Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar
Tintoretto was seized with severe stomach pains that prevented him from sleeping and eating for almost a fortnight.
(31 May 1594)
There are 3285 births, 3760 deaths, 1080 murders, 487 disasters and 1933 other events about 5575 people in 6158 places until today.
Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.
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The Eyes Have It
In the past 20 years I have made 48.333 digital photos. 399 of them are available here. They can be found on the corresponding days they were taken.
 | It's Just Blood, Blood on the Floor 1 November 1999 || Antwerpen, Belgium A rather boring Franko B. performance in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. |
 | The Cooling System 1 November 2005 || Beijing, China Meeting up with a truckload of sheep in a traffic jam in Beijing, Hebei, China. |
 | Home is Where the Heart is 2 November 2005 || Beijing, China The amazing archive of China's Noise Guru n°1 Yan Jun in Beijing, Hebei, China. |
 | Collision Drive 3 November 2005 || Beijing, China Meeting our first website provider in a traffic jam in Beijing, Hebei, China. |
 | We're All Frankies 4 November 2002 || Wijnegem, Belgium Nothing but a shadow on the floor in Vlemincktoren, Turnhoutsebaan 381, Wijnegem, Antwerpen, Belgium. |
 | Out in the Real World 4 November 2005 || Yang Zhen, China Many hands make the work light, as explained by the keeper as he had to shorten six metal poles for the open-air slaughterhouse construction in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China. |
 | Out in the Real World 5 November 2005 || Yang Zhen, China The construction site of a new open-air pig slaughterhouse at Art Farm in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China. |
 | Is it My Body? Someone I Might Be? 6 November 1999 || Charleroi, Belgium William Shatner aka Captain James Kirk from Star Trek popping up at a conference on Media Art in Fabrimetal, Rue Puissant d'Agimont 15, Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgium. |
 | Sakthi Kodu Vel Ayya 6 November 2005 || Yang Zhen, China Be respectful towards your vehicle and treat it as an instrument given to you by God for your convenience. So treat your vehicle with respect. The builder's vehicle at Art Farm in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China. |
 | Shake, Rattle and Roll 7 November 2006 || Antwerpen, Belgium The 'Mexico' bridges are some of the finest of a number of old industrial bridges in the old port in Mexicobrug, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. |
 | It's Just Blood, Blood on the Floor 9 November 2005 || Yang Zhen, China The gutter of the open-air slaughterhouse filling with blood in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China. |
 | It's Just Blood, Blood on the Floor 10 November 2005 || Yang Zhen, China Pig remains after slaughtering at Art Farm in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China. |
 | I Don't See Anything that I Want 10 November 2005 || Yang Zhen, China Pig remains after slaughtering at Art Farm in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China. |
 | Down, Down, Deeper and Down 11 November 2006 || Antwerpen, Belgium Some dirt from the Hole for an exhibition in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. |
 | Blood on the Floor 12 November 2005 || Yang Zhen, China Blood on the floor in the open-air slaughterhouse in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China. |
 | Superficial Punctate Keratopathy 13 November 1999 || Brussel, Belgium A welcoming act on the launch of the now defunct 'Café Belge' in Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. |
 | Don't Do Anything Illegal 13 November 2005 || Beijing, China A courtyard of the Forbidden City in Beijing, Hebei, China. |
 | Walk on Pain 14 November 2003 || Brussel, Belgium The tower of the Belgian National Broadcast Company where I was a guest in a talkshow with Jan Fabre and Jan Hoet in VRT, Reyerslaan, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. |
 | He's Dead Alright 14 November 2005 || Beijing, China The advantage of not speaking Chinese and yet wandering as an unwary nobody into the forbidden wing of the museum in Museum of Natural History, 126 Tian Qiao Nan Street, Dongcheng, Beijing, Hebei, China. |
 | Poupée de Cire, Poupée de Son 17 November 2001 || Nantes, France A note about the final closure of the puppet museum in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. |
 | I Am Happy When You Are Happy 18 November 2005 || Yang Zhen, China Happy visitors at Art Farm in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China. |
 | Am I not Farang? 19 November 2002 || Eernegem, Belgium Curious pigs wondering why a performance artist wants to present one of his works in their sty in Vermeersch Pig Farm, Zedelgemsesteenweg 64, Eernegem, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. |
 | And I said oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, what a feeling 20 November 2003 || Antwerpen, Belgium This is the bed where conceptual artist Martin Maloney died, impoverished, ill-infected and alone in his studio in Jacob Jordaenskaai, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. |
 | I Don't See Anything that I Want 20 November 2008 || Nürnberg, Germany Surveillance cameras on the corner of the building where Rote Armee Fraktion member Elisabeth Von Dyck was shot in the back and killed by a police sniper on 4 May 1979 in Haus Stephanstraße 40, Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany. |
 | Daders van Dodingen on Wheels 21 November 2001 || Sleidinge, Belgium Installing my 'Perpetrators of Death' in the corridors of a psychiatric center in Sleidinge. in Psychiatrisch Centrum, Weststraat 135, Sleidinge, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. |
 | Seven Horses in the Sky 22 November 2005 || Beijing, China A plate of 'Duck Tongues', a dish I couldn't resist in a duck specialty restaurant in Beijing, Hebei, China. |
 | Out in the Real World 22 November 2008 || Nürnberg, Germany The room of the courthouse where the famous Nazi trials were held after World War II in Saal 600, Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany. |
 | The Girl Can't Help it 23 November 2005 || Yang Zhen, China The waitresses of the 'Happy Forest' restaurant in Yang Zhen in the second photo I used for my infamous placemat in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China. |
 | Collision Drive 24 November 2001 || Sleidinge, Belgium My final installation 'Daders van Dodingen' for an unusual presentation on the floor along the corridors of a psychiatric hospital in Psychiatrisch Centrum, Weststraat 135, Sleidinge, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. |
 | Home is Where the Heart is 24 November 2001 || Sleidinge, Belgium My final installation 'Daders van Dodingen' for an unusual presentation on the floor along the corridors of a psychiatric hospital in Psychiatrisch Centrum, Weststraat 135, Sleidinge, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. |
 | Sakthi Kodu Vel Ayya 25 November 2010 || Antwerpen, Belgium A worn out medieval piece of wood looking like some Gold Coast in my workshop in Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten, Mutsaardstraat 31, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. |
 | I Don't Hear Anything that I Want 26 November 2007 || Antwerpen, Belgium A program featuring exclusive audio clips, music, and spoken word from and about Bruno Hauptmann's innocence, Sallie Ellen Ionesco's 'ice pick' transorbital lobotomy, Howard Carter, Jean-Louis Pisuisse's protest songs, John Holmes and Linda Lovelace, 'Nutbush' cover versions, Heinrich Himmler, The Rolling Stones and many more.... in Radio Centraal, Ernest Van Dijckkaai, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. |