At The School of Life all is possible, courses, holidays, 'bibliotherapy', meals, sermons, events and psychotherapy. There's also a shop and ist here that they sell Aphorisms [a set of cards or posters with a clever text, a bit à la Dutch Loesje
The course bear agreeable names like:
How To Be Cool?
How To Have Better Conversations.
How To Find A Job You Love.
How To Spend Time Alone.
How to be a good friend.
The other day, I was reorganizing my books. It seems the books I own longest are still my treasures and some later aquisitions could be disposed of rather easely.
I rearranged my collection and first of all I put all books together that I keep for their images, not their text. One wonders how their could ever be a world without books. Art history for instance: I can't imagine you can compare on a computer screen?
My second catagory are books I find teaching treasures. I only have to look at the book to know how I can use its content in my teachings. John Berger’s “Ways of Seeing” is one of my favorites. An in depth look on art, the way people view it and the influences that traditional oil painting has had on society and modern day publicity. The beginning of the book goes into the issue of how people now look at art versus how people in the past look at art and how reproduction has effected this. The relationship between social status and the subjects of oil painting, particularly the female nude is discussed as well. Berger turns to modern day and explains the role that publicity takes in our daily lives and how it is modeled after the traditional oil painting of the past. It's all there.
Now in YouTube's era, I thought I'ld give it a go and yes, someone has taken the trouble to upload it all.
These [short and dark] days are about food, so here's a number of reports about what feeds us.
Where to start?
FoodTube boasts it hosts the biggest and best collection of Dutch films about food on their website. Indeed, everything is clearly arranged and easy to use. Have a look! Everything is arranged in clear channels: basic techniques, tests, reports and video recipes. Plus the ability to create your own video diary of your favorite dish, favorite restaurant or gourmet gathering upload. There's also the possibility to request the food tube team to submit the recipe in a YouTube film. There is also an international version. Not as goodlooking, but interesting when you want to see a certain country.
