Portfolio Socks The empty village A wave of slate Flowing through Heqiao The name Shanghai Alone with Mona Lisa Feeding turtles Immigration Area A bubble in Suzhou The village within the city What I’ve learned from living in China for seven years Hustle and bustle My Chinese learning journey (update March 2025) New Harbor Market Town One Step Garden Rainy Fengcheng A candle in Auckland Learning Vietnam Towards the light A foodie for once Mountains & hikes near Shanghai (update 2025) The former station Wood carvings and paintings The empty road around Shaoxing Another village appears Tiramisu in Changshu A hundred kilometers from Shanghai and a thousand miles from work Fresh market Altstadt The old continent The Matarese Circle review Things forgotten and learned Barbecue heaven Reshooting Tangzhen In between a KFC and a Luck-in Bird watching and old towns Century Past Caring review On the banks of Yangtze A bridge to nowhere Tiny villages and their names Back to Jiading Shanghai before the foreigners A thousand miles in Cambodia The bridge without a river Scorching Zhuqiao Village Landing planes and searching fishermen Outside the Outer Ring Road Marathon Mandarin Meetings University Road Sheep or goat? Underneath the stars Chuansha before the heat What is literature, and why read the books we read? Iron & Silk review How to get a job in China Rules and not-rules The lone tower Vesper Flights review An abandoned church in Pudong Inside the factory Urban exploration on wheels How many minutes? Benidorm and Baduka Pots and time The mess that is school district houses Forbidden gardens The new old street in Tiantai Now on WeChat (public account) Flowers and stepping stones Rice noodles drying Flowers on the trees Next to the highway Quarries in the mountain On the edge of Zhejiang Fog In Nanhui To walk is to learn Watermelon on the way, and scorched rice on arrival The end is at the Bund Live animals and cheap haircuts Mia’s Forbidden City China’s Great Wall Getting to know Beijing Circe review Street food in tiny alleys Street food Neighbors The pharmacy and its tiles Visiting Gaoyou, some 750 years after Marco Polo Where to travel in Shanghai Starbucksification of old streets Coins on the roof and a hole in my jacket Alone in the mountains with my mind Is China scary? A look at mundane life Up the Yangtze Along the IJssel Chinese New Year banners Hometown forest In Pale Battalions review Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains The name and city of Chuzhou No signal Chungking Express Specimens in the middle of nowhere Out of the city and into other things Rice with a bang Two fish and four hairy crabs Trees of Shanghai How to survive in a Chinese company Cowboys in Zhangjiang A place from fever dreams The edge of the edge Learning how to eat shrimp The bird that doesn’t eat corn Searching for a wall Fresh again Searching for an apartment in Shanghai Fengxian District Fake Dutch windmills in China Bike radius on the map Saturday stroll in Shanghai Farewell My Concubine My first visit to the United States A printer for the community Tourism in Anhui A church in Anhui In between mountains Cold water A bubble in Anhui A walk in Ningguo Traveling during China’s public holiday Scratched Tidal wave near the Wengjin Line Convos Everything in Zhoupu You Say I Say Post-90s The old Japanese fortress Back to Xinchang The Great Wall of Shanghai The site of China’s first rocket launch Sporting across continents Indiana and moving East Scorching Songjiang Pudong evening ride Two hours to Huzhou Thirty Thousand Miles From Chang’an Lots of history, but we’re just casually observing in Songxicun Calming down, cooling down Stone markings Old Baoshan in the rain Gaoqiao, unintentionally the best-preserved area of Shanghai Tiny boats and tiny crabs Numbers in Pinghu The empty town in Shanghai Wanghong hell Dutch comfort & crudeness Chinese characters in the Netherlands The changing and unchanging parts and the bit between One life lived, and others lost in the process Take me home This is Shanghai as well Going back with nothing to say Lakeside in Suzhou Long-necked chicken Words waiting to be spoken, in Zhelin ‘Sea Salt’, near the sea Sweaty Shaoxing Away from the cities, underneath the Milky Way The path we would have never walked Betwixt and