07 november 2011 09:02.45
Back from our the trip-inspired trip through Scotland (and in a train to RDM). We spent the days making rubber booted walks through silent mountains, enjoying the spooky traits of trees, rocks and inn-keepers, driving Antonio past endless small single lane roads past lochs and reading mara's the new yorkers in front of the wood stove (with whiskey, without wifi). The highlands autumn colours reminded us strongly of Siberia and it was one of those travels that inspired a handful of new travel plans. SIRE, WE LEAVE AT NINE(-ish)!!
07 november 2011 09:26.51
your fragility is your strength (Pina Bausch)
07 november 2011 23:43.23
Gentlemen, to bed! For we leave at 9:30. Ish. Gentlemen, to bed, for we rise at…what time is the battle?
07 november 2011 23:48.01
The Italian quote is from Il Divo and translates as something like: if you want to keep a secret, don't even reveal it to yourself.
07 november 2011 23:48.01
The Italian quote is from Il Divo and translates as something like: if you want to keep a secret, don't even reveal it to yourself.
08 november 2011 09:08.21
remember those posts and pics early this year about the hangar rat's construction? well, if you ever find you are contemplating to build a flying contraption yourself, here's my advice. D-O-N-T.
throughout the years before, your life seemed to be in order at last. you found pleasure in friendhsip, love, and a fulfilling job. you went to bed with a smile, and there were no evil thoughts to torture you. long gone were those early university days when you lay awake at night, tortured by angst about your future and how the pieces of your life's puzzle would ever fit together.
that all changed when you started to design and build. first it's just the thinking about airfoils, weights of parts, center of gravity, incidence, tail moment, static margin and co. then comes the drafting, the cutting, the glueing, the lurking around in forums. you find your gaze drifting away to emptiness in the middle of the day, fitting together hypothetical parts, and soon you're waking with a start from your early night doze, sweating in angst how that firewall will join to the fuselage.
and yet, after a summer spent in relative normality, and over 3 hours of flight on the rat, days are once again short, and your compulsive builder's self is winning the upper hand. the new project's name working title is snowhound: the fields will probably be white before this latest monster takes to the air. wingspan 120cm, chord 15cm, weight around 300g, pod and boom fuselage, and a folding propeller powered by a 1600mAh battery. if all goes well, the airfoil will be close enough to S3021, a not-so-oldie but goodie meant for laminar flow and low drag at low reynolds numbers... help. stop me.
08 november 2011 17:38.04
facoruh thanks for the long email, looking forward to more of these... and pictures of your baroque sofas & chandeliers, please! (although the beijing street scenes are deeply satisfying as well)
09 november 2011 03:18.34
I have yet to take a picture of Beijing: this series is from Hong Kong...
Wonderful to hear from our aviator again. Snowhound, sounds as if you could be a competitor of Apple? Or is it in honours of Job's fanatical attention to detail? I recognize myself in hearing when passions take over. I speak not merely for myself when I say that I've experienced these nocturnal moments during periods of competition or deadlines at an office. Closed polylines suddenly do not contain sufficient area according to a programme, objects have not snapped properly to a grid, and then the plotstyle is not producing print results as it should... All is set to a black-screen background with my hand trying to move a cursor into control. We've been there. All I can tell you from the other side, is that perserverance is a virtue.
Hope we get to see a series of project build-up pictures of the snowhound!
09 november 2011 03:24.31
In China, I now use a VPN connection to access the internet. I decided to opt for a comprehensive package that allows me to log on to a selection of my provider's servers which are located in different regions of the world. I can cherry pick from five: HK, UK, US, CA, and DE. What's interesting to note is that while visiting sojourn, only DE registers on the picture padlock according to it's global position on the net. The rest all come up as unknown. Hence the revived white agglomeration in northwestern Europe. And furthermore my persistent disappointment in not having been able to activate CN yet...
09 november 2011 17:20.57
I was already really confused which sojourner stays in my HEIMAT
10 november 2011 02:43.36
3625 gave the location of the photographer away for me. How was it inside Neuteling Riedijk's museum? I've heard one account from a former colleague who told me they were really disappointed in the materials and detailing of the building?
10 november 2011 09:22.45
It was the MAS, excellent. It was a particular grey day. The museum lofting over the old harbour. In the end one will always be disappointed by NRA. Too simple, too much, too.... or to quote a infamous movie director:" never mind the details, it's the big picture."
10 november 2011 09:44.25
yes, Ed Wood
10 november 2011 11:58.07
funny you mention Ed, I just started watching Glen or Glenda yesterday...
10 november 2011 21:45.49
Started? That film is little over an hour
11 november 2011 09:31.31
I know... things just... happened. I will return to it soon though, and I really enjoyed what I saw so far.
11 november 2011 10:55.37
is kunsthal the best building from Koolhaas?
11 november 2011 11:28.09
A reaction on the article 'Fuck de context? Fuck de Koolhaas' has already been written.
11 november 2011 16:08.10
alrite, snowhound pics on the way - soon. but first the homework: the rat was in need of some facelift (what a nice word for a machine whose purpose is to exploit the lifting forces).
pp3632: the pushrods sticking far out to the side have long bothered me. you can also see them in pp3405. it's so trivial. so darn trivial. i'm practically embarrassed that i didn't think of flipping the servos in the first place.
i hope i'll get a cleaner model out of this change, if clean is something you can even seriously say about a parasitic drag machine like the rat. the forecast promises low winds for tomorrow, so let's see.
14 november 2011 08:20.13
Kleven, Ukraine, The Tunnel of Love - wie gaat er mee met deze spoorwandeling?
