Time for experiences

I’m a very strange person. I only like a few genres of music, and I really destroy cd’s by listening too much at the same album. I listened Metallica’s S&M like a 1000 times, and do the same with U2’s Achtung Baby or Joshua Tree. I feel safe with the music that I like, but it’s causing me to not appriciate other music at first hand. On second hand however…

Well, I hated Radiohead when I first heard from them. I didn’t like the frontman, I didn’t like the music. I always turned off the tv when ‘Karma Police’ got on Top 40, and switched back on when the Spice Girls were playing. C’mon guys, I was 13 at the time, give me a break, I liked the blonde one…

But, out of curiosity, I downloaded (Oh my god…) a few songs of Radiohead. And after an incubation period, I really liked them. The first albums (Pablo Honey, The Bends and OK computer) are rockalbums with some nice ballads in between (Fake Plastic Trees). They remind of Coldplay, Muse and Keane. But Radiohead was there first.

Then a more experimental phase came for Radiohead, which I didn’t listen any songs from. But I did downloaded some songs of their lastest work (which combines experimentation and a little rock): In Rainbows.

I’m still getting used to it, but some songs are very cool. The feel simplistic, but the little details and melodies really shine, in my opinion. The album contains up-tempo songs, but the following is much slower. But I think it’s a beauty.

And a much more hysteric, but electrifing song…

What I like about Radiohead is their melodic music, great melodies, little details. The singing is very down, but it suites the music. I like the earlier work because of the great rockmusic and touching ballads, but the new stuff is pretty melodic and very ambient.

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Experience: Grand Theft Auto 4 launch

19May08

Yes, out of curiosity, I was one of many attendents at the launch of GTA 4 in Eindhoven.

I never played a GTA game before, but I was very hyped by friends of mine (especially Jeroen). So, I wanted to get the game first, just to brag with it. I was at my girlfriends’ house and learned that there was a midnight launch of GTA 4 at the local MediaMarkt. I’m not that a GTA fan, or just not that kind of person, who will stay up late to get the game, but I just wanted to outplay my hyped friends to get the game first. So I went, thinking only 50 people at most, will show up at the launch. I was terribly wrong. I think there were about 200 to 300 people there, all wanting the game! For the experience, I joined the mass and waited to get inside and get the game. There wasn’t much left when I entered the store, I got one of the last copies available for launch.

The pictures following will tell the rest.

Very dark movie from outside the MediaMarkt.

Was it worth it? Well, for just one time it was, and the game is much fun.

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Commercial is LIVE/vote for us @ zelfspot.org

14May08

Watch our commercial and if you like it, vote for us @ zelfspot.org

http://www.zelfspot.org/huishoudelijke-artikelen/philips-ironman-commercial

I’m going to update this blog with first hand experiences of how our commercial is doing. As a start, our commercial was posted on youtube.com yesterday and recieved 118 views. It has been adopted to a few other sites we didn’t know of (http://www.mixx.com/videos/289507/philips_ironman). It managed to climb to position 27 on zelfspot.org.

We’ll keep you posted.

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It’s here: PHILIPS IRONMAN

13May08

It’s here, it’s done!

Our PHILIPS IRONMAN commercial is live! It has taken quite some time, but it was all worth it. Let’s not talk, just watch it!

Thanks to everyone who worked with us and all you guys for being this patient.

For a better resolution, visit this link!

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IRONMAN screenshots

13Apr08

We’re busy editing our commercial, and it’s a lot of work. For now, we want to show you some screenshots of our footage. Beware, this footage is unedited and not filtered properly, so it doesn’t look right. In the final trailer it will be a blast though. We hope to complete the trailer this week, we still have to shoot 4 shots. We hope our teachers can buy us some time, because we think this commercial is very cool!