Between review Villages around Ningbo In Hangzhou’s new innovation park Twenty kilometers yet worlds apart Queens WeChat group Past & future — Covid & AI Back home in Yangpu Qu Smartphone pictures of China Abandoned village in Pudong My favorite places in Shanghai Shanghai’s seaside Sheds and shorts in Yangzhou & Jiangdu A chat with Lizzi Lee From pawn shop to high-tech park Working in Zhangjiang hi-tech park Huitong 6 review Walking in Huai’an A touch of sin (天注定) Food during the Chinese New Year break Old things in Shen’Ao Eating sunflower seeds Shishecun: An old village, a river, trees A thousand islands, a million tourists Hui architecture and Hello’s Villages above the clouds in Zhejiang Our world without plans Snow in Nanxiang Past dark willows and flowers in bloom lies a shining village The broken place Christmas card Crab shell yellow Elimination in the office The first astronaut in space Opening up All in a bike ride If only hugs and sunshine could be stored in boxes The new place in Pudong Flashbacks of the lockdown Autumn in Zhangjiagang Old, new, and rainclouds, in Zhenjiang Post-Double Eleven delivery piles The value of photographs Moving across the river White Forest Temple Understanding China (or actually; how not to misunderstand it) Comparing cameras Annoyance comes on three wheels The symbol of disappearing old Shanghai Brushing your teeth & learning Mandarin On wheels A ring and the road in Ninghai Peace Park The Kingdom of Shadow review Yangpu today Food during the Golden Week Nanbei Lake First time on a green train Old Nantong in October A good look at China Learning Chinese with Pokémon Tiger Cave Mountain An audience with Zhufa Turtles and longevity Dutch dikes along Asian waters The changing and unchanging of Sijing The ancient merchant trail Gold in the ground Borders within the country Food in the trees True places in Weihai A wall, a mountain, and the people that climb it Big sister sends us to Luziyu Beneath and inside the clouds in Tai’an Cobra review Hells Bells June Yellow A Canticle for Leibowitz review Cheap rentals for non-locals Locked down and out again Disappearing Yangpu Three smoking sticks in my hand How to know whether you’ve found a good language teacher River Town review Healing Long distance calls while looking out of the window A jar of stones, sand & water Buying poultry Chinese language in The Wire Day one We’re out Should you learn Mandarin despite China’s zero covid policy? Yangpu during the Shanghai lockdown Why don’t you just move? Playing with fire Dabai at my door Dreaming of days Come rain come sunshine Our building’s WeChat group Lord of the Ring review (The Fellowship of the Rings, The Two Towers, and Return of the King) Shanghai’s stunning fall from grace Waiting Little Aunt Crane review Nerves and barricade tape Her in Shanghai 想 (Wish) Geef me de ruimte! review Warcross review Developing Chinese: Advanced Speaking Course 2 review Cities you’ve never heard of make up a huge part of China Ready Player Two review Characters in the wild Faces in the fire – Chinese New Year in rural Nantong Thrillers & detectives The Vegetarian review Middle Country In Taicang: Porcelain shards of history We’ve lived 2021 A God in Ruins review Life in a café BUT!!!!!!!! My first speech in Mandarin Chinese consumers don’t really care about sustainability — does Alibaba? An interview with Shanghai artist Banana Description + telephone number In Kunshan: I’ve seen the future of China Spitting on the ground Three language poem Act on instinct and data In Shanghai: God and Three architectural committees Writing on China Champions Day review In Nantong: Pillars on the horizon I want to be vulnerable, not strong In Jiangshan: Three peaks and a railway station Ye Garden in Shanghai This is me, in Chinese. Photography exhibition GoEast Oracle Bones review The One Minute Sales Person review Coffee cups at GoEast Experience of Spoken Chinese language courses at GoEast Mandarin Ordinary people (老百姓) How to speak to a person who is learning the language you speak I don’t miss teaching, but I do miss the students The Devotion of Suspect X review Island of the Blue Dolphins review China CEO II review The Outsider review Old is the song, yet new is the messenger Interior at GoEast Shirts at GoEast If we are strangers, it’s difficult to be friends Doe maar gewoon review Shuǎng at GoEast Death on the Nile review 1989 Legacy of Blood review GoEast Mandarin Everything is environment GoEast Mandarin is moving Event posters at GoEast Why don’t we___? Journey Under the Midnight Sun review The Old Man and the Sea review Apples & yogurt: What money means in China You cannot love what you want to change Nio ES6 review Last mosque in Suzhou Mini-Documentary for GoEast Artful review 3 years in China On Putuoshan: For this live, not the next Learning Chinese has taught me about language Purify the soul Harmoniously together Being poor is a cycle The desire path Marketing education needs less intuition, more evidence (Or, ‘What I wish I learned in Ad School’) Assembling airplanes On idioms The Plot Against America review The White Book Review Is posting memes on Facebook marketing? One year later Factory Girls review In Suzhou: Ajax Garden of the mind Life after life review ‘Who: The A Method for Hiring’ review & summary In Danyang: An anonymous tier-4 city Solar panels versus coal mines No Rules Rules review Hackers & Painters review 4 functions of Chinese apps GoEast Mandarin photography Cutting bok choy in the stairwell You can understand without approval The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy review If you can’t tell the difference between your strategy and tactics, you have no strategy Carving a bowl Western brands in China: hits and misses In Wuhan: A city on its own terms again Sihang Warehouse in Shanghai Educated review So how does someone actually become a better person? (vs. learning Chinese characters) Shanghai-based-bookreaders Lost on Planet China review My favourite subreddits Whispers from the tower The Upside of Unrequited review Rendezvous with Rama review Where workers sleep in Shanghai Cohorts Writing as part of marketing Abandoned messages on WeChat The Dutch House review Fluff and failure to understand areas of underperformance Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda review Long blue rubber gloves The Enemy review Don’t rely on others for your identity The ironic crux of marketing: differentiation and distinctiveness GoEast Mandarin’s marketing and the impact of the corona virus in China HSK Standard Course books review Xenocide review Heem Teaching marketing and doing marketing Chinese exams HSK4上 finished! Mini views on China Tuning out Fake pagodas Shanghai Unfolds The Gardener and the Carpenter review Hanzi Into the Woods review Specify. Choose. Specify. Choose. Specify. Chinese in Hattem Guns, Germs and Steel review Two years in China How much to spend on marketing? Mother’s Day The big wait Ayis show the way How to seduce chicks with art The many cities above line 5 Three home-working tips from China 9 things I learned about Mandarin and about myself You cannot buy customers (Why marketers should avoid discounting) You own the right to your own feelings Opposites Challenges & solutions for having to abruptly teach online Five books I recommend because they’re profound Shoe Dog review Once again, the Chinese people show their resourcefulness The Day of the Locust Review Shanghai’s rush hour under the coronavirus Learning Mandarin isn’t spiritual in itself Stateless in Shanghai review Timberland Project Better Goblins & Howard Roark Hate flows downwards Don’t Pay for Your MBA review Fudan’s Mini-MBA in Chinese Business I am Pilgrim review Magazines around paperweights Bel Canto review Holtenbroek Remembrance of Earth’s Past review When Breath Becomes Air review Hengshan & Huaihai Road You cannot see yourself SIVA/DeTao Tonglu town Press stroke Deniz Someone from the future would love to be here The edge of the forest Going back to your childhood is part of growing up Days that have everything The painting and the frame The Solar System and footprints on the moon 30 Judo versus karate Decline is inevitable, but misery isn’t Recycling is a massive red herring Innovation isn’t flying cars or VR glasses WRI: Generating appeal for plant-based dishes Leftover women review Hershey’s Kisses on the Bund Greybox Coffee Shanghai Xintiandi store opening The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are review So what is branding? And what does it have to do with livestock? And what did king Solomon say about it? Speaker