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Black Albert
5/5. Don’t let the heavy alcohol content put you off: Black Albert is nothing less than a sour revelation.
- Originally published: 20 Nov 2011 in Beer
Dopeology
At last! My personal project to develop a web application on doping in pro cycling is finally released after a year’s hard work.
- Originally published: 12 Oct 2011 in Information design
Amburon
4/5. A new blonde beer from Tongeren with grassy flavours and a nice amount of bitterness.
- Originally published: 8 Oct 2011 in Beer
Louvre
Queues and queue jumpers. Crowds and crowded spaces. There are great art galleries and there’s the Louvre.
- Originally published: 6 Oct 2011 in Museums & Galleries
Farewell, Jamila!
Dining out at lunchtime during the working week is a rare treat. This time we say goodbye to a colleague.
- Originally published: 6 Oct 2011 in Personalia
Pink Martini
Anything goes and anything but typical: the eclectic curiosity shop of Pink Martini in Paris.
- Originally published: 5 Oct 2011 in Concerts
Sainte-Chapelle
Now almost hidden on the Île de la Cité, the Sainte-Chapelle is a masterpiece of French Gothic architecture.
- Originally published: 4 Oct 2011 in Architecture
Istanbul
A crazy city of 13m people where East meets West, Istanbul has always been a vast, confusing metropolis. Some things never change!
- Originally published: 25 Sep 2011 in Middle East
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
Children of Men
Dark, desperate and dystopic. All in all, a miserably good film.
- Originally published: 21 Feb 2007 in Film
No Country For Old Men
The Coen Brothers are back on form with this grim, sharply written movie featuring an terrifyingly unfathomable Javier Bardem.
- Originally published: 27 Jan 2008 in Film
The Good Shepherd
This dry history of a mystery man’s motivations hides its intelligence rather too well.
- Originally published: 16 Oct 2007 in Film
Borat
It’s sexy time: Sacha Baron Cohen’s bumbling reporter bursts onto the big screen.
- Originally published: 25 Mar 2007 in Film
Caye Caulker
Island life: Caye Caulker’s motto is ‘go slow’ and here visitors learn to take the rough with the smooth.
- Originally published: 29 Dec 2011 in Belize
Who you gonna call?
Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
Shameless self-promotion
Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.