Tomorrow at the annual Rotterdam museum night, I’ll be showing a new piece at the Sara Tim Trust artistspace located at the Mauritsstraat #167. In a response to this year’s museum night theme ‘XS/XL’ Sara Tim Trust themed their night ‘Revenge of the 50 ft Artists’. They invited me to make something on their huge blackboard and I came up with this little mindbender entitled ‘50 huge feet’. Come check it out, it turned out quite good.
Other participants are 113b, Olivier Scheffer and SARATIMTRUST itself (consisting of graphic designer Andreia Costa, photographer Frank Hanswijk, fashion designer Iñiy Sanchez, allround cultural entrepeneur Natasa Heydra and visual artist / film maker Tim Leyendekker). There’s a bar, local hero Philibert S. cuts a Spanish ham and DJ Chairman of the Board and myself will be playing some of our finest tunes.
Who could have foreseen this… it’s beautiful and amazing (it’s even bigger than our website can handle!) and like every other thing Jimi did. Sorry for not posting for so long. It’s really really busy. I”ll be back soon with lots more on (amongst other things) my new piece showing at the Rotterdam Museum Night, Marcel Wiebenga’s super cool new weblog on music, love, life, politics and what have you. Bye bye!
The New Earth Group did it again! Coming 20th of February, they’ll be releasing their (often feared) second album called ‘Eurafricarabia’ (thru Excelsior Recordings instead of Willy Anderson this time) in Rotown Rotterdam. A second release party is to be at the Paradiso Upstairs, march 13. As is custom with T.N.E.G. ‘Eurafricarabia’ will be available on both CD and (double) vinyl!
Suus and me have taken care of the cover design(s) again (we also ‘did’ their before mentioned debut album) and I guess especially for those of you living in The Netherlands the design —based very much upon the title— kind of speaks for itself. See if you can spot our self colored Cleisthenes(!) and find out all about that Voyager Golden Record (somewhere in the Zeeland / Noord Brabant area) on wikipedia, it’s ace!. Nice extra is that the boys at Excelsior have some Terry Gilliam-esque animations made from our cut-outs. Those can be seen right here.
The upcoming 6 months I will be in the dungeon. I will be working on a new research project. Really excited about this.. I will keep you posted about it..
Some Dutch:
Het onderzoek gaat (kort gezegd) over mijn persoonlijke (Rotterdamse) Stadsvisie 2040, als reactie op STADSVISIE ROTTERDAM – RUIMTELIJKE ONTWIKKELINGS-STRATEGIE 2030 van de Gemeente Rotterdam, aangezien ik de visie van de Gemeente Rotterdam niet groots en innoverend genoeg vind.
Ja, ik tel er dus 10 jaar boven op, ook vanwege 100 jaar na het bombardement. Dit onderzoek is kort gezegd dan ook een groot vervolg op Jan Hart.
In dit onderzoek kruip ik in de huid van architect, stedebouwkundige, kenniswerker, socioloog, econoom en what not.
These are five records I designed the album covers of this year. They are Choca Alazaba’s ‘Reverse Bad Energy’ / The New Earth Group Prouctions, Benjamin Herman’s ‘Blue Sky Blonde / DOX Records (which became the best selling jazz record of the year thank you very much), Sir Ian’s ‘Apathology’ / Dying Giraffe Recordings, Rosa Ensemble’s ‘No Ark Dead Eel’ / Dying Giraffe Recordings and Hidde van Schie’s musical alias The 21st Century’s ‘Nocturnal Tellurian’. The last three are to be offically released in 2010 but they’re already done and sent out to be reviewed, so here’s a sneak peak anyway.
I’d like to say they’re my Album Top 5 of the Year, but that would be too much of a coincidence. They are, however, great records all five of ’em! So be on the lookout! Suus and I also did the design for the new The New Earth Group album ‘Eurafricarabia’ this year, which is to be released february 20 in Rotown (Rotterdam) and will be released through Excelsior Recordings.
I suppose this is my last post for the year, so I leave you all with the almost genuine dutch fireworks slogan: ‘You are a cunt, if you with fireworks stunt!’ and hopefully see you all in 2010!
Here are some pics of my Yellow Pages Series at the groupshow ‘Trendbeheer Meets Proximity’, in the really looking good Co-Prosperity Sphere in Chicago. If you want to see more, go here!
My friend Marcel Wiebenga (AKA Het Baronnetje van de Dresselhuysstraat AKA De Urban Prins AKA Der Versucher AKA De Rotterdamse Bongo Koning AKA Marcel Alexander Wiebenga de Eerste AKA Marcel Guiding) lives and works in Amsterdam. Where he lives is not your business, where he works however could very well be. Sizzer is a company that makes audio and advertising meet. As a sort of music buff season’s greetings they collected a number of obscure Christmas carols and put ’m on an MP3 player. I knitted the background (following the strict orders of one art director coincidentally also named Marcel Wiebenga) and it turned out quite nice. Or, find out how that turned out yourself right here. I knitted it using a piece of adobe software which shall go nameless for licentional reasons. Hey, I might be the Homey Universalis, I’m not God. Or even Sas.
