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(More) Framed Webcomic Art

Amanda — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:00:09 +0000

I hope you’ll forgive me a moment of fan-girlness to share two new additions to my webcomic art collection. I actually picked both of these up a while ago, but only just now have gotten around to framing them. I encourage you to check out both of these comics. Lots of fun and each has an interesting and unique story.

Gunnerkrigg Court

An original sketch by Tom Siddell (the creator). Purchases at the UK Webcomix Thing

Paradigm Shift

A print of one of the book covers (by creator Dirk Tiede). Purchased in Boston.

Get to Know your Potatos

Amanda — Tue, 25 May 2010 08:00:58 +0000

Of course we call them Friets in Maastricht, but Ex-Friets isn't funny.

No one commented on my pun when I Twittered it, so instead I must terrify you with my comicing abilities. For those of you unfamiliar with Dutch, “Patats” is what they call fries up in the Northern parts of the Netherlands.

Cheers!

Places Around Maastricht: Reitz Friture

Quick Gasps of Art

locusta — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:02:46 +0000

I was going to blog about the coming of Carnival here in Maastricht, but since we’re planning on shopping for costumes this weekend, I thought I’d save that adventure for Monday. Instead I wanted to share a few pictures I’ve snapped over the past few months of art and statues in the Netherlands. I love how these sometimes small, sometimes grand gasps of art are sprinkled all over the place. Hope you enjoy.

Cat graffiti in Maastricht. Maastricht actually has tons of interesting graffitti.

Woman Statue in Valkensburg. On a private bridge over a canal.

Seal and sea otter statues on a bridge in Den Haag.

Case of the Reverse Art Theft

pottera — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:56:18 +0000

bonnefanten museum (cc) Peter_Zoon via Flicker

24 Oranges posted today about a case of reverse theft in three art museum in the Netherlands. The Groninger Museum in Groningen, Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle, and Maastricht’s very own Bonnefanten Museum.

According to the article, a group of young artists somehow entered (or stayed in) the museums after hours and left art pieces as a protest that young as well as old artists should be represented in these institutions. Apparently there is a online video of the groups approach at the Bonnefanten, but I haven’t located it yet.

My favorite is the large object seen on a monitor in Groninger Museum that disappeared when the staff tried to find it on the floor.

Security issues aside, this seems like interesting follow-up to last year’s “Exiles on Main St” exhibition of 9 American artists who (according to the museum’s press release) “care nothing for the rules of the market, much less the rules of art”.

I hope the Bonnefanten keeps the black and white photo they discovered. I want to see it.

(links: 24Oranges.nl, depers.nl)

Dutch-Themed Twitter Backgrounds

pottera — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:00:59 +0000

Lately I’ve been getting involved in web design activities and decided to make up a couple Dutch themed backgrounds for Twitter. Since there are not many things one can change on Twitter, backgrounds are fun and easy to make. Here are the first two I made. Feel free to use them on your own Twitter account if you want. Just click through to my Flickr account to download the full size version.

Orange Windmill

Stroopwafels

These backgrounds are protected under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. This means you may use and remix these backgrounds for free so long as you do the same with anything new you create from them.