OBA, 5:00 pm
Comic book artist Jeroen Funke reads the story of Mariken van Nimwegen during the opening of the exhibition Mooi is dat at the OBA. (See the video-reportage I made here.) Oh Jeroen is dressed up as the devil, this is not his usual attire. At least I think its not. Who knows, maybe he dresses up like the devil all the time.
Theater Kikker, 12:00 pm
During the Holland Animation Film Festival my former professor Edwin Carels gave an interesting lecture on found footage animation. I interviewed him about it for the VPRO Gids. Check out the article here.
Monday afternoon the new Suske & Wiske comic book was presented. In the new story the duo goes back in time and meets Eduard Douwes Dekker. Together they save the manuscript of the book Max Havelaar. Because actor Peter Faber played Max Havelaar in the film by the same title, he gave a lively speech. The room was filled with kids from the Multatuli elementary school by the way. Scary stuff.
Read more about the creation of this comic book on my other blog.
Comic book convention De Stripdagen Houten, 2:00 pm
This is the hand of comic book artist Fred de Heij who is making an illustration for one of his regular customers. One who had very specific demands regarding what he wanted to see in the drawing. Fred and I just made a short story together for his magazine ‘Pulpman‘. I wrote the story, he made the fabulous artwork for it.
Comic book convention De Stripdagen Houten, 1:15 pm
Comic book artist Argibald takes a sip of his soda before he continues signing his new cartoon book on the Xtra publishing stand.
Comic book convention De Stripdagen Houten, 1:00 pm
My friend and comic book artist Hallie Lama is posing in a scouting uniform. Yesterday at the comic book convention De Stripdagen, he presented his cartoons about scouting. 100 years of scouting was the main theme of the convention this year. In Holland they really know how to make conventions hip by choosing great themes that appeal to the youthful comic book readers. (Yeah, I am being ironic.) It’s great that Hallie say the humour in it.
This week I visited a lecture by Frank Meeuwsen at NPOX. The author of ‘Bloghelden‘ talked about blogging (of course). At the end of the presentation he gave away three books to people who had interesting questions. I got a copy. I bet you want to know what my question was 🙂
By the way, I shot some footage of his lecture and am currently checking whether or not I can distil a Daily Webhead video from it.
Stanislavski, 3:00 pm
Last weekend it was Uitmarkt in Amsterdam. The Uitmarkt is the national opening of the cultural season and the largest cultural festival in the Netherlands. Visitors get a taste of what is to come in the cultural season and see free samples of musical performances, theatre, film and all kinds of other cultural outings. Since a lot of people come to town, it basically boils down to standing in line for long lengths of time. I took this shot while waiting for Liselotte, my coffee date for Sunday. What you see is only a small portion of a very long line of people, waiting to get into the theatre to see a free preview. When Liselotte arrived a few moments later, it was so crowded that we could forget about getting a cup of coffee, so we moved to Vertigo in The Vondelpark. It was pretty busy there too, but they only forgot to bring us the second round of drinks this time. Which, considering, isn’t a bad score for Amsterdam catering.