PLACES: MONTH #181
"being told to stop building my mountain installation due to the hunters protest spending my remaining time in italy in vicenza applying for a new passport and walking across the city to get all the needed documents and later also going to milan and discovering the new area and filming once again at the cimitero monumentale before crossing into the ugly periphery and lastly filming in venice but this time with livia on my side taking the roads with less bridges where to lift the stroller"
PLACES: MONTH #182
"filming of public spaces resumed after weeks spent in the mountains not really exploring and now filming with livia in mestre despite the bad weather and walking to the city center several times before going back to holland and walking there with her both in culemborg but also in utrecht reaching the parks where to feed her and change her and lastly also talking a nice stroll with myrthe home from work in den bosch"
PLACES: MONTH #183
"filming in the netherlands walking around with livia and also with myrthe going for a day in den bosch and later alone with livia again around and around quite the same places in culemborg but also spending a few days walking with her in utrecht"
PLACES: MONTH #184
"film of public spaces shot first in the netherlands and then in italy first up north and then slowly descending with august through tuscany stopping in san gimignano and later exploring the coast with pisa and livorno before making to beautiful sardinia not very able to film there having to take care of livia and having to keep inside most of the day due to the heat"
PLACES: MONTH #185
"still filming in sardinia like visiting sassari with august and livia always having troubles to film having to also hold the latter and filming at the beach but also in remote islands reached by boat still with my kids and then back in the mountains only filming when visiting vicenza and schio or filming while making livia asleep waiting for our car to be fixed near thiene"
PLACES: MONTH #186
"filming to begin with in schio not knowing whether i can proceed or not with my work in the mountains and then going to pick up my girlfriend's mother and her boyfriend in the near of garda lake and there taking a nice trip to mantua exploring it yet having to also take care of livia not willing to seat in the stroller and often time recording with her in my arms and filming limitedly up in the mountains before visiting trento still with my in-laws and livia who managed to sleep in the stroller allowing me to explore the upper part of the city to the castle and finally leaving italy by car alone and stopping in munich finding there rain and cold weather but still strolling around it"
PLACES: MONTH #187
"filming extensively despite the weather during my car trip back north through germany and stopping in munich exploring the tourist center and the suburbs visiting later the reconstructed wurzburg and also filming the second world war spared city of wyrtzen to then film in the fully modern dortmund and finally back in the netherlands taking my usual rounds in the dutch landscape of culemborg with its sixteenth century like scenarios"
PLACES: MONTH #188
"taking advantage of the nice weather in the netherlands and filming public places always with livia on my side exploring back and forth our small city of culemborg and surrounding but also visiting utrecht walking across it as well as briefly visiting a land art installation in belgium nearby a beautiful monastery and filming meersen and maastricht on our visit to myrthe's brother ivo before coming back to culemborg and resuming my exploratory walks there with little livia"
PLACES: MONTH #189
"trying to be as much mobile and explorative as possible despite being with livia and highly pregnant myrthe yet managing to to visit utrecht a few times and also walk a bit in leiden otherwise always keeping immersed in the culemborg landscape"
PLACES: MONTH #190
"filming still while in holland with myrthe home for her maternity leave and waiting for the birth of our son staying in culemborg filming the public spaces there and only venturing for small trips to breda and utrecht to allow myrthe to visit her friends beside her feeling generally very tired"
PLACES: MONTH #191
"films shot in the netherlands waiting for the birth of our child silvester mostly taking small journeys like in gorinchem and woerden awaiting for his birth and not doing any major explorations also given the rainy weather"
PLACES: MONTH #192
"recording mostly in the netherlands with only a brief trip to italy to resolve the issue with the hunters fight against my installation there and filming public spaces in the city of schio to later get back to holland and film in den bosch and in and around our town of culemborg lastly filming in utrecht walking alone with myrthe and the kids visiting hanneke"
PLACES: MONTH #193
"films shot while in the netherlands with now myrthe home with baby silvester and taking several small walks and visiting small towns all around holland especially in the few days of sun and also exploring utrecht as well as den bosch always having to keep an eye on livia"
PLACES: MONTH #194
"filming on my way by bike to utrecht the beautiful dutch landscape in a moment of sun and stillness and the also exploring many small places taking short trips with the family to helmond checking a metal supplier and then to gouda but also again to utrecht for wies' birthday and beside just keeping in and around our town of culemborg"
