links to websites of other people
People I know IRL in some way or other who asked me to link to their website. Or perhaps they didn't ask but I link anyway to make their site score high in the search engines results. The same for organisations I work with, I used to work with or whose services I appreciate. I also list shops I value although some don't even have a website. Descriptions in Dutch when the linked sites are in Dutch.
people I know
- My favourite aunt, Hanneke Rustema in Maastricht, is a professional organizer. You can hire her to organise your life or just your house or office. See Ruimte door Rustema.nl
- Henry Cutler from Workcycles makes beautiful bicycles to transport things or even people. There is also a Workcycles website in Dutch. He sort of brings bicycles for everything to the people, no matter what you need it for. Besides for sports and holidays. He even has a blog with news and all kinds of stories on cargo bikes and the likes. Personally I am a big fan of 'transportfietsen' because I already had an old one in the early nineties, years before they became fashionable.
- Gabriela Hengeveld is the best photographer I know for about a decade or something like that. I especially like the work she made in Latin America. I was there to assist when she did the nice shoot in the Passages in Paris, in the travel section.
- Femke Sleegers writes copy, but also likes to use images to tell a story. Moving images, stills or evoking images with the use of text. I guess you can picture it by now. Plotspoint is the name.
- I met Robin Kiskunes on a trip between Paris and Amsterdam. She just got the latest models from Paris for the hippest shops and some other brands to market in Amsterdam. Not to retailers in chains, but to independent shop owners looking for the most exclusive.
- Also between Paris and Amsterdam I met Ina Stockem. She is a dancer and organises all kinds of things about bodies and movement. She also has concepts with a set of gamerules in which you learn about how you experience your body and its relation with the world around it. It can be therapeutic even. You can find it under People On the Move
- Martine Posthuma de Boer is a freelancer I know from Mediastudies. We both teach there. She mostly works for Virtueel Platform has organised many events in the field, here in Amsterdam. Or check out Fattoria Mediale, a new media research organisation she has set up.
- Antonia Mazel is a colleague and friend I know through the institutes where I teach or tought. She is a cultural philosopher.
- Grietje Keller, neighbour and documentary filmmaker. We met on a neighbourhood party, Grietje put pictures from that 1 April 2006 on Flickr.com.
- Laura Visser is mijn nichtje die Antropologie studeert in Utrecht maar die vooral veel lijkt te reizen. Eerst hield ze dat bij op lauravisser.waarbenjij.nu? maar nu op laupa.Hyves.nl.
- Elena Simons heeft het leuke boekje Pret met Moslims geschreven in de rol van jong naïef meisje. Ze heeft allerlei leuke projecten onder de naam Wonder met op het moment de 'Burger Buddy' om de kloof tussen politicus en burger te verkleinen. Susan Koenen, die ik ken van de wekelijkse Sneak Preview in Kriterion, heeft een documentaire over haar gemaakt voor de televisie. Dat stuurde ik naar mijn 'fun-mailinglist' en zo kwam ze haar projecten presenteren op de Spreeksteen na een uitnodiging van Bart de Groot.
- Ilse Leenders is a photographer I met together with Jelle Feringa going from Paris to Amsterdam, we had very interesting discussions on architecture and photography...
- Bart de Groot is the initiator of 'De Spreeksteen' in Oosterpark in Amsterdam. Like Hyde Park in London, enabling people to speak up. Every Sunday at 13:30.
- Hans Beerekamp used to be a tv-critic for NRC Handelsblad from 2003-2006 (in Dutch). The decades before that he was a film critic. Every weekday he would watch Dutch television from 18:00 to 0:00. Using (harddisk) videorecorders to observe several broadcasts simultaneously to then write 420 words the hours after that, using the recordings he made. He explained this to me and my students in a series of lectures I did on the future of television at the University of Amsterdam. The webedition of his tv-reviews Het Beeld (the image) is very popular amongst expats. He now travels through Europe documented on weblogs.nrc.nl/weblog/ee
- Hein Eberson has invented a great new concept to overcome the problem of the vocality of the amateurs when discussing political issues on the web. A moderated expert site to think out freely on solutions of today's problems, including a design for a feedback into the existing regime. Check out (in Dutch) Utopic.nl
- Stefan de Vries, author of 'Het Blauwe Boekje' lives already the good life in Paris, what I strive for. The book contains everything a gentleman in Europe knows. English version is coming up soon, the Dutch language version is very prominent on the etiquette shelves of Dutch and Flemish bookstores. As a corresondent in Paris for Dutch radio and television he also maintains a weblog with his writings as a journalist based in Paris, on devries.fr with an RSS-feed.
- Jacobien Visser is a first cousin of mine and she likes to travel (and photography, jazz and many other things). After years in the ER in Groningen she started working in Sudan for Medicins Sans Frontières in September 2004.
- Valentijn Sessink, mister Open Source for the Netherlands
- Arjen Kamphuis, consultancy about anything tech-related, very inspiring
- Douglas Heingartner, is the Dutch correspondent for all kinds of publications, NYT, AP and Wired for example.
