February 27, 2007

Dutch naked fitness to go global

Filed under: Dutch first,Weird by Orangemaster @ 6:41 pm

Thanks to the Dutch nudist federation (Naturisten Federatie Nederland – NFN), plans for starting fitness for nudists in a sports school in the Dutch town of Heteren have attracted worldwide interest in naked fitness. Since fitness centre owner Patrick de Man went public with his plans, he has been called from the US, England, Germany and Belgium. According to the NFN, The Netherlands will be the first country ever to offer naked fitness.

(Link: www.ad.nl, Photo: Photo of Stationary bikes by janeyesee, some rights reserved)

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February 26, 2007

Interview with ‘money maker’ Oxenaar

Filed under: Design,General by Branko Collin @ 10:29 pm
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In 2002 the Dutch exchanged their adventurous banknote designs for drab, super-safe euro ones. For those who want to take a trip down memory lane and re-experience the Netherlands’ former “monopoly money”, CR Blog has an interview with the designer of many Dutch banknotes, “Ootje” Oxenaar who at age 76 is still teaching at the graphic design department of the Rhode Island School of Design. The interview contains several examples of his remarkable designs.

(Via l-rs.org)

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Grease musical car drives into orchestra pit

Filed under: Shows by Orangemaster @ 10:11 pm
Grease

Two actors from the musical Grease were injured Sunday night during a performance in Almere. The car drove off the podium right into the orchestra pit. Idols star Jim Bakkum, who plays Danny Zuko and was in the car at the time, ended up with a concussion, while his co-star Bettina Holwerda broke her arm. Both were brought to the hospital. The cause of the accident is as yet unknown.

(Link and photo: fok.nl)

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February 25, 2007

Date me, date my pet

Filed under: Animals,Online by Orangemaster @ 4:46 pm

For Dutch people looking for their soulmate, but who want to be sure that Rex the dog or Felix the cat will also be accepted, there’s the new dating site Dier en mens (roughly ‘Pets and people’). As of 24 February, Dutch folks can look for a date to that cat show or to go shopping for that new python. Founders Fred and Betty Mercey decided to start the site because many animal lovers often meet people that are not as crazy about animals as they are. According to them, Dier en mens is the only site in the Netherlands that caters to dating pet freaks.

(Link and photo: nieuwnieuws)

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February 24, 2007

Comic relief

Filed under: Comics by Orangemaster @ 4:11 pm
Oranges

Clogwork.net features cartoons, comics and illustrations from a collective of known and lesser known Dutch and Belgian artists. Whereas comics and cartoons are associated with kids in many parts of the world, Europeans tend to take their doodles very seriously and rightly so.

The site features works by Nozzman, Roel Venderbosch and Sevensheaven (here below).

Oranges

(Caption: Very fertile year for wild boars)
(The guy bending over is the world-famous French cartoon character Obelix.)

To look up these artists and many more, the famous Dutch comic book store Lambiek has a whole collection of artists in their Comiclopedia as well as a nice history of Dutch comics. They sell a whole bunch of things as well.

There’s always the Comic strip fair on 24-25 February in Rijswijk, where you can meet the makers of Fokke & Sukke and ask them about their recent English books.

(Link and illustrations: Clogwork.net)

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February 23, 2007

Coming very soon!

Filed under: General by Orangemaster @ 11:26 am

24 oranges is a Netherlands-based, English-language weblog about anything Dutch that’s fun, interesting, weird, cool and otherwise unique. We plan to virtually dredge Dutch canals and bike along the dikes to deliver snapshots and stories of juicy Dutch coolness just waiting to be ‘WordPressed’.

Forget the tourist traps, the Dutch clichés and all that ‘how to for expats’ bla bla: 24 oranges wants to become your suitable or not suitable for work link, a fav in your RSS and a blog that will make the Dutch and the world smile like when you stick an orange slice in your mouth.

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