Posts tagged with ‘netherlands’

Never before seen Dutch documentary on the making of Empire Strikes Back

Well, not entirely never seen before… this video has been around on YouTube for some time, but it’s only been making its way around the internet in the past week. Before that, this Dutch documentary on the making of Empire was never released publicly, which explains why the video and audio quality is so shitty— this YouTube version might be the only version left.

And even though it’s Dutch, it’s only in Dutch for about the first 45 seconds or so and then switches to English. But with the crappy audio, it’s still sort of difficult and muddy, so put on headphones or something.

Part 2 is here

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IHC After Dark: The rise of psychedelic mushrooms in Amsterdam

Amsterdam is known for its weed and its hookers, but psychedelic truffles have been gaining popularity quickly in the tiny country.

IHC After Dark: Wim de Bie “I Want to Fuck You”

All I can see are those ears. Those ears…

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Private company wants to have a colony on Mars by 2023

It’s pretty ambitious, but a Dutch start-up wants to have a small human colony on Mars by 2023, which would be 10 years ahead of NASA’s schedule. How are they going to fund this $6 billion mission? By turning it into a reality show.

“To attract sponsors, we will create appealing media content around the selection of the astronauts, the training, unmanned missions and other topics,” said Mars One cofounder Bas Lansdorp.

The astronaut selection process — read: auditions — for the show will begin in 2012, and the competition will narrow the candidate pool from 40 down to 4 over a decade-long training process. Naturally, viewers will get a say in who gets “voted off” the space mission.

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Trailer for ‘Meet the Fokkens’, a documentary about a pair of 69 year old Dutch twin prostitutes

“In the old days, the local copper would tap on the window if a girl was showing too much ankle, now the girls deal coke from their cubicles.” Louise and Martine Fokkens are identical twins. For over 40 years they were working as prostitutes. They freed themselves from the control of their pimps, ran their own brothel, and set up the first informal trade union for prostitutes. They are familiar faces in Amsterdam’s Red Light District, but soon they will bid their farewells.

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“Red Light District Girls Gone Wild”, a clever ad for the Amsterdam red light district

Hookers. They’re fun, family entertainment.

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After hip surgery, Dutch man can’t stop laughing at everything

After Huug Bosse woke up from hip surgery in 2010, he suddenly realized that he had uncontrollable fits of laughter. It doesn’t matter what he’s doing or what one is trying to talk to him about, it causes him to chuckle. 

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