♥ URBAN TYPOGRAPHY WORKSHOP AT OOSTERDOK APRIL 3-4
€200 will get you a ticket into working with grafitti artist ZedZ, artist Wayne Horse, and graphic designer Mirthe Blussé for two whole days on guerilla style type. Walls not included in lab fee.
♥ AT THE BOY WASH, YEAH!
Proving that there really is a Nintendo DS games out there for everyone, Duel Love teaches the importance of cleaning your man from top to toe.
♥ CRAFT YOUR ASS OFF
Q&A session about where and how you should see your wares at craft fairs.
♥ BAS KOSTERS – OPEN?
Was being interviewed while these pictures were taken, so I don’t know if he’s open or if those stuffed creations are for sale.
Oudezijds Achterburgwal 82
1012 DR Amsterdam
www.baskosters.com
♥ WREEEEEETCHES!!!
Gears 2 Announced (from the site): “So by now there’s a slight chance you’ve heard something about…(blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah)… November 2008.” Yes, jeez, thank you.
♥ THE TEXTILE COLLECTION OF BENNO PREMSELA
Illustrator for such companies as De Bijenkorf (for display windows), and Van Besouw (for carpets), his designs will be on display at the Utrecht Centraal Museum from March 8th-12th. On side note, currently on exhibition is a collection of iconic fashion pieces throughout time as told by the medium of film.
Much to many people’s surprise, most of Amsterdam is built on sand. The city itself is in a constant state of repair and improvement which makes the removable unmortared bricks quite handy in any plumbing situation or for any football-related violence. It also happens to be a very convenient way for a small country to expand and contract in the only direction they have left – out into the ocean.
RECLAIMED LAND FOR YOU, ME, THE FLOWERS, AND THE TREES Leading the way in the creation of coastlines is the taco-kicking capital of the world, the Netherlands. As the unofficial experts of land reclamation, the Dutch have perfected the process of dredging the sea to create and extend land mass in a way that infinitely changes not only the way that the country looks, but who inhabitats it.
In creating Flevoland, the surburban island area to the east of Amsterdam, not only were new residential homes made for humans, but for animals as well. A big chunk called the Oostvaardersplassen was left untouched and remains to this day a nature reserve for birds and animals.
Rotterdam is next on the list to receive a land extension that will also include an environmental bonus in the form of a marine reserve. The project, called Maasvalte 2, will have additional 20 hectacres tacked on to the south of the port by 2014.
Looking for ticker symbols for research and technological consultant agencies such as Delft Hydraulics and Royal Haskonings is a personal stock tip from me to you. Construction just outside my very home sees Oosterdok change a tiny island containing abandoned office buildings to an expanded mini-peninsula of art, music, and culture. Home now to the new OBA Centraal Library and (soon) the Music Conservatory, eventually the project will also include new housing and shopping developments.
[UPDATE] More images from the construction around Centraal Station. Here are two aerial views from the quarterly nieuwsbrief I get from the Centraal Stationsieland peeps in full color, for free!
♥ SETH ROGAN RUNS NORTH BY NORTHWEST!
Vanity Fair reinvents 11 of Hitchcock’s finest moments by capturing them on film with the celebrities of today. Included in the slideshow are Jodie Foster trapped in a telephone booth somewhere in Monterey (which is strange because I could of sworn she should would have made a dead ringer for “Marni”), and Hugh Laurie as Jimmy Stewart in a wheelchair (almost doppelganger, btw).
While I was gone for last two days touring my lovely American friend through my favorite parts of Amsterdam, I found some interesting new developments!
♥ NEW DESIGNERS ARE MOVING INTO NIEUWMARKT, NOT JUST THE RED LIGHT!
RSS Readers, check out the images of the new studios here.
♥ BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: PICTURES OF THE BICYCLES AT THE FIETSFABRIEK
RSS Readers, check out the images of the bicycle factory creations here.
Details of the upcoming Nacht Salon event are finally available at the N8 Website. Along with Artis the Partis and Alien the Palien, dj’s Yuro & Trago and KC the Funkaholics from Kindred Spirits will be at the planetarium to make sure the sounds match the sights. Govert Schilling explains the meaning of the mysterious Planet X while J. Walt exhibits his live animation performance, Spontaneous Fantasia for a mere €7- if you buy a ticket ahead of time.
Leading the way in the creation of coastlines is the taco-kicking capital of the world, the Netherlands. As the unofficial experts of 
