I really like my security pattern on the Android phone (Nexus 1). Basically I can draw a pattern to unlock my phone rather than using some pin number or password. I don’t like password or pin as it is just annoying to quickly input on my phone with the keypad. I’ve seen many friends using [...]
Image via Wikipedia I really love the incredible boom of data visualizations. To me this exploding artform is really offering us a new insight into our lives. As an example, via Many Eyes [an open data visualization site developed by IBM] I came across an interesting graph for all my film making buddies. A graph [...]
For the past few months I’ve been working at INDIE. One of the projects I’ve been working on is the new campaign for Ben & Jerry’s. The site is the first “Give It Forward Auction” site. This is better than Freecycle.org because of the wonderful stories that happen. It starts with 100 ice creams from [...]
The headline says it all! Today I have just signed a contract to be Digital Creative at Indie in Amsterdam. I am so excited about this new job and about working with the team at Indie. Indie is a great Agency in Amsterdam with an excellent reputation, formerly known as SVH. For the past month [...]
I was reading Kara Swisher’s post on All Things D about the Bing demo at Microsoft. I decided to give it a show compared to Google. To me Bing fails very simply. I will be the first to admit I’m a complete narcissist when it comes to search engines. If I put in my name [...]
At the moment I’m talking with Marius Veltman. He has a really awesome tutorial and technique about how to do Video Mapping or a Augmented Reality experience. We are talking about doing a project together for the Cannabis Cup here in Amsterdam to really freak out some people together with the guys form Hemp Works. [...]
Image via Wikipedia Today is the start of the Amsterdam Dance Event here in Amsterdam Holland. To take a moment before you go out this weekend and enjoy dancing, music, clubbing or whatever you feel like with music this weekend have a look at these 2 great talks. One is from Bobby Mcferrin at the [...]
Cover via Amazon Steve Francis just came over happy about how his presentation on Transparency went today. It was a real great experience talking with him over the past weeks about the topic and helping him put it into a story to present. I learned a lot about how transparency networks started back in the [...]
We are thinking of doing Vlog Europe in Amsterdam in November. Still nothing is sure but Raymond just posted this video from last year. It was funny. Vlog Europe has been the longest running annual conference for Video Bloggers since it started in Amsterdam 5 years ago. It is always a great time to see [...]
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Here is an introduction to ECHO. The comment service for websites and bloggers created by Js-Kit. I animated this video for my buddies over there at Js-Kit to help launch the service. If you have a start-up and would like a video like this one, get in contact with me. Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), [...]
I have been setting up some new twitter accounts for some projects and I just realised something new in the process. When someone starts on twitter first time they get 20 people to follow already. But then again, they don’t have any followers yet. Quite depressing. But wouldn’t Brands just love to be one of [...]
This is a pilot I created for a show together with Gabe Bauer. The idea was 4 cool girls doing stunts and dances through the city. Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Flash Video (.flv) Tags: dance, video, showreel, gabemac, gabeb, girls, pussywhipped, pilot, fun This video was originally shared on blip.tv by gabemac with a [...]
Click to Play QuickTime Movie file Vincent Evert is the tech guru and Trendwatcher in the Netherlands. In this video he shows the various E-books that are on the market from the Kindle to the Open Source E-Books that are out there. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) Tags: vincenteverts, ebook, kindle, book, amazon, opensource, review, gadget, [...]
I just finished a teaser for the Vodafone Mobile Clicks Award. Vodafone is giving away €150,000 in prize money to 3 startups. There is a jury of 12 experts to judge the startups in both England and Holland. In August they will be opening up the finalists to be voted on by the public to [...]
This weekend it happend. My friend Isabelle has been organizin a Dance Flshmob in Amsterdam as a tribute to Michael Jackson. I helped her with some of the production and the editing of the official video. It was an amazing time. Some 1,000 Michael Jackson fans gathered in the Vondel Park on July 19,2009. There [...]
Wanna save some money with calls? Well Fring is the answer. If you get an unlimited dataplan with your mobile bundle, get the free Fring app. They have it for Nokias, old iPhones, Motorolas and a slew of other phones. Now they have released the Fring for the new iPhone 3gs. Now with push notification. [...]
Josh Rubin is the creator of Coolhunting.com. In this interview he talks about how coolhunting got started, what they look for and why they are associated as the trend finders on the internet, even though that is not what he set out to accomplish. Josh Rubin came to check the Picnic Salon event in New [...]
While at the Picnic New York Salon I got the chance to interview Michael Tchao, the man who brought Nike Plus and the iPod to the market. In this interview he discusses how augmented reality, wearable technology how the virtual world is connecting real world together. He talks about what trends he finds interesting for [...]
Image by matlock via Flickr In this interview from , Michael B. Johnson of Pixar discusses tips on the Creative Process. He also talks about moving from an analog to a digital creative process and some of the pitfalls of working virtually as well as some of the pros. Michael develops software for the animators [...]
Image by fiahless via Flickr This is an interview I filmed for Picnic in New York together with my good buddy Kevin Slavin. Kevin is the founder of Area Code and is an extremely smart and creative dude. He develops everything from Urban Games to ARGs, to Cross Media games, and more. Have a look [...]
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This is an excellent film from the vancouver film school about how the youth of Iran has embraced blogging.
Ok, so I have had heard ALOT of Mj this past week. Many times to the point of insanity. But I owe MJ my dance start. It was watching him that got my feet moving, into ballet and jazz classes, and is probably why they are still moving today. I love to dance. And even [...]
As those of you who read this blog, or know @Marlooz you know she had her laptop stolen while at the #140conf in New York City. Her twitter followers raised enough money for a new one for her. She put together this compilation (was working until late last night I can tell you) to thank [...]
I just got a message through facebook saying this: If you have a Twitter account, set your location to Tehran and your time zone to GMT +3.30. Security forces are apparently hunting for bloggers using location/timezone searches. The more people at this location, the more of a logjam it creates for forces trying to shut [...]
So last weekend or so I was in Berlin to Speak at a workshop, and I did an interview with gruenderszene as well as some other journalists. In any case gruenderszene posted the video interviews as well as a nice writeup. In the interviews I talk about twitter, the difference between entrepreneurs in Europe, United [...]
I haven’t had a TV in Holland for a little over a year now. Actually I never really watched dutch TV to be honest when I did. When Bicyclemark skyped Amserdamize and I if we wanted to be on TV, we said sure why not? A friend of his Shylo (fun geek girl who loves [...]
