Mysteryland 2008, Netherlands.
School of Horse-eyed jacks in the Cayman Islands.
With so many 16:9 laptop hitting the markets, it’s time to add some wallpapers for that format as well. So please enjoy the first three (many more to come) panoramic, laptop, cinematographic wallpapers!
Kitzbuhler Alps ski region (Ski Welt), Austria.
View from the Hohe Salve (1829 meters) in Austria’s Ski Welt.
Images from a very long night (17:00 till 07:00): the 2009 edition of Q-Base at Airport Weeze. A supernice old millitary airport with plenty of old bunkers and hangars that serves as the backdrop for this yearly hardhouse festival.
It’s good to be surprised now and then. So, while shooting the yearly Totally Snow event in Nassfeld, a couple of crazy guys started performing in the basement of the Cube hotel (The Club) as part of the weeks live shows. The bunch, better known as “The Subs” needed about three songs to get the crowd from “moving around” to “totally mental”, seriously one of the best live performances I’ve seen in a while and I ended up with a bunch of photo’s I just had to share.
Check out the full Photostream over here.
A dance party a a homely location, Bacardi hits it off with an amazing new concept: Bacardi Visita. I was seriously impressed how an office floor got converted to a hot-hot-hot-partynight! With Beesmunt Soundsystem, Steven de Peven, Mocky and Golden Bug.
The idea of this new Bacardi concept is to recreate the old and glorious Cuban partynights hosted by the family-owned Bacardi company. Like entering someones livingroom and hitting it off with hot music, atmosphere and freshly mixed drinks.
My job was to capture this atmosphere and combine the old with the new. With a setting like this and a good bit off camera-tweaking I think it came out pretty well. A hot Cuban night with friends captured in stills. Enjoy!
Busy as it is I haven’t had the time to work on the images (not a big fan of ding so anyway).. all these are straight from the camera… hope that’s good enough for you!
Full gallery here…
Nice 20.000 people party at the RAI venue in Amsterdam. Perhaps the crowd was a bit too young, I missed the dancin’ feet a bit. Still a very nice night though…
View the full gallery here.
As always, I’m available to photograph Dance4Life in the Netherlands.This years third edition was no different. Tons of happy kids, lots of good artists and, most importantly: over €600.000 collected for various AIDS/HIV projects for children in Africa!
This year, 50,000 young people worldwide have taken a stand against HIV and AIDS. Today, these young people from 19 different countries were united live by satellite during the Dance4Life Event. Together they danced to the same rhythm, dancing against AIDS and in support of life!
Click here to go to the gallery!
My last post for this month and for a little while my last music-post (nothing coming up until August 9th) here are four Tomorrowland Wallpapers in hi-res and widescreen and a big fat mainstage wallpaper in dual-screen. Let me know if you like them in the comments below.
Q-Dance stage
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Markus Schultz
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Mainstage on fire!
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John Dahlbäck at the mainstage
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And the mainstage in dual-screen.
Left image here, right image here.
Carl Cox
Tomorrowland 2008 – Yesterday is History, Today is a Gift, Tomorrow is Mystery. Perhaps Yesterday was Hot, Today is Hotter and Tomorrow it’s raining would have been better. My god it was incredibly hot on Sunday. Glad I brought some SPF30 sunscreen, I would have been burnt to a crisp I’m afraid. I would say it was too hot too dance, people were chilling out mostly until the sun set, then the party really stared, mostly at the mainstage.
Prinz
Markus Schultz
Mainstage
Mainstage
A big thanks goes out to ID&T Belgium and Heineken who let me in their heli for some areal views. Boy I love flying!
View from the heli
View from the heli
Hot, hot, hot
Hot, hot, hot
And into the night things stayed dry, barely. Can’t believe the thunderstorm we drove through on the way back home. It was like being in a Hollywood movie: som much lightning it was almost fake…
Q-Dance
Atmosphere
Mainstage
Mainstage
And the full gallery:
Yes, yes, yes it’s party-season time so my log is stuffed with event images for a while. This weekend was ID&T’s Tomorrowland in Belgium, based on the very succesful Dutch Mysteryland series. De Schorre, a recreational area, just seems to be made for this sort of thing: lot’s of water, hills and plenty of green to give it a good atmosphere.
Todd Terry
The Glimmers
The Subs
Saturday started out with a somwewhat smaller area (funny thing: in Holland Saturday would be the busiest day I guess) but it was just nicely packed and I just really enjoyed the feeling. I guess Belgium people are just a bit more relaxed and don’t pull on you arms all the time shouting “photo, photo!”. And, if for some reason, somebody does ask for a picture to be taken (politely ofcourse), it’s most often good-looking peeps. I like that!
A full gallery:
One last time Sensation Black 2008, in Quicktime VR,
And how is this for a backstage/understage!!!
