Art is work

Heb net een post gewijd aan Milton Glaser en nu moet ik alweer. Wat is er toch met die man dat hij mij zo weet te raken? Deze keer gaat het over de kunst en design. Ik heb zelf met heel veel plezier de kunst opleiding gedaan om uiteindelijk af te studeren als autonoom kunstenaar in

Milton Glaser: 10 things I’ve learned

Via Huub koch en zijn blog Zichtbare Zaken heb ik Milton Glaser mogen ontdekken. En daarvoor ben ik heel dankbaar. Ik kan dan ook niet anders dan het weer hier (en op twitter natuurlijk) te delen. Wat spreekt me zo aan? Zijn designs zijn zo direct gekoppeld aan de liefde voor tekenen, kunst en de mens. Wat

Wat mij doet klikken

Al jaren zeg ik dat ik een informatie junky ben en dat meen ik oprecht. Eindelijk is er dan wetenschappelijk bewijs. Ik ben zwaar verslaafd aan dopamine en internet is mijn joekel van een spuit. Dopamine wordt gemaakt in verschillende delen van het brein en is cruciaal bij allerlei hersenactiviteit zoals denken, bewegen, stemming, slapen,

Rennen

Rennen is niets voor mij maar veel respect voor degene die het doen.

Schalende betekenis

Meaning scales, people don’t

Gapingvoid – 25 juni 2008 – link

As Buddha says, there is no one road to Nirvana. Enlightenment is a house with 6 billion doors. While we’re alive, we intend not to find THE DOOR, not A DOOR, but to find OUR OWN, UNIQUE DOOR.
And we’re willing to pay for the privilege. We’re willing to give up money and time and power and sex and status and certainty and comfort in order to find it.
And guess what? It’ll be a great door. It’ll add to this life. It’ll resonate. Not just with us, but with everybody it comes in contact with. The door will useful and productive. Alive and kicking. It’ll create wealth and laughter and joy. It’ll pull its own weight, it’ll give back to others. It’ll be centered on compassion, but will be intolerant of dullards, parasites and cynics.
It may be modest, it may not. It could be a little candle shop; it could be a software company with the GNP of Sweden. It could involve politics or working with the elderly. It could be starting a design studio or opening a bar with Cousin Mike. It could be a screenplay, oil paints, or discovering the violin. It doesn’t matter. Meaning Scales

Gapingvoid heeft met grote regelmaat rake observaties die hij omzet in tekst en beeld. Dit is er zo één.

Richting Hilversum

Station ritueel

Krantje lezen, roken en mensen kijken.

Dappermarkt in de zon

Stadslichten

…. al die levens dat worden verlicht door de nacht. Indrukwekkend. Nu op weg naar één van die lichtjes in het westen van Amsterdam.

Amsterdam Marathon

It will never be me, but I admire the commitment of the runners.

Lavalade – Paris – Amsterdam

A thousand kilometers in just eight hours. Strange to be back home in Amsterdam doing my everyday routine.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.