bend your head to the left to get the best results .. i mean .. when they make you watch hundreds-of-millions-dollar-movie Avatar with sunglasses to get the best effect its not unfair for me to ask you to make some physical effort for this cost-close-to-nill-picture to get in best shape
i just found out this is Roy Schreuders art .. i like it !
wow .. a real Fake and a real Ives.One on the wall .. you dont see that every day .. getting ready for the museum guys?
i went to see the movie 2012 and it was very disturbing because in 2012 the Corcovado in Brasil will - among others - collapse .. the thought that Amsterdam has its own private Jesus resting on a Corcovado Like Construction (CLC) is very comforting, because as we all know Amsterdam is the favorite place of the Gods so this Jesus will survive 2012 without a scratch
Today was the last day of the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) and at 10 o'clock this morning we jumped into the theatre for the finale Best of IDFA. At six again we came out of Tuschinksi with six movies behind the eyeballs.
Six Weeks on child adaption in (katholic) Poland and the six weeks a mother with an unwanted baby got after birth before defenitely deciding she wants to keep or distance herself from the child
Last Train Home on labour migration in China and how a couple unsuccesfully tries to stay in touch with the children they left in the peasant village when they went to the city to work 16 years ago
Colony on how 'beehive collapsing' is supposed to threaten the future of agriculture in the US -- was not so dumb as it may sound
Iron Crows pretty rough inside view of workers in (big) ship dismantling in Bangladesh
Alberts Winter on a Danish kid that swaps to artschool in a winter his mother is treated with chemotherapy
The Cove on how former Flipper trainer Ric O'Barry fights dolphin killing in Taiji, Japan www.savejapandolphins.org/
and i bet .. when you can stand the scorn and take it her way you'll eat the best sandwiches in Amsterdam
this bridge is next to my house .. in Dutch een ezelsbrug is a proverb for a quick and steady way to memorize something .. and yes it would be adequate to say this bridge reminds me steady and quickly where i live
two young magicians performed their tricks on us at station Haarlem .. one of them could tranfsorm two purple spheres into a cube .. the other one let sigarettes and pencils dissapear when he put them in a box
my trick is that i can make their heads dissapear without them even knowing ha
this is one of the old squares of the Amsterdams Historisch Museum .. the restaurant David en Goliath put up some kind of box of metalglasswithwireshangingaroundeverywhere to protect the customers from wind and rain .. i think it sucks big time
I had to think about Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano when i saw this Shell truck refilling the servicestations petrol tank
There's a story, possibly apocryphal, that after Lowry lost the manuscript to Under the Volcano in the fire at his shack at Dollarton, he was left that night with nothing to do but to stare disconsolately across the Fraser River at the Shell Oil refinery on the other side of the water. But the letter S had burnt out from the flashing giant Shell sign. So that all Lowry could see flashing at him in the darkness from across the river were the repeating red letters: 'hell' ... 'hell' ... 'hell'. (quote from malcolmlowryatthe19thhole.blogspot.com/2009/04/david-hard...
An interesting question is what a Shell truck is doing on Iceland. Providing petrol for cars of course. But doesnt that sound odd considering that Iceland is in a way one big energy plant?
Iceland is fully self providing in household and business needs for hydro- and geothermal electricity. Its abundance of electricity is even positioning Iceland as one the biggest aluminium smelters in the world. But ai .. cars dont ride on electricity or hydrogen (yet) .. so they need foreign companies to provide the petrol to make the motor run.
more on energy in Iceland
more on Malcom Lowry
Talk of cinematown was Lars von Triers new movie Antichrist .. a seemingly gross horror that makes stomaches roll .. i tried to buy tickets but - like the puffins - they were gone already.
Lars von Trier ís the Antichrist said an icelander who hadnt seen the film either. I found a trailer though: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO-TNfPzh_k
Icelands financial crisis started a year ago with the downfall of Landsbankinns daughter Icesave that marketed as a high interest bank in Holland and the UK.
The Icelandic government tries to agree on a payback with the Netherlands and the United Kingdom concerning an amount of 3.5 billion euros (5 billion US dollars).
Iceland got around 350 thousand inhabitants, which means that every head is burdened with about 10.000 euro's. As you can imagine the Icelanders are not pleased with that.
Tourguide Indriði put it like this. We have to pay for a bank that we have never heard off. We have to pay for money that was never in Iceland. If our government agrees to that, i am going to move abroad.
More:
Iceland : Will the government collapse over the Icesave agreement?
One year on: The rage of Middle Iceland
Flickr Groups:
Nýir Tímar Protest Against The Government of Iceland
Íslenska kreppan / Icelandic economic crises
Artis Amsterdam Zoo is expanding. Between the buildings of the zoo en the water of the Entrepotdock is a strip of land. Back in the eightees the strip was a home for squatters and homeless. Beginning of the ninetees the city council chased the citynomads away and turned a chunck of the strip into parking places for zoo visitors.
