"_A TOTAL OF 27*)

I didn't see that many films compared to many of my fellow audience award volunteers, but I still saw quite a lot, including the audience award winner of this year The Cove!

Friday Nov. 20:
I Don't Want To Live This Life
We Live In Public

Sunday Nov. 22:
The Snowman

Monday Nov. 23:
Aida, Palestine
Israel Ltd.
Yes, Miss Commander!
To Shoot An Elephant

Tuesday Nov. 24:
The Shock Doctrine
Dreamland

Wednesday Nov. 25:
The Farm: 10 Down
Sister Wife
Beauty Refugee
13, 14, 15
Anybody There...?
The Cove
Space Tourists

Thursday Nov. 26:
Welcome To North Korea!
Suspect And In Custody
Where The Sun Doesn't Rush
White Poverty - In The New South Africa
Earth Keepers

Friday Nov. 27:
Mugabe And The White African

Saturday Nov. 28:
Vision
Insulo De La Rozoj - Freedom Is Frightening
Food, Inc.
Oil City Confidential

Sunday Nov. 29:
The Kids Grow Up

Note, however, that some of these films are shorts and a couple of them I've seen but because it was so late in the evening the images just rushed over me and I didn't get much of it. Didn't really pay much attention, though I did not fall asleep! :)

My favourite out of the bunch is The Cove, although The Kids Grow Up comes pretty close to beating it, and maybe it already kind of did. The Kids Grow Up was simply extraordinary and I felt a strong connection with it. I loved it from beginning to end. So perhaps that one is my real personal favourite. Others that were really good are Mugabe And The White African, The Snowman and To Shoot An Elephant. I also liked We Live In Public and I Don't Want To Live This Life. Food, Inc. was nice but dragged on a bit too long, I expected way more of it. Beauty Refugee was a very personal story, very nice and funny. Yes, Miss Commander! was very entertaining. I expected to fall asleep during Oil City Confidential 'cause I was so tired and it was pretty late in the evening, but I didn't. It's about the band Dr. Feelgood. I might have heard about them before, but I'm not sure. Definitely had never listened to them. The music and Wilko Johnson's personality kept me up. I've added Wilko to my list of idols! :) I also liked The Farm: 10 Down and Space Tourists featured many beautiful images. One of the few documentaries with some great cinematography! Anybody There...? was the only film I did not see completely, but those minutes I did see were really good and very enjoyable. The worst out of the group was Insulo De La Rozoj - Freedom Is Frightening, SNOOZEFEST...

So that makes a total of 27. Like I said compared to other visitors of the festival that's NOTHING :-)

Will be seeing Patrick Watson in a couple of hours...

=&PATRICK WATSON TONIGHT*%

Take Away Show #97 _ Patrick Watson (full version) from vincent moon / temporary areas on Vimeo.

I'm tired of being alone

I didn't get the chance to see Two Door Cinema Club and Golden Silvers the other night because I was working at the IDFA. Right now I'm a bit dying for a gig so I've decided to see Patrick Watson tonight. I'm just goinna spend that money :-D
It will be a kind of warm-up for Julian Casablancas who will be here on Friday!!!

So many gigs are coming up, some expensive, some not that much. There's already Spoon, Phoenix + Two Door Cinema Club as support (!!!!), The xx (second time), Japandroids (are playing same night as The xx :((, might sell my The xx ticket!) and Vampire Weekend (although I've seen them at Lowlands and they're expensive to see!)
Gonna be another busy year...

So tonight Patrick Watson and in some minutes taking pictures I guess, walking round the city. I bought a Lomolito with a blue flash. They're 15 euros and are throw away cameras, so you can only use them once, but I really wanted one. So there.

It's always good to look at pictures for inspiration after you've just woken up. Here are some by photographer Antonella Arismendi














More here
I don't like all of her pictures, but some of them are quite nice like the ones I've posted above

And to mix things up, 'cause there's a world beyond fashion photography out there ready to be explored. I've just picked out some photographers at random...

Stewart Simons









Yann Orhan




















Adam Jeppesen







Pictures found here
Whenever you look for some inspiration there's a good chance you'll find it on that site

#&THE END>+

IDFA, c'est fini. Sad :(
Had a great 10 days. Met some cool people and had a nice time partying on Friday and of course saw lots and lots of documentaries!

Photographer Per Zennström shows how he creates a magazine cover

How to make a FELD Hommes cover in about 4 mins. in LIGHTROOM from Per Zennström on Vimeo.

