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Category Archives: Otto Maanzaad

V is for (II)

20-Jan-09

Campagne Dichteres des Vaderlands 2013 duurt voort

So Caspar said to me,

13-Jan-09

why don’t you try
some new kind of interior design
call some weirdo, an artist
hell knows, some guy
with BRAINS about these things!
So I tried Cassius,
and yes, it’s not bad
I can tell you, it’s like,
you know, I’d call him
again

Content about the content

11-Jan-09

We vroegen Driekje of ze tevreden was over haar nieuwe uitzicht.
“Tevreden? Dat vind ik wel een erg groot woord.”

And besides, there was something definitely wrong with the mirror, as if it tried to send some ancient messages, you know.

(translation for the diehards:)
We asked Driekje if she felt satisfied with the new view.
“Satisfied? I think that’s [...]

A pickle stick for Khlebnikov

17-Aug-08

The people they’re tumbling,
                        tumbling like that
they’re tumbling over each other

And you my little me
with your tiny pecker wee
you’re hanging, just like that
                        hanging free

Een zuurstok voor Chlebnikov

17-Aug-08

De mensen zij tuimelen,
tuimelen maar
zij tuimelen over elkaar

En jij mijn klein ikje
met je klein pikje
hangt daar, hangt daar maar
tussenin
 

Though surprisingly

09-Aug-08


some of us
 


survived

The new remedy

08-Aug-08


failed utterly

Some reasons why I left (being not VERY brave)

02-Aug-08


So I climbed down
All the stairs
to find this:





 


And, as you’ll understand,
 


So I fled
Back
To
The Future



Where I’ll stay for a while
Untill they’re all gone

You know I’m
not
A Very Brave Creature
 

Hank Williams hasn’t answered yet

28-Jul-08

Though few survived

18-Jul-08

 
they endured

For we know

17-Jul-08

the grammar of the future

Blauwput in those days

17-Jul-08

when you could still have a shave while smoking

Oud water

18-Jun-08

Russische onderzoekers hebben, volgens een bericht van Radio Moskou, een druppel water gevonden waarvan ze de leeftijd schatten op 50 miljoen jaar oud. Ze hopen dat bestudering van het water gegevens zal opleveren over vroeger. De druppel is bewaard gebleven in een rotskristal, dat door geologen werd gevonden in het Pamir-gebergte in Centraal-Azië.
De leeftijd van [...]

Poem For The Better Part Of Us (Not Mine)

16-May-08

  
You should know by the kindness of uh dog
The way uh human should be
You should feel the wet wood heart of the tree
Wood sap pop like uh frog’s eye
Open t’ the fly ‘n the blood of the river
When it ripples ‘n clicks like uh waterbell
‘n the elephant in his beautiful grey leather suit
Though he’s wrinkled he [...]

De torentjes zoals de gemeenschap zich die voorstelt

14-May-08

Goedbedoelde waanzin

02-May-08

Daarvoor moet je in Dordtrecht zijn.
(http://www.trouw.nl/laatstenieuws/ln_geestelijk_leven/article979456.ece/Psalm_43_klinkt_in_43_Dordtse_kerkdiensten)
We gaan zingen!
Komt ie:
Doe mij recht, o God! en bepleit mijn zaak:
bevrijd mij van het gemene volk, van de bedrieger en de smeerlap.
Wie anders moet mij beveiligen – waarom laat je mij dan barsten?
Waarom ga ik steeds in het zwart? omdat de vijand me op de hielen zit?
Stuur die zaklantaarn [...]

Openingsrede Dèr Mouw Convent

30-Apr-08

Sorry, no translation available as yet…
Dhr. Archimedes van Zandvoordt is van zijn toren1 afgedaald om zijn openingsrede van het Dèr Mouw Convent uit te spreken voor een onrustig publiek.
Wij vingen op: “…In de muziek geldt: gelijke delen stoten elkaar af, contrasterende delen zoeken de verbinding. Zo zal in de meest eenvoudige dansvorm (a,a,b,b) elke keer weer [...]

