Meeting the robots at Way Out West 2012
Time for another year at Way Out West, the cozy and predictable festival in the forest. It’s always a bit of a challenge to have an early slot at a festival, since people tend to arrive later in the afternoon.
Posts from year 2012
Found 31 hits, currently showing 21-30.
Amphi Festival 2012 in Cologne
I spent the weekend in Cologne attending the 8th Amphi Festival. 16 000 visitors dressed in black invaded the German town for an overdose of electronic music.
Oslo remembers
Before arriving in Oslo, I wondered if I would notice any changes due to the attack last summer and the ongoing trial. I noticed banners saying “The city remembers” already at the central station, and the site where the attack took place felt like a silent beacon.
The creative revolution
It feels like there is some sort of creative revolution that has been taking place these last ten years. People are writing blogs, uploading film clips on YouTube, sharing music on SoundCloud and connecting on various social media.
Review: Istanbul: Memories and the City
Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize in 2006. He has lived in Istanbul for almost his entire life and this book is the tale of him growing up there, as well as an attempt to describe the mentality of the citizens in the ever-changing city.
Roaming the cobblestones of Istanbul
I am currently sitting in a room in Sultanahmet, the old part of Istanbul. The Bosporus strait is within sight and the air is filled with the competing sounds of hungry seagulls and shouting minarets.
Movie locations around the world
This is the first part of my quest for finding movie locations around the world. Contents: Lost in Translation, Lord of the Rings, Highlander, Talented Mr Ripley, Mission Impossible, French Connection, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Interview with the Vampire, The Beach, Rendition, Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain, La Dolce Vita, Moulin Rouge.
Music on the street
I see people with headphones everywhere and I often wonder what they listen to. On the street, in the office, at the tram… I had an idea to make something out of this, but as usual someone else had already done it. So here you are.
On vendor prefixes
There has been a lot of discussions lately in regard to vendor prefixes. It all began when some non-webkit browser representatives were considering support of the webkit prefix during a CSS Working Group meeting earlier this week.
The avalanche of responsive design
Apart from the HTML5 bandwagon, Responsive Design was arguably the most discussed topic of 2011. The term was coined by Ethan Marcotte in his article from May 2010.