LUT WOUTERS AND WILLY VANDAMME
Can you imagine entering a psychiatric hospital on a voluntary base and being compulsory hospitalized, isolated and restrained several hours later. It happened to Lieve, the daughter of Willy Vandamme (76) and Lut Wouters (70). The young woman refused to hand over her cell phone to a nurse. Ten days later she had to appear […]
PIA KLEMP AND THE CREW OF THE M.V.LOUISE MICHELLE
She is 30 meters long and capable of over 28 knots, agile, wears pink and white, runs in a flat hierarchy and is a vegan. She flies a German flag and has a tattoo: a girl in a life vest holding a heart-shaped safety buoy. The M.V. Louise Michel. Smaller but considerably faster than other […]
WIM HOF
NoEgo – WeGo and The Opponent is Oneself Photo: Wim Hof with the Kenya Garden of Eden Project, July 2018, WHM-Blog Many people are bemoaning ‘the system’ we are living in today, many people are blaming that system for a lot of failures, many people are not happy with many things…. If there were a […]
OGANES ARUSTAMOV
We are talking Music here. A lot is being written about Improvisation these days, but music lessons in most professional schools for the classics do not give too much about it. Especially Russian schools and teachers rather focus on technical perfection and a rigid adherence to what is called the correct interpretation, thus defining a […]
AKI ALLAHGHOLI
Maybe to start with, my bachelors are in Business and IT (2001), which led me to work for IBM and Bank Sarasin, as well as managing BarRouge for 2 years. I had a very comfortable lifestyle with all the toys and dependencies that come along when being a forerunner for the capitalistic system. This led […]
SABRIYE TENBERKEN AND PAUL KRONENBERG
Sabriye Tenberken and Paul Kronenberg Kerala (South India), March 2020. As if it were the most normal thing on earth Sabriye Tenberken walks straight across the dining hall and through a small, narrow corridor into the kitchen. Without hesitating for a second. From time to time she snaps her fingers. Why? Sabriye is blind and […]
HENDRIK HAERS
Profile. Hendrik Haers was born in 1980 and grew up in Bassevelde, a small rural municipality in the north-west of Belgium. Very early he found his way in the biotope that his parents had planned for him: an old farm full of animals, plants, trees: canals full of frogs, flowers full of butterflies, … Life quietly […]
ANDRÉ WERMELINGER
André is of an inquisitive character. He wants to know what makes the difference, the difference between truth and fake and what it is what keeps things going – people, nature, the world at large. And yes, he is modest, very. But he cannot live without working to continuously improve what he recognized has gone […]
DIMI DUMORTIER
Dimi Dumortier (born 1966 in Brecht, Belgium) has many ‘hats’: the artist, the activist, the film maker, the social worker/psychologist, the musician and, yes, the actor. Well, he is that type of person, distanced enough from his ego, to see life as a big ‘act’ in itself….. Above all, I guess, he is an independent […]
MOHAMMED EL GHARANI
Gharani, born 1986 in Medina, and his story are not totally unknown; however, much less than it should be and worse, throughout the ten+ years since his release from unlawful, most cruel and utterly unjustified imprisonment in Guantanamo he is still being denied justice and an ordinary life – of which this Giraffe even does not complain: […]