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.

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.

Flickr

Just made a Flickr account. Never saw any use of it because I want to host my photo’s on my own site(s) and server.

Started to use plazes.com as a way to tell people where I am and how it looks like. They use Flickr for that and so I was finally seduced in using it. Think I will use it to share specific photo’s that have a interest to a larger audience and make it some sort of overview of my activities and a link to them.

Like the networking bit though and I found some photo’s of myself in the process, all made during weallspeakfootball in Berlin. Have to get used to being reproduced without knowing. Hope my soul isn’t affected by it.