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New Galleries: Texel and Gebroeders Fretz

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I’m always practicing to take better pictures, more spontaneous or of better technical quality even under difficult circumstances. Here are my two latest galleries on Picasa:

Ik oefen steeds weer om betere foto’s te schieten, spontaner of van betere technische kwaliteit onder moeilijke omstandigheden. Hier mijn nieuwste twee galleries op Picasa:

Ich übe immer wieder bessere Foto’s zu machen; spontaner oder von besserer technischer Qualität unter schwierigen Bedingungen. Hier meine beiden neuesten Gallerien auf Picasa:

Texel Regieweek Kiekjes
Gebroeders Fretz Try-Out

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-23

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  • Good luck to Ray Kurzweil and Anthony Waller with their premiere of the #Singularity is near tonight. #
  • Are there any #robocup participants willing to help us with our documentary about future trends and the #Singularity theory? #
  • Just checked our first preview DVD of the Saint Nicholas Conspiracy, without tiltles and menu, but I'm happy. #
  • Still looking for #Robocup participants and anyone else who wants to contibute thoughts to our #Singularity film. #
  • I just became the mayor of Klarendal on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/aX2Kxd #
  • Just helped someone from Pune, India with a question about *SSH* …on Aardvark! http://vark.com/t/0c2866 #
  • Yesterday I received a positive reply to my first grant application! A part of my tuition for next year will be paid. Good news. #
  • Tomorrow morning we're going to the island of Texel for out brainstorm week about the #Singularity #
  • RT @wikileaks:"Geheime CIA-PR-Strategie für Deutschland" – CIA tried to influence German media by exploiting the Obama factor. How about NL? #
  • We are on the island of Texel! The weather is great, inspiration is streaming in. #
  • We're pitching our ideas for the other students and the coaches. There are many good ideas and good discussions. #
  • Wow, had a great first evening here at the resort. Lots of good discussions, games, nice people. What more could a director wish for? #
  • Had a difficult time explaining our thoughts about the #Singularity film. It's a complex issue. The discussion was very intese, though. #
  • Made some nice pancakes and now I'm off for a walk alone to think about our film. #
  • Finally managed to put down a plan to how we can make an interesting film about the #Singularity Sometimes it's hard to write down ideas. #
  • http://twitpic.com/1hdlqm – Our coaches (John Appel, Jelle van Doornik and Niek Koppen) this morning, trying to read our plan on a screen. #
  • Today we went on a bike ride and came up with some cool plans about what to film. This is really going somewhere. #
  • We're in our last private coaching session… #
  • Our inspiration workshop is almost over. #
  • http://twitpic.com/1hlw6j – Went into town for a last night together. Ended up playing Risk with two directors, a producer and a writer. #
  • We're on our way home after an intense but fun week of talking about our #Singularity documentary. #
  • http://twitpic.com/1hrs2p – Topdrukte in spits op station Amsterdam Amstel door stroomstoring #ns #
  • Thanks to all my classmates for a great week on Texel! I likez your pitchez, bitchez! #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-16

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  • I want to play some ultimate frisbee from 10 to 11 @ De Leuke Linde here in Arnhem. Who's coming? #
  • Always a good opportunity to practise. See you al tomorrow from 11-16 @ Sportpark Drieburg Amsterdam for the copetition day? #
  • When the #Singularity comes we will think a billion times faster. Imagine now many pointy replies @BrentSpiner could send! #
  • If you're in Amsterdam and you're interested in ultimate frisbee you should come watch the competition at Sportpark Drieburg today. #
  • Anyone in the Benelux, UK or Germany who is working on Micro Air Vehicles? Plz contact me. @vark #
  • Where is the sun when ypu need it? #brrr #
  • Great feeling after three great games of running and throwing. I'm proud of an end-zone layout that scored, so I'm happy and hungry. #
  • Life is ironic: I was lucky to catch a train that would get me home 15 mins sooner, but I forgot to switch trains, which cost me 45 mins. #
  • I'm at a solicitor's office waiting for my identity papers to be checked. I'm glad Nysingh is helping me with my grant request. #
  • Creating a new wordpress website for a friend. #
  • All that talk about #Singularity can make one forget that even the most basic stuff is still done by hand; like fetching hay for our rabbits #
  • http://twitpic.com/1fksp2 – Ik ben onderweg naar ONDERWEG de spraakmakende eindexamenvoorstelling van @JohanFretz. #
  • http://twitpic.com/1fkx2h – Altijd spannend zo'n try-out. Hopen dat de Gebroeders Fretz deze knop niet nodig hebben. #
  • http://twitpic.com/1fl0s0 – Oh nee! Er is iemand gevallen. De bus wacht op een ambulance. Hopelijk kom ik zo nog op tijd bij @JohanFretz. #
  • Ik zit weer in de bus, alleen…. hij moet natuurlijk omrijden omdat er een afslag afgesloten is. Het blijft dus spannend. #
  • http://twitpic.com/1fl964 – Gehaald! €10,- afgerekend voor het kaartje. Prijzig als je bedenkt dat de gebroeders geen diploma hebben! :-p #
  • Next week we're on the island of Texel for a week of brainstorming about our #Singularity film. Any input is still welcome. #
  • Almost going home to Arnhem again… #
  • Helping @gertdegraaff create his new website. #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-09

