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last.fm
Since 24 August 2005 i use last.fm to build up a list of most of the music i listen to. In spotify you can add the songs you listen to. My username in last.fm is ellenlfs. Nowadays i mainly use ellenpronk, but i do still like ellenlfs.
My overview page in last.fm is https://www.last.fm/user/ellenlfs. I did have many periods in which i didn’t listen that much to music. 2015 is my busiest year. In total i have 44.064 scrobbles from 1.854 artists until now.
This comes close to my overall taste, but there are differences. My favourite album of all time is Cupid & Psyche ’85 from Scritti Politti, but i’m not listening to this album as much as i used to. The previous forty years of my music listening is not in this account. Still, twelve years is a long time. I do enjoy seeing my listening habits displayed like this.
Listening History
Number of tracks scrobbled each year.
| Year | Number of scrobbles |
|---|---|
| 2005 | 827 |
| 2006 | 3653 |
| 2007 | 1744 |
| 2008 | 508 |
| 2009 | 1365 |
| 2010 | 2364 |
| 2011 | 2920 |
| 2012 | 3643 |
| 2013 | 1626 |
| 2014 | 5791 |
| 2015 | 13949 |
| 2016 | 2797 |
| 2017 | 2868 |
My top artists
1 – Scritti Politti – 2,013
2 – Talking Heads – 1,004
3 – Steely Dan – 905
4 – Pet Shop Boys – 860
5 – Sufjan Stevens – 822
6 – Wire – 816
7 – David Bowie – 682
8 – Michael Jackson – 570
9 – Beastie Boys – 544
10 – The Beatles – 523
My top albums
1 – Steely Dan — Can’t Buy A Thrill – 440
2 – Ed Lincoln – Ed Lincoln – 391
3 – Janelle Monáe — The ArchAndroid – 378
4 – Wire — Pink Flag – 297
5 – Tracey Thorn — A Distant Shore – 274
6 – Scritti Politti — White Bread Black Beer – 254
7 – Scritti Politti — Songs To Remember – 235
8 – Michael Jackson — Thriller – 227
9 – David Bowie — The Singles Collection – 220
10 – Nick Drake — Five Leaves Left – 217
My top tracks
1 – Britney Spears — Sometimes – 136
2 – Scritti Politti — Road to No Regret – 132
3 – Tracey Thorn — Too Happy – 123
4 – Scritti Politti — Absolute – 120
5 – Janelle Monáe — Tightrope (feat. Big Boi) – 115
6 – Alessi Brothers — Oh Lori – 114
7 – Steely Dan — Deacon Blues – 113
8 – Wire — Mannequin – 112
9 – Ed Lincoln — (O Nome Dele É) Waldemar – 111
10 – 10cc — I’m Not in Love – 110
The latest songs i have been listening too (Monday 25 September 22:04)
CeeLo Green — Fuck You — 6 hours ago
Johnny Cash — Ring of Fire — 6 hours ago
The Pop Group — Snowgirl — 6 hours ago
The Beatles — She Loves You – Mono / Remastered 2009 — 6 hours ago
Kurtis Blow — The Breaks — 6 hours ago
Ed Lincoln — Balansamba Nº1 — 6 hours ago
Janet Jackson — Let’s Wait Awhile — 7 hours ago
Jacques Brel — Ne me quitte pas — 7 hours ago
Carly Rae Jepsen — Call Me Maybe — 7 hours ago
Buffy the Vampire Slayer — Walk Through the Fire — 7 hours ago
Contact form
A few days ago i decided to add a contact form to this website. A simple service. Today i did a quick look around for this. I picked one which was used many times. I don’t want to add any extra fields, so the basic one is enough for me.
I will add this form to the contact page.
So if there is anything on your mind you want to ask me or to tell me, please use the contact form below. I will never use your email for any commercial use.
Contact form
Comments or questions are welcome.
The long read
- How economics became a religion
- Naomi Klein: how power profits from disaster
- ‘A reckoning for our species’: the philosopher prophet of the Anthropocene
- Total recall: the people who never forget
- Into the woods: how one man survived alone in the wilderness for 27 years
- Fear of the light: why we need darkness
- Liquid assets: how the business of bottled water went mad
- Us v Them: the birth of populism
- How technology disrupted the truth
- The sugar conspiracy
- No diet, no detox: how to relearn the art of eating
- The deviousness of dementia
- Damien Hirst: ‘What have I done? I’ve created a monster’
- How friendship became a tool of the powerful
- Yanis Varoufakis: How I became an erratic Marxist
- The western model is broken
- The truth about evil
- The future of loneliness
- ‘Pics or it didn’t happen’ – the mantra of the Instagram era
My old links
I said it last week on the Superbad post, i will go through my old links and see which ones still work. Yay!
I did do a search for any link which had stopped working. Some have moved. Some have scripts which don’t work anymore. I don’t care. I’m happy with any little thread i found. I’m also a bit sad that so many websites have disappeared. 🙁
A newer links page on lfs.nl is still online.
- Beliefs
- ASCII World (http://www.io360.com/v2/yo/asciiworld/)
- Cybordelics
- Open source
- The trap collection (http://venus.aros.net/~jseeley/trapcol2.html)
- Asynchronous vs. synchronous update (http://www.shef.ac.uk/psychology/gurney/notes/l5/subsection3_3_2.html#SECTION0003200000000000000)| Difference Between Synchronous and Asynchronous | Asynchronous vs. synchronous update
- The first name of ‘Ellen’
- Personality Test (http://www.users.interport.net/~zang/personality.html)
- Symbol © (http://www.symbols.com/encyclopedia/20/2015.html)
- rec.games.roguelike.angband
- Heart (http://www.engl.virginia.edu/~enec981/dictionary/termpages/heart.html)
- Archeology of the Frivolous
- The finger (http://www.thefinger.com/)| Other link, not sure about this one
- Handy Board Assembly Tips (http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/projects/handy-board/hbassem/assemtip.html)
- Quilt Blocks Page
- Cybertower (http://www.artun.ee/cybertower/)
- r a z o r f i s h | This still works, no idea if this is the right stuff though – still fun
- Losing an Architect of Change (http://www.princeton.edu/~progrev/96-97/feb97bm.html)
- net-art.org
- The Adventures of the Boy with Immovable Hair! (http://members.aol.com/tbwih/01.htm) | And just to leave you scratching your head, our final link is the Adventures of the Boy With Immovable Hair (http://members.aol.com/tbwih/contents.htm), a series of comic strips drawn entirely in ASCII. And you thought those semicolon winky faces on e-mail were irritating. (Source: http://articles.latimes.com/2001/jan/04/news/tt-11160)
- Shift
- Else’s Wepdisein (http://www.redaex.de/privhome/elses-wepseidden/)
- Mr Ping vs Mr Pong! (http://www.acne.se/netbaby/pingpong/index.html)
- T A G R A P H I C (http://shinzo.com/6+/laBo/tagraph/hot_tab.html)
- 16 Color cinema
- Antimath (http://www.robotwisdom.com/ai/antimath.html) | robotwisdom | robotwisdom2
- Paper Folding Project (http://www.sgi.com/grafica/fold/page001.html)
- (e)co-operatief capitalisme (http://huizen.dds.nl/~poetpiet/)
- flip flop flyin’ (http://freespace.virgin.net/craig.robinson1/fhome.html)
- i.am/bald (http://i.am/bald)
- Niemandsverdriet
- Sub-Pixel Font Rendering Technology
Superbad
When i started to make things for showing online, i did have some friends who i met on the internet. Erika, her name then – it has changed now – was one of them. She maintained a website called the Archeology of the Frivolous. Even though she did stop maintaining it, the website is still online, i’m happy to say.
I remember when i started out and wrote to her about it, she wrote back giving me the url superbad.com. I immediately fell in love with that work, the moment i saw it. Ben Benjamin made the website in 1997. I’m really happy to see the website is still online right now.
Superbad is essentially a maze. Hopefully i have seen all the pages. I’m not sure though. It uses html and javascript and gifanimations amongst other things to show the contents. The names of the sections are ranging between silly and thought provoking.
Lotus, trunk, ape, muscle, puppet, reel, accident, green, bingo. Among other things.
Our current monitors are a bit too wide really for this website. I intentionally made the window smaller. A 1064 x 866. I did look for a window resizer, in which i could type the usual size of that time, a 1024 x 768. I didn’t find it, sorry to say. I had no intention for installing an addon for it.
Looking back at it, i see the influence this website had on my work. Especially homebase. Not the content, that is all mine. But the way of navigating through it is all influenced by superbad. I admit, this is the first time i can see it this clearly. It feels like this is so obvious. I almost feel embarrassed about this now.
All i can say now, please go through superbad.com. This is the work of someone so creative, so playful with the material he has. In looks, in code, in titles, in naming. I love it. Still.
Enjoy.
I do hope this site will be online for a very long time.






















Mailchimp
Today, i was thinking while i walked to the market. A short thought. The plugin i tried yesterday i didn’t like. I remembered seeing a Mailchimp plugin for WordPress. I do like Mailchimp. I just checked on their website, they started in 2001. I must have known about them since 2003, 2004? So yes, i picked Mailchimp. The free option goes up to 2000 subscribers, which seems plenty for me. And i do like the templates and the whole look of their website.
I still have a couple of days to work on a template and do some tests. I will write the email myself. Using photos from the website, write a short bit or copy paste a bit from the text. Depends on the post. I will send an email out once a week, each Friday. It will have links to the five posts i made that week. So the first one goes out this Friday, 5 May. I will pick out a template and fill the email up over the week.
I am curious. I don’t expect that many sign-ups, but i do hope a few people will.
If you do want to subscribe to my new newsletter, please fill in the form below. You do not need to fill in your name if you don’t want to.
[I have decided to stop this newsletter, a few months ago actually. With only the one subscriber it is really too much work. Sorry Veg!]
I will add this form to my footer. Hopefully sometime this week. I will make some other changes too.
Chronological
- February 9, 2015, 0:00 – Hello world!
- February 10, 2015, 6:00 – Eight years of silence
- February 11, 2015, 6:00 – Soup with vegetables and pancetta
- February 12, 2015, 6:00 – A stash of lipsticks
- February 13, 2015, 6:00 – My life in World of Warcraft
- February 16, 2015, 6:00 – A walk in Rotterdam: Noordereiland
- February 17, 2015, 6:00 – Meatballs and mash
- February 18, 2015, 6:00 – Homemade cleaners
- February 19, 2015, 6:00 – My nails
- February 20, 2015, 6:00 – My eight favourite album covers
- February 23, 2015, 6:00 – A walk in Rotterdam: the Euromast
- February 24, 2015, 6:00 – Walking the tightrope
- February 25, 2015, 6:00 – Market stall: De Meiden – Groenten en Fruit
- February 26, 2015, 6:00 – My birthday!
