Saturday, February 17, 2007
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
In het leven is pijn onvermijdelijk maar is lijden optioneel.
Monday, February 12, 2007
Magical Dior pour Homme

The notes
Heart : Iris, Cacao, Amber
Base : Vetiver, Patchouli, Leather
Shaï wear (human packing), sex sells....
Casino Royal
P.S. there are a few things that apealed to me, one is that at some point just for a small moment Richard Branson (the founder of Virgin records) is visible in the movie, he gets frisked at the gate at Miami Airport. The second is that they deal with some old James Bond Cliches, like the shaken not stirred Martinis. At some point mr. Craig (annoyed by his defeat by his oponent) answers to the waiter who asks "shaken not stirred", "I don't give a damn, give me the Martini". There are a few more small hints where they deal with the old cliches, but then again you can look for yourself.......
The secret of French girls or the BB effect
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Happy birthday Kate

A gift that Kate send me...
This is a japanese commercial about the jeans brand "Bobson".
The words that are spoken are very beautiful and poetic, therefor Kate send them to me:
"Running away from you"
"So that you will get closer to me"
"Walking in front of you"
"So that you know to put me ahead"
Friday, February 09, 2007
Saturday, February 03, 2007
Friday, February 02, 2007
A new small experiment
The goal behind this experiment was first of all to create an animation through stop motion technique. This is done by making a picture of every individual movement. When the individual pictures are played one after another in a sequence it creates the idea of movement. This kind of technique is used in movies like, "the corpse Bride" from Tim Burton. The next step is to remove all the clutter out of the pictures that is not needed, for this I use Photoshop. It also creates the possibility to adjust small defects in the alignement and other things like removing the wires that I used to hold the cameras door in place. The next step is resizing (also for memory reasons) and exporting all layers as individual PSD files. Then I create an automated batch command to transform the files in PNG. This creates an alpha layer around the camera thus the idea the camera is floating as a free object. The next step is importing all the PNG files into Flash and put them on a timeline. The rest is scripting the behaviors of the buttons in relation to the animation. The main idea eventually is to use the desk with items as an interactive menu, the inspiration comes from Pierre Jeunet his movie "Delicatessen" where he used items from a butchery as intro for the movie. So now leaving the technical details, feel free to play around.....
Here to view the larger version! The used example picture is from Laurens Aaij, winner of the Silver Camera more here
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Klimaatactie

Monday, January 29, 2007
The Magic of 3D Art
A combination of DAZ 3D, Photoshop and Flash can lead to beautiful effects in animations. For this I choose to work with *.png exports, that I filter thru a batch command in Photoshop. Then it's imported into flash and put on a timeline frame by frame to make the animation come to life. If you like to learn more about this kind of animations, give me a comment and I will give you additional information.
Friday, January 26, 2007
Monday, January 22, 2007
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Les Vieux Amants by Jacques Brel
Vingt ans d'amour c'est l'amour fol
Mille fois tu pris ton bagage
Mille fois je pris mon envol
Et chaque meuble se souvient
Dans cette chambre sans berceau
Des éclats des vieilles tempêtes
Plus rien ne ressemblait à rien
Tu avais perdu le goût de l'eau
Et moi celui de la conquête
Mais mon amour
Mon doux mon tendre mon merveilleux amour
De l'aube claire jusqu'à la fin du jour
Je t'aime encore tu sais je t'aime
Moi je sais tous tes sortilèges
Tu sais tous mes envoûtements
Tu m'as gardé de piège en piège
Je t'ai perdue de temps en temps
Bien sûr tu pris quelques amants
Il fallait bien passer le temps
Il faut bien que le corps exulte
Finalement finalement
Il nous fallut bien du talent
Pour être vieux sans être adultes
Oh mon amour
Mon doux mon tendre mon merveilleux amour
De l'aube claire jusqu'à la fin du jour
Je t'aime encore tu sais je t'aime
Et plus le temps nous fait cortège
Et plus le temps nous fait tourment
Mais n'est-ce pas le pire piège
Que vivre en paix pour des amants
Bien sûr tu pleures un peu moins tôt
Je me déchire un peu plus tard
Nous protégeons moins nos mystères
On laisse moins faire le hasard
On se méfie du fil de l'eau
Mais c'est toujours la tendre guerre
Oh mon amour
Mon doux mon tendre mon merveilleux amour
De l'aube claire jusqu'à la fin du jour
Je t'aime encore tu sais je t'aime