DIY style reparations, language corrections and oddities, representations of persons and bodies, temporary structures and temporary solutions.
Urban Anomalies is a photo-blog in which urban scene’s and sights in Brussels are collected. The blog has an emphasis on small, daily phenomena that can quickly be overlooked but are emblematic as symptoms of the social political functioning of the city.
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Open Source Video is a loosely connected group videomakers around the association Constant, who are interested in making video with the use of open source tools for video. I regularly contribute to the Osvideo blog. The blog collects tips, links, films and videos published under open content licenses and other things.
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Neighbourhood project and audio data-base, Schaarbeek, BE, 2009 – 2012
Go to project website of la Langue Schaerbeekoise
The project ‘Language of Schaerbeek’ collects words that are used by different groups of people living around the ‘Cage of the bears’ as Place Verboeckhoven is commonly known. Arab, Turkish, Dutch, Brussels, Swahili, Spanish, Polish are just a few of the languages that accompany the main language French. The dictionary is an open for change, flexible and organically growing collection of recordings of spoken words.
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Routes + Routines is my sketch weblog that serves mainly to collect thoughts, pictures, clippings on the relation between the way cities are conceived and built and how they are used in daily life.
Also, but I have to admit not too frequently, this is where I post ideas for installations and documentation of performances that in a more finished form could, and sometimes do, end up on this site.
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(This site is no longer maintained)
A website about the square Marconiplein in Rotterdam where I used to live around the year 2000. The site portrays observations from in and around my apartment that was situated right on the square. It functioned as a storage place for sounds, movies, pictures and media clippings about the square and helped me in archiving sights and situations that are special for a small moment and then disappear in the abundance of competing impressions.
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