#Artis blog amsterdam

[micheltaanman-blog]

Nederland- Amsterdam - Op bezoek bij kunstenaar Debby van Adrichem

[bunkneterland]

Outdoor Delights: Discovering the Hidden Gems of Terras Amsterdam

Amsterdam is a lovely Dutch city famed for its canals, tulips, and wooden clogs. It's also a city where you may spend days roaming along the waterfront and seeing the famous sights.

Visitors frequently struggle to find the best restaurant in Amsterdam. Travelers want to eat in Amsterdam and take up the sun in lovely weather!

There are numerous Terrace Amsterdam restaurants to choose from, but in this blog, we will go over some of the greatest restaurants to consider visiting for a memorable dining experience.

Bunk- Bunk terrace restaurant in the city center has the best Terrace Amsterdam. The view from the terrace is spectacular. It has a nice ambiance and decent meals. Bunk's menu includes both international cuisines and meals made from locally available resources. Bunk provides a real flavor that you will never forget! Bunk embodies the spirit of Amsterdam. Bunk is highly recommended if you want to enjoy Amsterdam's great weather and relaxing sunshine while eating delicious food.

Noorderlicht- Noorderlicht is a one-of-a-kind Terrace Amsterdam restaurant. It boasts a waterside beer garden, live music on the open-air stage on a regular basis, and a campfire for warm summer nights. This restaurant is open both throughout the day and at night.

Royal Theatre Carré- It has a large open-air terrace on the banks of the Amstel River that is open all day until sunset and is the ideal place to enjoy a few drinks or a bite to eat. Relax on the deckchairs on the modest city beach while admiring the colorful summer atmosphere.

Waterkant- Waterkant is a colorful Surinamese café bar that draws an arty throng of locals and in-the-know foreigners with its big, waterside terrace that receives full sun. Waterkant is a tropical sensation in the heart of Amsterdam, right on the canal ring, and is perfect for sunny weather while still being cozy when the temperature drops.

Pacific- Pacific, located in Westerpark's Westergas culture complex, is a busy restaurant, bar and late-night music club with a lovely terrace. The lively beer terrace features fireplaces to keep you warm after sunset, as well as plenty of space for everyone to enjoy.

Bunk offers the best deck in Amsterdam among the restaurants recommended. Bunk is well-known for its fantastic ambiance and delectable food. Bunk is a must-visit terrace restaurant for foodies!

Contact us: –

Bunk

Website: — https://wearebunk.com/ 

Email: —  restaurant.ams@WeAreBunk.com

Address: — Hagedoornplein 2, 1031 BV Amsterdam, Netherlands

Contact: — +31 (0) 88 69 69 824

[mamavankate]

Heerlijk dagje struinen door Artis 🦍🐘🦉 • • • #Kate #mamavankate #Artis #pauw #ondekken #buitenkind #peuter #toddler #mama #happiness #geluk #motherhood #dochter #daughter #mamablogger #momsofinstagram #kidsofinstagram #toddlersofinstagram #momblogger #blog #blogger #website #NL🇾🇪 #USA🇺🇸 #Amsterdam #Atlanta (bij ARTIS)

[montyrakusen]

Deaf School in Amsterdam Part 2

I’ve always believed you need to be very brave to be a photographer and it was with this thought in mind, with my trusty Pentax Spotmatic 1000 and my home made camera case, I boarded the ferry for Amsterdam. This was the start of many interesting photographic journeys and a career which took me all over the world, some journeys were dangerous, some just plain enjoyable, some I have yet to talk about. You never know what is going to happen on a photoshoot be it in Bradford or Beijing and the build up can be quite stressful, even more so these days. Best thing is to go with it and try to enjoy it, be brave.

My college friends, in the band Deaf School were performing at The Melkweg club in Amsterdam. I was at a bit of a loose end and being no stranger to the hippy, arty Amsterdam, having already visited a number of times I decided to go and support them and document the tour. I’ve always loved the place, the art, the architecture, canals and the bicycles, the smoky bars and strange people and the feeling of relaxed freedom of thought. Since then I have been back many times (even been paid to work in Amsterdam).

I travelled there by myself as the band had a full tour bus but they very kindly let me sleep on the floor of their ‘luxurious’ accommodation and I spent my time documenting their tour. I produced a small booklet for the band which I know some have treasured even though I printed it out on an obscure brand of photo paper which still curls to this day, I remember my room at 104 Princes Road, Liverpool, full of booklets all over the floor with weights on top to try to get them to stay flat.

This was December 1974, a really long time ago, before I became a professional photographer and before what I consider to be the ‘modern’ world and it is curious that this is the first in my rock band photography series and probably the last that will appear on the blog. It has been a labour of love scanning and digitising these film negatives, which have not seen the light of day for 45 years. I have had to developed some photoshop techniques to enhance them. Looking at them now I see that what I lacked in technical ability and exposure control, I made up for in composition and drama. You are welcome to download them but they are not for commercial use without permission and the copyright is strictly ©montyrakusen  monty@rakusen.co.uk please request a link.

