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Rejected competition entry Havenkwartier

This weekend I presented an idea for Ideeënprijsvraag Havenkwartier. The jury consisted of Andries Heidema (mayor of Deventer), Mieke Conijn (director of Kunstenlab) and Aukje Grouwstra (visual artist and designer). I didn’t win.

Patrick Mangnus did, and rightfully so. My own son Hobbe (9) and his project partner Michelle (8) got an honorable mention for their spectacular entry, which was well deserved and made me really proud. They even get to work with Patrick Mangnus on his winning project, the drive-in movie theatre.


Hobbe (left) and Michelle (right) getting interviewed by DTV.

For those of you still interested in my entry, here it is (pdf, in Dutch).

Posted in Other news on May 30th, 2011 | No Comments »

Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto

Sometimes a concert is impressive. And sometimes I write about stuff. And sometimes these two go together really well. This time I was invited by Kicking The Habit to write about a concert I visited yesterday: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto in the Catharina church in Eindhoven. I did so this morning. You can read it here (in Dutch).

Posted in Media, Other news on May 26th, 2011 | No Comments »

ODE2MUM

Some time ago I outlined a basic idea (involving T-shirts) for the ODE2MUM project in a brainstorm session with Claire Bolt, the project leader. I also introduced her to some relevant partners, like Sander op den Dries of Studio Wonder and Jonathan Tan of FATA. Yesterday (Mother’s Day) I was at a presentation in Kunstenlab and the project seems to have worked out great. I also discovered that Claire was kind enough to thank me in the ODE2MUM booklet for my input in the project. Nice.

Posted in Other news on May 9th, 2011 | No Comments »

New website Havenkwartier

The previous website of Havenkwartier Deventer was primarily aimed at art and culture in the area and the creative businesses based there. Now that the development of the Havenkwartier area is getting up to steam, there was a need for more.

On www.havenkwartierdeventer.com you’ll find (in addition to plenty of art & culture) more information about living and working in Havenkwartier Deventer. You can also reach the ‘Culture’ section of this new website through the old domain www.havenkwartier.org.

We now say goodbye to the previous corporate identity of Havenkwartier Deventer, designed by Bart Folmer and also to the previous website, developed by me. The new corporate identity is co-created by: Bestwerk, Studio Wonder and Studio Bart Folmer. The new website was built by Dicode. I have only been instrumental in the development of the new website and in the decision-making process of the corporate identity.

This means I am no longer in charge of the technical aspects of the Havenkwartier website, but I am however still in charge of (half of the) content. I am now officially editor for the Culture and Recreation sections of the new website. The other editor is the municipality of Deventer. I also have (a very limited amount of) time to spend on communication and marketing for these sections.

Oh well. Interesting developments.

Posted in Other news on February 17th, 2011 | No Comments »

Studio Playlists 2010

It’s that time of the year again. Everybody who’s into music is making and/or reading lists. I usually try to keep as far away of listmaking as possible (what’s the use), but for Studio Playlists by Ron van der Ende I gladly make an exception again. It’s getting to be a yearly tradition. Check out all this great music played by artists in their studio’s again this year! My little list is here (in random order).

Check back often, because many more playlists are likely to surface here in the coming weeks. Tracking back to previous years is also interesting.

Posted in Other news on December 7th, 2010 | No Comments »