donderdag 3 maart 2016

Whiterooms

Danger at the edge of town. Common knowledge. Nineteenth thirties. Europe. The BIG question is, whether the Global nations should use this knowledge. And to whoms benefit. To whoms comfort! To whoms lives!! To whoms future!!!

Do you know where the white Woods are? Is it there where the white wolves hunt. Hunt on the Big Five. And protect? Protect only their own cups. Whom do they let close to them? The natural adventurer, photographer, filmer. The most contemporary eyes and ears of the whathappnd scientist. Who, of course, hardly leaves home and garden. Why? Why do you think? Because it is fully aware of the real dangers. Off course. Which are always closer than one thinks. Did you forgetting to smell anything today? Didn't you take a sniff of you iPAD? Laptop? Personal computerscreen? Does it already smell like you?

Tomorrow: whiterooms, sniffing in the city. The newest, hottest sewagecanals.

maandag 18 januari 2016

Cologne, sex and naked persons

Because I like it too much, typing numbers and listing lines. Today I am a whathappnd scientist alias Mijnske

1. Leonardo da Vinci draws the front of a naked man in a circle, now the symbol of Enlightment, a certain era on the continent of Europe
2. All sort of artists draw and paint declining women, sitting men, dressed and naked, 20th century, continents of Europe and U.S.A.
3. Other artists sculpture men and women, naked, all sorts of material, continent of Africa
4. Artist /architect loves and makes drawings of women, creates buildings like sculptures, 20st century, continent of South Americas
5. Artist and model perform sex in museumbuilding, 21st century, continent of Asia.
6. Artist performs naked in public space, 21st century, continent of Europe

Let me think, art, culture.

Who do not have acces to all sorts of art?

In which cultures?

How come?

zondag 17 januari 2016

Migrationflows in Europe, migratiebeleid in Europe, september 2015

Source: A newspaperarticle by Stephane Alonso, City of Brussel, NRC 22 September 2015.

I copy / translate a few lines:

1. It is like an EU diplomat says: the immigrants  are faster than European decision making.

2. According to OESO, we are facing now the largest immigrant flow since WO II.

3. Frans Timmermans, the 'second man' of the EU commission, speeched on Friday 18 September 2015, warned about the severe reproaches from ' Eastern boys and Western girls' and vice versa. ' There is a scarcity on knowledge about each others sensitivities, cultures and histories'.

4. The dynamics of the immigrantsflow has been radically changed in one week time!!!!

5. Immigrants do not register themselves, they want to go to Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands as fast as possible.

6. A prediction of a EU diplomat: It is going to be ugly.

7. On the half page large picture above the written text  is a photo printed, it shows only young men with muscles, very good swimmers.


Wow! September 2015. Unfortunately, hardly anybody reads or understand Dutch nor EU diplomatics. And hardly anybody knows Timmermans if you compare it with Hollande and Merkel. I was severely in mourning by that time, because the professor, the promotor for my PhD history just
had had an heartattack and died, 63 years old, broken. He wad the same age ad Vladimir Poetin, who is still alive and kicking.

What now? Shall I continue my PhD with the subject Green Architecture or...

I really think I have to change something, because all cultural effects because of WOII are not over. And I predict, not for a long long time. Because, we, the posterity, the descendants, are still very capable of humiliation. And also my father, 78 years old, all of a sudden, started to talk about his memories on WOII. He was between 4 and 8 years of age, as old as my son is now. He had to endure the Hungerwinter, 1943-1944, city of Haarlem, the Netherlands, as skinny as he was already. While the mayor of the city of Haarlem, then, during WOII was a NSB personality, not taking care of the
citizens of Haarlem, at least, not taking care, not managing their most basic needs.
That is really a fact.

And this is a Great Theme: Doing the Right Thing and Do It Now.
One of the things of doing the right thing is: not to be humiliating.

Read my lips: a big theme today, still is HUMILIATION

So, the question is: how to control our humiliating ways of saying and doing. With the civilized aim to respect one another in mind and action.