Text edit: John Coombes

[inge-portfolio]

Opening Exhibition 'Lost in Time' by Annelies Damen - May 2018

My second event as a freelancer at X BANK. For this event I was in contact with the manager of Annelies. We set up some meetings to make sure everything was to Annelies’ liking. During the meetings we discussed how we’re going to invite people for the opening, how people can rsvp, which DJ would play, the F&B, what the PR agency can do for this exhibition and how we generate traffic during the exhibition. I made an invite and sent it out to our subscribers (10.000+) and made sure there was a blog and social media posts about the coming exhibition. Furthermore, I made sure there was someone hanging the pieces and I put the works in our online store. On the night of the event I was responsible for overall production.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION “The series consists of a number of black and white and soft colour photographs in large format, shot in the oldest museum in Amsterdam,  the ARTIS-Groote museum. In this new series, the main character gets out of her conventional environment to consider where she wants to go. Without pressure of time or environment, she finds a renewed freedom. Her answers come, they float in this beautiful old room.” - X BANK 

LINK BLOG

LINK PICTURES

WEBSITE ANNELIES DAMEN

Credits: Annelies Damen

[muziekuss]

Grote spelers in de wereld van Design

Museumnacht Amsterdam: Een grote speler voor het algemene publiek is de Museum nacht in Amsterdam. Dit is een jaarlijks evenement waarop bijna alle musea en galerieën haar deuren opent op een nieuwe en spannende manier. De museum nacht geeft bezoekers een kans om kennis te maken met kunst op een unieke  en spannende manier. Persoonlijk ben ik erg fan van de museumnacht. Met mijn museum kaart ga ik vaak naar Amsterdam om te kijken naar nieuwe exposities en tentoonstellingen, echter biedt de museumnacht mij een nieuw perspectief op kunst. Zo is er een disco in het Rijksmuseum, door grote lichten en een massaal aantal dansende mensen zie je de entree op een compleet andere manier. Ook zijn er verschillende evenementen en routes binnen de musea’s georganiseerd speciaal voor het evenement. Bands spelen in het Stedelijk en in Artis kan je genieten van exposities in het aquarium met een glaasje glühwein. Door de toegankelijkheid en de presentatie van het evenement is het deelnemen voor ieder persoon interessant. Mensen hebben de mogelijkheid om kennis te maken met kunst en cultuur op nieuwe manier en raken misschien wel voor het eerst echt geprikkeld. Al vanaf de start in 2000 is het een groot succes en het feit dat het een grote speler blijkt te zijn zie je aan de snelle kaartverkoop, uitverkocht in slechts één dag.

Dutch Design Week: Niet te missen op het lijstje van grote spelers is natuurlijk de Dutch Design Week. Voor werkveldverkenning heb ik het evenement dit jaar voor het eerst bezocht (en zeker niet voor het laatst). Gedurende de week krijgen designers de kans om hun werken aan het publiek te tonen. Het evenement is gigantisch en is verspreid door heel Eindhoven. Toen het evenement werd opgezet in 2002 deden er slechts 20 deelnemers mee, gedurende de jaren is dit aantal opgelopen tot wel 2500 designers overal uit Nederland. Het evenement zelf telt zelfs rond de 355000 bezoekers (Wikipedia-bijdragers, 2019). Op het evenement bezoek je verschillende vertoningen. Zo heb je een locatie waar de afstudeerprojecten van kunstscholen worden vertoont. Dutch Design Week focust zich met name op ontwerpen en ideeën voor de toekomst. Ieder jaar word er dan ook gekozen voor een onderwerp. Dit jaar was dit ‘If not now, then when?’ Een schreeuw naar verandering om beter om te gaan met onze planeet. Dit kan bijvoorbeeld door duurzaam en effectief gebruik te maken van materialen en technologie. Veel designers hebben hier dan ook groots op ingespeeld. Dutch Design week is een grote speler voor designers om naam bekendheid te creëren. Ieder jaar wordt er een tal aan awards uitgedeeld. Ook komen er veel kenners op het evenement af die producten kunnen promoten of kopen.   Zelf was ik niet bekend in de wereld van design (los van de schilderkunst). Alleen Dutch Design Week was een fenomeen waar ik veel en vaak over had gehoord, een grote speler dus.

