Helping out (a little bit)

On the 27th of May 2006 there was an earthquake on Java due to the eruption of the volcano Merapi. 80% of the houses collapsed and 5651 people in Klaten alone died.

Tino who lives in Indonesia has family in Klaten and took the initiative to find ways to collect money to personally help his family and the village they live in. Together with Carina I offered to make this website to keep the people who donate informed and at the same time make a personal document of Tino’s effort and the rebuilding of lives.

Our power to act is really something beautiful and makes a difference.

Netvibes is getting there…

I used NetNewsWire Lite for more than a year now and I tried to migrate to netvibes before. Technicaly it’s easy, no pain there. But I just didn’t get in that “flow” I was used to and it lacked overview. That’s changing.. And I guess I’m going to see if I can kick an old habit. Now netvibes should make an OPML of my content available so I can easily get it out when I want to change back again and again and again.

Yesterdays news

My dad just adopted four new kids. The newspaper functions like a timeframe.

Niel Young on SXSW2006

Just stumbled upon these video registrations of SXSW through an article at wearethemedia (indirectly) the old and wise icon of music Niel Young had some great things to say. I think it’s true for all creative processes. Some quotes: …It’s like a stream of conscienceness I try not to think about it … you should

Website Rein Jelle Terpstra

Just really finished the website of Rein Jelle Terpstra. Made it together with Jan.

Artist with photography at the base for his work. I’m quite impressed by his work. It poetically explores the boundaries of our perception of the world around us.

And now everybody can enjoy (part of) his work!

Black Eyed Peas – Pump It

Trying to figure out why I watched and listened to the clip repeatedly for say 40 times.

Is it the fun, the quite (deliberately) not perfect clip, the background classic, the nice clapping, the nice rhythm, the lyrics, the kick ass, the great mix of weird sounds, the great finish at the end, the shortness? Your guess is as good as mine.

Friesland 1997

Still cleaning my studio. This photo was taken in the timeframe I was working at stichting Kalamiteit in Dokkum in the provence of Friesland.

On a regular basis I took my car for a drive and looked for great spots to film / photograph or draw. Basically I just wanted to be in that silent space in the Dutch countryside.

De Balie: Toneelschrijfdagen 2006 (2)

Vierde editie Toneelschrijfdagen: Opdracht & Gevolg – Van dag tot dag. Vrijdag 12 mei 2006:Verse Waar/Oud Repertoire: montage van nieuw en bestaand materiaal, gepresenteerd door acteurs van Dood Paard/Tg Monk: Gillis Biesheuvel, Maartje van den Brink, Rutger Kroon. Boy’s Night!: Presentaties van het werk van de drie mannen die in 2005 een opdracht ontvingen. Eerst

Long gone

My son (5) wants the world to stay the same.

Zinnen

Veel dingen verzameld in doosjes en mappen door de jaren heen. Deze kwam ik allemaal tegen op verweerde papiertjes.

De Balie: Toneelschrijfdagen 2006

Vierde editie Toneelschrijfdagen Opdracht & Gevolg – Van dag tot dag. Donderdag 11 mei 2006: toneel/de beelden Verse Waar/Oud Repertoire: montage van nieuw en bestaand materiaal, gepresenteerd door acteurs van ’t Barre Land: Vincent van den Berg, Margijn Bosch, Anouk Driessen, Ingejan Ligthart Schenk, Peter Kolpa, Martijn Nieuwerf, Czeslaw de Wijs. Door Marjolein Kommer live

Bird head

Found this Polaroid from 1999 wile cleaning my studio. Now it lives here on my blog.

My gnome friend

He was swimming in the water when we were living in Weesp on the river Amstel (1999). I helped him out and gave him this tree to live in.He stayed there for 3 years. Then he moved on in the company of some children, can’t blame him.

(found this photo while cleaning my studio)

The feel of the day

At the square at de Kraijenhoff.

k_nstvl__. 2006

I was invited by Mauz, he was participating (collaboration with PLANETART) in this art event “de kunstvlaai” that is traditionally running at the same time that ArtAmsterdam is doing it’s thing in a more orderly fasion at the RAI. Haven’t been there in I guess two years or maybe even more. I can’t remember. I

WAR

I saw this picture on the VPRO website today and I can’t describe how this photo makes me feel. But I can’t get my eyes of it and my stomach and hart are getting heavy and heavier. Yesterday we (the Netherlands) celebrated our liberty, the end of WOII. Maybe that’s why.

Flow

FlOw is a practice of player oriented Flow design. It is a game where players with different skills can intuitively customize their Flow experiences through the fundamental gameplay and enjoy the entire experience in their own paces. Quite nice, made it to level 2 (if you can call it that) before I got distracted (90

Information density

Jonathan Spanier, a team member from Drexel University, estimates that the nanowires could theoretically be used to make computer memory drives with a density of 10,000 terabits (1016 bits) of data per cubic centimetre. By contrast, current flash memory drives store about five gigabits (5 x 109) of data per cubic centimetre. But before such

Mud

In our strive for higher conciseness the mud called life keeps us from it and pushes us towards it at the same time.

Throwing Easter eggs

In the dunes on the west side of Ameland.

The perfect woman

She is right in front of me, just a few meters away moving at the same speed and direction as I do. Riding a nice green omafiets. Old but well preserved and maintained (no dirt on the rims). On the front there is a big black plastic crate supported by a red holder, quite new.

What to do with intellect and non-conformistic thinking

I read this article on Netkwesties by Jaap van Till: Internet is de Wilde Allesverbindende Zee. He makes his point by looking back at the golden age of the Dutch and the years after Word War II. I don’t think this hold quite well but the message it sends needs to be addressed. Will we

Find your destination on Mars

The people going to Mars will never get lost. Now you can start memorizing with google maps.

Sea treasure

A couple of containers form a container ship went overboard during a storm above the wadden islands. And these dolls wash up on shore. My dad collects them and makes them dance.

A map of the early universe

Best ever map of the early universe revealed

Stephen Battersby – March 17th 2006 – link

On Thursday, the WMAP team revealed the best map ever drawn of microwaves from the early universe, showing variations in the brightness of radiation from primordial matter. The pattern of these variations fits the predictions of a physical theory called inflation, which suggests that during the first split second of existence the universe expanded incredibly fast

Amazing what we are capable of detecting, extrapolating and form theories and create hypothesises about.

Fusion

Tomorrow’s electricity-producing fusion power plants

New Scientist – March 12th 2006 – link

Fusion research is considered worth pursuing because it promises to be a widely available energy source with essentially unlimited supply and manageable environmental impact.

I totally forgot about fusion.

Snow in March

How does matter structure itself?

When I saw this lecture of Prof. dr. D. Frenkel trough fabchannel (very easy to follow) I thought about these pictures I took in 1993. We all know the flowers on our window but these were massive.It was in an old stone mine. A gap of approx. 40 meters deep and 400 by a 200

Voodoo?!

My father found this on the beach of Ameland, a small island on the north-sea coast of The Netherlands. We are all wondering if this is real or just some sailor who made his souvenir into someone he hates. Update: It’s a power figure (Nkisi) made in Congo. The expert thinks its a souvenir too.

Winter dancers

In the garden of my parents in February. Amazing.