Roel van der Ven

via @stigi

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:18:41 +0100

via @stigi

William Fitzsimmons @ Heimathafen (Taken with picplz.)

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:27:23 +0100

William Fitzsimmons @ Heimathafen (Taken with picplz.)

Apparat / Goodbye (Instrumental) | apparat Look what I just...

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:08:36 +0200

Apparat / Goodbye (Instrumental) | apparat

Look what I just found on SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/apparat/apparat-goodbye-instrumental

popcornshower: (via b3ta.com board)

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:19:25 +0200

popcornshower:

(via b3ta.com board)

Photo

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:19:58 +0200

Rails to nowhere (Taken with picplz.)

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:50:47 +0200

Rails to nowhere (Taken with picplz.)

This is why I stopped saving chat logs.

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:36:32 +0200

This is why I stopped saving chat logs.:

Our brains are built to forget. Our memories should naturally fade away, where your soul is able to prioritize and hold on to those that you don’t want to loose. You will only be able to remember the exact details you remember.
Only those subtle details. That scent, or that one sunbeam kissing your face when you saw her again. That’s way better then remembering everything.

Forgetting is not a bad thing. It’s healthy.

"When a man walks into a room, he brings his whole life with him."

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:30:07 +0200

“When a man walks into a room, he brings his whole life with him.”

- (via valdean)

How to take screenshots on your Android Phone with Mac OS X

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:31:33 +0200

Yes, this is ridiculously complicated and a lot of people have been writing about ways to do it. There are quite some suggestions to install tools, run programs and finally fire up the application to take the screenshot, but it can be a lot simpler if you’re running Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Lion. Here’s how to do it:

Download the Android SDK here and extract the zip to a comfortable location on your Mac.
Don’t download any JDK tools. Apple ships OS X with this built-in.
Add the following to your ~/.profile or ~/.bash_rc:
```
export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home` 
```
Enable USB Debugging on your phone in settings via Settings > Applications > Development, and make sure it’s connected via USB.
Open a new Terminal window and navigate to the Android SDK folder.
Run the following command in your Terminal to fire up DDMS:
```
$ ./tools/ddms
```

It should display your phone. Select it, and press ⌘ + S to bring up the screen capture dialog. Voila!

Cat hater forever.

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:44:31 +0200

Cat hater forever.

thisisparker: Today would’ve been Freddie Mercury’s 65th....

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:32:25 +0200

thisisparker:

Today would’ve been Freddie Mercury’s 65th. Here’s a reminder that the best statue in the world is a likeness of him. And don’t forget to check out the Google doodle.

Just deleted my Jaiku profile. I enjoyed being in that future,...

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 00:20:29 +0200

Just deleted my Jaiku profile. I enjoyed being in that future, but it became a bit redundant. Bye guys, don’t bother doing those dishes more often, it’s not you, it’s me.

Photo

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 22:28:30 +0200

"OH: “Need that coffee fast, I’m 10 min late.” “Man, look around. You in NYC...."

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:48:17 +0200

“OH: “Need that coffee fast, I’m 10 min late.” “Man, look around. You in NYC. Everybody is 10 min late. Now you gonna be 15 min late.” #slam”

- /via @radiothom. I remember how NYC feels.

These things can only occur when people are open to creativity....

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:04:00 +0200

These things can only occur when people are open to creativity. Here’s what happened:

David had an idea, on some monday night in Berlin he sat down with his guitar and recorded it, just plain simple recorded with his phone:

Monday/Tuesday Moment by David Noël

But then a guy named Kerry Muzzey, who happens to be located in Santa Monica (like, the other side of the world), was inspired by David’s idea and ‘dressed’ it up with a full blown orchestra:

David Noel’s Guitar Song by kerrymuzzey

This is why I love what I do. This is why I love music, why I love people.
Amazing work Kerry, thanks!

3 years ago I wrote about Break by Son Lux on a Dutch blog, I...

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:23:00 +0200

3 years ago I wrote about Break by Son Lux on a Dutch blog, I just found the song by accident. And yet again, I’m struck by the subtleness, the backwardness, the fragileness of the track.
Hold your breath, give it a spin yourself.

Here’s the full record on Spotify by the way.

What you find on some walls (Taken with picplz.)

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:54:00 +0200

What you find on some walls (Taken with picplz.)

I haz a Tumblr

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 21:09:00 +0200

Right. There you have it. After having this account sleep for over two years (it might be 3 actually), I finally properly setup a Tumblr. After longing for a place to put up some writings, share some code snippets, and yes; a longing to just post things I just had to do it.

Here’s to a place on the internet to share cool things internet. Here’s to Tumblr!

So excited by Dustin O’Halloran’s new...

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:34:00 +0200

So excited by Dustin O’Halloran’s new project!

Here’s the actual SoundCloud track page by the way:
http://soundcloud.com/erasedtapes/a-winged-victory-for-the

The project is called A Winged Victory for the Sullen, the track Steep Hills of Vicodin Tears.

Play in silence, add some rain, close your eyes, enjoy.

Get YouTube thumbnail with PHP

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:42:00 +0100

// Get thumbnail for the given YouTube link:
function getYouthumb($link) {
  $regex = preg_match('/youtube\.com\/watch\?v=(.*)&feature=youtube_gdata/', $link, $matches);
  $id = $matches[1];
  $thumburl = 'http://img.youtube.com/vi/'.$id.'/2.jpg';
  return $thumburl;
}