Exposities: Mijn laatste grote speler is klinkt misschien wat algemeen, toch ben ik erachter gekomen hoe belangrijk deze is in de wereld van de beeldende kunst. Gedurende mijn meeloopdag heb ik gesproken met veel jonge kunstenaars. Ik vroeg mij af hoe deze kunstenaars aan hun inkomsten komen en wat er voor nodig is om naambekendheid te creëren. Het steeds terugkerende antwoord was ‘exposities’.Ik spreek hier met name over korte en locale exposities. Tim vertelde mij hoe er voor hem en vele andere afgestudeerde kunstenaars vaak weinig werk te vinden is. Je bent in het begin afhankelijk van exposities. Hier moet je als kunstenaar voor gevraagd worden. Wanneer je dan ergens mag exposeren krijg je de kans om je werken aan het publiek te tonen. Wanneer je dan vaker gevraagd word en vaker mag exposeren raak je als kunstenaar steeds bekender. Voor beginnende kunstenaars is het dan ook het doel om zo veel mogelijk te exposeren. De kunst wereld is een lastige wereld en veel jongeren falen er dan ook in om na een studie daadwerkelijk rond te komen van het gene wat ze het liefste doen, kunst maken. Door samen te werken en bijvoorbeeld thema avonden te organiseren waarop meerdere kunstenaars tegelijkertijf werken vertonen en verkopen blijft men gestimuleerd door te zetten. Exposities zijn dus een essentiële speler voor kunstenaars om de buitenwereld kennis te laten maken met hun werken. Veel exposities zijn georganiseerd door scholen, collectieven maar ook op festivals zie je vaak kunstenaars exposeren. Denk aan tweetakt of Down the Rabbit Hole.

Literatuurlijst Blog:

DuurzaamBedrijfsleven. (z.d.). Stedelijk Museum ontvangt duurzaamheidscertificaat. Geraadpleegd op 21 januari 2020, van https://www.duurzaambedrijfsleven.nl/infra/25719/stedelijk-museum-ontvangt-duurzaamheidscertificaat

Smeltekop, E. (2019, 6 november). The Bag Project at Van AbbeMuseum - DUTCH DESIGN WEEK 2019. Geraadpleegd op 21 januari 2020, van http://www.studiodrift.com/news/2019/6/11/bag-project-vanabbemuseum

Terra, C. (2020, 22 januari). Tweedehands kledingwinkels schieten uit de grond. Geraadpleegd op 22 januari 2020, van https://fashionunited.nl/nieuws/retail/tweedehands-kledingwinkels-schieten-uit-de-grond/2017040428478

Wikipedia-bijdragers. (2019, 9 september). Dutch Design Week. Geraadpleegd op 22 januari 2020, van https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Design_Week

[20straveling]

Photos from blog #6, Amsterdam, The Hague, Zaandam — 11.18.2017 ~ I am my Own Self, Hear me (expl)ROAR! 

[muellerewald-blog]

As a city break destination, Amsterdam ticks all the boxes. Not only is it one of the most pedestrian-friendly cities, it’s under an hour’s flight from the UK making it the ideal place for a weekend break.

Amsterdam is jam-packed with cultural attractions, beautiful parks and canals, and an eclectic nightlife, so you won’t find it hard to fill your time. If you have a romantic trip to plan, here are some of our top suggestions for couples.

Discover Jordaan, Amsterdam’s arty neighbourhood

For young couples especially, Jordaan is a must-do. The trendy neighbourhood is teaming with indie boutiques, galleries, restaurants, bars and pubs. And for the shopaholics, you’ll find plenty of vintage and antique shops to rummage through along The 9 Streets. Jordaan is one of the city’s most famous locations with a thriving community of creatives.

Take to the water on a canal cruise

What could be more romantic than a scenic cruise in one of the prettiest cities in the world? In Amsterdam, there are a number of cruise operators running day and evening trips to suit your budget. It’s a truly magical experience as you glide past the hustle and bustle, pretty townhouses and under bridges.

Party like the locals

Amsterdam has a vibrant nightlife, with renowned superclubs, rooftop and canal-side bars, and underground clubs in abundance. From dance to hip hop, there’s a venue for everyone and events happening each night of the week. Check out Melkweg, a popular entertainment venue near Leidseplein (Amsterdam’s prime nightlife square), and WestUnie in the cultural hotspot of Westergas.

Kick back with a picnic in the park

Experience a greener side of Amsterdam with an afternoon picnic. Some of the cities best parks include Vondelpark (one of the biggest and most popular), Oosterpark and Park Frankendael. Locals and tourists alike spend much of the summer outdoors, so the atmosphere is always enjoyable. The parks are spacious and well-maintained – many with lakes, treelined footpaths and flower gardens.

Dress up for a night at the theatre

Don your finest attire for a cosy evening at the theatre! Amsterdam has some magical theatres showing cabaret performances, ballet and opera that are perfect for a date night, like Internationaal Theater Amsterdam and DeLaMar Theater. Or why not go to the movies? Pathé Tuschinski is a luxury art deco cinema and theatre space where you can enjoy your favourite films.