- February 27, 2015, 6:00 – Rhubarb crumble
- March 2, 2015, 6:00 – A lazy sunday
- March 3, 2015, 6:00 – A walk in Rotterdam: around the centre
- March 4, 2015, 6:00 – My work
- March 5, 2015, 6:00 – Noise
- March 6, 2015, 6:00 – Quiet
- March 9, 2015, 6:00 – A walk in Rotterdam: around North
- March 10, 2015, 6:00 – Skincare: face and body
- March 11, 2015, 6:00 – Contact
- March 12, 2015, 6:00 – A walk in Rotterdam: Van Brienenoordbrug
- March 13, 2015, 6:00 – Beet feta salad
- March 16, 2015, 6:00 – A busy week
- March 17, 2015, 6:00 – Sex
- March 18, 2015, 6:00 – The post after sex
- March 19, 2015, 6:00 – Computer life
- March 20, 2015, 6:00 – A walk in Rotterdam: Eiland van Brienenoord
- March 23, 2015, 6:00 – Home
- March 24, 2015, 6:00 – A walk in Vlaardingen
- March 25, 2015, 6:00 – Bright
- March 26, 2015, 6:00 – Busy busy busy
- March 27, 2015, 6:00 – Foundation
- March 30, 2015, 6:00 – Paella
- March 31, 2015, 6:00 – Help help, where is my bicyclerepairman!
- April 1, 2015, 6:00 – Watch
- April 2, 2015, 6:00 – Circles
- April 3, 2015, 6:00 – Matthäus-Passion
- April 6, 2015, 6:00 – Dance dance dance
- April 7, 2015, 6:00 – Deacon Blues
- April 8, 2015, 6:00 – Tick
- April 9, 2015, 6:00 – A walk from Rotterdam to Delft
- April 10, 2015, 6:00 – Reading blogs
- April 13, 2015, 6:00 – A walk from Scheveningen to Hoek van Holland
- April 14, 2015, 6:00 – Shop: Wijnkoperij Platenburg
- April 15, 2015, 6:00 – My futures
- April 16, 2015, 6:00 – A walk in Rotterdam: around the Kralingse Plas
- April 17, 2015, 6:00 – A tired day
- April 20, 2015, 6:00 – Ready
- April 21, 2015, 6:00 – A beautiful day
- April 22, 2015, 6:00 – Thinking
- April 23, 2015, 6:00 – Resting
- April 24, 2015, 6:00 – The world and the people
- April 27, 2015, 6:00 – Brushes
- April 28, 2015, 6:00 – A walk in Rotterdam: the Rottemeren
- April 29, 2015, 6:00 – White asparagus and potatoes with hollandaise sauce
- April 30, 2015, 6:00 – A woman
- May 1, 2015, 6:00 – A normal day
- May 4, 2015, 6:00 – Animation
- May 5, 2015, 6:00 – School diaries
- May 6, 2015, 6:00 – Pump it up
- May 7, 2015, 6:00 – i <3 you
- May 8, 2015, 6:00 – More about sex
- May 11, 2015, 6:00 – My father
- May 12, 2015, 6:00 – A walk in Rotterdam: the Kralingse Bos
- May 13, 2015, 6:00 – How to cook perfect food
- May 14, 2015, 6:00 – A walk from Amersfoort to Leusden
- May 15, 2015, 6:00 – A free day
- May 18, 2015, 6:00 – Read aloud: Repelsteeltje
- May 19, 2015, 6:00 – An eye make up
- May 20, 2015, 6:00 – New eyeshadows
- May 21, 2015, 6:00 – Read aloud: Snow White
- May 22, 2015, 6:00 – My diaries 1973 – 1987
- May 25, 2015, 6:00 – Frozen
- May 26, 2015, 6:00 – Draw
- May 27, 2015, 6:00 – Horizontal and vertical
- May 28, 2015, 6:00 – Centre
- May 29, 2015, 6:00 – Rectangles
- June 1, 2015, 6:00 – Memories
- June 2, 2015, 6:00 – Let it go
- June 3, 2015, 6:00 – Laksa and more
- June 4, 2015, 6:00 – A happy day
- June 5, 2015, 6:00 – Love
- June 8, 2015, 6:00 – Rotterdamse Oogst Markt
- June 9, 2015, 6:00 – A walk in Rotterdam: Heijplaat
- June 10, 2015, 6:00 – Killing me softly
- June 11, 2015, 6:00 – Cupid & Psyche 85
- June 12, 2015, 6:00 – My last diary page
- June 15, 2015, 6:00 – A nothing post
- June 16, 2015, 6:00 – My world map
- June 17, 2015, 6:00 – My world map, phase 2
- June 18, 2015, 6:00 – My world map, phase 3
- June 19, 2015, 6:00 – A walk in Rotterdam: Rotterdam-West
- June 22, 2015, 6:00 – Sometimes
- June 23, 2015, 6:00 – Teen books
- June 24, 2015, 6:00 – sleep
- June 25, 2015, 6:00 – My world map, phase 4
- June 26, 2015, 6:00 – Mieke and Muis
- June 29, 2015, 6:00 – Nights of passion
- June 30, 2015, 6:00 – Björk
- July 1, 2015, 6:00 – New haring
- July 2, 2015, 6:00 – My world map, phase 5
- July 3, 2015, 6:00 – The finger
- July 6, 2015, 6:00 – Top of the world
- July 7, 2015, 6:00 – Contactsheets
- July 8, 2015, 6:00 – Self portraits
- July 9, 2015, 6:00 – Science fiction
- July 10, 2015, 6:00 – Tired
- July 13, 2015, 6:00 – Old works and photos
- July 14, 2015, 6:00 – Sexposition
- July 15, 2015, 6:00 – Single squares
- July 16, 2015, 6:00 – My world map, phase 6
- July 17, 2015, 6:00 – A walk in Rotterdam: through the centre
- July 20, 2015, 6:00 – More contactsheets
- July 21, 2015, 6:00 – lfs.nl: my favourite ten – no eleven! presents
- July 22, 2015, 6:00 – A day’s break
- July 23, 2015, 6:00 – A walk in Rotterdam: around the Rottemeren
- July 24, 2015, 6:00 – Hi
