Poster for one of my former bands: Paxy Dragon. The white space on the down site could be used to print the name of the venue on.

logo for the label of Paxy Dragon, one of the bands i was in.

‘Mascotte’ for Paxy Dragon. The fins were used as ‘identity particle’ in other illustrations, like the ones with the band members

This is truly vintage! I think I made this (with bass player Roelof as a special effects technician) in ehm, 1996…
Notice the Most Unreadable End Credits Of All Time at the end – only somebody educated as a graphic designer can come up with a thing like that. Phooey ‘Form Follows Function’!

This is a videoclip we made for my band Paxy Dragon in, eh, 1998. With Maggie Boogaard dancing and Paul Lomans coaching the dance. And lots of other people as mentioned in the credits.

This film was shot in two takes on 16 millimeter. Everything in the background is animated frame by frame and Maggie dances on half speed to sort of match the feel of the animation. Later, I blended the two films so that it looks as if the dancer is in that surrounding destroying everything. I’d do such a better job nowadays, hahaha! But it has it’s own ;vintage’ charm I guess. And the music never got out other then on this video. De drums are made in a computer program I had: you could tick boxes on a timeline and then you’d hear a specific drum sound on that place. Rooney of thee Wreckers, who plays bass here, had a hard time playing exactly the guitar line but then one fourth later. But he did a great job – this is al pre -quantise, guys! And I asked Wendy to play violin as if it was played backwards – not a bad job either!

Some 60 people were involved in making this clip in 1996. Check the end credits!

The idea behind it is based on Jung’s notion of ‘Animus and Anima’. I thought it would be great to translate that to a live chess game with a black king and crew symbolising the ‘unconscious’, making all decisions (for all we do comes from unconscious impulses). The white king and crew copy the black king and everything works as nature demands. Then a white and black pawn start kissing and turn into a purple queen. Things get messy from there.

So yeah, this was done on video in 1996 – I’d do a better job now. There was still much to learn, as there will be always.
But I like to be as complete as i can on this site, and de clip does have a certain naive charm.

I am sure it’s not easy to be a friend of mine. You always run the risk that I might ask you to be in one of my videos. Here you see a very old one, called ‘Fake Away Spray’ – stay until the end credits – I think they are the most unreadable ever made!

Well, maybe the end credits of my other Paxy Dragon Clip ‘Dance Of Djapozzit’ comes close. Well that’s what you do when you study Graphic Design at art school.