Friday, March 4, 2011
Sunday, February 27, 2011
My hat makes people smile
I have received some weird looks while wearing this hat, not to mention a group of annoying, 12-year-olds laughing histirically at me, but most of the time it makes people smile. I tend to forget that I'm wearing it when I'm wearing this hat and then I start wondering why all those people are smiling at me. But it's nice, it makes the world seem a friendlier place. I am quite concerned about all the people who don't recognize what animal it is though, come on people I know we're not living in Australia, but surely a mouse, squirrel or rabbit doesn't look like this?
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Hurricane Festival
FOO FIGHTERS · INCUBUS · ARCADE FIRE· THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS · PORTISHEAD · ARCTIC MONKEYS· KAISER CHIEFS · MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE · CLUESO · THE HIVES · SUEDE· KASABIAN · THE SUBWAYS · GOGOL BORDELLO · FLOGGING MOLLY· ELBOW · THE WOMBATS · JIMMY EAT WORLD · SUBLIME WITH ROME· TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB · BOYSETSFIRE · MONSTER MAGNET · THE KILLS· LYKKE LI · SELIG · KASHMIR · GLASVEGAS · BAND OF HORSES · THE SOUNDS· BRIGHT EYES · SUM 41 · ALL TIME LOW · KLAXONS · EELS · SICK OF IT ALL· PARKWAY DRIVE · WILLIAM FITZSIMMONS · BLOOD RED SHOES · JUPITER JONES· I BLAME COCO · IRIE RÉVOLTÉS · YOUNG REBEL SET · I AM KLOOT· FRIENDLY FIRES · DARWIN DEEZ · COMEBACK KID · CONVERGE· THE ASTEROIDS GALAXY TOUR · PORTUGAL. THE MAN · WARPAINT · THE VACCINES· AN HORSE · PULLED APART BY HORSES · KVELERTAK · YOU ME AT SIX · BROTHER· TAME IMPALA · CLOUD CONTROL · MILES KANE · YOAV
Oh my, look at the line-up of the Hurricane Festival in Germany. It's perfect! (L)
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Pulp
I get the Pulp. I get the Fiction. What I don't get is why this movie has got a 8,9 out of 10 rating on IMDB.
Somebody explain this to me!
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Ode to my dog
That pink thing is my mothers croc. My dog took it with her when my mom went out for a walk with her, proceeded to walk onto the ice (which is not strong enough to carry humans yet) and dropped the croc there. My dog's a heroe. Material for a MLIA? I think so.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Got brains?
Today I received a disk with pictures of my brain on it in the post (I had a MRI scan made a while ago). At first I didn't want to look at them because I found the idea of looking at my own brain a bit scary, but of course I gave in in the end. I think put like this the pictures actually make a pretty cool design. I should do something with it... Anyone wanna buy t-shirts with my brains on them?
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Exit Through The Gift Shop
I don't go to cinema Amstelveen that often. It is a small cinema, about fifty seats, and they screen a weird blend of movies. Mostly children's movies and French movies about the sadness of life. The small cinema can only afford it to screen blockbusters months after their release and by then I have usually seen them already. But my father had some free tickets which we had to use before December 10th, so tuesday we went to see Exit Through The Giftshop - The world's first Street Art Disaster movie. I didn't expect too much from it, but felt very cultural nonetheless for going to see a documentary about art.
It's a GREAT documentary (although I'm kind of doubting how truthful the story actually is). Very funny, sometimes I couldn't stop laughing. But that didn't really matter since there were only six more people in the room besides my dad and me.
What's it about?
A Frenchman living in LA Thierry Guetty owns a clothing shop and has a videocamera permanently glued to his hand. When he goes to France to visit his family his nephew has started making little space invader mozaiques and glueing them onto buildings in the city. Through his nephew he gets involved in the French Street Art movement and he starts filming those street artists. Thierry says he's going to make a street art documentary out of those tapes. He keeps hearing about a certain Banksy, a British street artist who does really cool stuff (he placed his own painting in a museum without security noticing it) and decides he wants his documentary to be about Banksy. Eventually Thierry and Banksy meet and Thierry starts filming him. When street art becomes a hype Banksy tells Thierry that this is the right moment for him to release his film to show the world that street art isn't about money. Thierry isn't such a great filmmaker though, so Banksy tells him that he will finish the film and Thierry should just go back to LA and focus a bit on his art (Thierry has started putting up posters too). So that's what the frenchman does, he goes back to LA hires a team of graphic designers who execute his ideas and hires a big building for an exposition. Thierry, who now calls himself, Mr. Brainswash becomes insanely popular. Not really what Banksy meant when he said focus on your art en maybe set up a small exposition.
Anyway, you should see the documentary!
It's cool, funny and you don't even have to be interested in art to like it (but of course the art is really, really cool!!!). Something which made it extra cool for me is that I had spotted a Space Invader mozaique in Amsterdam when I was walking there with friends. I googled it and there should be 26 of those figures placed all over Amsterdam. So I have added something new to my to do list: Find all 26 space invaders in Amsterdam. Maybe something to do in the christmas break?
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