"BrainChain" - Willem den Broeder
The Edges of Reality
Rub your eyes and check to see something edging your sense of reality
Imagining improbable things
Imagine yourself sitting outside. The sun is coming up at the horizon. You can see the clouds gaining some colours, the sky is slowly turning brighter. The birds are chirpy-duping. Some left-over party humans are returning home. You say hi. You feel the wind tousling up your hair. And, suddenly, the morning sun is getting too bright, too warm. You get off the bench, or chair, or log, or other entity you imagined yourself sitting on, and go. Where to? I don’t know. That’s up to you to fantasise about.
Letter from the editor July
Dear reader, Does it suffices to say “once upon the time” for you to guess what will come next?
Marvel Studios
The Never-ending story of Marvel Universe
Doctor Strange 2: the Multiverse of Madness has just been released in the cinemas and there is a whole list of must-see before the new movie.
27.
What do you think of when you see the number 27? If you have any sort of interest in music and the culture that surrounds it, chances are that your mind will invariably ebb towards the infamously long list of brilliant artists who lost their lives at that age.
The intriguing story of Curupira
Children’s literature… So many controversies can arise from it. But let’s face it, they are the first narratives that we hear as a human being, and so they help shaping the stories through which we will see the world.
What am I?
Both art & texts do not fit one genre. Despite the presence of a certain resemblance,
Shih-Lun Chang
The Misrepresentation of Culture
A few of us were sitting on a terrasse on a sunny-soon-to-be-cloudy day with the chance of meatballs…khm, khm, sorry, I meant rain. Yes, indeed I haven’t made a #dadjoke pun about a random film or cartoon in a while, so here it is. Relish it. . Anyhoo, while enjoying the gentle breeze a few of us were talking about the usual arts people topics, such as living in the Netherlands as internationals, admiring its DIY healthcare system, and randomly talking about synaptic pruning and the power of behavioural patterns.
Vissi d’arte
Few are the art forms as linked to tradition as opera. Embedded within a rich history of conventions and techniques, opera’s life spans over five centuries and spreads across Europe.
Letter from the editor May
Life has not been easy. Let me tell you something: writing your thesis while doing another hundred things on the side is not the smartest idea I had in life.