14 november 2011 09:36.11
Geachte redactie Opinie en Debat,
In reactie op de onder de wervende kop verschenen brief ‘Fuck de contect, fuck de Koolhaas”, opgenomen in Opinie en Debat pagina 7 van zaterdag 5 november, wil ik graag het volgende kwijt:
In 1908 reden de eerste treinen over geëlektrificeerd spoor tussen Rotterdam en Scheveningen. Het eerste spoor in Nederland met bovenleiding, de bijbehorende bekende betonnen spoorbogen waren een internationaal vermaard voorbeeld hoe af te rekenen met het afgrijselijke metaal, het bijbehorende stof en lawaai dat in ieder stadshart te vinden was. Tussen 1937 en 1942 werd de langste tunnel van Europa aangelegd. Deze eerste tunnel van Nederland was zo populair dat politie te paard moest worden ingezet om dagelijks gebruik in goede banen te leiden. Rotterdam had met het Witte Huis enige tijd het hoogste kantoorgebouw van Europa. Pas door de aanleg van de Nieuwe Waterweg en immense havenbekkens heeft de stad vanaf het tweede deel van de negentiende eeuw met enorme voortvarendheid kunnen groeien.
Behoudende krachten zijn Rotterdam vreemd ook blijkens de regelmatig bezongen Rotterdamse drang naar groter en nieuwer in het waanzinnig populaire tijdschrift ‘Groot Rotterdam’. Daarnaast was er in een eerder in deze krant verschenen artikel te lezen dat de Rotterdammer gemiddeld een maand nodig heeft om een gebouw niet meer lelijk te vinden. Ik betwijfel of de auteurs Thierry Baudet en Bastiaan Rijpkema zich met hun woede richten op de juiste stad, met name Leiden van alle historische steden behoeft zeker nog enige aandacht.
Overigens hoop ik niet dat eenzelfde precisie die de auteurs voor het ingezonden artikel aan de dag hebben gelegd gangbaar is voor de Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid van de Universiteit van Leiden.
14 november 2011 09:45.00
http://www.thierrybaudet.com/artikelen-columns/fuck-de-koolhaas/
14 november 2011 21:06.27
Het is niet naast de deur, maar zeer aantrekkelijk. Lijkt geen doodspoor
15 november 2011 00:28.19
would love to see the end
15 november 2011 21:08.05
Geachte heer x,
Hartelijk dank voor toezending van uw brief. Wij moeten u echter berichten dat wij deze niet zullen plaatsen. Door de grote hoeveelheid post die wij ontvangen moeten wij streng selecteren. Onze voorkeur gaat (deze keer) uit naar andere bijdragen.
Het spijt ons u niet anders te kunnen berichten.
Met vriendelijke groet,
Redactie Opinie
NRC Handelsblad
Wegens het grote aanbod van artikelen en brieven is de redactie helaas niet in de gelegenheid te corresponderen over de inhoud van deze brief.
16 november 2011 12:41.20
is dat een pekinees?
16 november 2011 13:13.08
Nee: waarschijnlijk een Chihuahua. Ik verwacht geen Pomeranian of kleine Duitse Spitz in Shanghai...
16 november 2011 14:30.08
DUDE: What the fuck are you--
WALTER: I'm saying, Cynthia's Pomeranian. I'm looking after it while Cynthia and Marty Ackerman are in Hawaii.
DUDE: You brought a fucking Pomeranian bowling?
WALTER: What do you mean "brought it bowling"? I didn't rent it shoes. I'm not buying it a fucking beer. He's not gonna take your fucking turn, Dude.
DUDE: Hey, man, if my fucking ex-wife asked me to take care of her fucking dog while she and her boyfriend went to Honolulu, I'd tell her to go fuck herself. Why can't she board it?
WALTER: First of all, Dude, you don't have an ex, secondly, it's a fucking show dog with fucking papers. You can't board it. It gets upset, its hair falls out.
DUDE: Hey man--
WALTER: Fucking dog has papers, Dude.
16 november 2011 22:43.22
pp3641 first of the scottish series? Man that is eerie, straight from the spielberg classic duel...
16 november 2011 22:46.34
speaking about movies, how is the 'glen or glenda' viewing taking of. and i am also curious where one would get any such film. especially since the cultvideotheek is no more. the more obvious answer would be utube, but perhaps the capital has more to offer
17 november 2011 03:52.57
Marcel the Shell (with shoes on): whoever doubts whether the combination of a cute mumbling female voice and stop-footage of a shell with pink sneakers could produce something brilliant, think again...
http://youtube-trends.blogspot.com/2011/11/marcel-shell-is-back.html
17 november 2011 12:51.05
Sojourn version 2.3 is now online ¡
Improvements:
· The complete Sojourn can now be visited on-the-road, the european and world Archipelagoes are no longer hidden and should appear properly (it might cost some processor time though);
· A new module for country recognition in the Archipelagoes is running, (hopefully) solving the "unknown" category, allowing superpowers on both sides of the Pacific to rise and fall out of the blue;
· 'More robust overall performance' (no more ghost-Archipelago shining through upon resizing the browser window, faster opening of Sojourn).
17 november 2011 14:57.55
Awesome... just awesome!
China finally calling in: thanks barn.
17 november 2011 15:07.20
Thanks for the 'latest' button too. Now one can navigate back to the latest uploaded image in the picture padlock whilst browsing expired images in the archive.
18 november 2011 02:40.05
Some sojourners will think it's cheating, but with DE, HK, US, UK, and CA at my VPN disposable, I decided to retroactively log on from US and HK. I feel like the effort I took while I was travelling in those two countries warrents it... For some reason, UK registers as GB, a TLD I hadn't added to the pool of archipelago states.
18 november 2011 04:03.08
Yesterday I decided to embark on my first music-shopping outing in Beijing. I've been reading up on lists posted on forums and expat websites. The prospects looked promising. Vinyl seems to be difficult to find, but there were plenty of cd and dvd establishments spread over the city. I started off in the neighbourhood. Just to the south-west of Rutin Park, across Jiangoumen avenue lies a shop called Music Bar. It lies in the Scitech Plaza compound, which is not as the name suggests a high-tech science campus but a complex with a hotel, boutique shopping hall, and other downtown amenities. The picture I'd seen of Music Bar seemed not to fit the late-90's feel of the architecture around me. I reluctantly entered the shopping 'plaza' which comprised a Bijenkorf makeup/perfume section interior filled with a dense layout of haute couture fashion brands. This was nr. 22, not nr. 24: two girls working at the concierge desk pointed me in the direction of a McDonald's...
Walking back to my bicycle, I looked into the distance of another corner of the compound. Low and behold there it was: an illuminated red sign with white text announced Music Bar. What's in a name? MB really is what it says it is: a shop selling cds and dvds but with an annex bar where you can buy a (strong) drink. A young chinese man sits in a corner furnished with some armchairs. He's watching a film playing on a small television which is mounted on bracket in the ceiling corner. To my right is a smallish section of music. As I start to browse, I rediscover the pleasure of trying to deduce the order of things.
Each record shop has it's own way of categorizing and ordering its wares. Some opt for genre's, and subdivide alphabetically. Some are more specific and use records labels or format. As I scanned MB's racks, I was at a loss. Sometimes things appeared to follow a genre: there was hip-hop, then dance/electronic, and then a row of chinese artists. All the cd's had wrappers, and hardly any had price tags. Over here was a selection of Eagles and Pink Floyd, so that must be the classic rock, but wait... what's Llorca doing here again. And more dance music? Is this just alphabetical? I gave up trying to figure out if there was an order to the distribution, and resorted to the only method possible: look through everything slowly.
There were a couple of good DJ Krush albums. Briefly a recollection entered my mind of a MoWax album I wanted back in the day, and then my finger was already there. MiLight: the restrained, catalogue-like front cover showing a wooden crate exercised it's attraction on me again. MoWax stuff from the 90's always showcased wonderful design. Think DJ Shadow, Andrea Parker, Attica Blues, Dr. Octagon, cardboard packaging with matt textured inner mini-sleeves and block typography. The price tag for this jewel-case edition of MiLight was a whopping 328RMB. I asked if this was correct, and the young man assuredly nodded: "Import."
After browsing through pretty much the whole collection, I had a go at bargaining.
- "328RMB? What if I offer you 250?".
- "Yes, 328RMB"
- "Um, no. I mean, would you accept 250RMB".
- "No, import".
- "Is this a new cd?"
- "New? Some old music, some new music".
- "Um, I mean, am I the first person to buy this cd, or is it second-hand?"
- [puzzled look]
328RMB equates to 38 EUR. No matter how much I feel my past yearning, common sense wins out. I settle for a Keith Jarrett album: The Köln Concert of 1975. At 145RMB still not cheap, but ECM stuff never is. And then, something amazing happens. The young man takes a large Casio calculator on the counter and types in '264' and points to the MiLight cd. My desire wins out. Ok, I'll buy the DJ Krush but leave the Jarrett. "No, both". He then types in '260'. Did he just concede 328+145=473-260=213RMB? He looks at me earnestly and then motions, "Just for you though, only for you and one time, ok?". "Deal. Thank you".
Later as we get to talking, you tells me his name is Don (or was it Jon), and that he's moved the shop around the city a couple of times. He's been at this location for just over two years. Replying to my query about where to find vinyl, he tells me that it's not really sold in Beijing. "Only my friends have it, you can maybe buy it from them."
Coincidence would have it that DJ Krush is coming to Beijing on December 1st. "Chinese people love hip-hop" Don tells me. I haven't seen Krush since Metropolis festival in Rotterdam in 1997. We're thinking about going. If I don't bump into Don there, my instinct tells me I'll be back for the 2CD edition of the Velvet Underground he was trying to sell me for 55RMB...
18 november 2011 08:23.29
zn-54-fx is no more. yesterday i gave the old man up after more than 10 years of adventures service. old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
18 november 2011 09:08.20
i think this car should be called something other than the prosaic 'zn-54-fx', Rote Baron perhaps. It makes you want to drive it more even though it is on its way to the scrap heap. The hint of the dealer sign on the facade finishes the picture... so long farewell
18 november 2011 09:34.39
pp3649 a still from the German documentary 'Unter Kontrolle'. Imagine endless Ken Adams' stage set design, the oddest of colourmatchings, breathtaking masonry elevator shafts... . I am still overwhelmed by the scariness of every single detail featured in this film. The calmness of the workers, the encrypted - also it seems - meetings on the reactor status, the taking a part of unused facility buildings, the sheer amount of concrete, the yellow underwear, the binding of contaminated water in concrete, the lifeless storage caves. This is why HAL was called Hal. 'where's your f*cking god now?' Go see it!
18 november 2011 09:34.58
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EwK4znN6Og
18 november 2011 12:28.07
I mean hell.
19 november 2011 10:05.47
It's hard to believe der Rote Baron is no longer. Travelling with the baron was always adventurous, not in the least because of the most interesting man-machine hybrid between the car and its driver .. The baron was 'one of our friends'. This picture (pp03652) shows the baron in front of a wood stack in the German Pfalz, together with a contemporary. Not only shall I miss the small surprises the baron always came up with (in the Pfalz it was a dead battery at the end of a 3 day foot hike), but more important I will miss the way it always came back to life with great strength and resilience. But not this time. Adieu, we will miss you.
19 november 2011 13:45.26
china lighting up, beautiful! good to see that giant fowl towards the right. great job on sojourn.
switching to central stage on the european peninsula: old friends gathered last night to spiral down a swift route of whiskey and vodka smeared joyfulness. binge drinking discovered past 30, eh? (the excuse was to celebrate the news of resumed talks with imf... but that's a long and twisted story with a great concentration of irony.) in any case, the red peugeot slept downtown tonight. the excursion to collect it is to depart soon.
those in last night's company that are active facebook users, the russian and the fashion tzar developer, shared with alarm the news about the red baron. i had to read up here today to get more details. the end of a proud era? why? how? i am hungry for the full peecture.
worst case, you can tell me in person in exactly one week. which reminds me... is there any chance to meet lobo this time?
