Strictly Business

Check dan. Ik wil niet haten ofzo hoor, maar de visitekaartjes van de poetrycircle vind ik echt net iets mooier dan die van mezelf! Nice work, HOTEL.

ABCDJ'ing

Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. from Chris Cairns on Vimeo.

Als je dit ziet wil je toch ook leren scratchen/jugglen. Ik wel in ieder geval. Komt dat even goed uit: check hier.

Promo

De Poetry Circle is zo'n uit de klauwen gegroeid project (in alle goede zinnen, hoor) dat het gewoon z'n eigen promo verdient.

Onze nieuwe collega.

Onze nieuwe (nou ja nieuw, paar maanden nieuw) collega heeft ooit in een reclamespotje gespeeld (opgenomen in Zuid Afrika, bestemd voor de Zweedse tv - sja, go figure). Raad eens wie het is?

Ik ben terug

met een nieuw workshopseizoen: FALL 09. Ga het alsjeblieft even checken op de site onder workshops en schrijf je in hiero want ik heb er weer f*kking veel werk in gestopt.

TO KY YO

I'll spare you the million more picture we took in Toky YO! Instead i'll give you a short impression of the stuff we did over there. We did loads more, this is just the stuff that was suitable to post (I mean, it's a work related blog after all).
So amazing. 360 degrees of buildings and people. What a city. 30 million people live here. I mean: 16 million people live in the whole of the Netherlands.
Jacob and I had fried shrimp. It was good. I like eating at the bar like that. Come to think of it. I have an overall fondness for bars.
I forgot the name of the most famous temple in Tokyo, but here we were. We drew our fortunes from those metal boxes. I drew "small fortune", which basically means that I'm small time now, but I end up BIG. It's written in the stars. Just so you know.
After karaoke we ended up in probably not the best bar in Tokyo. There were some Egyptians. Two hookers. And us. The beer was good tho.
Karaoke was off the hook. We went into this nine story karaoke castle. The place wasn't that special. We made it special. They litterally heard us eight floors down. Ok. Maybe I'm exagerrating. But we we're proud to be loud.
You've probably seen this side of Tokyo in the movies. So did I. And now we were there. Crazy.
Caprice looks lost. He was. We all were. We asked for directions in a bar. We never left. Tokyo is like that.
Electric City Tokyo. I was having diner some place else. You can't be at two places at once. But that would be convenient.
Everybody makes this shot. I've seen it a million times before. But now I'm in it! See me? 23d asian dude from the upperleft corner.
My guess this is tuna. But I didn't really care. We didn't sleep. It was 7.00 in the morning. Let's not discuss fish.I'm intrigued by squid. I don't know why. I can tell you this taste's funny on your sushi roll. Wanna see a couple of tall dutch people crammed into a taxi cab. There you go. The point is WE WERE IN TOKYO. This is just your avarage "the party in club NUTS ended" pic. Where's this club Nuts I mentioned? You know where. Hey Naoki, good luck with stashing that 2.10 m dude in the broom closet. Thanks for a great dinner. Next time we'll not do that directly after sweating like an ox in the batting cage.
I bought some overpriced stuff at this museum. It was at the 52nd floor of the Mori tower. Yes I was impressed.

This is how people tend to look after a good night clubbing, not sleeping and having sushi for breakfast (the freshest sushi in the world that is, but it's hard to appreciate that fully when the hangover is about to set it).

And did I mention we had fun? Ow, you got that impression already. Then my work here is done.

Thank you all!

These were some of the people we hung out with. Add some good music, good food and good booze. Good times is what you'll get.

30 seconds of Tokyo

We had such a good time. I made like 2000 photo's. I should've made more movieclips, because this hardly gives a good impression of Tokyo. But I made and posted the clip anyway, because you can't be at the office spending 2 hours on a clip and NOT post it. So here goes. And by the way, yes something is wrong with the size of the screen. Whatever. I'm not a film maker. I just like to post stuff.

Thank you Michiko!

Jeez. We had a really really really great time in Tokamachi. Really. After we slept off our hangover we visited some amazing artworks of the Echigo Tsumari Art Triennal. We went to a spa where I really relaxed, a long with like 40 other asian brothers from a lot of other mothers. At least people know who MO - RO is now. We had Korean BBQ dinner with the lovely Michiko, who was our guiding light the past couple of days. The energy and time she put in. The amount of patience she mustered. Arigato gosai mas, TANAKA san! And now people are still not asleep. Tomorrow we're off to Tokyo. LET's GO!

Warning

This is a slideshow containing 348 photo's. We had a great time rehearsing, hanging out, jamming, performing and partying. These are just my pics. We made like 1000 that day, because this day killed! I really can't say too much about it, because it was amazing in many different ways. I mean:

- this one guy worked three weeks on the stage
- only to see his creation washed away in the most heavy rain in ages
- the festival was planned on the last day of the rain season, so I guess rain felt like shining one more time
- Caprice, Rianne, Moro, Michael, TooTall, Gina, Kid Sublime, Guitar man, Cuban-Japanese girl jammed till the sun broke through... MAGIC
- twenty very VERY stoked dancers working it
- people crawling over the floor because of that one drink too much
- the traditional tea ceremony and the geisha girls confessing they preferred beer and sake
- and...
- and...