Just stumbled upon this great video for a Dutch band named TIKA. As you do not know I’m working in a personal project, soon to go live, on ‘happy places’. This video so fits into that.

In the documentary music video, actor ‘giant’ Carel Struycken (who rose to fame by playing iconic freaks in pop culture,

From the moment we open our eyes it fuels our existence. We are on a mission to remind everyone to never lose your sense of curiosity or wonder. Long live learning!

‘Driving safely in the dark: opportunities for design as the crisis unfolds’. It is the full title of the lecture held by John Thackara on December 15th, to celebrate BNO’s 15th anniversary. I have been a fan of him for a long time, following

Nice interview by Submarine with Jeff Hull of Nonchalance at PICNIC festival 2011, a hybrid arts studio in San Francisco with an expertise in Situational Design. Jeff’s company created The Jejune Institute, an immersive game set in San Francisco

Got this image from Jan Willem Weissink, CEO Corio Nederland when we were working on Hoog Catharijne together. He took it at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice, Italy. It’s a work by Maurizio Nannucci from 2003. It’s so relevant

Spotted this on Fran’s blog, to cool:

Bruce Mau’s The Bureau of Doing Something About it: A pop-up studio, working in real-time, designed solutions in response to complaints.
Last year, the Toronto Complaints Choir, produced as part of the 2010-2011 World Stage season at Harbourfront Centre, collected

What does UNHATE mean? UN-hate. Stop hating, if you were hating. Unhate is a message that invites us to consider that hate and love are not as far away from each other as we think. Actually, the two opposing sentiments are often in a

Watch this fun and great talk at The Do Lectures, and also check the other talks too.

The Do idea is a simple one: that people who Do things can inspire the rest of us to go and Do things, too. So each year we invite a set of people down here to come

Just bumped into these really nice Take Away Shows. Passionately made by Vincent Moon with a stunning sound quality, a series with really intimate recordings of concerts by great bands. Some hand-picked highlights:

Wilco

I was watching some TED Talks in the train, again looking for some fresh insights and, because I’m way behind (56 talks…) in watching them so I random picked one in iTunes: TEDTalks : Bertrand Piccard’s solar-powered adventure – Bertrand Piccard (2009). What an incredible story. A balloon as a metaphor for life. Made me

Kreeg dit geweldig inspirerende verhaal van Jorn.

Prof. Dr. Paul de Chauvigny de Blot SJ Lic. Ph. werd geboren

Zo goed dit. Delen is zo leuk en al helemaal dingen zoals deze mail van Pieter Spinder:

Lieve mensen,

Ik kwam maandag een mevrouw tegen van www.saamendeelen.nl en zij gaf mij een visitekaartje, waarop ze de volgende tekst had afgedrukt die ik graag aan jullie mail:

Er was eens een verhaal. Een oud verhaal,

24 uur met… Maarten van der Weijden (Dutch only)
This is a great story on how nothing is what it seems. Maarten won a gold medal on at the last Olympic Games in China, after overcoming cancer. In this great show by Wilfried de Jong, one of the best interviewers on Dutch tv, Maarten

Idealize #25 met Ellemijn Veldhuijzen van Zanten (Dutch only)
Ellemijn is a Dutch actress, mother and columnist. Although the entire conversation is interesting, fast forward to 21:10. From here, the conversation is about her five children. Only two of them still live and although this sounds as a dramatic story, which it obviously is,

I travel by trains a lot, since I do most of my work not really near where I live. And I use that time for a lot of things. Trains are great. They enable you to go wherever you want to go, and while you are doing that, do something else at the same time.