Author: kamiel79

Late Winter
it is still outside, the hills are static their shape, their surface, their life unseen wind chills and in the trees the pine cones sing a cold song of the dying winter a flower is forgotten by the frost its purple head needs no big images there will be no echo when it falls sorrow ...
Lees lekker: nieuwe keileuke film van Royen
Er zijn momenten dat je vurig wenst dat iemand er nog is. Nu ik hoorde dat er een verfilming komt van een boek van Heleen van Royen, "De Ontsnapping", ervaar ik zo'n moment. Ik wil dat Gerrit Komrij nog leeft. Niet omdat ik verlang naar zijn vernietigende kritiek, waarmee hij van deze smulliteratuur ongetwijfeld geen ...
Wie ruimdenkend is, heeft niet de luxe dat zijn vijanden dat ook zijn.
You think fingers!
When I was a boy, I took violin lessons. I remember playing Vivaldi in a room with a blue carpet and high windows. The teacher listened and made remarks, most of which to the benefit of my musical development. One time however, the teacher, a woman who must have been in her early thirties, noticed ...
Doorbraak
Michel had net zijn lunchtrommel en zijn laptop ingepakt, een aangename routine die hem dagelijks herinnerde aan de draaglijkheid van zijn bestaan, toen hij op de radio een stem hoorde die gealarmeerd klonk. Hij snelde niet het trappenhuis in zoals hij gewend was, maar verstilde een moment lang in de kamer. De paniekerige woorden van ...
A Digital Genius
We live with a digital genius of 011001 months old. When any object with keys or buttons is within her reach, it's hers and all the buttons get pressed in an order that to me, her father still with one foot in the analog age, appears as random. Her fingers fly over the keypads from ...
The Experience Economy
Years ago, our century had just begun, progressive voices heralded the transition from a product economy to an experience economy. Instead of selling cars, car companies told us in their advertisements that they were selling a "driving experience". Of course, we realized, the experience is everything. We go to restaurants in order to have a ...
Monetizing Facebook the Civilized Way
It took me a few weeks after the attacks on Charlie Hebdo and the public outcry for theoretical "freedom of speech", but today I arrived at a fresh idea. It pertains to this world's largest virtual territory, with more than a billion inhabitants - Facebook. Today, Facebook is a multi-billion dollar marketing machine. The money ...
Dialectical Hypocrisy
1. It's Sunday so I would like to describe the history of our civilization as the dialectical process of overcoming hypocrisy. I don't believe in interpreting historical development in a Hegelian way as the embodiment of a purely logical principle, and to be honest I lack the intellectual vigor to pursue such an endeavour. But ...