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Pictures I made at the Evoluon: Fire tornado. Hall overview. Disorientation tunnel Thanks to Evoluon's state-of-the-art cooling and heating system, it was nice and pleasant inside, but outside it was well over 30 degrees C. The pond has the same diameter as the Evoluon saucer, so it looks like the shade. The odd vertical tubes are the drainage system: when it starts to rain, they form a waterfall. Hall look-out Say what you want: this building may be near 50 years old, but it's still pure awesome! To prove that, Kraftwerk will be performing here in a few months. The triangles form the actual support of the saucer. The little triangles in it are sound insulation: if the ceiling would just be smooth, the echo would make you mad. In the middle is the glass hydraulic lift. To its right, is a tube that sucks air into the heating system. Most of the air in the heating is circulated, making it very cheap and easy to maintain a comfortable temperature.

GLOW Eindhoven 2013 was unfortunately a bit below standard, but I got some nice photos. And an ear-ache coz some drunk guy whistled into it.


3D Animated dragon projected on water.




This was a projection in an abandoned factory of the Apocalypse.




Want.


Gigantic helium balloon goldfishes

Check out the little sparrow... ^_^

some pretty good painters in here.

World's Worst Slayer Tattoo

I like the one with the dolphin. haha.

GLOW Eindhoven was crowded crowded crowded - not much space, but at least I have some photos...

These were at an exposition for light in art, to be specific an arts contest.

Rope cathedral with blacklight was very cool...


This one, on the spying of NSA and Google, got my vote for the audience award.


Astronomy tower.

One of my favourite works unfortunately doesn't look good on photos, but these did:

Fire tornado


Weeping Willows, trees with white light, was very effective and beautiful, although simple in approach.





Pendulum, four moving lights in a tiny chamber was very claustrophobic.


Giant tumble toys. Want. WANT! NOW!!


Luminarie De Cagna could return with their most ostentative work yet, and that is up to much competition. What you can't hear is the almost boasting sound effects with standard words on what Eindhoven means to people and a very gooey tune you wish you never knew. But at least it works with my 2007 camera.


Same artwork but up close, and with one of the many Eindhoven WW2 memorials on the foreground.


A strange tule shape creates beautiful lines


A couple of days ago part of this work came crashing down.

ok, some of the pics from Koh amui island where I stayed 2 weeks.

First, the hotel:




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The bedroom:









The spa, where I got my back put back together by a very cute and funny girl named Suwannee:









One of the meals we ate at one of the restaurants of the hotel:





More pics of the hotel:

Visit of the island by 4x4 and by foot:





Different temples and places of cult:













Then we went to a coconut plantation:




Leandre, our guide:



me:



The monkey they use to pick up the coconuts:



The Baobab, a bar/restaurant run by a french guy named Greg and his Thai wife called Indie:









Going to the waterfall, unfortunately at that time of the year, it hadn't rained for almost two months, so not much water there:







Banana tree:



We also visited the Golf course, but didn't take any pics of it.:shy:

The second week we went to another island called Koh Phangan, located in the north of Koh Samui. We went there with a traditional thai junk bought and restored by a belgian guy who's lived there for a few years now:





















Jumping from the roof of the junk:






The bar/restaurant of Koh Phangan:










Back on the junk with a french couple we make the acquaintance of early in the trip:

Back at the Baobab, Greg, the boss, is french and the rest of the crew is thai, they're all really cool and nice, the food is good, the cocktails are good (with actual alcohol in them, not like in most of the bars of the island):
















The plane that took us back to France:



I regret not having taken pics of the little towns we went to, Chawneg, Nathon, etc. And also I should have taken pics of some of the hotel staff members, especially Suwannee, my massager, and Lach Mee who works at one of the restaurants and she's got such a cute smile and she's so sweet, I must admit I had a huge crush on her... anyway, as soon as I've got enough money, I'll go back, maybe one week in Bangkok or Phuket and one week in Koh Samui.

Right!

Aaanyway, had a busy Pentecost. On Sunday, the Evoluon was open, which I visit on any occasion I can (my 5th visit so far in 33 years of trying). Since it's not just plain awesome on the outside, but also on the inside, I made 180 photos, uploaded them to dA to use their software to make a motion book, but that's harder than it looks.

And today was Open Castle day. We have a lot of castles nearby but there's one I had my sight on: in Asten, about 20 km away. Dad and I cycled there - an exhausting journey, but well worth to see the castle ruins. They're allegedly haunted by the ghosts of the women who were tortured in the witch hunt in the late 1500s.


Entry porch of the castle's farm buildings


Ruins of the main building. As you can see, this open day was rather crowded, with questionable music performances and a lot of kids.


Remains of the castle's tower. The old drawbridge was originally to the left of the bridge I was standing on while taking this photo. This tower had a basement that originally held the counterweights of the drawbridge. After the bridge was moved, the counterweights were no longer needed and removed. But the cellars underneath is where the lord of the castle, Bernard van Merode, imprisoned and tortured the women suspected of witchcraft - some didn't make it, one was rescued but was paralyzed - one escaped and related of torture and rape to the clergy, and the church stepped in to halt the persecutions.


The medieval kitchen: the passage to the left was to drain water if the floor had been scrubbed, the smaller niches were for lanterns and candles and alike, and the large niches on the right were ovens.


Looking in from the outside, through the overgrown tower and the front hall


Looking out a window in the overgrown tower


Overgrown tower


Overgrown tower


One dark cellar. These were very very dark. The wooden pillars were part of a bridge.





Garden bridges

I uploaded a lot of my photos to DeviantArt today, they're doing well...










And of Asten:

Glow Eindhoven 2016: