Monthly Archive for August, 2004

Marollen/Marolles is hip!

Published on August 30, 2004 in Brussel and photography. Closed

Marollen/Marolles
I’ve been living in the Marolles for 5 years, and it definitely looks like my neighbourhood is getting hip.

A photo book “Marollen/Marolles” has been created by Hans Roels and Kurt Deruyter, picturing groups of people from the Marolles: police officers, surgeons, construction workers and of course the Backgammon crowd in La Barrière. The book also tells the history of the Marolles. (The book, published by BooksInspired, is for sale in the FNAC.)

Take a look at their pictures here: Marollen/Marolles, the pictures.

This Saturday, they even organised a splendid diner for 800 people on the Place Jeu de Balle/Vossenplein. Great food, great weather, great people. Most of the people on the pictures were present, a lot of fellow-marolliens and of course the mayor Thielemans and Prince Laurent.

Article in Het Volk (NL) – De Standaard (NL) – VRT Nieuws (NL)

[Listening to: "Bonnie & Clyde (Herbert's Fred & Ginger Mix)" - Zero 7 - AnotherLateNight - Zero7]
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Blogs and Wiki’s: how about a bliki?

Published on August 27, 2004 in Web2.0. 3 Comments

Wikipedia.org is awesome. Who would have thought that building a knowledge system based on voluntary contributions from just about anyone who wants to, would work?

So what would happen if one would combine the Wiki concept with the other superstar of social software, blogging? Wouldn’t it be nice that you could have the chronological posts, but also clickable keywords, and the possibility to easily edit them – and let them be edited by others? And then find a catchy name for the combined concept, like a ‘bliki‘?

Unfortunately I am not the first person to think of the concept, nor the name: perl.com mentioned bliki’s in Dec 2003, Martin Fowler talked about it in May 2003, and David M Johnson already in Sept 2002.
One of the pioneers was apparently the incredibly extensive www.jahsonic.com: basically a huge Wiki-like site. Its author, Jan Geerinck, also has a blog page (however without RSS or Atom feed). The blog was started back in 2001.

Some products that implement Blog/Wiki hybrids are: YACS, Fromage, Bloki, SnipSnap and Roller.
SnipSnap was developed by someone from the Fraunhofer Institute (DE) and looks very promising. Roller is used by Sun Microsystems for the employee blogs.

Untamed Cinema: Grayson, the trailer, not the movie

Published on August 26, 2004 in movie. 1 Comment

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John Fiorella has written, produced, directed and acted in his own low-budget trailer for a movie that has not been – and might never be – made.

In a nutshell, the idea for GRAYSON has been swimming around in my head for too long – so, with the help of a handful of talented artists, and four credit cards, I set out to shape the idea into a reality.
The objective was simple – tell a new and exciting story about the former boy wonder that leaves audiences wanting more. Did I hit the mark? You be the judge.

Together with his partner in crime Gabe Sabloff (who worked for the movie as D.O.P, actor, animation artist and probably catering and key grip too), he has made an impressive short movie/trailer.

Apparently, the two worked weekends for 18 months, creating storyboards, acting, directing, shooting, and editing a gorgeous short film designed to pique interest in a movie about what happens after Batman dies and Wonder Woman and Superman go to work for the enemy. It’s a professional-looking and well-edited piece of work (that anamorphic lens pays incredible dividends for them) that somehow manages to come in at a budget of just under $18,000.
(via: metafilter.com)

See the movie here: theforce.net

Be sure to take a look at the ‘Behind The Scenes’ (BTS) video, it is incredible to see how inventive these guys were with their limited budget. Some more info about that on howstuffworks.com.

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Top Ten Smelly Celebrities

Published on August 25, 2004 in movie. 15 Comments

A friend told me about an off-the-record list of celebrities with unpleasant body odor, where Brad Pitt supposedly featured as #3. Some Googling later, I found out Brad has moved up to #1! Here is the list as compiled in May 2004 by Mikael Jagerbrand:

#1. Brad Pitt
#2. Russell Crowe
#3. Hayden Christensen
#4. David Bowie
#5. Courtney Cox
#6. Robin Williams
#7. Christina Aguillera
#8. Cameron Diaz
#9. Metallica
#10. Bob Dylan
from: ncbuy.com

I remember a Friends episode “The one with the rumour” where Brad Pitt did a guest appearance. Brad and Courtney on the same set, what an olfactory delight.