?/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.