- July 27, 2015, 6:00 – A walk from Hoek van Holland to Kijkduin
- July 28, 2015, 6:00 – Being boring
- July 29, 2015, 6:00 – Today i painted my nails
- July 30, 2015, 6:00 – Maintenance and an animation
- July 31, 2015, 6:00 – Labyrinth
- August 3, 2015, 6:00 – A walk in Rotterdam: Trompenburg Arboretum
- August 4, 2015, 6:00 – My world map, phase 7
- August 5, 2015, 6:00 – Joy of Baking
- August 6, 2015, 6:00 – Flower nails
- August 7, 2015, 6:00 – Coffee break
- August 10, 2015, 6:00 – That’s Entertainment
- August 11, 2015, 6:00 – Four stages
- August 12, 2015, 6:00 – A slightly longer musical history 2005 – 2015
- August 13, 2015, 6:00 – Female orgasm – a start
- August 14, 2015, 6:00 – Lazy
- August 17, 2015, 6:00 – What next?
- August 18, 2015, 6:00 – Psycho Killer
- August 19, 2015, 6:00 – My bookcase
- August 20, 2015, 6:00 – Tumblr
- August 21, 2015, 6:00 – Old drawings
- August 24, 2015, 6:00 – It’s a fine day
- August 25, 2015, 6:00 – Dark purple glittery nails
- August 26, 2015, 6:00 – Sleepy
- August 27, 2015, 6:00 – The truest artist is the most feigning
- August 28, 2015, 6:00 – Time out
- August 31, 2015, 6:00 – Plain Sailing
- September 1, 2015, 6:00 – Preserved peppers
- September 2, 2015, 6:00 – Important questions
- September 3, 2015, 6:00 – Fabeltje vertellen
- September 4, 2015, 6:00 – Lions after slumber
- September 7, 2015, 6:00 – Chocolate chip cookies
- September 8, 2015, 6:00 – Stern
- September 9, 2015, 6:00 – Dreams
- September 10, 2015, 6:00 – Rudolf George Escher 1912 – 1980
- September 11, 2015, 6:00 – Deacon Blues
- September 14, 2015, 6:00 – A walk in Rotterdam: the Kralingse Plas
- September 15, 2015, 6:00 – Never gonna give you up
- September 16, 2015, 6:00 – Me
- September 17, 2015, 6:00 – Sauerkraut and potato mash with bacon and smoked sausage
- September 18, 2015, 6:00 – Rotterdam – Around the house
- September 21, 2015, 6:00 – I don’t know how to love him
- September 22, 2015, 6:00 – A walk through the Kralingse Bos
- September 23, 2015, 6:00 – A Tuesday in Rotterdam
- September 24, 2015, 6:00 – Update
- September 25, 2015, 6:00 – Rotterdam – The Kralingse Bos
- September 28, 2015, 6:00 – Especially for you
- September 29, 2015, 6:00 – Écorce Sanguine
- September 30, 2015, 6:00 – Money
- October 1, 2015, 6:00 – Day
- October 2, 2015, 6:00 – My house
- October 5, 2015, 6:00 – A walk along the beach
- October 6, 2015, 6:00 – A day of work
- October 7, 2015, 6:00 – The Greatest Love of All
- October 8, 2015, 6:00 – The Beach
- October 9, 2015, 6:00 – Quiet and loud
- October 12, 2015, 6:00 – A Sunday walk
- October 13, 2015, 6:00 – Searching for Mr Right
- October 14, 2015, 6:00 – Exfoliant
- October 15, 2015, 6:00 – Terribly happy
- October 16, 2015, 6:00 – Rotterdam – Bridges and buildings
- October 19, 2015, 6:00 – French Onion Soup
- October 20, 2015, 6:00 – Space Oddity
- October 21, 2015, 6:00 – The market
- October 22, 2015, 6:00 – Rotterdam – The People
- October 23, 2015, 6:00 – Today
- October 26, 2015, 6:00 – To Leusden
- October 27, 2015, 6:00 – Everybody Wants to Rule the World
- October 28, 2015, 6:00 – Making a selfie
- October 29, 2015, 6:00 – My red dress
- October 30, 2015, 6:00 – Selfie
- November 2, 2015, 6:00 – Saving the world
- November 3, 2015, 6:00 – Next
- November 4, 2015, 6:00 – Please
- November 5, 2015, 6:00 – Call Me Maybe
- November 6, 2015, 6:00 – face
- November 9, 2015, 6:00 – Keep On Movin’
- November 10, 2015, 6:00 – Daydreaming
- November 11, 2015, 6:00 – A lazy day
- November 12, 2015, 6:00 – My video clips
- November 13, 2015, 6:00 – FUCK
- November 16, 2015, 6:00 – Until You Come Back To Me
- November 17, 2015, 6:00 – Homemade toothpaste and deodorant
- November 18, 2015, 6:00 – Storm
- November 19, 2015, 6:00 – Selfportrait
- November 20, 2015, 6:00 – Sunken Love
- November 23, 2015, 6:00 – Rapture
- November 24, 2015, 6:00 – Three girl rhumba
- November 25, 2015, 6:00 – Glory Box
- November 26, 2015, 6:00 – Close to You
- November 27, 2015, 6:00 – The Word Girl
- November 30, 2015, 6:00 – Miso soup
- December 1, 2015, 6:00 – Video: Searching for mr Right
- December 2, 2015, 6:00 – An ordinary day
- December 3, 2015, 6:00 – Drawings
- December 4, 2015, 6:00 – Border back forward center quiet
- December 7, 2015, 6:00 – Thinking
- December 8, 2015, 6:00 – Infinite Jest
- December 9, 2015, 6:00 – Infinite Jest: Start Up
- December 10, 2015, 6:00 – A meeting, bread, eggs, butter and some time to unwind.
