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- MTV Shorts & BorisNovember 27 2008
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MTV is making short movies again and has launched a website to promote them. They will also do a large poster campaign in Amsterdam and guess who they asked as a model for the poster. Right.
Check out the website: MTV Shorts
Photo: Daniel J. Ashes.
- Ashes Meeting Obama!November 21 2008
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In 1997 I shook hands with someone who had just shaken hands with Hilary Clinton. That is as close as I ever got to meeting a president. Yeah, not very close indeed.
You can imagine how extremely jealous I am of my best friend Daniel J. Ashes who traveled to the US a few weeks ago with a few friends (Joey Elgersma, Achmed Akkabi, Jim Aasgier and Nasrdin Dchar) to meet with Obama. I begged him to take me with him but that just wasn’t possible. The only thing left for me to do is watch these photos and dream:
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- Stock Market Advice? Don’t ask me!October 27 2008
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Today I was featured as an ‘expert’ on stock markets in a Dutch TV show. They asked my opinion and I said “Opinions are just like assholes… everybody has one” and they used that in the show. Check it out, in Dutch only…
- Online TV: The Boris & Friends Show!October 1 2008
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A few months ago Ronnie Overgoor told me he had plans for his own Internet Television station. He also wanted to know if I would be interested in having my own talkshow on his station. Well, you can imagine I didn’t hesitate to join his effort.Yesterday BlueShots.TV officially launched and you can watch my first talkshow right here. My first guests were Robert Gaal from Wakoopa and Robert van der Does from Adyen.
Hope you enjoy the show. I had a lot of fun making it and I hope it shows…
- The Flying BoatSeptember 3 2008
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Imagine an entrepreneur, lets call him Jack, talking to his partners:
“Let’s cross the ocean together! We could do that! We could discover undiscovered countries and become rich! All we have to do is build a boat. We are qualified, experienced and motivated. Jim, you have experience with the open sea and know how to navigate. Bob, you know about construction and materials, and I would be an excellent skipper because I know how to motivate people and set a course. Let’s just do it!”
And so they do. After months of hard work, they have a good looking boat. It is a bit heavy and during the construction process they had to sacrifice some of the more interesting features they had planned for lack of money or resources. Bob found some bugs in the hull but thinks these will disappear once they start sailing.
Unfortunately, they do have one serious problem. They spent all their money on the boat, and forgot to plan for food. They know the entire trip will take a few weeks so they need to bring plenty of water and food. Fortunately, Bob has a rich Uncle, and they decide to ask him to invest in their plan. They prepare a few sheets that guarantee a nice return on investment for Uncle Bob should he decide to invest.
One fine morning Uncle Bob comes walking up the pier to inspect the boat and talk about financing their trip. The boys are nervous and are waiting next to their vessel with their hats in their hands. Uncle Bob,
