Spirou

09:21 mareku 0 Comments

Spirou
Spirou
A nice 1953 statue of Spirou of the Spirou et Fantasio comic range by Franquin. For sale at the comic auction of Artcurial in Paris this Weekend. Value: € 2000...

The Fitna Farce

05:12 mareku 0 Comments

Yawn
Yawn

Geert Wilders' film, Fitna, fails to interest or provide insight,
making one wonder why it aroused so much attention in the first place

I just watched Dutch right-winger Geert Wilders' film, Fitna, The Movie.
He had promised it would be too shocking, too frightening, too
disturbing - and much of the world was holding its breath in a morbid,
anxious wait for its release. The media feared rabid violence by those Muslims.

My initial reaction is a yawn. I blame production. The soundtrack is
Tchaikovsky's mellow classical piece called "Arab Dance". Anyone who has seen terrorist propaganda films is familiar with most
of the scenes and most of the disgusting conflations of the Quran with
acts of violence, murder, kidnapping and antisemitism. The scene of the hanging of the gay boys Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni in Iran still gives me shivers...

Such behaviour
has been condemned resoundingly among Muslims. The same could also be done with clippings of the Bible.

The film is a mixture of conflating the most painful and
heart-wrenching images from terror-strikes with extremist imams, in an
effort to turn the entirety of Islam into a demonic edifice. This is
neither new, nor interesting.

What the film really shows is that Wilders doesn't know the
difference between Islam and Islamism - and when it comes to the latter
he is completely lost. 

PS:  The transformation
of "Fitna" into "Fin" at the end was pretty cool ;-)


No 1 ladies detective agency

07:03 mareku 0 Comments

The agency
The agency
A nice sweet tv series on BBC1: The no 1 ladies detective agency. Based on the bestselling (9) books by the Rhodesian-born author Alexander McCall Smith. It really gives a different perpective of Africa (Botswana).
I absolutely love Anika Noni Rose in her role of Grace Makutsi (secretary 97%), very funny!

Kawasaki Versys

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Kawasaki Versys
Kawasaki Versys

Sync jumping

07:18 mareku 0 Comments

Peter Hausding & Sasha Klein European Champions Sync Jumping.<br/>
Peter Hausding & Sasha Klein European Champions Sync Jumping.

Accident

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David Beckham Armani Underwear
David Beckham Armani Underwear
Almost had an accident today with this new David Posters filling all the billboards in Amsterdam :-)

Eckart Wintzen

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Eckart Wintzen
Eckart Wintzen
Eckart died suddenly last friday in his home in France. He was only 68 years old. He was a great inspiration for me about how to organise companies and to act responsible as an entrepeneur. Luckily he was able to write a great book about his ideas so his philosophy can live on.

A butcher in Paris

10:38 mareku 0 Comments

Monsieur Yvon the butcher
Monsieur Yvon the butcher

A Cultural Easter day

10:30 mareku 0 Comments

Bourdelle
Bourdelle
Pompon at Orsay
Pompon at Orsay
A view of the Sacre Coeur from Orsay
A view of the Sacre Coeur from Orsay
Lunch
Lunch
"Cabaret de Saints"
"Cabaret de Saints"
Cabbage
Cabbage
Castor & Pollux
Castor & Pollux
For No
For No
Stairways Louvre
Stairways Louvre
Louvre
Louvre
Easterday: the shops are closed, but the musea open, so we made the best of it and visited Orsay, Musee Decorative and the Louvre - where we met...Ruby & Niek!

A get together with Ruby & Niek

10:22 mareku 0 Comments

Paris Bike plan
Paris Bike plan
Me and Ruby
Me and Ruby
Ruby with new Kenzo Bag
Ruby with new Kenzo Bag
10 person staff in Ze Kitchen
Orange &Ginger cake
Asperagus
Lot
De Vlaminck
De Vlaminck
We visited the De Vlaminck exhibition in Jardin du Luxembourg which was small but nice (especially his panting of the Theems of 1909). Then briefly to the old Atelier of DelaCroix. Later that day it was time for shopping and...uh... shopping (mostly at Le Bon Marche).
For dinner I had made reservations at "Ze Kitichen" which was great fun and great taste.
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