And I think I have the solution: we have to stop Seeing each other, in public life as man and woman, because this is a too biological approach, not a civilized approach. We have to start to see each other
as persons and this has to be written in newspapers as consequent as possible. Probably a new dresscode is one of the consequences as well! And that is going to be the toughest thing for black, yellow, red, braun and white persons who are used to wear suits.
Everybody has to go and wear a dress in public life. You know, dresscode! Think first, please, before opening your mouth or start moving your fingers impulsively on one or other machine!

What a golden opportunity for the Vetements industry! Abandon all suits and ties, introduce the most comfortable dresses for going public.

Freedom of body mobility for all! What a brilliant idea! I can picture it all in my head.

Can you?


And off course, do not through your suit away, that would be such a waste, wear your suit at home, because a lot has to be managed at home. We have to read and talk about so much history, sensitivities and cultures. Not NIKE, not just do it. Be calm and explore on your iPad all the texts and pictures on European history. Maybe there is even more need of topmanagers at home and more need of welldressed persons in public life.

Creative thoughts...........Innovation is calling!





zaterdag 16 januari 2016

One can hear the thunder in Koln / Je kan het in Keulen horen donderen

A social pattern.

War, scarcity of women, no guts no glory, the Sabines /Virgins, rape.

1. Around 750 before Christ, Europe, the Romans
2. 1945, Italy, the Africans and the Americans
3. 2016, city of Koln, Germany, by men with what nationality?

And what was the mythical story about Europa again? Zeus himself, transformed in a white bull, too hard to resist, the beautiful virgin princess mountaining its back, voluntarely, when her female guardians look the other way for a short while, distracted by something else.

But well, that is Ancient Greek. Who beliefs that, nowadays? Anybody, knowing this story? Hello, out there!
No one in a CDU or CDA party, having fun at newyearseve, I think so.

Curzio Malaparte wrote so terribly painfully beautiful about 1945, city of Napels, Italy in the novel De huid ( The skin), 1949, de Arbeiderspers, translation by Jan van der Haar. Why I have this association, now? You only may guess once.

I copied a few lines out of the novel

De maagd van Napels.
Heb je nooit een maagd gezien? vroeg Jimmy op een dag, toen we de bakkerij aan de Pendino di Santa Barbara uit liepen en van de lekker warme krokante taralli knabbelden. Jawel, maar dan van ver. No, I mean, van dichtbij. Heb je nooit een maagd van dichtbij gezien? Nee, van dichtbij nooit. Come on, Malaparte, zei Jimmy.
In eerste instantie wilde ik niet mee, ik wist dat hij iets pijnlijks, iets vernederends zou laten zien, een afschuwelijk bewijs van de fysieke en morele vernedering waartoe de mens (hmm, moet er niet staan, de man? En dan met name de man die denkt in bezit, en daar de bezittaal voor gebruikt, bezigt, bijv.
zijn vrouw, zijn dochter, MAS), in zijn wanhoop kan komen?  p.50

I stop here, and I can tell you, it is getting worse and worse, the lowest of the lowest Malaparte is able  to write down. Applausje.


woensdag 13 januari 2016

First things first, before I go explore the stars...

First things first.
Famous words of prof. J.E. Bosma, who unfortunately died just before nine eleven 2015. It was his haert. ( One is always curious how / why did the person die).
In his life, JE Bosma, hamstered quite some books. On a beautiful day in Oktober 2015 I was invited by the interim head of Architectuurgeschiedenis, VU University, to the private library of dear former JE Bosma. When I arrived in the city of Amersfoort, I had in mind to select one or two books. I did not know what to expect. After four hours in the library I had three boxes filled with books. Quite a heritage. Fortunately my dad, almost 80, helped my carrying the heavy weight, by driving to the St.Jorisstreet in his white Porsche and by managing a 'hondje', something on wheels, to put the boxes on and transporting all to the parked car, two floors down, round the corner of the alley. All books fitted perfectly in the back trunk.

One of the books I inherited has the title' Sekse en de city ', ( Gender and the city), the 22th edition of the yearbook  'vrouwengeschiedenis', most factual translated as ' whathappnd science on women', published by aksant, 2002.

