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...
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
I was guest of Ronnie Overgoor in his show Idealize about creativity. Sorry: it is in Dutch only...
This new design watch comes with a one hand dial that covers 24 hours (one revolution per day). Pretty neat!
My old buddy Chuck got married to his high school sweetheart last week. He volunteered to go back Iraq immediately afterwards...
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 favorite "Employee of the month" is hilarious in his new flick "My Best Friends' Girl" starring a Jason Biggs that is still slim...
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 ;-)
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.
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.
While we are in Paris for the photo auctions we use the velo services to move arround: it is great and super fast!
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 Jungle is the new Sex in the City and Robert Buckley as Kirby our new hero...
1. San Francisco
2. New York
3. Boston
4. Philadelphia
5. Las Vegas
6. Miami
7. Chicago
8. Seattle
9. Los Angeles
10. Washington
We saw some interesting photography exhibitions in New York and met with Elliott Erwitt.
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... ;-)
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...
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.
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.
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 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.
CNN used a hologram image for the first time and you know what? It really looked like Startrek with the blue shining and all.
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 :-))
Guess what? There's only one: OBAMA...