21 november 2011 09:28.19
pp3654 is it a dog, is it a monkey...is it man bear pig - half man, half bear, half pig - man-bear-pig
21 november 2011 14:06.02
a very brief discussion with the former red baron resulted in a first idea to meet on saturday evening at the LNS; rotterdam delegates including the person known as LOBO are very welcome. barn will fly in from munich and arrive later in the evening....
21 november 2011 14:07.46
am I the only one seeing strange blue boxes around certain elements?
21 november 2011 17:10.09
are you still using Safari?
21 november 2011 17:11.22
excellent! I try to make arrangments
21 november 2011 17:34.04
Lobo thanks for the very welcome. Regrettably he's trailing elsewhere. Everybody is invited to join his pride to Tante Käthe in Berlin.
21 november 2011 18:56.15
what elements?
22 november 2011 10:13.31
finally the solution
22 november 2011 11:42.10
True, Hungarian grammar doesn't know the distinction
22 november 2011 14:42.07
It's a dog in a grooming parlour in Shanghai's old city quarter. The groomer's had vacuum cleaners hooked up underneath the tables, and had reversed the circuitflow to get blown air. You have to imagine the darkness and density of the old city closing in around you (as in the preceding pictures), and that you then stumble across this small windowfront on a Sunday night with guys working overtime to get the poodles of the neighbourhood looking tip-top. Dedication...
22 november 2011 14:44.44
pp 3657 takes me back. How I miss Scotland and will always love it... thank you for sharing these moments.
22 november 2011 22:04.19
Pp3660 shows the view at the end of the winding path of pp3657.
22 november 2011 23:39.30
pp3661 concentrate for twenty seconds or so on the four dots in the centre of the drawing, then look at a blank wall and discover the Lord our Savior
I would also like,
to call for an explanation of the head lights instruction
thank barn for all the good work
encourage Facoruh to deepen his relationship with the music store owner and in writing his tales from the Occident
to ask elebar to post some more pictures from the other side of the world
say farewell to the Rote Baron
mention my excitement for the launching of a new aeronautic undertaking
All of this of course in the light of the coming end of the year and the announced quiz hosted by Bart and Naomi in Rotterdam.
24 november 2011 09:52.51
pp03663 wat is dat voor K-cover? Ik ken een veel mooier ontwerp van een topontwerper uit Rotterdam!
24 november 2011 12:40.54
dit is de internationaal uitgegeven hardcover, verkrijgbaar bij de betere boekhandel, geprezen om zowel filosofische als wetenschappelijke grondslag
24 november 2011 13:44.03
het ijs is gebroken..., is dit ook de doorbraak in de wetenschappelijke wereld van Kalis?
24 november 2011 14:35.11
oh sorry...het was misschien een beetje vroeg toen ik dat schreef......
24 november 2011 16:48.03
pp 3664: that was a good goal... the flying Dutchman lives.
24 november 2011 18:19.23
Tja, onbetekende auteurs mogen bij deze grote uitgever kiezen uit Template A, B of C....
25 november 2011 12:26.55
ja also. Mann kann doch auch mit dem iphone weniger als vier stunden pro bild beanspruchen. es gibt hier noch 'zandmotor' und ich suche jetzt nach bilder von einem mann der seinen bart seit der belgischen wahl wachsen lassen hat.
25 november 2011 12:29.04
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:dpTY21bkWTgJ:www.radio1.be/programmas/joos/geen-regering-daar-krijg-je-baard-van+groei+baard+sinds+belgische+verkiezing&cd=1&hl=nl&ct=clnk&gl=nl&client=firefox-a
Koen Fillet Mann mit Bart
25 november 2011 18:14.41
pp3669 'zandmotor' Kijkduin opened yesterday
26 november 2011 11:31.02
3670 welcome to Fitzroy! ; )
27 november 2011 12:11.45
Ah, the Elebar Fitzroy series.
27 november 2011 22:11.46
miss Melbourne so much...it is just too too far away! (from everywhere)
28 november 2011 12:12.12
pp3672 crowd at the Turkish consulate queuing up in a last attempt to get a €5000,- relief for their obligatory military service. In the future this would cost €10.000,-
28 november 2011 12:13.08
need I add? Rotterdam
28 november 2011 18:32.35
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_KbnCFe6D8&feature=fvwrel
29 november 2011 12:21.07
pp 3674 ... onwaarschijnlijk.
great to see the mushroom series so late in the season resumed. are these images recently captured?
29 november 2011 12:23.17
pp03668 - railway place!
29 november 2011 12:26.12
chapeau for the mushroom #03674!
29 november 2011 13:02.19
indeed the images are of recent date. the mild autumn weather is probably to the benefit of the fungi.
29 november 2011 13:02.56
railway place in Fitzroy
29 november 2011 18:25.07
I see it is Footscray
30 november 2011 09:36.37
are there any bad pictures to be expected in the Scotland series?
30 november 2011 09:49.08
pp3677 EBM distribution map. 'Esperesso Book Machine'. Shouldn't 'Faiures of Agency' be listed?
30 november 2011 12:43.27
this is great! So the first machine is in Amsterdam as is the second. You pick your book, order it online and collect it at the bookstore, library, cafe post office, where ever there is one of these printers? On demand books...
30 november 2011 12:45.23
Merk op dat dit geen elfenbankjes zijn pp3678
30 november 2011 16:06.07
railwayplace is in Brunswick ; ) between Sidney road and the railway
30 november 2011 16:19.30
03679 brunswick. sunday morning. garage music store
01 december 2011 10:07.18
There is some sort of Italian flag inside!
01 december 2011 10:23.37
Brunswick. I now found out that the street was called Railway Place. I could recognise the building from pp3668. Brunswick is also in the map pp3675, as is Footscray which we see in the aerial picture pp3483. I am starting slowly to retrace your Melbourne visit.
