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the latest poster in our ‘jump’ series for the new season of the dutch national ballet 2012-13, image shot by mister ‘ruud baan’

this particular poster is for 1001 nights a community project involving various local ‘ethnic’ dance groups, hence the location amsterdam’s ‘sloterplas’ park in west…

m / 03-10-2012 07:48 - tags: ,  

shovel

spotted by friend ‘sami’ in moscow recently… a russian makeshift shovel

m / 03-10-2012 07:38 - tags: ,  

nsm: painter

following on from his first official monograph ‘calligraffiti’ several years back ‘shoe’ is busy, as ever, releasing a 2nd book, around about now; entitled simply: ‘niels shoe meulman: painter’

m / 02-10-2012 09:19 - tags: , ,  

music – design ’12

yet another design festival… except this one is outside of amsterdam (or even western holland) for a change, at a former orphanage (turned pop temple) in the sunny city of ‘deventer’

the ‘music & design festival’ or mad fest for short is the brainchild of one fella: peter kortleve and he has managed to organise a whole new festival in an incredibly short period, the first edition will be taking place on the 27th of october (3 weeks) and will feature, 5 bands or musicians, 5 designers & 5 lectures, of which i am one…

there are numerous ‘shows’ planned during the one-day event on the theme of ‘music & design’ and i am looking forward to another trip outside of these city walls and a chance to meet some new inspiring people, see you there maybe?…

only three weeks left to think of how to explain my long-standing yet vague relationship with music…

m / 02-10-2012 08:51 - tags: , ,  

information gold

congratulations to the winners of the ‘information is beautiful’ awards london, including my mate peter ørntoft who deservedly picked up gold for his wonderful & much-publicised ‘information in context’ series

m / 02-10-2012 08:31 - tags: , ,