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Shanghai at night

Shanghai at night

June 2017
June 8, 2017
Thirty Rooms To Hide In review

Thirty Rooms To Hide In review

I bought this book because ‘Hey Whipple, Squeeze This’ is my bible and got me into advertising. I didn’t expect such a private and personal book, nor Luke Sullivan to be able to write such a thing. But this book is totally separate of the other, and creates a thirty-room-world of its own. The stories […]
June 7, 2017
De opkomst van het Oosten review

De opkomst van het Oosten review

Interesting theses which I want to believe, but the book is merely a collection of anecdotal evidence, and sadly never makes the choice between being a personal recollection, or giving a wide objective view on the world, nor does it ever give a complete answer to its outset. To introduce this book as a ‘personal […]
June 6, 2017
Minds of Shanghai

Minds of Shanghai

Minds are lonely places. We can never share our thoughts and feelings without translating them into words or actions, nor can we ever look into those of others. The best thing we can do, is to assume that the complex workings of our minds are also present in those of others. But it is precisely […]
June 5, 2017
The Circle review

The Circle review

Although written slightly dry, it’s a gripping read. Not as apocalyptic as 1984 or Brave New World, but definitely in that category, as perhaps this near reality scenario is equally frightening. What’s compelling is the total descent into a world without privacy that happens with reason, albeit the wrong kind of reason, and the fact […]
June 5, 2017
West Lake, 2017

West Lake, 2017

June 2017 — A trip to West Lake, Hangzhou.
June 1, 2017
Day of the Jackal review

Day of the Jackal review

Exponential storytelling. Slow to start, but after three-quarters of the book, it becomes utterly gripping. There’s a great level of detail and the amount of work put into an assassination is made clear, and works around the central theme of how a professional is less likely to make mistakes rather than a murder committed in […]
May 25, 2017
Venice triptych

Venice triptych

Shot during a schooltrip in 2003, rediscovered in 2017.
May 20, 2017
Lolita review

Lolita review

If you want a joyful or entertaining book to read, look elsewhere. Lolita is slow to read and the story itself, dare I say it; boring. Yet Lolita consists of prose perfection on a grim subject, and I learned afterwards that the book helped introduce the idea (and policing) of sex abuse of children in […]
May 16, 2017
What sport says

What sport says

This week, a political party in Catalunya, Spain, labelled grid girls as the reducing of woman to lust objects, and announced its intention to ban these girls from the MotoGP and Formula One events that are held in Catalunya each year. In a discussion on Reddit, the common reaction was that the girls have to […]
May 13, 2017