August 27, 2010 at 11:55 am — by Gyz
August 25, 2010 at 5:37 pm — by Gyz
August 16, 2010 at 1:48 pm — by Gyz
From Thursday August the 19th until Saturday August the 21st the city of Rotterdam will present it’s nightlife culture in Shanghai during the World Expo 2010. During these three day’s Rotterdam will present both it’s ground breaking past and innovative present in club culture.
On Saturday the 21st Rotterdam’s presentation will come to an end with a presentation / workshop session at the Dutch Culture Centre.
Rotterdam born and raised artist Gyz La Rivière will host a presentation about the evolvement of the Rotterdam Dance Scene. His presentation will be based on his book flyer’dam that shows flyers from the early days of house music till the most recent club nights in Rotterdam. Gyz has been involved in Rotterdam’s youth and club culture since the early day’s as a VJ, designer, artist and as a clubber. Expect a visually enhanced presentation that will not only consist of Rotterdam’s club culture, but will also look into cultural and geographic connections between the harbor city’s Shanghai and Rotterdam.
More info, go here!
August 12, 2010 at 11:47 am — by Gyz
In December 2009, Supercharged.tv filmed me in my house and in my studio..
Check it out! Go here to see part one… And have fun!
August 12, 2010 at 11:44 am — by Gyz
Check out part 2 over here..
July 28, 2010 at 12:59 pm — by rufus.k
Woohoo! Bij ons om de hoek op de Binnenweg zit, sinds een half jaartje of zo, Paladar (smaak op z’n Portugees), een take-away waar de allerlekkerste Portugese gerechten en wijnen voorradig zijn. Ik ben een keer in Portugal geweest, of eigenlijk een aantal keren, en ben sindsdien fan van het land en diens keuken (net als iedereen trouwens, Portugal is nu niet bepaald Guam, of een of ander obscuur eiland in de Pacific)…
In elk geval, waan uzelf voor een momentje in de back alleys van Porto (waar gerechten standaard met een stuk of tien koolhydratenbommen geserveerd worden; ‘alstublieft, uw Bacalhau met patat met rijst met brood met gekookte aardappeltjes’), of aan een lekker warme lunch in de Bairro Alto waar de heerlijkste gebraden Frangos je om de oren vliegen. ‘Toe’ hebben we Pastéis de Nata (zie foto). Helaas is er nog geen Caldo Verde te krijgen, maar ik ga wel ’s een beetje druk uitoefenen. Daar zijn we toch buren voor?
Ze zitten als gezegd op de Nieuwe Binnenweg, op de hoogte van het Wester Paviljoen (waar vroeger de Jamaicaanse snackbar zat), maar wil je dat nog wel eens even zelf uitmaken, dan zitten ze ook nog eens op het internet, een medium dat steeds meer aan geloofwaardigheid wint en binnen nu en tien jaar ongetwijfeld nog populairder is dan teletext.
July 19, 2010 at 9:55 am — by rufus.k
From june 19 til’ last july 11th Gyz and me participated on the group show Kleur 01 (colo(u)r 01) at Dek22, a show in which the works were selected (by guest curator Anique Weve of Fam. Ruim) based on their primary colo(u)r(s) or because they had something to do with one of the primary colo(u)rs otherwise. Gyz’ ‘Yellow Pages’ (2009) and my own —or at least Homey Universalis’— ‘vlag voor het strand’ (flag for the beach, 2007) were on display plus I wrote a little text on the difference of colo(u)rs. This text can (still) be read on a wall in the exhibition going on right now, called Kleur 02 (colo(u)r 02), which is about (the) secondary colo(u)rs, starring (amongst many others) Daan den Houter, Marijke Appelman, Alex Jacobs & Ellemieke Schoenmaker.
from up to down: ‘Yellow Pages’, ‘text on colo(u)r’, ‘vlag voor het strand’.
photos: Pim ‘aw yeah!’ Top
July 14, 2010 at 11:29 am — by Gyz
You can buy my screenprints at the Bob Smit Gallery.
1 screenprint for only 30 euros. So check them out!
You can see The Little Red Book Series and the
Yellow Pages Series among work of others like Andy Warhol!
Ciao!
July 13, 2010 at 12:14 pm — by rufus.k
I used to have a camera in a (very old) phone which allowed me to sometimes take pictures of stuff that was happening to or (mostly) around me. What it couldn’t do was move taken photos out of the phone and into, let’s say, a computer. Don’t ask. Don’t say that it probably could have been done. Trust me… it couldn’t. Now, a couple years later, because of a major breakthrough in technology I finally did it! Please enjoy some of the subliminal messaging, people, places and situations I have actually lived.
In order of appearance: 1. guy on Leidscheplein Amsterdam had me tricked for at least two minutes, 2. Suus thinks it scary that the blue sky turns black eventually, 3. great sticker, stickered on toilet in club watt, 4. I was there when Paul McCarthy’s Santa Claus (AKA Kabouter Buttplug) was installed in the Rotterdam city centre. (Great moment!), 5. Something nice I saw at the WDKA graduation exhibition (2008?) If you know who made this, please let me know. 6. Daan is Tof just changed his name back to Den Houter, 7. A 2 cm. x 5 cm. sized sticker in the subway says ‘I love Marc Dutroux’ 4 times, 8. Eline getting ready for ‘birthday buikspek en bonen’ at Schiller, 9. A Print Service I wouldn’t trust with the printing of my presentations, 10. In Gent (BE) you can buy a Kurt Cobain action figure, 11. Back in the day when Suus was an Indian squaw, 12. A subway sign I had not seen before. Or since for that matter, 13. Mautaz must be the finest delivery bear I know. (this one’s for you Maksiem), 14. Marieke and Nienke making party at the ‘1 Jaar Woei’ Party (Parkzicht, Rotterdam) and last: 15. Rotterdam Binnenrotte Market Sign.
July 7, 2010 at 2:42 pm — by rufus.k
Great couple days in the food ’n drinks department. My favourite night shop’s selling (get this) ‘Duff Beer’. Shit yeah! The crate says the beer you thought you could only get at Moe’s. Pret-ty, pret-ty, pret ty cool huh? Not two days later I find out there’s one (1!!!) video store in town that’s still selling Ben & Jerry’s Half Baked icecream. Something to do with the owner of that shop buying the icecream all the way in Belgium… I’m not going to tell which video store it is, but they who must eat some now at least know there’s still some left. To quote the legendary Ice Cube ‘it was a good week’.
Posted in Hate to say I told you so, POP, de rare massa-cultuur
Tagged Ben&Jerry’s, brownies, chocolate chip cookie dough, drinks, food, Homer, icecream, Moe, the simpsons
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