Speedskating :)

So, my first time on my speed skates again since two years or something like that. Went pretty well though, actually pretty good after doing sports for a year ;) Never thought that would have that much impact!

Verkeerde ingang in de Rails

Staat er in de Rails een stuk over waar journalisten zich bevinden. Is er eentje die is blijven hangen in Groningen omdat ie de laatste trein gemist heeft. Deze journalist is bij Sharak terecht gekomen, alleen is de ingang die getoond wordt, juist de nooduitgang van Dizkartes (mijn oude studentenvereniging). Nou ja, iedereen die journalistiek kan controleren vindt wel eens foutjes ;)
(2de foto van boven, tekst die erbij staat is: Cleo Mulder, Fotograaf. Waar: Club Shadrak, Groningen. Waarom: 'Omdat ik de laatste trein gemist had.'

De Bauer Flavour: 3FM Serious Request 2006

Een stukje van het decor voor de B-Factor, een parodie op de X-factor. Dit is de tafel waar de kandidaten beoordeeld werden door Chiel, Lange Frans en Ali B.
Lange Frans en Ali B. doen een nummer met Frans Bauer, maar aangezien de heer Bauer gekweld is door poliepen op zijn stembanden, kon hij helaas niet mee doen. Hierdoor ontstond er een ander concept voor de musicvideo die uiteindelijk via internet verkocht gaat worden voor een klein bedrag. Dit bedrag gaat naar het Rode Kruis voor de actie tegen landmijnen in de wereld...

New video: Kraak & Smaak - Money in the Bag

The latest music video from Kraak & Smaak is not produced by myself. Unfortunately, but by my direct colleagues. Congratz peeps! But, if you have not seen it yet, watch it first:

Kraak & Smaak tell you to "watch it before it gets banned!". Well, I don't know if that is going to happen, as there are no real nude human beings in this video. Only "old" drawings, appearing to be from the seventies of the twentieth century. Oh, these images show quite clear how to make love (i.e. have sex). Actually, if I were one of those health care and birth control organizations I would embrace this video :)

Anyway, some rather positive commentary in the Dutch videoclip.blog: Videoclips.blog.nl | Nieuwe video: Kraak & Smaak - Money in the Bag

Global Warming, CO2, Oxygen, Trees, things like that

I was wondering today, looking at the trees still wearing their leaves, about global warming. People around me are starting to get worried. Women are telling me they are seriously thinking about not having kids.
But, it now being November the 25th, it was 16 degrees Celsius today. So, we are hardly warming our houses, so we use little gas, so we produce less CO2. The trees still have leaves, so a part of the trees probably still make a little bit of oxygen during daytime.
I don't know if it has any influence, we will see. It just crossed my mind. Only time will tell...

Small, smaller, ...

*~A Tiny Glimpse~* is where you can see something about why, well.. ehrrr... ehmm... we are quite small. This is a GIF-animation and quite short.

The one below takes 9 minutes, but worth watching:

(this is supposed to be the video "Powers of Ten", made in 1977. Unfortunately, the video is hard to find at the moment, due to copyright issues of the Eames-heirs, but if you are willing to share your email address at powersof10.com you can still see it)

Colours...

Just the different colours. The colours made by the awkward light of the end of the day. Just an autumn day. Just an ordinary day. Beautiful though.

The tablecloth having the same colours as the surroundings. The leaves under the table. The leaves surrounding the table.

*sigh*

D66 verkiezingsposters: goed Nederlands?

D66 heeft een verkiezingscampagne opgezet. Het gaat hierbij om 'oude liefde' en dat die niet roest. "Eigenlijk bent u een D66-er" staat er groot op één van de posters. Dan volgt een grote lap tekst. Ergens in het midden staat "... vraagt je je wel eens af..." Ja, ik vraag me regelmatig dingen af, maar dat je zo'n fout maakt?
Je vraagt je wel eens iets af. Bijvoorbeeld of de snelle jongens van dat reclamebureau niet iets té vaak een stagiaire inzetten voor het schrijven van teksten. Ik was niet eens de hele tekst aan het lezen, het viel me gewoon op. De fout staat namelijk in de tweede of derde zin van boven in de tweede kolom, dus je oog valt er eigenlijk direct op.
Jammer maar helaas.

Soulvation - Put your Phone in the Air

This is one of the latest video's I partly produced. This video was one to try a lot of different techniques, the use of phonecams was a new one. At first we also shot footage with different types of DV cam, but the 'quality' would destroy the video.
So, we chose to do it with phones only.
I think it became a creative music video and I am curious what will happen in the near future :)

One of my first music videos to produce as production manager was also a Soulvation song: I Wanna Be With You (view below).
This one we shot in Barcelona in a guerrilla style: run through the city and shoot as many beautiful scenes as you can :)
Worked out pretty well I think. A nice and friendly summerstyle video.

Energy War

The Dutch broadcast channel VPRO made a documentary on the ongoing Energy War in this world, mainly stating that we (the 'west', Europe, North-America) are addicted to oil.

Tegenlicht -> Aflevering 1 -> Energy War
Tegenlicht -> Aflevering 2 -> Energy War

The American journalist Thomas Friedman heard the Iranian president Ahmadinejad say that the Holocaust was made up, Thomas was wondering if the president would have dared to say this if the oil price per barrel was below 20 USD instead of above 60. He thought the same when president Chavez of Venezuela told Bush and Blair that they could go to hell.

The first part is about Oil and the short term scenario: petropolitics. The second part is about what will happen and is happening in the world. What solutions are emerging to get rid of the need for oil? What will the world look like in 2020?

Anyway, if you are a native Dutch speaker, you SHOULD watch it. If not, you COULD watch it, as most of it is in English and what is not, is in Russian or Dutch ;) Everybody understands those languages hey? :)