September 30th, 2007
my day in photos
Check out this website, the basic idea is to post some 20 photos taken on the same day. Mine, taken on may 17 2007, can he found here. I participated because ….. i wanted to be in the company of Frank Boenigk from photoshau or Marco Martinelli from light-opinion or Juan Buhler from this amazing blog or Jens Hoffmann from look-s or Imran Saleh from fotobyimran !
February 25th, 2007
exactly 400 years ago ….
It was in Mantua Italy, in the accademia degl’Invaghiti where the first performance of L’ Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi was given. And tonight, exactly 400 years later, we went to the concertgebouw here in Bruges to hear that Opera performed by Concerto Italiano conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini and ad the following singers: Furio Zanasi, Anna Simboli, Sara Mingardo, Sergio Foresti, Monica Piccinini, Antonio Abete, Luca Dordolo, Raffaele Giordani, Gianluca Ferrarini and Marco Scavazza. Opera would not be opera without Monteverdi and after hearing and seeing L’Incoronazione di Poppea a couple of years ago, we got tickets for good seats and we certainly do not regret it. What a tragic story and how vicious those gods…. I will certainly remember Furio Zanasi as Orfeo. The emotional impact of the intervention by Sara Mingardo where in Act 2 she informs Orfeo of the death of Euridice was overwhelming (and that is an understatement!) You can read about Orfeo’s tragic story here and for the real musicians take a peak at the score here
February 21st, 2007
Rosas / Ictus / Steve Reich Evening
Yesterday we went to the concertgebouw in Brugge to see Rosas the dance company founded by Ann Marie de Keersmaecker and hear Ictus play Steve Reich. I have always liked the minimalistic music of Steve Reich, and Philip Glass and Terry Riley…. to the sometimes considerable irritation of the other members of my family. On the other hand the name Rosas and De Keersmaecker were familiar to me but i had never seen them or really had an opinion about them, i knew they were very well know in Belgium, but so what….. It did not take long to for me to make up my mind, it was a fabulous evening and the biggest regret was we did not bring our daughter along to be inspired (but well buy a dvd…). Although i do not know too much about dancing the performance was very impressive. And it was as if the music was written after the choreography was made. The use of lights on the scene by Remon Fromont was appropriately minimalistic but all the more effective, o boy… if i could ever get an opportunity to photograph all this. And why not list the name of the dancers: Anne-Lin Akselsen, Boštjan Antonci, Tale Dolven, Kosi Hidama, Kaya Kolodziejczyk, Cynthia Loemij, Mark Lorimer, Moya Michael, Elizaveta Penkóva, Zsuzsa Rozsavölgyi, Anani Dodji Sanouvi, Igor Shyshko, Clinton Stringer, Sue-Yeon Youn.
January 12th, 2007
passing on another stick
“Do it now and do it without thinking too much about it”
not advice i would normally follow…..
but lets make an exception:
January 5th, 2007
do not throw away that old pc!
I just recycled an old (>8 years!) pc (Compaq deskpro EP 350 Mhz, 64MB ram) into a firewall using ipcop. It is rather easy to do, highly recommended. You can read about this here or here to make up your mind. I repeat, it is not that difficult, give it a try before generating more trash and old iron, and thanks to all the people involved in making ipcop! Did i forget to mention this stuff is free?