PLACES: MONTH #195
"recording movies now even at night walking out with silvester in the carrier bag to make him sleep and only shortly recording a few movies in rotterdam and later in amsterdam walking around waiting for myrthe to meet her friends and still filming quite a lot in culemborg before traveling to hamburg and walking quite much there filming the new part of town and along the harbour"
PLACES: MONTH #196
"still filming while in hamburg exploring once again the more anarchic areas and then ending up in a sex district and in the green and monumental belt and back in the netherlands staying mostly in culemborg but also visiting pyotr in rotterdam and walking with livia there through the commercial district filming pretty much the usual places and lastly going for christmas to breda and again walking with livia from one side to another of the city to try to make her fall asleep going from one dinner to another of myrthe's divorced parents and in fact discovering a whole new and charming part of town"
PLACES: MONTH #197
"spending a lot of time with august making many a walks and visiting mostly natural places in holland during the winter holiday often carrying livia on my shoulders or in the backpack but still managing steady shots of the surrounding with some beautiful and solar sceneries but also some gray urban ones still however with an historical charm"
PLACES: MONTH #198
"still being able to travel a bit with the kids and myrthe in holland in her last weeks of maternity leave and then having to take care of the kids alone now mostly keeping in culemborg filming public places during my small walks therewith baby silvester often sleeping and livia seating on the back of his pram finding anyway both the same sceneries with some variations but also some new perspectives"
PLACES: MONTH #199
"with no car and my small kids to attend mostly filming public places in the small culemborg but also managing to visit with them utrecht and film quite the usual places there and also crossing amsterdam on foot to pick up august at the airport and with him despite the weather still keeping it in utrecht but also crossing amsterdam under the rain as his flight got canceled and filming some nice places there with the sun coming out"
PLACES: MONTH #200
"still with august and the kids exploring both culemborg and utrecht but also going to the den bosch carnival and later to amsterdam before limiting any visit to any city due to the coronavirus outbreak also in the netherlands and making at last for the last time out of culemborg for a meeting in rotterdam and walking quite extensively there to at last self-confine ourselves to our smalltown waiting for the pandemic to stop and only filming public places there"
PLACES: MONTH #201
"a month experiencing a full lock-down in our little dutch town due to the coronavirus outbreak but still being able to take the kids out especially with the nice weather and despite the limited options often making it to different places also discovering a nice pond by the river and filming the natural settings and not so often keeping in the city avoiding people there and keeping the safe distance to contain the spread of the virus"
PLACES: MONTH #202
"taking advantage of the nice spring weather to spend much time out with the kids despite the coronavirus lock-down and taking them mostly west and east of our city enjoying the spring blossoming and filming usual places but despite the restriction being able to bring some variety in the sequences of recordings"
PLACES: MONTH #203
"still under the coronavirus pandemic in culemborg taking care of my small ones and bringing them daily to the chicken zoo to feed the hamsters and to various playgrounds but also managing at one point to bike out of town to pick some used sandals for livia and exploring for the first time in months the area on the other side of the river also quite emptied out by the lock-down to then return to the usual dutch landscapes around town yet managing to provide some variety"
PLACES: MONTH #204
"filming in culemborg with a lot of nice weather taking my kids around and later also with the easing of the lock-down walking with them also through utrecht from the very south to the very north going east and then back going west through the city center filming all the encountered public places and back in culemborg filming the dutch landscape becoming way to dry with the constant period of sun mostly keeping in playgrounds with the kids and by the river"
PLACES: MONTH #205
"a period spent in the mountains with very little public places visited beside the time spent going down to schio to do different errands and the few times going for walks in the higher mountains most of the time keeping up the work with my installation"
PLACES: MONTH #206
"driving back to holland and filming in southern germany and in heidelberg during our short stop over there and then resuming my life in our dutch village walking constantly around with the kids and managing to find nice views and variety despite the limited options and some bad windy weather"
PLACES: MONTH #207
"with my children enjoying the very end of the summer walking around our dutch village also making it out to the countryside and to the river with quite some spectacular view of the landscape there'
PLACES: MONTH #208
