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a dancefilm choreographed by Mats Ek, in 3 parts ….

do you like music?  I mean the real stuff.  Music from the people, world music, roots music?  Then you should learn about Tony Gatlif, the film director.  Go to the videothèque or library and get yourself some journey’s…

a nice flashgame…

And this I dreamt, and this I dream,
And some time this I will dream again,

david bowie and bing crosby: little drummer boy…

I will post no more.  (I know, never say never again, ) thank you for the coffee (1905581 visits!!)

just this one photo!!! I like this image really very much.  An excelent moment!  A strong image full of tenderness. I am convinced they had a very good life. The symbiosis shown by the position of their body parts is great. It is very impressive when we look not only at their faces, but also [...]

Absolutely amazing recitation of the Holy Qur’an by a young boy. It left me speechless. Can’t get enough of this recitation. He is blessed with a beautiful voice. His name is Hasan bin Abdullah Al Awadh. It reminded me of that part in our Holy Bible when the child Jesus was missing and the [...]

today it’s ‘sinterklaas‘ day ( saint nicolas, santa claus, Νικόλαος, Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, … )

Jonathan Trappe, a Cluster balloonist, or a  chair-balloonist, sitting in his own office chair, flying 5 km high above mother earth, with only balloons…

Arno  sings “Mother’s Little Helper”, a song of the Rolling Stones during a live performance in Brussels.

offering fantastic views over the city centre.

De beklimming van deMechelse  Sint-Romboutstoren is een echte uitdaging voor durvers. Het panorama vanop dit 97 meter hoge gebouw is adembenemend, de 513 treden ernaartoe ook…

Flemish: 1cm x 6cm, French: 7mm x 6cm…. you take your potatoes and cut off the edges (pareren), you cut them in slices of 1 cm thickness, prox. 6cm long,

…” Watch this face painting of everyones favorite villian come to life as i move my face. Face paint art by artist James Kuhn” …

well, some of us….

Annie’s campaing …

I don’t know. I get the idea, yes, but, … I don’t know… girl, woman, why do you wear them?  against the cold? Yes, I know, I know, to flatten the lines, for beauty sake, I know, ….

excercise: try to focus on the face …on the face, the eyes! … focus!!!!

Sound and Visions by Larry Carlson, 2005
WARNING!!! - Watching this video will cause a sense of weightlessness; a time distortion, both of speed and slowing down; a tingling sensation on the skin,similar to that of mild electricity; an increase in the skin temperature; a tranquilizing effect on the nervous system; and finally, very graphic dreams [...]

Fyi: Every February 9 it’s time to commemorate the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of Muhammad at the Battle of Karbala in the year 61 AH (AD 680). This tradition is better known as Ashura and is very popular amongst Shia Muslims. Many choose to spend the day performing mourning rituals or passion [...]

…running through the graveyard, we laughed my friends and I, we swore we’d be together, until the day we died, until the day we died.
It’s such a sad old feeling, the fields are soft and green, it’s memories that I’m stealing, but you’re innocent when you dream, when you dream, you’re innocent when you dream…

In 1930 Bartosch moved to Paris and created the 30 minute film entitled “The Idea”

What happened to the kids? Why did they die? Aren’t policeman not trained to protect them? Who knows the story behind this drama? Who can explain?

“Parliament voted on 28th October for the world-beating legislation after a 3 and a half year campaign by Friends of the Earth.” good!  but there is more to do… Look at this movie, filmed in my hometown Ostend, by Nic Balthazar, a friend.

you don’t need drugs!!!

Over the course of my life, I’ve probably seen close to 1,000 movies. Maybe half of those films contained a sex scene of one kind or another. Yet out of a whopping 500 sex scenes, I can only recall about a dozen… but, sex sells…

Why did the chicken ever cross the road? is one of the oldest and most famous joke riddles still in use in the English language. The most common answer to this riddle is “To get to the other side.” When asked at the end of a series of other riddles, whose answers are clever, obscure, [...]

the art of pouring colored sands onto a surface to make a painting.

don’t maximize your screen: they do it for you!!!!!!!

he has a nice absurd collection of pictures, always with the same two models …

A woman gives a microphone the ol’ tongue polishing in the name of performance art. …