01 december 2011 15:07.29
Yes, and I thought M was standing outside the garage... until I noticed the Adidas sneakers. It did make me think that in twenty years from now, this photograph, with its paired bicycles and relaxed open-door neighbourhood ethic (adventurous childeren incl.), might come to typify the hipster-era. Which led me to the question...
... Is sojourn a hipster hangout?
We were probably hipster before there was such a trend, right? Without wanting to chisel out an oxymoron, are we 'classic' and temporary at once. I guess we're constantly redefining what 'we' are? Anyway, our mid-life crisis are still a long way off. With no due sense of irony, I'll finish by saying that we're off to see DJ Krush now.
02 december 2011 09:13.24
"only the strong survive"
02 december 2011 12:19.37
Aha CL Smooth
02 december 2011 13:09.35
Swervin' with the Krush
03 december 2011 12:15.40
who is in US?
04 december 2011 12:07.22
You don't know? Maybe it's the wallaby
05 december 2011 08:49.56
My mother reminded us that when taking a continental car for a ride in the UK, the headlights need to be partially blinded. We set out for a pair of stickers.
The ANWB store had no more stickers in store but told us we might also use ordinary tape and gave us an overly simple scheme of where to apply the stickers on the headlights.
But another store did sell the stickers, for the phenomenal price of 13 euro. Was it curiousity or a lack of time, we bought it.
But hidden inside the package, invisible to the buyer, was a surprise (pp03655): a leaflet with on one side all major car models and years in a tiny font and on the other side a rich set of diagrams carrying instructions of where specifically to apply what part of the (for this purpose perforated) stickers. Clearly someone spent a good deal of his time on this fine piece of work and clearly we hit a masterpiece.
On an english parking lot we followed our route through the instructions and in a minute we were all set.
So even the headlight matter is much more complicated than it appears, but this scheme finally solves it all.
05 december 2011 21:17.23
13 euros well spent.
06 december 2011 16:46.02
no! mushrooms still?
06 december 2011 17:10.22
27th of november, not too long ago
06 december 2011 17:54.40
03685 delicious... makes me soo hungry !
06 december 2011 17:55.35
maar... dat zijn shiitake's?!
06 december 2011 21:56.13
pp3686 is a picture I just ran into on the internet. It's a photo taken on the ' Twin Peaks' set. (Do I really need to explain this here?) Michael Ontkean on the left, David Lynch ofcourse on the irght. In man in the middle is the scariest man in my Life.....Bob.
08 december 2011 03:11.27
After thirteen years, Gilles is leaving BBC1:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/16077000
Hope we see him on 6. Seems like it was the changes of new dj's that meant he had to go. I think it's such a loss. Where are my hero's?
08 december 2011 03:11.29
After thirteen years, Gilles is leaving BBC1:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/16077000
Hope we see him on 6. Seems like it was the changes of new dj's that meant he had to go. I think it's such a loss. Where are my hero's?
09 december 2011 12:46.43
Didn't I post that message just the once? Did someone in CET stay up to late o post it again? Or is the CN www police watching my back and trying to break into sojourn?
09 december 2011 15:38.09
"... staying up too late to post it again." [apologies]
09 december 2011 15:38.11
"... staying up too late to post it again." [apologies]
09 december 2011 16:46.57
i'd be careful with the remarks about Chinese police, they are very friendly by the way.
10 december 2011 04:19.47
Seems that when I have two windows of sojourn open, and in one I post a log, it appears twice...
I haven't met with the police yet, but I see them at some large intersections, carefully watching the flows of traffic. Oh yes, and there was one time when they cleared the way for a group of minibuses to ride into the city (most probably a group of dignitaries). It created a little bubble of space in the blocked friday-night traffic. Quite a heroic feat to pull off, given the tenacity of Beijing drivers.
10 december 2011 12:51.18
pp. 3691 Battersea Powerstation (London, UK): Iconic building from my youth...
10 december 2011 19:34.51
beautiful indeed. more on the topic, aka the nostalgia trap: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/05/the-nostalgia-trap/8444/
10 december 2011 20:57.07
pp 03693 marks the (temporary) end of the scottish series. leaving the harbor of newcastle we see tynemouth disappear into the evening. due to the slow shutter speed of the camera we cannot register the abundant fireworks over newcastle - it was bonfire night and explosions of light and colour filled the lighter strip of sky along the horizon.
11 december 2011 10:00.23
Vanavond. Halfverduisterd bij opkomst in het NO
11 december 2011 14:34.24
Yesterday we bought bread at Hartog's. While i was waiting in a DDR-like queue for bread i took this picture pp03695 .
The baker himself came to me and invited me for a short walk around in his bakery. We talked about how much water to add (he did more than 400 gr. per bread!) and where his wheat comes from (almost everything from Holland, as close as possible from Amsterdam, which is normally regarded as cattle-foord) and why he grinds his wheat himself (for the real 'wholegrain' result). He showed there very ingenius system of production from grain to bread, all in one company. I found it impressive. I guess he hasn't the most profitable earnings model, but the way he produces gives him, and i hope his stakeholders, much more satisfaction.
I teach my pupils that the raison d'etre of all firms is profitmaximalisation and if you don't obey the laws of the market-principles, you're either dead of a fool. This baker (Fred Tiggelman) proves it all wrong, with the long queues in front of his shop as the best evidence.
12 december 2011 09:57.43
pp3698 taken only yesterday
12 december 2011 10:07.12
possibly the rare Lactarius vellereus
12 december 2011 16:03.07
pp3700 not the best of pictures. What'sApp quality. Only possibility as well, as there were a crowd entering from the right. I had to be quick. The centre figure is Jan. Jan is a furniture maker, he however creates the geometrical figures taht are on display. In order to be able to create the more complicated shapes, Jan befriended prof. Koos Verhoeff pp3130.
12 december 2011 16:51.25
Is that picture taken at a Christmas fair? If so, whoever took that photograph may now be conceiving the most challenging decoration ever to be mounted on a Christmas tree...
