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Lucas Thijs – Haris Alagić – Koen Frijns – Jan van Berkel

admin — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:32:19 +0000

John Mayer – Vultures Groove Guitar Jam with Loop Pedal
Used: Fender Stratocaster JM Signature, Roland Cube 30X, JamMan Solo Loop Pedal … Lucas Thijs John Mayer Stratocaster Loop Pedal Vultures Groove

John Mayer – Vultures Groove Guitar Jam with Loop Pedal

Lucas Koen Jan&Haris in De Hofnar Valkenswaard 1

Lucas Koen Jan&Haris in De Hofnar Valkenswaard 2

Lucas is playing unplugged guitar

Performing lead-guitar 18 oktober in Muziekgebouw Frits Philips Eindhoven with Valerius

Lucas Koen Jan&Haris unplugged

Tom Waits – See of love

Cecilia Bartoli

In this aria (”Gelido in ogni vena”), a father sings that he feels the blood running cold in his every vein because he is responsible for the unjust murder of his son. Using poignant dissonance and restraint, Vivaldi makes time stand still through the utter horror of it all.

gallery from folder – php-script

admin — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 07:44:17 +0000

gallery from folder – background-image

admin — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 07:40:37 +0000

Wire binding for free

admin — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 07:14:15 +0000

portfolio demo

Wire binding is hard to get on a computer. You will encounter the difficulty of margins after publishing. Why does an application even think of creating margins for the portfolio you want to bind? So this is how I started in a silly way. I opened the html document en replace: at the beginning with: . Then save. Never thought it would be so hard to build one’s own virtual space from scratch, getting there bit by bit. Putting a portfolio on it. Trying to get the typography and lay-out with style scripting, CSS. Nether expected bitmapped fonts to be taken that serious for typesetting. However they look quite well on monitor display, and handy for avoiding robots. If only exactly positioned on the pixels with a flash-object, to get them sharp. Also using their exact height, commonly 8 pixels, which is their capital height. This is totally different from typographic measuring corps 8 didotpoints. Actually I designed a lot of bitmap-fonts 25 years ago (even did my promotional brochure with it, through downsizing with reprocamera), all threw them away, feeling so releaved with the arrival of vector-fonts. Bitmapped fonts often are freeware, not for sale, incomplete, without any numbers for instance, limited for the whole typesetting. Spacing still is irregular because of pixel limitations. Half is no pixel Therefore I prefer letter-spacing:1px for small type. Which reminds me of the em-space, which is a square surrounding the capital ‘M’. The roman classic at least, not a condensed one. So ‘em’ equals corps-hight; Do check this type measure tool

Isaac Israels -portrait Jozef Israels

admin — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 07:06:44 +0000

‘Portrait of Jozef Israels’ oil on linen
by Isaac Israels

pictobrowser wmode opaque flash-player in the background picasa flickr feed

admin — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 02:30:37 +0000

My home is a castle

One day Margot decided to rent a place to live in. Something beautiful came up, so to speak, a home. But it really appeared to be a castle, and totally empty. Old fashioned. No kitchen, no shower, no television, no phone to communicate with the outside world. Even the postman had to knock on the door. No doorbell. Yet their were a few images on the wall, old fashioned paintings, who nobody would care for. Portraits of the former owners.
Margot decided to ask her friend Didier to help her with the design and installation of all engineering, hot and cold water. In no way she could build the plumbing herself. Also she loved watching movies on a big screen instead of old paintings. Didier had good taste too.
So their he was, Didier, her friend with good taste. The big day they were entering the castle.
‘Got a key?’
‘Do we need one?’
‘Yes of course, well… here he is under the doormat.’
‘Lucky for you this is a huge entrance so we can drive in the mobile home.’
‘The what?’
‘A mobile home … fully equipped. It’s all their, you can watch movies and listen to music. It could be a castle but it is even better. I will take the key. Whenever you want a different mobile home you can call me.’
‘What if I want to let in a visitor?’
‘It is all done by the mobile home. It will answer the doorbell automatically, much like a robot.’
‘But if someone is knocking?’
‘Well…, in that case you can call me.’
‘I certainly will not call you and I also would like a different wallpaper. And I completely disagree with living in a mobile home in a castle.
I would rather live in a castle with a bathroom, maybe you can tell me how it works, that mobile home. I can build the plumbing myself’
‘Margot…, then you will not call me anymore.’

