Keep shooting – Noord-Holland quadraat

Een paar dingen. Ik heb besloten het Noord-Holland per kwadrant project strikter en systematischer voort te zetten. Vervolgens: de projectupdates hier posten terwijl ik door het archief ga (het zal dus niet iets chronologisch zijn). Tenslotte: toch maar meer fotografische updates hier plaatsen.

Ik ben een paar jaar geleden begonnen met het Noord-Holland project. Tot een paar jaar geleden heb ik het nooit gepushed. Tot ik las over Blake Andrews’ grid-projecten (Portland toen, Eugene nu).

Vandaag IJmuiden.

Rereading, and Derek Sivers’ Hell Yeah or No

Halfway through December, I received my signed copy of Hell Yeah Or No. A good motive to re-read the book.

Derek Sivers - Hell Yeah or No - book cover

I had already read the ebook. I purchased the same offer: an ebook and a signed paper copy. Given the work Derek has put into producing and distributing the signed hardcover version, I cannot imagine he made much money on it.

I seldomly re-read books. But this one is definitely in the re-reading category. As a sidenote, my re-reading category includes: Gerrit Krol (Dutch writer (probably one of the first people writing on Artificial Intelligence in De Man Achter Het Raam (1982!), definitely in the Netherlands, but probably also internationally), Douglas Coupland, Haruki Murakami, Tom Peters (not everything, but definitely The Little Big Things).

Scott Young’s blog – learning 3.0

One of the blogs I read regularly is the one by Scott Young. Scott got some fame by arranging his university degree online for a few thousand dollars. This was unheard of, especially in the US, where the costs for a college degree have gone totally out of hand.

Scott has been writing his blog for a very long time now and keeps coming up with interesting thoughts on learning and other things.

Scott also wrote the book Ultralearning about effective learning.

Hard Times To Keep Going

This response from Nick Cave to a question form a reader of his blog is so beautiful.

Hard times…

Kim Gordon – Girl In A Band

Somewhere on the great Interweb, I found a review of Girl In A Band by Kim Gordon. I did not know the book. It had disappointed this reader. Nevertheless, I purchased the book, being a long-term lover of Sonic Youth and curious about Kim Gordon’s life.

Girl in a Band by Kim Godon - book cover

I found the book very good. Nice details describing Kim’s environment, household things, stuff, music. Written in a loose style. The edition of the book I have – the pocket edition with the orange cover – is a bit grungy. A nice fit with the black and white pictures in the book.

Kim Gordon sketches an entertaining and informative image of punk-rock life in the 80s, 90s and 00s. There seems to be no end to the progress of Sonic Youth, until Thurston Moore falls into an affair with fortune hunter Eva Prinz (the name is not in the book, but it required little research to find out).

The tone turns from melancholic, in the description of her schizophrenic brother, to disillusioned in her marriage with Thurston Moore.

Beautiful book and woman, strange.

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