There’s one other recent acquisition that’s so cool it gets its own separate post.
Last Friday at the Boekenmarkt Spui I bought a beautiful photo-reproduction of (large parts of) the Book of Kells. I’ve put a few amateurish photographs below the fold (they’re fairly large images), and the wikipedia page has lots of more professional ones. [...]
It’s been a long while since I gloated, and I’ve accumulated a lot to gloat about. In fact, it’s been so long that I’ve read a fair few of ‘em, so some of the following will be capsule reviews as well as the usual stories of how I wandered on a whim into a bookstore [...]
Last night’s gig, Katchafire at the Sugar Factory, went off. Those guys were magnificent — deeply traditional reggae by a bunch of Māori fellas, with dense Pacific vocal harmonies and lots of Kiwi warmth and enthusiasm.
They started early, and the crowd was pretty thin even by the end of the show (they played from about [...]
If you don’t know what “goatse” is, don’t bother reading on.
If you do know, then be reassured: the photograph after the fold is only revolting by association. It’s an advertisement for the “Over het IJ festival”, which just happens to put some abstract design elements in a familiar configuration.
A couple of weeks ago I attended the TARK conference in Brussels. I didn’t have heaps of time wandering the city, but I did snap a few things I found noteworthy. The rest of the post is heavy on pics and light on commentary.
This post combines a short review of Björk’s concert last night (short version: disappointing but good) with a rant about Dutch concert-going habits (short version: they’re tall and don’t care if you’re not).