Archive for the ‘ thoughts ’ Category
So nice to be back to the blog after such a long time! Especially with a couple of pics such as these. For those who want to the get the full story of Monbiot’s fishing off the British coast from a canoe, here is the link to his piece from The Guardian In a nutshell, [ READ MORE ]
Meeting the “other”, the “exotic” and then return to oneself to establish one’s own identity as a diversity. This is the the central thesis of Nicolas Bourriaud’s (Palais De Tokyo, now Tate Britain) latest book, The Radicant. The Radicant is not a cool urban condition but a family of plants that develop their roots as [ READ MORE ]
The led sign on the Brussels Stock Exchange is part of Cimatics’ (www.cimatics.be) contribution to a local festival about French language in the city. It consists of an sms conversation cum seduction attempt broken up onto different buildings. The choice of the Stock Exchange was a last-minute choice, facilitated by the presence of metal bars [ READ MORE ]
I learnt the meaning of the word “nombe” in the shinto temple on mount Haguro, in Northern Japan. I had the bright idea of getting there at the end of March, thinking that my guidebook was just displaying the usual Japanese hyper-prudence when it stated that the mountains “were closed off to the public until [ READ MORE ]
Bram: For the last 10 years I’ve been living in 12 different houses. In the last 2 years I’ve been living in 3 cities and traveling to 13 cities abroad. This all brought me to a certain mood where detachment and engagement are closely intertwined. I manage to feel or be productive, relaxed,… wherever I [ READ MORE ]
Lately I have been writing a lot about Portugal. I admit being slightly obsessed with the “imaginaire culinarie” of that nation to the point that a day does not feel complete unless I add some reflection about it. Are Portuguese people of the sea or people of the land? Chicken or fish? Empada (de galinha) [ READ MORE ]
There are food things that go beyond taste. There are flavors that are non-flavors, textures that are stronger than flavors, “moments” of the mouth that have to do with a certain resistance to one’s teeth and that for some obscure reason happen to strike such a strong and energizing bond with our symbolic imagination that [ READ MORE ]
Here is my thesis: a) the industry uses so many flavorings which are derived from plants, bark, flowers. Wonderful aromas which get systematically “bastardized” by methods of extraction that do not take into account the subtle and complex impact of the original. That is my feeling for all alcohol based extracts: they just taste bad, [ READ MORE ]
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