- Tonie van Ringelestijn, is the Dutch internetjournalist I practically always meet when something interesting in the field is happening in our little village. The day after, he then uploads the pictures he took to his website.
- My neighbour Bas van Veen has an advertising agency called Escobar Advertising. Each time when we meet his company is doing better. If things continue like this he will probably move to another neighbourhood soon.
- Sandrine Crisostomo once studied at the University of Amsterdam but works for Artfactories in Paris now (September 2003). This is mostly about old factories converted to spaces for/by artists. And then this gets an international network. Update: decided to stay in Chili.
- Hilbrand Rustema, with Noventum, a business specialised in an extremely small market niche: software together with management consultancy for so-called servicemanagement. Like organisations that send out men to fix complicated machinery or equipment. Evidently it can always be managed more efficiently if you specialise in this and use ICT. Few consultants do this, but my brother left a big firm to start a company that can help those companies do this a bit more efficient.
- Cristina Garcia Martin, illustrations, animations, webdesign (much of it for VPRO television)
- Guido van der Werve tried to give artschool Rietveld the finger by placing (as a critique on the school) two enormous statues of himself at the entrance and 30 black dressed masked friends (I was one of them) surrounded the examinators while he was reading a Russian text on a preying bird (his icon) together with a little film of the bird in a loop. Very creepy and intimidating for all present. Unfortunately the examinators liked it and did not expel him. They said the performance could have been better. True, with some rehearsals it would have been more powerful. He also constructed a swing in his window on the third floor, sensational and amazing for passers by. And try to find the movie with the pigeon on his website.
- Beertje van Beers homepage, or attempt. Expect her writings here one day.
- Rik Tuithof runs a nice little webdesign company and they bring us the Dutch movielistings filmladder.nl because they like to.
- Wander van der Kolk lives in New York for a few years, I envy him. But will visit him soon. See 'This is New York', 'the snow blizard' and 'home sweet home' photo albums. And he was asked by Dutch radio to tell something about the US news for a nightshow as Dutchman abroad.
- Arie Altena thinks and writes. And then publishes it on his homepage. Or in the bi-monthly art magazine Metropolis M. And then thinks again.
- Ralph de Rijke gives a great improvisational show with some friends, it's both jazz and comedy
- Merel Mirage, art, artist, on-line and off-line. She likes to win awards.
- Patrick van Schaik is a filmfanatic, he sees three times the films I see in a theatre every year. He can predict the 'sneak preview' very well. When I find myself in a nearly empty cinema watching some rare showing of some obscure piece of work, I look around and there he sits. He insists sitting at two-thirds of the cinema, I always want to sit first row, to immerse myself in the screen. We both recognised things in the documentary Cinemania.
- Wouter Verrips, het werk van mijn tekenleraar en zijn cursuslocatie Studio Gouttières
- Astrid Poot, graphic designer and her funny lookalike "Popje" in Flash.
- Koop winner of Thinkquest with the educative filmsite "CineMania"
- Renaud Bonnet or his website with texts and thoughts together with others at http://www.boson2x.org/
- Nicolas Desagher photographe en ligne
- Marie-Claire van den Berg, aka Spotgirl.com
- Peter Gorgels, webmaster intellectueel.nl. But then he became father and neglected the website.
- Simon Claessen and his collection of techno artefacts from the recent past. His camera work on Simski.org
- Sander Nieuwenhuis studying the little connections in the brain, research only his colleagues understand
- Thomas Poell read 'How Violence and Greed Produced the Conditions for Democracy' if you need to argue in favour of a war. Some, not all.
- Venus Veldhoen
- Bart Reddingius' Pixelberg
- Sander Kessels' Lollibomb
- Roemer Lievaart en QQleQ Producties en het boek Filmmaken
- Edith Brinkers' film Mama Twiga
- Britta van Beers' Japan page, made during her year in Tokyo.
- Nanda van Esdonk, Mac-nerd
- Stephane de Vries, writer, filmmaker and countless other professions and projects. Emigrated to Paris.
- Martin Koolhoven zijn film De Grot
- Francois Pétavy et Irène Bennoun Les Doudous, holiday pictures
- Alexandra Heydebree with Africa Exquisite
- Bram Vreeswijk's project Geestesoog
- Marjolijn Lanen as extra in the You've Got My Love videoclip from Bastian T-shirt #24, #38 & #55
- Paul Boomgaard, Macintosh info Bluap.nl
- Peet Sneekes dyslexic language artist and programmer with a love for graphic design (or lack thereof)
- Kamil van Buuren, lotgenoot seminar MC Communicatiebeleid
organisations
- Communication, Multimedia and Design school in Breda.
