The third edition of Bacardi Visita in the Undercurrent Spaces (Amsterdam North). August 15th 2009. With Full Crate, Fs Green, Grand Jackson, Girls Love DJ’s, Louis La Roche, David Vunk, Home Made.
Aug 092009
For 30 years we’ve had a thing in Holland called “Kinderen voor Kinderen” (Children for Children): a range of music CD’s with kids sings songs for kids. It’s hard to find anybody over 25 who doesn’t know a couple of the once immensely popular songs refrains. The CD series are still running but as there is so much competition from other media for children nowadays they are not as popualr as they once used. Though it must be said that the quality of the songs is still as good as ever. Sadly, due to the smaller popularity they stopped raising funds for children-chairities like they used to, it’s simply not worth it any more. Continue reading »
Jul 062009
It’s final: I’ve stopped uploading wallpapers in the classic 4:3 format. From now on I’ll only be uploading 16:10 (widescreen) wallpapers and because it saves a lot of time not doing them in 2 formats I’ll be compensating that by uploading simply more of them . That’s why I’ve just finished 11 widescreen wallpapers (in hi-res ofcourse) from Saturdays’ Sensation White.
Have fun and let me know if you have any requests from any of the other photo’s in this set.
Images from the Sensation 2009 party “Wicked Wonderland” in the Amsterdam ArenA with: Erick E, Fedde le Grand, S. Ingrosso, Mr. White and Sander van Doorn.
Visit the full Flickr Gallery here if you don’t want to use the slideshow.
Apr 262009
In Qontrol Mainstage… YOU?
Loud, fast, a zillion lasers and quite a crowd: that was the 2009 edition of In Qontrol, Q-Dance‘s massive hardcore/hardstyle event in the RAI Venue in Amsterdam. Not much to say about it, the photo’s speak for themselves… if you like laser images: this is a photo-collection you’ll like!
MC Da Syndrome
MONEY? Stage
Wow!
Headhunterz
More laser madness
DJ Luna
Noise Controllers
Show me the money!
Full set here.
Report for Tulp Magazine of another “White House”, this one’s in Hoofddorp, near Amsterdam.
Curtains to the fantastic Koepelkerk location.
For the VARA, one of the largest Dutch Public Broadcasting Services I was asked to photograph their annual event: the TV moment of the year. A contest for the title of “Best Dutch item on TV in 2008″. A bit of a first for me as I’m not too much involved in the (TV) entertainment industry but it seemed like a great challenge and a good bit of fun.
Seats for Geenstijl.tv who had high hopes of winning this years edition with their stunning movie on a cabinet minister who forgot how to speak.
Geenstijl.tv presentator Rutger Castricum.
Presentator Matthijs van Nieuwkerk moments before going live.
The live television show took place in the Koepelkerk in downtown Amstrerdam, a beautiful old church that was spectacularly lit by the TV crew. However, for me as a photographer it wasn’t easy to shoot because the light was very low (I’m no match for modern HD television-camera’s) and I obviously wasn’t allowed to use flash. Even worse: during the live show I could only shoot from the first ring as camera positions on the floor level made it impossible for me to stay out of the picture. Still, a very memorable night and a good challenge to do a shoot like this.
What a location!
Host Matthijs van Nieuwkerk
Flowers for Yta Strikwerda, a mentally challenged woman who appeared on Paul de Leeuws TV show: “Mooi! Weer de Leeuw” in which she hunted down the presentator for ten minutes in order to get him to ride on a pony. The TV item was a surprise win as most people expected Peter R. de Vries to win with his undercover filming of Joran van de Sloot in the Natalee Holloway case.
Check out the full series (38 photo’s) here.
Aug 112008
Sad, sad, sad… Saturday was the final whistle for the last major Bacardi event (once started as Batbeats, later went on as B-Live). In an absolutely soaring Paradiso things went wild with a DJ sets orchestrated by Mr. Wix. A packed house saw De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig, Le Le, Beesmunt Soundsystem, Daniel Haaksman and Scottie B and Wix himself. Un unbelieveable atmosphere, seriously one of the best editions and a great way to end this series after 4 years.
Serious highlights of the evening was the Marchingband Reflection (!) collaboration with de Jeugd van Tegenwoordig, the Le Le set and live artwork and ofcourse Mr. Wix himself with too many original tracks.
Guess that’s it for one of the nicest party series of the past few years. I’ll miss the big events but they will be replaced with smaller ones. Coming soon near you.
Sensation black wallpaper now ready:
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Click here for hi-res (1600×1200) version.
Click here for widescreen (1600×1000) version.
Click here for hi-res (1600×1200) version.
Click here for widescreen (1600×1000) version.
Click here for hi-res (1600×1200) version.
Click here for widescreen (1600×1000) version.
Click here for hi-res (1600×1200) version.
Click here for widescreen (1600×1000) version.
Jul 142008
One of the best Sensation Black editions so far! Wild music, good crowd and again an insane show with perfect lighting. I got soaked, I almost broke my chest and I will be deaf for another few days even while wearing custom made ear-protection. This was one good party to photograph! Again, wallpapers later this week.
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