Bike Totaal 2006

the photoshoot factory with Piek

Earthstar [Geastrum]

Earthstar [Geastrum]
Originally uploaded by MauritsBurgers.com.

A beautiful fungus that we call Aardster in dutch. I found this one in a larger group of dozens in the dunes between Scheveningen and Kijkduin, The Hague.

Blogs – the new diplomacy?

UN’s envoy Jan Pronk, a former dutch Foreign Aid minister, was expelled from Sudan after government anger at comments he made on his personal website.
BBC’s Paul Reynolds might be right when he says : ‘The attack on the government of Sudan by the UN’s envoy Jan Pronk has perhaps pointed the way to a new kind of direct diplomacy – the diplomat’s blog.’

Links:
BBC news article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6083632.stm
Jan Pronks weblog : http://janpronk.nl/

GATA on Flickr ?!

Remember GATA aka Guerilla Advertising TA? As you might well know the original GATA site at TA has been deleted by the powers that be, so I was quite surprised to find this picture on Flickr. It was posted by a The Hague dutchman I never met.
Original picture at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/simeon_barkas/140144167/

Hattip to Viory:
http://viory.blogspot.com/2006/10/gata-moved-on-2.html and
http://viory.blogspot.com/2006/10/gata-moved-on-1.html

The Walk [3]

Only available at YouTube:

The Walk [2]

Comparing…

YouTube:
I think this YouTube rendering of the original sucks, big time. They might have selled their company for 10 billion, I do’nt care.
I just play by the facts. All I see is small, even tiny companies doing a much much better job at treating the uploaded original in a proper way like Revver and voila Sharkle:

nice quality, but needs some plug-ins…
and…
Google:

walking my The Hague streets, filming myself

Quite good… makes you wonder what the new YouTube-Google combo might be able to offer, qualitywise…

Also posted to SoapBox:

The Walk [2]
Please compare the different uploads from the same original

This is the sequel to The Walk [+ 27,000 views]
which can be viewed here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rgS_p7hIFI

Writing

it’s a long story.
about a .community, and about me.

The nightmare called The Netherlands

Cavuto Interviews O’Reilly aka The Fox Fear Factory
I found this on YouTube

2:10 “what is your biggest fear, what are we becoming?”
- “My biggest fear is that we become Holland, that we are The Netherlands” …
hahahahahaha … You wish you were

My many faces

Having fun with Gickr.

voila, les idees et les fantasies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpnv9aydMc8