Artis now is gonne take the remaining piece of land and is going to expand the animal quarters on it. The houseboats that are still there have to get off and one of the houseboaters made some artificial animals as a silent protest to his removal.
Miss Screenpunk got a new wig .. the band got together .. see the animation and listen to the music at screenwork.nl
Amsterdam is stacked with little elephants these days .. The Elephant Parade tries to raise attention (and money) for the Asian elephant .. this orange elephant is covered with the good old gulden .. the ducht monetairy unit before the euro
Run out the boat, my broken comrades;
Let the old seaweed crack, the surge
Burgeon oblivious of the last
Embarkation of feckless men,
Let every adverse force converge--
Here we must needs embark again.
Run up the sail, my heartsick comrades;
Let each horizon tilt and lurch--
You know the worst: your wills are fickle,
Your values blurred, your hearts impure
And your past life a ruined church--
But let your poison be your cure.
Put out to sea, ignoble comrades,
Whose record shall be noble yet;
Butting through scarps of moving marble
The narwhal dares us to be free;
By a high star our course is set,
Our end is Life. Put out to sea.
-- Thalassa by Louis MacNeice
little techno .. i found the camera settings on my mobile phone and it turns out the asa speed value is something you can fix to a non automatic value .. i like it and i put the default to 100 .. the shadowy houses in this renovation project pic have something edgy now that would have been blurred in color noise - considerring the poor light - on a automatically defined higher filmspeed value
this afternoon i had a course in a building with a terrace where the view on the city looked like this .. the church in the foreground is called Mozes en Aaronkerk .. the two connected towers to the left is de Nederlandse Bank, the central dutch bank .. oh and not to forget the clouds in the sky are the clouds in the sky
portuguese beandish .. already cooked yesterday for better mixed flavour ..with chorizo on bread to accentuate the iberian touch of the diner
Tshirt design .. men shaking off evolution .. i wonder if thats a blessing or a curse
one could say by trying to get rid of our animal past we can go for the human condition and develop a society based on reason, meaning and art - civilisation that is. On the other hand one may say .. by getting rid off the monkey in us we delude ourselves and create problems that excede any problem of animalistic survival and hierarchy by far .. alienation, nihilism, kaderdiscipline, sociopsychopathologie
stop following me .. is not a motto that seems to bring you lot of friends on Twitter
they put some flavour to the sausage and call it catelan sausage .. i have been to catelonia few times but cannot remember having eaten sausage there so i cannot tell if the sausage tastes catalan or not .. which would be different when i would have eaten paella tonight but that was not the case so this remark is rather pretty pointless
Gagged and gallowed master Rembrandt is removed from his sokkel to make way for the renovation of the Rembrandtplein.
The guys who did the job rumoured they found some old documents inside the sokkel.
En iemand anders bedacht ter plaatse een nieuwe zegswijze: van z'n sokkel tillen = oplichten
an experimental hotel at Arcam architecture museum made of polyester bags that dutch call turkentassen (bags of turks) .. the bags are big and the stereotype is that immigrants use m to transport marketgoods -
the formal name of the project is Geçekondu, turkish for squatters house
more info and pictures on the project on Architectenweb
the car pulled over .. the band jumped right on its hood and started playing Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis tunes. People on the sidewalk were having drinks and dinner and started tapping feet and swinging hips immediately.
"Hi we're Johnny and The Gangsters of Love and we got the police on our track so we'll play until they show up .. oh and we are out of petrol so maybe you can spare a coin."
website: www.johnnygo.nl
From "Wiplala" written by Annie M.G. Schmidt, illustrated by Jenny Dalenoord, Holland, 1958.
Annie M.G. Schmidt is and has been a very popular writer in Holland for generations .. her most popular books are on Jip en Janneke a neighbouring boy and girl that research and contemplate their surroundings .. the illustrator that got famous with illustrating the books of Annie M.G. Schmidt is Fiep Westendorp instead of Jenny Dalenoord that made the illustration here. The art of Fiep is silhouetty like Jennys but tighter
jip en janneke
i found an illustartion of Jenny Dalenoord you will like: www.askart.com/AskART/artists/search/Search_Repeat.aspx?s...
google images on Jenny: images.google.com/images?q=Jenny+Dalenoord
google images on Fiep: images.google.com/images?q=Fiep+Westendorp
i am in a (slow) drift of rereading books i read when i was a kid .. this is a part of the cover of Stijd om een rendierkudde (Lapland Outlaw) from Arthur Catherall .. the cover drawing is from Reint de Jonge
+ i am experimenting with RAW pictures and this picture lost all its red in the Flickr conversion
+ i converted the colorprofile in PS from CMYK to RGB (edit/convert to profile ...) replaced the pic and now the reds are back
definetely should read on that too
part of the exhibition Today's Special in W139 where the art exists out of a 5-course diner prepared by Sjim Hendrix .. in the back is Sjim getting ready to prepare the meal
it was horrible .. the burger was raw .. the fries taste like mackerel skin .. i´ll never eat anything at De Brakke Grond again .. only the beer was good
