This is what happens you add up: tilt-shift photography + stop motion video + Nike footwear's production budget + I AMsterdam + a Blogger named Nalden + a look into the creative city = a very cool portrait of Amsterdam, well worth watching!
The IAM1 Amsterdam Journey from Nalden on Vimeo.
3 June, 2009, awesome concert!
Daedelus with visual artist friend TOHYTO rocked the Meet Factory in Prague. The Meet Factory is a squatted post-industrial building on a Prague brownfield.
Daedelus in the Meet Factory
Gig information on Lunchmeat.cz
Meet Factory
Meet Factory
Daedelus at the Meet Factory
Daedelus playing his Menome, an interesting instrument created by Brian Crabtree. Watch a video of Daedelus explaining how it works. Watch an artist interview video with Daedelus.
The World Games Stadium in Kaohsiung, Taiwan was completed in January for the upcoming 2009 games. The astonishing feature of the stadium is the 14,155 m2 solar PV roof which will produce 1.14 gigawatt hours of electricity a year. Furthermore, all materials are local to Taiwan and reusable.
From the World Games website:
The whole construction of the Main Stadium, with a capacity of 40,000 seats, designed by Toyo Ito… an international standard soccer field and facility, ensuring that it is the perfect venue for the opening and closing ceremonies, as well as the Rugby 7s and Flying Disc events. The City of Kaohsiung is particularly proud of this project. During the construction period, no site accidents occurred, while the construction crew successfully overcame the technical difficulties presented by installing spiral steel girders and 8,844 solar panels on the roof.
That’s right, Ultimate is one of the many fringe sports that are part of the World Games, and it will be played in this amazing new stadium! Check out this short promotional video for the new stadium, which opens with a disc being tossed:
I must confess this is the first I have heard of the World Games, which consists of 30 eccentric sports such as water skiing (including water ski jumping), surfing, life saving, tug of war, and bowling… see the entire list. Hopefully this incredible new stadium will increase the event’s visibility.
Stadium under construction via
This website is currently streaming some really great electronic music tracks. I don’t know how much longer the site will be up, so go listen now! 1605
The visual design team for their website is here
We got away from Wagstag for a weekend down to Fontainebleau, France for some bouldering in the famous forests. It rained most of the time we were there, but we still got in a couple of problems and some nice hikes through the woods.
Nels on top of a boulder in the Troi Pignon (Three Pigeon) forest.
Camping near the racetrack.
Coming home to the camp site after a night out in Fontainebleau.
Fog over the racetrack.
Making fire in a cave. Photo by Julia.
Liberation Day in Wageningen this year was an amazing event; the whole city was a giant music festival. There were 19 music stages playing music from 13.00-midnight, each with its own genre including a terrific world music lineup, hip hop, electro, pop, rock & roll, and even a tent for old-people-music. The normally sleepy city was transformed…
From our apartment window I took a 12 hour time-lapse video of the Wageningen Bus Station and compiled this video. While the bus station was not the center of the action, there was a good view of the Veterans Parade and of the masses trying to leave around 23.00. I set the camera up to take a photo each 30 seconds. At night, an interesting effect occurred when the shutter speed was 30 seconds itself, resulting in continuous shooting and streaky light, check it out at the end of the short 2 minute movie:
