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Kröller-Müller museum & The bear that wasn’t

illogical42 — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:59:21 +0000

To my delight there are still museums in the Netherlands where one can take a camera, even if it is without tripod or flash. The Kröller-Müller museum is one of those museums. Apart from a beautiful collection of personal favorites, spanning from Picasso, Van Gogh to Mondriaan, they have a beautiful garden with sculptures. Too bad my youngest daughter has the patience and focus of a butterfly when art is concerned. In the end I felt I was “doing” Kröller-Müller in an hour.

Today I had another reason to visit: I wanted to see the performance by Anneke van Giersbergen and Martijn Bosman. They created a Dutch version of the kids story “The bear that wasn’t” by Frank Tashlin (1946). I already saw the following videos:

The show is aimed at kids, but as a parent I enjoyed myself too. The story is nice and circular, and has a good ending. Even my 6 yo daughter understood everything that happened to the bear and got the message that you have to stay true to yourself.

Before the performance, we had to wait a little longer than expected. The kids became a somewhat unruly, but fortunately they didn’t tear the place down. During the performance, there was a lot of movement in animations, by the performers, and the interaction between the animation and performers. I especially liked the projection on the inside of Anneke’s jacket. By the way, the animations are great! I hope the kids realise that a flipbook can tell the same story as a high definition 3D glossy animation. Also, they can create flipbooks themselves.

Anneke and Martijn seemed to enjoy themself. Especially Martijn excelled in his “evil” roles as factory, supervisor and CEO. The best compliment they could get from the young audience is that all kids were watching silently all the time.

The tunes of the songs easily sticks in the kids’ minds (just follow the links above). I heard a lot of the kids sing them afterwards. To my surprise the kids didn’t respond negatively to the hard industrial sounds that returned a couple of times throughout the story. The only thing my daughter said about the sounds was that she thought they were loud.

My only negative remark was that Anneke had a hard time starting off, which caused her to use a swear word. Personally, I prefer said word not to be uttered in front of kids.

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Kayak, De Pul (Uden)

illogical42 — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:06:46 +0000

This is the second time I’ve seen Kayak live, and I must say I enjoyed this show better than the first one. Admitted, the first visit was a theater tour. The first part of the show was a little slow, but they made up for it after the break.

Contrary to my expectations, “Undecided” was the closing song. And Kayak is asking you to vote “Undecided” into the Top2000.

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Glow, Eindhoven 2011

illogical42 — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:39:26 +0000

Sixth edition of Glow in Eindhoven, 350.000 visitors, and I was one of them. So much to see, so little time. I think I’ve hardly seen half of it.

Afterwards I heard that I missed the the main attraction of this year: city hall. Now I am counting the days until the next edition.

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Y&T, De Pul (Uden)

illogical42 — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:19:21 +0000

The old rockers are back in De Pul, Uden. And they did what they came for: to put up a good show. De Pul was packed, and I think I saw a couple of machos shed a tear during “I believe in you”.

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Saturday on Folkwoods 2011 (part 1)

illogical42 — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 07:58:56 +0000

There is not enough time to process all photos before I return to Folkwoods, so here is a short heads-up, images only.

Igriczek

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I Beddi. Rain or no rain, everyone seems to be enjoying themselves.

More to come…

Friday at Folkwoods 2011

illogical42 — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 09:09:34 +0000

Finally, it is Folkwoods time again! I arrived pretty late and the first thing I noticed, still outside the festival terrain, was the lack of parking space. And inside it was pretty crowded. That was much to my surprise since Friday at Folkwoods is usually a quiet warming-up.

When I entered “De Klippeleaters” where performing. I did not take any photos, but simply enjoyed their performance. I hope to see them again, because it was quite entertaining. They reminded me of another festival that I used to visit a lot: Elastiek. Mmmh, seems I do not have much Elastiek photos online at the moment… /me adds another item to the 2do list.

The next act on main stage was Seth Lakeman. And the three man band put up a good show. There was a good interaction with the audience and each other and the music was excellent.

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The next act I saw was Faran Flad. They skilfully played charming and danceable music and caught the attention of the audience during the whole show. But next time, please leave the bagpipes to the experts

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If these acts determine the quality of the next days, Folkwoods 2011 is going to be a good edition. They even have WiFi (although most of the time it does not seem to work for me).

Me, I am off for another day of folk, folks & beer. More to come…

Christmas wishes

illogical42 — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 14:52:17 +0000

Now the year is almost at an end, I hope this year you got to do everything you wanted to. If it has not, remember that you still have a few days left

Sunset

illogical42 — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 14:39:27 +0000

Amazing colors thanks to dust during a sunset filtering the light, and reflecting on ultra-high clouds.

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Somewhere over the rainbow

illogical42 — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:50:50 +0000

Do you remember the first time you saw a rainbow as a kid? Something new in the sky, after the rain. And the colors were amazing. I still stop and look whenever I see a rainbow.

Once in a while you can see one or two fainter siblings. But this summer I saw a rainbow without the obligatory rain. And it was beautiful! And instead of touching the horizon, it was all overhead. After a little research it turns out to be a halo, created by light reflecting on ice crystals high up in the sky. Following the descriptions in the wiki I haven’t been able to establish what kind of halo it was, but I’m assuming it is a circumscribed halo.

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Ozric Tentacles – live

illogical42 — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 03:39:40 +0000

Finally, the Ozric Tentacles were in town again today. Not my town, but somewhere in the neighbourhood.

We arrived just in time to catch the last of the Belgian support act, Quantum Fantay. Soon after the concert started it was clear we were up for a treat, because we got a 2 hour jam session. The only regret I had was that the parts of the lightshow from QF that we saw were better than the Ozrics…

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