- December 11, 2015, 6:00 – Two thousand fifteen
- December 14, 2015, 6:00 – Infinite Jest: Page 3 – 31
- December 15, 2015, 6:00 – A lovely day
- December 16, 2015, 6:00 – Mayonnaise
- December 17, 2015, 6:00 – Watching tv
- December 18, 2015, 6:00 – The final bit of 2015
- December 21, 2015, 6:00 – Xmas
- December 22, 2015, 6:00 – Raiders of the Lost Ark
- December 23, 2015, 6:00 – Vanilla Ice Cream and Salty Caramel Sauce
- December 24, 2015, 6:00 – The best of 2015
- December 25, 2015, 6:00 – The world is terrible
- January 4, 2016, 6:00 – Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- January 5, 2016, 6:00 – A walk in Rotterdam: the Kralingse Bos
- January 6, 2016, 6:00 – My Favourite Things
- January 7, 2016, 6:00 – Bread
- January 8, 2016, 6:00 – David Foster Wallace
- January 11, 2016, 6:00 – The end of a beautiful dvd collection
- January 12, 2016, 6:00 – David Bowie, 8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016
- January 13, 2016, 6:00 – Erwtensoep, or Split Pea Soup
- January 14, 2016, 6:00 – A new selfie
- January 15, 2016, 6:00 – The Compensation
- January 18, 2016, 6:00 – London
- January 19, 2016, 6:00 – Sheet
- January 20, 2016, 6:00 – Willin’
- January 21, 2016, 6:00 – Television 2016-01-20 18.42.03 2016-01-20 19.12.30
- January 22, 2016, 6:00 – square circle
- January 25, 2016, 6:00 – A present
- January 26, 2016, 6:00 – A walk in Rotterdam: the Park
- January 27, 2016, 6:00 – Steak and chips
- January 28, 2016, 6:00 – Quiet, again
- January 29, 2016, 6:00 – Revolution
- February 1, 2016, 6:00 – Hello Goodbye
- February 2, 2016, 6:00 – An in between day
- February 3, 2016, 6:00 – Reading
- February 4, 2016, 6:00 – A trip to London
- February 5, 2016, 6:00 – My ten favourite 2015 posts
- February 8, 2016, 6:00 – Placeholder
- February 9, 2016, 6:00 – London
- February 10, 2016, 6:00 – Scritti Politti – Roundhouse, London – 5 February 2016
- February 11, 2016, 6:00 – A slightly sick day
- February 12, 2016, 6:00 – Not a sick day, but an off key one, ooh man
- February 15, 2016, 6:00 – Homemade Chicken Soup
- February 16, 2016, 6:00 – A quiet day
- February 17, 2016, 6:00 – My world map, phase 8
- February 18, 2016, 6:00 – Peaceful
- February 19, 2016, 6:00 – Museum Boijmans
- February 22, 2016, 6:00 – Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
- February 23, 2016, 6:00 – Rainbow
- February 24, 2016, 6:00 – Map
- February 25, 2016, 6:00 – Quick drawing
- February 26, 2016, 6:00 – Congratulations!