Quite an issue nowadays in vogue and fashion circles, all around planet Earth. Fourteen years later. I name Freddy Mercury, David Bowie, Ruby Rose, Mijnske Sival. The first two are dead, the later two are alive.

Back to the Yearbook, the Annual. I copy: Een herijking van stadshistorisch onderzoek  in de richting van de nieuwe sociale geschiedschrijving heeft gevolgen voor de plaats die gender  in het stadshistorisch onderzoek dient in te nemen. Het is mogelijk om te proberen de geschiedenis van een stad geheel vanuit het perspectief van vrouwen te bezien - Feminepolis. p.12, ( yes, surprise! All of a
sudden an Ancient Greek word, after all the Dutch words).

Remember this word: Feminepolis.

It just may become a very important in the 21st century. Since The City is the newest icon. The City is the most contemporary icon. After old icons like Madonna with baby/child, and Enlightened Man ( the Leonardo da Vinci drawing, factually The NAked Man In A Circle), The Building (20st century icon). Now The City is being iconned.

Maybe, when I think it over now, the word Gendercity is more likely to have a bright future in this century, the 21st century.

Yes, Gendercity.

At least, it appeals more to me. Guess why?!



I will translate all in Dutch written texts into English, tomorrow. I  have other things to do first. I have to draw a concept for a newly type of citymusicpiece first. My creativity is streaming, I cannot park it anymore. It has to get out of my mind and hands.

So long, cowgirlsandboys.

maandag 11 januari 2016

Plant thinking / language 2015

Field : contemporary whathappnd science
Author : MA Sival
Sources : Dutch quality newspapers

A list like U. Eco likes to do.

1. Een stuk dat Nederlands en werelds tegelijkertijd is, een liefdevol verhaal over ontworteld zijn en het zoeken naar een thuis. A stagepiece as Dutch and global at the same time, a story full of love, about being uncarroted and searching ones home. Editorial, de Volkskrant, 14 August 2015.

2.really new: the Parliament of things. So plants, seaweeds, trees can become represented politically. At least 80 representants are alive and writing, published in the Guardian and the Correspondent and on the worldwideweb theparliamentofthings.org    theparliamentofthings.nl   Bianca Stigter, NRC weekend, 22/23 August 2015

3. My grandfather is a tree / Mijn opa is een boom. An emotional childreadbook about getting old / Een ontroerend boek over oud worden.

Mijn opa is een boom. Hij is groot en sterk. Als een eik van honderd jaar. Je duwt hem niet zomaar omver. Ik heb het geprobeerd. Mijn a moest lachen en tilde me van de grond alsof ik een veertje was. Ik gilde: wiiiiiii!, en wat voor vogel ben ik, Opa? 'Mijn kleine, gekke mus', zei hij. NRC, 25September2015

4. Carl Linnaeus'. Reis door Lapland 1732. (Book) Lieve lijn tekening van de vrouw met de naam
Andromeda (uit de Griekse mythologie, Andromeda was een Ethiopische schoonheid) en de plant
met nu dezelfde naam. Bijschriften van Carl : fictief ( ficta) en werkelijk (vera). Geheimzinnig (mystica ) en echt (genuina). Vormgegeven (figurata) en afgebeeld (depicta). P.87. Carl was obviously getting lonely...


zondag 10 januari 2016

Back to plant thinking, plant language last week

Saturday, 9 th  of January 2016, Trouw, best Dutch quality newspaper

Some words which attracted my attention

En die graven ruiken naar rozen Terwijl ik op mijn hurken zat en mijn neus op de marmeren grafsteen drukte, zei de medewerker aldaar dat ik vooral niet moest denken dat die geur van rozenwater afkomstig was. Nee, het waren lijken zelf die na ettelijke decennia nog steeds een paradijselijke geur wisten af te scheiden / the graves smelled like roses. I pushed my nose upon the gravestone, sitting on heels. The coworker told me not to think of the odeur as rosewater. The paradiselike parfume originated from the bodies, now more than tens of years beneath the Eart's surface. City of Teheran, Iran, MiddleEast. (Caroline Omidi, p.17)

Letter&geest
de Rozenoorlog / the war on Roses. ( Peter Rietbergen, p.12)
Guide Knopp (What's in a name...MAS), p.13
Patroon van bladloze takken / pattern of leavesles branches, Anna Enquist, p.23
Doodmoe gras / deathly fatigued grass, Anna Enquist, p.23
De takken van de plataan / the branches of the platanus Hispanica, Anna Enquist, p.23
bloemen / flowers, Janita Monna, p.22



vrijdag 8 januari 2016

For starring the Mijnske universe I refer to...

