Last Thursday I attended a showing of a documentary on the Swedish poet Gunnar Ekelöf. After the film, there was a concert where Ida Bach Jensen, who composed the score for the film, performed. It was a magic 40 minutes, and it gave me time to digest some of the themes and thoughts of Ekelöfs [...]
It is the repressed that is expressed in art. In this way, art has the same function in society that dreams have for the individual — even though we don’t always remember or understand the symbols of our dreams. – Niels I. Meyer, K. Helveg Petersen & Villy Sørensen: “Revolt From The Center” (1978)
Recently, I’ve been fascinated with Douglas Rushkoff, and I came across this presentation, in which he does well to sum up some of the main themes of his work. His style is earnest and passionate, and though some of his arguments are very generalized for easy consumption, he does have some very good points: Talking [...]
I’ve found a fascinating blog on feminism and such (“ladybusiness”) called Tiger Beatdown. I’m generously fascinated by the blogger, Sady, who so clearly has found her own voice online and uses it so well. Like in a recent meta-post following some big discussions in the comments on her blog, she ends her exposition with the [...]
A vital part of my Google Reader feeds are web comics. And from time to time I still happen upon new web comics to add to my feed collection. Here’s two which I haven’t mentioned here before. Pictures for sad children is a quietly sad comic featuring simply drawn characters expressing very honest and simple [...]
Some time ago, I happened upon a short essay by Alain de Botton in an issue of Monocle (the article isn’t online, it seems). The essay is a new year’s prediction for 2009. Based on the continuing economic crisis, de Botton argues that we will turn to new paths: I believe 2009 will be the [...]
One of my all-time favourite comics is Calvin and Hobbes. It’s a comic strip about a six-year old boy and his friendship with his stuffed toy tiger. The strip is a celebration of the vivid imagination and playfulness of the child, to whom the tiger appears alive and talkative. While to everybody else, it’s just [...]
My friend Kristian, who really should have a blog, often sends me lovely stories and links which he digs up from the dark and musty corners of the Internet. It’s the sort of things that weblogs originally were meant log: A catalogue of surprises, of the never-ending weirdness, humour and imagination of human-kind. In a [...]
Last year, I went to Italy, and had the opportunity to visit the Uffizi museum in Florence. Since then, I’ve been meaning to highlight some of the best paintings I saw there for others to enjoy and comment upon. I’ve dug out some pictures of said paintings, and though they have only a fraction of [...]
I have a not-so-secret love for strange web comics, which I indulge in from time to time. Today I found out that one of my favourites, James Kochalka’s wonderfully warm and personal sketchbook diary has been opened for non-subscribers. It was kind of hard to recommend it to anybody, since you don’t really get a [...]