Little promise to a queen

26-Apr-08

This sudden sand
I know I must’ve smelled it before

& I watch your warming op
like after an inverted melting down
the end of all religion
in a face

your face
a simple twist of faith

If this is the Ice Age
I could live here forever

If this is love
or poetry
I’ll stick
to the sticky business

If this is sand
you’ll see me eating nothing else

uninvited guests effectively turned into work of art

23-Apr-08

certain intruders make their way into the convent

in the nick of time…

more reports from DMC

23-Apr-08

Belly dancing for Dalí in hall 27

the end of waiting

19-Apr-08

Opening DMC:

Personal assistent Jessica Blake is testing the mike and asking for attention

The auditorium: waiting…

some machinery derived and expanded

18-Apr-08

 
for A A
 

Visiting the convent (cont.)

17-Apr-08

“Hij zit in elk geval niet langer zonder meid.” (First visitors in Hall 2)

Central Hall: Showpiece (to be opened during the ceremony somewhere next week)

Dèr Mouw Convent opens with multilingual open source exposition

16-Apr-08

 
First visitors arrive in the entrance hall, which functions as the start of the exhibition.
 
Dèr Mouw Convent (press release)
  
“There are only visitors”
De Selby
 
Works are shown by various artists, amongst whom A. Andreas, Angela Genusa, Carol Novack, Jaan Patterson, Spencer Selby, Doemoedzi Soema, Charlotte Vekemans and Dirk Vekemans.
 
The entire “Bob Ross Conspiracy” by Otto Maanzaad is [...]

Snapshots of the preparation of the convent

15-Apr-08

1) Onderkomen van Archimedes van Zandvoordt; Europese dependance van The Tower of Song
Temporal shelter for Archimedes van Zandvoordt; Europian dependance of The Tower of Song

2) Doemoedzi Soema’s analyse van dichters in het Tweestromenland
Doemoedzi Soema’s analysis of poets in Mesopotamia

3) Interieur Dèr Mouw Convent (inrichting van de expositie)
Interior of the Dèr Mouw Convent (build up of [...]

somewhere in this whirl they must be hiding but we’ve run out of fuel back to headquarters then forget about them stupid annexes roger

14-Apr-08

Flight of the annexes

10-Apr-08

On our way to the Convent

09-Apr-08

Al-Ma’arri & beyond

09-Apr-08

From the Dèr Mouw Convent:
Some citations from the many manuscripts of the enormous collection of rebellious poets’ writings through the ages.
O fools, awake! The rites you sacred hold
Are but a cheat contrived by men of old,
Who lusted after wealth and gained their lust
And died in baseness—and their law is dust.
What is religion? A maid kept [...]

Al-Ma‘arri

07-Apr-08

Christians, Jews, Parsi, Muslims,
they wander all; for who’s keen
all humanity exists but twofold,
two kinds only will be seen:
intelligent people without religion
and religious people without intellect.
Al-Ma‘arri (†1057)
(This is an attempt of a translation of a translation by the Dutch poet J.H. Leopold)
I found this more compact variant:
Muslims are stumbling, Christians all astray
Jews wildered, Magians far on [...]

the cross spider by Dèr Mouw

06-Apr-08

I am the way, the truth and life itself,
I am the Prophets, I’m the Law;
I don’t need a Chirst to save me;
no God needs to forgive my sins:

rather I would forgive Him who wove
this treacherous web of good and evil,
and, Cross Spider, uses His poisonous pincers
to terrorize the horrified and trembling soul.

Firstly he chased them [...]

the resurrection of kessel-lo; some of the more prominent aspects, as requested

04-Apr-08

after the deluge, the victory

(top right the glorious main annex, seat of the renewed Dèr Mouw Convent)

the bob ross conspiracy rounded up

03-Apr-08

So there’s nothing to cry about.

Threshold: the bob ross conspitacy IV (some sort of solution)

01-Apr-08

We weren’t there.

the bob ross conspiracy part III

30-Mar-08

They could be some kind of body snatchers, know what I mean?

Where they come from, you think?
Some odd village up in Belgium
or god knows, let’s see,
first identified somewhere near,
can you read this?
What does it mean?
It means we’re very near, Luke…

the bob ross conspiracy part II

30-Mar-08

It seems we’ve lost and gained now, Matt.

But what’s the use? We’re still out of gear.

the bob ross conspiracy

30-Mar-08

Escaped from vertigo

28-Mar-08

i n   v a i n

Though I think we found the box, Matt.

& some results

27-Mar-08

Mathematical

Mythological

Metaphysical

Further inspection

27-Mar-08