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CV Simon Keizer

Art education

2014-2019

Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL

BA Expendad painting

Group exhibitions

2021

(Upcoming) Dumbstruck Dumptruck

(Upcoming) BLADDER GLADDER, Hermitage, Amsterdam

This art fair, Kromhouthal, Amsterdam

2020

Toodeloo, Swalmstraat, Amsterdam (w/ Urs Moore)

BLADDER GLADDER, Amsterdam Fashion Week, Amsterdam (w/ Duran Lantink)

Smart Distance Lab (best of graduates 2019/2020) - The art fair, Kromhouthal,

Amsterdam

Decamerone, online Zoom (w/ Urs Moore, Canon Wu, Pieter Meijers,

Janina Butz, Amelie Wedel and Janes Haid-Schmallenberg) (bi weekly

ongoing)

Dance with the devil, Kunstenlab, Deventer (w/ Wayne Horse, Anan Striker ao)

Mind the water (Gardylooo), het Hem, Zaandam

Mind the w2ter (Gardylooo), Artless, Amsterdam

Before itʼs too late, Swalmstraat, Amsterdam (duo show w/ Urs Moore)

2019

Arty Party, Melkweg, Amsterdam, NL

Graduation Show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL

Mono Japan, Lloyd Hotel,Amsterdam, NL

2018

GerritWillem 50 jaar, Beam me up Gerrit (performance w. Urs Moore), Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL

2017

Uncut — What is happening to our brain, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL

Strawberita dreams turn to champagne reality, Fanfare, Amsterdam, NL

2016

Art in Context: Education, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen NL

Kristallin 37 Experimentierfelder 2015, Salzamt, Linz, AT

2015

The artist has left the building, Vondelbunker, Amsterdam, NL

Thee experimenting’, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL

2014

Tomorrow,W139,Amsterdam, NL

Publications

2019

The Future Publishing, A 60 hour Book

2018

The Future Publishing, ...or the curve of learning

2016

‘Art in Context: Education’, Exchange of Values

and Meaning through Gameplay, Gerrit Rietveld Publications

Online

https://www.deschoolamsterdam.nl/en/blog/2018/

10/the-60-hour-book-het-weekend-as-capturedby-studio-the-future/806/

http://www.mistermotley.nl/art-everyday-life/aubrey

[elfrogco]

@anti-social-kat thank you for the tag and birthday wishes. 

Name- Eloise 

Nicknames- elfrog (lol), weasel, weeb, weslton, froggy, el, 

Gender - Female 

Star sign - i’m a Gemini gal

Height - i have no clue, something like 175cm 

Time RIGHT NOW- 11:09pm

Last thing i googled- Kilograms to Grams (I’m in high school and i still don’t remember this)

Favourite bands - Mumford and sons, catfish and the bottlemen, The wombats, Walk the moon.

Favourite solo artists - Dodie, Lorde, Ben abraham, Missy Higgins, Sia 

Last movie i watch- i think it was Wonder Woman

What do you post?- i try and post nice arty stuff with like pretty shading and colours, occasionally my stuff and also occasionally the odd cat or meme.

When did your blog reach it’s peak? - I don’t think it has yet, lets just wait and see...

Do you get asks regularly?- don’t think i ever been asked anything, but if your curious just ask away! also happy to do requests if its a good request.

Why did you choose your URL?- I literally use Elfrog for everything so it was just meant to be.

Posts?-1014 

Hogwarts house- so i took the quiz when it first came out, i was like in grade 6, i don’t remember but i had my sister behind me when i took it and she things i’m the devil so i ended up in Slytherin. which i’m all cool with don’t get me wrong, but then i took it again last year and was a Hufflepuff. so i like to call myself a proud Slythrpuff. 

Pokemon team- Mystic all the way

Favourite colours- i do enjoy the look of a completed rainbow, but i’m gonna have to go with aqua. That colour never gets old. 

Average hours of sleep- yeah 7 to 8 hours 

Lucky Number- Don’t have one but i just seem to use 19 cause its my birthday and stuff

Favourite characters - OKAY I actually have too many, like i couldn’t list them that many, but the main ones are.. Korra, Yuri katsuki, Victor katsuki, Peridot, Connie, Lapis, Garnet, Herimone Granger..etc. 

What am i wearing?- oh you saucy mysterious interviewer! just chillin in my PJs and my fav syltherin jumper. 

Dream job?- ACTORRRRRR (plz someone hire me)

Dream Trip- i would love to go to Amsterdam one day.

I have no friends on tumblr so whoever wants to do this knock your socks off!

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[Trip Report] Artis Zoo, Amsterdam

[Trip Report] Artis Zoo, Amsterdam

Sometimes you just need to escape reality and the human life. Sure, architecture is great to see, but gosh it is nice to find a car-less and bicycle-less area. Especially for tourists, it can be nice to see something else in Amsterdam than musea, canals and old houses. That is where Artis Zoo comes in Artis zoo was the first zoo I have ever visited in my life, and after not having been there for…

[streetcatadventures-blog]

Diary Cat Number - 28. Diary Cat Name - Artis-Royal. Real Name - Yes.

