Hans van Mierlo

2010-03-12

Breda, 18 augustus 1931 - Amsterdam, 11 maart 2010

A brief history of pretty much everything

2010-02-24

"This is the final piece for my AS art course, a flipbook made entirely out of biro pens. It's something like 2100 pages long, and about 50 jotter books. I'd say I worked on and off it for roughly 3 weeks." >>>

Europa Film Treasures

2010-01-28

Watch the treasures of our European cinematographic heritage online >>>

Movie Narrative Charts

2009-12-22

These charts show movie character interactions. The horizontal axis is time. The vertical grouping of the lines indicates which characters are together at a given time. >>>

A Penny Made of Gold

2009-12-09

One afternoon in March 2007, Jack Daws stepped up to a newsstand in Los Angeles International Airport with a handful of change, including a counterfeit penny made of 18-karat gold that Mr. Daws, a Seattle artist, had fashioned. He carefully put the counterfeit penny, dated 1970, down on the counter, counted out enough change to pay $11.90 for a Hustler magazine and left. He got a cup of coffee and sat down on a seat with the newsstand in sight, and watched for an hour wondering if any of the travelers had walked off with his golden penny and where it would end up at the end of the day...... He never expected to see it again, but he wondered where the penny ended up: stuck in a giant penny jar, melted down with other coins back at the United States Mint, lost in a street gutter. Meanwhile, one of his other counterfeit pennies sold for $1,000 to a collector through the Greg Kucera gallery. Then, Mr. Daws woke up one morning in October (2009) and listened to a voicemail left by a Brooklyn graphic designer named Jessica Reed. ?I think I found your gold penny,? the message said. >>>