- February 29, 2016, 6:00 – Couleur
- March 1, 2016, 6:00 – A walk to the Markthal
- March 2, 2016, 6:00 – Blurry maze
- March 3, 2016, 6:00 – A day with my mum
- March 4, 2016, 6:00 – Let’s Wait Awhile
- March 7, 2016, 6:00 – Plant with window sill
- March 8, 2016, 6:00 – Gradient
- March 9, 2016, 6:00 – A diary day
- March 10, 2016, 6:00 – Gradient, drawn with polar coordinates
- March 11, 2016, 6:00 – A walk in Rotterdam: around the Plas
- March 14, 2016, 6:00 – Bowl and jug
- March 15, 2016, 6:00 – A work day
- March 16, 2016, 6:00 – Simple geometric shapes
- March 17, 2016, 6:00 – Soda bread
- March 18, 2016, 6:00 – A walk in Rotterdam: the Park and along the Nieuwe Maas
- March 21, 2016, 6:00 – I Would Stay
- March 22, 2016, 6:00 – Lullaby
- March 23, 2016, 6:00 – Johannes Vermeer
- March 24, 2016, 6:00 – Asleep
- March 25, 2016, 6:00 – Rotterdam CS
- March 28, 2016, 6:00 – Mixed thoughts
- March 29, 2016, 6:00 – Looking out
- March 30, 2016, 6:00 – DIY: Fermenting your own sauerkraut
- March 31, 2016, 6:00 – Rereading
- April 1, 2016, 6:00 – Paul Cézanne
- April 4, 2016, 6:00 – Gado gado
- April 5, 2016, 6:00 – The referendum
- April 6, 2016, 6:00 – A happy day again
- April 7, 2016, 6:00 – La Grande Parade
- April 8, 2016, 6:00 – Black and white
- April 11, 2016, 6:00 – Laat Me Niet Alleen
- April 12, 2016, 6:00 – My day
- April 13, 2016, 6:00 – View
- April 14, 2016, 6:00 – Carrot cake
- April 15, 2016, 6:00 – Art
- April 18, 2016, 6:00 – I’m Not In Love
- April 19, 2016, 6:00 – Hummus and pita bread
- April 20, 2016, 6:00 – The most expensive jewelry in the world
- April 21, 2016, 6:00 – Staatsieportretten
- April 22, 2016, 6:00 – Prince, 7 June 1958 – 21 April 2016
- April 25, 2016, 6:00 – De Vredestuin
- April 26, 2016, 6:00 – Monday, 25 April 2016
- April 27, 2016, 6:00 – The worth of the world
- April 28, 2016, 6:00 – Paul van Ostaijen, 22 February 1896 – 18 March 1928
- April 29, 2016, 6:00 – Brainpickings
- May 2, 2016, 6:00 – Falling in love
- May 3, 2016, 6:00 – Under Pressure
- May 4, 2016, 6:00 – An average day
- May 5, 2016, 6:00 – School reports
- May 6, 2016, 6:00 – Liberation Day
- May 9, 2016, 6:00 – A beautiful Sunday
- May 10, 2016, 6:00 – Spring
- May 11, 2016, 6:00 – My dream life
- May 12, 2016, 6:00 – Ratatouille
- May 13, 2016, 6:00 – Life
- May 16, 2016, 6:00 – Whitsunday
- May 17, 2016, 6:00 – Koopgoot
- May 18, 2016, 6:00 – Trust
- May 19, 2016, 6:00 – A new balcony railing
- May 20, 2016, 6:00 – On the roof
- May 23, 2016, 6:00 – Growing growing growing
- May 24, 2016, 6:00 – It’s Going To Take Some Time This Time
- May 25, 2016, 6:00 – Beautiful girls
- May 26, 2016, 6:00 – Solitude
- May 27, 2016, 6:00 – Work
- May 30, 2016, 6:00 – Not in love
- May 31, 2016, 6:00 – Monday
- June 1, 2016, 6:00 – The stairs
- June 2, 2016, 6:00 – Pizza
- June 3, 2016, 6:00 – My life, edited
- June 6, 2016, 6:00 – Weeds
- June 7, 2016, 6:00 – The Joyous
- June 8, 2016, 6:00 – A warm Tuesday
- June 9, 2016, 6:00 – Distance and precision
- June 10, 2016, 6:00 – Not sure, i think
- June 13, 2016, 6:00 – List
- June 14, 2016, 6:00 – Oh Lori
- June 15, 2016, 6:00 – Moon River
- June 16, 2016, 6:00 – Strawberry rhubarb milk
- June 17, 2016, 6:00 – Food
- June 20, 2016, 6:00 – The post after food
- June 21, 2016, 6:00 – Insects
- June 22, 2016, 6:00 – Raw pickled beetroot
- June 23, 2016, 6:00 – The garden, some shopping, some planning and tv
- June 24, 2016, 6:00 – Work for another day
- June 27, 2016, 6:00 – Flowers
- June 28, 2016, 6:00 – Ads
- June 29, 2016, 6:00 – About Ads
- June 30, 2016, 6:00 – Train
- July 1, 2016, 6:00 – Cloud
- July 4, 2016, 6:00 – The most beautiful dresses of all time
- July 5, 2016, 6:00 – Pinterest
- July 6, 2016, 6:00 – Patreon
- July 7, 2016, 6:00 – A working day
- July 8, 2016, 6:00 – Etsy
- July 11, 2016, 6:00 – Early harvest
- July 12, 2016, 6:00 – After dancing
- July 13, 2016, 6:00 – Perfection
- July 14, 2016, 6:00 – Video clips
- July 15, 2016, 6:00 – Alone
- July 18, 2016, 6:00 – Flower
- July 19, 2016, 6:00 – Golden shiny nails
- July 20, 2016, 6:00 – Doctor Wu
- July 21, 2016, 6:00 – Holiday
- July 22, 2016, 6:00 – The Peace Garden
- August 8, 2016, 6:00 – Summer
- August 9, 2016, 6:00 – Honey Honey
- August 10, 2016, 6:00 – Escape to the country
- August 11, 2016, 6:00 – Courgette cake
- August 12, 2016, 6:00 – The Nerdwriter
- August 15, 2016, 6:00 – Ellen’s Vlog – Introduction
- August 16, 2016, 6:00 – A walk in Rotterdam: the Essenburgsingel
- August 17, 2016, 6:00 – Shadow Play
- August 18, 2016, 6:00 – Going Through the Motions
- August 19, 2016, 6:00 – Vlog #1 Bridges
- August 22, 2016, 6:00 – Wedding dresses
- August 23, 2016, 6:00 – My 7″ singles
