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camel

camel Two Kochi nomads ride camels during a dust storm near the border town of Spinboldak, Afghanistan, Friday, Feb. 15, 2002. The Gypsies, known in Afghanistan as Kochi are crowding into camps that international aid agencies have erected on the border with Pakistan near the crossing of Spinboldak, said Gul Mohammed, a project director for […]

solved

solved who has the ring?

a play in the open air

Went home around seven o’clock. Walking towards the Bijlmerstation I see people with cans of beer in their hands, wearing orange pants and orange heads. Suddenly I realised that the football match between England and the Netherlands will be played in Amsterdam Arena. At the station, you can hear the crowd already singing. Trains full […]

wearable computers

I missed this one some time ago: WearComps on exhibit at the Stedelijk Museum [1998 Nov 28 to 1999 Jan 10]. The pics look great!

flash

Was today in a meeting regarding an huge internet project, some ICT projectmanager said she didn’t know what Flash was… I almost fell from my chair. Wait till she’ll see this …. and don’t forget to click further than the cool intro.

fat kid

This evening on my way home, I was at Central Station and had to wait for my bus taking me home. He had just left so the bus stop was almost empty. Having done some fitness before, I decided to take the opportuenty to sit an the small bench. Few minutes later a ‘typical amsterdam women’ with her 7 […]

colors

Last week I bought a new light for my hallway. The result was an overdosis of light in my hall. My walls were in a strange yellow-green color. Very nice when we put it on the walls three years ago. But in the bright light it was a bit of an overkill. So, time to change have […]

is there anything changing in Afghanistan?

Muslim women ride in the trunk of a car as a member of the interim government’s security force checks the driver’s identification at a checkpoint in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2002. Checkpoints will encircle northern Afghanistan’s largest city to block any unauthorized weapons under a pact by warlords to establish a government-directed security force, […]

frodo

Saw last night ‘The Lord of the Rings’. Enough is said about it. One thing I noticed in this movie is that there was a special attention to the eye’s of most of the actors. Most of them had beautiful blue eye’s… sometimes even a very weird color blue. I don’t know if there was […]

Jacques Henri Lartique

speed Jacques Henri Lartique – The first prize of the ACF Dieppe Circuit 1912 I love this old pic. The speed is so well put in this picture. I don’t know how the rearwheel got this cartoon-esque shape, but it gives the car the fast speed feeling… Have a look at  One Man’s Eye   for more […]