30.11.11

Today we bought a white dress.We wrote "Fuck the System!" on it.We thought of aggressive virginity.Then we went to Damsquare...people were enthusiastic.And dancing to Nagila Hava.It is the responsibility of powerful citizen to demonstrate...Utopian Occupists!! 

They weren't individualists...

Do you like our Slogan "Fuck the System!"?

To what point of insanity a woman can sometimes love? (Dostoyevski)

29.11.11

Eugen went to airport to create a banner "ART CAN HELP PEOPLE".
I am thinking to put all the T-shirts around attached to trees and then look for the people's reaction,with camera of course.Without permission....Fuck political correctness...!!! Without this nice man's help Eugen couldn't have made it because he needed his bankcard.The man said: "O I am very happy if I can help an Artist!" He told a story from the times when he was at the academy in the 70s someone invented a non-digital  banner-machine.But the teacher said:"No political Slogans!" Everybody is interrested in this new banner machine at Schipol: there was a man from VARA Radio Eugen gave him a little interview about our project.We'll see what comes out...!!

28.11.11

Today I started creating T-shirts.Probably it is a substitute for what I cannot realize in reality.For example how can you ask muslim women to do such action,to hold a banner???

We visited our neighbours in the shop. We invited them them to tell

us some conflict storys out of their lives.We offered them to put it on a T-shirt,but they said: "Please ask our BOSS!"

-Do you know who is Dostoevsky?

-What is that ?

That is for sure crime . Pure Racism . Why black have to be a servant ? Merel told us that one activist paint the T-shirt with a slogan Black Pet is RASIZM and police beat him .

Hafid was more brave.He agreed that I can draw his portrait on his shirt.

26.11.11

We had today a little girl here.She brought a T-Shirt saying Amsterdam.

She told us about her school class and how they went to visit old people place.They played together and the pensioners talked about the second world war.Some fell asleep while playing...THE KIDS ARE ALLRIGHT!!

Simonas T-shirt that she made for us.

Nastya came.Together with friends they occupied the huge building in this area, it was the SHELL laboratory that we visited before.They were exhausted...Life is not easy there if you have to fight everyday.The Police came and allowed them to squat the place, but then also drug addicted people came,they also wanted to occupy.

When we left the workshop we saw further down the street this sign and stopped to photograph it...We thought that the shop name is Elite and became very angry ...

Suddenly we saw Daniela sitting in the shop together with some other old ladies.In the shop-window there was a lot of mannequins and puppets.We went inside to say hello...it turned out that these were very nice people.They invited us to stay and have a drink with them, Cheers!!!

The blond guy you can see on the picture, was very nice ,he gave advice to Eugen where to go to get help with his papers."If you have problems please let me know..." he said.He is a lawyer from Africa working also for the people here in the neighborhood.Especially for those who have less money! a COMMUNITY LAWYER so to say...We need more people like you !!!!!!!!!

After this nice meeting - on the fairy, we asked a beautiful young girl with very very looong blonde hair if she wants to participate in our movie.We thought of her like of Rapunzel.It turned out that she has been doing movies already!We gave her a flyer.We had a little chitchat with her, to say that she was interrested in our project, maybe she will drop by soon ... WHERE ARE YOU NOW???

25.11.11.

Today Peter told me about Asterdorp.It is a very interesting Dutch phenomenon.Appeared in XIX century 1926 -it was a re-eductional village for the maladjusted.
They had good intentions :)))))))))))))))))) They wanted to put the poor people all in one place.But then they put thiefs also.Then people just couldn't escape from it.in a way it is criminal act! We are interrested in these kind of crimes.

Tabby remarks:"From a statistical perspective there are only winners and losers,what interests me is also the human story behind it." These voices also have to be in the movie.
Then the jews came,then some nazi-collaborators...now is the time for contemporary artists i think.
We saw also yards that are going to disappear and some new yards are being build.Dan said:"I cannot imagine how people are going to live in such places,why are they buying flats here?“
I totaly agree with her.

A new film museum ..... hmmmmmm!!! Why not putting there a new mother-care center because some of the old moedercentrums are going to be closed?!
This is a criminal act against humanity!!! because for women whose lives are structured around the plan:"kindergarden-shopping-housecleaning-sleeping..." The chance for them to meet in the morning and to have a coffee is very important.Maybe it is the only HOPE!!!for them.
Then we met comrades.Some had green faces exausted from their rebelious life, some were looking for a new place to stay.They were just moving out from the Laboratorium of SHELL where they had been part of Occupy Amsterdam:

The building is amazing!We discovered it even a place with chicken.Are they going to eat this chicken or is it just decoration? Homeless Chicken...

Typical street of the North neighboorhood.

Observing a forgotten bike and some clothes around next to the river.We thought of a crime scene: Someone running away from the police, being chased leaving everything behind himself and jumping swimming in the water!! maybe even drowning to DEATH!!!

24.11.11

Today we went to the grocery shop next to our workshop to find out what happened last night with these two strange men that fought eachother and threw a bottle in front of the girls.The guy who was working there said the boss is not there and that he will appear in an hour or so...then Eugen went there to ask if he can make some pictures and film the shop.The guy again insited that the boss was not there.We know probably that he is the owner of the shop.Just because he kept telling not the truth.Total mafia-like attitude,boss was just here but disappeared again! like a ghost...

WHERE IS THE BOSS?

Later on Jelmer appeared on his motorbike.He brought the gloves of his grandmother.She died last year since then his grandfather gave him the gloves to wear them.But he said he's not wearing them at all because they're too broken.Instead he carries them always with him in the backtrunk of his motorbike just in case grandfather shows up and wants to see them.

Here are his thoughts about the gloves of grandmother handwritten by himself:

Before Jelmer arrived i had a meeting on the street.Where i photographed this old lady,she could not come inside the Kijkruimte because she had to change her oxygen bottle.Look Jelmer! We found a Grandma for you: