robby …

2018-07-04: Studios of Dutch architecture firms including OMA, MVRDV and UNStudio revealed in photos

2018-06-13: A remake of Disney’s Dumbo is set for release in 2019. Apparently including a remake of the Pink …

2018-06-11: Fascinating to see this kind of detail in the eyes and wings of a creature that only lives for a few …