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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
Category Archives: work
Something to learn: animation
I have this idea in my mind, and it’s waiting to get out into the world, but before it can land its feet on solid ground I have to learn stuff about animation. I’ve been experimenting with stop-motion videos before (flogging the horse, Happy Easter, SHiFT-DIY) and I want to take it a step further: [...]
How to Unconference your Birthday – The Book
[UPDATE: download it now, read it and share your thoughts on Facebook]
Last year, when Ton turned 40, we organized an unconference to celebrate (of course we also had a bbq party!), and we invited people from our various circles. The topic was ‘Working on Stuff that Matters‘, ‘WSTM’. Some 40 people participated in the unconference, [...]
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Thanks Marijke, thanks Klaas.
Last week we said farewell to a friend. Marijke died after fighting cancer for two years.
Her husband Klaas and Ton were best friends at university. They were roommates for several years and stayed in touch afterwards. When someone you know well for such a long time (over 20 years for Ton, 12 years since I [...]
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Starting a new project
Charging cameras from Elmine Wijnia on Vimeo.
And it’s all about handing out 16 camera’s to employees who can start filming as soon as I’ve charged them.
How to get totally energized…
…or how to work your ass off?
Answer:
State to an organizer of an event that you’re willing to record and produce movies during that 5-day event and get the job.
Last week my municipality held an Open Innovation Festival in Enschede. It was held previously in Amsterdam and one person in particular thought it was such a [...]
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Stuff that Matters to Me and You
Tomorrow, Ton and I will host a group of 40 people in our home for a birthday unconference to celebrate Ton’s 40th. The theme Ton chose is “Working on stuff that matters.”
It’s a theme that we both discussed for a longer time now. We feel the deep need to work on projects that have a [...]
Watch my FabLab documentary now!
A ‘How I did it’ series of blogposts will follow, but for now I just want to show you what I’ve been passionately creating over the past few weeks. Take your time for this 14 minutes piece of work and enjoy watching it.
A Shift: a documentary on FabLab in The Netherlands. from Elmine Wijnia on [...]
Weekend experiment