Lets dance

Amsterdam parties can be quite crazy , lots of fun and nice Djing , this year I went to a lot of interesting partyes , ranging from squad partyes held in former industryal building on the outside of Amsterdam to good clubs with Dj's that you can only dream about , and a lot of nice visuals.. so for the eyes Vj 00-Kaap ,Vj urbi et orbi , Vj Mikhal Butink, Vj De Beeldfabriek , Vj Visuals Kitchen from Belgium , andfor the ears, musique that ranges from minimal , electro pop , tehno, disco house and electroclash ....the dance culture is quite strong here first of all because this area of europe has the highest mixtrure of races and people from all over Europe ( the area between Belgium until north of Amsterdam is called the Holocore because of the high density and because of the high cultural mix between people from all over the EU ) . Outher major dance events are I Love tehno ( belgium) ,Sensations(Amsterdam) ,Dance Valley ( Amsterdam ) and the AD 07 Amsterdam Dance Event that is one of the major festivals with an impresive range of dance musique here are some of the names : Adultnapper (us), Live: Alpha Omega (uk), Live: Alter Ego (de), Andy Norman (uk), Andy Stott (uk), Benjamin Bates (nl), Live: Bogusman (be), Dave Clarke (uk), Dave Vega (de), Live: David Gilmour Girls (nl), Dennis Ferrer (us), Digital Mystikz (uk), Dirt Crew (de), DJ Andy Daniels (uk), DJ Benno Blome (de), DJ’s Dash & Bx (uk), DJ Eddie Argos (uk), DJ FeatureCast ( uk), DJ $jammie the Mon€y (nl), DJ Joyce Muniz (br), DJ Marcelle (nl), DJ Sun-E (nl), & Dexon (nl), Live: Ebola (uk), Live: Electric kettle (f), Fedde Le Grand (nl),What is interesting about the festival is not only that there are a lot of Dj's but the fact that there is also a conference that is dedicated and works as a platform for the people that are interested in electronic musique in general so .. not only musique but also interaction.
If you are not a fan or have different tastes you can also go have a nice a quiet evning enjoing the sounds of a wiked jazz evening

And it is finnished

This is the new Library of Amsterdam , It contains a big colection of books from all shorts of fields , a mediateque with a big colecton of movies and all kinds of footage , a reading room with a good lighting and a presentation room , and a area that is destinated to bigger events so in total five floors full of fun , If you are there you can get lost because of the ammount of books and movies and cd's ..anyway it is a good place where you can spend your time and be in toutch with culture in a nice ambiance.

Museum again

Some while ago I went to Bonn and I wisited the Kunst Museum, the museum has a big art colection but in the same time has a historical oriented colection what I mean by that is that a part of the museum is dedicated to the second world war period and it has a colection of artifacts ranging from phones to cars and interiours from that period . One of the rooms reminded me of the Terror museum from Budapest a museum where comunism and nazism are put together in a face off expirience, anyway the architecture was great minimalist with a touch of surealism and with a nice atrium style garden . The museum is a tipe of building that pops out of the urban tissue of the city , that is quite the same except a residential part and a administrative part and some Tv station with broakasting functions . Some more pictures you can find on the site of the museum , here is the link http://kunstmuseum.bonn.de/start_e.htm

EU

Some while ago I participated at a small presentation about the Identity of the Europeean Union held by Reinier de Graaf one of the partners in charge of the Office of the Metropolitan Architecture and the head of the AMO the think tank and the mirror image of OMA ,a company that works beyond the realm of architecture and urbanism . The presentation was about the comission that AMO got from the Europeean union in the matter of finding a new identity (image ) for the EU , So the AMO studio that works in the cultural analysis field studied together with academics and scholars the problem of the Identity and they came up with a flag that was quite controversial in the press.
I thought that the presentation was quite good and that Reinier de Graaf is a interesting person , In the same time I think that the AMO studio Is an important conceptual barch that has some fascinating activities that are cultural analysis , politics , advertising and media started produceing work that is not related to architecture but it has a feel that is connected to an architectural notion of things . For this you can check out the ad that was made for the Prada parfums Thundermind and identiti work for the Europeean Union .