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World Statues Festival Arnhem 2011

Tjeerd — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:52:16 +0000

Last month I visited the World Statues Festival in Arnhem. More than hundred people from all over the world presenting themselves as statues. The weather was great and it was very crowded. Ester and I took some pictures which you can find here.

Polder of Zuidland and Het Spui

Tjeerd — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:41:49 +0000

Last Monday I filmed nearby Zuidland and Het Spui. I used a tripod for a more stable underground. I experienced several issues which I need to solve, like the need for ND (neutral density/gradient) filters to minimalize the effect of over exposure of some footage. So I am now looking around for Cokin filtersets/adapters/holders which I can put on my lenses. Hopefully this improves the contrast/exposure effects.

Experimental footage of Castle De Haar, Haarzuilens

Tjeerd — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:45:19 +0000

Yesterday I went to castle De Haar in Haarzuilens to record some random locations with my camera and to test my monopod with my new wide-angle lens with polarisation filter. You will notice there is some shakey footage and even some moiree-effects on the castle walls. Actually it’s a relatively quick-and-dirty edited movie, but it’s a good way to learn and experiment with the camera. Remember: I have little to no knowledge about filming at all and that’s clearly visible, for now .

Pasture and nature between Haarzuilens and Vleuten

Tjeerd — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:29:27 +0000

Today I filmed in the grasslands between Vleuten and Haarzuilens with my Canon 550D-camera. It was nice weather with sun and clouds. This is actually the third or fourth time that I put some effort in filming and you can notice that in the experimental way it is done. Also I still need to find my tripod, because it is sometimes too shakey. But the image stabilizer of the Canon telelens does a good job to reduce the shaking.

Bollywood movies

Tjeerd — Sat, 15 May 2010 08:29:33 +0000

Will hollywood do a re-make of the following movie called Alluda Majaka with the actor Chiranjeevi? Never heard about both the movie and the actor, but a movie with ingredients like a flying tractor must be hilarious.

Photographing grasslands in Vleuten and Haarzuilens

Tjeerd — Sat, 08 May 2010 20:09:45 +0000

This week I finally made some time to take photographs of the grasslands between Vleuten and Haarzuilens. I had luck with the weather and I was just in time because when I came home, they mowed all dandelions. This is my first walk here with my new camera and it all seems to work fine.

You can see the pictures here .

2001: A Space Oddysey

Tjeerd — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:23:05 +0000

For years the movie 2001: A Space Oddysey was on my todo list, I watched it this evening. I’ve seen A Clockwork Orange – also from Kubrick - which was already vague, but this movie also has a sort of storyline which is really making it ‘complex’ actually. The focus is really on graphics and sound and some sort of story which is probably something for the viewer to think about.

What I dislike about modern day movies is that there is so much continuous action, overloaded with special effects, a lot of talking and not that much to think about. Then A Space Oddysey is a big contrast with that. Not bad to have seen it now finally.

8-bit Haddaway – What is love remix

Tjeerd — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:08:08 +0000

Just stumbled on an 8-bit remix of the song What is love by Haddaway, a song from the early nineties. The three guys you see in the car is from a scene in the movie Night at the Roxbury.

CH3SNAS, Mediatomb, Samsung LED TV: header issue

Tjeerd — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:52:50 +0000

This was a hard one to figure out, but I managed to get my Conceptronic CH3SNAS up and running with Mediatomb (DLNA-server) and my Samsung UE32B7000 LED television. The problem was that my television didn’t want to recognize my media files and came up with a message like “unknown format”. To setup the NAS as a DLNA-server – be sure to disable the built-in DLNA server via the admin panel – first install funplug, a good tutorial I used can be found here. The latest funplug has Mediatomb already integrated, so no worries about that.

Now comes the important thing, find your Mediatomb config.xml file. In my case it was located at /ffp/var/mediatomb/config.xml. To edit the file, open it with vi:

In the config file search for the variable named protocolInfo and change it from no to yes:

Enable the custom-http-headers section by removing the tags and enter the following lines, which are essential for the Samsung television to recognize your media files:

Change the mapping in the extensions section:

Somehow the Samsung LED tv will only play files if they are mapped as .MPEG files, even though they can be divx/mpeg/whatever. Not sure why/how, but it seems to be the solution.

Restart Mediatomb, click here for information about daemons. Be sure to clear your Mediatomb database and reindex all media files, this can be done via the Mediatomb web interface which is by default accessible via the IP of your NAS-device, port 49152. When you’ve finished all the steps, your Samsung LED television should play most of your media files flawlessly from your CH3SNAS via DLNA.

NIИ concert at Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam

Tjeerd — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:12:46 +0000

NIN - concert hall

Yesterday I went for the third time in my life to a concert of Nine Inch Nails, previously I saw them in Paradiso and at the Nijmegen Rockin’ Park music festival. This time I went together with a good friend(+girlfriend) and for the second time in my life I was sitting at a concert (in the back). Far away from the sage, but actually not so bad, it was quite warm inside and I usually get tired in my legs when standing the whole evening.

I mostly liked the older tracks they performed. Some tracks I didn’t even recognize, but afterwards I read that he mixed up some tracks live. I don’t know about the ambiance. I had the idea that they were just performing with not that much interaction with the public, but Trent isn’t a big talker at all. But that doesn’t really matter, in the end it is all about the music. Another thing I missed is the big LED-screens with animations on it. I was expecting to see that at this show, but they actually only used oldskool light spots mostly. It certainly would have brought the performance to a higher level.

But I keep respect for the band and their philosophy in the music world. The last albums are available for free, concert footage is allowed to be used/mixed and Trent just posted his view on how to do it different in the music world. Probably the tours they are doing this summer are the last ones and will they be non-active for a long while.