Author Archives: rufus.k

Caralho, wat lekker!

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 [...]

colo(u)r me badd

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 [...]

My Life in Pictures Pt. 2

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 [...]

cookie d’oh!

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 [...]

Wall Street 2: The Girlfriend Experience

One of the favorite films of both Gyz and myself is the 1987 Oliver Stone classic Wall Street. Especially Gordon Gekko, innocence lost personified, portrayed by one excellent Michael Douglas (who for the first time in his career over-classes his dad, except for maybe ‘A Chorus Line’) is a class A movie personage and the [...]

the goon squad’s in town

Vandaag is het afstuderen geblazen voor de Willem de Kooning Mode eindexamenstudenten. Het is zojuist voor het eerst vertoond, om 16.00 uur, dan om 19.00 uur nog eens en dan een laatste keer om, ik dacht, 21.00, maar kan ook 22 zijn. Ik was op die van 16.00 uur en ja, ’t was wel aardig. [...]

‘Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.’ – Franz Kafka

A while ago DC asked me to help ’em out with the art and direction of this book they were makin’ in a collaboration with André Platteel, a dutch well known author on (mostly) visual culture and Dennis Duijnhouwer, who did the (splendid) photography. I had me some fun talking on youth (and with youths) [...]

Als je voor vet bent…

Wholy Moly! Suus and me entered the Blue Band ‘gezonde vetten’ competition and are nominated to compete with two other entries to win the Folder Challenge Award, an anual advertising award. Pretty exciting, especially since this is the first time we even participated on such a project. Our graphic approach must have worked somehow pretty [...]

music of the future and music of the past

Last Saturday my friend Frietje took me to see a pretty cool band called Field Music in the clubhouse. They reminded me of a section in my record cabinet called ‘pop that don’t suck’ as Billy Joel, 10CC, Steely Dan, Paul McCartney and Supertramp were all easily recognizable as being heavy influences to their songwriting. [...]