Earlier this week I discovered a new blog through twitter, called Life on Sundays. It’s a wonderful collection of pictures posted daily, all in this hazy, blurry and romantic style which I happen to love. It found out @ferryv, someone I talk to on Twitter sometimes, is behind it and he just started it two weeks ago. IF you like some of the pictures below, make sure you check out more on the blog.
The movie Black Swan will only come out in The Netherlands on February 24th 2011. Until then I can enjoy the beautiful posters created for the film.
For more posters, check Fubiz.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide!!!!! (c) Lenny & Meriel
Case Jumper (c) Lenny & Meriel
Aieeeeee! Mice! (c) Lenny & Muriel
Earlier this week I came across the video below and I feel that everyone I know MUST watch this. Meet Marcel the Shell, the cutest, little animation I have seen. Marcel is the love child of Jenny Slate’s and Dean’s (Fleischer-Camp) creative minds, which you can read more about here. I really hope we can expect more of these animated shots soon!
I’ve been neglecting this blog for way too long, due to a million things I won’t bore you with. When finally logging in, I came across this draft. Tomorrow it will turn autumn officially, so seeing this pictures make me long back to those wonderful, sunny days…
(drafted on June 18th) Summer in Amsterdam is lovely and makes me so happy to live here!
I like flea/vintage markets, and mostly the treasure hunting part of it. There’s loads of crap, but if you look good enough you might just find an awesome piece. A few weeks ago I went to one in Belgium and I found something completely useless, but nonetheless something I had to get my hands on.
In between old cans, bottles and other random stuff I noticed a big, leather book that seemed quite old. Despite the lock on it, curious me of course had to open it. It turned out to be a book used for keeping track of expenses, also called a ledger (which was on the back on the book as I later found out). When trying to decode the very old, but beautiful handwriting I found out the book was from 1869! Only a few of hundreds of pages were written on, but while reading I discovered a name (Henry Bailey) and items paid for like drawing tools and pictures. Doesn’t that sound like a painter? I’m going to find out…
A little tip for the people living in Amsterdam: tomorrow there will be a huge flea market at the IJ-hallen. If you have time, go check it out.
As mentioned before I sometimes blog for TEDxAmsterdam, the little sister of TED. It seems that we are being watched by our big brother though. Chris Anderson, curator of TED and nr. 7 in Fast Company’s most creative people 2010, apparently reads our TEDxAmsterdam posts as well. Today he tweeted about super talented Emma Bruns and her endearing story, a post that I have written. For me personally it’s is great to talk with and get to know so many great people that are involved with TEDxAmsterdam and that people actually read what I write. For Emma it’s awesome to see that her story a year after presenting is still spreading. Just a few of the reasons why I love TED and the internet!
If you want to read the post and see Emma’s TED talk, click here.
Four weeks filled with friends, new-made friends, excitement, sportsmanship, beers, bars and of course football! We came, we saw and we did our best. It wasn’t enough, so congrats to Spain!*
I watched the World Cup final between The Netherlands and Spain at Museumplein. It was one, big, orange sea of madness. The picture below shows what it looked like this morning. It’s sad…
Museumplein the morning after we lost the World Cup Final (c) Guido van Nispen
*and Howard Webb, please find another job
Spending the weekend with Faithless, Muse, Stereophonics, Phoenix, Skunk Anansie, De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig, Crookers, Bloody Beetroots Deathcrew 77, La Roux, The xx, Midlake, Kyteman’s Hip Hop Orchestra, Greenday, Thirty Seconds To Mars, Paramore, Rise Against, Coheed and Cambria, Customs, LCD Soundsystem, The Specials, Jack Johson, Corinne Bailey Rae, The Gaslight Anthem, The Morning Benders, Balthazar, Rammstein, Pink, The Ting Tings, Gossip, Chanel Zero, Das Pop, Tayler Hawkins & The Coattail Riders, Booka Shade, Empire Of The Sun, Florence + The Machine, Porcupine Tree, Yeasayer, Temper Trap, Delphic, Pearl Jam, Arcade Fire, Them Crooked Vultures, Vampire Weekend, Alice in Chains, The Black Keys, The Van Jets, Vitalic, The Black Box Revelation, Absynthe Minded, Dirty Projectors, Gomez, Shameboy and Sweet Coffee. Fuck yeah!
Metallica at Rock Werchter 2009 (c) csnan
I know the World Cup 2010 started last week, but with The Netherlands playing against Denmark, today will be the real kick-off for me. Love both countries to bits, but of course I’ll be rooting for my home country. I’m so excited!
Hup Holland Hup by (c) Amy van Wetten
Update: We won with 2-0 by playing average. Hope we’ll kick-ass the next time and show the world what true football should be like!
