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
