h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Ah good. You should have a look in this shop I found. If you're at the station you don't take the exit 'Keizerin' but the one that indicates 'city centre'. It's a tunnel that takes you directly towards the centre of the city. Once you reach street level there is a field of grass on the right hand side and further on the left there is a cornershop, it sells little those objects like statues of paintings of Dali and Grimbaldi and also many of the anomalous creatures of Jeroen Bosch.
Those last ones are really fantastic. I had never seen them before. Such as an egg in light shade of green and white with the slender arm of human figure sticking out. You can see the form of the human body sitting inside the egg trying to break out. It's really lovely.
I regret I didn't bring any money. They cost about 25 Euro's a piece and make terrific gifts.

*goes to find her map of Brussels*

No, no, no that's someone else.
You know, this guy that painted human heads by painting fruits and vegetables.

Yeah, I know. Quite fascinating.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Finally found it by simply typing 'Italian painter of vegetables and fruits'.

I googled his works.
Sometimes it makes me wonder how people think...

I was thinking the same looking at the painting 'Tuin der Lusten' 'Garden of Lusts' of Jeroen Bosch.
He was a boy of thirteen years old when he witnessed a fire in his hometown Den Bosch that layed 4000 houses into ashes. You can see it if you scroll down towards the depiction of 'Hell' in the background of the painting.

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeroen_Bosch_(schilder)

Yeah...

Don't know what happened there.

http://www.boshuniverse.org//index.cfm?

It is called the garden of earthly delights, you can find of under the button 'triptychs' after you've pushed the bulbeous round thing and after you've pushed 'works'.

I think the arty farty web-designers can over do it. I've visited a website where I had to make a figure of a man walk by pushing the arrow buttons into different directions in order to find some simple information about the movies Peter Greenaway made. I've been busy for two hours for a lousy bit of inadequate information. Sometimes these sites, how cleverly put together, really suck.

I wonder if you are somewhat fan of Greenaway...

Yes, I liked 'The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover' very much. He's now about to make a film about the Night Watch.
I tried to get some details from the site of the producer Kees Kasander with whom Greenaway works, but you need 'broad band' for that, or at least a big computer screen. The information was so informative, I sent them an e-mail with the request to send some information to which came no reply.

Yep, that was a great thing. Drowning by Numbers is one of my favourites, too.

I can't say I went to see that one. Prospero's ? books I saw at the cinema .

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092929/plotsummary

No, I'm quite sure I didn't see that one.
Where do the numbers come in and why, what do they signify?

The numbers just are there, in the film. In very chaotic places. It is a bit chaotic film anyway. But just as "The Cook..." it has extremely beautiful views, it's like a painting sometimes.

Hmm, I'm curious what he's gonna make of the Night Watch. Next year is Rembrandt year in Holland. The film will probably be released somewhere in 2006. Good timing and advertising for him and many others.

Yes, I am quite curious, too.

How far are the developments in the Russian internet. For instance, I once saw a film of a Russian film maker about Teil Uilenspieghel, inspired by the book of the Belgian author Charles de Coster.
I cannot find anything on Google about it.

Russian internet is doing okay. It's just in Russian. I searched for Tиль Уленшпигель but it gave no results for a movie. I don't know any Russian movie about him either. I've read the book though.