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Choco is our german shepperd dog.  She had puppies with our other dog, Bors, a golden retriever.  Oskar made a film … (music: Beirut, a sunday smile)

my sons made another movie. Wolfram made the music and Oskar (14) the film …

A fantastic combination!

This one legged Colombian guy  really has got rydm….!

Remarcble: so young and already so gifted … Kiko, the pianist ( age 0 years!!!)(my brother’s daughter)

I saw the film by Truffaut yesterday and this pictures seem like echo’s of it.

“An inventor finds meaning to his life. However, he learns that happiness is something that cannot be manufactured. “
Director and animator Mark Osborne

Impressing clip… so beautiful … Andy Huang is a student? Looks like he should be the teacher. Somebody hire him, quick! His animation is perfectly convincing, the sound effects are first-rate, the editing and compositing are smoother than a baby’s butt, and the social commentary is ironic bordering on profound. Outstanding work.

some backstage photos…

from 100 to 1 … let’s cinema!

remember these ones…

On the surface of things, this is a very radical film, both in style and content. It seems to draw a scathing portrait of Western consumerist and corporate culture by brilliantly editing together politician’s sound bites, found footage and interviews to an techno-soundtrack, resulting in what can best be described as the cinematic equivalent of [...]

I saw a film last night: “A Tale of Two Sisters” is a brilliant South Korean psychological horror that left me speechless.The film offers some delicious moments of ghastly horror and is extremely creepy.The small cast of actors is truly excellent,with lead Im Soo-jung being especially memorable in the lead role.The direction by Kim Ji-woon [...]

” I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well”

Directed By Alain Resnais in 1959. A French young woman has spent the night with a japanese man, at Hiroshima where she went for the shooting of a film about peace. He reminds her of the first man she loved. It was during World War II, and he was a German soldier. Hiroshima mon amour [...]

as I was looking for info for one of our artists, who wants african dance in her show, I stumbled upo, these video’s ….

This amazing Cores-movie will show you the incredible social and artistic wealth of the Nuba people who’s lives today are in the face of diseases and starvation

“I keep having the same dream. It seems to be forcing me to return to the bittersweet site of my grandfather’s house, where I was born on the table forty years ago. Something always prevents me from entering. I keep having this dream. When I dream of the log walls and dark pantry, I sense [...]

You shall love your neighbor(hood) as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.(Mark 12:29-31)
here some ‘introduction’ movies I found on the Boabab site. Gives yo, indeed, an introduction and makes one dream…

Coming together to celebrate European films - every year 300 new European film projects are supported by MEDIA…

‘Symbolika’ is the psychedelic expression of the designer fabian. the symbols and compositions are inspired from trips around the worlds.

… with Patrick Stewart

6.104.361 viewers … The uploader, Ezsebas, asks on youtube to put on difererent versions of the same video ( tip from cousin Jan )… well I made one…

“Ready or not, here I come!” I made a movie to a song I recorded here at home on my mac….

“Whisky, sample, sample, whisky, sample ….” Famously he (Tommy Cooper) was once standing for several minutes behind the curtain at the start of a televised show, and the audience, knowing he was there, was in hysterics before he even appeared.

“dinner for one”

While he has a knack for getting adult fingers wagging, the desire to tap the fears and free imagination of childhood is at the heart of Cunningham’s creative process. He explains: “When I draw, whatever comes out is what comes out naturally. I don’t see it as ‘dark’. You’re trying to work instinctively, to make [...]

to Weapon of Choice by Fatboy Slim ….

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a shortfilm by Yousaf Ali Kan: A young boy realizes the impact of trying to preserve the fictitious idea of what is normal. (The website.)

What do a doctor, his hot wife, a cross-dressing psychopath and a mob boss have in common?

As a morning routine, a dentist looks out of the window and observes the eagles. When a clock beats six times, he starts to polish dentures at the accompaniment of a double-bass played by his son. The daily harmony is interrupted by a captain seeking absolution.

This short by Servais, dedicated to the memory of Paul Delvaux, is literally an animation, in that it brings alive some of the Belgian Surrealist’s most famous paintings.

