Spelen met licht

De spin en de lamp.

Grasping the Pleasure Principle

The brains craving for a fix motivates humans to maximise the rate at which they absorb knowledge, he said. I think we’re exquisitely tuned to this as if we’re junkies, second by second.
From the article Grasping the Pleasure Principle by Carl Marziali on the website of the University of Southern California

So obvious and so true. I’m addicted to al lot of things, life for example.

Lage Vuursche

After more than 3 years we are leaving de tolkresj. A kindergarten led by the parents. Every weekday morning two of the parents are taking care of each others children in this beautiful garden in the hart of Amsterdam. For more than 3 years (ones a week) I took care of those kids and I must say it’s a privilege to have done so. You get to know and connect with them and their parents.

To celebrate our time together and the 35 years of existence of the Tolkresj we organized a weekend at Lage Vuursche. It was fantastic to end our time and that of Otis (the blue jacket) here.

Coca Cola still top of mind

See it everywhere. That weallspeakfootball event did a number on me.

Eternal student

Was invited by Eveline to be at the presentation of “Island”, a proposal of a multidisciplinary festival on the island Ameland to the officials of the province Friesland and the municipality Ameland. It was a collaboration between students of 4 different High schools in Leeuwarden. The presentation itself was kind of vague but the idea

Ik hou van Erik

My (new) girlfriend and her two daughters made some nice cookies, she made this one for me. Giving me that warm fussy feeling.

From Berlin to Amsterdam

This is the Tegel airport in Berlin. The city starts right after the trees and I feel like I can touch the people on their balcony. Gong back to Amsterdam after a week at the weallspeakfootball apartment in Berlin.

Sadly, but looking forward to the alienating feeling of flying. We humans are doing craaaazzzy stuff.

Yesterday evening

With fellow vloggers of #weallspeakfootball visiting former East Berlin. The alternative hangout.

Game on: England vs Portugal

We have people from all over the world so there are fanatic and emotional fans watching the games and people chilling on the rooftop without a care in the world :).

Ben and Matt had a very bad day…

Everybody is back

Most of the time we are all out and about. But now…

Packed U-bahn in Hamburg

After Germany vs Argentina we had to rush to make it on time for the match Italy vs Ukraine. The streets were blocked (we noticed when taking a taxi) so the subway it is.

Germany vs Argentina

We are in Hamburg to see the game Italy vs Ukraine. But for the German friends Lyssa and Franz the game between Germany and Argentina was all that mattered. And they are already playing. Here is the video I made that day.

Spoiler: Germany won through penalties.

Me at Mehringdamm

Hello me.

Mehringdamm

Thanks for inviting me Franz / sportsguy. He knows his way around Berlin and it was great.

Football Set ZDF at the Sonytower

Went with Gabemac and Franz to the Adidas Arena. For the first time in my life I got frisked. And again, and again, and again, and again.

This picture is of the Sonytower in Berlin where we watched a movie I don’t recall.

Re-enactment

of a serious conversation between the Austria Artists.

To the ones I left behind

I’m oké (they were complaining about lack of contact so I made a video).

Der Orgelspieler

On my way back to the apartment he was making summer feel even more festive.

The feel of Berlin

A photo impression of my early morning walk (starting at 4 ending at 10) through Berlin and it’s central park.

In the Netherlands almost all our buildings and public spaces are designed and somewhat polished. Here it is functional. I like it.

Unter den Linden

I’m roaming the streets of Berlin. Going to videoblog about the worldcup football in Germany. I’m posting the videos online on a blog created by Coca Cola and I’m staying in a apartment with other vloggers invited by Coca Cola. All united under the tag #weallspeakfootball.

Gedächtniskirche

When I took my early morning walk on the second day in Berlin (video in the making) the streets were empty except quite a few homeless people.

Living in Amsterdam myself I meet the same ones (small city) over and over again and we share the public space in harmony (mostly). For me these persons are part of my daily life, I will never get used to it. Keeping up with society isn’t that easy.

Location: Die Gedächtniskirche, Kurfürstendamm, Berlin.

Regular nightly sessions

In the weallspeakfootball apartment in Berlin.

Zu mir oder zu dir

My first video made during the weallspeakfootball project of Coca Cola during the world cup football in Germany. Gabe drove us through Berlin and we stooped in East Berlin at a cafe to watch the game Australia vs Italy.

Inside Berlin

Cemetery / Playground

The day of arrival. Franz took GabeMac, me and “Der Mann aus dem Plattenladen” out to former East Berlin to see the match Australia vs Italy (see the video here).

Just 50 meters in the same street there was a cemetery that was used as a playground for kids. When we went by it was packed. The graves were not that old (50 years). I asked one of them if the bones were still there, she thought so. Would the dead mind having the new life enjoying running and playing above them?

From Amsterdam to Berlin

My first flying experience, on a somewhat big plane making my way to Berlin and the weallspeakfootball apartment. I jumped out of a small one a long time ago on a tandem parachute (with a man strapped on your back). Loved the 30 second free fall so much I didn’t want to pull the cord.

See if I can cope with this kind of abnormal behaviour called flying. The video is about the 16 expired hours of my life and the strange transition from being in Amsterdam and ending up in Berlin listening tot the birds at the rooftop of the apartment and meeting this creative melting pot of people.

A standard webdesign day

It’s real.

Lived there

I’ve been moving house quite a lot the past couple of years (6 times in 2 y). For me home is a feeling that’s created by past, present and future experiences within. And I haven’t had that pleasure for a while. And today I heard that a great opportunity just wasn’t going to happen. I

Shadow Garden

This spontaneous beauty is in the front of my house on the Tweede Atjehstraat 26hs in Amsterdam. It just grew in this 5cm small space that isn’t covered by concrete tiles. It’s the shadow side of the house, with some luck it gets sun at the end of the day. Beauty is everywhere.

This is my first photo with my new phone. The Nokia 6230i. Reminds me of my polaroid (although those I can scan and blow up to enormous proportions).

Limitations = quality. It’s how you use it that matters, this time I was a little to close to the subject.

Looking forward to using it’s video, would it remind me of super 8?

My website as a graph

Just to beautiful

What do the colors mean?

blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags

Made by Sala. Find more on Flickr.

Everyday, we look at dozens of websites. The structure of these websites is defined in HTML, the lingua franca for publishing information on the web. Your browser’s job is to render the HTML according to the specs (most of the time, at least). You can look at the code behind any website by selecting the “View source” tab somewhere in your browser’s menu.
HTML consists of so-called tags, like the A tag for links, IMG tag for images and so on. Since tags are nested in other tags, they are arranged in a hierarchical manner, and that hierarchy can be represented as a graph. I’ve written a little app that visualizes such a graph.
Sala