We got her yesterday, she’s 7 weeks old, and we named her Fuji.

Something I really miss from Shoreditch when I’m in Amsterdam is Street Art. I’m always happy to see some turn up on blogs (Iain is known to post quite a bit of it, and so is Russell).

Can somebody do a “Shoreditch-street-art” blog please? Add a paypal donation button ; )

This is a piece I found in Amsterdam today, on one of these electricity box thingies.

So we were lucky today: Our favorite wineshop in the 9 straatjes area happened to have a * sommelier in the shop trying out some new wines.

We were invited to join in their quest - the sommelier and shop owner helped us choose some pretty good wines, one of the highlights being a mighty fine bottle of Chassagne-Montrachet Les Vergers Premier Cru. I really don’t know much about wines, but I do know what I like. Niceness.

Batsu is the new Japanese store which my girlfriends’ mother and sister just opened in Groningen, Holland and they asked me to create the logo for it. The word batsu is a little hard to translate in english/dutch - According to Jeffreys E-J dictionary batsu means:

..in a playful way.

Article about the shop here (dutch).

More about the DVD here. The Collective also have a Blog here.

I wrote about the work of David Troy before - he’s the guy that did the lovely Twittervision. New from David is Flickrvision - and very likely to be even more addictive.

He’s probably working on Stumblevision as well now.

Guillermo del Toro’s El Laberinto del fauno is stunning cinema.

The official website is good too - there’s actually some good content there other then the usual trailer & wallpaper fare (check out del Toro’s sketchbooks for example).

Amsterdam + Spaarnwoude ATB singletrack + IJmuiden beach and a windy ride back = 80 km. Co-rider Otto decided to continue his personal blog today.