Spring time reminds me of hooking up. All the animals crawl out of their caves and the mating begins. This wallpaper is dedicated to all the lovers in Amsterdam.
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Dutch architect Wilfried van Winden has designed a really crazy looking hotel of traditional Zaans green houses stacked on top of each other like legos. The new hotel follows the look of the traditional Zaans houses with an obvious surrealist twist. He adds an impressionist touch with a tribute to Monet’s Blue house painting on one of the houses. The architect has received both praise and criticism for his work of art. It’s definitely kitschy but you gotta respect the Dutch for always trying something new.
A blue house to one side forms a sharp contrast with the rest of the building. The architect wanted to make an artistic reference. It refers to the canvas Blue House at Zaandam painted by Monet in the Zaan Region in 1871.
A traditional house from the Zaans region.
The Electrosmog Festival, an international festival for sustainable immobility is happening all day today and now the conference is FREE. All talks and art showings are held at De Balie and all events are being streamed live online.
The ElectroSmog festival is a critique of the worldwide explosion of mobility, and an exploration of the new forms of connectedness with others offered to us by network and communication technologies.Our question is if these new forms of connectedness can help us to develop a viable new lifestyle less determined by speed and constant mobility, which is both ecologically and socially more sustainable.
Tonight’s art program includes:
Participatory performance by Karen lancel & Hermen Maat
Daily: 9.00 – 11.00 & 20.00 – 22.00 hrs CET (GMT+1)
Venues: De Balie, Amsterdam / Banff Center for the Arts / Dunedin, New Zealand
Venues: Eyebeam, New York / Skulpturenpark Berlin / De Balie, Amsterdam / Remote: London
Online linkup between New York, London, Berlin, and elsewhere will take place at 21.00 CET (GMT+1).
Follow live updates from each city on Twitter at #uwac from 15.00 – 24.00 CET (GMT+1).
Art project and installation by Esther Polak
Venue: De Balie, Amsterdam (exhibition)
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.
“Het Klokhuis” Opening titles from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.
“Het Klokhuis” End titles from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.
What exactly is a “pop-up” store, you ask?
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?
Some Interesting Exhibits are:
21st Century Invisible Architectures: The Poetics of Transactivated Space, Saturday, 14:30 – 15:30, De Balie
Anarchic Spaces,Thursday, Friday & Saturday, from 20:00, Paradiso
Hans W. Koch: two rooms, flipped,Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12:00 – 17:00, STEIM
Get your tickets here.
SONICACTS trailer from Sonic Acts on Vimeo.
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.
Love from Amsterdam. Download wallpaper here.
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.
