Our fellow passenger the hippie also posted some pictures online.
NL
Back in NL. Our Fiat was a fantastically comfortable and reliable companion. In 4000km we saw 4 other Cromas. So it’s definitely an individual piece of kit.
Sklep!
Yesterday we drove from Liepaja Latvia to Warsaw Poland in record time. We invented sklepping (more on that later). We had dinner in a place that looked like the inside of a sock. But the putanesca was fantastic. Outside the sklep noczy I was lipsynced by a drunk. Other than that Warsaw is growing on us.
Latvian logic
In Latvia you can steal a little and get into jail, or you steal millions and get into government
Dace Lea
The artist vs. the drunk
I offered a ride to the hotel with Jeter yesterday to a very friendly Finnish lady. Her colleague had tried all varieties of alcohol on tap with great succes and went along. Fortunately there was no puking on our nice leather backseat.
But this artist was supposed to give a presentation the next day. And he still had to work on it.
I’m looking at it right now. He’s shown us the website of his school, wikipedia page on new media art and the startscreen of a dvd. He uses some of Obama’s rhetoric cues. Especially: saying by not saying. “This is our website, but I won’t talk about that. You can look it up yourself. Like over here, there’s a blog that works very well… yada yada yada”.
I’m guessing it’s gonna be a long ride.
Not being serious, taken very seriously.
Just finished my presentation about the Academy of Pop Culture at the Liepaja University. Note to self: we deliver hireable students, but not by having them fit a mold, but by being fit for purpose: having a network, being able to analyse etc. Get this point across!
Jeter wins
Our Jeter (the Fiat that says JTR-2 on the license plate) is performing very well. But his big brother just won the world series.
Last day in Liepaja
Yesterday Jeter took us to Karosta as I wrote and the hippie left the crew. He went back to HQ by plane. He’ll be replaced by student Marjan. She still needs a nickname, cause the ones we came up with are not too polite.
We presented our movie yesterday to critical acclaim. Or to a polite applause, it’s hard to tell when you’re outside your own country and culture.
That night we partied like it was 1999 (don’t we need a year that’s still to come? People didn’t party that hard in 1999. There’s no such thing as a fin de siecle feeling anymore. People were just sitting in their basements waiting for ATM’s to go out of order and planes fall out of the sky). I was challenged by Dace Lea to dance on stage. So for about a minute we were cheered on and the dj put the stage lights on. Fortunately the security chased us off.
Now I’m sitting in the newly opened building of the Liepaja University with an assortment of international people from different art academies and media institutes.
