27-8-2006, visit leuven ;-)
http://www.leuven.be/showpage.asp?iPageID=2721
Monday, August 28, 2006
Friday, August 25, 2006
Noctour
| Rating: | ★★★★★ |
| Category: | Other |
Video number one is "Blood, Sea" from Janaina Tschäpe (see picture) showing in the garden of the Busleyden museum.
Video number two is "Three Minutes" from Anri Sala which is projected on the Lamot building.
Video number three is "The Ich-Manifestation" from Su-Mzi Tse soon to be shown in the Busleyden garden.
Video number four is "No Road" from Wim Catyse soon to be projected on the Lamot building.
You can see the video's every thursday to sunday from 21:30 to 24:00 and it's free. So come and see: it's fun, it's beautfiul and Mechelen by night is a wonderful experience!
Information also on http://www.noctour.be
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Church of St.-John
Continuing the churches of Mechelen series ;-)
Parish church in Brabant Gothic style (1443-1483) with a rich Baroque interior.
See up close for details ;-)
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Mercatormuseum + St.-Niklaas (20-8-2006)
| Rating: | ★★★★★ |
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The only thing I did know about this city is that it has the largest grand market of Belgium (almost every city in Belgium has a grand market by the way). The museum was supposed to be somewhere near it so we went that direction.
The market is easy to find and indeed quite big. But no signs to any kind of museum....
It was becoming extremely windy and rainy by that time so after looking at a map to see where to go now we rushed into the city hall.
Now that was a good choice because the city hall is very nice inside, there was an exhibit and they had loo's!
After our visit to the toilets it was still raining quite hard so we went to have a look at the Tour de France exhibit.
It was a great collection of old and new stuff. Especially the bikes from the 19th century were brilliant. They even had races with tricycles in those days!
It was still raining when we went outside and we had spotted a church behind the city hall so we walked there first. It happened to be the church of our lady and it is extremely impressive on the inside.
The roof, the walls and the columns were all decorated in fabulous colors and designs. We were stunned!
The church isn't very old (Neo-Roman/Gothic/Byzantine so late 19th century) but it is definitely worth a visit.
And it was actually dry when we went outside! (see some pics)
Time to find the museum. We had still seen no signs leading anywhere so we looked at another map to see where to go. By this time it had started raining very hard again so we sheltered for the rain some more...
Finally it started to rain a bit less and we had time to go to the museum! The street it was in was quite close but there was only one sign leading to another museum (which we didn't even see, only a parking lot). So we went back into the street the museum was supposedly in and finally there was a sign! Through the gates and into a garden and there it was!
The Mercatormuseum is quite small but it has a nice collection of original Mercator maps and books. If you don't like maps it's probably extremely boring because that is all they have. And if you like maps you might consider buying one first so you can find the museum. Once you know where it is it will be easy ;-)
After our visit we sat some time in their small but beautiful garden. The sun was finally shining! A lot of big dragonflies were hunting there too.
All in all it was a great day (except for my wet socks) and I'm sure we'll visit St.-Niklaas again on another, sunnier day!
Monday, August 21, 2006
Pukkelpop Friday (18-8-2006)
| Rating: | ★★★★★ |
| Category: | Other |
The Dears
- a pretty brilliant band, they were better at Werchter but they are still good!
Carl Craig
- part of the holy trinity of Detroit Techno and rightly so ;-)
Anthony Rother
- the godfather of electro, lovely indeed!
Scisssor Sisters
- gay in every way, I feel like dancing ;-)
Dresden Dolls
- brilliant!!! and even better than Werchter last year!
Black Strobe
- dark French electro-techno-goth-dance music and I love it!
The Frames
- very Irish indeed, nice songs, good show
The Raconteurs
- steady as they go ;-) Much better live than on cd!
Twilight Singers
- this was just heaven! Perfect view with perfect songs!
Ministry
- this is the definition of industrial noise! Praise Ministry!!
Dave Clarke
- some great techno to end the night dancing ;-)
Summer of Photography (Bozar, Brussels, 17-8-2006)
| Rating: | ★★★★ |
| Category: | Other |
There are two exhibits in the bozar:
- In the picture (photojournalism in 'de Morgen', a Belgian newspaper)
- Click double click (the documentary factor)
The two exhibits are very nice for a lover of photography but otherwise not worth 10 euro's. So if you can get a free visit you should go but otherwise just see the pictures online or something => http://www.summerofphotography.be/
Royal Library of Belgium (Brussels, 17-8-2006)
| Rating: | ★★★★★ |
| Category: | Other |
We know there are two exhibits about Bruegel here and even the information about those online and in folders varies...