Interessting stuff I heard on the radio this morning …… Reduced Dominance Is Predicted for U.S.: Analyst Previews Report to Next President

No one could foresee that a farmer’s girl  would once play a major part in the big Medieval struggle between France and England,

the art of Pscal Renoux.

check this list of names people invent for a meal made with leftovers !

a poetical short video by good friend and wonderfull photographer Katrijn Van Giel …

What more could you want from your own micro robotic creature? Tiny.  Intelligent.  Obedient…

this song makes her happy ( dixit my daughter about the song ’secret heart’ by Feist) …

can’t you hear me knocking, @ your window … ? ( a hughe audience, rythm, soul, passion, going with the flow … ) …

Richard Williams’ (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) unfinished magnum opus, based upon the 1001 nights.  Because it was in production from 1964 until 1995, a total of 31 years, The Thief and the Cobbler holds the record for having the longest production time for a motion picture in history Running time: 1 hour 37 mins

I like to post his street art …

mama afrika died on stage …

an impression of where we spend our summers …

now that I’m learning to work with Sketchup, trying to create a 3D model of a venue we want to use for a busness fair, I stumble upon this video…

One of Belgiums finest photographers… “Black!!! No gray!” …

Mtv lauched a new videocollection, free to embed (but no music outside the U.S.???, the bastards…) …  here we go!

( cleaning up my bookmarks …) a butty link to a butt website …

What if you watch a film and whenever you pause it, you face a painting? This idea inspired Reza Dolatabadi to make Khoda. Over 6000 paintings were painstakingly produced during two years to create a five minutes film that would meet high personal standards. Khoda is a psychological thriller; a student project which was seen [...]

could Matthew Barney be inspired by Alejandro Jodorowsky ? …

The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney’s interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto.

Matthew Barney is a one-man Baroque revival. Excess and overloaded images of prosthetically made-up mutant creatures in gorgeous costumes, ornate interiors, satyrs and nymphs. “His work is not about excess, but the emptiness inside excess”. The Cremaster series includes 5 films shot on video. There are almost no spoken words, just like in Drawing Restraint [...]

Nominated as Most Creative Video 2007 YouTube Awards…

From 1956 to 1962 - at only 10 years of age - Anthony Christian was granted the privilege of studying the techniques of the “Old Masters” at the National Gallery in London and the accolade of publicity he received during this period announced him to the world as a child prodigy. Throughout his time and [...]

Peter Bratt has been drawing erotic art since the 1980’s, firstly with pen and ink, then pencil and airbrush. During the 1990’s he discovered the computer as a medium for painting and from that point stopped using his airbrush completely.

As I was looking through the surreal art to find my inspiration I was struck by how many pictures mixed the realism of something we know with the unexpected. Especially in the case of René Magritte, Surrealism isn’t a fantasy world where nothing is what we expect.

The queen of photoshop ads ….

Niets heeft me ooit weerhouden om te tekenen en te schilderen.
Al van kleinsaf heb ik leren communiceren zonder woorden…

cousin  Jan made a nice poetical impression of his staying @ La Bastidi…

paintings…

a last serie on tattoo

skin, paper, perkament, poetry, remembering, motivation, goal, me, myself, I, ….

Graduation film for MA in animation at the Royal College of Art. An investigative and exploratory hands–on gloves-off study into the practice of putting things ‘off’. Sometimes the only way to get something done is to do two dozen other things first. Sound design by Mike Wyeld, with a voice over by Bryan Quinn.

I’m into tattoo.  It intrigues me… symbols, lines, pain, art, …

Adam and Jamie, hots of the known mythbusters show compared a CPU vs a GPU to explain parallel processing and the GPU drew an  mona lisa drawing using paint balls in 80 milliseconds…

«Politics makes strange bedfellows» and others…

… Japi Honoo is a subterranean, rushing stream, invisible to the eyes of those who dont’ dare put their ears to the ground to feel its vibrations. She gushes from darkness, merging crystal clear and muddy waters…

How great is this short animated film about an octopus love affair / car chase by a group of Gobelins animation students?

Another video on music by my son Wolfram. My daughter, Gudrun, (and our dog, Choco) dances in it.

