Wilddoei | Ekko | Utrecht

Livedrawings for Wildgroei, from a VJ-show with VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn at Ekko, Utrecht. Read and see more about us at our VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn & Menah blog. Theme: memorable final times NB: this was VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn & Menah’s last time at EKKO. We want to thank our EKKO buddies for all the great years. […]

CLEAN PETE – De Zee

Music video for Clean Pete. Shot in Zandvoort by VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn & Menah and Tom Roelofs.     Music: Clean Pete Concept, artwork & direction: Menah Camera: Glitterende Eenhoorn & Tom Roelofs Editing: Glitterende Eenhoorn       Al zeg ik het zelf     Also: when you’re shooting with Tom Roelofs, you get […]

VOX

Monthly illustrations of poems written by Irene Schoenmacker. Published in Vox (the student magazine of Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen). Our collaboration started with a poem reading / live drawing performance we did together for Het Cultuurfeest, at Lux Nijmegen.                        

JE BENT ER NOG | preview

          For the past two years, I have worked on a book (sponsored by the Fiep Westendorp Foundation ♥) that deals with my fear that my father will die some day. It’s become a collection of old and new drawings, and (partially censored) journal fragments. The book is still looking for […]

GroenLinks Groningen

Illustrations for GroenLinks Groningen.  

CLEAN PETE – Album release, Paradiso, Amsterdam

Clean Pete concert with live visuals by VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn and me. We also showed the new Clean Pete video, which will be online soon.         Hout van jou   Vind je het goed   Wie is die man   Alles moet kapot   Wandelaar sold   Je bent te vroeg   […]

NAUSICA FEAT. VJ GLITTERENDE EENHOORN & MENAH IX ʁekorder – dortmund

Nausica concert with live visuals by VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn and me. We do this stuff a lot lately, so if you’re interested in more shows we have done as an audiovisual collective, scroll down to the related posts to see them all!     Drawings – drawn and projected over the musicians during the concert […]

Wildgroei | Ekko | Utrecht | heroes

Livedrawings for Wildgroei, from a VJ-show with VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn at Ekko, Utrecht. Read and see more about us at our VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn & Menah blog. Theme: heroes. For this edition I drew exclusively on tank tops. People could order their top and have it made on the spot. The money went to LiveBuild. […]

Cup for Sacha

  This is a cup for my friend Sacha who likes piglets. Tools: porcelain markers & a little knife to cut away parts of the lines because I found them too broad.    

GroenLinks Groningen | natuur & vervoer

We are proud to present two new films by VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn & Menah productions: the GroenLinks Groningen story.       Concept: VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn & Menah Drawing: Menah Camera & editing: VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn Production & narration: Kris van der Veen Music: Clean Pete Recording: Erik Spanjers / Studio Moskou Mentions: RTL “campagnespots […]

CLEAN PETE – Al zeg ik het zelf

Album cover for Clean Pete.               Booklet: the girls asked me to make all the illustrations for the booklet while listening to the cd. Each drawing would have to be made in the duration of one song. So they are all made in less than five minutes. But no […]

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR

Merry christmas and a happy 2014 everybody! xxxxx    

NAUSICA videos by VJ GLITTERENDE EENHOORN & MENAH

 VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn & Menah are collaborating with experimental indie band Nausica. This means that Nausica makes the music, and VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn and I take care of everything visual: I have made the artwork for the CD, merch and website, VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn and I perform together with Nausica creating VJ-shows, and we also […]

Cineville wallpaper

Wallpaper for Cineville. Something filmy and wintery, was the plan. Joel and Clementine sprung in my mind and kept running around there until I succumbed to drawing them. Not that easy to erase after all! Happy winter!                     Related postsCINEVILLE Nacht Bazaar ⚑ Club Trouw ⚑ […]

Sander Sleeps

A little project I did in days of working late.

