archive for August, 2008
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
had to take a leak yesterday as we were on the way back from the opening reception of the uitmarkt on java island. conveniently we were cycling past the navy terrain in central amsterdam and the outside wall of this super secret military installation is about the only place in all of central amsterdam where […]
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
for some reason i never managed to write about manifesta7 after having visited 3 of the 4 locations on the opening weekend back in mid july. not sure what to say of the overall exhibition but it included a number of really interesting and beautiful artworks. my favorite among them was Tantalum Memorial – Residue, […]
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
reading trough my dead migrants rss feeds i ran into a new blog post about san la muerte today. this time it is a short blog post about the Santa Muerte cult that is thriving in mexico and among mexican migrants (this is why the blog post got caught in my ‘dead migrants’ filter) in […]
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Saturday, August 9th, 2008
so on my last day in Japan i ventured out to see a Keirin race somewhere on the finges of the Tokyo metropolis (big thanks to Fumi for figuring this out for me). Apparently Keirin has made it to become an olympic discipline a while ago, which is kind of interesting insofar that keirin in […]
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
… that south americans and canadians consider the gringos to be arrogant: window display of the continental [sic!] airlines agency on Meiji-dori between Ebisu and Shibuya in Tokyo, Japan. Technorati Tags: airtravel, stupid
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