Bolt & Shakira

A pigeon called Usain Bolt became the world’s most expensive racing bird when his Belgian breeder sold it for €310,000 ($400,000) to a Chinese businessman.

Ricardo Cases photographed the practice of pigeon racing in the Spanish regions of Valencia and Murcia, a game consisting of releasing one female pigeon and dozens of male pigeons, painted in primary colors. 

w. m. dudok

Dudok, Dutch modernist architect and urban planner, from top to bottom:
Town Hall, Hilversum
Hogere Burgerschool, Leiden, 1913/17
Dark-red brick building for Leids Dagblad newspaper (in conjunction with J.J.P. Oud) , 1916/17
Esso petrol station, 1953
Design for school furniture

from 'W.M. Dudok', Herman van Bergeijk, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 2001

a nut in your hand

Paul Elliman, 2012. Published by Colophon and Casco, as a contribution to the exhibition ‘Latent Stare’ at CasCo, Utrecht. 

pillar

amalia pica

marcel broodthaers

er staat een

at HISK, Ghent (horse by Conny Kuilboer)

at KASK, Ghent

Storck & Dekeukeleire

Henri Storck (!), Pour vos beaux yeux, 1929
You can watch the entire film here

Henri Storck pioneered avant-garde Belgian film with Charles Dekeukeleire (!) 

You can find their films on dvd at Cinematek

peephole

Leuven
Antoine Wiertz Museum, Brussels

fish head soup

From 'De wonderen der zee', 1967

dear whales

National Geographic News headlines: 'Deformed dolphin accepted into new family. Lone dolphin with spinal deformity travels among a group of sperm whales.' Read the article here.

porta finestra

Henri Matisse in full color from top to bottom:
Porta-finestra a Collioure, 1905
La Finestra Blu, 1912
Vaso con Pesci Rossi, 1914 
Pesce Rosso, 1911

van hoogstraeten

Samuel van Hoogstraeten, The Man at the Window, 1653.
In Dutch, his name reads like 'Samuel from Hoogstraeten', referring to a village in the north of Belgium, the place where I grew up. Funny enough van Hoogstraeten was actually from Dordrecht, in the Netherlands.

shoe throwing

The shoe thrown at President Bush during a press conference in Iraq in 2008

the many-breasted Artemis

Islamic architecture: North Africa, 1977, Scorpion Publications, London