October 21, 2008 at 3:48 pm — by rufus.k

Some time ago I asked you guys to award Homey Universalis and his design ‘Sad Skull / Happy Skull’ lots of points to help him win the BonBonKakku ‘June / July fabric design’ competition. Back then I was under the impression it was about a wallpaper design competition, turned out to be (curtain) fabric design competition… Same difference, it worked and he won! As a prize his fabric design is now for sale at the BBK website and somehow I received a couple of meters of the actual fabric. Sweet! Thanks everyone for helping a homey out.
photo: Jaap (Aap) de Maat
September 15, 2008 at 3:45 pm — by Gyz

Last Saturday at the Wereld van Witte de With. The theme was green,
and luckily I was there with my van to help…
photo: Teddy Liho
August 23, 2008 at 11:47 am — by Gyz

Coming up and confirmed in gallery Cokkie Snoei.
Han Solo
solo-show by Gyz La Rivière
gallery Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam
October 12th - November 9th 2008
More info coming soon!
August 18, 2008 at 7:58 am — by rufus.k

Test… test… one, two…
Thanks to Marie-Claude Doyon we now have a new website with loads more features like categorized searching (my personal favourite) and a new suave appearance. If you by chance see nothing new about this website you might still be visiting our old blog (humobisten.com/weblog) instead of this all new http://www.humobisten.com thing we’ve got goin’ here. Pretty soon all our old posts will be categorized, so keep looking for new and old stuff in the near future.
brilliant photography by the bees’ knees in the interning business: Sander van Loon
May 15, 2008 at 7:35 am — by Gyz

Freshman students from the Rotterdam Art Academy.
from left to right: Eelko, me, Lloyd, Marlowe, Joey and Tjon.
photo: Silvia (Köln Germany, 1996)
March 19, 2008 at 4:33 pm — by Gyz

For those five of you who have not seen my legendary ‘Peter Teps and so do I’ performance, this saturday night I’ll be tap dancing at the Off the Road Show at Off Corso apart from tons of other legendary performances (I’ve heard some talk about a twelve year old magician and a hybernating cowboy, can’t miss out on that!). Beware audience, there’ll be only 100 of you, so RSVP as fast as humanly possible! here’s the resevation address: reserveren@barkode.nl
Nice film on Daan Blanche and the Off the Road Show on YouTube.
February 20, 2008 at 2:23 pm — by Gyz

Nog steeds ben ik een beetje aan het bijkomen van Jan Hart.
Jan Hart is nu te koop voor 10 euro bij Peek a Boo (ook voor
T-shirts!), Shopper, Woei, boekhandel Snoek, v/h Van Gennep,
Selexyz Donner (Rotterdam afdeling) en more to come.
foto: Fleur Kolk
February 1, 2008 at 6:25 pm — by rufus.k

On the opening night we still looked kind of fresh (or at least Gyz did) but yesterday, day eight of the IFFR I decided that today (friday) I was taking the night off. As a DJ booker I sure did a good thing putting KAUS & KOSA (thu), ALIEN2000 (fri), Serge Bozon (sat), Andre Dadi & Miss Delicious (sun), Roeland303 (mon), Elle Bandita (tue), David Vunk & Alden Tyrell (wed), ClubLePOP (thu), Bombay Connection Night (fri) and finally Azizz, Ted Langebach and Nelson & Djosa (sat) in the legendary ‘Kleine zaal’ of the Theatre, but that job sure ate up some of my precious sleepy time. But hey, sleepless nights and pain-in-the-ass gossip are all part of the deal and taken like a man when it’s for the good cause someone way up there in the festival management told me. Apart from this I saw some films, went to several off-scheduled parties (here, there and everywhere) and did my Peter Teps and so do I - performance at the Open Hotel last wednesday… I don’t know why but my fifteen minutes of fame type Red Carpet moment seems to particularly focus on Chiem ‘en ik ruik de laatste tijd niets als ik ruik!’ van Houweninge.
On films:
Saw some bad ones (My Marlon and Brando), saw some good ones (Le Tueur, The Melvins live soundtracking three awesome shorts by Cameron Jamie) but the ultimate film to catch this year is the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men. That film’s so good, it gave me the shivers, a head ache, goose bums, watery eyes, bad breath and a honey tummy. Man, the US must have been a hell of a good place to have lived in (for loners, weirdos and hermits) around, let’s say, the 1950’s. But that’s all over now that it’s all just about money and drugs. That about sums up the film, I guess. Quite the dream squashing trip, I tell you!
January 15, 2008 at 2:10 pm — by Gyz

Is it 007, Clint, or Han Solo?
You will find out this year…
photo: Roel van Tour
January 4, 2008 at 4:37 pm — by rufus.k

Last month I threw a party in celebration of my birthday. I’m not very good at throwing those, but since my last (non private) birthday party had been way too long ago I felt it was about time. So I mailed some people and lots of ’em actually showed up at this bar called Voorheen Voigt, which seems to breath the lyrics ‘making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got’ like a piece of hospital machinery. As you can see on the pictures (thank you Natas) it was quite gezellig. Thanks everyone for being there. And thank you, Leon W. van Barneveld for being a wonderful sultan and internet band member!