“Here we are at the threshold. This is the most important moment of your lives. You have to know that here your most cherished wish will come true. The most sincere one. The one reached through suffering.”
An essay on the movie STALKER by Tarkovski (I met him in Italy!!!!) I like the most [...]

A giant mysterious building resembling medieval cathedral possesses visiting pilgrim and unveils its enigma precisely at sunrise.

Matthew Barney is a contemporary artist who works with film, video, installations, sculpture, photography, drawing and performance art. Barney has described himself as being primarily a sculptor. New York Times art critic Michael Kimmelman called Barney “the most important American artist of his generation.” Barney’s work has been described as being part of “the [...]

it’s free, illegal and has crappy quality, what else could you wish for?

he is our king of the ‘levenslied’ and we asked him to do a ‘tapijtconcert’ for us…

We invited Myrddin to play a ‘tapijtconcert’. Myrddin is the youngest son of the famous Belgian multi-instrumentalist Koen De Cauter. Under the wings of his father he learns, at a young age, to play the clarinet (mainly jazz and Gipsy style).

BBC Motion Gallery. Impressive and beautiful clips from around the world

I just saw the movie “walkabout” by Nicolas Roeg with the beautifull (then!) Jenny Agutter….A guy named Polexia put the whole movie on youtube…

The Moon over Mtatsminda
My eyes have never seen the moon so lovely as tonight;
In silence wrapt it is the breathless music of the night.
Moonbeams embroider shadows with fine thread of silver light;
O, eyes have never seen the sky so lovely as tonight! …

know this one? We’re ( groep arthur )creating a new technical show for the pinguins in the antwerp zoo, here we find some inspiration ….

Mmmm, looking at my last few posts, my come back as a logger doesn’t have much artistic niveau. But what the heck, they made me laugh!

I made a short movie with samples of a musictheatreplay I made and put it on music by Jan Garbarek. Use headphones …!  Hope you like it!?!

some adds on safe airbags. You see how quick a car accident happens…

The Real Hustle is a BBC television series made by Objective Productions demonstrating confidence and magic tricks, distraction scams and proposition bets …

Michael McDonald plays Apple founder Steve Jobs and introduces Apple’s latest product the “iRack.”…

you do know Jacques Brel, don’t you? You do know Don Quichotte, don’t you? …

an amazing animation painted on wall…

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George Lucas in Love is an independent short film that started attracting notice in June 1999 when it was passed around Hollywood offices as a filmmaker’s “calling card”. Many wrongly think it was a student film, but its makers had been out of film school for a few years when it was shot. It [...]

what keeps mankind alive ….?

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.” — William Shakespeare

“Thriller” as performed by inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center. 5 stars for the man in drag, and all the stars before me for somehow convincing a prison full of convicts to take performing Thriller this seriously. …

I saw David Lynch’s ‘Mulholland drive‘ ( trailer )last night. one of the highlites in the film is the song: “Llorando” or “Crying” Written by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson Performed by Rebekah Del Rio …

Jennifer Steinkamp is an installation artist who works with video and new media
in order to explore ideas about architectural space, motion, and perception…

Richard Dawkins takes a stab at why we’re here, using science and reason to back up his answer. It’s an interesting and inspiring perspective on an old question.

a Royskopp song

… I fell in love with a animation … !!! a very erotic animation.

“Lifted”: When an overconfident teen alien gets behind the controls of a spaceship…

imagination is the ability to form mental images… but too much is too much …

pixar-like animation… a 9 minute 3D animation written and produced by Till Nowak in 2005. The fantastic story and surrealistic visuals accompanied by the score by Andreas and Matthias Hornschuh have been screened at more than 100 filmfestivals worldwide and won more than 30 international awards.

The monks were 5 American GI’s in cold war Germany who billed themselves as the anti-Beatles; they were heavy on feedback, nihilism and electrical banjo…

A few years ago a jukebox owned by John Lennon was discovered. On it were 40 of the famous musician’s favorite tunes. This is a documentary about the songs on that Jukebox and the influence they had on the Beatles.

