june-2012

NEW
10 Holland Herald
No-sweat tattoo
Running ■ Pace yourself
Take the en-route arithmetic out of
running with the PaceTat ‘tattoo’. These
removable body transfers help you
pace yourself during marathons. With a
breakdown of split time goals in a large
font, it’s easy to read while on the move.
Available in 20 different fi nish times and
in miles as as well as kilometres.
See pacetat.com.
Outdoor hangouts
Gear ■ Suspended tents
Rough, uneven ground is a natural
enemy to all campers. Avoid such
earthly problems altogether by taking
to the air in this suspended tent called
Tentsile. This clever (not to mention
highly comfortable-looking) design
can be strung from surrounding trees,
or in their absence, can be supported
on a portable frame like a hammock,
transforming any terrain into a personal
outdoor playground. See tentsile.com.
Photo: Photo@nognob2004
Bikini Lines
Eco-awareness ■ World’s largest painting
The Cactus Dome on Runit Island in the Marshall Islands isn’t
your average artist’s canvas. With a concrete surface area
of almost 9,000 sq metres, it’s visible from outer space and
encases radioactive debris from atomic test blasts conducted in
Bikini and the surrounding atolls in the 1940s and 1950s. Painting
the dome would make it the world’s largest painted artwork.
And that’s just what Christian Forestell plans to do through
crowd funding. Money raised will go to children affected by the
2011 Tohoku tsunami in Japan and the Tepco nuclear reactor
meltdown. See bikinilines.net.
DUTCH
Photo: Mauritshuis, The Hague
Miss Pearl Earring
Art ■ 17th-century beauty contest
Art
Also known as the ‘Mona Lisa of the North’, Dutch master
Johannes Vermeer’s most famous painting must be Girl
with a Pearl Earring. Over 300 years after its creation, a
beauty pageant was held in its current hometown, The
Hague, to fi nd a modern likeness of the enigmatic young
girl. A photographed portrait of the winner will temporarily
replace the original while the painting is on show abroad.
The winner was 16-year-old Zonne Holtslag. Her prize? A
set of pearl earrings of course.
Photo: Joost van den Broek/ Hollandse Hoogte