12 december 2011 23:00.19
That is indeed at a Christmas fair, unfortunately no purchases. Arabesk has sale though, also through their internet sales. Arabesk is the shop Jan the carpenter makes his products for. The sale marks the end of Arabesk, after 16 years internet sales. 25% discount!
14 december 2011 22:40.40
when Milano choses not to be kind.....there is no taxy, even if you have fever and you have been teaching the all day. anyway
15 december 2011 00:30.25
I know a tassista who woud have taken you.
15 december 2011 13:16.17
I read an article about Battlesea Power Station (pp. 3691) in the International Herald Tribune of last saturday. It offers an interesting insight into the "insubstantial" value of real property.
After the power station's closure in 1983 it was first bought by a British entrepreneur, John Broome, in 1987, for £ 1.5 MILLION. Broom planned to turn it into an amusement park and managed to demolish the station's roof and one wall before running out of money.
In 1993, a Hong Kong investor, Victor Hwang, bought the site for £ 10 MILLION and drew up plans for a shopping center with a rooftop ice rink, a glass ballroom, a maze and a cinema. Hwang spent £ 200 MILLION over 13 years hiring and then firing nine teams of architects and contractors but he did not move a sinlge brick.
He finally sold the site in 2006 to Treasury Holdings, a property investment firm based in Dublin. Treasury Holdings payed £ 400 MILLION. The Irish investor started with a relatively modest £ 1.6 billion plan to build mainly apartments. By 2010 the project had ballooned to £5.5 billion. By then no bank was willing to provide financing and the site had to be handed over to the creditors. The station is now going back on sale with an asking price of £ 500 MILLION. But developers doubt if anybody is willing to pay even half of this amount...
15 december 2011 13:17.25
smartness and wealth don't always come together
15 december 2011 13:19.14
i just saw 13 black dots arrive from france simultaneously
15 december 2011 13:56.15
Did you know that I never understood the dots........
15 december 2011 14:28.36
If you "hoover" above the dots with your mouse it will give you a clue about how it works...
15 december 2011 14:53.13
The Scotland 2011 series might be over, but to cool down the picturepadlock will feature some unpublished photos taken in Scotland and Ireland in 2010. Possibly the last film of Kodak Elitechrome ED-3 I ever shot?
15 december 2011 18:35.03
I was dreaming about this TASSISTA......! ; )
15 december 2011 18:36.21
I don't understand the dots too.....
15 december 2011 23:19.13
Just so you know I can't let go. Hoover is a company name. And yes I am aware that the sojourner in question is very much aware. It is also a dam. I do not understand the dots either.
16 december 2011 00:31.48
pp3683
16 december 2011 03:35.12
Are you guys taking the mick?
Each dot represents a visitor to sojourn. Barn should correct me if I'm wrong, but the identity is determined by the IP address of the user. When a user visits sojourn, his/her/their stay is represented by a dot. A blue dot signifies the user to him/her/itself ('you'), while a black dot is another user who is simultaneously online and viewing sojourn at the time ('other (present)'). Grey dots represent past visits which are no longer active. Sojourn keeps a log of visits of the past 48 hours. After that duration, a grey dot signifying a visit over 48 hours ago will disappear. Hovering over a grey dot will display the time of the last visit from that respective IP address. Last but not least, if a user visits sojourn for the first time (ie. from a new unique IP address with no previously registered session), his/her/their dot will flash grey-to-black for a minute: this is called 'ganging up...'. After that, his/her/their dot will turn to blue.
16 december 2011 09:41.57
pp3702 appears to be from a much older series, I would dare say the picture date lies beyond the date of birth of the author.
16 december 2011 09:43.52
And of course it is also a president
16 december 2011 19:49.39
yes marvelous. i have never owned many of those, but pp 03707 is absolutely beautiful. this bill is worth of its denotation and indeed, it is older than i am
is it possible that we get the whole series here?
16 december 2011 19:56.22
hadrian's wall. evening.
17 december 2011 02:44.00
I thought the dots were determined not so much by the ip as the audio card of each individual computer.
17 december 2011 02:45.24
Duidelijk een watersnip
18 december 2011 08:04.52
those were the old days... when sojourn's rogue scripts were running on a server in oosterpark's always dusty hallways. nowadays the dots are distilled by a combination of ip, language of your os and browser version.
18 december 2011 10:56.17
Finally a glimpse of the Hvistendahl-Coruh residence... I would so much love to come for a party. Fantasy beholds many items just out of sight of the camera. The liquor stand, with lots of brown curly bottles, a white chiwawa with a little pink ribbon who just left the sofa, a bright flat-screen tv-intercom next to the door with too many features, and of course the 'grand master bedroom' with 360 degrees sleeping capacity. In the window one distinguishes the reflection of the Cuisine, with a bottle of champagne atop, ready to be wolfed down in a moment.
19 december 2011 08:39.04
"consumed" is a word that better fits the scenery
19 december 2011 14:24.06
The Riverside baroque was actually the first place we stayed, and since a month ago we've been living in a much smaller apartment. The slogan of the former estate was 'Born with Blue Blood'. Other features included a mirrored ceilings in the living room and parking attendent's dossed out in British Royal guard-like uniforms. We had fun passing by them as we cycled in and out of the parking garage every day.
We're off to Seoul tomorrow: my first sixty days here in China are up and I need to exit. With the passing of Kim, we're hoping that things between the waring north and south stay quiet until our return to Beijing on christmas eve. Watch .kr on the map.
20 december 2011 00:25.38
alright!
20 december 2011 22:29.41
Alright! welcome .kr
20 december 2011 22:38.50
In a speech once KC on an office trip to Hamburg said: " Twenty years ago at the OMA, we had divided the world. As Rem didn't want Europe, let alone Germany it was my job to take care of it. I then arrived in this building [pointing in the direction of an old industrial building in Hamburg's harbour, then run down now amid the thriving economy of Hafencity] for a lecture." He actually spoke a lot more, but I bring it up because sojourn is in a condition, had it been divided, the east will grow at an enormous rate, and the old continent merely abides. Go for it!