In the Bestseller ‘Misquoting Jesus,’ Agnostic Author Bart Ehrman Picks Apart the Gospels That Made a Disbeliever Out of Him…

No matter how you feel about Michael Jackson, you GOTTA love his midget clone…

Claudia Philips, a talented young Belgian balletdancer, made a choreografie for us and I made a short movie of it on music by Miles Davis …

Helpdesk support back in the day of the middle age with English subtitles. Original taken from the show “Øystein og jeg” on Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK)in 2001. With Øystein Backe (helper)and Rune Gokstad (desperate monk). Written by Knut Nærum.

Interesting video showing Laminar Flow and demonstrating fluid flowing in layers. Very cool! Filmed at the University of New Mexico - Physics Department.

be open minded …

I love her and her work, and now she made a new movie …

“the future is so bright”

So how ya doin? You havin’ a good time?
Time. Climb. Lime. Dime. Them’s some words that rhyme with time.
And speaking of time. You’re gonna have a good time at my new movie, “Man on the Moon”!! …

30 years of a song …

Biochemistry project that I found on the net. …

Fantastic performance: a great combination of strength, acting and harmony.
A must see!

a funny candid camera movie…

once in a while… it helps to look at life in low-key propotions, doesn’t it? …

“300 Spartans”:
French long jumper Salim Sdiri lies on the ground after being speared by a javelin in a freak accident at the Athletics IAAF Golden Gala in Rome’s Olympic Stadium. The javelin had been launched by Finland’s Tero Pitkamaki as he seemed to lose his footing at the other side of the arena.

Here is the video highlighting the mistakes in the famous chase scene of Mission Impossible 2…

It took animator/filmmaker Piotr Kamler nearly half a decade to make this fantastic animated 3-D sci-fi film that is set in a futuristic city inhabited by powerful immortals who are utterly bored with the idea of eternity and so begin playing with time.

last month, we had a show in Beda, Holland. This is the tissue act part, Evelien made for us, on music by Bregovic, played live by The Kirke String Quartet …

Swedish filmers are crazy ….

Wonderfully subtle and delicate. The best and most refined animation I have ever seen in my life, to say DOG, by Suzie Templeton, is a masterpiece is an understatement!”

yab yum and don’t you dare to move … (for a better love experience…)

Oscar-nominated short film about a man employed in a copy shop, who makes photocopies of himself until they fill up the entire world.

Do watch out for your back!!!…

art is a personal matter… revisited.

just a film… Stooges, the weirdness….

this is an amazing, good told, safari story, made in one camerashot!!! see it out!!! UNITED WE STAND…

Some parodies I think you will like….

Mr. Praline: Look, matey, I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I’m looking at one right now. Owner: No no he’s not dead, he’s, he’s restin’! …

My colleges and I have our most creative meetings always in the same and most ugly café in town. The creative people behind PIXAR seem to have the same habit… Pixar just released a teaser trailer for their newest movie, Wall•E.

some photos, some mp3, his lyrics, … just because we like his work…

Craig Ferguson (born 17 May 1962) is a Scottish comedian, actor, writer and talk show host. He is the current host of CBS’s The Late Late Show, a role which earned him an Emmy nomination in 2006. I didn’t knew the man (I don’t watch television…) untill I saw a show on Youtube. I [...]

“If I said, ‘This is a terrible thing that we are doing to the planet,’ than people will either agree or disagree. By not saying what people should see, that may allow them to see their world a little differently… It’s not a simple ‘right or wrong’ – it needs a whole new way of [...]

(Selfnamed) ‘Super-producer’ Timbaland (Timothy Z. Mosley) has stamped his indelible imprint on the music scene since the mid-1990s. His production has helped create career-defining hits for artists such as Jodeci, Aaliyah, Ginuwine, Missy Elliott, Destiny’s Child, Ludacris, Snoop Dogg and Jay-Z, among many others. Respected beyond the genres of urban and hip hop [...]

