Month: May 2009

  • The Yambol buscrash and my dream

    Yambol bus crashI should be working on my thesis right now, but I feel I would work more effectively once I get this out of my system.

    Yesterday there was a tragic accident as a 30 year old bus cut its way into a group of tourists in Southeastern Bulgaria. Brake failure. 16 people died. 4 are still in the hospital. For the specifics, see Martin’s blogpost. Now this of course made some impression on me, but not as much as what happened after I learned about the accident.

    I continued working for an hour, maybe two. I decided to take a nap. By now, the newsstory had already left my mind or at least gone to the background. While I took my nap, I had a strange dream. Just before I woke up, we were in a coach pulled by horses. There was one carriage in front of us with two women riding it which crashed into the shrubs in the roadside, but it didn’t look bad, so I didn’t think much of it. What stuck with me most, is what happened inside the coach I was in. We were about 6 people in there, two families – mine and another it seemed. A girl of about my age was on the phone with a friend of her and said: “Sofia is doooooood” (dood is Dutch for dead). She said it in a strange way and her parents commented on it, disapprovingly. Shortly after, I woke up.

    I immediately started thinking… Does this have something to do with the recent tremors and earthquakes here? Will something bad happen to the city of Sofia? But this was maybe 2% of how I felt, because for the other 98% I felt that Sofia was a person… So I thought of the bus accident again. I tried to see if there were any names of victims released yet. Not yet. I became convinced that something happened to Sofia – either in this bus accident, or in some other way. As I woke up this morning, there was a list of names of the casualties.  Including a Sofia.

    Creepy. On the one hand I’m a very logical person, on the other I do have a believe in the paranormal and spiritual. And I have been experiencing a lot of synchronicity lately… Which I haven’t really experienced in nearly a year (and I’m very happy it’s back – it’s a good sign in my eyes).

    Don’t know what to make of it. Given the increase in synchronicity, I have a feeling I’ll be able to put it into perspective through future experiences. For now… It will remain a mystery.

    😉

    How about you? Have you experienced such things before? What do you make of your own experiences?

  • Sofia’s People (Great Portrait Video!)

    Philip Bloom, a great filmmaker and director, visited Sofia last weekend. He decided to try out some equipment and went down the streets of Sofia with a video camera that looked like a photo camera. He smiled at people and tried to make them comfortable while taking their picture, but actually he was filming them. 🙂

    The result is beautiful! Have a look at the video below.

    Great job. It just shows that everyone is beautiful.

  • Prague, Greece & Bulgarian countryside! (Video!)

    As promised, here is the video of my recent travels in the last month. One month ago I was in Prague for a conference and some sightseeing, then went to Greece for a weekend a few weeks ago and I spent last weekend in the Bulgarian countryside! I’m having a great spring!

    Since I didn’t upload any pictures yet, I decided to 1 UP my promise and to deliver a video. 🙂

    Enjoy!

    Or go see it on YouTube or Vimeo.

  • A Few Updates & a Request

    How’s it going, everybody?

    Over the last weeks I’ve been in Prague, in Greece and have also been working hard on my thesis about the future of music distribution, which is due in about 2-3 weeks. This weekend I’m going to the Bulgarian countryside, which I’m very excited about, since I’ve lived in this country (off and on) for a year in total, but have never seen the core of Bulgaria. The countryside is very important to Bulgarians and I love seeing it, because you see some old practices that have left our western societies for decades.

    When I come back, I’ll make a video compilation of all the pictures we took in the last few weeks, in Prague, Greece and then the Bulgarian countryside. It will be great. I promise!

    And now a request

    I’m doing a survey for my thesis about the future of music distribution. It takes about 9-10 minutes to fill it in and as a reward I offer you 9 free songs of a great variety, one for every minute you spend on the survey. 😉

    So go fill it in: http://survey.futureofmusicdistribution.com/

    Do me a HUGE favour and spread this link around a bit, to music lovers or people that don’t care much for music… It doesn’t matter, I’m interested in all of them. Please consider blogging about it, putting it in your Facebook or Twitter status, etc. and give your friends some free music and help out a student in the name of music and education! 🙂

    Thanks a lot!

    Speak to you after the weekend 🙂

    Bas

  • Looking for artists to sponsor my future of music thesis survey with a song/track to reward the participants!

    Hi everyone!

    As you all know, I’m writing my thesis about the Future of Music Distribution. For this thesis I’m going to be doing a survey to add more authority to the findings of my thesis so far. As an incentive for people to fill out the survey, I figured it would be appropriate to offer them FREE MUSIC! 🙂

    The idea is as follows:

    After filling out the survey, the users will be shown the end page.

    I’ll get some cover art, plus 10 tracks. I’ll put the cover art at the top, then tracklist:

    1. Artist – Song (Download)
    2. You – Your song (Download)
    3. Artist – Song (Download)
    etc.

    The word download will link directly to the song, whereas I’ll make the artist name link directly to the profile page / website of the artists. It should be a good deal for everyone involved I believe 🙂

    I’ll also offer the whole thing in one ZIP file, and will include an information file with all the websites etc. I’ll also edit the artist websites into the ID3 info of the MP3’s.

    Will do my best to make this a good promotion opportunity for all those involved!

    Please get in touch with me asap, because I want to launch the survey within the next 36 hours!

    Thanks,
    Bas

    P.S. More travel stories soon!

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