At the PAN 2009




I was impressed by the photo's of Hendrik Kertsens which have a sort of Vermeer feeling around them. The rest of the PAN I thought was not so interesting...



Sundays' Best: Top ten movies of 2008

1. Dark Knight
2. My best friends girl
3. Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis
4. No country for old men
5. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
6. Wall-E
7. Sex Drive
8. In Bruges
9. Madagascar 2
10. Dunya & Desie


Amazing new features for simple common home videos

With zunavision you can project any picture of movie into the background of any homemovie - It's like having a hollywood editing studio right at your own mac. Imagine what this will do for youtube and video advertising in general.
Here a little clip I made with the zomoto logo in it.




Marque on (Internet) TV

Blueshots.tv
I was guest of Ronnie Overgoor in his show Idealize about creativity. Sorry: it is in Dutch only...


Neat new watch

This new design watch comes with a one hand dial that covers 24 hours (one revolution per day). Pretty neat!


Tighs for Men? You must be joking!... or not

After the Bags for guys we now have tights for guys. " Designed to provide climate control with mild
compression. The male-comfort front panel has a convenient but
unobtrusive fly opening..." It is an English invention and let's hope it stays on that island...



Hmmm...


My own Best friends' Girl... ;-)

My old buddy Chuck got married to his high school sweetheart last week. He volunteered to go back  Iraq immediately afterwards...


Sundays' Best: Top Ten women in TV

Today I was asking myself: what are the best women on TV? I came up with this list of my favorite ones:
1) Samantha Jones
2) Bree van der Kamp
3) Susan Mayer
4) Nico Reilly
5) Edie Britt
6) Karen McCluskey
7) Mia Mason
8) Wendy Healy
9) Miranda Hobbes
10) Andrew Van de Kamp ;-)

My Best Friend Girl

My favorite "Employee of the month" is hilarious in his new flick "My Best Friends' Girl" starring a Jason Biggs that is still slim...

Ocarina

The iPhone doesn't stop to amaze me: check out the Ocarina, the first real musical instrument (flute) for the iPhone. You blow into the microphone and play the "keys" ...

The 10,000-Hour Rule

Malcolm Gladwell, 45, author of The Tipping Point and Blink has an other hit: The Outliers about why some people are so successful. According to Malcolm success in any field has nothing to do
with talent. It's simply practice, 10,000 hours of it — 20 hours a week
for 10 years. Hmm... So I am great at Internet - sports - eating and...sleeping ;-)

In Frank's smoking place

With peter Paul I had lunch at Frank's Smoke House a unique place in Amsterdam where they smoke fish. You can really order any kind of fish you like - and they have it. We took a tour back stage. Normally a fish takes about 12 hours in the smoking oven. I liked the Mackerel best - it structure and taste was the best I ever had.

Run Keeper

RunKeeper allows you to track your runs and map and view progress in your running history making use of the GPS in my iPhone. It really is great - mapping my runs, keeping pace and keeping the score.

Blowing away


New at the EPFAP shop


Paris by bike

While we are in Paris for the photo auctions we use the velo services to move arround: it is great and super fast!

Hmmm...


google and the weird translation

I had an interview in the









Dutch Business Magazine Sprout. Because it is in Dutch I asked google to translate it..with very weird consequences...

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sprout.nl%2Fartikel.jsp%3Fid%3D1685342&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=nl&tl=en

Lipstick boy

Lipstick Jungle is the new Sex in the City and Robert Buckley as Kirby our new hero...

Sundays' best: Top 10 USA cities

1. San Francisco
2. New York
3. Boston
4. Philadelphia
5. Las Vegas
6. Miami
7. Chicago
8. Seattle
9. Los Angeles
10. Washington

Photo's in New York

We saw some interesting photography exhibitions in New York and met with Elliott Erwitt.

Jason Biggs is..uh...BIG!

Remember cute Jason from Amercian Pie? When I saw him this evening in his new of-broadway play: Boys he was not so cute anymore - he is FAT, old and rather ugly. The pay was ok though... ;-)

007 & me

Roger Moore was around the corner promoting his memoirs - so I dropped by to say hello. He recognized me immediately so I could leave Barnes and Noble without a signed copy...

