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 »
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 »
After another thrilling episode of ass-crack stage-hack and a kick-ass first edition of The Diamond Exchange last month (just ask anyone who was there), the next special date is in sight. On June 3 Stranded Horse plays for us at ass-crack stage-hack #13 in Havenkwartier Deventer.
But that is not all. You can also enjoy a promising second edition of The Diamond Exchange with Jan Willem Broek and Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis. This is going to be an interesting meet-up. Really. Take my word for it.
And for all of you who were starting to miss the excellent food by Goestingjockey Jean Klare, you’re in luck. He ‘s back. But there are very few seats left as I write this, so be quick if you want to spoil your tastebuds silly. Make your reservation by mailing harco@escrec.com.
Oh, and I designed the poster again.
Posted in Design, Events on May 24th, 2011 | No Comments »
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 »
This morning I finally completed a project I have been working and waiting on for a long time (due to many unforeseen circumstances). About a year ago, I was asked by Kunstenlab to design and produce four benches for the Landtonen project in Okkenbroek. Practically the only requirements in this assignment were that these benches should blend in with the rural surroundings and incorporate a few lines of selected text in the design. The budget was extremely tight.
I decided to go with tree trunks (how can you go wrong with lumber?) and contacted IJsellandschap to provide me with a local harvest of trees. It took some time but eventually I had four weighty pieces of wood I could work with (thank you Gerben). I removed the bark, chisseled square holes in the logs and fitted them with four classic coffee table legs each. I planed the seating area and surface milled the provided texts (by hand).
Oh well, you can see the results in the pictures below.
Special thanks go out to Josien in ‘t Hof (at Kunstenlab) and Ap Haverslag (for initiating the Landtonen project, helping me with the positioning of the benches and providing me with all sorts of insights in the local community of Okkenbroek).
Posted in Art, Design on May 2nd, 2011 | No Comments »