NAUSICA feat. MENAH – Woda Kolonska label night – Sissikingkong – Dortmund

Audiovisual performance of Nausica and me at Woda Kolonska label night, Sissikingkong, Dortmund, Germany. Nausica played their great music while I painted the band members on posters on the wall. After that there was more great music by Parfum Brutal.       Sold       Related postsNAUSICA videos by VJ GLITTERENDE EENHOORN & […]

Wildgroei | Ekko | Utrecht | needs

Livedrawings for Wildgroei, from a VJ-show with VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn at Ekko, Utrecht. Read and see more about us at our VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn & Menah blog. Theme: what do you need?     Made by VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn Sold   Mentions: 18/11/2013 Picures by Casper Koster for VICE

Getekend Verslag | Een plan, en dan? | Kunstgebouw | Warmond

Getekend Verslag is the visual reporting company of Ageeth van der Veen. She visits all sorts of events, mostly business events like conventions, brainstorms and trainings, and creates a memory of the day for the people involved. This work contains several drawings and snippets of the spoken topics, all put into one big drawing that […]

AVIERKOERIER | Poetracks | Merleyn | Nijmegen

This night AvierKoerier joined forces with me ánd VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn! We made live portraits of the students at Merleyn, Nijmegen during Poetracks. If you’re curious which drawings are mine: they are the small ones in the middle. Postscriptum: Mensen die hun portretten nog nader willen fotograferen, zijn zeer welkom om die foto’s naar ons […]

De golven slaan om zoals nu.

Illustrations for a text by Nina de Vroome.  

NAUSIHOORN TOUR – weimar – mönchengladbach – nijmegen

26/10/2013 Zum Falken, Weimar 28/10/2013 Konspirativer Kreis mit Nausica, Pflichtveranstaltung, Projekt 42, Mönchengladbach 29/10/2013 Cultuur op de Campus, Cultuurcafé, Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen           We have just come home from a fantastic, wonderful and super fun Nausica & VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn & Menah tour. The first one, to be precise. We have […]

Wildgroei | Ekko | Utrecht | weird

Livedrawings for Wildgroei, from a VJ-show with VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn at Ekko, Utrecht. Read and see more about us at our VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn & Menah blog. Theme: what do you find weird?   Based on a photo made by Katy Strange sold sold Made by VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn

Art Basement | Dok 2013 | Amsterdam | Your best / worst character traits

Livedrawings for Art Basement, from a VJ-show with VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn at Dok 2013, Amsterdam. Read and see more about us at our VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn & Menah blog. Theme: what is your best or worst character trait, and why? Thank you very much, Art Basement, this was one of our favorite performances! You were […]

NAUSICA FEAT. VJ GLITTERENDE EENHOORN & MENAH IV amp – popupklup – arnhem

Audiovisual performance by Nausica, VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn and me at AMP @ PopupKlup, PopupKlup, Arnhem. We VJS love cellars as they are a beautiful canvas to project on. Here are some pictures and drawings.       Drawings made during the performance, and projected over the band To watch Nausica blogposts, and occasionally take a […]

NAUSICA FEAT. VJ GLITTERENDE EENHOORN & MENAH III – soundscapes – villamedia – wuppertal

Performance with Nausica and my sparklier half VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn. This performance was also the first international Glitzernde Einhorn & Mënäh appearance! The concert took place at Soundscapes, in Villamedia, Wuppertal. As we have come to expect from Germans, knowing Nausica, the Wuppertalers were fantastically kind and helpful. The place was roomy and we had much […]

Wildgroei | Ekko | Utrecht | FIRST TIMES + EXPO

Livedrawings for Wildgroei, from a VJ-show with VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn at Ekko, Utrecht. Read and see more about us at our VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn & Menah blog. This Wildgroei was the first Wildgroei with a new organization. Therefore the theme was: first times. But for old time’s sake, we also filled the café with old […]

Vrije Uitloop / Amsterdam Fringe Festival / Uitmarkt / Amsterdam

Amsterdam Fringe Festival invited me and VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn to come sparkle at ‘Vrije Uitloop‘, their spot at Uitmarkt, Amsterdam. Uitmarkt is the opening of the cultural season, where all sorts of performers showcase their act. VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn and I exhibited drawings, made VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn & Menah buttons, sold drawings & booklets, and […]

Poetry and live drawing with Irene Schoenmacker | Het Cultuurfeest | LUX | Nijmegen

