,,Go kill more trees”, my friend Edial cheerfully replied when I told him about my upcoming blog book. ,,While you’re writing articles for the newspaper, don’t forget your personal blog”, Erwin Blom warned me on Twitter. Are you a journalist or a blogger, people ask me frequently. Hell, I don’t know guys. I just publish. And for every story, I pick the most suitable medium.
Continue reading Pick your medium. Every day
It’s the end of the year. The week everybody makes list. I figured it would be a good idea to make a list of my personal goals for 2010. So I can live up to them. So that I have to live up to them (since you’ve read them). My goals: a number one hit, more in-depth reporting, writing a book, Overheard in Amsterdam, and replacing all advertising on Times Square with art. Yeah, some of the ideas are ridiculous.
Continue reading My five goals for 2010
It was 2002, I was in the fourth year of high school. Every Friday night I went to the movie store of my hometown. Mobster movies were my thing. The Godfather trilogy was only 5 euros per episode. I bought all the VHS tapes. Same goes for The Last Don, Blow and Donnie Brasco. I enjoyed all those movies and was proud of my collection.
Yet at the same time…
Continue reading Should I give my book collection away?
Hunter S Thompson is a hero of many. The writer of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and the most honest book about the Hell’s Angels appeals to thousands of young journalists. He invented Gonzo Journalism. A style in which the writer became the story. ,,Structure was thrown out of the window, replaced by a shambolic, yet magical, rollercoaster ride of artless hedonism,” as the BBC puts it. How can we reinvent this rocking genre in a digital age?
Continue reading Reinventing Gonzo Journalism in a digital age Part 1
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Gapingvoid lands a book deal…
It’s been twenty years when Hugh McLeod started drawing his “squiggly” cartoons and a decade when he decided to draw them on the back of business cards. It was the consequence of a “creative bug” he had. For him, this bug led to a lot of great work and…
Continue reading Article of the Day: Sexy and cash jobs, lessons from a gifted cartoonist
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