- August 24, 2016, 6:00 – A walk in Rotterdam: from Marconiplein to Dijkzigt
- August 25, 2016, 6:00 – Platinum
- August 26, 2016, 6:00 – Grace
- August 29, 2016, 6:00 – Spiders
- August 30, 2016, 6:00 – Made up
- August 31, 2016, 6:00 – A walk in Rotterdam: the Old North
- September 1, 2016, 6:00 – Walk
- September 2, 2016, 6:00 – Ellen, Architect of Change
- September 5, 2016, 6:00 – Rain
- September 6, 2016, 6:00 – Photo album
- September 7, 2016, 6:00 – A walk in Rotterdam: the Oude Noorden and Blijdorp
- September 8, 2016, 6:00 – Saving All My Love For You
- September 9, 2016, 6:00 – A day off
- September 12, 2016, 6:00 – Vlog #2 The garden
- September 13, 2016, 6:00 – Insane
- September 14, 2016, 6:00 – No Scrubs
- September 15, 2016, 6:00 – A present
- September 16, 2016, 6:00 – A walk in Rotterdam: Feijenoord
- September 19, 2016, 6:00 – Work on what has been spoiled
- September 20, 2016, 6:00 – Pet Shop Boys
- September 21, 2016, 6:00 – Left To My Own Devices
- September 22, 2016, 6:00 – Museum Voorlinden
- September 23, 2016, 6:00 – Vlog #3 The shops
- September 26, 2016, 6:00 – Harvest
- September 27, 2016, 6:00 – Talking Heads
- September 28, 2016, 6:00 – Once In a Lifetime
- September 29, 2016, 6:00 – A walk
- September 30, 2016, 6:00 – A post not made
- October 3, 2016, 6:00 – Save The World
- October 4, 2016, 6:00 – Steely Dan
- October 5, 2016, 6:00 – Fire In The Hole
- October 6, 2016, 6:00 – A walk in Dordrecht
- October 7, 2016, 6:00 – A short break
- October 10, 2016, 6:00 – Sunroot
- October 11, 2016, 6:00 – Scritti Politti
- October 12, 2016, 6:00 – A sorry post
- October 13, 2016, 6:00 – Marlene Dumas
- October 14, 2016, 6:00 – Wanderer
- October 17, 2016, 6:00 – Feather
- October 18, 2016, 6:00 – Not yet zero waste
- October 19, 2016, 6:00 – Waste
- October 20, 2016, 6:00 – Pancakes and soap
- October 21, 2016, 6:00 – A day in the life of Ellen
- October 24, 2016, 6:00 – Tomorrow
- October 25, 2016, 6:00 – My future
- October 26, 2016, 6:00 – Happy
- October 27, 2016, 6:00 – Tree
- October 28, 2016, 6:00 – A full day
- October 31, 2016, 6:00 – Splitting Apart
- November 1, 2016, 6:00 – Robin Hood
- November 2, 2016, 6:00 – tick….. tick….. tick…..
- November 3, 2016, 6:00 – Before the flood
- November 4, 2016, 6:00 – WAR!
- November 7, 2016, 6:00 – In the rain
- November 8, 2016, 6:00 – Fire
- November 9, 2016, 6:00 – Art from friends
- November 10, 2016, 6:00 – Rosemary
- November 11, 2016, 6:00 – Retreat
- November 14, 2016, 6:00 – A grey Sunday
- November 15, 2016, 6:00 – What you shall do
- November 16, 2016, 6:00 – Work work work
- November 17, 2016, 6:00 – Pinterest boards
- November 18, 2016, 6:00 – Thursday 17 November 2016
- November 21, 2016, 6:00 – Storm
- November 22, 2016, 6:00 – Keeping still
- November 23, 2016, 6:00 – The center
- November 24, 2016, 6:00 – Magic
- November 25, 2016, 6:00 – The paper
- November 28, 2016, 6:00 – Chocolate milk
- November 29, 2016, 6:00 – A walk in Rotterdam
- November 30, 2016, 6:00 – Rotterdam: current affairs
- December 1, 2016, 6:00 – Gardening in education
- December 2, 2016, 6:00 – Eroticism
- December 5, 2016, 6:00 – Hutspot
- December 6, 2016, 6:00 – Winter in Rotterdam
- December 7, 2016, 6:00 – Abundance
- December 8, 2016, 6:00 – The world of finance
- December 9, 2016, 6:00 – Chuck Close
- December 12, 2016, 6:00 – Weekend
- December 13, 2016, 6:00 – The city
- December 14, 2016, 6:00 – The man of my dreams
- December 15, 2016, 6:00 – A gardening meeting and a celeriac apple salad
- December 16, 2016, 6:00 – The man of my dreams, part 2
- December 19, 2016, 6:00 – Amazement
- December 20, 2016, 6:00 – Selfportraits
- December 21, 2016, 6:00 – A jumble of a day
- December 22, 2016, 6:00 – Merry
- December 23, 2016, 6:00 – Life is wonderful
- January 2, 2017, 6:00 – Presence
- January 3, 2017, 6:00 – My bag
- January 4, 2017, 6:00 – Ways of seeing
- January 5, 2017, 6:00 – De Bijenkorf
- January 6, 2017, 6:00 – Off the cliff
- January 9, 2017, 6:00 – A chat
- January 10, 2017, 6:00 – True Love
- January 11, 2017, 6:00 – On the other hand
- January 12, 2017, 6:00 – The weather
- January 13, 2017, 6:00 – Control
- January 16, 2017, 6:00 – Live boldly
- January 17, 2017, 6:00 – Lipstick
- January 18, 2017, 6:00 – A walk through the center
- January 19, 2017, 6:00 – A walk in the cold
- January 20, 2017, 6:00 – Giacometti
- January 23, 2017, 6:00 – In the garden
- January 24, 2017, 6:00 – Having a cold
- January 25, 2017, 6:00 – Deliverance
- January 26, 2017, 6:00 – Pause
- January 27, 2017, 6:00 – The other side: looking back
- January 30, 2017, 6:00 – Sunday afternoon
- January 31, 2017, 6:00 – After Completion
