Thirty, thirty, thirty, thirty.

Posted on Tuesday, April 24th 2012 by Jan in Photography

Last Saturday, on April 21st, my good friend Filip “Bunker” Bunkens turned 30 and he celebrated in a way absolutely befitting him. Filip is more passionate about photography than anyone I know and in every possible way. And for his 30th birthday, he decided to shoot 30 different people, for 30 minutes, taking 30 shots of each and using a different camera for each subject. Boom. 30 people and 30 minutes each comes down to 15 straight hours of shooting.

I headed out to Ghent early in the morning to help Filip out with the setup of the studio and to take some behind-the-scenes shots. I ended up staying on location until the late afternoon and even got shot by Filip as well At the end of the day I was exhausted and when I left, Filip still have 6 hours of shooting head of him. But that hardly showed and it was a real pleasure seeing Filip do what he clearly enjoys so very much.

Thanks for the fun day Filip, and happy birthday again.

You can head on over to the project-30303030 site for more information. Oh, and be sure the check out the BTS shots Rob “Stillmation” Mitchell made here.

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Sunny clouds.

Posted on Thursday, April 19th 2012 by Jan in Photography

Shot last sunday morning on Leuven’s Fochplein, which is currently in the last phase of reconstruction. I also run a photo-blog documenting the reconstruction at fochplein.be.

Fochplein by Jan Henckens

Why I hate gamification. →

Posted on Thursday, April 19th 2012 by Jan in Uncategorized

I hate gamification. Gamification is to play what crowdsourcing is to open source. How can we take this natural, cultural drive toward connection, meaning, purpose, and participation and incorporate it into the economic-growth requirement of corporate capitalism? Foursquare is the easiest example, but everybody’s doing it. I’m sure there are folks at Merrill Lynch gamifying their stock portfolios.
Douglas Rushkoff, interviewed by Samatha Hinds in The New Inquiry, 3

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BULK Bag.

Posted on Sunday, April 15th 2012 by Jan in podcast

If you’re a listener if 5by5′s (in)famous “Back To Work” podcast with Merlin Mann, the phrase “BULK bag” is probably nothing new. (If you’ve never heard of this, feel free to move a long, this is kind of an inside joke think).

A while back, Brett Kelly release a little ringtone with another of Merlin’s sayings: Hi, can I aks you a question? (available here. Very funny but a bit too long too be used as a ringtone for texts (in my opinion).

So I though…..BULK bag. Download it here (.m4r format so you can put it straight into iTunes).

So.

An invocation for beginnings.

Posted on Monday, April 9th 2012 by Jan in Uncategorized

Zefrank is back.

Let me think about the people who I care about the most and when they fail or disappoint me, I still love them, I still give them chances and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.

Let me remember that my courage is a wild dog, it won’t just come when I call it, I have to chase it down and hold on as tight as I can.

Let me not be so vain that I am the sole author of my victories and the victim of my defeats.

Let me not think of my work as a stepping stone only to something else.

And most of all: Let me enjoy this, live isn’t just a sequence of thins waiting to be done.