connect

concatenate
replenish
sustain

going

footfalls on the stairs below outside
coming home?

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Exit metro station, may 2005

pink hat

trombone
kid
old man
guitar
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= Dappermarkt

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Amsterdam, Dappermarkt, may 2005

Carpe diem

Saturday, sunshine in Amsterdam! In the 'Museum Café' close to the Tropenmuseum played this trio, good musicians, cool jazz.

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Museum café, may 2005

Everyday

everyday
some news
implosions explosions disappearances
text originally posted by Jean Vengua on As/Is

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NS public transport, may 2005

Real world reloaded

words materialize into active symbols
abstracts, mapping unsuspected worlds
perceive

chimeras procreate images with mirrors
deceptive perception
recognize

the virtual world of tomorrow
is reality reloaded today
choose


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Metro station Duivendrecht, today - 1

Photoblogs Magazine

This pleases me very much. Photoblogs Magazine has selected to publish one of my images in the Subscribers' Critiques section

The gathering

When wise women meet ....

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Railway station, may 2005

HENRY VIII (1509 - 1547)

Henry eight - wives six.
(Seems to chop them up like sticks)
Daughters two - sons one.
(No grand-children. Tudors gone)
Henry ate - Monks nil.
(All that eating made him ill)
Thomas More - Henry no more
(Death just evened up the score)
.......

Potted poem found on CHEATER'S GUIDE to the KINGS and QUEENS of BRITAIN

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World Fashion Center, may 2005

Flying along

With you
it feels as if
relaxing myself in the grip of a storm
flying along the crest of a tidal wave

and enjoying the ride

These words were given to me by a dear friend
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Amsterdam, may 2005

Tunnel

very slowly
heading for the tunnel
unexplored and untouched

The text is derived from "Our weapon is the moving picture."
-- John Malkovich as F.W. Murnau, Shadow of the Vampire.
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As / Is

I started contributing texts to a weblog called As/Is. In previous post on Streets of Amsterdam I occasionally used poems originally posted on As/Is. Nice pieces of text, giving a meaning to my images. Now I am allowed to contribute to this outstanding blog.

Accessible art

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. At times art is incomprehensible. Sometimes art is inviting, like this statue, on a beautiful day.

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Amsterdam, may 2005

A retrospective. Private Pleasures, Burdensome Boredom, Public Decay - Boris Mikhailov

Great day in Amsterdam, I was in perfect company. We visited FOAM_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam. The work of the Ukranian Boris Mihhailow covering the period 1970 - late 1990's is outstanding. Simultaneous was an expostion of Photieman - Tom Wood. Street-photography comme la lettre. An insight in the lives of the 'common people' of Liverpool.

Amsterdam, Foam_Fotografie Museum

a different one

At one point I thought I saw then I thought I saw a different one saw Bob Ross

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Amsterdam Schiphol Airport,

Distant star

Watch the past of
a distant star

present is
is?

or seti
transformation of

is
was?

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Oostvaardersplas, may 2005

Instance

time
still
stretched to infinity
einstein
photograph
just us

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Amsterdam, may 2005

Serendipity

recognise the unsought

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Amsterdam, Oostvaarderplas may 2005

a small note for Tom Beckett

what I am
most frightened of

are
the shadows
within without shadows

words created by Mark Young,
originally posted on Pelican Dreaming
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Amsterdam, may 2005

Occasionally I visit the real world.

You look into a pair of eyes that are looking into yours

A voice reveals a habitat, distinct, yet startling familiar

Semi-permeable shields, allowing affable touch


This real world

No shit about perception, distorted by a lateralized brain

Is concrete, here and now


So why does my mind go virtual

And visits

The real world of the other day

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The other day, downtown Amsterdam

Way up

way up

Hello?!

