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bart smit

Gyz — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:29:33 +0000

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!

My Life in Pictures Pt. 2

rufus.k — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:14:25 +0000

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.

cookie d’oh!

rufus.k — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:42:02 +0000

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’.

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

rufus.k — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:27:02 +0000

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) and deciding especially what not to do with form and coming up with this ‘forever friends’ section in which I tried to show the diversity within the similarity of eight of the books main characters.

I think it became an eye opening book on the youth of today and I especially like that it holds the promise of a somewhat more ‘opened up’ future of thought. More info through post editions. Good collaboration, everyone!

Nice to meet you, André Platteel, Maikel van Berkel and Josien Dragt.

Draag altijd je rugtas!

Gyz — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:42:34 +0000

Sauvé par son Eastpak from thomas et benoit renaux on Vimeo.

Thanks to Louisa Menke

School TV

Gyz — Tue, 25 May 2010 12:46:21 +0000

Never thought I would be in a school agenda!
hihi, hilarious!

Check the picture (from above) a bit larger over here.
And read what my bro Woei said about me (in the same school agenda)…

schoolagenda: supercharged.tv

let the horns blow

Gyz — Thu, 13 May 2010 09:52:34 +0000

90’s were the new 60’s

I’m Here

Gyz — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:38:57 +0000

I’m Here Trailer from We Love You So on Vimeo.

See Spike Jonze 30 mins. film over here!
More droids?

music of the future and music of the past

rufus.k — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:57:26 +0000

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. Supposedly one of its members is the son of Sting, which sounds an awful lot like a bad comic book spin-off. Luckily there weren’t any Police influences to be found. Although the Police did write some seriously good tunes (especially ‘Behind My Camel’ and ‘Canary in a Coalmine’ come to mind), they seemed to suffer from their own airplay more than the average much played radio star. Like Aretha or Michael Jackson, or the Boss for that matter. Anyway, them Field Music boys were really quite good at playing music, yet I’m kind of anxious to hearing their own sound, which I thought was kind of lost in adaptation there.

Speaking of music and influences, have you seen Marcel Alexander Wiebenga’s blog on ‘music and what it does for/to the world’ yet? It’s called 010110 (named after the day it started), but hey, what’s in a name? It covers awesome disasters in musical history, different ways of music meeting advertising, music videos that didn’t make MTV broadcasting on (punkrock) fridays, downloadable ‘perfect’ compilations, conspiracies of all sorts, ace youtube linkage, devos and divas, freaks and legends and well… just plain good stuff. Plus, of course, the funny writings of one bad ass drummer / music lover / sales tycoon and —most of all— connaisseur of the postmodern musical canon.

If you just tuned in be sure to discover at least two older posts on, first, a dutch guy that can hear which brand and model bass guitar is used as Mark King (of Level 42) slaps and plucks some of his trademark riffs on the spot on a couple of different bass guitars and, second, Marcel’s two-parted study on how rap ’n rock crossover experiments in the past have ‘helped spawn a horrible genre’. It’s, as we say in dutch, ‘to laugh your cock out of your pants over.’

als zus kan, is zo ook goed…

rufus.k — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:56:26 +0000

Homeboy Max Maas is niet alleen Bubbelebimmer met een gloednieuw facebook account, hij heeft ook een oefenruimte in Rotterdam (west) die De Frikandel heet. Ik heb er dus een logo voor gemaakt. kusjes.