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PHOTOGRAPHY: 72 HOURS IN BERLIN
In July, my brother and I went to Berlin, exploring the city’s many fantastic little secrets it’s more than willing to demonstrate. We took some pictures on film, and this week I finally got round to developing the last film roll. I made a selection of that result. All the photos can be found on my Flickr stream.
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Suddenly. History. A lot of it (part deux)
Yesterday I mentioned how I suddenly found three film rolls and have them developed. I won’t post all the photos, but they’re all available here.
What I will show here though, are the pictures I think are the most interesting.
Last.fm doesn’t fuck around.
Pay attention asshole! Fats Waller was dead before your parents were even conceived, don’t you DARE wandering off!
From my TUMBLR page.
Suddenly: history. A lot of it
My last dog was a Siberian Husky. We called him Nomy, because that was his given name by the time we bought him as a two-year old. He was a bit of a chewer as most dogs are, and never really got used to living indoors (therefore most of the time he would sleep in the garden). About ten years ago, Nomy somehow got hold of a number of film rolls that we took of our holidays. He chewed one of them, hard, before we arrested him in the act. Thinking he had destroyed the film roll, but finding it hard to throw it away without knowing it for certain, we put the film rolls away, and forgot about them.
New base: Hongkong
For the coming six months I live, report, create and procrastinate in my other hometown Hongkong. The differences between the country I have grown up in and the country I’ve grown onto are so mindboggingly vast that it’s hard to imagine they’re both on the same planet. I will already miss the sheer convenience of Hongkong once we are moving back to the slow-paced Legoland: The Netherlands. I will write more on this later: first I am going to celebrate the fact that my application for a Hongkong ID card came through.
72 hours in Barcelona
We’ve been recharging our batteries in a beautiful city. Now, fully charged and inspired, we’re ready to rock. Pictures will come.
PROJECT: DISPOSITION
Disposition from David Wieland on Vimeo.
Disposition is a film project I made at the beginning of this year. I had no storyboard at all for this animation. I simply allowed each drawing to be influenced by my creativity, more or less based on each previous drawing. It became a visual stream of consciousness which took me somewhere I never realised I would end up. It was a very entertaining project.
Things I think are awesome: cyberpunks
Imagine the world going batfuck crazy. One nation accidentally chucks a bomb into rival territories, shattering the thin ice of truce, doesn’t matter how it happens: It’s hell on earth. The very foundation upon which our relation with each other is based, crumbles as soon as we realise: it’s every man for himself now. Suddenly you do give a shit that you’re next in queue for the groceries.
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Blow it out your ass
Last week I installed an application that I wish I knew existed a LONG time ago. It’s called the DOS BOX. Yes, this is an MS-DOS emulator. Ahhh, the DOS era: when games were hard as balls, constructed out of sprites and generally a mosaic of pixels. The operating software was relentless, but fair: you fuck up a line of code, it tells you off. The image of a ghost-white C:\> against a pitch black screen left a mark on my retina.
Enter 20 years of development. Games have come a long way from those pixel mosaics. Realistic – yes, but playable? (Continue reading…)
Google logo. lol wut?
Today on 5th of September 2009, Google’s homepage features a doodle which is not unusual. This time however, it’s managed to baffle most of us. Hitherto when Google placed an alteration of their logo, it’s relatively simple to trace back the reason (independence of Korea, Father’s Day, and so on). This time however, the UFO abducting the O leaves us completely stumped. Clicking the logo prompts the search engine to search for ‘unexplained phenomena’. Is it X-Files Day? National Abduction Day?
Google communicated a coded message on Twitter 1.12.12 25.15.21.18 15 1.18.5 2.5.12.15.14.7 20.15 21.19 which reportedly means “All your O are belong to us.” A common reference to the poorly translated Sega Megadrive game Zero Wing. Let’s see how this story unfolds.
It is time.
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