On the 23rd of january a photography exhibition about the great city of Istanbul opened up in ‘De Kunsthal’ in Rotterdam. It’s called ‘Onmoetingen langs de Bosporus’ which basically means ‘Meetings along the Bosphorus’.
Photographer Nicole Segers travelled the bosphorus river up and down by some of the ferryboats on the river for about a year, starting [...]
It’s been a while again since I last posted here so I figured it’s time for some new ones! Firstly some more about my internship! Finally went to the filmset some weeks ago and it was great! We did a 23 hour job straight on but I got so much positive energy from it that [...]
I had another great day today at Check The Gate. Made a short edit in final cut pro and after that I with Jose to Christian Robinson, an American who had just arrived in Lisbon. He’ll be doing a medical documentary with his company Morningstar entertainment for Discovery channel.
Also, Jose told me today that – [...]
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (also known as Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam) was born on the 27th of october in 1466. He was a was a Dutch Renaissance humanist and Catholic Christian theologian (and much, much more..). And he was way ahead of his time when it came to opinions about war, women rights and for example Christianity. [...]
Yesterday I rediscovered a few videos I made years ago. In this blog post I’ve added the introduction of a film I made about a journey in Croatia in 2004 with a close friend of mine. Allthough the voice-over is hardly hearable because I had no real microphone at the time.
Nonethelless, I was surprised about [...]
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15 Jul 2009They could be holliday pictures from a backpacker. The images are clear, full of color and sharp! As if only a week ago they were shot with a digital camera. Still, the photos I’m talking about date back from 1904 and 1915, way before the time of Lumicolor and Kodachrome films. from the ’30’s
Sergej Prokudin-Gorsky [...]
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14 Jul 2009Everyone who knows me, even when it’s just a little, knows I’m a true travel junkey. Last year I travelled mostly alone throughout ‘Turkey and beyond’ after I finished the Cinema & Television semesters at the Anadolu University in Eskisehir.
But this year, I’ll be travelling with one of my best friends again: Vincent Tuntelder. We’ll [...]
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11 Jul 2009One of the best filmmakers in my oppinion is the Hungarian Bela Tarr. I came to know him a short while ago through Henk Penninga, a Dutch Filmmaker and teacher on my university. Bela Tarr most famous films are Sátántangó (1994) and Werckmeister harmóniák from 2000. He shoots his films in Black & White and [...]
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17 Jun 2009I just received this Documentary in a YouTube link from an aquantance of mine and I wanted to share it with everyone who finds this journal. It reminds me alot of the amazing BBC Production Earth and of Godrey Reggios Koyaanisqatsi (but more from this generation, more vivid), but it’s content is even a bit [...]
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28 May 2009My starting point for Turkey was Istanbul. And how else could that be when all roads lead to Istanbul? 4 years ago was the first time I had the oppurtunity to visit this metropol. This Crossroad to the ancient world. And 3 years later I had the chance to go back. To stay and live, [...]