Planning to not have a boring career? You want to create and make a living out of it? Have I got the book for you. It is called Creativity as a career. And I wrote it. Well, most of it. Together with colleagues from Sweden, Finland, Spain and the Netherlands, I worked on this book….
Every semester I get the pleasure of a new group of students to help and collaborate with. We call this team Cousteau. These explorers get to know each other on a field trip. We’ve been to Berlin, Paris and Leuven but this year we’ve been at nearby Dwingeloo. In a couple of houses at the…
Even though I spend practically every tuesday and wednesday in Leeuwarden at the Academy for Pop Culture, I rarely write about it. Mostly because to me it has been such a steady everyday thing, that I sometimes fail to realize how special it is. The clip that Kevin Geurts made, reminded me that it definitely…
The Academy for Pop Culture has sent me to Latvia two times now and even though I couldn’t make it this year, I have had a hand in selecting students that could go. We asked Kia, Seat and Volkswagen to each sponsor a team, and each team to battle eachother in an Online Exposure Rally….
About twice a month someone asks me how my book is getting along. I generally have to tell people that it’s not going anywhere fast. I have refocused a few times, added on some chapters, but have not found the form yet, nor enough time to solve that particular problem. Yesterday I spoke about my…
For the second time I visited the Latvian city of Liepaja to coordinate a workshop at the iweek of Liepaja University’s New Media Art study. The simple task we were given was: make a billboard. After two days of brainstorming, discussing and sketching the students came up with the idea to ask Liepaja: what makes…
Right now I am sitting in a basement in Liepaja (Latvia) with four latvians, a lithuanian and two dutch students. We’re working on some ideas for an exhibition at the international week at Liepaja University. So far I’ve heard about the extinction of happiness, hands growing from the soil and collective umbrellas. So I will…
I visited Leuven with the international house of productions I’m leading at the Academy for Pop Culture. We had a blast. Non-descript random video below that captures none of what has happened and a bit of the atmosphere. iHop goes Leuven from Rutger Middendorp on Vimeo.
Week 1 at the Academie voor Popcultuur and we’re back at full thrust. I revised my first concepting lecture to a more sustainable tempo which seemed to go down nicely. And I picked the 18 students for the international productiehuis I will be running with Cor Giesing. Now all that’s left to be done is…
A couple of days in Paris with the Academy for Pop Culture’s students and teachers.
Roger at Schwung Visuell was his nice self in offering to make a videoregistration of the Concept to Creation get-together we recently had at the Academy for Pop Culture. The Schwung Visuell intern made himself useful by cutting out the totally incomprehensible conversations where the microphone got lost in the process. So enjoy: Deel 1…
It’s not what you think it is: I haven’t been fired and rehired at another position, I wasn’t casted for a movie, nor have I hired personel and installed a professional kitchen in my house. This is me and Wieger Jan at the Academy for Pop Culture working the cafetaria like there’s no tomorrow. Story…