for the Dead review Being the center of attention Cruisers & cargo ships Language is about people, and marketing is a language @ Inbound Marketing Forum in Shanghai Strategy is specific, specifics are semantics Longing How to Be Both review Old Captain Bar Language is about people and advertising is about language The bowl with the cat printed on it Walking around Albert Park Ayrton and Massimo An Excess Male review Our struggle against pleasure Thailand during Chinese New Year Strategy lessons from racing 4&5 mei vrijheids-pin ‘How to build a car’ review 21 Lessons for the 21st Century review Shanghai’s old hospital The rarer nature becomes, the more distant we become of it Chinese Elders Suzhou, Jiangsu province Zwolle in Shanghai Take a photo of your supermarket The difference between “wang” and “woef” H is for Hawk review Through the open doorway China’s young identity market CPNB Kinderboekenweek Een glimlach uit het Oosten review Heart of Darkness review Burning the Days review The blank canvas that is Shanghai One big café Waves One Plus One Equals Three review Ball Lightning review Folding Beijing review Anna and the King of Siam review The false start of QR codes in the West versus China Contextual China Modern luxury in China: no more same old bling 12 Rules for Life review A list of simple solutions Colours of Tmall Joy City Tap the mind to grasp the enormity of change in China Nuance Henk Sneevlietweg metro station A Geek in China review The over-marketing of things, and praise for the OV-fiets Citizens of the Bowery China’s media landscape and lessons for the West Ender in Exile review Ignorant predictions about China Resources added Content marketing is simple, but companies aren’t designed to make it well “If only” To the Hai Thinking Fast and Slow review Hoe lang nog zwijgen review This is the Story of a Happy Marriage review The science behind how practice makes you better Boring truths Ready Player One Review The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck review Virtual Racing School case study Promoting Positivity Young China review Mapping values LIFE’S for living Turning your logo upside down for equality Climbing the pyramid: Advertising in a richer world Three simple suggestions to make Dutch train travel even better To balance a brand De stilte en de storm review The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning review Shanghai photography 2018 Virtual Racing School Street of Eternal Happiness review Wish Lanterns review Replacement versus imitator Fundraising campaign for Greenpeace Never stop playing Wild Swans review International Sim Racing Federation The Geography of Thought Review Interview with Andretti Autosport’s lead engineer, Graham Quinn Politics and the English Language review Double diffusers and bamboo toothbrushes Interview with former F1 driver Scott Speed Driver Spotlight: The Prince in Blue The Art of Racing in the Rain review Dune review Turing Tests Vandebron photography Fragments The strange ticking sound BadgerGP Moby Dick review Interview with Dr. Kathryn Richards from Mercedes AMG Petronas and Dare To Be Different What’s the value of nature? Twilight in the Forbidden City review Earthrise Bits of Freedom Web-In Coanda Simsport 2017 IWCGPS SEASON Fighting a common enemy The Great Gatsby review Bits and Pieces review Do you buy products endorsed to you? Commonwealth review UNESCO, promoting Dutch heritage Shanghai at night Thirty Rooms To Hide In review De opkomst van het Oosten review Minds of Shanghai The Circle review West Lake, 2017 Day of the Jackal review Venice triptych Lolita review What sport says Wholesomeness Moral creativity Light Years review Libra review The papers Lincoln in the Bardo review Homo Deus review Mack’s road to pro Strategic Time Total Competition review Executive Orders review Bombay | Mumbai 101 contrarian Ideas About Advertising In Cold Blood review A look towards the new year iRacing screenshot contest winner! Cosmos review A sense of time St. Kilda Beach Shadow Puppets review Coanda’s 2016 year of sim racing review Man at the bay Driver spotlight: Peter Collins Interview with Coanda Simsport on BadgerGP The Art of War review The Core review 2016 iRacing World Championship Grand Prix Series video review The painting, not the frame Holy Shit! We’re