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Yesterday, the opening ceremony of the 21st olympic winter games took place. Who knows me knows that I am against quite a lot of things. Olympic games are one of these. My point is that the Olympic idea of overcoming national egoisms and of contributing to peace and international agreement became secondary. One should stop the holding the games and make a break for another 1500 years. Of course this is not possible, because they involve a lot of business. But this is already part of the problem: it is all about money, power, and doping.

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As I reported some time ago, people in China do not seem to have access to my personal homepage. Recently, I again sent someone in China the link to a pdf in my domain and he replied that he could not open it. What can I do? What did I do?!

Ok, this film might be stupid, but in the beginning of the trailer one can see an exibition by Cai Guo-Qiang in the Guggenheim Museum in New York. In the centre of the building a set of 'exploding' cars were installed. I want to believe.

Last weekend I was in Copenhagen where I visited friends before proceeding to a conference. Saturday we went to Overdrevet
where a concert with three bands took place, namely IMMOLATE (swe), SOREAZIS (dk), and SKIND & BEN (dk). We missed the first band but heard the last songs of immolate who played extremely loudly. In summary, the place, which seems to be a follower of Ungdomshuset, is nice and the people are friendly. So we had a good evening, stayed long, and had some kind of hangover the next day.

During my time in NYC I frequently went to do my laundry in a store around the corner from where I lived. I did not have a television set but the TV in the laundry thing was always on, many times any Spanish channel. However, in the weather section of the news, they from time to time announced the coldest day of the year and made a big thing out of it. I found that funny – because one day has to be the coldest day of the year.

Christian solved the problem about the Wheat Field with Cypresses:

"Writing to his brother Theo from the asylum in Saint-Rémy in early July 1889, Van Gogh described his latest work in the series he had begun in June: "I have a canvas of cypresses with some ears of wheat, some poppies, a blue sky like a piece of Scotch plaid; the former painted with a thick impasto . . . and the wheat field in the sun, which represents the extreme heat, very thick too." Van Gogh regarded this sun-drenched landscape as one of his "best" summer canvases, and he reproduced the composition in a reed pen drawing (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam) and in two variants in oil paint (National Gallery, London, and private collection)." (www.metmuseum.org)

The painting is by Vincent van Gogh.
According to wikipedia it can be found in the National Gallery London. However, I am 100% sure that I took this picture in a museum in New York (but I forgot which, and when).

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: Odalisque à l’esclave