Location - Ramsbottom at Stuarts. Character - clumsy, mischievous, boisterous, playful and loud.

Likes - Laser mouse, weeing in plastic bags and other cats. Dislikes - Sudden loud bangs/movements, cheese and 

Favourite place to be petted - Tummy. Other - Artis was my second cat that I lost custody of when I split from my last relationship. He was a cute adorable thing. Fat as anything but tiny head. He fails to meow and cannot jump because of his weight. He steals food and gobbles food up as soon as its served. He loves to play in boxes and with just about anything. He spends a lot of the day sleeping curled up into his own feet snoring. He used to be in love with my Weetabix either that he looked up to her as a mother. He was heartbroken when we had to go. He now has Puddined who is completely different to Weetabix. She will play tig with him from time to time but thats it. Artis loves to be mauled and kissed. He enjoys curling under the covers or in the snag of your neck. He also plays fetch with a certain foam ball. He also has a cute moustache. 

[mamavankate]

Heerlijk dagje Artis om het 25 jarig huwelijk van de opa en oma van Kate te vieren. • • • #Kate #mamavankate #Artis #Zoo #peuter #toddler #mama #happiness #motherhood #dochter #daughter #mamablogger #momsofinstagram #kidsofinstagram #toddlersofinstagram #momblogger #blog #blogger #website #NL🇾🇪 #USA🇺🇸 #Amsterdam #Atlanta (bij ARTIS)

[montyrakusen]

Deaf School in Amsterdam Part 1

I’ve always believed you need to be very brave to be a photographer and it was with this thought in mind, with my trusty Pentax Spotmatic 1000 and my home made camera case, I boarded the ferry for Amsterdam. This was the start of many interesting photographic journeys and a career which took me all over the world, some journeys were dangerous, some just plain enjoyable, some I have yet to talk about. You never know what is going to happen on a photoshoot be it in Bradford or Beijing and the build up can be quite stressful, even more so these days. Best thing is to go with it and try to enjoy it, be brave.

My college friends, in the band Deaf School were performing at The Melkweg club in Amsterdam. I was at a bit of a loose end and being no stranger to the hippy, arty Amsterdam, having already visited a number of times I decided to go and support them and document the tour. I’ve always loved the place, the art, the architecture, canals and the bicycles, the smoky bars and strange people and the feeling of relaxed freedom of thought. Since then I have been back many times (even been paid to work in Amsterdam).

I travelled there by myself as the band had a full tour bus but they very kindly let me sleep on the floor of their ‘luxurious’ accommodation and I spent my time documenting their tour. I produced a small booklet for the band which I know some have treasured even though I printed it out on an obscure brand of photo paper which still curls to this day, I remember my room at 104 Princes Road, Liverpool, full of booklets all over the floor with weights on top to try to get them to stay flat.

This was December 1974, a really long time ago, before I became a professional photographer and before what I consider to be the ‘modern’ world and it is curious that this is the first in my rock band photography series and probably the last that will appear on the blog. It has been a labour of love scanning and digitising these film negatives, which have not seen the light of day for 45 years. I have had to developed some photoshop techniques to enhance them. Looking at them now I see that what I lacked in technical ability and exposure control, I made up for in composition and drama. You are welcome to download them but they are not for commercial use without permission and the copyright is strictly ©montyrakusen  monty@rakusen.co.uk please request a link.

Text Edit: John Coombes

[blog-dbkv-artez]

De DBKV-blog vroeg Monique (docent bij ArtEZ Zwolle) om wat kunsttips voor in de voorjaarsvakantie. Monique tipt 5+3 exposities en bijeenkomsten in Amsterdam en Eindhoven, met verassend veel bio-art en fotografie. Spannend, verassend en zeker aanraders als je nog een dag kunst wilde kijken in de vakantie.

'Thought provoking en zinneprikkelend kunst’ Op uitnodiging van Anne-Marie heb ik wat tips voor jullie voor de voorjaarsvakantie 18-26 februari. Het is gekleurd door mijn persoonlijke fascinaties, en ook door de plek waar ik woon. De vraag was 1-3 tips, maar ik vond het te leuk om er minder dan 5 + 3 van te maken.

1. Sonic Acts: The Noise of Being - 23-26 februari

'Thought provoking' en zinneprikkelend 4-daags festival rond kunst, muziek en wetenschap, met exposities, installaties, muziek, performances, conferenties, workshops, films. Zie voor het uitgebreide programma op verschillende plaatsen 

In Arti et Amicitiae: "The artworks and installations reflect on how climate change, the Anthropocene, rapid technological advances and post-contemporary anxiety affect society, politics and the human body; they speculate on the future of humanity with science fiction scenarios, amorphous blobs, biological evolution, biometric governmentality, queerness, Artificial Intelligences and synthetic biology." At Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ: sound installation ‘Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone’, with recordings from the Arctic.

