Posted in movie, street scene, tagged graffiti, police, Squatting on October 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’m back in Amsterdam, and today is a perfect autumn day. I walked past the Westerkerk under a shower of floating yellow leaves listening to music from the church; something Bach-ish with a trumpet lead followed by a carillon echo.
I was enjoying being back in what has become my hometown when I noticed a rather [...]
Posted in movie, street scene, tagged gay pride, homomonument, Westerkerk on September 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s twenty years since the homomonument on Keizergracht, near the Westerkerk, opened. The monument is based on the pink triangle, but includes three smaller trianges inside one large one. The design is simple but meaningful and today there was a commemoration to mark it.There was a big marquee set up, decorated with flags, balloons and [...]
Posted in canal, movie, tagged gay pride, orchestra on August 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A short video of the only orchestra in the Amsterdam Gay Pride Parade
Posted in Music, movie on July 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I saw this duo playing on Saturday, they’d collected quite a crowd – including one howling dog.
So of course I had to go and look up how to play the saw. Bowing it makes it sing (produce sound), bending it changes the pitch. Apparently it’s easy to learn and (who [...]
Posted in movie, street scene, tagged Dutch Culture, movie, Dam Square on July 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Kinda sweet film clip of some random huggers in Amsterdam.
It’s made by the Paperclip Foundation (Stichting Peperclip) but their website seems to be out of the air.
Posted in movie, street scene, tagged boat, canal, movie, party on July 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I spotted this party boat on Brouwersgracht on Saturday, no idea who they are, but they were very happy.
Posted in boat, movie on July 1, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The Fragata Libertad, the Argentine Navy training ship is in port, she’s impressive.The ship will be open to the public today Sunday, plus Monday and Tuesday, from 13.00 to 17.00.The whole boat has been refurbished and outfitted so that she can now carry women cadets. In the past the Argentine Navy (like most nations) did [...]
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