Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

300 DVDs…

My Complete DVD Collection. (all 302 DVDs! Click to view in detail) Photo by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten. The first DVD player I bought was a hacked Pionier player. I bought it online for more than a thousands pounds from a dodgy hacker who was able to remove the region limit. To change the region I had to press a combination of keys and then restart and then press another set of keys. The instructions for this routine were xeroxed many times and hardly readable and I lost the...

Blue Bally Briefcase

On my way to the office I found a beautiful blue Bally briefcase. It was empty but my guess is someone stole it and then disgarded it. The code for the lock is 221 061 so I think the owner was born on Oktober 10, 1961. Any idea who the owner could be? Then contact...

New Tailor – New Suit

New Tailor. Photo by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten. Today I met with Roel Wolbrink. He is the founder of New Tailor which is an old fashioned but forward thinking tailor in Amsterdam. He has been making suits for me for years. I order some of the more bizarre suits and every year I model them all for his photo material. I haven't ordered many suits last year (not even one?) because I have been too busy with Fleck and other projects. So Roel called me a few weeks ago and we agreed to...

Magic Pen Drawings

Anina was a guest at my Informal Diner Party with Marc Canter last week. She is into gadgets and brought a Nokia digital pen thingy. She used it to draw this image (of me!) in a special book and then it appeared on her phone, just like that! See all the images at her blog. LIFEBLOG.anina.net: magic pen drawings And did you know that Anina is one of the top 10 hottest Web2.0...

Moving, or not?

Check these and more Optical Illusions &...

Wikipedia-based Search Engine: The Next Google?

Techcrunch reports on a new project by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia. Read it if you are interested in the future of search: Techcrunch: Wikipedia-based Search Engine UPDATE: Jimmy Wales left a comment that the article on Techcrunch isn't correct and the screenshot has nothing to do with what they are working on. More information on the search.wikia.com page:...

Buying books: Local Store VS Amazon

A few times a year I order a bunch of books from Amazon. Every time I read about an intersting book or someone tells me I should read a certain book I look it up at Amazon and add it to my Cart. And now and then I make a selection of all the books in my Cart and have that selection mailed to me. Today I ordered the following books: "Next" Michael Crichton; Hardcover; $15.37 (not available) "A Perfect Mess" Eric Abrahamson; Hardcover; $17.93 (not available) "The World Is...

Google domains for sale?

Well yeah, if you don't mind weird domainname extensions. Check these available Google domains: google.co.tm - Turkmenistan google.com.tm - Turkmenistan google.com.ac - Ascension Island google.com.hr - Croatia All available for registration! One condition: you will need a local precence and be prepared to get sued by Google. But at least you will be the proud owner of a Google domain, for a while. You could also try to buy Google.ac. But there are a few restrictions: "this...