2. Mediamatic Amsterdam 

Niet ver van het station en vlak bij Muziekgebouw aan t'IJ vindt je Mediamatic. Mediamatic is een biotoop, een broedplaats voor kunst, design en 'life sciences'. Verdiep je eerst even in de site anders loop je kans te missen wat hier gebeurt. Als je een museum of witte galerie verwacht valt het tegen. Het is een plek waar kunstenaars werken, het heeft een kleine rommelige expositieruimte, en in en om het gebouw is kunst in hybride vormen te vinden. Er worden lezingen, 'biotalks' en workshops gehouden, waarvoor je je kunt aanmelden. Voor nieuwe smaaksensaties is er het restaurant, met interessanter eten dan in welk museum dan ook.

Biotalks: "Art, design and science, during the Biotalk we will discover what happens when these fascinating fields merge and crossover. We question the social, cultural and technical implications of such developments and invite professionals of all sorts to talk about their practice in these fields."

24/2 workshop tempeh "It is said that the mushroom, and especially mycelium have the potential to replace all kinds of harmful materials such as plastics and batteries. At Mediamatic, we are interested in the cultural, artistic and culinary applications of mycelium."

3. Micropia Amsterdam 

Een aanrader, behalve voor de smetvrezenden. Het gaat hier namelijk over de kleinst waarneembare levensvormen. Interessant om te zien hoe kennis visueel en interactief wordt gemaakt. De expositie geeft je een andere kijk op de natuur dan die van een ongerepte schoonheid die los staat van de mens en de cultuur. Als je vele dimensies op 1 dag aankunt kun je meteen ook naar het planetarium, in Artis, vlak naast Micropia.

4. Pakhuis de Zwijger Amsterdam

Niet ver van Mediamatic - plek waar over actuele kwesties in gesprek wordt gegaan met wetenschappers, kunstenaars, ontwerpers, beleidmakers, journalisten enz. 

22/2 het Participatory Museum “Door publieksparticipatie komt het museum midden in de gemeenschap te staan en beweegt moeiteloos mee met de alsmaar veranderende samenleving.” 23/2 Design Matters "Het activisme onder ontwerpers is hernieuwd."

Ook interessant, maar na de vakantie: 29/3 "Fucking Good Art”, een reizend tijdschrift, en redactioneel project voor onderzoek in de werking van kunst en de kunstwereld. Ze zijn geïnteresseerd in mondelinge geschiedenis, tegenculturen, zelforganisatie, DIT—‘do it together’ en strategieën en modellen buiten de oevers van de mainstream kunstmarkt."

5. Mu Eindhoven: Fluid Matters tm 26/2:

"Levensprocessen worden gekenmerkt door constante uitwisseling en zijn vaak vloeibaar van vorm. Stromend in complexe en microscopisch kleine structuren ontsnappen deze fenomenen vaak aan de aandacht. Het vraagt de tussenkomst van kunstenaars en ontwerpers om ze zichtbaar te maken, betekenis te geven, hun schoonheid uit te lichten of hun materiële potentieel te ontdekken op verschillende schaalniveaus." .... "Een dans van mens en virus op de maat van de evolutie, een kompasnaald gemaakt van ijzer uit placenta’s en groeiprocessen van menselijke organen als inspiratiebron voor 3D geprinte materialen."

Voor degenen die (ook) andere kunst willen zien:

1. While in Mokum, do go to Mokum! 

Want daar exposeert jullie docent Mario ter Braak met intrigerende schilderkunst die zoveel meer is dan 'alleen maar mooi'.

2. Framer Framed Amsterdam

Interessante, kleine kunstexposities. Zit naast het Eye, over het water, achter het station, je moet door het restaurant Tolhuistuin THT om naar de gallerie te gaan.

3. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Tinguely met zijn spelende machines tegen de moderne efficiency. Als tegenhanger daarvan in hetzelfde museum: De Constructie van de Nieuwe Mens: hoe kunst mede vorm gaf aan de idealen van de Russische revolutie. En Ed van der Elsken 'De verliefde camera', mooie historische 'tijdsbeelden'.

Een hele fijne vakantie! Monique Peperkamp

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Before politics completely prevents it, here’s another album that was not made in America, but in the land out back, down under, but not in the upside down- Australia!  There’s not much more to add, so to the music we go!

