The best of
Texelse Boys Playground at Lowlands 2005
A selection of pictures, video, gigs, performances,
created works, links, good memories and stories.
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Pictures
Friday, August 19th 2005. Day one
the morning before (21 ) >> just before 55,000 people enter the festival // backstage (25) >> getting this prepared before festival opening; meet the guys in charge of screen direction; meet the guys in charge of video reports and short movies from Groningen; ROJO starting up // interactive lab (3) >> SMS Novel; Pipslab Luma2Solator // mainstage (5) >> playing Flock // music lab (11) >> making music with Micromusic; making music with Humanworkshop // people out there (11) >> outside Playground; the Playground architecture; the big inflatable bag; people wandering around

Saturday, August 20th 2005. Day two
arrival vip's from texel (67) >> arrival of members of the original ’Äì former ’Äì soccerteam Texelse Boys // airbags (41) >> 178 aardige ontwerpers creating pieces of art to chill of of inflatable airbags; people chilling on the airbags // backstage (30) >> meanwhile backstage at screen direction and at the Groningen media headquarters // jamie lidell (8) >> live performance of Jamie Lidell at Main Stage // labs by night (20) >> De Jeugd van Tegenwoording creating a ringtone in the Mobile Lab; Kluun writing on the SMS Novel; Captain Video making Lowlands TV; Humanworkshop preparing for their live performance // micromusic (47) >> Humanworkshop live performance at Main Stage // people out there (31) >> Playground by night; people wandering around

Sunday, August 21rst 2005. Day three
pipslab live (11) >> Pipslab live performance 'Wortal Combat' at Main Stage, part 1 // pipslab live 2 (11) >> Pipslab live performance 'Wortal Combat' at Main Stage, part 2 // playground after midnight (20) >> the big inflatable bag; Playground exterior // playground outside (12) >> Playground exterior; backstage with the stagemanager and Quasimodo Jones // live on tv (39) >> Marcel and Frederik live on television in an interview about the project

During the 3 days
airbags (34) >> 178 aardige ontwerpers creating pieces of art to chill of of inflatable airbags; people chilling on the airbags // airbags (60) >> 178 aardige ontwerpers creating pieces of art to chill of of inflatable airbags; airbag art // in, at, around playground (47) >> visitors, impressions // napkins (5) >> Texelse Boys pimped all 500,000 napkins in use at the festival, designed by 178 aardige ontwerpers

PipsLab Luma2Solator images, Interactive Lab
if you visited the Interactive Lab during one of the 3 days, you will find the images you created in the Luma2Solator with the guys of Pipslab here.
image batch 01 (60) // image batch 02 (84) // image batch 03 (84) // image batch 04 (84) // image batch 05 (84) // image batch 06 (84) // image batch 07 (84) // image batch 08 (84) // image batch 09 (84) //

Video (on demand)
Performances at the Main Stage
For watching the on demand streams you need Windows Media Player.
AddictiveTV 'Bond' session
AddictiveTV 'Stones' session

Music
Music created in the Micromusic workshop
Thanx to Gijs Gieskes
music sample 01 // music sample 02 // music sample 03 // music sample 04 // music sample 05 //

Ringtones
Ringtones created by performing artists during the festival
Besides the visitors of Texelse Boys Playground, a lot of performing artists at the Lowlands festival recorded a ringtone. You can download and listen to all created ringtones at The Ringtone Society website.
The Ringtone Society

SMS-Novel
To book or not to book; a world premiere
BeThe first SMS Novel in the world has been written at Texelse Boys Playground.
SMS Roman
Website available in Dutch only