Finding the tickets is fairly easy after asking where to get them. But once you have them you still have to put your bag in the cloakroom which is of course back down the stairs.
Luckily the other exhibit is also downstairs somewhere so we follow the signs there to see that one (Bruegel Imagined) first. On our way there we get to see something of the history of book-printing scattered in the halls and stairways leading to the room.
The first exhibit is an imaginary museum with very good quality true to size reproductions of Bruegel paintings. His works are very impressive indeed! Even though I've already seen a few in museums there are still some un-known treasures to be seen for real some day.
Going back upstairs for the other exhibit (Bruegel prints) we come across another free exhibit in a big room with an unclear function (and a corridor towards toilets). In this room is also a window behind which there is a true size reproduction of some Belgian writer's writing room. Nice but pretty weird...
The exhibit with the Bruegel prints is in the only old part of the library: the Nassau-chapel (see pic, outside window) which is quite small but a perfect setting for these prints.
All these prints and even some of the sketches for them belong to the library.
I'm sure this library has a truly impressive collection according to the books and cards they sell. One day I must certainly get a library card here (20 euro's according to the site) to gain entrance to the medieval manuscripts (and yes I am drooling).
The exhibits will end the 26th of august but I'm sure there will be new ones soon! Check the site: http://www.kbr.be
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Fotomuseum Antwerpen (15-8-2006)
| Rating: | ★★★★★ |
| Category: | Other |
Two brilliant exhibits:
- Mark Lagrange (see picture), a fashion photographer who makes brilliantly beautiful and flashy scenes.
- Flip Books: those are just so much fun!
Exhibits un-till 10-9-2006. Info at http://www.fotomuseum.be
Have fun with your free visit ;-)
Homo Faber (Fabre exhibits KMSKA & MUHKA, 15-8-2006)
| Rating: | ★★★★★ |
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We most certainly never heard the two songs he made and which they played in the Muhka. And they were actually quite good too (very '80's dark wave)!
And then there are the big installations which you can only really see by being inside of them (or smell in case of the onions hanging in condoms).
So much surreallistic fun! I'm not even sure it's legal ;-)
The exhibit in the Muhka has finished already (see some works here).
But you will still be able to see the exhibit in the KMSKA un-till 3-9-2006. And that part is free with amuseevous!
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Iggy Pop & the Stooges (Marktrock 13-8-2006)
| Rating: | ★★★★★ |
| Category: | Other |
* rock&roll perfection doesn't need much comment ;-)
p.s. we also saw Dear Leader (former Sheila Divine) which was rather nice too
Monday, August 14, 2006
Van Abbemuseum (Modern art museum, Eindhoven, 13-8-2006)
| Rating: | ★★★★ |
| Category: | Other |
....mmm what else?
Well it's just a very nice modern art museum which is worth a visit every once in a while ;-)
Multilingual info at http://www.vanabbemuseum.nl/
Free visit info at amuseevous.be
Zoo near Eindhoven (Dierenrijk Europa, 12-8-2006)
| Rating: | ★★★★ |
| Category: | Other |
We went there to celebrate Erik's birthday so we had a good time anyway ;-)
(Except for all the irritating wasps that kept following us ;-p)
Dutch info: http://www.dierenrijkeuropa.nl/
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Night of the Living Dead (Lokerse feesten 9-8-2006)
| Rating: | ★★★★★ |
| Category: | Other |
But they would only arise from their tomb at 22:30 so there was much to do and see before...
At 20:00 the Belgian electro-techno-rock duo Nid&Sancy would start their set but sadly we were too late for that because we had to wait for the bus. Their set was only half an hour and we have seen them before so we didn't miss much.
At about 21:00 The Cramps started their sleazy sex&rock&roll party. They share a nice tomb somewhere on a cemetery in the southern USA. We should visit them some time because they can surely make the dead dance.
And as it was getting dark slowly the moon started creeping out from behind the stage...
Finally somewhere past 22:30 Bauhaus entered. I remember visiting the actual Bauhaus school in Berlin once. It was a very hot day and the sun was blazing setting the white building almost alight...
This Bauhaus however sets us alight with liquid darkness.
And as darkness crept over all of us the full moon finally started shining from behind the clouds. And suddenly they lost half the power on stage so we had to wait for it to be fixed.
Luckily they did fix it and Bauhaus came back for some more songs once more proving that they are the grandfathers of us all.
At about 0:15 it was time for Daan (who is of-course, as the name suggests, brilliant). He ended the night with some sensitive songs and danceable sounds. We left a bit earlier to get the bus back to our car.
And as we drove home the moon was still shining brightly upon us making us more alive in this night of the living dead...
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