"filming public spaces consistently being sort of locked up in and around our dutch town and only occasionally taking train rides with myrthe and the kids both to then bosch and utrecht yet mostly keeping in culemborg and there exploring and rexploring quite consistently the autumn changing landscape always crying both kids along as themselves some kind of cameras witnessing such change"
PLACES: MONTH #209
"filming still in our village once again locked up there by the new restrictions to curb the rise of the coronavirus pandemic and still feeling able to provide a nice variety of places also to my kids going a bit in different directions based on the weather and the wind and shortly also visiting august in sweden but there never venturing in the highly infected cities keeping with him mostly in the nature and revisiting the places of his childhood before coming back to our little dutch town and taking advantage of the nice weather to take the kids for longer strolls"
PLACES: MONTH #210
"films recorded now with the coming of the winter and my hands feeling rather cold as usual pushing the stroller with my kids inside and exploring the places in and around our dutch village but also making it to bigger cities in the weekend such as to arnhem and later to utrecht still being pretty much always with the kids and finding very nice places to feel despite the limiting options also set forth by coronavirus pandemic"
PLACES: MONTH #211
"doing the last filming of public spaces outside of our dutch town exploring south rotterdam with the kids before getting locked up again due to a second wave in the coronavirus pandemic and later spending our winter in the town and filming around at times redundantly not so much going for many explorations with quite some metal cutting and welding to do in the backyard in preparation of my mountain museum"
PLACES: MONTH #212
"some sunny days spent in our dutch village with the shops completely closed to curb the pandemic and the public spaces quite pristine and empty turned white by a sudden winter with much snow and ice at first having to keep indoor with my youngest kid silvester not liking the cold but then really enjoying going out filming the dikes used by young people to go on sleds and the canals used for ice-skating making the films a bit like old dutch paintings depicting such winter scenes and suddenly just a week later feeling almost as if it was springtime and filming with silvester the beautiful nature of the dunes in the near of haarlem"
PLACES: MONTH #213
"some spring weather coming up and roaming around with my kids at first only in and around our dutch village filming the public places there but also trying to go for more challenging excursions going once to elst across the river and later with silvester to nerijn and also going with livia there spending a beautiful weekend together while their mom was working finding a nice and wild beach along the waal river and then stopping in geldermalsen filming also the public spaces of that small village before returning to culemborg and later taking another day trip with the kids to the biesbosch natural reserve filming the swampy landscape there"
PLACES: MONTH #214
"initially taking a bit of excursions with the kids going to the dunes by the sea and also being very active exploring the surrounding but then getting some bad weather again with snow and also receiving the shipment of metal pieces spending much time welding in the backyard and basically visiting new places more in combination with supplies i needed to keep up with the welding such as driving with silvester on the other side of the river to get a gas tank and exploring the forest there or driving to get welding wire and checking out more nature in the surrounding and beside for that mostly keeping in our small dutch village filming the usual public places there"
PLACES: MONTH #215
"an initial period of sun making it back with the kids to noordwijk and walking along the ocean all the way to the town there and back on the dunes filming the surreal desert environment and other than that filming quite much while in our small village but also going for a long bike trip to replace the gas tank of my welder and filming many other dutch villages and open landscapes on both sides of the river later also going to utrecht with the kids exploring the town completely emptied out by the pandemic and even exploring the landart park i found by accident in delft buying a used welding helmet there to at last filming amsterdam taking a ten kilometers walk from the stadium to the city center finding it also rather emptied out by the pandemic"
PLACES: MONTH #216
"with the pandemic coming to an end going back now to my previous explorative mode joining a protest against the bombing of gaza in amsterdam and filming the public places filled with protesters later making the usual round in our village with much green now coming out of the dutch landscape and making a small walk in the rotterdam poor suburbs waiting for myrthe to meet her friend fiona visiting also thereafter the landart park in delft prior several days of rain either venturing to a forest in the near of waalwijk with the kids reaching a desert and filming the incredible landscape there before filming the equally incredible national romantic architecture of the rich small city and after some walking in culemborg mostly only with silvester while livia kept in school at last filming during a long walk from delft all the way to rotterdam making it through a poor area predominantly of black people"