Amat victoria curam!

Han pekar på hem

Hösten i Stockholm

Mycket litet torn

I Stockholm är ocksa en Bourdelle

Jätte fin Vasa

Det var mycket Soligt :-)

L'amour fou is a documentary about the (difficult) life of Yves-Saint Laurent and his lifetime lover Pierre Bergé. They met in 1958 and with some up and downs stayed together for 50 years. The movie tells the moving story of the depressive Yves which was never really happy and longed to be young again and to live the life he never had a chance to. He was way to young (20) when he was put in the limelight as creative director of Dior. They amassed an amazing amount of art which was sold in 2008 for hundreds of millions - not that it made them any happier...

Miraculous crash survival: no helmet or protective kit whatsoever, yet this lucky guy simply dusts himself off and walks away after t-boning a pick-up!

Although I must say that I rather see progress on DADT or gay marriage, I must admit that this message of Obama really is awesome. Let's hope it helps.

Looks great, probably sounds great too - how does it ride - we will know shortly.

The latests Motorcycles (Like my Z1000) are not detected by the digital Speed cameras now being installed... They have to little metal parts to be picked up by the wires in the road. That will save me some Euros - because there are more then 1500 of these cameras in the Benelux alone.

Best 30%... I am happy

baking pizza's

Hunter, a striped kitty cat in the midst of all kinds of other stripes

We baked pizza's at No and were just in time to finish them before the cat did...

Because there are some interesting developments in android lately Marijn and I couldn't stand aside and bought each a HTC Desire. We need to know how android works adn to see what's going on on this app market. It took a couple of minutes to get used to the UI - being a iphone adapt for so long. Hopefully this will ease my (phone)life as well, because my iPhone4 still drops calls like flies on a hot day :-(

What is better then a (rainy) Sunday afternoon and a movie with Norman Wisdom? E.g. Trouble in Store.
Norman was unique as a clown a "normal" guy getting into all kind of trouble (hence the title of above movie). I still have to laugh out loud when I see these movies - which says something about their timeless quality. They are also a excellent mirror of Britain in the 1950's. He is like George Formby: one of the great Brits ever...

I upgraded my MacPro tower with 2 WD 1.5TB internal drives. Although I move more and more stuff to the cloud (pics - picasa / music - spotify / docs - dropbox) I still am running into memory shortage. So with a total of 10TB I should be OK for now...

It looks awesome and feels even better: my VAPOR iphone4 case. But since I attached it it is almost impossible to make/receive calls with my iPhone4. The calls keep on dropping and my voicemail comes in days after people leave a message. After some googling I read that more people have this problem.
Some even say that this case reduces antenna effectiveness by 99%...
So with pain in my heart I had no choice but to remove my case and to try my phone "case- less" :-(

While flying back to Amsterdam (in a record time of a little over 5 hours) I tried to listen to Katie's latest album: The House. If I weren't sleepy already I sure fell into a coma listening to these tracks. It's perfect for people with insomnia... I think she is a nice girl with a pretty voice but why a whole album with this boring stuff?

I tried the new AMNH iphone app - but could get it working properly. A shame because it looked very promising - maybe it's because my iphone4 is screwed up badly... I ran into an old friend though - whom I know way back from Easter Island.

While i New York I met Malcom Gladwellwriter of classics as blink, tipping point, outliers and many excellent pieces in the New Yorker. He told shared with me an interesting thought that entrepreneurs never really like taking risks as such - they try to avoid that. But that where they differentiate that they are willing to take social risk. Working of concepts and ideas that few people in their own circle believe in. That's why most innovation comes from out of existing closed markets and that's why we need immigrants in a society to have a more entrepreneurial culture (They have little to lose so far as social standing concerns) Also read his latest New Yorker article on why the revolution will not be tweeted...

