These photos were taken on the Croatian island, Zlarin. No cars, no phone, no internet, just bicycles, fruit, books and wild, rocky beaches!

I bought my sister and myself these excellent cocoon scarves. You can practically do anything with this thing, drape it into a balaclava or use it to parachute off a cliff. They drape extremely well thanks to their good, large measurements and supple material. 160cm is the address you should be bookmarking.

Also, my second High Places recipe (vegan crêpes and grapefruit salad) can be read here. It's real good!

I saw these two events this week and they were strikingly good.
1 + 3. Soap Opera - Bogomir Doringer and Dave Captain (Koningsplein, Amsterdam)
A smoke and bubble machine was placed in the chestnut tree on Koningsplein at night. It went along the lines of "Homo bulla est" and Harry Potter.
2 + 4. Metamorfoses - LeineRoebana (Orgelpark, Amsterdam)
A beautiful, intelligent and emotional dance performance that everyone should see if they have the time this weekend. This was the first time I felt bad that a ticket was so cheap compared with what we were given. The last two performances are tonight and tomorrow night at 20.15.

My band cooking column and illustration-collage has been published in the June issue of Subbacultcha! magazine (p. 44-45). This month it's courgette cake for High Places, whom I like very much. They gave me their newest vinyl as a thank you.

My friend Miguel has a gigantic room for rent in this house in London, it is available for June and/or July.

£75 per week,
Also suitable for a couple,
Ace housemates,
Large kitchen, living room and garden,
Near public transportation,
Table football in the basement,
I lived in this house and it was great.

Please comment and leave your email address if you or any of your friends are interested!

My posting is irregular at the moment because I am learning a lot of exciting things in the library and I don't have a lot of spare time on my hands. I will share my findings once I am done. Meanwhile, enjoy the AUTHENTIC WILDLIFE.

Bologna in late April. I've got more of these babies.

We saw Lucky Dragons yesterday night at WORM in Rotterdam. I love Lucky Dragons. I love Lucky Dragons. I love Lucky Dragons. I love Lucky Dragons. I FUCKING LOVE LUCKY DRAGONS. THEY ARE THE BEST.
Thanks to the person who recorded this last night, I'm one of the blurs in the video.

Lucky Dragons are Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara, an experimental art/music group from L.A. Their interactive performance, 'Make a Baby', involves the participation of the audience to initiate, monitor, and meaningfully interpret the transfer of data through skin contact. In short, Lucky Dragons operate an array of homemade hardware and software which sends carrier signal-line level audio frequencies in a series of digital loops through touch conductive fabric sensors attached to various instruments. When one touches the touch sensitive instruments, it produces a sound. This signal is also carried through the human body, which means that if another individual touches the person holding the instrument, it will produce a sound. This spurs a chain reaction of interactions, where people experiment with variating types of touch to produce different tones. These social aural interactions are simulataneously mapped onto a visual display in the form of moving coloured patterns.

Referring to John Cage’s ‘A Year from Monday,’ 'Make a Baby' proves that the artist is “no more extraordinary than we are.” Fischbeck and Rara are the mediators between the artwork and the participants, “anyone who experiences a work of art is as guilty as the artist. It is not a question of sharing the guilt. Each one of us gets all of it.” Cage also questions the direction in which art is going and whether it will become a family reunion. In this sense, 'Make a Baby', confirms his supposition, as the performance forms family-intimate interactions through new acts of perception and cognition. An instantaneous 'art-family' emerges and, as the title of the performance suggests, gives birth to a unique art action.

(An excerpt from my unpublished entry on Lucky Dragons on the Art and Electronic Media website.)

And if you're ever at Rotterdam Centraal Station, get a bami kroket out of the wall from Smullers, it is THE SHIT.

HC Gilje (2009) - Blink
This is at the Sonic Acts exhibition in the NIMk in Amsterdam. You follow the splashes of light in a dark room. It is cool. I like it.
This is an excellent piece for running/jumping/skipping.

Trying to lure the good weather back.

Longing for warmer climes.

1. Stan Vanderbeek & Kenneth Knowlton (1968) - Poem Fields #2
2. Lillian Schwartz & Kenneth Knowlton (1970) - Pixillation
3. No Age - Every Artist Needs a Tragedy (by Rob)

I know a lump of YouTube videos can sometimes be tedious to watch, but I insist you watch these. I am deeply overwhelmed by a course I am taking this term, it's called Inventing the Future: Electricity and Visual Culture. Never has a three hour lecture flown by so quickly.

Rose Hobart - Joseph Cornell (1936)
Compiled from snippets of the B film East of Borneo, an eclipse documentary, Nestor Amaral's song "Holiday in Brazil" and a deep blue/purple filter.
Read more about Cornell, he was eccentrically cool. Watch the full version here and here.

Speaking of films/videos, go to Stories. It's an interesting, well executed idea/project.

I'd never ridden a bike in the snow until today. To be quite frank, I don't like snow, but today reminded me of the biggest, bestest snow day of all time in London last year.

1. Presenting the uni-moustache, made out of a quality nylon stocking!
2. I will not post phone photos, but I/we saw three excellent gigs this past weekend - Little Women (obnoxious, scary, cool skronk jazz band), Thomas Truax (ace DIY instruments) and The Moi Non Plus (biggest surprise of the evening - excellent, excellent.) Have a listen, do your research.

I like drawing. It is nice. Warsaw Love.

1-3. Bologna, Florence and San Luca

1. Cool holiday snapshot I found in a junk shop in Camden last autumn.

Clothes are cool, yeah? Here are three recent cool/good clothes-related things:
2. Kloos Vintage - this weekend in Westerpark in Amsterdam.
3. Pracownia Żelazko - Warsaw-based new, cool online vintage shop opening this weekend.
4. Love Fashion Hate Sweatshops - Sign the petition because this is actually important.
5. Vintage Delirium di Franco Jacassi, Via Sacchi 3, Milan - Hidden away in an old Italian apartment building, ring at the gate to get in. I went here last weekend while in Italy. Their extensive, beautiful collection of vintage items left me dumbfounded. Prices are very steep, but I sincerely recommend it for purely aesthetic reasons.

Joris Ivens - Regen (1929)
A city symphony of Amsterdam.