http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f4QwTt3uNY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnnDPf-K-8U
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Birth
i just made this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f4QwTt3uNY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnnDPf-K-8U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f4QwTt3uNY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnnDPf-K-8U
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Pippa's last hurrah!
Man i'm still trying to catch up...but for those of you who are still there and interested, there's lots more to come.
yesterday i learned to watergild...putting gold leaf or silver leaf on objects using water and gelatin...amazing...i'm hooked. pictures soon.
but for right now i'm still blogging in last week...
this was the last dinner with Pippa Dickson and her boyfriend Mark. He was a chef for many years. french training....so it was a special night since he agreed to give us a lesson.
the menu besides the chateau CONDOM:
potato-leek soup
roasted leg of lamb, roasted with rosemary a bit of garlic and salt and pepper.
the juices were then mixed with a stock made from trimmings and drippings and cooked down with red wine. butter, more fresh rosmary...incredible.
frenchie style potatoes peeled and one side cut off. face down in a deep pan with broth and butter....ahhhhh.
ta daa......
i think this picture best indicates the levels of satisfaction and this was only barelyinto the massive amount of wine consumed that night!
and finally dessert! of course...rhubarb creme brulee no less!
yesterday i learned to watergild...putting gold leaf or silver leaf on objects using water and gelatin...amazing...i'm hooked. pictures soon.
but for right now i'm still blogging in last week...
this was the last dinner with Pippa Dickson and her boyfriend Mark. He was a chef for many years. french training....so it was a special night since he agreed to give us a lesson.
the menu besides the chateau CONDOM:
potato-leek soup
roasted leg of lamb, roasted with rosemary a bit of garlic and salt and pepper.
the juices were then mixed with a stock made from trimmings and drippings and cooked down with red wine. butter, more fresh rosmary...incredible.
frenchie style potatoes peeled and one side cut off. face down in a deep pan with broth and butter....ahhhhh.
ta daa......
i think this picture best indicates the levels of satisfaction and this was only barelyinto the massive amount of wine consumed that night!
and finally dessert! of course...rhubarb creme brulee no less!
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Kröller-Müller to mull over...mmmmm
This post is dedicated to Mr. Charles MC and A'dam Nezbootie: i would have given anything to have you two with me on this day...it was last monday and actually i'd be glad to share that day with everyone.
The Kroller-Muller Museum is the pearl in the oyster that is the Park Hoge Veluwe a gigantic and magnificent park with a landscape unlike i've seen anywhere else in holland...
the park was originally the hunting grounds for the family Kroller-Muller a family that made it's wealth in the blast furnace industry, a successful business that allowed them to amass one of the most spectacular private collections i have ever seen as well as build a small hunting lodge on the property:
Along with around 91 Van Gogh Paintings and 180 of his works on paper are some other highlights that struck me and i wanted to share:
this woman was stunning standing in an opening staring into the woods. graceful, refined yet simply beautiful.
this is true voluptuousness...the sexiest fat i've ever seen...
this piece by richard serra entitled "one" is a solid piece of steel nearly 6 feet tall and six feet in diameter...you can almost feel it's gravity when in proximity to such a mass!
Kenneth Snelson's "Needle Tower"
This one's for you Nezbootie: an exibition comprised of their conservation lab. definitely something people don't think or know much about...here's the Nez in his lab at the clark art institute helping me with a project in march:
Self-portrait in a piece by Michelangelo Pistoletto
This French or perhaps Belgian couple was so inspiring to watch as they strolled the gallery looking at the art conversing and pulsing with tangible appreciation.
this one i fell in love with...the woman and the artist.
"Woman in Black Evening Dress" by Isaac Israels...ugh so sensually painted...
they had to kick us out of the museum and we were all suffering from Stendhal syndrome, tearing up and blushing...or maybe we just needed some stustenance...let me tell you this picnic tasted almost better than anything i've ever eaten with the museum as an appetizer...course it helped that it was of champagne, sausage, cheeses both french and dutch, vegetables and chocolates. savored with the company of durk, anna, mark and pippa!
http://www.kmm.nl/?lang=en
The Kroller-Muller Museum is the pearl in the oyster that is the Park Hoge Veluwe a gigantic and magnificent park with a landscape unlike i've seen anywhere else in holland...
the park was originally the hunting grounds for the family Kroller-Muller a family that made it's wealth in the blast furnace industry, a successful business that allowed them to amass one of the most spectacular private collections i have ever seen as well as build a small hunting lodge on the property:
Along with around 91 Van Gogh Paintings and 180 of his works on paper are some other highlights that struck me and i wanted to share:
this woman was stunning standing in an opening staring into the woods. graceful, refined yet simply beautiful.
this is true voluptuousness...the sexiest fat i've ever seen...
this piece by richard serra entitled "one" is a solid piece of steel nearly 6 feet tall and six feet in diameter...you can almost feel it's gravity when in proximity to such a mass!