I never promised you a rosegarden...

For starring the universe by Mijnske I refer to the blog Mijnske & the Universe.

My pleasure...

On this blog I will continue to type words on cities. Like Lewis Mumford did on Manhattan, 19 th century. Only my reach is not t hat small area om planet Earth, once owned by the Dutch.

 I have all the cities on planet Earth in my reach, in my head. I think.

dinsdag 5 januari 2016

The stars of 2015

This is the nicest thing to do in doing whathappnd science ( former ' history', history ended in 1999, according to Francis Fukuyama, scientist in the U.S.A. I agree.): picking the stars!

Whom am I going to put in the sunlight. Whom am I going to make very shining!?

Well, ladies, read on. I created a galaxy of
Tinkebel, the French mother, Augustgirl, Catherine Caulsen, Keira Knightly, Bettany Hughes, Anneke le Coultre, Lauren.  , Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Anna Carla Sprey, Susi Zijderveld, Jane Austen, Park Geun-hye, Martine Delfos, Corien Wortmann, Angela Merkel, Carolien Roelants, Annemiek Verkammam, Nicole Bossevain, mijn favoriete volleybalster die op de bal blijft spelen, beachvolleybalster I mean,  an Ukraonian callgirl, Leena Lander, Eveline Mooibroek, De Dame / The Lady Aung San Suu Kyi, Hilary Clinton, Carmen Aristegui, Nana Mouskouri, Mrs. D.C. North, K.D. Lang, Nynke Joustra.

The question now is, why do I want to create my universe with these sparkling personalities? Is it for how they make me feel? An emotional approach. Is it for what they have done or not done, what they have been taken care of? A pragmatic approach? Is it because I am inspired by how they live their lives? An European approach? Is it for how they 'speak' to me? A narrative/acoustic approach? Is it because through them I gain acces to other ways of thinking? A breakonthrough approach.

maandag 4 januari 2016

Girls justto wanna have fun. City life anno 2015

Well, Madonna is 61 y, and not having that much fun anymore, when looking at a YouTube video someone recorded of her and her ten year old son, in Paris, singing like a streetartiste while David Bowie is celebrated as a Hero in the city artmuseum of Groningen. Two years ago I saw a very very very well designed exposition in Louisiana, Denmark, on Yoko Ono! Thrilling and very tasteful, while yesterday I saw a documentary on Yoko Ono and John Lennon, England and New York, 70s. Horrible press in London, really horrible.
The listing continues...

City of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Europe. Inez Boogaarts, now former president of the City Art Council Rotterdam, gave a farewellparty. She, in name of the council, analytically disapproved of a financial proposal for a huge buildingscheme called 'Collectionbuilding'. She decided to stop with this public function, ' not to disturb the party and joy attitudes' of all the other involved... (Including the mayor of the city of Rotterdam? MAS). 4 November 2015, NRC.

City of London, United Kingdom, Europe. Sue Lloyd Roberts, journalist, passed away. In the beginning of 2015 she was diagnosed with cancer. Her last famous words: It is not a very tactful attitude to send three muscles male journalists to a country at war, with the task to interview a woman who just has been raped. 19 Oktober 2015, Trouw

City of Temixco, Mexico, South America. Gisela Mota Ocampo, the mayor of the city of Temixco has been shot and died, on the day after new yearsday 2016. 4 January 2016, Trouw.

