Part I Rainer Maria Rilke: Diary from Florence (Das Florenzer Tagebuch). Amsterdam, 30 june 2021–Rainer Maria Rilke was twenty-two when he traveled to Italy to view the art treasures of the early Renaissance. In his Florentine diary, which he wrote not in Florence but in the fashionable seaside resort of Viareggio, the young student makes…
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Part III by: A. van Veelen Amsterdam, June 28th 2021– It is as if Amsterdam Football Club and Ajax’s selection escapes relegation in the post-competition and we still praise the coach: just go for it, he did it in the very end. Nothing seems to break our self-image. No pandemic, benefits disaster or corruption scandal. The…
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Our Life Our Story Part II A. van Veelen Amsterdam, June 28th 2021– Anyone selling gossip is shooting him/herself in the foot. Branding comes from burning. You burn your fingers somewhere. Just look at the influencer without a last name. Zero experience with buying Chinese mouth caps, and yet he talked a hundred million into…
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The Story of Life Part I Essay In this era of personal branding, it’s all about stories. It makes us blind to reality, says A van Veelen. Amsterdam, June 28th 2021–We keep ourselves captive in the stories we tell. For years I told everyone who wanted to hear that I had a lazy eye as…
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Writer Viktor Frölke visited a German doll brothel to answer that question. I was ashamed that I was indeed attracted to her,” he says. Rea also about Sex Dolls in Japan
1937 PICK A STAR for once finds Laurel and Hardy making a guest appearance in a film that’s rather enjoyable even when they’re not on the screen. It’s no masterpiece, to be sure, but at least you don’t find yourself checking your watch or reading a book while waiting for Stan and Ollie to do…
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UN Chamber Music Society VIRTUAL GLOBAL LAUNCH:Sunday, 20 June 20219:00am EST (New York Time)4:00pm EEST (Mafraq, Jordan Time) Watch the performance: United NationsUN Global YouTube: http://youtube.com/unitednationsUN WebTV: http://webtv.un.org/UNHCR Global Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/unhcrUNHCR Jordan Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UNHCRJordan/ On the occasion of World Refugee Day on Sunday, 20 June 2021, the UN Chamber Music Society of the United Nations…
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1913 – 1960 Part II Anton Foek Amsterdam, June 2021– By 1943, he was back in France, to join the staff of the clandestine Resistance newspaper Combat, and publish those books: first the novel “The Stranger” and then a book of philosophical essays, “The Myth of Sisyphus.” The novel and the essays announced the same theme,…
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Subtle vibrations of pigments, deep flesh, and mental universe. In and out are embraced in this dense painting superbly matted. A bright light haunts its depths, sublimating appearances. Very close to abstraction, Bernard de Wolff’s painting absorbs all contours. The landscapes or the bodies incant the expanse in the same moving and fusional way, scattered…
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Part I Drean ( Algeria ) Nov. 7th 1913 – Villebin ( Provence ) Jan. 7th 1960 Without his work my life would have had another turn. No doubt. Albert Camus was an African / French philosopher, author, and journalist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44 in 1957, the second-youngest…
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