I first discovered artist Johnny Kelly through his amazing video, procrastination. Now he has teamed up with the Dutch kids Show Het Klokhuis and created an amazing stop motion opening and closing title sequence. I love it. Behind the scenes making of this can be found here.
According to the EAH! website: “The pop-up store is an initiative of designer Eva Anna Hekking, founder of EAH!, and NV Zeedijk, a dynamic organization which purchases properties in the centre of Amsterdam. Over the past years, the Zeedijk has positively transformed into an upcoming fashion area. Well-fitting within this upcoming new image, NV Zeedijk offered Eva Anna Hekking an empty space at the Zeedijk. As curator she restyled the place into a creative ‘underground’ exhibition versus shop-space.”
The pop up shop essentially houses a new collection of young local designers each month, including women’s clothing, jewellery, furniture, linens, arts, lighting and baby clothes (helloooo colour-by-numbers baby jumpsuits!).
It’s located at Zeedijk 37 and make sure to drop by this Saturday, March 6th when they launch their newest collection with drinks and snacks.
Graphic designer Mark Andrew Webber created this beautiful linocut type map of Amsterdam. He really took the time to research beyond the street names and major landmarks. Prints can be purchased by contacting his site.
The thirteenth annual Sonic Acts festival will be held from February 25- February 28. The festival combines the elements of art, space, and sound and attempts to answer these questions:
How is space defined by a work of art? What does a viewer or listener experience? How do technological artworks deal with the visual, auditory and psychological aspects of spatiality? How has the relationship between technology, space and architecture developed over the past few centuries? How have technological developments influenced our perception and representation of space, and how do we relate to the space that surrounds us?
Nature and Technology collides through this art and design exhibition at Club Trouw. The opening will be held on Friday February 19 from 18. 00 to 22.00. Tickets are 7.50 Euros and includes entrance to the Multiplex party after the show.
Colour lovers is a site where designers and other color aficionados can create and search for interesting colors, palettes, and patterns. I started creating my own color palettes and decided to make a color palette for Amsterdam. Then I wondered what other people thought of Amsterdam in terms of color and discovered that people see all sorts of colors when they see Amsterdam!
My Amsterdam This is the way I see Amsterdam, green doors and green plants everywhere, gray blue skies, cream trimmings on houses, and bright and dark reds splashed throughout the city. Others see Amsterdam in a much more psychedelic or subdued way.
Lately, I have been making desktop wallpaper backgrounds for friends. Many of them have been Amsterdam related so I thought I would share them with you here. January has been full of gezzelig tea time meetings. I like how cafes here always give you a stroopwafel or a cookie of some sort with your tea. You can download this wallpaper here.
If you are looking for something cozy to do in the bleak of winter and additionally experience possibly the best cinema experience of 2010, go to the Tuschinski Theater and see Avatar in 3D. Avatar is badass, Tuschinski is badass. It’s a win win situation.
Pathé Tuschinski is an Art Deco movie theater built in 1921 by Abraham Icek Tuschinski. The architecture and interior design is amazing. It feels like something out of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
If you haven’t heard of James Cameron’s latest flick you have probably been in a cave but here’s the trailer.
Avatar 3D is playing in several cinemas around town but I highly suggest you go and watch it at Tuschinski! The theatre has been selling out so I suggest ordering your tickets online.