City of Wassenaar, the Netherlands, Europe. ' When the time comes you want to remember me, be good for each other. Imagine, I am not dead, a human being will never die, but live. Always.' Jozina Johanna Dees, Terneuzen 1931, Wassenaar 2015. 4January 2016

City of Oosterhout, the Netherlands, Europe. Two sisters, Maria Magdalena and Mechtild, invested over half a million euro's in a white wibe business. The wished for quality wine is planned to be introduced on the 'market' in 2018. 4 January 2016, Trouw

City of Biston, Washington State, U.S.A. Loretta Lynch, minister of Justice will speak with Barack Obama about the shootings and armory trades. 4 January 2016, Trouw.




zondag 3 januari 2016

Fun in the city, 2015

Yeah!Madonna! Girls just to wanna gave fun UN! '80s previous century.
And now?

City of Breda, the Netherlands, Europe. Illegal FireWire-kabel depot unmasked in a apartmentblock for the elderly! By the authority of Explosives and Cleanage. 20 Oktober 2015, NRC.

City of Istanbul, Turkey. Illegal trainingscentre for Islamitic State unmasked by Turkish police. Trainingstarget was to join the terror in Syria. 29 adults and 24 kids were involved in the trainings. 20 Oktober 2015, NRC.

City of Koln, Germany, Europe.Henriette Reker, candidate for mayor, city of Koln, was stabbed down by a citizen, who has a strong opinion against immigrants. Sometimes called infiltrant, in Germany nowadays. Henriëtte recovered the stabbing and was elected as first female mayor for the city of Koln. 19 Oktober 2016, NRC.

City of Bogota, Colombia, South America. Five persons died because of a plane crash, the pilot, three passengers and a baker. The crash occurs a few minutes after take off, AirPort El Dorado. It is the 3rd time in 3 months a plane crashed. Within 3 months 5 plus 6 deaths. How many tears the wives of the pilot, passengers and baker are still shedding?

City of Tel Aviv, Israël, MiddleEast. 1 military person and one person with the nationality of Eritreia were shot down. This month 8 Jewish persons and 42 Palistinians were killed. 19 Oktober 2015, NRC. Tears, tears, more and more tears.

Malediven, Indian Ocean, a woman became pregnant. After having had sex with a man not her husband. Normally she would have been penalted with stoning. The court of Justice decided in first instance with the normal punishment. After the verdict has been published on the worldwideweb the jury of the Malediven Court decided to withdraw the verdict. 20 Oktober 2015, Trouw.

City of Kiev, Ukraine, Russia. Olena Loekas, former minister of Justice, is imprisoned. 6 November 2015, Trouw

City of Geleen, the Netherlands, Europe. A man and a woman quarrel at home, at 8.30 in the morning. The man stabs the woman. The woman was able to break the glass of the window in front of the house and started to shout for help. The woman is hospitalised, thanks to a neighbour passing by and the police. 6 November 2015, Trouw

City of The Hague, city of Breda, city of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Oktober 2014, March and September 2015. A baby girl is left alone, in a garden, in a parkinglot, in an underground garbagecontainer. 5 November 2015, NRC.

City of Bujumbura, Burundi, Africa. The mother is a Tutsi, the father is a Hutu. President Pierre Nkurunziza, doing a third term as president, forbidden by national law. The man identified himself with his father, a Hutu. The man almost hunts his political opponents till death, read the mother, read his mother, think about it, his own mother! 5 November 2015, Trouw.

City of Johannesburg, South-Africa, Africa. Reeva Steenkamp has been shot to death in her own bathroom, about five years ago. The man who shot her, was named her husband, is just on parole. He is allowed to go to church, to go training on the athletic fields. With other words, to pick up the life he led five years ago. What about the mother of Reeva? 20 Oktober 2015, NRC.

City of Groningen, the Netherlands, Europe. Rachel van Gelder lived in a house with the adress Folkingestreet 34. A long time ago, in the previous century. She had given life to five children.. Later, she was transported to Sobibor, Poland, Europe, during World war II, 1940-1945. She never came back to the city of Groningen. 4 November 2015, Groninger Gezinsbode.



Another mourning morning

Death continues, 2015 I am noticing, in public space.

27 Oktober 2015 NRC/ Trouw. Kabul, Islamabad, Afganistan, Peshawar, Pakistan. At least 300 people died because of an earthquake, 7,5 on Richterscale.

27 Oktober 2015 NRC. Bogota, Colombia, rebels killed 11soldiers and one policeofficer.probably rebels of the ELN group. Not the FARC group.