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  • Making chcolate cherry pie… Yummy! #
  • Happy easter everybody! #
  • Who wants to read more about the #Singularity Fragments of consciousness: The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis http://bit.ly/bItOBF #
  • Another good #Singularity read: Uploading for Life Extension Will Be Valid http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hyink20100330/ #
  • Spent the weekend celebrating easter and searching for #Singularity related video, audio, text and people who think about this stuff. #
  • WikiLeaks VIDEO Exposes 2007 'Collateral Murder' In Iraq http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/05/wikileaks-exposes-video-o_n_525569.html #
  • I'm at the National Dutch TV archives for a tour and a sneak preview of John Appels new program. Nice. #
  • http://twitpic.com/1dl28d – Love the way the morning light breaks and reflects in these coloured windows. It's a beautiful building. #
  • Going to the academy to view the progressive version of our new film the Saint Nicholas Conspiracy. Hope this time it wil be ok for grading. #
  • Of course we had to pester our editors again with technical details about the post profuction, colour correction, progressive scan, etc. #
  • Now I hope that tomorrow we will have a good interlaced version of the Saint Nicholas Principle to be colour corrected at Cinemeta. #
  • Nu op NED 2: Labyrinth over robots die de wereld kunnen overnemen. #
  • The dutch program Labyrith just aired with a good contribution to the discussion about a robotic future. #
  • …Just a shame they forgot to mention the singularity in their show, it makes a lot of difference if the progress is exponential. #
  • Aflevering van Labyrint over robots nu op uitzendinggemist http://bit.ly/a4d8qw #
  • Trying to find a doctor or patient who has experience with deep brain stimulation (DBS). Who can help? @vark #
  • …by the way, I'm looking for a doctor for our research, not for medical reasons ;-) #
  • Still looking for anyone with experience in Deep Brain Stimulation. As a physician or patient. #
  • Doing the color correction for The Saint Nicholas Conspiracy. Looks like it's going to work out fine. #
  • Yes, we're finished. Just need to copy the files and we have a film. Now for the titling and the DVD. #

Future shows and predictions

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I woke up this morning at 5:30 and couldn’t sleep anymore, so I watched a show on Discovery Channel about the future. I always liked watching those shows and I always liked anticipating new technologies coming into our lives. What struck me about the show though was that it presented technology as the immediate solution to many very complex problems. Aging, hunger, transport, urbanization… all of these problems would be solved by just one or two inventions.

That’s not what the future is going to be like! There will be new technologies and they will solve problems, but there will also be social and political consequences beyond our understanding. There are some historical constants though. When iron was introduced, it led to war. When the printing press was introduced it led to war. When the cumbustion engine was introduced, it enabled new ways to wage war. Who says that genetics, nanotechnology and robotics will not lead to war again? Every new technology can be used for good or evil, which means if Murphy’s Law is applied they will be used for good and evil.

I miss that sense of perspective and reflection in these shows. The future doesn’t have to be pitch black, but we should be careful not to paint it too bright, so as not to be blinded and duped into believing nothing can go wrong. Something always does.

Update: The BBC tends to make pretty good television, so I should mention there is a great program called Visions of the Future(presented by Michio Kaku), that does go into the more advanced theories of the future. I just saw the first episode titled The Intelligence Revolution which features Marvin Minsky and Ray Kurzweil among others. I think it has a lot of detailed thought that other programs miss, so I would recommend it.