Nederland

As Moujahed said on YouTube:
“awesome… fuckin awesome… sorta makes no sense… but cool as shit in its own way.”

Randstad Desert

Unit

all I was…

[fisrt part of a triogy]

Limbo

Right foot on the gas:
Out of the frying pan
Walking in a maze:
I’ve got no particular place to go

Discussion

Is a form of creativity.

script and editing: Maurits [moi]
photography: Viory

autumnal thoughts in afternoon light

autumnal thoughts in afternoon light
Originally uploaded by MauritsBurgers.com.

Viory and I visited a wonderful exhibition on Toorop and Klimt in the The Hague Gemeentemuseum.
Somehow we always end up in the bookstore.

Kids Fantastic

Cabrillo, Point Loma

Point Loma is a scenic hill that sits atop San Diego Bay, in California, USA. Point Loma’s well known landmark is the Cabrillo National Monument, named after Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, a Portuguese navigator sailing in the service of Spain, the first European explorer to see San Diego Bay. The Old Point Loma Lighthouse is part of the monument, where visitors tour the historic lighthouse that guided ships through the San Diego Bay from 1855 to 1891.

By the way… I was the second best viewed in the diectors category on YouTube the other day… it must be The Walk which is over 40,000 views now.

let’s make a real videoclip

If you want to break into professional music video directing, and I do, there is no better festival than Radar, or so says the official website. [hat tip: Viory]

Radar has been set up to find, select and promote the best new talent in music video directing and to create springboard for directors to enter the professional world. The festival will be held at the ultra cool London Apple Store cinema in January next year, where all shortlisted videos will be screened. The competition is open to anyone, all ages, backgrounds, nationality, who hasn’t been paid as a professional music video director before. Sounds uber-cool doesn’t it.

Enter the Radar Festival and win incredible professional prizes and we hope, worldwide fame and fortune.
Three Radar winners will have their winning videos featured on label websites, go on to a new professional video commission from Domino, Warp and Tummy Touch record labels and the overall winner gets £1,000 and amazingly, will be represented by the top-notch music video production company Colonel Blimp.

To enter one can choose one of the 18 tracks listed here from artists such as Franz Ferdinand, Nightmares on Wax, Clark and Tom Vek. They can be previewed by clicking here.

I chose this song called Side Dish by Psapp.

(the player stops after 30 seconds, click the little play icon again to continue)

LINKS:

Radarfestival
Colonel Blimp
tracks page
preview at Bleep

in memory of Theo van Gogh

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I received a wonderful video-reply on this video by Ultraboy3000, the one and only. Please check it out at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWbYY5wI7Wg&eurl=

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Mohammed Bouyeri, the man who murdered Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh almost exactly two years ago is serving a life prison sentence, but now questions are being asked about whether the sermon of a Muslim cleric played a role in the crime.

During the ongoing trial of another Dutch terrorism suspect, Samir Azzouz, it’s emerged that Imam Fawaz of the as-Sunnah mosque in The Hague gave a sermon condemning Theo van Gogh just a few weeks before his murder. Mohammed Bouyeri was present at this surmon according to a witness. A recording of the sermon exists and in it the imam is heard uttering a curse against the Dutch director for his film Submission, which is critical of Islam. The film had been shown on television shortly before the sermon.

In the recording of the sermon, Imam Fawaz calls Theo van Gogh a ‘criminal bastard’ and beseeches Allah to visit an incurable disease upon the filmmaker. He also condemns former Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali who was involved in writing the script for Submission. The imam asks Allah to make Ms Hirsi Ali go blind and give her cancer of the tongue and brain.

I think it’s about time that this Imam is going to be extradicted and the as-Sunnah mosque in The Hague is going to be closed