Gare du Nord, Paris

iPhone 4 with Pro HDR

One of the metro exits near station Gare du Nord, Paris.

Hilversum Town Hall

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I recently visited an old school friend. He works in this beautiful building: the Town Hall of the city of Hilversum. The architect W.M. Dudok designed this building. After about 10 designs construction started in 1928. The building was finished in 1931.

Crowd Funding voor Religie Nu

Fotograaf Eddy Seesing heeft met zijn project 'Religie Nu' fotoportretten gemaakt van 70 religieuze bewegingen in Nederland. De voorgangers van de verschillende religieuze bewegingen zijn gefotografeerd in een belangrijk moment voor hun religie (een zogenaamd  tableaux vivant). Deze fotoportretten zullen tentoongesteld worden in de Kunsthal Rotterdam van 16 december 2011 tot en met 12 februari 2012.

Om de kosten te financieren van het opplakken en plastificeren van de 70 cm grote foto´s doet Eddy een beroep op de Internet community middels ´crowd funding´. Ga naar projectpagina ´Religie Nu´ op http://voordekunst.nl/vdk/project/view/142-religie-nu en steun dit project met een donatie.

Ik had het voorrecht om mee te werken met één van de foto´s en ik was zeer onder de indruk van de compositie die Eddy had gemaakt. Ik zal de expositie dan ook zeer zeker bezoeken om de overige foto's te bekijken.

Meer informatie over het project kan je vinden op Eddy´s web site: http://www.eddyseesing.nl/eddyseesing/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=16184

The Slant Paradise

This display was on exhibition at the Museum ‘Beelden Aan Zee’ in Den Haag. Several pieces of art of the Chinese sculptor Sui Jianguo could be seen. I have no clue why everything is slanted, but it was fun to see!

Dinosaur Amidst the Wind

I met this fun creature during my visit to the ‘Beelden Lange Voorhout Route 2011’. It attracted a lot of attention of photographers.

The Information Portal to European Sites of Remembrance

The 'Information Portal to European Sites of Remembrance' has recently been opened and gives a good overview of museums and memorials which have information on the victims of the Second World War and the Holocaust.

The information portal gives an overview of some of the museums located in the Netherlands dedicated to World War II. As you may remember I visited the Verzetsmuseum (Dutch Resistance Museum) during Wikilovesart. The people from the information portal noticed this and requested permission to use the photos on their web site. I gave them permission under the Creative Commons License (of course!). At the moment the following photos are used:

• 'Poster of the Dutch National Socialists in the exhibition' on the 'Introduction' page of the Dutch Resistance Museum
• 'Resistance Museum in the Plancius building' on the Victims page
• 'Printing-press' and 'View onf the exhibition' on the 'Remembrance' page

You can download a PDF version of the pages here.