hier plassen a.u.b.!

dank u

sin city

The second life of Amsterdam is auctioned on ebay I wonder if my city tax will be lower next year.

Original image shot in the red light district of Amsterdam.

augmented reality

is it an observers paradox? Two strangers coincidentally pass by on the street. The photographer, out there to steal souls, connects to this coincidence. Now the strangers are part of the augmented reality perceived by this photographer. Paradox???? naaah manga.

Original images shot in Chinatown Amsterdam

agent orange avenue (2)

drawing by Henk Langeveld

land of 0

unified shader <> heads of state

we had a dream mm.Subject = "An unhandled exception occurred!" mm.Body = String.Format("An unhandled exception occurred:{0}Message: {1}{0}{0} Stack Trace:{0}{2}", System.Environment.NewLine, ex.Message, ex.StackTrace) mm.IsBodyHtml = Falsel'etat c'est moifunction hideallids(){//loop through the array and hide each element by id for (var i=0;i ids.length;i++){ hidediv(ids[i]);} }

McJob

Marlboro man is heritage
Barbie does the McJob
Next the cigarette after the happy meal
The times they are a-changing

dance to the rythm of the war

Dance to the rythm of the war

For some of us it's still just to soon


Years ago I played synthesizer in a band, one of our most successful on stage tunes had the chorus "dance to the rythm of the war" and the audience did exactly that. Only a few recognized the irony. Back then the tune was a crossover between funk and what we thought was a cherokee wardance. The tune I present now is a crossover between drum 'n bass, electro punk and new age.
I'm not sure why I made this tune + video. Maybe because the emotional undercurrent in our timeframe has a _remote_ resemblance to the era preceeding 1914. Then the world knowingly or unknowingly rushed into what some people saw as "the happy war" now known as the "great war". Or maybe I made this for my students who hate my math lectures, grow up in an increasingly xenophobic society and like to play "Gears of war" all day. (not necessarily in that order)


Anyway, I hope somebody downloads this tune and takes it to a local club and invokes the irony of the "dance to rythm of the war" and perhaps sparks some thoughts.


The videoclip is designed for the large screens most clubs today have. The clip is a visual rollercoaster, the start is a take off in a jet plane and it ends with a glorious combat kill straight from "Gears of war". The main ingredients of the music are a vintage Korg MS20 analog synthesizer, a text to speach processor from Microsoft plus a load of digital voodoo. By the way the voice over is a plug-in nicked Microsoft Sam.

Of course i have youtubed this, what else, however the youtube quality is mediocre, for a reasonable full screen quality please download a wmv file here >>> dance to the rythm of the war.

urban safari

room full of mirrors (2)

haruspices
foreshadow imminent
rules of absurdity

I captured this artist while he was assembling his installation in metrostation Wibautstraat. Had no time to wait, so I have to see the completed work yet.

port-hole

i
do not
belong
i
observe

  

verboden graffiti te spuiten

the dutch way!

  

black room, item 21

John Waters, Swedish Movie 2000, Foam museum of photography Amsterdam