22 December 2015, Trouw/ NRC. Silopi, Turkey. Dead bodies on the street.

21 Oktober 2015, Trouw. Heerhugowaard, the Netherlands. Second dead baby found. ( First dead baby was found on 8 Oktober 2015, in a bag on the street)

21Oktober 2015, Trouw. 3 Russian warriors died in NabiYounes, Syria. Groundtroupies/ groupies.

21Oktober 2015, Trouw. Congo, Central Afrika, 4 deaths during massa protest.

22 December 2015, Trouw. Las Vegas, USA, one deaed Victor because of car accident.

21Oktober 2015, Trouw. The lord is my shephard, I do not need more. After a good life our dear mother, grandmother and grandgrandmother passed away. Hilje Weesjes Rustema. Baflo, 22November 1915, Warnsveld, 19 Oktober 2015.

10  Oktober 2015, Urmond. After a long productieve life, including a lot of ups and downs, our dad, granddad, uncle abd brother, passed away. Pieter Geratd Prins, 'Brave Pierre Bear', born Baturadja 3February 1929.

20 Oktober 2015, NRC. With deep sadness we mourn the loss of our collegue and friend. We entend our deepest heartfelt condoleances to his wife, children and family. Cristijn Servaas, 11 November 1966 - 16 Oktober 2015

23 Oktober 2015, Trouw. Kronanschool, Trollhattan, Sweden, one tutor and one pupil killed. The killer died too, in hospital.


zaterdag 2 januari 2016

Memento morti in urbi, mare e aero, anno 2015

Another theme what was  occupying my search, readings, drawing lines and scissoring behavior previous year, the year 2015, had to do with death in cities. According to the ears and eyes of civil societies, I can come up with the following list:

Amsterdam, 3Dec2015, NRC. Boko Haram. Guerillas murdered, hostages freed. The military of Camerun killed about a 100 guerillas from the Islamic group of terror Boko Haram. According to a spokesman of the ministery of defence, Camerun, Afrika. No details are mentioned.

We. Who are we.

20December 2015, NRC. International. 2210 pelgrims died on 26 September. Saoudi Arabia, during the hadj. These numbers are confirmed by thirty information sources in thirty different countries.

December2015, column international, Trouw. Turkish groups kill 30 PKK guerillas, Kurdisch militants. According to an anouncement by president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

December 2015, column international, Trouw. 10 murders done between 2000-2006. Main suspect is Beat Zschape, member of a contemporary neonazi group, München, Germany, Europe.

3Dec2015, new York, by Michael Persson, city of Bernardino, according to first messages, 14 death by shooting in meetingroom, institute for the mental ill, USA.

9 Oktober 2015, Trouw. The ministery of Safety and Justice (the Netherlands, Europe) regrets the death of prof. mr. Jacob de Ruiter. Former minister  of Justice, 1977-1982.
G.A. van der Steur, Minister of Safety and Justice
K.D.D.M. Dijkhoff, secretary of State Safety and Justice
S. Riedstra, General Secretary

4 December 2015, NRC. de battre de mon coeur s'est arrete. Hendrikus Antonius Maria Hoefnagels. Den Bosch 15 mei 1928, Den Haag 27 November 2015

1 Oktober 2015, Trouw. Morti di mare. Death in the sea. 2500 persons. By the cold, by drowning, by starvation and suffocation. 24 December 2015, Trouw, 3700 individuals drowned in Mediterrean Sea.

5December 2015, Volkskrant. Dying is moving from the outside world to the heart of the people who love you. Annette Wüst, Utrecht 17 March 1947 - Amsterdam 1 December 2015

24 Oktober 2015, Volkskrant. Pakistan. City of Jacobabad. 10 Deaths during attack on pricession of Sjiit moslims. They celebrated Asjoera, the death of imam Hoessein in 680.

23Oktober 2015, NRC. Saint Emilion, France, 42 old aged travellers found the death, caused by a bus-truck accident. 24 Oktober 2015, de Volkskrant. France, Europe, 43 persons crashed during a collision of a bus and a truck.

To be continued . . .