The Parks of Amsterdam – Amsterdamse Bos (The Amsterdam Forest)

The Amsterdam Forest is huge!  It’s 2500 acres, which is about three times the size of Central Park in New York City.  The place is famous for all it has to offer.  There’s an area called De Bosbaan, which is a rowing course, for people who do recreational and competitive rowing.  There are ponds for swimming, a man-made beach, camping…

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Fred Stein Photography Exhibit: Dresden, Paris, New York – at The Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam

Amsterdam is a great museum city, and going to the different museums is by far my favorite activity when I’m there.  I like photography, and I always make it my business to stop by the two photography museums, FOAM and Huis Marseille.  If I’m lucky, some of the other museums will also have a photography exhibit.  Well, I got majorly…

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The Parks of Amsterdam – Sarphatipark

Sarphatipark – Named after the Jewish doctor and philanthropist Samuel Sarphati, this small park is a nice chunk of green space right in the middle of the trendy neighborhood, De Pijp.   Not surprisingly, this is one of the first parks I explored when I visited Amsterdam, because it’s in De Pijp.  This neighborhood is just south of the Centrum.  It’s…

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"Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk and Post-Punk Graphic Design" by Andrew Krivine

Quick Book Review: “Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk and Post-Punk Graphic Design” by Andrew Krivine

This is a big, heavy coffee-table book about the graphic design of the punk music scene.  The author, an American, became obsessed with UK punk in 1977. (I did, too, so I can relate.) He found the graphic design of punk records, posters, buttons, and fliers fascinating, and he began collecting them.  His collection grew to massive proportions.  This book…

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World Press Photo Exhibit at the New Church, Amsterdam, 2021

World Press Photo Exhibit at the New Church, Amsterdam, 2021

I spent the month of August, 2021, in Amsterdam, and I got very lucky with the museum exhibits.  I love photography, and I always visit FOAM and Huis Marseille, the two photography museums in Amsterdam.  This time, in addition to these two museums, I got to see two great photography exhibits at other museums – the Fred Stein exhibit at…

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"Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix" by Charles R. Cross

Quick Book Review: “Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix” by Charles R. Cross

This book tells the story of Hendrix’s rise to fame as the best and most creative guitarist in rock, taking us through his childhood of poverty, hunger, and severe neglect, his enlisting in the army, his fascination with music, and his ultimate mastery of the instrument.  The book goes into his troubled family life, the girlfriends and other women in…

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