Thanks to The Fashionisto

?%THE COVE~}

Been watching way too many documentaries yesterday, but I love it. Will go and do the same today. I love the IDFA, the people, atmosphere, the collective love for film. I was fortunate to see The Cove last night because a fellow audience award employee had a spare ticket so I was the lucky one to go with her. It's such a good film. It's presented like a thriller almost, at one point the director even mentioned he was setting up his own sort of Ocean's 11 team. For all of you who don't know, The Cove is about the killing of dolphins with the focus on Taiji in Japan where these fishermen capture them. The director of the film sets up a team of people to try and collect evidence of the killing. Because the area is so well protected it's impossible to record footage of the fishermen capturing the dolphins. The documentary shows the attempt of the director to get evidence to proof dolphins are indeed slaughtered in Taiji. Many of the dolphins are sold to places like Sea World where they have to perform while others get killed for their meat. The killing happens in 'the cove', hence the title. Almost noone eats dolphin meat though because it contains high levels of mercury and therefore is very toxic. Pregnant women who eat the meat run the risk of giving birth to deformed babies. Still however many dolphins get killed for consumption and frequently they're wrongly labelled in supermarkets. A person might think he/she is buying a piece of whale meat when in fact it's a piece of dolphin. So far it's the best film I've seen, without a doubt but there are so many films playing. I just can't watch them all, and there are so many good ones. Too bad it will all be over by Sunday :(

The Cove - Official Trailer from Noah Amar on Vimeo.

@)I CAN TALK_+

I wasn't immediately smitten with this song as much as with their others such as Something Good Can Work out or Undercover Martyn, but now that I've just started to watch the video a minute ago, I am. They'll be in Amsterdam in a couple of days. I might have to go ;)



It's a bit like Justice's D.A.N.C.E. video

They'll share the stage at Paradiso with Golden Silvers


I like the singer's voice. Sounds so mature

Problem is that I have to work at the IDFA. Hmmm, maybe I can change shifts with someone...

$*ME AND MY DEAD ACTION SAMPLER_+

On Thursday I tried to fix my 4 Lens Lomo Action Sampler, so I unscrewed the thing, but now I don't know how to screw it back together. I don't think I managed to fix it either. I have ordered another one from eBay today.

Have a look

me and my action sampler
door daanf

This post is actually a bit old as it took me ages to get this video on the internet, the file was way too big for Vimeo and took way too long for YouTube. Fortunately Dailymotion was there to help out!

The quality of this video is way better than my previous webcam vid because I made it at my parent's place on their laptop. So that's why ;)

Once again working at the IDFA tomorrow! :)

>:SEE YOU NEXT YEAR#!

Last day of IDFA, I'm working from 2 pm until the last film finishes. It has been the coolest thing, I'm definitely going to miss it. If I'm able to I will be back next year for my second IDFA, can't wait! I didn't know film festivals were this cool. RiP: A Re-mix Manifesto which I saw yesterday while working has won the audience award. I can see why. It's a fun documeentary which deals with something that really is part of our time, namely, sharing music illegally by downloading and making own songs by doing mash-ups. During the screening people yelled things, applauded, they were completely into it. Today I will watch Dear Zachary: A Letter To A Son About His Father, which is said to be a good one.

%~I ♥ IDFA(#

I've been working at the IDFA for three days since the opening on Thursday as an usher in Pathé De Munt, now have two days off, and I have to say I already kind of miss it, so I don't want to even think about next week's Sunday when it'll be the end of the festival :( I spoke to a guy who sat next to me during the screening of Nikolaus Geyrhalter (who did Our Daily Bread) new film called 7915 Km (it was the premiere so he was there for a Q&A, cool cool cool) who told me he had been going to the IDFA for about five years now and is completely addicted to it which I can totally understand. It's my first film festival ever (if you don't count my participation in this review writing competititon thing of the Leids Film Festival, which I didn't win btw) and I'm loving every minute. The people I'm working with are fun and nice, the atmosphere is so good. I love to help out and they make you really feel part of the festival. Can't wait for Tuesday when I'm working again. Might go check out a film tomorrow. I already signed up for the film festival in Rotterdam! :D It's my new hobby! How come I didn't do this before?!

)#BOY A"{

Just saw it. It's very strong, and really gets under your skin. I like this type of film which really makes you feel uncomfortable. It's a very solid drama with a very impressive performance by Andrew Garfield who plays the film's main character. You so come to feel for him, it's all very affective and hits all the right notes. It must be tough taking on a topic like this, it's not something I myself would like to tell, or at least I don't think so, wouldn't be my first choice. But John Crowley, the director, handles the film so well. It slowly sets up everything and at the end you really feel kind of trapped just like the main character. It even gave me some chills at certain moments. You really undergo the entire process with him. Again, Garfield is excellent. From small mannerisms, to the sound of his voice, he gets it all right. No doubt that he isn't the main character, which I know sounds pretty weird. But he really is. You could not tell who he is in real life, what he's like as a real person, the actor. He's so convincing in every aspect. It's one of the strongest performances I've seen so far this year. The character asked for it, yes, but Garfield really takes it on and nails it. Strange though that from only looking at that one picture of him standing at the beach with his hoodie on I already kind of made this whole idea up in my mind of how the film was going to be and how that guy in the picture looked like and would behave. The film just took all of that away from the second it started. My expectations crushed and replaced by a strong thoughtful film which really got to me. I was so immersed and now still it lingers on in my head. That's how a night out at the movies should be like. Tomorrow waking up early to go to this meeting where I will be informed about the calamity plan of Pathé Tuschinski in Amsterdam (a cinema) as I will be volunteering there from the end of next week, because of the IDFA (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam). I'm volunteering as an usher and hopefully get to see some documentaries as well! :p