just a couple of sketches

Acting Class with Sir Ian McKellen

Why do the goddam yankees always have to copy our brilliant german ideas ?

Original


Uninspired copy !

Can' they think of something funny on their own ?

On the other hand, I can perfectly see, that having a VIP stick his hand up a puppet's back is the perfect way to raise attention for intestinal cancer-check ups ;)

MORE EVIDENCE



Ok, so we inventive, highly-creative Vorsrung Durch Technik-Germans come up with this wonderful concept of a real-life-comedian and his hilarious day to day adventures, called PASTEWKA, and what do the yanks do ?
Turning it into an uninspired mediocre sitcom starring the pathetic nobody LARRY DAVID, calling it "Curb Your Enthusiasm" or something, and what's even worse, while our version deliberatly limits itself to fellow comedians under contract of the same broadcastingstation, CYE dares to have "real" VIPs from film,politics and sports appearing in it as themselfes, how pathetic can you get?




OR THIS ONE:

Two weeks ago the German show around "DR. Psycho" premiered on the tellie, about a nerdy, psychotic police-psychologist, very funny, very original. What do the yanks do ?
They steel it, send it back in time and revamp to something called "Monk", and the Tommies?
Even worse, they take out the comedy part, keepp the bit about the psychologist who needs help himself, send it even further back in time and call it "Cracker ". Evil, filthy little buggers.



One Good Thing :

I'm only glad that so far nobody worldwide had the idea to copy our show "Stromberg", about this pathetic nerdy looser in an office.
And they better not dare, or I'll throw an Emmy at them!

Priceless

Can't wait !

I hope they'll be showing this in Annecy as they did with Cars last year.
Click the Title and have a look.

Kwaktuell ( Sorry for the pun )

Just got these in for review. This would be the final bunch of the DVDs. The Collector's Boxes are also underway and the first episodes are already and still available at your local MediaMarkt or Saturn . Go get'em !

Immer wieder schön....

1945

Happy Birthday, Herman,
who actually started to paint in his elder days,
Chapeau en van harte gefeliceteert !Harald


Foto: Wim Kempenaers

Sorry, CartoonBrew-Readers and - makers...

You think this is weird ???? ..........

Have a bite of the Kwak-Wurst:

Schließlich ist ja Karneval und da darf man schon mal lustig sein...

Some Victorian Guy

For no reason whatsoever, just for the fun of it. A "Fingerübung" zwischendurch...

More Enchanted Pics...

Ayurveda

Just in case you have been wondering about what I was up to this week : I've been working on a series of illustrations for a magazine.Thought you might be interested in a little step by step of one of the illustrations. Enjoy.

Enchanted

Watch the first bits under the above link....

Another First Day

I can't say it any better than this :

Things I wish you :

Most of all I wish you health
and that you will love many people
and that there are many,
who love you in return.

I wish you a country,
where you can live in peace
and a work you love.
Where you can savely cross the street,
where at night the cities
belong to the night
and the sky is not illuminated electrically until morning.

I wish you a house
in which you may sit at the table
with the ones you love
and windows
with a view to a horizon.

I wish you wisdom and content
when looking at a child's drawing
or a real painting
when listening to music
or when reading a book.

I wish you rustling trees,
flowers in bloom,
an acceptable amount of mosquitos,
clear, fresh water,
a dog waving it's tail,
when you come home.

I wish you,
that you may be of importance
to someone in need
that you will witness
an unexplainable enchantment.

I wish you a church,
with or without a cross,
where you may believe god.

Finally I wish you
that you will read this
and most of all,
that you will not be disappointed
by the future
already today.

Herman van Veen, Jan 2007