I made a new video, on music by my son, Wolfram, and Esse danced on it.

“  secrets tumbling from my heart … erotic thoughts ….  ohhh! … such treats in store …”

… Does not really matter who I am or where I come from, the world has no borders.
my illustrations speak for me ….

….. my profession is Garden Architecture….

Donibane Sanjuan: “It is not who I am… it is what I have created”

We do have a strange sort of passion with knights… and their entourage….

2 dance video’s

Jacques Brel “isabelle”

if you like Ingmar Bergman films you will sure like this photos…

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

and more …

I love the story!  One day I’ll make a stageplay with it … for adults of course…

a facebook friend: Larry Carlson is a visionary multi media artist. Working with computers he creates artwork that is completely mind blowing.

a facebook friend of mine: Larry Carlson has exhibited his artwork in museums and galleries in the U.S., Brazil, Sweden, France, and Germany. Recently the Museum of Modern Art ( MOMA ) in New York exhibited his collage art books in the show Book/Shelf, and his movies were shown at Alex Grey’s COSM (Chapel of [...]

Experimental computer animation by german artist Robert Seidel. …

A brief compilation of shows we made the last years ….

a facebook friend on mine: Larry Carlson is a visionary multi media artist. Working with computers he creates artwork that is completely mind blowing.

It is no wonder  that Ian Norbury should work with wood, a raw material that is so tactile, warm and sensual. It can also be hard and unforgiving, but with Ian this is a true union of man and material, the one complementing the other to the greatest possible effect.

a facebook friend on mine : As a child growing up in northern New Jersey, Larry Carlson spent a lot of time drawing and began to keep a sketchbook at an early age. His artist’s attention has always been captivated by both nature and technology.

I like to listen to Synchronicity, looking at this pictures:”Daddy only stares into the distanceThere’s only so much more that he can take.  Many miles away something crawls from the slime At the bottom of a dark Scottish lake….” 

(once this was a plain rock, Antonio Canova carved that wonderfull statue out of it… )
“Oh foolish Psyche, is it thus you repay my love? After I disobeyed my mother’s commands and made you my wife, will you think me a monster and cut off my head? But go; return to your sisters, whose advice [...]

German artist Michael Najjar is fascinated by scenarios for the future of mankind. In his large-format photographs and video works, he creates a simultaneously exciting and disturbing picture of human beings as artificial, technological beings (I wander if his mother knows this?) …

Hannablue:”one for the boys and the girls, completely over the top, and a bestranging view.
Ballerina’s…”

… that’s the name this female Russian photoghaper uses, and I believe she does …

hannablue:” sweet combination” Written by Anoushka Shankar & Norah Jones from the “breathing under water” album with Karsh Kale.

“… you can leave your hat on …”

維基百科，自由的百科全書
鈴木春信（すずきはるのぶ，英譯Suzuki Harunobu， 1724年－1770年），是日本浮世繪畫家。早年在京都學藝。首創多色印刷版畫。1765年在江戶領導了木刻「繪曆」的創製。之後到去世的五年之內創作了20多本插圖書和600 幅木刻。他以創作美人畫最著名，畫的多是詩意環境中身材纖巧的少女。也創作了一些春畫。( I think it says: lonely woman, paited by Suzuki Harunobu …. )

Hannablue: “feed the inspiration with this image of a very exceptional sitar playing muze
experimantal. ” (Anoushka, the daughter of Ravi Shankar and sister of norah jones….)

Suzuki Harunobu (鈴木春信) (1724 – 1770) was a Japanese woodblock print artist, one of the most famous in the Ukiyo-e style. He was an innovator, the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu used many special techniques, and depicted a wide variety of [...]

Hannablue:” dance, art, or genius? “

The Garden Of Eros
IT is full summer now, the heart of June,
Not yet the sun-burnt reapers are a-stir
Upon the upland meadow where too soon
Rich autumn time, the season’s usurer,
Will lend his hoarded gold to all the trees,
And see his treasure scattered by the wild and spendthrift breeze.

Sensual, and almost sinister at the same time…

Hannablue :”slow listening….”

Korean dance performance …

different kinds of blue …