Newwork Magazine

Every once in a while, I need to buy a new magazine. And most of the time, I only buy it to put it on my pile of 'I-am-going-to-read-it-when-I-have-the-time-for-it'-magazines.

I buy most of my 'zines at Athenaeum , located on my favorite square in the city, 't Spui. It's the best magazine shop in the city. Perhaps even the best of The Netherlands.

Newwork Magazine is the most beautiful designed magazine I've seen in a long, long time. And all because of the whole Black & White look. Every page can be used as a poster as well...how cool is that!? The Graphic Design and Photography articles in the latest issue (#4) are just amazingly cool! Take a look yourself:

Albert Watson (photographer)


Werner Jeker (graphic designer and know for his Swiss Poster designs...)


Werner Jeker
His posters motivate me to experiment some more in photoshop with photography images.



Cover issue 4.


Julia Abram Wainwright (photographer)

And last...but definitely not least...my new hero:




Wolfgang Weingart (Graphic Designer / Typographer) (click on the name to see a blogpost about this guy by Brooklyn based Graphic Design Studio Rational Beauty)

Unfortunately...this magazine isn't available in The Netherlands. No, not even at Athenaeum.
So, to all my foreign readers, if this magazine is available in your country...could you please send me a copy? I am willing to pay for the shipping costs.

Artmarket (Part 1)

Yesterday, I went to Artmarket and it was greeeat!

On this 'market' you could watch artwork created live by young clothing-, graphic designers, painters and illustrators. And, if you're interested, you could also buy these freshly made artwork! There was also a DJ spinning some electronic and hiphop music to give the visitors are cosy, warm, home-feeling while 'shopping' for art. :)

I've seen many interesting installations (and people) on this event, as shown in these pics...all shot by me. :)


- Can you see the Artmarket sign? Haha. Very cute. -


- I don't know exactly what this artwork was called. Looks like a 'living' lamp. -


- Steven De Peven (dj / producer, on the left) is one craaaaazy dude. Believe me. These guys were selling wooden 'pointing sticks'....-


- Cute girls standing at the clothing rack. -

Mediamatic - R.I.P. exhibition

A photographer went to Harlem, NYC, and photographed the dead people in their coffins. Yesterday was the opening of this exhibition in Medimatic in Vijzelstraat!


- Death people in their coffins -


- Mediamatic was founded by Willem Velthoven (man with the microphone and Jans Possel (lady in white with photo-camera)) -


- You could also go to Heaven with the roller stairs. Once in 'Heaven', there was a small exhibition of coffins made in Ghana, Africa -


- Nike shoe coffin! -




- Oh my GOD. It's Mudboy and he creates the most dreamy music I've ever heard. If you're either drunk or 'high on crack', I think he can put you in a trance with his music and kidnap you to his hometown Portland, Rhode Island.-


- Party 'till 1am. -

More pics will be uploaded to my personal website

Open dag - Rietveld Academie - Amsterdam

- Open day - Rietveld Academy -

Yesterday, I went to the Open Day of the Rietveld Academy. Lots of things were going on, on every department of the building. There was even a rockband playing in a very small room in a different building. The Rietveld Academy is quite a prestigious Art School; many people think it's the best of the country, other people think it's not a good art school at all because of the way of teaching.
Anyhow, I've seen a lot of interesting people, and I think 60% of all the students are not Dutch. Haha.


- Button's and scetches -


- Architecture -

Eva & Eefje
These two cutiepies are fashion students. Eva (curly hair girl) studies at Rietveld and Eefje (short hair...love it!) studies in Arnhem at ArtEZ, another prestigious art school. The same school were Viktor & Rolf graduated in 1992. Click on the pictures for a better view.


- How cute. -


- I should've asked another picture of Eefje's outfit under her beautiful coat...I think it was a one-whole-white-suit -


- One of many fashion creations -

Doe het zelf

Do it yourself

Well, I got lost in my own house while chasing the cat, Mimi, and all of a sudden I was in my sister's room and found an old issue of Self Service Magazine (# 26) with the very beautiful Chloe Sevigny on the cover! Shot by David Sims. Well, actually...she was not only shown on the cover, almost this whole issue was Chloe Sevigny-ized.


- Chloe on the cover of Self Service (Magazine) -




Polaroids with only French actresses!



- I'm out of Photography / Graphic Design inspiration. Next time...more original pictures!!

Do you have a favorite magazine(s)?

Gewoon lekker fietsen.

-just riding my bike-

We had such a beautiful light today. But I was a little too late for that. Until around 2pm there's always this special light. I took a picture of that a few posts back.


Here are some pics I took today while crrruisin' downtown.

- Vijzelstraat -


- This was taken while I was just crrruisin' through the city. It's a part of my bike. Can you guess what part? :P -


- Peeking through a hole of cloths. I like spying on my neighbours... -

- And oh yeah, I got me a copy of Paul Arden's book: 'It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be'.
I already own an Arden book which is called: 'Whatever you think, think the opposite'.. And although I don't agree with everything he says, he did changed a little of my way of thinking when making decisions. -


Have a nice weekend!

Wandering 'round the house.

Yesterday...,


- I was sitting on bed...and decided to take some pictures of my room -


- My sister was really nervous about today. Because she was going to the selection-day of an Art school here in Amsterdam. But she passed!!! And is now going to the next round. This little piece of drawing is about a Bird Of Paradise which is captured by something...I can't remember what those things are, around that black bird. -


- And this one is taken through my bedroom window -

yyellowbird

-created by Me!-

It's yyellowbird! Check out her work on her Flickr-page. I'm trying to create those bokeh-thingy's like she does. She always has these nice bokeh-lightnings on her pictures. Recently, I did it by accident...!!!

"Can you see the light?"

"I'm already a bigger Magician than Harry Potter"


-Training to become a Magician-

And it's going quite alright, as you can see.

Story of my life: J.D. Jac...s

-Well, it's a small part of it...


-Up close and personal-

Wodka @ Signe's place

-Probably because of the alcohol-

Where? There. What do you mean? Look! Over there!

-Blending is the way to go!-

-'It's a girl...sticking on my sleeve'-

Den Haag

Yesterday...

Me and my sister went to visit our aunt Christine in Den Haag (The Hague)

And, of course, I made some pictures. :)


-Taken in the train-


-Me eyezzz and me sizzy-


-My sister calling...so I got bored. :)-


-My beautiful aunt! And...my sister. :P-


-In my house. I saw something and made a pic of it. Hm...Oh boy. I should move out. I'm being haunted.-

Bokeh shizzle - Part 1

I like these Bokeh shizzles. Those blurry (mostly round) thingy's in pictures / movieshots.
I made this creation with the help of a tutorial from the Abduzeedo website. At the moment, it's one of my favorite websites!


And lately, I'm into photoshop...big time.