- the Internet Society, Dutch chapter
- CKC-Seminars
- Waag Society for Old and New Media
- Mediamatic
- Nederlands Instituut voor Filmeducatie previously Stichting Media Educatie en Informatie
- filmtheatre Kriterion
- University of Amsterdam
shops
- The lock of my apartment did not open one night. The key would enter and I could turn it, but nothing. And it was 23:30 at night. I called the three top hits searching for 'sleutelservice Amsterdam' but only budgetslotenmaker.nl really has 24h service. The others have voicemail and do not return calls, in spite of their 24 hour claims. I went to get Û90 cash and by the time I returned home he was already there. Opening the lock was quick and the cause was found. On the receipt it says accesslocksmith.nl which gives the same telephone number: 020-3205650 (16 April 2010).
- Ronald Julsing is my hairdresser, around the corner with je bent mooi in de Tweede Hugo de Grootstraat 24, 1052 LD, 020 6816509.
- Rentabrik.nl is where I rent cars. Not shiny and new, but old and scratched with a stereo that plays MP3s from CDs. They fix the cars in their own garage and are quite relaxed, and above all pragmatic, about everything the big rental companies are formal or anxious about. I drove to France and back without any problems with a station wagon over a long weekend for 250 euros. Take the metro to go there, very easy. Another plus is that there is no advertising for the rental company on the car.
- De Aardige Pers, Persian restaurant with friendly staff and delicious food.
- Ali's Turkish butcher and grocerystore Doruk at Frederik Hendrikstraat 75-winkel, 1052 HL (in between two supermarkets), 020 -6843453. Great lambsmeat cut exactly like you ask it. All the grocery fresh, nearly daily, from the wholesale. Get your porc elsewhere. I bought a few cases of groceries for my birthday and he helped carry it to my home. And he gladly accepted the invitation to my birthday party and brought a nice bottle of Turkish wine.
- Nibo, office supplies and printer at Frederik Hendrikstraat 114, 1052 JB, 020 6841385. Always extremely friendly and treats his customers with fifties-like respect with beautiful, nearly archaic, sentences stuffed with formalities. A pity I hardly ever need office supplies because I do everything digitally.
- Wasserette de Snelwas, 1e Hugo de Grootstraat 16, 1052 KP, 020 6820307. They always work, seven days a week, for many hotels and restaurants. But they do any laundry, not only professional, at roughly the same price as a laundrette where you have to operate the machines yourself. I have no clue what language the employees speak so I stick to Dutch and sign language.
- Cor van Schie,
2e Hugo de Grootstraat 26, 1052 LD, 020 6845496. Used to be my favourite hardware store down the street. I have learned a lot from them, they know so much about everything they sell. I used to go there to buy little things as an excuse to get the good advice, but I found out the big DIY market is often only cheaper for the really big quantities of big stuff. If Cor is more expensive it is usually because they don't carry the crappy quality. So I go there more often and they will tell me when I should better buy something at the DIY store. But not anymore. It was difficult to find employees. They either don't have the knowledge or don't want to work in retail. The clients organised a goodbye party with presents and nice words, which was nice. Another good shop gone. - Trattoria Fellini, 2e Hugo de Grootstraat 15, 1052 LA, 020 4865290. Good trattoria run by a Sicilian family, not expensive. A bit too generous with the olive oil on the pizza though.
- Moviecenter, videostore. There used to be 5 stores and I usually rent my videos at the Overtoom 73, 1054 HG. If they don't have the film you are looking for, you can only turn to the web to import the DVD. Although they have a lot of films, the owner once told me, people mostly rent exactly the same mainstream films as anywhere else. But their customers like to choose from a big collection apparently. It is fun to discuss with the filmstudents working there, they (think they) know and have seen a lot of films. In practise I have not been there in years and only 2 stores remain.
- I buy my shoes at Hans Diderich in Groningen when they have a sale and I happen to visit my parents there. For example a set of beautiful hand made Santoni shoes for only 260 euro.
- There are now three Apple Macintosh-only shops in Amsterdam. In 2003 I bought my PowerBook at De Nieuwe Mac Winkel and wrote a press release about it In that shop I know Arne personally and he also is the webmaster of Applebits.com, a Dutch website with Apple news he never forgets to mention when I see him. Nowadays I only buy at MacHouse in the Raadhuissstraat. Their technical support is superb and I know Paul and Dirk there. They have been of great help. But the salespeople are also knowledgeable with the right attitude. I will buy my next PowerBook here.
- Bloodbank Noord Holland for donating blood, why not?
- De Ruilhoek has a nice concept. Many people have clothes in their wardrobe they never wear. Which is a waste of money and scare resources. You bring your (washed) clothes there before the season begins (no winterclothes in spring) and they will try to sell it. This works well with clothes that used to be expensive (usually with a known brand). Other clothes you can recycle using those containers set out in the site for that or they can take care of that. The same concept is Tutti frutti in Amsterdam West.
- MacBike, first Maarten, then Ivo and now Stefan repairs my 1956 bicycle, about 175 euro in maintenance every year since 1996...
- OV-fiets, rent a cheap bike using your Dutch railways loyalty card.
Address Change
I wanted to change my snailmail address on-line and found some useful links. The following will be in Dutch. Hier komt dus een lijstje links voor het doorgeven van een adreswijziging.
