The Durian Team Visits the Tropenmuseum
on August 29th, 2009, by Colin LevyHello Blender Community! First post on the Durian blog. It’s great to be here in Amsterdam and I’m extremely excited about (and slightly intimidated by) the project and the work ahead! We’ve got a killer team here and we’ve had a fantastic week of preproduction. I’m a bit overwhelmed really– Ton’s kept us really busy!
One thing on the agenda was to go out and actually do something in the city. So yesterday Ton sent us out to visit a local Amsterdamian museum, and we brought along the studio camera to document our journey. (David and Brecht preferred to be productive and stayed in the studio.) Check out the video:
Visit to the Tropenmuseum from Project Durian on Vimeo.
–Colin
(Note: Sorry for not putting it on the title card, but both tracks of music for this video are licensed under Creative Commons.)
August 29th, 2009 at 2:21 am
haha, awesome.
August 29th, 2009 at 2:55 am
Lots of fun. The museum looked great. Excellent idea to head out exploring. Find a Durian fruit at the museum; you deserve a medal. Thanks for the video guys. Just a word of advice; don’t do the Durian rap. Just…..don’t. :-p
August 29th, 2009 at 3:45 am
‘Durian’ is the worst thing to try and rhyme to.
August 29th, 2009 at 3:46 am
Awesome!
Why the Windows does not work? Because is not Linux!
HHAhahahhaHHA..
I love the team!
August 29th, 2009 at 5:10 am
niños, no les enseñaron que no deben de tocar nada en los museos XD
bueno; lo que se esperaba, güindoe$ como pieza de museo XD
y que les parecieron las calaveras; y no había las momias de Guanajuato (bueno, yo tampoco las he visto XD)…
buen vídeo 🙂
saludos…
August 29th, 2009 at 9:48 am
Fear not y’all – the film will not contain that rap.
As for the bunny song…
August 29th, 2009 at 10:00 am
the final of the video is fun.
August 29th, 2009 at 10:31 am
that’s not a sword but a dagger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kris
August 29th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Eheheh… lots of fun and also a lot of inspiration. The museum looked great!
August 29th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
@exavolt – cheers for the link. As you can tell we were being quite the light hearted tourists. The more time we spent there though the more obvious it became as to why Ton sent us there for inspiration. We only saw about a third of the museum in total I think, so we’ll have to go back at least once.
August 29th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Haha. Ben, nice explanation of how Brecht’s mind works. 😛
Lol. The Windows screen says that you can shut the computer down.
Human error.
Wonderfully animated character that explains stuff. 😛
Human error.
Brecht’s mind.
Human error? (don’t flame me. :P)
Thanks for the great video!
August 29th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Whoa, nice museum.
August 29th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Ton is a smart cookie for sending you guys there, even from those brief few minutes of footage i could se why it’d be a good place for inspiration. Great video.
Lol at Brecht’s mind.
August 29th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
That made my morning. I got a good laugh, and I’m glad to see everyone is having a good time. I’ll be sure to support this project when I get a chance
August 30th, 2009 at 3:25 am
Oh, it looks like I missed a great museum when I was in Amsterdam. Well just another reason to get back 🙂
The cat museum is something you should check out if you are going to Amsterdam, not as suitable for Durian maybe…
August 30th, 2009 at 4:47 am
@TheANIMAL, inspiration! are you kidding, I think Ton needed a break from them 😛
How come Colin is the only one wearing a Blender shirt!!! 😛
August 30th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
what was that guy explaining about 10 headed model… something like not visible to human eye?..
That 10 headed creature name is RAVAN, from an hindu epic story Ramayan..
August 30th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Come on guys and girls, you CAN’T get lost in Amsterdam, just count the bridges 😉
I really enjoyed the video, nice cutting.
Carsten
August 30th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Nathan: Considering the Tropenmuseum is on the way to our previous Orange appartment, and that you’ve cycled past it twice a day for eight months, I’m surprised at your lacking ability to find it.
W
August 30th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
I mean Peach. Must get the fruit right.
August 30th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Totally offtopic, but Angela is so cute=)
August 31st, 2009 at 5:30 am
I’m with you William! Nathan where was your head mate? I was yelling at the screen – “you are going the wrong way!”. How quickly we forget!
I reckon India & I know Amsterdam better than our home town now. Ton also made India & I go to the Tropenmuseum :P.
August 31st, 2009 at 9:56 pm
wow! a lot of things from there are from my country (Mexico) would love to see them in the movie in some kind of inspiration!
cheers Durian team!
i’m very excited!
September 1st, 2009 at 1:54 am
I agree with Ton: how could you miss the Tropenmuseum…? The building is quite obvious and there are dozens of signs in the nearby streets that say which way to go… 😉
September 1st, 2009 at 12:48 pm
@William and Cathy:
If Ton had said, “It’s that big fancy-looking building on the way to your old apartment,” I would have found it no problem! But I had no idea it was a museum, much less that it was the particular museum we were looking for.
But yes, I am very embarrassed. 😛
September 7th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
haha~ I love that “Why the Windows does not work? Because is not Linux!” part!!!!
September 8th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
You should split in teams and move in 4 directions.
One would last…