living in the future What has been your best career decision(s)? Belgian Grand Prix How do you make people care as much about the world — even a fraction of how much you care? Seven billion religions “That won’t be” Interview with one of F1’s biggest fanclubs Marcel Albers The Belgian and the German Now on Instagram Don’t ask, don’t tell The Path review Ender’s Game review The place really lives F1’s biggest What If’s? On bikes Willingness to help I have to change to stay the same Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets? Max Mania in the Netherlands The Top Dog for Spain… Creativity, not chaos Driver Spotlight: Tom Pryce Fishing Meaning of work, life? Launch of the Year award! Interview on Adformatie Going for gaps that exist Today Race reports for Coanda 1984 review Moving ahead Driver Spotlight: Didier Pironi Now writing for Coanda Simsport Starting vibes: 2016 season Racing the McLaren MP4-30 Around Suzuka Against a World Class Driver, From Home State of being De toekomst is van mij review Driver Spotlight: Maria Teresa de Filippis The Forty Minute War review When teammates collide Torch Driver spotlight: Jean Behra Is ‘saving the world’ really a good argument? What do you see as the future for F1 Grand Prix? Trying harder vs. trying smarter Driver Spotlight: Stefan Bellof Driver spotlight: Alfonso de Portago You’re the best writer On good taste Driver Spotlight: Bertrand Fabi Top Dog for Monaco… Driver Spotlight: Vittorio Brambilla Vandebron marketing iGP Manager Driver Spotlight: Wolfgang von Trips We have power Create vs. consume One year Vandebron Innovating as form of protest A few things about blogging Searching for a windmill in Google Streetview Driver Spotlight: Fernand Gabriel Volvo ad Can saving the world please be fun? On the absurdity of being a vegetarian Travelling alone Why I like writing Greenpeace Lowlands LLGD.NET Are junior talent programmes a dump? On the importance of strategic lawn mowing Financial vandalism: Human measure in the age of social media Lord of the Flies review The second weekend of March in the Netherlands Does anyone else in their 30/40s still have the hope of becoming a big shot in the future? The things we write today, will they still be read in 174 years? The advent of visual The perfect lenght How to market classical music on YouTube On Paul Walker & Roger Rodas: Some sense instead of sadness Et tu, Brute? We’re building our successors A low price is a terrible premise Things to learn in a weekend What is the biggest waste of money in your life so far? Design: What are your best examples of really bad design? Internet, I love you, but you need some goddamn perspective Earth Overshoot Day Don’t buy into the lowest price Be a brand The colour of the sky Childish things are more fun Mumbai round-up Sincerely social Leo Ehrlich Write What SEO can learn us Thiago Christo On over-servicing Goodbye Gatekeepers Christina Fieni Tibor van Bekkum Time to wrap up once more: Cannes Lions 2012 Fidele Hage Gauri Burma (Spec) ads Bruno Setola Design work QSL cards Mumbai; harsh, but ingenious at heart Strategic lawn mowing Sharing; viagra for the soul 11 ways to boost your brainpower “You say you want a revolution” Florent Luyckx In a parallel universe Playstation freak ads Jack Trout Vincent Raffray Advertising as a sport Don’t mock the Bieber A few days of madness Retrospect on the Cannes Lions 2011 Hans van Dijk Diane Costa OBL in ads Peterson Joseph 2011 april fools Content is catalyst Luke Sullivan Why I hate Instagram 50 ways to get an idea Chandra Wijaya Tan Tim Arts Gran Turismo 5 review 77 ways to get an idea Eelco de Winter A brief copywriting lesson Peter Kowalski Ivan Raszl Rebuilding the brick: LEGO case study Nespresso ads Amnesty International Accepted to the Willem de Kooning Academy! City of Sydney GT5 has some flaws and pointless extra’s but the passion and experience of racing it’s about is brilliant and unmatched. Working on my website MICROSOFT BUILDS ONLINE TRACKING BLOCKING FEATURE INTO IE9 SBK 09 goes back to the root of racing games: Racing Food for your brain Fast food generation Selfishness Post-it smartbanner Christmas ads Merry capitalismas On random Improper use of language Science and the truth Statistics and the truth All money is power The kingdom inside my head
