Nog tot dinsdag aanstaande te zien in het muziekgebouw aan het IJ: Spomenik – monumenten uit voormalig Yoegoslavië – foto’s van Jan Kempenaers.
Van zijn hand.
Of uit zijn camera.
Hoe dan ook, het onderwerp is vergane glorie uit het IJzeren Gordijn tijdperk. Natuurlijk heel esthetisch die foto’s met hun gelijke lichtval en witte luchten waardoor het monumentale object de aandacht focust en een ruimte- en tijdloosheid bewerkstelligd wordt.

Op de internets hebben we deze foto’s allang eens voorbij zien komen, maar een paar kende ik nog niet.

Enorme bouwwerken waar je in kan! Klimvleugels met een B-52schietkoepel erin gemozaïekt. Ruimteschepen die vermomd als desingarchitectuur onder ons geparkeerd zijn! Verbetonde Moebiuskristallen!

Kijk zelf maar.

Dit wil ik ook! Stichting Openbare Ruimte mag er wat mij betreft een paar overbrengen of ze integraal kopiëren.
Ik ga eens kijken naar een vrij kavel waar ik dit kunstharthuis neer kan zetten.

Mijn nieuwe huis

speciaal voor IPM

a little clinical clean, but a peek into DJ setups at home

This weekend you can sit down for an eclectic and nice story. Nina Paley intertwines her own pinkbird broken heart story with the ancient stories of the Rmayana, the habit of debating the true versions of it and the beautiful smartful songs of 1920’s jazz vocalist Annette Hanshaw -”cheeks like peaches and a voice of honey“.
Continue reading ‘Weekendmovie: Sita sings the blues’

The superest is the most superheroe that conquers the previous one. Witty and funny.

Want more slash and kill? Then On the road for knives is more your cup of thea, where three illustrators are going for each other’s ink.

Awe nos por saludar bon bini nobo members di e Vereniging van Gemeenten. Bon Bini Saba, Statia y Boneiru! Na Papiamentu, pasobra quince di dezembre ta e dia nacional di naturalisashion.

Continue reading ‘Bon bini!’

No one could pose like this gal did. Thank you, Betty for the nice hairdo, the commonisation of spanking and bonding and showing the fun in erotica.

Oh. Also yesterday…
Enfin. We are from the generation that knows how daily life was run without computers, interwebs and blogs. Even cell phones. But the mouse is older than I am!

Happy birthday mouse!

Wired has the explanation with the mouse pictured here and some other special mouses in a gallery

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It’s Sinterklaas again, time for that anachronistic old fellow with his questionable court dignitaries.
To show that old can still be tof, a music video avant la lettre. Eddie Thomas and Carl Scott playing ukelele, washboard and kazoo playing “My Ohio Home.” Continue reading ‘Good ole music’

Mrs. Makeba

The last few years, I kept on seeing announcements that Miriam Makeba was to perform in town. Only, when I noticed the dates, it happened to have been last week. So I became slightly frustrated over the wish to take my mum along to see and especially hear that special woman she introduced me to.
Then finally last month, I saw she was performing again. In Paradiso, which was a plus, because the acoustics might be very well at the concertgebouw, and the grandeur matches the grandness of this lady, it remained an odd context for a woman of such importance for music and politics in music.
Continue reading ‘Mrs. Makeba R.I.P.’

Geil, customizable, but still a sleurhut. Desing has reached almost every layer of our society, so now even the most hated icon of traditionalism and conservativeness has undergone a thorough redesing. It looks quite nice, is even backed up by big automotive partners to get it beyond prototype.
But it is still the thing that will catch the wind and block your view on the freeways.
When will Top Gear get a hold of this one to destroy in a fashionable, desingy way?

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We found it more appropriate to put this in the w00tcat or dumplink, but since there hasn’t been a frontpage post in a week and also because own content heerst, we present to you the first vl0g of vl0gje.
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Yeah! It’s time again for the Stripdagen Haarlem! Every year a great event for lovers of art, music, black lines, graphics and cult.
The home style of the festival this year is delivered by Roel Smit, also known as one of the lead singers of the legendary salon punk band Human Alert. Next to the whole festivals’ housestyle, he will also design the festival beer and will present his book “Rock and Roel” at the Patronaat in Harlem. I shall probably not attend this evening because of my expected personal delivery of vl0gje, but if he/she is still in the womb, I’ll be attending the festivals’ day programme.
Ikiro, gast and IPM alert: one of the themes this year is wheels and bicycles in the special.

Continue reading ‘Stripping days Harlem’

Yes, today is the day. The day Vl0gje is calculated, but as a proper diva (m/f) it is waiting for the party to gather momentum. I think. So let’s focus on the remaining event of the day: the arrival of the Hollandse Nieuwe. Very tasty, good firm structure, delicious and subtle of taste. Mmmmh!

Gast!

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Amazing toy wheels!

It has been all over the internets already, but also from here: congrats to the fresh parents with their tender baby kitten!

She’s the newest chick in town!

Pop-up books are so beautiful, and this one is so simple but ingenious, I especially love the U.

(To be read with this one book)

The Ed didn’t tell us all about his recent career moves.
He appears to be doing well these days, because he owns his own pimped up ‘ride’. When can we have the next Ochborrel on the Natalee Hollowaybeach, Ed?

It’s al very charming, the Dutch carnaval, but as a good latina I am chauvinistic about the real good celebration of carnival, as being practised on the overseas continents. I have never been to Brasil just before Lent, but I am one sucker for the beats and drums to dance on during roadmarch. Be it tumba, calypso from Trinidad, samba or bossa nova. Yes, you hear it well, the cocktail-loungely muzak known as bossa is also an accompanyment of the tropical carnival. Continue reading ‘Och’s Weekend Movie: Orfeu Negro’

This is amazing!!!/mike
But seriously amazing!

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Darwinawards 2007, need I say more?