- February 1, 2017, 6:00 – Somebody to love
- February 2, 2017, 6:00 – Polar
- February 3, 2017, 6:00 – New things
- February 6, 2017, 6:00 – Family
- February 7, 2017, 6:00 – A walk over the bridges
- February 8, 2017, 6:00 – Tuesday
- February 9, 2017, 6:00 – Groceries
- February 10, 2017, 6:00 – I Ching
- February 13, 2017, 6:00 – The Philosophy Of The I Ching
- February 14, 2017, 6:00 – A quiet walk
- February 15, 2017, 6:00 – Doing small things
- February 16, 2017, 6:00 – The little things
- February 17, 2017, 6:00 – Thursday
- February 20, 2017, 6:00 – Reflection
- February 21, 2017, 6:00 – Leek and potato soup
- February 22, 2017, 6:00 – The Army
- February 23, 2017, 6:00 – Me
- February 24, 2017, 6:00 – Getting there
- February 27, 2017, 6:00 – My birthday’s vegan carrot cake
- February 28, 2017, 6:00 – Full of ideas
- March 1, 2017, 6:00 – A good day
- March 2, 2017, 6:00 – Crocuses
- March 3, 2017, 6:00 – Free Your Mind
- March 6, 2017, 6:00 – Rain
- March 7, 2017, 6:00 – Dutch elections
- March 8, 2017, 6:00 – Touched By An Angel
- March 9, 2017, 6:00 – Development
- March 10, 2017, 6:00 – Things to do
- March 13, 2017, 6:00 – Spring buds
- March 14, 2017, 6:00 – Eight years of silence, again
- March 15, 2017, 6:00 – Vote
- March 16, 2017, 6:00 – A lovely Wednesday
- March 17, 2017, 6:00 – Alien
- March 20, 2017, 6:00 – Mieke
- March 21, 2017, 6:00 – Bagagedrager
- March 22, 2017, 6:00 – Inward
- March 23, 2017, 6:00 – An early spring walk
- March 24, 2017, 6:00 – The Hit Factory
- March 27, 2017, 6:00 – A sunny Sunday’s walk
- March 28, 2017, 6:00 – Seeding
- March 29, 2017, 6:00 – Map
- March 30, 2017, 6:00 – Fire
- March 31, 2017, 6:00 – Down
- April 3, 2017, 6:00 – A rather normal day of working in the garden
- April 4, 2017, 6:00 – Saturday Kitchen
- April 5, 2017, 6:00 – Action
- April 6, 2017, 6:00 – The Value of Science
- April 7, 2017, 6:00 – Photoshopped
- April 10, 2017, 6:00 – A lovely garden day
- April 11, 2017, 6:00 – Questions
- April 12, 2017, 6:00 – Hotel California
- April 13, 2017, 6:00 – A walk along the Essenburgsingel
- April 14, 2017, 6:00 – Gilbert & George
- April 17, 2017, 6:00 – A full day in the garden
- April 18, 2017, 6:00 – A quiet in between day
- April 19, 2017, 6:00 – Falling
- April 20, 2017, 6:00 – Between Utrecht and Gouda
- April 21, 2017, 6:00 – Chess
- April 24, 2017, 6:00 – Sunday in the garden
- April 25, 2017, 6:00 – Make up
A jumble of a day
Tuesday is the day i usually go to the market. This Tuesday i had to empty my compost bucket at the garden first. I stayed for a bit longer and made some photos. One photo of the Christmas tree standing besides the greenhouse. No idea how it got there! With the one shiny garland nonchalantly hanging from it.
It is cold. A blue sky. Lovely.

I’m surprised by the amount of vegetables growing in the garden still. It is December! And still we seed plants, spinach, endive, lettuce, purslane, chervil, amsoy. I did ask about the cabbages. Last year though they were eaten by caterpillars. So they were not planted that much this year.
I do know we lost many veggies this year to rats, the corn, beets, carrots, tomatoes. All eaten by rats. So next year my attempt to fight the rats is planting catmint. I did read that rats don’t like catmint. Very different from cats, who absolutely adore it. So yes, i will put a plant on my balcony too!

I brought the empty compost bucket home and went straight on to the market. I still look at people’s faces a lot. Some react almost surprised when they see me looking at them, some don’t see me looking at all. Most wrapped up in their own world. Their own stuff. Their own smartphone. It is these choices we all make. What we think is important. What we want. What we buy. What we throw away.

Yesterday i helped a lady who was trying to get an old chair out of a large litter box standing outside. I helped her with pulling out the chair. Once i was done i looked into the box to see if there was more. I saw some empty plant buckets. I pulled one out. Broken. Another one. Also broken. Another one. Whole. A woman past by and said to me “you sure you want that? It is from a weed plantation“.
I don’t mind that. It did make me look a bit more careful at all the stuff in the litter box and yes, i could see it.

I wasn’t sure what post i would make today. I was thinking about my page on Patreon. Still standing empty there. It is not that you get something extra. It is simply a gesture of niceness, a gesture to see what i am trying to do here and giving me a thumbs up, so to speak.
Anyway, i will add the Patreon link to the footer of this website. Gotta try something, don’t i?