Picnic at night

Yesterday’s Picnic at night was the finishing touch of PICNIC ’06. Amsterdam’s first-ever annual event focused on creativity in cross media content and technology, specifically in the fields of entertainment and communication. Lots and lots of money has been put in by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, City of Amsterdam and off-course Corporate Business.

Lloyd Hotel

A little bird told me The Lloyd Hotel is hiring. This means that the art and design hotel is doing well and that makes me happy.

Moved

… again.

2e Atjehstraat, Indische Buurt (Amsterdam Oost) = empty
2e Jan v/d Heydenstraat, De Pijp (Amsterdam Oud Zuid) = full

Autumn

Summer transcended to Autumn on 06h03 starting with a nice warm day and some raindrops.

In the early morning (before eight) I shot some video in the Oosterpark in Amsterdam. To memorise the day that (the center of) the Sun is directly above the equator and it spends an equal amount of time above and below the horizon everywhere on our planet called Earth.

It’s a good thing

… that people tend to seize their window of opportunity. Most people don’t or don’t even get one. It requires determination, perseverance, courage]] and quite a big dose of luck.

I will never get used to the fact that people are going through the rubbish of others. But they recognise what others missed, finding opportunity. And that’s a good thing.

I know my window of opportunity is now. Hope I’ll be able to seize it.

Historic Haarlem

I was overwhelmed by the history of Haarlem when I walked back to the trainstation after visiting Luc. Especially the light of the evening sun made me fantasise about paradise.

Seeing a homeless person made me yet again aware of this fragile balance and how easy it is to fail at dancing the dance called society your whole life without missing a beat.

The European Parliament should be located in one place

It costs European taxpayers approximately 200 million euros a year to move the European Parliament between Brussels/Belgium and Strasbourg/France. Just because of politics. No other practical reason. Although I read somewhere that this issue was addressed a view months ago and they decided to leave it the way it is, this initiative will force it

Second love

It’s not just looks… we have a great time together.

Against all odds

Loved seeing it grow in the past months or so.

Just outside the window of my studio. It lives on the 3rd floor of the kraijenhoff building. It has no protection at all from stormy winds or pouring rain and no real soil to hold on to.

But now it blossoms and soon it will spread it seeds. I’m impressed.

Still life demolition

The demolition of a hundred years of stories by the people that lived there.

Getting a kiss from my girl

She works at Paradiso :)

From Open Source to Open Knowledge

De Balie is opening it’s cultural season. This time it’s a discussion about the public accessibility of scientific knowledge. People around the table are: Saul Albert (artists and writer from London) Sebastian Lütgert (artist and software programmer from Berlin) Kurt De Belder (Librarian of Leiden University and representative of Digital Academic Repositories (DARE)) Ronald Beelaard

Permanent Breakfast

I was going to film a happening called Permanent Breakfast on het Leidse Plein in Amsterdam for De Balie Live! (live internet stream) but it’s raining so they found a new spot to do it next to De Balie.

This photo was taken before it started and at the end all seats were taken together with a lot of food for mind and body.

Since 1996 the Austrian Artist Friedemann Derschmidt is organizing permanent breakfasts in the public space. The initiative is critical about the devaluation of public space and wants to make people aware of the collective experience of our public space.

This happening was organised by De Balie to start of the cultural season within the festival “Het publieke verlangen“.

The stream will be available on demand this coming week.

Birthday!

Of my girlfriend.