Painting politician, political painter
Photos and other observations
Definitely not art, but this special picture almost made me buy such a huge flower pot. A famous French woman once said that nostalgia is remembering what you never really experienced. For me it certainly was here: reminded me of the Mediterranean and hundreds to thousands of years ago.Just found out that some left wing… Continue reading Atmosphere
It is the roof of a train at the station with a cut out of the city office. In itself the office is huge and ugly.
I appreciate this street art like I appreciate the Blues. On bricks!
The first time I ‘used’ a computer was in the early 1970s. At the technical university in Delft. As a student you made a pile of punched cards on a very large, noisy machine into which you had punched your ‘app’ [programs we called those app-lications], values for some parameters and your name and student… Continue reading Kilobytes vs Gigabytes
I created this fixture about half a century ago. It was a (free) assignment, part of the subject ‘materials science’: at the university! We learned to do a bit of welding. To use a microscope etc. And about densest sphere stacking. The math behind the latter I learned decades later as part of my education… Continue reading Universities and colleges
About four years ago I visited Rome with my brother (I was mainly looking for more inspiration for a sequel to my Dutch faction-novel Alexandra’s Reis). During a long walk our attention was drawn to this enormous building. It has a really impressive exterior, visible from afar. It was less impressive than St. Peter’s Basilica,… Continue reading How many more popes?