?/365: An idea

An idea for an interactive exhibit.

After two stormy days, it is finally becoming nice outside again. I am looking forward to going to Void/Sunyata, a piece for 5 singers and electronics in Rotterdam tonight. Jorn's teacher, Jorrit Taminga worked on the sound for the opera.

This weekend I am tagging along with 1uptoys for a trip to Berlin for the beatbox world championship. The last time I visited Berlin was with my mom and sisters. I'm looking forward to seeing another side of the city this time. It seems like other friends will also be there, so maybe I will meet up with some people while I am there.

?/365: From Gas

I have been slacking with posts, but I have been drawing. This one is from Gaspard. I will upload my backlog of pictures soon!

Great news today. I heard that we girls from constructingreen will possibly be able to expand the garden we started during Motel Mozaique for the Parade festival in Rotterdam. More information to come on that.

8/365: Rehearsal Weekend

Tomorrow I am leaving to Someren for rehearsal weekend with Krashna, but I will try to keep drawing while I'm there and post them later. This is a drawing I made at my friend Danny's graduation talk on creative facilitation for novice facilitators...right is a bee drawn at lunch by Gas.

7/365: Flying Car

Ooeps, the day is actually over before I got a chance to post. Today was a long day for me at work, but I vented my frustration boxing in the evening and got recruited for fencing. I guess I will give it a try even though I am not too enthusiastic...it has been two years.

Biomimicry arrived in the mail today. I'm excited to start reading it even though I am still committed to finishing all the other books I half started...I watched Janine Benyus on TED in anticipation!

Last night I dreamed I was sitting on the porch of a flying car powered by a balloon. It couldn't fly too long on one balloon, so we were soon on the ground again.

6/365: Singer/songwriter

Today was the singer/songwriter contest at the Cultural Center. After rushing to increase our set list from two to five songs in the last two days, I was pretty happy with our result. A lot of friends showed up to check out our performance, and though we did not win, there was a lot of enthusiasm. I viewed this band contest as a sort of experiment/debut, since it was the most serious thing we have played so far. I'm pretty excited about continuing to grow and improve as a band after yesterday!

Here are two drawings from Gas and me. We drew them while others were sound checking. Mine is of Robert Zwamborn performing.

5/365: Pinned Fly

Drawings from Gas and I. We made them today while waiting for Bart to show up for practice. Tomorrow we will be performing at a singer/songwriter contest in the Cultural Center, starting 9pm.

Last night I dreamed that I threw a throwing knife at a tree. When I went to
recover my knife, I found that I had split a fly in half.

I finally finished Blink. I thought the book was quite nice, especially as a complement/counterpoint to Fooled by Randomness which I read earlier this year. The first was about how mental heuristics are a powerful engine for understanding the world in a flash, but also how these processes are unconscious and therefore unpredictable to the uninitiated. The second is about how the same mental heuristics can lead people to interpret the world as more causal than it actually is. I recommend both, but especially Fooled. Blink was fast and easy to read, but didn't really present that much new information.

4/365: Deflt details

Today was yet another day in my endless May holiday; the second to last. My feat for the day was that I played tennis with my housemates, Tim and Illhame. The weather was brisk but sunny, and we ended up at the Locus Publicus with Sierd and Inga after we finished a series of mini-tournaments. While sitting on the terrace, a for rent sign caught my eye, and eventually my gaze wandered onto a window detail (left).

When you live in a city for a long time, you become blissfully ensconed in everyday life while becoming more and more unaware of the details around the city. I was surprised to see so many stony faces around me where I had never looked before.

Tonight, Gas, Bart and I will practice for the first time in awhile. There is a band contest on Wednesday, and we have to fill 20 minutes...I'm going to try out my new pedals.

3/365: Sunday Morning Room

I didn't have any crazy dreams last night, so I made a sketch of one corner of my room (please excuse my poor perspective :). My plan was to go to Amsterdam today and visit Charity at her new house, eat dim sum and go to a photo gallery, but the weather wasn't cooperating earlier, putting me in a suspended state. Now the sun is out again, mocking my laziness. I hope I can finish Blink today. I bought it for 1E on Koninginnedag (Queen's Day = a giant excuse for unofficial flea markets everywhere), along with several other books, the old BBC version of Chronicles of Narnia (3E!) and Boonanza! (.50E).

Drawing from Gas, made at Oma's birthday party.

2/365 Days: A Match

May 02, 2009

Following the theme of dreams, I drew a scene from one I had this morning...

I was in a large hall with a sparring ring. A multitude of scissors were suspended from the ceiling at different heights; they were very sharp to the touch and I already cut myself several times on them before the match had even started. My friends and I were evenly matched, but I was chosen to go represent us against our mysterious rivals.

It was customary to eat a bowl of rice with tea before starting. As I gulped down my rice, I saw my opponent watching me avidly. That was when I sensed something was wrong. There was poison in my food...but that wouldn't affect me. I communicated with my eyes to let my opponent know that I knew about his tricks, and that he was still going down. I ended up winning, but the thugs weren't satisfied. As they pressed in on our small group, we dashed out of the hall and and drove off into the horizon in a stolen car...

Part 2 of this post:
I spent my whole day in R'dam today biking around with Inga searching for a new house. Afterwards we had tea with Tessa (where I bumped into Gas and told him about the 360day project), checked out the state of our garden (we saw bunnies!) and went to a dinner with MoMo guides. The dinner was delicious and in the studio of 2012Architecten. We then biked back through the fog to Delft in time to see Alex play at Ciccionina. When I got home just now, I found this in my mailbox...Gaspard submitted a drawing for this project!

1/365 Days: On the Run

May 01, 2009
Inspired by a chat with Loucas over coffee, and by an old photo taken by Marcos I stumbled across from way back when, I decided that I want to draw and post a picture everyday (no matter how crappy) for a year. It has been a long time since I sketched or drew for fun, especially now that I have no more lectures to sit through. This will be an extreme exercise in self discipline for me...and I'm starting now!

Yesterday I continued my marathon of barbeques with one on Hoi-kee and Loucas's roof. Drawing the awesome scene there was way too complicated (I have some wads of paper to show for that), so I ended up drawing something I dreamed about the night before. I was driving a bus or truck of some sort, on the run from some unknown danger with a bus full of people I didn't know.

Funny that I dreamed a variation of that same dream this last night as well, but this time it involved orcas, karate, poisoned rice and scissors...