Tagged: music

Album cover from 1976 by the fictitious symfonic rockband Bereshit

1. February 2026

10 Fake Album Covers By Bands That Unfortunately Don’t Exist

I often hear or read something—a word, a few words, or a sentence—that makes me think: this would make a great name for a band, or a good song title. Until recently, those ideas usually faded into oblivion. But since AI exists, it’s relatively easy to quickly conjure up a fake album cover for such an idea. I actually thought it was a rare quirk, this fantasizing about fictional bands and albums. But a simple search on Google reveals that entire communities exist around the topic of fake album covers. Well, then I can certainly write a blog post about… Read More

Machine heads for a guitar with baroque decorations

Photography / Various

1. December 2016

He says an old guitar is all he can afford.

Sometimes I’m amazed about how cheap some things are. Who would have thought, for example, that my old guitar could be repaired for less than ten euros? I’ve been playing this acoustic guitar for decades. It’s just an avarage instrument, nothing special, but that’s okay because I’m not a gifted guitarist either. At a campfire I can provide some rhytmic guidance to the singing, and that’s about it. It’s impossible to figure out how old the instrument is, but a few stickers on the back, with fading psychedelic colors and nineteen sixties typography, suggest that we might have the same… Read More

De auteur in een fictieve aflevering van zomergasten, met op de achtergrond een still uit de film over de Bijenkorf van Dudok, spiegelend in het water rond de caravan

Various

30. October 2016

A Summer Guest in October

Every year in July and August there’s a show, made by VPRO on Dutch television, called Zomergasten (Summer Guests). From eight till eleven PM one guest shows and talks about his favorite television clips. The guests can be anyone, from the prime minister or celebrities from the world of entertainment to scientists or designers who are largely unknown outside their own field of expertise. Whining about the program is a kind of national sport. The skills of the host, the selection of guests and the fragments they choose, the occasions in which everyone is enthousiastic are very rare. One would… Read More