Kenneth Snelson's "Needle Tower"
This one's for you Nezbootie: an exibition comprised of their conservation lab. definitely something people don't think or know much about...here's the Nez in his lab at the clark art institute helping me with a project in march:
Self-portrait in a piece by Michelangelo Pistoletto
This French or perhaps Belgian couple was so inspiring to watch as they strolled the gallery looking at the art conversing and pulsing with tangible appreciation.
this one i fell in love with...the woman and the artist.
"Woman in Black Evening Dress" by Isaac Israels...ugh so sensually painted...
they had to kick us out of the museum and we were all suffering from Stendhal syndrome, tearing up and blushing...or maybe we just needed some stustenance...let me tell you this picnic tasted almost better than anything i've ever eaten with the museum as an appetizer...course it helped that it was of champagne, sausage, cheeses both french and dutch, vegetables and chocolates. savored with the company of durk, anna, mark and pippa!
http://www.kmm.nl/?lang=en
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Suprise
A surprise visit from steve gibbs resulted in a nice tour of zaandam and some great conversations. Discussions reaching from blowing glass on cruise ships to blowing glass with wood burning furnaces.
great stuff as usual followed by great food!!
oh yeah, and this same evening i saw a stunning, exciting, inspiring movie: "One Night in One City"
GO SEE IT AS SOON AS YOU CAN!!!!
an amazing czech stop motion animation film with no dialogue and yet i was riveted....could have been hours i have no idea i was completely consumed by the movie.
http://www.jednenoci.cz/indexen.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWG81TJgC8c
full of surprises. every detail from imagery to timing so effective so well considered and yet effortless in it's meticulousness. ahhhhh.
an finally here is a surprise for you...since it's been a while...
great stuff as usual followed by great food!!
oh yeah, and this same evening i saw a stunning, exciting, inspiring movie: "One Night in One City"
GO SEE IT AS SOON AS YOU CAN!!!!
an amazing czech stop motion animation film with no dialogue and yet i was riveted....could have been hours i have no idea i was completely consumed by the movie.
http://www.jednenoci.cz/indexen.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWG81TJgC8c
full of surprises. every detail from imagery to timing so effective so well considered and yet effortless in it's meticulousness. ahhhhh.
an finally here is a surprise for you...since it's been a while...
bells bells bells bellls
Time passes evaporating. irretrievable as the snails trail.
the next few posts will attempt to catch up with time....
here's an exciting event near utrecht.
the opening of Bernard Hessen's Toren...a bell tower conisting of hundreds of blown glass sphere's as well as many many lead crystal tuned bells.
yes tuned!! he worked with a bronze bell foundry to test resonances and forms as well as different clappers and mechanisms for sounding.
the cool thing is this project started at Vrij Glas where Durk melted a range of concentrations of lead crystal from 5% to full lead crystal to experiment with resonance and sound quality...one endeavor that fits in to the mission of Vrij Glas.
the bells were finally produced at the leerdam glass factory with a team of czech glassblowers from Petr Novotny's Factory: Ajeto, where the sphere's were all produced.
Congratulations Bernard!!
the next few posts will attempt to catch up with time....
here's an exciting event near utrecht.
the opening of Bernard Hessen's Toren...a bell tower conisting of hundreds of blown glass sphere's as well as many many lead crystal tuned bells.
yes tuned!! he worked with a bronze bell foundry to test resonances and forms as well as different clappers and mechanisms for sounding.
the cool thing is this project started at Vrij Glas where Durk melted a range of concentrations of lead crystal from 5% to full lead crystal to experiment with resonance and sound quality...one endeavor that fits in to the mission of Vrij Glas.
the bells were finally produced at the leerdam glass factory with a team of czech glassblowers from Petr Novotny's Factory: Ajeto, where the sphere's were all produced.
Congratulations Bernard!!
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
coincidence
just an odd interesting addition.
the main character in "dante 01" is named st. george.
he is celebrated as a saint and martyr on april 23rd...today.
hmmm.
the main character in "dante 01" is named st. george.
he is celebrated as a saint and martyr on april 23rd...today.
hmmm.
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.
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