One of my excellent students, Kiki Rompen (second year Dutch class), has made this drawing of me, for me. Very striking eh?! I promised to show her talent to the world, via this medium, as obviously I’m a proud teacher. We’re also going to present her creativity and that of others – students and colleagues […]
This is me keeping a promise made to two of my students. They might have forgotten for the time being, with it being our summer break now, but I haven’t so here goes. A few weeks ago these two students, Sanne and Silvana, chased me down in the hallway to tell me they were making […]
Following the former post about nice people contacting me, I thought the letter from the friendly stranger called Jasper deserved to have its own spot, in the art category even. Evidently, I’ve been a model without having to sit still for a long time! Below you see a picture I took of the two pictures […]
The other day, Bill (who’s doing the lead on our Hubble Voorwerp paper) e-mailed me a couple of pictures, which I thought you, my readers, would like to see too. With the first he wrote: “I went to the Texas Star Party to give a presentation on the Zooniverse, and was hoping to get […]
Amsterdam, Antwerp, London. And this year: Copenhagen, Milan and Singapore. And Heerlen. The Elephant Parade’s in Heerlen! Raising awareness (and money) for the Asian elephants in need of our help, in such a beautiful way. I’ve been a fan ever since I more or less accidentally bumped into the colourful collection of art elephants in […]