24 december 2011 03:10.22
http://www.smrt.co.kr/program/cyberStation/main2.jsp?lang=e
24 december 2011 16:28.40
Buon Natale amici : )
25 december 2011 01:20.06
http://vimeo.com/22461692
25 december 2011 12:00.20
Merry Christmas from Beijing everyone....
25 december 2011 19:06.13
i love the smrt.co.kr website. has everything to make me dream. but can you find the longest possible route? longest i found (so far) is 251 minutes, hence more then 4 hours in the sub!
29 december 2011 12:21.16
funny. smrt means 'death' in croatian.
is it the first time that croatia lights up on the map?
29 december 2011 20:33.35
Rhein?
30 december 2011 13:05.46
almost
30 december 2011 14:13.40
... 2012
30 december 2011 14:41.17
if you don't recognise it yet, hover with your mouse over the picture...
31 december 2011 17:47.44
Happy 2012 from Shanghai!
31 december 2011 23:27.44
and a happy one from the balkans!
01 january 2012 12:11.00
buon anno amici! un brindisi al nostro prossimo incontro!: )
01 january 2012 23:20.41
welcome to Dumpier! Cape Leveque
01 january 2012 23:21.11
Dampier
02 january 2012 06:11.58
pp. 3732 looks like a real year-end quiz dream-team. Is this the famed "team-3" that won 2011's competition? I'm guessing BP was the quiz master who handed out the prize of bubbly? Is barny rouble only causing trouble at the back, honking the yellow bike horn, or was he part of the team too? It would be great to have a re-cap of the quiz. I'm curious what the format of the 10th anniversary edition was? Open-round questions + themes, chronological, powerpoint or paperback?
03 january 2012 20:51.14
it was an excellent 10th anniversary edition indeed, some worries regarding 'quiz fatigue' put aside. BP&NB managed to prepare both the quiz and heaps of homemade ravioli. NB invited some psychiatrists-in-training who warmed to the quiz spirit in no time, especially concerning vehement discussions with the quiz masters about the relative honking speed of the different sound devices. and as expected, the depicted quimby-foxybear-barn-psychiatristintraining combination turned out to be invincible.
tell us about new year's eve in shanghai!
04 january 2012 08:27.49
... The beamer was out-of-service so we played the quiz from a tv-set instead, operated by remote control, giving an archaic, 'windows 95'-ambiance to the quiz. Category names were rendered in 8-digit names such as 'Wetensch'. This was quiz #10...
04 january 2012 10:26.27
Although I see no hard evidence for the alleged "crisis" of the quiz, I do feel that after 9,5 editions we have the opportunity for a change. Instead of laboring to hold it together, we could work the other way and make it more exclusive. What if we stage the next edition of the quiz in a German night train? I looked up train times: if we leave december 31st at 19.01 in the evening from A'dam-C, we arrive in Copenhagen at 10.07 on year's morning, traversing cities like Duisburg (21.47), Düsseldorf (22.02), Köln (22.28), Wuppertal (23.14), Dortmund (23.56), Hamm (00.14), Bielefeld (00.43), Hamburg (unkn.), Odense (08.37) and Roskilde (09.46). German sojourners can join along the way, we can book adjacent sleeping compartments and the quiz would have a genuine Trans-European flavor.
05 january 2012 01:49.33
This one's foxybear: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2218221937
05 january 2012 01:52.13
or... at least for foxybear (if he didn't come up with the idea to launch that group). Fos those that don't know the original source, see here: http://www.myspace.com/video/pedro/you-39-re-breaking-my-balls-hans/27734813
06 january 2012 14:55.07
eine kurze zusammefassung der neuesten ereignisse in ungarn: http://www.tivi.de/tiviVideos/beitrag/1533012?view=flash
07 january 2012 11:43.01
so happy with two new years in music!
07 january 2012 15:19.33
Amsterdam east, gaz station?
07 january 2012 22:18.54
on the nose
08 january 2012 06:05.56
Is that a new How* project?
08 january 2012 23:14.05
are there no pics from protests in Ungarn? The only news that reaches holland about budapest is the skatingevent.
09 january 2012 08:37.45
the gaz location is a TROUPE A project. the 1:500 model revived strong memories of old mdbs models long gone, but alas i found none to stack on. how delightful the smell of styrofoam in the morning.
09 january 2012 14:53.11
David Lynch' Cryzy Clown Time is so awesome, that I haven't come round to start the facoruh years, mostly because I just joined in. Both Karin_s 2012 and facoruh's Years in Music make me wonder weather I should start an annual film compile. Especially with the IFFR at the door.
09 january 2012 15:07.56
From Karin_s 2012 I am currently delving into Bill Callahan songs....
09 january 2012 16:37.11
The Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble did it for me. A yes, by all means a film compilation sounds awesome. I can think of two sojourners in particular whom could provide us with a rich annual survey of that field...
09 january 2012 20:38.42
ah the son of two CIA cryptologists, much ado about his intellect.
09 january 2012 21:25.18
... could not start with facoruhs 2011 neither but looking forward to listen to it. And the moment I am enjoying the gratis internet in intercity (NS), perfect. Would enjoy the best of films too.
09 january 2012 22:54.19
yes, all i found was pp 2705 and below.
10 january 2012 03:00.43
IFFR 41st edition 25 January - 5 February 2012. We'll be back in NL for that...
10 january 2012 13:06.09
there, if you so wish: pp3743. ironically, 2705 is exactly my birthday.
