Tag: tragedy

Don’t Look Now

Has much in common with European cinema. Beautiful images and heavy symbolism but rather cold at its core.

Originally published: 19 Apr 2007 in Film

Behind the Sun (Abril Despedaçado)

Searing heat and boiling tempers in the Brazilian outback.

Originally published: 28 Mar 2007 in Film

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Totally wired for Belgium

Relocating to Brussels throws up lots of challenges such as how to evaluate Belgian supermarket chains and rewire UK plugs.

Celebrating bureaucracy?

Foot in mouth: another clumsy Commission communication.

  • Originally published: 5 Mar 2009 in Humour

A culture of sorrow

Orhan Pamuk describes a collective sorrow that permeates his native city but this cultural meme seems to have taken root everywhere.

  • Originally published: 14 Jan 2012 in Editorial

Trier

Germany’s oldest city, Trier was an important centre of the Roman Empire and sometime home to the Emperor himself.

  • Originally published: 14 Nov 2011 in Europe

The Wild Bunch

Peckinpah’s version of the American West lives hard, ages fast and dies violently.

  • Originally published: 2 Apr 2007 in Film

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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.

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Dopeology.org

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.

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