Mary Meeker is convinced that mobile will be the future. That is to say: smartphone AND tablets. I agree: in some markets you already see a leap jump from nothing to smartphones surpassing the PC completely. What this means for Microsoft, websites in general and Google is to be seen. Maybe the latter has some advantage with its android OS.

central parc

an other Trumph Tower

a view from a room

central park

Columbus circle

In 1944, Allied forces executed an aerial bombardment of the heavily fortified Japanese Island of New Britain in the South Pacific. Many planes were shot down. Waiting for messages that a pilot had ditched his aircraft, amphibious PBY planes were ready to skim over the water, locate the pilot, land on the surface, and send out a rubber raft to bring the pilot back to safety. On one such occasion, a blister gunner on one of the PBY planes spotted a severely burned pilot, hanging onto life only by a tattered life preserver. The gunner, knowing that there was not enough time to send out the rubber raft, stripped off his clothing and dove into the water to rescue the pilot himself. After he had returned to the PBY plane with no time to dress, he immediately returned to his post. Horace Bristol considered this man's actions among the bravest deeds that he witnessed during the war.

Photo by Horace Bristol (American, 1909-1997)
Sold for $17,500 at Sothebys New York

Panasonic's new hair-washing robot scans each human head three-dimensionally to apply just the right amount of pressure during the shampoo, massage, and rinse phases...
Maybe it can shave me as well! :-)

Watch Fred's first bid for the presidential race in 2012 in New Hampshire.

The first gas turbine Rover: the JET1 in Science Museum

Millions of bottles with stuff in the Natural History Museum

The Cocoon

Escaped from Jurassic Park!

The (terrific) Ashburn Hotel

We were staying at the Ashburn hotel because of the raving TripAdvisor reviews and were not disappointed :-) The location is perfect in the heart of Kensington and so near all the nice museums (V&A, science and Natural History) which we visited all. They have brand new exhibitions, like the future wing in Science, the dinosaur hall in NH and the amazing new Cocoon building in which they collect the seeds (and many insects) from all over the world for the future generations. Also Harrods and Harvey Nichols are around the corner which is always great for some shopping. Just watching people passing by is fun too in this (very) expensive neighborhood. The sun was shining and we had a awesome day in London.

We flew to London this afternoon to be at the live performance of Stephen Fry this evening. It was really funny full with witty remarks, funny stories and interesting memories. It reminded me of the late Peter Ustinov in his shows. Awesome was also that Stephen used the iPad and his (white!) iphone4 in his show. The house was fully booked.

Matty and Bobby will attempt to break the world record for longest recorded "Longest Continuous Kiss". The record currently stands @ 32 hours 7 minutes and 14 seconds...

I received two (printed!) new books today from amazon:
1) Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade.
2) A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster
Both biographies about (gay) writers I really like. I am not sure how to read these - being used to ebooks ;-) - but I will give them a try.

According to the Democratic Party's new "Civil Rights" section of its website:
Democrats are committed to:

Strengthening the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division to better protect voting rights;
Enacting the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which includes measures prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity;
Ensuring full civil unions and federal rights for LGBT couples;
Repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in a sensible way that strengthens our armed forces and our national security;
Ending racial, ethnic, and religious profiling; and
Building a fair and more equitable criminal justice system that provides non-violent offenders a second chance at a rehabilitated life.

The repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act however, one of Obama's campaign promises, is nowhere to be found. Of note is the inclusion of "full civil unions" which of course, continues to define gay and lesbian Americans as second-class citizens.

By the way: the new logo looks very Obama...

I went to the ballet Don Quichot with Eddie and No and it was very nice. It's of course really old fashioned and yes (as usual) the wedding takes much to much time with all the guest having to perform. Don Quichot was played by Peter de Jong and Sancho Panza by Karel de Rooy who did a great job.

Now that all the fashion designers are preparing MadMen autumn and winter collections - it's nice that AMC has a cute app that shows you who you could be in MadMen yourself.

I probably should like Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer) but I must admit that my guy absolutely is Noah Puckerman (Mark Salling)

A nice new ad from Federici Ice cream ("Ice cream is our religion")

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