Tag: brussels
Entropa: one vision of Europe
When artist David Černý was commissioned to produce a work marking the Czech EU presidency, the result was embarassing!
Club nasty: a night to remember (other nights)
Getting fleeced by crap nightclubs is a rite of passage as a youth, but it doesn’t have the same appeal at thirty.
Singing in the subway
Key intersections of urban life, subway stations are also highly controlled and sometimes cultural spaces.
Reflections on Relocation: Part 1
First of two articles, written five months after we arrived in Belgium, comparing the UK to our new home.
Reflections on Relocation: Part 2
The second of two articles looking back on relocation to Brussels five months on. This is my partner J’s perspective.
Lambchop
Though initially sceptical about what a live performance from these guys might be like, we were won over immediately!
Seun Kuti & Africa 80
After a deliciously long intro, the youngest Kuti races through a short but sweet set.
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
A timeless art collection that survived the times.
- Originally published: 28 Mar 2009 in Museums & Galleries
Bike and kayak in Lisbon and Arrábida
Lisbon is great to visit by bike – provided you start at the top of a hill. And when you’re done with the city, the beautiful coastline awaits!
- Originally published: 13 Jun 2011 in Europe
Shaun of the Dead
Genre parodies based on the smalltown nature of little England. It’s becoming a whole subgenre unto itself.
- Originally published: 8 Jul 2007 in Film
This is England
Hard-boiled sufferation: star turn from a young actor – the kid stays in the picture.
- Originally published: 13 May 2007 in Film
American Beauty
Watching one of 1999′s best movies, it’s easy to forget the seriousness of the issues being discussed here.
- Originally published: 12 Feb 2007 in Film
Stop ACTA!
A privately-negotiated international trade agreement that's anti-sharing, anti-privacy and anti-democratic.
Let's put a stop to ACTA.
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 as those guys. I'm a user experience consultant, expatriate, traveller, writer and pro cycling enthusiast.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert. I started my website in 2005 and I've been running it ever since.
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.