i just finished uploading my pictures from Dubai to my flickr account. the most interesting ones are in the ‘dubai construction‘ set: [from the description]: i took these photographs during a stopover in dubai on the 25th of november 2006. they are taken on various construction sites in the dubai marina area that this located […]

spend a day in dubai yesterday and that place is positively insane. will post in more detail later, but in the meanwhile some initial observations. about the first thing i noticed – even before leaving the transit area of the airport – was that the local authorities do not have much love for this blog. […]

… straight from the US Immigration and Customs enforcement website (o.k with a detour via the the excellent subtopia field guide to military urbanism), the chair guy: this is the most amazing combination of sheer will, imagination and engineering i have come across in ages (subtopia calls it ‘imagination of desperation’). makes me hope that […]

… coming home form the (opening of the going to be) excellent mycreativity event/conference/meeting i stopped by the shoarma place around the corner from my house. the egyptian guy who runs the shop was in chatty mood and somehow we ended up discussing syriana which he described as… … a film about the CIA and […]

… at least that is what the vistor stats of this site seem to suggest: looks as if quite alot of people do look for information on the 9/11 attacks around that date and that some of them do end up here. i would guess that this has to do with my 9/11 lamp, but […]

excellent headline from last saturdays NRC handelsblad!! (it roughly translates to ‘integration primarily a problem of the natives’ (bablefish suggests ‘autochthons‘ as a translation for autochtonen, but i think natives fits it better). the article goes on to point out that according to a recent survey immigrants (allochtonen) do not consider integration as an important […]

is the title of a photo exhibition at the Netherlands Institute of Architecture in rotterdam (on show till the 7th of january 2007). the exhibition consists of about a 100 mostly large scale large-scale reproductions of – well – spectacular urban landscapes, exceptional buildings and all kinds of eerie views. many of the pictures contain […]

the guardian is running quite an impressive piece titled ‘One Friday‘ on its website today [i know that it is wednesday today but then those brits drive on the wrong side of the road and are generally confused when it comes to just about every measurement, so this not all too shocking]: Criticised for their […]