When a zombie

calls you

on your telephone

you must answer

it with

a question as


if you're appearing

on a famous

quiz show.


poem by Tom Beckett, posted on As/If
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Helloooo 3

heard in conversation with BC

everything
why is
also why not

text by Sheila Murphy published on As/If

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GVB (Gemeentelijk Vervoers Bedrijf) Tram Line 2, april 2005

Queen Beatrix

Wow, I'm glad queen Beatrix was willing to function as a background on this one.:)


Amsterdam, may 2005

For a rosette, Voor een roosje

Art or pornography? Rombout Oomen created this wallpainting, inspired by the poem "Aan een roosje" written by Jacob van Lennep (1802 - 1868). After a protest action by local people Oomen covered an area of the woman with a block pattern. To my opinion it made her even more sexy:).
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Van Lennepstraat, may 2005

Aan een roosje Zachtgekleurde lentebloesem, Die Selindes borstjes kust, Die zo mollig op haar boezem Tussen donzen peulen rust! Aartig roosje, vers ontloken, Ware uw zalig lot het mijn’, Lag ik ook zo neergedoken Tussen 't dubbel halssatijn, 'k Lei geenszins als gij bewustloos 't Hangend hoofdje stil op zij; Nee,'k bekeek, nieuwsgierig, rustloos, Heel de omtrek van nabij. 'k Zou, door hete zucht gedreven, Aan die borsten, blank en mals, Duizend, duizend kusjens geven, 'k Zoende schouders, nek en hals. 'k Zoude ook samen vergelijken Die twee bollen, wit en rond: Zien, of deez' voor die moest wijken, Of er onderscheid bestond, Wie met blauwer aders praaIde, Wie de blankste tint bezat, Wie de meeste veerkracht haalde Wie de roodste bezie had. 'k Zou dan trachten op te sporen Waar de holle weg ons leidt Die gelijk een diepe voren De ene bol van d'andre scheidt, Die stilzwijgend schijnt te wenken, Lager vindt ge rijker schat Dan gij immer uit kost denken. Dan een sterv'ling ooit bezat. 'k Nam dat pad, van lust doorprikkeld Tot die schat mijne ogen trof En 't geheim mij werd ontwikkeld Binnen Cypris' rozenhof. Jacob van Lennep

If you have (or are willing to make) an english translation of the poem, please let me know.

What ???

Amsterdam, Dam square

Amsterdam Airport, the law of Leela

In Indian tradition, the creation of the world is a form of divine play - The law of Leela -. Likewise, our entire existence in the world is mired in illusion. Just as a play begins and ends, so does life. What matters most is how we "act"
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I thank a friend for invoking this image.
Amsterdam Airport, April 2005

The other place

All ingredients are there, a guy with a dog, someone yapping in a phone, a tattoo shop and of course a 'coffee shop'. This definitely is Amsterdam :))

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Amsterdam, april 2005

Hot Spot

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (Redirected from Hot spot)
A hotspot is a center of high activity within a larger area of low activity. The term is applied to different things in different contexts:

This Hot Spot is located on the Amstel.

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Amsterdam, april 2005

I'm not waitin' on a lady

I'm just standin' in a doorway I'm just tryin' to make some sense
out of these girls a-passin' by...the tales they tell of men
I'm not waitin' on a lady I'm just waiting on a friend
(Jagger/Richards, Waiting on a friend)

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Amsterdam, april 2005

Alone in a crowd

About 2000 people on a square, dancing on urban-house music. All of a sudden this person was probing through, a bycicle in his hands, seamingly unaware of the party going on. Alone with his thoughts. Alone in the crowd.

Yesterday I had a long discussion whether I should publish this photo or not. Initially I said no. Why did I change my mind? Because this is Amsterdam too.

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Amsterdam, april 30 2005

Dancing in the streets

Here a few 'quick' shots made on april 30.
Some are made from a nice perspective others only show the atmosphere.

Anyway, lots of booze, large crowds, loud music and very much fun!!

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Queensday in Amsterdam

Yesterday, april 30, queensday in Amsterdam. A crowded city, people dancing in the streets, music everywhere. I was there, anonymous, going with the flow. Listened to the house and urban dance mucic. Watched a fabulous jazz quintet for an hour. Made photographs too. :) This photo is at the Leidseplein, most streets in the innercity were crowded like this. Perhaps I'll show more photo's here. Once I've sorted them out:)

Amsterdam, queensday 2005