Challenger 50 - I am in!

Sprout business magazine made a list of the 50 companies who are challenging their business competition with innovative concepts. Zomoto is one of them challenging the automotive industry to think about new ways of doing business.

Seth Rudetsky: LIVE!

When in New York at Thursday there's only one thing to do: Go to Seth Rudetsky's Broadway Chatterbox at Don't tell Mama. Seth invites some stars of the Broadway Musical scene - they chat and then sing some songs. We were very lucky that Seth invited Natalie Toro and Kevin Early - they are starring in Tales of the City - which due to the economic crisis will close in two weeks. It was fun and interesting to hear about life as a broadway star. The re-auditions, the 8 performances a week and the suddenly endings of shows. It is very tough. Natalie and Kevin sang brilliantly  and Seth was A-Maz-ing: Brava! (what ever).

Broadway was empty by the way: restaurants were half full - tickets available. The crisis really struck hard here.


The best front page


Aways nice


Atlantic City


On our way to New York we decided to stop at Atlantic City which is just rejuvenated with new casinos and a new pier. It was fun to spend some time there and to drive along the Atlantic ocean.

The incredible story of the Pattersons...

If you were wondering why proposition 8 was amended here why: Some straight people were fooled into believing that when gays can marry, they themselves cannot. That's why the (poor) Pattersons recently made a huge financial sacrifice –
they withdrew $50,000 from their savings and donated it to the Yes on
Proposition 8 campaign.

"It was a decision we made very prayerfully
and carefully," said Pam Patterson, 48. "Was it an easy decision? No.
But it was a clear decision, one that had so much potential to benefit
our children and their children
." Pam wake up! If I look at your boys at least two of them are GAY - maybe even all of them. So let's hope that in 10 years Pam  and Rick are confronted with reality and see that everybody has the basic right to love an other and to marry him or her.

The impossible task for Barack

Now that the World has a new leader in Barack we have to be carefull not to expect to much. There's only so much a guy can do (in one term). People all our the world have (to high) expectations of this new president. He cannot let wars, poverty, economic crisises etc. go away instantly. What he can do is to inspire people to do their part - to be a leader in solving our problems and to listen to people whom need help. Barack will be tested, people will be dissapointed and he will make mistakes - but for now: he is the best possible leader we could have.

Meanwhile: Proposition 8

Meanwhile in California, Arizona and Florida it seems that voters said yeas to ballot initiatives with makes it impossible for gays to marry in those states. This is the other side of America.
What will happen with all the guys that already married? Luckily love will conquer everything :-))
Barack must appoint some new judges to the supreme court and settle this for once and for all: he owes us that.

Startrek in reality

CNN used a hologram image for the first time and you know what? It really looked like Startrek with the blue shining and all.

YES! (we could)

We decided to stay in the hotel and to watch election night at the huge LCD screens in our suite. We ordered roomservice, got us some extra drinks and deserts and settled for a long evening. We had Fox, ABC, NBC and CNN - together with the NYT, Hufington Post and Google News on our laptops. CNN turned out to be the best way to view the results. They even had holograms of reporters beamed in from Chicago. It was silent outside on the streets of Philadelphia... It seemed everyone was watching - until 09:30 when Pensylvania fell to Obama and the honking stared: IT WAS ALL OVER. It was fun to see the election night of the McCains in the Biltmore Hotel Phoenix (Where I spend New Year once zillion years ago) - the contrast with the Barack evenet in Chicago couldn't be bigger.
Oprah was in tears, as was Jessy Jackson and some other millions of Americans...
It was history in the making and I think that in years to come people will remember where they were the evening that Barack was elected President of the United States.
I followed Barack for more then 4 years and wrote endless amounts of posts about him - I am not sure what I can write about next :-))

Rocky VI?


At the Philadelphia museum of Art


Rocky VI?




Honk for Obama


Would you still vote for them?


Countdown

Guess what? There's only one: OBAMA...