Dali to Derry in a day

Dalí The Endless Enigma (incl. Gaudí & Recoding Entropia)

Today, we visited the Dali exhibition in Fabrique des Lumieres. A fascinating light show has been constructed in the former factory at the Westergasfabriekterrein in Amsterdam. The show is supported by intimidating music from Pink Floyd, mostly from Dark Side of the Moon.

Dalí The Endless Enigma (incl. Gaudí & Recoding Entropia)
Dalí The Endless Enigma (incl. Gaudí & Recoding Entropia)
Dalí The Endless Enigma (incl. Gaudí & Recoding Entropia)

Back home, we binge-watched Derry Girls on Netflix, a delightfully insane series about a group of young people in Northern Ireland. The show was supported by “Teenage Kicks” of The Undertones, one of the most effective songs ever if you listen carefully.

Drawing has to come out of your body

Linda Barry - the two questions find everybody

Linda Barry:

One of the things you’ll hear people say, when they tell me they wish they could draw, is, “I see it in my head, but I can’t get it onto the page.” And then I have to remind them that what they’re seeing in their head is not a drawing. Drawing is something that has to come out of your body.

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My task — and it can be done within 30 minutes — is to get them past that. … The easiest way to do that is to have them close their eyes and draw. … The trick is to show them that there’s another kind of drawing that is very different than representational drawing

New work: Albini digital prints

Steve Albini
Albine 1

New work. Digital prints, 40x40cm, limited edition. I think I’ve been done with digital work for a while now. There are a few more to go, but analog work is also coming.

Steve Albini
Albini 2
Steve Albini
Albini 3

Amazon makes us pay too much

Amazon makes us pay too much, which is friendly phrasing for Amazon rips off all off.

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2023-11-06-attention-rents-consumer-welfare-queens-fa3475adb465

Don’t buy through Amazon anymore. I quit.

https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/3645/

Tamar Frank’s redefining Light Space in Hilversum

Another video of work by Tamar Frank in Museum Hilversum. From our visit yesterday.

Popel, Light Spaces, time travel

De Rijcke

I visited my mother yesterday. A cousin of hers (what’s that to me?) delved into the family history, and it produced new material that I am now taking with me. Old photos of my grandfather’s brother and their parents, and even further back. It’s going into the archives.

I see myself, an age ago.

I drove on to Museum Hilversum and saw the exhibition. Popel Coumou and Tamar Frank have arranged Light Spaces. I was especially curious about Popel Coumou’s work. I had heard of her in the podcast Springvossen and seen her work online, but I did not know Tamar Frank’s work.

Passing the cash register in Museum Hilversum is a small task for someone who is not that keen on conversation. The extremely friendly staff wants to explain the exhibition and the building in which the museum is located, the old city hall, where even the prison is still preserved – in the women’s restroom – I now know.

Eventually, I am let loose in the museum. Light Spaces is inspiring. Very rewarding.

Tamar Frank Light Spaces
Tamar Frank

Outside, It just won’t stop raining.

Wellington for Beginners picture-collage-video

In the series New Zealand for Beginners, I made a new picture-collage video about our stay in Wellington.

Gig report foto/videos Urgent Kill, Dying for it, Tomar Control @ Manifesto

Yesterday made two videos of the images I took at gigs of punk bands, in July and September. I hope the videos make you feel the energy released at these concerts.

Urgent Kill, Dying for it, Tomar Control @ Manifesto, Hoorn:

New Zealand videos from Rotorua and Napier trips

Got up very early this morning with lots of energy. I finished reading Figuranten, which ends a bit in a minor way. At least that’s how I feel about it.

Made two videos from photos of our New Zealand trip. Then I was so tired I had to lie down again.

Music by Citizen DJ. Very good and not the usual YouTube ladida songs.

Boijmans in het Rijks

Gisteren geen werkdag dus zelf dingen doen. Boijmans in het Rijks bekijken. Flitscamera mee en onderweg experimenteren.

Snel boodschappen gedaan en de hond uitgelaten en onderweg.

Boijmans is in de Philips hoek. Ik dwaal door de gangen met topwerken.

Wat is het hoogtepunt van Boijmans in het Rijks? Ik moet er verrassend veel moeite voor doen met dit voor de geest te halen. De kamer van Yayoi Kusama denk ik. Heb er een filmpje van gemaakt. En de bekende foto van Cindy Sherman. De Toren van Babel van Pieter Brueghel, de oude.

Het is een beetje een potpourri, hoewel de opbouw thematisch is.