The Music

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The Tune:  “Decidedly”

Recorded: 1960 in Sydney, Australia

Personnel:

Don Burrows-  Clarinet

Dave Rutledge-  Tenor Sax

Terry Wilkinson-  Piano

Freddy Logan-  Bass

Ron Webber-  Drums

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The Tune:  “Down The Mine”

Recorded:  Same as above

Personnel:  Same as above

Full disclosure- I admit that I’m not as hip as you may think.  I had no idea who the Australian All Stars were, not to mention what a surf-nik was.  I simply picked this album up at the store because of the album’s cover art.  That proved to be a good move, as my ears would later thank me.  The music is fantastic, swinging jazz like some of the better West Coast music from the mid and late 50’s (I looked it up and discovered that Sydney is in fact on the East Coast, which makes me wonder what the jazz scene over in Perth was/is like).

The Australian All Stars were a group of mostly native Australians, headed by multi-reedman Don Burrows.  Burrows was a famous Australian jazz musician most well-known for his clarinet playing and enjoyed wide success in his home country as well as abroad in America.  He’s still around in Sydney, too.  In the 50’s and 60’s he was in or led numerous combos, including this one, which featured other musicians well-known to hip Australian jazz fans.  The bassist is the sole member who wasn’t born in Australia, instead hailing from Amsterdam.  All the fellas are more than solid jazz players, with Ron Webber’s drumming proving particularly tasty and supportive.  Dave Rutledge sounds like he’s been listening to lots of Lester Young and Bill Perkins.  Pianist Terry Wilkinson plays with punch and restraint, which doesn’t quite make sense until you hear him.  The last track on this album is a trio feature that adequately explains what ‘punchy restraint’ sounds like.  None of the tracks are over four minutes, which is kind of a drag at times only because the one-chorus solos that make up most of the performances are tantalizingly short.  I want to hear them stretch out a bit!

On Gerry Mulligan’s original tune “Decidedly”, everyone gets a chance to solo.  This album made realize how potent the clarinet could be in the right hands.  Maybe it’s because of the big band guys like Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw, or perhaps the Dixieland jazz guys, but I usually think of the clarinet as not a serious jazz instrument.  Don Burrows has caused me to reassess that.  In modern jazz settings, the clarinet’s reedy, breathy and earthy sound meshes well with the more advanced voicings and harmonies.  Burrows and Rutledge don’t limit themselves to just the clarinet and tenor sax respectively.  Not at all.  While Rutledge picks up the flute here and there, Burrows manages to pick up the flute, alto sax, and baritone sax in addition to his clarinet, sometimes on the same track.  Ron Falson’s “Down The Mine” is a catchy little tune and has some tasty playing by Burrows and some pocket brushwork from Webber.  Wilkinson gets a brief spot in the sun before the brief arrangement takes the tune out.  Falson, by the way, is yet another Australian jazz musician who was quite popular during his lifetime.

As usual, jazz records are not as straight-forward as they appear, and this album has a confusing and mysterious background.  For more on this, I turn to Raggy Waltz staff researcher and scholar in residence, Dr. Hiptwostuff, or Dr. H for short.

  Information on this album is rather sparse and hard to come by.  When was it recorded?   It’s not mentioned in the liner notes, and numerous Googles turned up conflicting info.  A Discogs entry only said 1960, while a brief post on a surfing blog said it was released in 1962.  What Discogs did make clear, however, was that there were two versions of this album released in 1960.  It seems that while the record was released in the States by Bethlehem Records as ‘Jazz For Surf-niks’ the album was released in Australia with a different record label, altered title, slightly different cover, and with an added song. In Australia, the album was released on the European label EMI, which was called Columbia.  No relation to CBS and the American Columbia.  This album was called ‘Jazz For Beach-niks’, and the title wasn’t as conspicuously-emblazoned across the cover as the American counterpart, instead placed neatly in the top left portion of the cover.  I guess the American term for a beach-nik is surf-nik? 

And what the hail IS a beach-nik anyhow?  I did some research (for that is what they pay me for) and turned up this definition on Urban Dictionary, which is like Webster’s Dictionary, but for the streets and the hip.  According to the Urban Dictionary, a beach-nik is a “cool turn of the Millennia culture which is a cross between beachbum and beatnik.”  If that sounded negative, that couldn’t be further from the truth.  Continuing with the definition, Urban Dictionary explains that although they think people with real jobs are crazy, “[t]he group is generally educated, and cares about issues effecting this and future generations.”  In other words, it seems that a beachnik is a hipster that’s actually kinda hip and prefers to be at the beach, aka Californians on a global scale.  In the parlance of the cool kids, I can dig it.

As for that song that’s on the Australian (and thus all of the European pressings?) pressing of this album, it’s an original blues performance that clocks in at a whopping eight minutes and 45 seconds entitled “Sky Lounge Blues”.  Why this track was left off the American version, I don’t know.  It’s a shame too, as it has some of the gutsiest playing on the album, with a particularly feisty piano solo by Mr. Wilkinson.  A word about that performance.  It’s eight minutes and 45 seconds on the vinyl album.  On the version that’s online, it fades out around seven and a half minutes in.  Again, the reasoning for this has been lost to the mists of history.  It appears that the only way to hear this record in its entirety is to find a European pressing.  In closing, here’s “Sky Lounge Blues”, minus a minute and fifteen seconds.  Back to Tarik!

