When I went to the Google HQ for the Ubuntu Developer’s Summit in Mountain View, I – and many others – were suitably impressed with the cute art installation that they had installed in the lobby. It is simply as screen showing Google search queries scrolling by: It is quite hypnotic to look at such [...]
Jeppe, a good friend of mine, has initiated his official career as a cultural critic with one his theatre buddies on their own website called the Postulatorium. The project was originally intended to be a tv-show containing a youthful combination of comedy, satire and cultural education. Unfortunately, the idea was pitched at the same time [...]
You know what? I like comics. A single wellwritten and conceived comic strip can express some deep truths that would be impossible to convey properly in any other medium. By connecting simple images and dialogue while leaving plenty to the imagination to combine, comic strips can be like zen koans, absurd theatre, ponderous comedy and [...]
I’m pretty sure that I’ve plugged the Slow Wave web comic before, with its concept of making comic strips of dreams sent in by the readers. But even so, I found this recent strip so brilliant that it’s worth plugging the whole thing again.
I’m writing this in an Internet Cafe just across from Paddington Station, feeling rather exhausted from another day of wandering around London. I’m staying with Martha, a friend from my Hall of Residence in Copenhagen who’re spending this semester here, and it’s been great fun. ..and rather hectic – with lots of people and getting [...]
This Tuesday, I went to Manchester’s fanciest theatre venue, the Lowry, built on the remains of Manchester’s old industrial harbour at the Salford Quays, some two miles outside the city centre. I went to see a show, part music, part poetry, part storytelling, with one of the world’s most interesting and famously obscure (but then [...]
Following the previous post, I was reminded of something else. When people talk about things they’ve dreamt, the narratives tend to be too personal to make much sense to anybody else. All the feeling and points of reference that the narrator remembers from the dream is usually quite difficult to capture in thought and story, [...]