Just a quick link over from my goodreads.com account. I may have mentioned before, the house where I’m staying has a fantastic library with many English-language books. I’m sort of overwhelmed because there are so many books here that are on my “to-read” list and many more I’ve added since arriving. I’ve started applying a [...]
Archive for the ‘Arts & Culture’ Category
Reading For Fun: White Teeth
Posted in Arts & Culture, Literature on 6 November 2010 | 1 Comment »
Travel: Vienna
Posted in Adventures, Arts & Culture, Countries, Friends, Touring, Travel, Work on 21 September 2010 | 1 Comment »
The beauty of the international academic lifestyle is not in the distance from friends and family. It is not in the intellectual stimulation and the chance to hobnob with the best and the brightest in one’s field (although this is surely not a downside). The beauty is in the chance to travel. Last year brought me Detroit, [...]
How did this happen? Part 3
Posted in Adventures, Arts & Culture, Norway, Travel on 19 September 2010 | Leave a Comment »
(Wow, this is getting out of control! I’ve been here since August, almost exactly a month! So here’s the final installment and some catch up…) … And then I got on several planes and with a quick stop over in Atlanta for a work meeting I arrived in… OSLO! I’ll be here through the winter [...]
Live: the New Pornographers @ Melkweg
Posted in Arts & Culture, Music, tagged live, live music, melkweg, music, show, the new pornographers on 28 May 2010 | 2 Comments »
Sometimes fun comes at the expense of comfort. Take high heels, for instance. Or roller coasters. Or eating a lot of pie. Or aspects of my weekend. On Sunday, Wouter and I went to see The New Pornographers play at Melkweg. The show was in the Oude Zaal (the Old Hall) which is the smallest [...]
Dutch Design: Tas-ka
Posted in Arts & Culture, Design, Shopping, tagged art, den haag, design, Dutch design, fabric, home, house, Tas-ka, the hague on 19 May 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m totally taken with the work of Dutch design duo Jantien Baas and Hester Worst. Their studio, Tas-ka, is based out of the Hauge and their work is based on the theme “House.” Perhaps it’s no wonder I’m into Tas-ka– House and Home have been on my mind of late as I begin to put [...]
Texas, fine; it’s Iceland you shouldn’t mess with
Posted in Adventures, Arts & Culture, Friends, History, Museums, Travel, Work on 18 April 2010 | 1 Comment »
Back from my conference in Texas– very productive, saw some very interesting presentations and met up with colleagues from all over the world. I didn’t have much time for touring, but what I saw of Dallas was nice: had some tex-mex and visited the 6th Floor Museum. The Museum chronicles the life and death of [...]
Onze Museumjaarkaartjes
Posted in Adventures, Arts & Culture, Painting, Travel on 19 March 2010 | 3 Comments »
This week (again, back dating! Sorry!) Wouter took (most of) a week off from work. Originally we had hoped to visit some far off exotic land like the Canary Islands, Egypt or Brussels. But, as it turns out, far off exotic lands are either expensive or just as cold and wintery as Amsterdam, so we [...]
Kush’s Surrealism
Posted in Arts & Culture, Painting on 27 January 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A seemingly Dutch-inspired surrealist painting by Russian artist Vladimir Kush, spotted on TrendLand. Oil paintings, no computer involved, clearly influenced by Dali and yet so original.
