A short clip with my girlfriend Jorien walking through the snow. This is one of my first tests of the video mode of Canon 7D, my new camera. I think the HD video quality is impressive! The music is from the intro of the song Chico by The Concretes.
Do you have 5 minutes of free time? Take a look at this cool talk about Psion chickens, which caused a social meltdown in Second Life.
My first encounter with the Ignite talks was at the PICNIC festival in Amsterdam. I watched a series of five minute presentations. Passionate talks covering a range of subjects, [...]
De krantenindustrie is weer even wakker geschud. Vorige maand bracht het Duitse bedrijf Niiu duizend nieuwe titels op de markt. Een daarvan was de Oberhof Am Morgen. Op de voorpagina van die krant pronkt een foto van president Obama, maar ook die van een onbekende blondine. In de linkerhoek het ‘artikel van de dag’ van [...]
Balkenende sprak in de loop de jaren veelvuldig over Afghanistan. In totaal sprak hij meer dan 10.000 woorden over uit tijdens interviews na de ministerraad. Als je al die teksten onder elkaar zet, krijg je een interessant beeld van de ontwikkelingen.
Speel hierboven met ManyEyes en doorgrond de gedachtes van Balkenende. Heb je wat leuks [...]
Er is een revolutie gaande in de wereld van de media. Het maken van filmpjes kost steeds minder, bloggers worden invloedrijker en traditionele media leggen het af tegen online. Documentairemakers Marc Ostrick en Michael Sean Wright bezochten Blog World Expo in Las Vegas om over die revolutie een film over te maken. Aan het woord [...]
3D video, that’s a cool idea by the Dutch company YellowBird.
They took 6 video camera’s, recorded the festival Mysterland in all possible angles and stitch them together. Now you can experience it, like you’re in the crowd.
This I noticed extremely while I was ‘walking around’ in the end of the video. Suddenly the crowed went [...]
The Romanian Parliament, also known as the People’s Palace, is the biggest building in Europe and the second largest in the world. Only the Pentagon is bigger.
It was build by the Romanian dictator Ceausescu in the beginning of the eighties, but he never saw it finished. At the moment which he was executed, in December [...]
This is a beautiful example of visual storytelling. Jonathan Jarvis made a 11 minute animation explaining the credit crisis, which supply all the information on would need to understand the current situation.
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo. ( Via Kosmopolito )
This is the pacifier tree in Århus. It must bee the weirdest thing I ever seen.
Two small trees filled with colourful pacifiers. The kids hang their pacifiers in the three when they are at kindergarten (3 years old). It is a ritual which symbolize the step from babyhood to childhood – and the first step [...]
Yes, but not when somebody has a locked account. That would be my only consideration as a journalist.
If someone sends out a tweet, it’s public, which means you can use it in an article. I was agreed on this by some journalists, and Maxime Verhagen, the Dutch Foreign Minister. He added that he would [...]