Old School

And when I say "going native" below, I mean slurping up some Jenever accompanied by raw herring. The latter was brought into the dekeLounge Amsterdam by Deke's Dutch publisher, Bob Van Duuren and his partner, Wouter Vermeulen. (You'll probably still be able to smell the fish and its itinerant pickles and onions in next week's show.) We sit down with the braintrust of Van Duuren Media to find out about translating Deke's books, publishing computer books in the Netherlands, and the love of "vintage" software.

The revelation of this week's show is that Bob is Deke's idol. You see, after years of writing books (and translating a few of you-know-whose into Dutch), Bob went off with Wouter to start his own publishing company. Van Duuren Media now threatens to be the top computer book publisher in the Netherlands. Part of their success is apparently based on Bob's undying love for Corel's Ventura Publisher. Listen as Bob and Deke stroll down the memory lane of graphics software, while Wouter and I just worry if the books will be published on time. They're like our Dutch mirror-images.

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Words of advice: If you ever find yourself drinking martinis and chatting with creative, charming digital imaging experts all day long in front of a live audience, I recommend finishing with guests who inspire and keep you laughing at the same time. Such was the case in this, the last of our live recordings from the Eyecandy Sound Lounge during Photoshop World, when Photoshop Diva Katrin Eismann and Notorious American Photographer Extraordinaire Jay Maisel appeared in front of our live audience in Las Vegas to talk with us about photography, photo retouching (or not), and the general state of the photographer's mind.

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