imagine

walking home tonight from the imagine film festival i started seeing the harbingers of queen's day...chalked areas on the sidewalks marked with the word "bezet" meaning that that spot has been claimed for the citywide open market that takes place on koninginnedag.

imagine is formerly known as the afff or the amsterdam fantasy film festival is a ten day festival of fright, gore, fantasy and exhilaration...i tried to go to my first film last night, "let the right one in"(highly recommended and thus sold out.damn.). got tickets for tonight and saturday. say dante 01 tonight...a very intense french film by marc caro(writer and director) who also directed my favorite movies: city of lost children and delicatessen. the film was visually stunning...the story a little bit less so but would have been better had i gone with a group... cause i leaves a lot for pondering and discussion. kind of a futuristic, messianic, creation story. definitely recommended.

this after a day of bustling about the studio building things and organizing still.

yesterday was a treat...in the morning we went to den haag(the hague) to the gemeente museum. an incredible complex of buildings designed by berlage with some prismatic lighting tiles restored and created by the vrij glas foundation!!
anyway, we went to see the exhibition recording the past forty years of glass from the rietveld. it was a good show. the rest of the museum is phenomenal!!! the basement is one big wonderkammer and the glass collection is incredible...here's a fopglas or trick cup that i've seen in books before and tried to recreate. seeing it in person i'm inspired to try again.

and here is a piece by durk valkema called "glass city" made for his graduation exhibition in the early years of the rietveld...in the background from left to right are durk, scott and andrea.



on the way home from the museum, we passed a sight that before now i'd only heard of....the fields of tulips in bloom. so much more luscious and amazing than i could have ever expected or than these pictures represent.