For Het Cultuurfeest (part of the introduction week for new students in Nijmegen), Cultuur op de Campus invited me and Irene Schoenmacker to give the new students some culture. This took place in LUX, which has always been one of my favorite places in my hometown. Irene is a poet (also campusdichter), and she read […]

Omie 80

My grandmother turned 80 this weekend! The family made her a magazine, which I made these illustrations for. They’re about special, fun and loving moments I have had with my grandmother (and grandfather! And Sander! And the rest!) in the past year. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥  

summer journal

WONDERKERMIS / Pearl Harbour

Livedrawings for Wonderkermis, from a VJ-show with VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn at Jan Maijenstraat, Amsterdam. At Wonderkermis, VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn and I collaborated with Victor Wentink. He has created what has perhaps been the first digital opera: Pearl Harbour (1994. Victor Wentink, Remko Scha and Hanna Boender). Entirely sung by computers, the opera tells a story […]

NAUSICA FEAT. VJ GLITTERENDE EENHOORN & MENAH II – park open – sonsbeekpark – arnhem

Performance with Nausica and my visual other half VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn, at Park Open, Sonsbeekpark, Arnhem. It was a bright summer afternoon, so instead of projecting the visuals, we joined the band near/on the stage and made live drawings of the performance and the audience.   ▲ Documentation by Eric Béatse. If you don’t have […]

Laya Papaya’s Public Bath

Documentation of the Laya Papaya Public Bath performances of 5/7/2013 at TENT, Rotterdam. ♥

Wildgroei ☏ Ekko ☏ Utrecht ☏ Zeg het met Wildgroei

Livedrawings for Wildgroei, from a VJ-show with VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn at Ekko, Utrecht. Read and see more about this performance at our VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn & Menah blog. Theme: What would you like to say (and to whom)? This Wildgroei Wednesday was the last edition organized by Nienke Smelt, Lin Kanters and Janine Sterenborg. Thank […]

Kattekwaad x Heibel ☢ De Effenaar ☢ Eindhoven ☢ What’s the naughtiest thing you have ever done?

Livedrawings for Kattekwaad x Heibel, from a VJ-show with VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn at De Effenaar, Eindhoven. Read and see more about this performance at our VJ Glitterende Eenhoorn & Menah blog. Zaterdag vonden wij het antwoord op de vraag: zijn Eindhovenaren stout? Het antwoord is: nee, maar als wel, dan héél. Dankjewel Brabant, superbehulpzaam Effenaar-team, […]

18

18  Is a series of destroyed diary entries. The series will contain 19 pieces, one page for each year that I’ve kept a journal. You can follow this project on Blinde Paniek. When it is finished, I’ll post everything here. For now, I’ll give you the mutations, but not yet what they once were. To […]

My Little Ferry

Ik droomde laatst dat ik Renske voor haar verjaardag Ferry Mingelen gaf. Aangezien hij niet langer op de tv zal verschijnen, zo redeneerde ik later, is dat nog helemaal zo’n slecht idee niet. Zoals jullie zien is dit een door mij getekend portret van Ferry en niet de echte. Ik ben jarig op 5 oktober. […]

CINEVILLE

Illustrations for Cineville Paris, Texas Illustration for an article called “Verf op het celluloid in Paris, Texas” by Christiaan Boesenach   Mind the Gap Illustration for an episode of the series “Een goed begin” by Kees van Nieuwkerk       Published: 3/6/2013 Paris, Texas, Cineville 25/3/2013 Mind the Gap, Cineville

VJ GLITTERENDE EENHOORN & MENAH MERCH!!!!

Yaaaay, booklets with a selection of my livedrawings are now for sale! The books are unbound, so your favorite print can be taken out and used as a poster. Design by HouwersBartels. To buy, either send me an email (nu.menah [at] gmail.com) and tell me how many books you would like, and what is your […]

House of Green ❦ Studio 40 ❦ Noordeinde ❦ Den Haag ❦ Dream homes & gardens

Drawings from a live session at the opening of ‘House of Green’ at Studio 40, Den Haag. Theme: your dream home/garden           A blogpost about this day can be found here.