Posts tonen met het label Netherlands. Alle posts tonen
Posts tonen met het label Netherlands. Alle posts tonen

1 mei 2026

Double Dutch

 





Slander is the bad talk about another. Specifically, it refers to lying slanderer that aims to harm someone in his honor, his good name or his prestige to others. There is then character murder. The lying claim itself is usually referred to as slander. Slander is also a criminal offense in Belgium and the Netherlands.. 
In the Netherlands, defamation is an aggravating form of defamation in which the slanderer knows that the accused fact is not true. If the perpetrator did not need to know that the accusation was contrary to the truth, or if the accusation is true, there can only be a defamation. In addition, slander and slander can damage the honor and good name. This can be taken against through civil law on the basis of the tort.

28 apr 2026

On the water

 

 
 The Dutch Water Defence Lines represents a defence system extending over 200 km along the edge of the administrative and economic heartland of Holland. It is comprised of the New Dutch Waterline and the Defence Line of Amsterdam. Built between 1815 and 1940, the system consists of a network of forts, dikes, sluices, pumping stations, canals and inundation polders, working in concert to protect the Netherlands by applying the principle of temporary flooding of the land.

24 apr 2026

Nostalgia: early sound

 











2000: Introduction of the USB stick, with the first version containing 8 MB of memory. The MP3 player makes its debut. This effectively renders the physical audio medium obsolete, as the music is stored within the device itself rather than on a separate audio medium. 2001: Apple launches the first iPod media player. These feature a hard drive and can store much more data than the MP3 players of that era. 2006: Sony releases the last MiniDisc device to date. 2008: Sony and EMI announce they will cease production of CD singles in the coming year. 
 The Future Because the music industry was late in realizing that the future of the audio medium lies in downloading or streaming music, it has suffered significant losses and fallen behind in recent years. MP3 files, in particular, are widely available on the internet. It is expected that in the coming years, the physical audio medium as we know it today will be further displaced by these online technologies. 

20 apr 2026

Farmers talk

 

 
 Film theory is a set of scholarly approaches within the academic discipline of film or cinema studies that began in the 1920s by questioning the formal essential attributes of motion pictures; and that now provides conceptual frameworks for understanding film's relationship to reality, the other arts, individual viewers, and society at large



19 apr 2026

Dutch Light



'HOLLANDS LICHT is a documentary film about myth and reality of Dutch light. A film about light that has become famous thanks to painting. This can be found in the painted landscapes of painters such as Van Goyen and Van Ruisdael, in interiors and still lifes by Vermeer, Saenredam and Heda, and later in the work of artists such as Weissenbruch, Roelofs, Gabriƫl and Mondriaan. The myth is deeply rooted and wants light and perception to be the basis of a visual culture that is said to have emerged in the 17th century. But according to the German artist Joseph Beuys, that culture of looking would have come to an end in the middle of the 20th century. But is it????.




 

12 apr 2026

WorldPress :storytelling

 

 
 The World Press Photo Foundation organizes the famous World Press Photo Contest every year. This is one of the most prestigious competitions for photojournalists in the world. Founded in 1955 in Amsterdam Crowns the best press photos of the year Focus on news, current affairs and social themes Winners are chosen by an international jury Regional and thematic categories (such as climate, conflicts, portraits) The winning photos travel the world every year in an exhibition that attracts millions of visitors, also often seen in the Netherlands.

8 apr 2026

Champagne: the movie

 

 
 Dutch cinema often combines understated realism with offbeat humor, tackling moral ambiguity and social change. It balances intimate storytelling with bold, sometimes provocative, visual styles. Dutch films combine art-house sensibility with grounded storytelling, reflecting the country's open, yet quietly complex culture.


6 apr 2026

Train spotting

 





5 apr 2026

Dutch Gift

 

 
 ABOUT KLM BLUE DELFTS HOUSES / MINIATURES From 1952, these cabins have been given as gifts to passengers on board all KLM Intercontinental flights in business class. Each passenger baby or adult, paying or not paying one house. These original Delft blue miniature houses are real copies of the facade houses along the canals in Amsterdam and occasionally for a change also of other historic cities in the Netherlands. The content of KLM Miniatures is a large zip of the famous and unique Young Dutch Bols Jenever, distilled by the Bols distilleries.




1 apr 2026

Video Laser disc

 


LaserVision Protocols appeared as early as 1969, and a first unit was publicly demonstrated in 1972. Philips had been independently developing optical video recording in Eindhoven since 1970 and had been collaborating with DiscoVision since 1975. In 1976, the optical video disc was released on the American market in Atlanta. On all video discs, the image and sound were analog; however, on the Laserdisk discs manufactured after 1984, the sound was digitally encoded. The system became a commercial flop because Philips viewed itself as a hardware manufacturer and left the production of software (the discs) to third parties. Initially, they saw no potential in the new system, so players entered the market but no discs. Moreover, it was a disadvantage that video discs were not yet offered for rent in the rapidly emerging video rental stores, meaning the video recorder, which had been introduced a few years earlier, prevailed over the optical system for the time being.

