vrijdag 30 oktober 2009

Want

The first official single from Natalies new ablum "Come To Life"
I like it a lot. It was co-written with Chris Martin (Coldplay)

More information about Natalie click here

vrijdag 16 oktober 2009

Mistery Shirt


Today I was complaining about all the choices we have in a shop. I cannot choose and despite of all the choices there is nothing I like. Someone must have heard me complain about this because I've just read an article about an online shirt shop where you cannot choose your shirt.
Just a few things they want to know.
1. Male or female.
2. Size.
3. Which colour you really dislike.
4. Answer a few questions.
5. Your shirt will be send to you based on information above.

If you really hate the shirt they have send you, you can always send it back.

More information here.

Dutch Design Week

More information here

donderdag 8 oktober 2009

Celebration?!

Today I finally received my copy of the celebration DVD. I ordered it from abroad so I had to wait a bit longer. Let me start off on a positive note, the DVD set contains 47 videos on 2 DVDs. Most of her hits are on here some are missing and if I could make my own I would make some changes. But hey there’s only so much room on a 2 DVD set ;-)

Now on to the video picture quality… what happened here?? The quality is way below standard. They claim that the videos are digitally re-mastered from the original tapes but I wonder how the re-mastering is done. Even more recent videos are a bit grainy, blurry and sometimes pixilation. For some strange reason they choose to use single layer discs. I guess they had to use compression to fit all the data on a single layer disc which resulted in a lower picture quality. Another sad thing is that each video is in the 4:3 letterbox format. Why??

The audio is generally ok but stick with the PCM stereo track. There’s also a 5.1 audio mix, but this is simulated and sounds terrible.

For some reason they censored Justify My Love and the promised unedited and never before seen footage of Justify My Love is not on the disc!

There really is no excuse for this to happen, especially from a company as large as Warner and an artist as big as Madonna. Great collection, bad production!

woensdag 7 oktober 2009

Real Time

This evening I saw on tv a new project from Maarten Baas. It are clocks called grandfather clock, sweepers clock and analog digital clock. It are realtime movies filmed over 12 or 24 hours. In the "grandfather clock" you see a film of a man, drawing the hands of a clock. In the "sweepers clock" you see some people making the hands of a clock, by sweeping garbage all day long. In the "anolog digital clock" you see someone change the digits. There are only three grandfather clocks made and the price is about €60.000,- The other clocks you can buy on dvd and are about €600,- each.

Grandfather Clock


Sweepers Clock


Analog Digital Clock


Impression

zondag 4 oktober 2009

World Animal Day


Zusje and Beertje

Kylie, Kylie, Kylie!

This week Kylies For you For me tour started in the US. It's a short tour to thank her fans in the US for their support over the last years. Why do I like live shows of Kylie so much? What is the difference with other artist like Madonna or Britney? After seeing some videos on Youtube I know. It's the "fun" factor. Kylie really enjoys performing. You see it, you can feel it. And as a bonus she's singing live too. What more could you ask for?!







Two surprising cameos on Saturday Night Live