couple of days ago spiegel online ran a story about how the insurgents in iraq where now using dogs with explosives being strapped on to them to attack the occupying forces. while the article did not even bother to point to specific incidents or provide other proof for this claim it reminded me of two […]
yesterday the dutch conductor was wearing an orange wristband. when he was checking my ticket i could not help to wonder why he was wearing a wristband in support of the nutters that are currently occupying the gaza strip and resist the israeli disengagement plan. a young inter-railer (probably being israeli himself) two seats down […]
saturday the 20th is the premiere of ‘no wonder‘ constanza’s newest piece at the HAU1 in berlin. i have not seen much of the piece but if the one early run through i have had the chance to see is any indication it will be a great show. no wonder is directed by constanza but […]
i have just posted two new photo sets to my flicker page. both of them contain pictures that i have taken at performances of my girlfriend’s (constanza macras) dance/theatre company ‘dorky park‘. the first one contains pictures of a performance of her latest production ‘big in bombay’ last february at the schaubühne in berlin. the […]
yesterday was the german premiere of ‘star biz’ a documentary film produced as part of the project import-export. the film uses mercedes as a tool to examine the process of cultural appropriation of western consumer an luxury goods in india. the film gives an surprisingly unfiltered insight into the corporate culture of daimler chrysler. the […]
it seems like i am surrounded by references to the public domain lately. sarai readers, conference topics, creative commons dedications and now there is even talk about renaming the public research programme of waag society (which i run) into ‘public domain’. in the last two days i have however been reminded that this is nothing […]
seems like it has been raining for more than a week now. while this is really getting on everyone’s mood it it provides the newspapers with an opportunity to fill their summer gap with good news stories. today’s volkskrant had the following two stories on page three (which is main domestic politics page): ‘mild summer […]
maybe i have been a bit premature in my condemnation of the french and dutch no votes on the european constitution back in june. the charter of fundamental rights that is part of the proposed constitution contains an article relating to intellectual property rights. in all its simplistic beauty article 17(2) reads like this: Intellectual […]
have been on trains a lot the last couple of days. since saturday i have gone from amsterdam to frankfurt back to amsterdam and now i am almost in berlin. since january i have traveld more than 43.000km by trains. most of this has been within germany some of it in holland and i even […]