August 2006


While waiting (6 hours) for the flight that took my to Bologna from Amsterdam, I took the oportunity to visit the airport museum[1]. The museum had drawings first attributed to Dutch master Rembrandt, and now with the attribution under serious doubts. It also had some other examples of Dutch art. Apart from paintings on canvas, it had a huge one on ceramic tiles. Did I tell you that I had 6 hours wait? … I managed to find a misplaced tile in the painting[2], how exciting!! Can you find it?
Ceramic Tiles

[1]: Despite being on the non-schengen part of the airport, anyone can visit it by presenting a valid passport at the gates that communicate both parts. Or at least I could…

PD 2: I didn’t miss the plane! I even had time to watch Spain beating Arabia Saudi.

Nowadays, it is fashionable to post videos people find in the web, to YouTube glory (wonder how long can they pay for all that bandwidth). Here are my 10 cents: The Decemberists covering Wuthering Heights. This morning I could listen the original version coming from Roman’s headphones, and got hooked, as I did 10 years ago when I listened to yet another cover of this Kate Bush’s song, this time performed by China Drum.

PD: I haven’t heard of this imeem thingy, but it looks worth to pay a visit.