The Cover

Raggy Waltz Rating:  A

I truly love the album cover art on this album, although after seeing the Australian/European version of the album, I like that one better than this one.  The titling and font and quantity of both is a bit much here, particularly that “Vivid Sound” proclamation at the bottom.  The photograph itself is kinda hip, delightfully retro.  From an aesthetics perspective, it’s a fun picture, successfully capturing the sunny, carefree, summer vibes of being at the beach.  The two young ladies in the foreground are completely turn-of-the-century, from their hairstyles to their bathing suits.  I wonder what the girl is whispering to her friend?  “Let’s look like we’re saying something.”  “I call dibs on the guy with the white shirt, Marsha.”  “Hey, Jan.  Why is there a saxophone on the beach?”  We’ll never know.  Interestingly, Ron Falson, the same dude who wrote and arranged a couple of tunes on the album, also took the picture.

As for the dudes with the surf boards, they look timeless.  Well, the guy with the blue shorts does, anyhow.  I haven’t seen too many dudes wearing capri pants to the beach.  Now that I think of it, I haven’t seen too many dudes wearing capri pants period…  It’s a good look though here.  And how about those surf boards!  Their prominence on the cover was no accident; it was a clever plug for Gordon Woods, a surf board maker, who gets an additional plug on the back of the album.  The guys holding the boards are members of the South Pacific Surf Riders Club, qualifying them to be card-carrying members of the beach-nik/surf-nik culture.  All in all, this is great cover art for a jazz album with the beach theme.  The only issue, of course, is…

The Back

…what’s the beach theme about, exactly?  There’s no obvious tie to the beach or the ocean mentioned on the album, and the song list doesn’t really have anything to do with the beach, either.  Hmmm.  I feel like there’s a joke I’m not getting, because surely they wouldn’t go all out with the surf-nik/beach-nik schtick and there not be a reason for it…  Maybe it’s culturally-tied joke, something that people in the early 1960’s would have understood that people like myself in 2018 wouldn’t get.  Obviously, it’s a play on the whole ‘beatnik’ term, so maybe this is a playful poke at the beatniks?  From what I know, beatniks were something of a punchline to many people in the 1950’s and early 60’s, with much of the American public being rather infatuated and captivated by them thanks to people like Jack Kerouac.  I’m going to assume that’s what this ‘surf-nik/beach-nik’ business is all about.

Oh, and there’s no liner notes.  Just short bios on all the guys in the group.  Which of course is no good if you wanted to know about the music and the making-of.  To add insult to injury, the anonymous writer of the bios includes a reference to that blues tune “Sky Lounge Blues” that, contrary to what they say, is NOT present in this set.  Hmph.

The Vinyl

The lack of a deep groove makes me wonder if this album was in fact pressed and released in 1962.  These are classic mono Bethlehem labels, pressed on thick and heavy vinyl.  As for high fidelity, “vivid sound”, it’s a big ‘eh’.  The high fidelity comes and goes with different tracks, implying different methods for each recording session.  It doesn’t say who’s behind the sound controls here, but the sound quality differs from track to track, with sound ranging from fine to yikes.  On one or two of the tracks, it sounds like the horn players are standing out in the hallway of the studio.  On others, the piano strings sound like there’s something caught in them, producing a weird, buzzy sound.  It’s a shame, because the music itself is good.

Interestingly, there doesn’t seem to be any stereo pressings of this album.  Indeed, the tracks that have made their way to MP3 are still in mono.  What’s going on with this album?  It appears that this group only made two albums.  Perhaps an Australian reader or anybody more knowledgeable can help fill in some of the gaps or provide more info on this group and these albums?

The Place of Acquisition

This record was one of the first few albums I bought when I discovered my local record shop here in Huntsville.  Flipping through the new jazz arrivals, the cover jumped out at me.  Feeling somewhat homesick for California, I grabbed the sunny album before I realized it was by Australians.  Upon reading that the group was called the Australian All Stars, my curiosity was piqued.  Upon reading that record was under $10, my wallet was opened.  As the record store owner rang me up, he looked at the record and asked me what beach jazz sounded like.  “Is it, like, jazz with ocean sounds and seagulls calling in the background or something?”, he asked.  I almost said no, but I had no idea what the record sounded like, so I told him I don’t really know but I’d let him know.  In retrospect, that’s a great inference, and one that kinda makes sense. Now that I think about it, that would be an interesting jazz album…

In an attempt to appeal to a broader audience, this group made an album not for beatniks, but a neglected demographic. It's Jazz For Surf-niks, Vol.2 // The Australian All-Stars (Bethlehem BCP 6073) Before politics completely prevents it, here's another album that was not made in America, but in the land out back, down under, but not in the upside down- Australia!