About this blog
This is my personal blog which I started in 2003. At first it was called Communigations, a variation on Communicative Investigations. The blog transformed itself more into a personal investigation than being a blog on communication and therefore needed a new name.As a fencer, the name of this blog reflects how I write my thoughts into coherent stories, fence them off from all the sidepaths and rapidly go back and forth, covering various topics that interest me.
Read more about me or about my work at elminewijnia.eu
Fresh from Flickr
Interview with James for In Full Flow
So in between all the other work, I’m still interviewing people for In Full Flow. Yesterday, I went to Amsterdam and interviewed James Burke. For the first time I used public transport and it was a challenge to pack all my gear. Watch me explain on video, yesterday morning, right before I left.
Packed for an inteview with James from Elmine Wijnia on Vimeo.
And I attached a tripod to the side. It was heavy!
I’ve met James through the Dutch Connection, a network of expats and locals living mainly in Amsterdam. Over the course of a couple of years the network transformed into a foundation of which Ton, James and I were co-founders. Sadly, the foundation went nowhere, but the connections are still there. Ton and James even worked together on project around open data for the Ministry for Internal Affairs
James is a warm and wonderful guy. He now works as an interaction designer based in Amsterdam, but he was brought up in England and went to university in America. Before his current work he was a cook and despite his current occupation, food is (still) his big passion.
It was a lovely interview and I hope to be able to publish snippets very soon.