How does this start? Someone says: ‘hey, let’s make a vegetable orchestra’?

john lennon “mother”

Frank sinatra “the coffee song”:

500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art

Another old one! Those Japanese…

Film réalisé par les étudiants suivant la 3ème année de spécialisation en animation de personnages 3D, GOBLINS. Par Gabriel GELADE, Mehdi LEFFAD, Anthony MENARD, Matthieu POIREY. Musique : Vincent EHRHART DEVAY.

proud father
It’s doctor’s birthday today, and guess what…
My first child will be born today!

Open book (”a livre ouvert”) Film réalisé comme court métrage d’ouverture pour le Festival International du Film d’Animation (FIFA) d’Annecy 2005. Par Iris Bonavitacola, Virginie Hanrigou, Carole Maurel, Augustin Paliard,
Raphaël Lev, étudiants de la formation Dessinateur d’animation.

Film réalisé comme court métrage d’ouverture pour le Festival International du Film d’Animation (FIFA) d’Annecy 2005. Par Antoine Birot, Cecile Coulibeuf, Benjamin Marsaud, Lisa Paclet, Caroline Piochon, étudiants de la formation Dessinateur d’animation, Goblins.

With no disrespect to the more popular sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigada, in my humble opinion, Claudia was the most exotic and invigorating of the major Italian glamour girls of the fifties and sixties. With her signature raspy voice, large innocent schoolgirls’ eyes and lusty Renoir figure, the amatory powers of Claudia Cardinale were [...]

“Super tibetan racer” Film réalisé comme court métrage d’ouverture pour le Festival International du Film d’Animation (FIFA) d’Annecy 2005. Par Christelle Abgrall, Anaïs Chevillard, Bernard Ling, Kosal Sok, Jun Violet, étudiants de la formation Dessinateur d’animation, Goblins.

“Le piment” Film réalisé comme court métrage d’ouverture pour le Festival International du Film d’Animation (FIFA) d’Annecy 2005. Par Pierre Ducos, David Etien, Louis de la Taille, Julie Serviere, Pierre Tricoire, étudiants de la formation Dessinateur d’animation, Goblins.

Film réalisé comme court métrage d’ouverture pour le Festival International du Film d’Animation (FIFA) d’Annecy 2005.Par Sonia Demichelis, Olivier Daube, Wilfried Pain, Bertrand Piocelle,Jean-Vincent Sales, étudiants de la formation Dessinateur d’animation, Goblins.

Film réalisé par les étudiants suivant la 3ème année de spécialisation en animation de personnages 3D, GOBELIN. Par Vincent EHRHART DEVAY, Benjamin MALARTRE, Barthélemy MAUNOURY, Mathieu VIG en 2004

Belgium is the homeland of the surrealists. Grand Master René Magritte still inspires tons of artists to look at the world in a different way. Some examples:

“Motus et bouche cousue”: Film réalisé par Adrien Soyty LIV, Grégory MOUGNE, Coline VEITH en 2004…

I just saw the movie “somersault”. Try to see it!!!! I added a link to the site and a trailer…. Years ago a was a big fan of the, also Australian, moviemaker Paul Cox.  In his film ‘man of flowers‘ (1983) he uses also very poetical images, like trees in front of the sun, [...]

this guy could go for a job at cirque du soleil….

What is laundry?
Movie with a nice French-English-German soundtrack:

A short film about outsourcing call centers to other countries while in this case mainly India. This has won Best Comedy at the Riverside International Film Festival 2006 as well as Best Short Film at the Nominee VC Film Festival 2006.

Explorers from outer space land on earth and learn about the statue of limitations when it comes to communicating with earthlings.
Une équipe d’explorateurs extraterrestres arrivent sur terre à la recherche d’autres formes de vie intelligente….

dedicated to the collegues….!

There has been a lot of talk since the first teaser of “Cars,” way back in the Fall of 2004, where some felt that the idea of talking cars was a step backwards for Pixar. However, the idea of animating a car looks as difficult as it took to imbue fish in “Finding Nemo” with [...]

Todays sorrows are not what they were in 11th century China.
a poem:

I love this eight-and-a-half minute infomercial about the making of Snow White. This clip illustrates the process from start to finish. It turns out, the secret to making good cartoons is directly proportional to how many pretty girls you have inking the cells….