Monday, December 7, 2009
Stephan Eicher - Venez Danser
Peter hates his voice, but loves his arrangements. I love both and since Peter was out singing tonight, I played Stephan Eicher really loud.
I discovered Stephan Eicher back in 1988, on one of my vacations in Switzerland when I was still a young blond god. It was one of my first musicians I didn't discover by the videos they made so that was pretty new to me back then. I guess it was around the same time I really got interested in all the swiss dialects, so I was glad to have found a swiss singer using his own dialect. A few albums later, Stephan Eicher moved to France and hardly ever used his swiss dialect anymore, but I keep buying his albums anyway.
Oh, and he was one of the very first artists I saw in concert. I went with my sister, we missed the last train from Amsterdam and we hitchhiked back to the east. Very responsible behaviour, two teenagers hitchhiking in the middle of the night. Our first ride was driven by two french guys on their way back to Paris with a load of weed in their glove compartment. And hurray for us, they already smoked half of it and stopped in the middle of the highway to let us out to get our next ride in Utrecht. Good memories!
Tomasz Pastyrczak
Sam Scott Schiavo did this beautiful spread in Hero Magazine Issue #2. He also published some of the outtakes of austrian model Tomasz Pastyrczak on his blog.
Dag Sinterklaasje
Okay, I've been nagging to some of you guys about putting their christmas tree up so early in the last few weeks. That is mainly because we have this other tradition in The Netherlands called Sinterklaas. This tradition is more and more overshadowed by that american tradition called Christmas, so I just don't like people having christmas decorations before Sinterklaas left the country, which is today.
So go ahead, decorate your homes, your stockings, your gardens. The almighty Zephyr allows you! And if I had a christmastree myself it would probably look like this beautiful animation above by dvdp.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Cutest Kitten in the World
You've probably seen this kitten a million times over the last couple of days, but I couldn't resist posting it as well.... the cutest kitten in the world! I can't stop watching it!
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Andrew Stetson by McKenzie James
I am glad Andrew Stetson is back again after some months of absence! After my post last week about Andrew here is a new shoot with photographer McKenzie James.
Happy Road
This is one of the roads in Europe that makes me the most happy. The last kilometers up into the mountains to the beautiful ski-station Val Thorens! In about 6 weeks I'll be driving that road again, with Peter next to me and a car-sick Parandchen in the back (covered in cradles of beer, red wine in bags and other groceries). Really looking forward to that, especially since the station opened most of its slopes today!
Friday, December 4, 2009
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