It’s by time we’re getting tired of all the days that are linked to certain causes: World Environment Day, World Earth Day, World Hunger Day (16th October), World Food Day (15th October), World Poverty Day (17th October), World Water Day, World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, World Hospice and Palliative Day, World [...]

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I’m in the mood for magazines today! Take a look at Good Magazine’s “Smartest, Prettiest, Coolest, Funniest, Most Influential, Most Necessary, Most Important, Most Essential, etc.” periodicals ever.
The essential strength of a magazine is its ability to amplify. An idea, or an image, or a story, set within the pages of a magazine and assembled [...]

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These days an explosion of new glossies seems to happen: that’s why I thought to make a small magazine roundup today:

Opinio, a weekly Dutch quality opinion newspaper -uncensored!

Goodies: a magazine for the do-good-and-enjoy generation of today.

Hollands diep: a thorough multi-discipline magazine about literature, art, architecture, design, politics, fashion, music, theatre and more…

Salt: a ’sustainable’ en [...]

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I’m in the mood for Loesje quotes today!

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During the festival of Holi, hundreds of millions of Indians celebrate the return of spring by playfully covering each other in bright dyes, lighting a ritual fire, perhaps drinking hallucinogenic bangh drinks, and eating and dancing and laughing into the night. Holi, like almost everything else about India, involves a number of complex traditions, traditions [...]

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