amsterdam
Amsterdam's city centre is littered with places to see, from bakeries with highly Instagrammable stroopwafels to deeply unInstagrammable spectacles in the red light district. But the city's hottest new attraction is unlike anything you've encountered before. Hidden behind the main library, on a street
dialogue
🐉: I can see in your notes that you're "looking for the answer," but what is the question, exactly? 🦄: "Why?" 🐉: Why what? 🦄: Why everything. 🐉: I think you know that "why," or more precisely "why everything" are not questions that have an
story
She's kneeling alongside the canal. The ground is muddy, and her knees are cold. The only source of light is the street lamps, but she's right in between them, as much in the dark as possible. There is no mystery in this country. She leans over
existentialist depression house cosplay
I think the origin story for how I learned how to cook is an exceptionally 21st bougie tale. My father was away having an affair with the neighbour from our second house on Texel, my sister was in Italy following a course on how to speak Latin, my brother was
smell In some languages you "hear" smells. Certain senses are ranked as lower than others. Zintuigen, I've never made this connection between "sense" as meaning and as our body's observation mechanism; in Dutch it's even more obvious. If I had
time, duration One of the things I'm forcing myself to realise is that time isn't real. I'm not trying to deny the reality of time: it is passing. But what I'm trying to resist is giving too much value to a particular
Last January I decided to track different data points in my life: when I woke up, what I ate, several ratings (how tasty the food was, my mood, anxiety, the weather), as well as one beautiful thing and one "thought": a topic to occupy myself with that day,
Last year was my first time seeing Sátántangó, a seven and a half hour long film by Béla Tarr, a film they show every first Saturday of the year at Eye. My reason for going: what else can you do on this dark and gloomy Saturday but sit in the
The Vondelkerk in Amsterdam was badly damaged during a fire on NYE. What should the future of the building be?