11 january 2012 21:46.49
I am a sucker for old-fashioned sci-fi. Including cardboard claws, papier-maché aliens and incessant beeping from huge machines. So here's my classic-of-the-week, for those of you who might be into this genre: john gilling's 'the night caller'. good grief, the suspense! the stylishness! the absolute cool of the female super-hero-scientist Ann Barlow! (but note: the moral of the story for cool female scientists is not very encouraging). Someone uploaded the movie onto youtube (excellent quality), although when I just checked this I noticed that the uploaded version is the dvd-version on which they changed the title song. this is awfully sad, because the original music is actually FANTASTIC. So watch this clip first.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jOis2GuKUk
16 january 2012 12:15.28
"Europe’s underlying problem is not budget deficits or even unsustainable debt. These are mainly symptoms. The real problem with Europe is the huge divergence in costs between the core and the periphery – in the past decade costs between Germany and some of the peripheral countries have diverged by anywhere from 20% to 40%. This divergence has made the latter uncompetitive and has resulted in the massive trade imbalances within Europe."
A must-read for the day: http://mpettis.com/2012/01/if-no-trade-reversal-now-then-when/
17 january 2012 17:49.19
once upon a time... the web was a place for brave pioneers!
http://1x-upon.com/
19 january 2012 11:13.24
In the previous weeks I spent quite some time on cold, often windy, platforms waiting for the train that goes with the name Fyranja. The pattern is simple: train does not appear at the expected time, but there is no announcement either. A couple of minutes after scheduled departure a diplomatic voice announces Fyranja is 10 minutes late. Alright, you think - but somehow you don't trust she is speaking the truth. Then, 10 minutes later, the same voice announces "it won't run". An implosion of disappointment takes possession of the white collar working force along the platform; accountants, lawyers, lobbyists, a few architects. Now, it makes no sense anymore to take any other train to Rotterdam - there's only 1 option: to wait half an hour for the next Fyranja.
Next round. Cold windy platform etc. etc. High heeled women reappear with steamy cups of coffee, looking frozen. Time for Fyranja to appear. Announcement: "10 minutes late". A man chastises his neat suitcase with his newspaper. Now sometimes the mighty locomotive headlights do in fact appear after 10 minutes, but sometimes they don't - and you end up spending more than an hour on the same crazy platform.
19 january 2012 11:39.55
I did some research on the V250, a.k.a. "Albatros", that is supposed to lift the frequency of Fyranja to 4x/hour this year. I found this article, giving a genuinely sad insight to the whole Albatros debacle: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=85872150&postcount=3694
You wonder, how is it possible...
19 january 2012 15:17.51
What a tragic post (thanks for the find).
I feel for the noble and attendent sojourner(s) who has travelled the AMD-RDM line for nigh on two decades now. There's something utterly incomprehensible, frustrating - what's the word... I guess just plain old 'sad' - about an intellectually advanced, financially well-considered, and socially highly developed state conceiving of legislation such as the open tender, with the goal of protecting competition and promoting quality, only to witness the process having the opposite conclusion. Where are the men who used to work the steel plates with their hammers? Where are the electrician's who used to wire up carriages with their heavy toolboxes at their side? And where is the smell of diesel or ionised air hanging in the slip-stream of a passing intercity running on schedule? Those were the days...
19 january 2012 18:49.07
and now, for something completely different. a yidish-yapanish verterbukh. that's something i'd love to have on my shelves! and i beg you, don't miss the comments. yes, all the way to the end. the broadest smiles i've had in ages.
http://www.languagehat.com/archives/004496.php
22 january 2012 01:42.57
pp 03752 I like
24 january 2012 10:04.49
additional to all good intentions someone has to start a reader's list. However I like reading and enjoying language in general I am afraid all of the three books I read last year wouldn't make much of a list. Now I do have sojourners in mind, easily reading more than that.
I cannot however let go of my reading ' a visit from the goon squad'. A hailed book, received a Pulitzer prize, and indeed definitely a must read. "time is a goon" you'll read somewhere in the middle of the book, if you are wondering about the title; there it is. The book starts with a quote from 'a la recherche du temps perdus' by Marcel Proust. Enough ambition. The book swirls down time, to make occasional jumps into the future even within chapters the author allows herself to outline some of the characters' lives until death. The books chapters have a different timbre, sometimes on the edge of what one can deal with, but this is probably because 'it was really like that'. And she goes like...and he goes... as if listening to a Sonic Youth album. It's also intelligently written, almost never goes down detour road, taking turns you did not expect as with the meeting of record producer bennie salazar and deadbeat scottie hausman after an interval of 19 years. The former asks the later "so why are you here?" Scottie replies:"To know what happened between A and B." Bennie answers with the brief:" I've busted my balls."
25 january 2012 10:04.46
mein gott, i've been staring and staring at pp 3755. it is so mysterious...
25 january 2012 10:09.08
agreed! i would love to make such an object myself. perhaps there is a name for it? "landscape miniature curiosity cabinet"? doesn't matter, it is beautiful. the color itself has such strong appeal. it must be wood, but it appears metallic, appearing in so many different shades. and then the drawers... i don't know where to start.
25 january 2012 10:21.13
the mushroom series continues! who had ever thought so. just when we thought she was becoming dusty, sojourn is in flux.
i agree about the episodic cabinet
25 january 2012 10:59.36
mnemonic cabinet?
26 january 2012 20:08.52
helaas. wilde vandaag wel gaan staken, maar ik moet voor morgen nog een proefwerk en 2 schoolexamens nakijken.
27 january 2012 08:17.06
I like the way Hungary and Ukraine kiss. A horse drinking from the lake.
28 january 2012 10:21.18
soft daily earthquakes.....
28 january 2012 17:07.18
Grandma Lo-fi: The Basement Tapes of Sigrídur Níelsdóttir aanrader voor muziekliefhebbers
30 january 2012 12:32.41
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/27/hungary-roma-living-in-fear
30 january 2012 20:49.19
satantango!
06 february 2012 14:21.13
I was gonna say "noir Saint Laurent", but it turns out to be an other record. I mention here to have visited several natural stone companies over the last few days. I therefore thought someone else posted pp3773
06 february 2012 17:37.15
Hong Kong
06 february 2012 18:07.40
wow
06 february 2012 19:17.20
or should I say "ghostly Hong Kong XX"?