Vertaling van het Engels in het Nederlands

My home is a castle

Op een dag besloot Margot om een ruimte te huren om te wonen. Iets moois werd gevonden, om zo te zeggen, een huis. Maar in werkelijheid was het een kasteel, en helemaal leeg. Ouderwets. Geen keuken, geen douche, geen televisie, geen telefoon voor de communicatie met de buitenwereld. Zelfs de postbode moest kloppen op de deur. Geen deurbel. Er hingen nog wat dingen aan de muur, ouderwetse schilderijen, waar niemand om gaf. Portretten van de voormalige eigenaren.
Margot besloot om haar vriend Didier te vragen om te helpen met de inrichting en installatie van alle techniek, warm en koud water. Op geen enkele manier kon ze het sanitair zelf aanleggen. Ook hield ze van kijken naar films op een groot scherm in plaats van ouderwetse schilderijen. Didier had goede smaak ook.
Dus daar kwam hij, Didier, haar vriend met goede smaak. De grote dag dat ze het kasteel in konden.
‘Heb je een sleutel?’
‘Hebben we er een nodig?’
‘Ja natuurlijk wel, ach … hier is hij onder de deurmat.’
‘Gelukkig is dit zo’n enorme entree dat we de stacaravan naar binnen kunnen rijden.’
‘De wat?’
‘De stacaravan … van alle gemakken voorzien. Het is er allemaal, je kunt films kijken en luisteren naar muziek. Het zou een kasteel kunnen zijn, maar het is nog beter. Ik zal de sleutel meenemen. Wanneer je een andere stacaravan wil kun je me bellen.’
‘Wat als ik een bezoeker wil binnenlaten?’
‘Het wordt allemaal gedaan door de stacaravan. Die zal antwoord geven op de deurbel, automatisch, net als een robot.’
‘Maar als iemand klopt?’
‘Nou …, in dat geval kun je me bellen.’
‘Ik zal zeker niet bellen en ik zou ook graag een ander behangetje. En ik ben het volledig oneens met het leven in een stacaravan in een kasteel.
Ik zou liever leven in een kasteel met een badkamer, misschien kun je mij vertellen hoe het functioneert, die stacaravan. Dan kan ik het sanitair zelf aanleggen’
‘Margot . . ., dan zul je me niet meer bellen.’

pictobrowser wmode opaque

admin — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 17:01:09 +0000

Flash-divisions tend to be on top of everything html.
This post shows several Pictobrowser flash-objects in the background! With their content from Picasa or Flickr.
More important, it works with different browsers! Therefore the source code contains two similar divisions with apparently the same code twice, but this is necessary, one for Safari/Firefox and another for IE. Incroyable mais pourtant c’est vray. (It’s incredible but yet true.)

gallery from folder

admin — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 13:39:21 +0000

A real PHP-script for listing images from a folder, with subscriptions and magnified image view within the page. Completely adaptable with css to your own style-preference. No hidden secrets or back linking. Please leave the copyright credit intact.
Proudly presenting demo here.
I will proceed with explaining the script in this post, but I am also considering how to earn a little from it because it took me so much to get it on. Donate as much as you want or the more likely no way I pay Free to use without warranty or support!
Anyhow I will present it to my dear students. And for them I have to explain some things in advance.

-PHP must be turned on, check your server
-the whole thing is running from one folder, which contains the files ‘index.php’, ‘recentPictures.txt’, subfolders ‘images’ and ‘big’.
-so you address ‘www.yoursitename.com/picturesgalleryfolder’ and then the page automatically opens.

You can download the zip-file here, unpack, create as many galleries as you whish by copying and changing the name of the folder. No thanks!

philips lichttoren eindhoven

admin — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 09:39:24 +0000

‘Philips lighttower’ oil on linen 120×130cm
by p e t e r t h i j s
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G A L L E R Y

Eindhoven Designcity

rietveld chair perspective construction

admin — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 07:29:45 +0000

This should explain the old-school drawingtechnique. A simple cube to begin with, see the fourth illustration. Try to find a few corner points and finally the vanishing perspective of parallel lines. Point ‘A’ is done by example. Draw the lines yourself and you wil understand. Visit the old-school paintings, that were done by this method.

High-end solutions.
Exercise a floating (vanishing) point of the chairs seat: draw a parallel line from the viewers eye which crosses the projection table (is on the canvas). Parallel to either one of the lines of the object. So each of parallel lines will float into the same ‘V’point (is the final construction of this point just like any other). However the backseat results in a point far beyond the canvas.
Try for rounded objects, circles en spheres. Parallel shading, central shading and mirroring. It all can be done in a constructive manner. Visit the old-school paintings, that were done by this method.