29 mrt 2026

Art Garden

 

Is film a party to the arts?
Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures and promote intercultural dialogue. They are considered an important art form that offers entertainment and historical value and often visually documents a certain period.

 


23 mrt 2026

Flora Holland




From its birth in the 1880s, movies were predominantly monochrome. Contrary to popular belief, monochrome does not always mean black-and-white; it means a movie shot in a single tone or color. Since the cost of tinted film bases was substantially higher, most movies were produced in black-and-white monochrome. Even with the advent of early color experiments, the greater expense of color meant films were mostly made in black-and-white until the 1950s, when cheaper color processes were introduced. By the 1960s, color became by far the dominant film stock. In the coming decades, the usage of color film greatly increased, while monochrome films became scarce.

11 mrt 2026

Music boxes

 

 
 A music box (American English) or musical box (British English) is an automatic musical instrument in a box that produces musical notes by using a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc to pluck the tuned teeth (or lamellae) of a steel comb. The popular device best known today as a "music box" developed from musical snuff boxes of the 18th century and were originally called carillons Ć  musique (French for "chimes of music"). Some of the more complex boxes also contain a tiny drum and/or bells in addition to the metal comb.

5 mrt 2026

Making of Fabeltjeskrant

 

 
\ In the age of DVDs, shorter behind-the-scenes documentaries were often used as a bonus to give more insight into the film, how it was made, and to credit the film crew. Occasionally, some films included a "making of the making-of" as a joke.[4] The making-of was also often released for television as a part of the promotion of the film.

16 feb 2026

Beautiful island: Curacao

 

 
 New media art includes artworks designed and produced by means of electronic media technologies. It comprises virtual art, computer graphics, computer animation, digital art, interactive art, sound art, Internet art, video games, robotics, 3D printing, immersive installation and cyborg art. The term defines itself by the thereby created artwork, which differentiates itself from that deriving from conventional visual arts such as architecture, painting or sculpture.

13 feb 2026

The Sacred Cow

 

It [the movie art form] combines so many other art forms, as do theater and opera, but the essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images, images of people during emotional moments, or just images in a general sense, but put together in a kind of alchemy. A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.


12 feb 2026

Move around music

 

 
 Videomixage by antonwithagen

While musical short films were popular as soon as recorded sound was introduced to theatrical film screenings in the 1920s, promotional music videos started becoming popular into the 1960s and the music video rose to prominence in the 1980s when American TV channel MTV based its format around the medium. Music videos use a wide range of styles and contemporary video-making techniques, including animation, live-action, documentary, and non-narrative approaches such as abstract film. Combining these styles and techniques has become more popular due to the variety for the audience. Many music videos interpret images and scenes from the song's lyrics, while others take a more thematic approach.

11 feb 2026

For Ever Fun

 

 
 Many theories exist about what humour is and what social function it serves. The prevailing types of theories attempting to account for the existence of humour include psychological theories, the vast majority of which consider humour-induced behaviour to be very healthy. The benign-violation theory,attempts to explain humour's existence. The theory says "humour only occurs when something seems wrong, unsettling, or threatening, but simultaneously seems okay, acceptable or safe." Humour can be used as a method to easily engage in social interaction by taking away that awkward, uncomfortable, or uneasy feeling of social interactions.

7 feb 2026

Back to the future (music)

 

 
 A soundtrack is the music of a movie, TV series or computer game. In the case of film music, the music album is often released in the same period as the film in question premieres. Sometimes such a soundtrack also contains one or two songs that become a hit and make extra advertising for the movie or game. Originally, the soundtrack was the sound track of a movie, with the dialogues, the background sounds, the sound effects and the film music.

Pigeon search

 

 
 What has now become a feature film began five years ago as an idea during the coronavirus pandemic. Lisanne was only ten years old when she started writing. "Each time, a better version of the script emerged," she says. "I really started working on it seriously when I was thirteen." "The ending of the film is truly moving." "Duivinder" tells the story of two children who want to help their lonely grandfather after the loss of his grandmother. They try to find a new love for him through pigeon racing. The idea arose when Lisanne saw elderly people feeling lonely during the pandemic. "I saw many elderly people who feel lonely," she says. "They attach great value to their pets, just like I do." Lisanne herself is crazy about racing pigeons. Her own pigeon, Dik, even plays a small role.