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!

Tag Post

I was tagged by one of my favorite bloggers in the world: Rita

These are the rules if you have been tagged:

1. Go to the 4th folder in your computer where you store your pictures.
2. Pick the 4th picture in that folder.
3. Explain the picture.
4. Tag 4 people to do the same!

I have to be honest, I didn't really follow Rule #1 because I couldn't follow it!
Lemme explain: I have many, many, many photography-folders, sorted on different cities and dates, stored on my external hard disk. (I don't have any pictures on my laptop. :))
So, I couldn't choose which one of the hundreds of 'photography-folders' I should choose.
But I chose for a picture when I lived in Sweden. So here we go:



Explanation:

I travelled a lot when I lived in Sweden. Me and my group always booked trips all over Scandinavia. This is a picture (a picture of a fourth folder!! :)) taken in Kiruna, Sweden. Allll the way up north. And it took 13 hours by train (!!!!!) to travel from Sundsvall, the town where I lived, to that beautiful town.
We stayed there for three days and on day two, it was 'Dog Sled' day. So what you see are dogs who are pulling our sled through the woods. They're sooo strong!!!

I've had the time of my life and I'm thinking of going back to Sweden. Forever. Although the people are quite introvert (from what I've experienced :)) they are extremely friendly once you start a conversation. And they can all speak English fluently. Sometimes with a heavy english accent as if they're from the U.K. Haha.

Anyways, here are 4 people I'm going to tag:

1. The Man Who Knew Too Much
2. Naomi Sunshine Ferst
3. Josefin
4. Dandy Golfo

Can't wait to see what they're gonna show us.

Lekker dansen tot je erbij neervalt

- dance 'till you drop -

So me and Dennis aka The Man Who Knew Too Much (way, way waaaay too much) went out shooting.
Yes, we went out. Shooting.

So, as you all know (I'm talking to the readers who've already seen and read Dennis' blog about this night) at the beginning of the night, there was a concert by Einstein Barbie. I didn't expect them to be this good. I really, really liked their music. Actually, their live performance was more uplifting and funky than the music you can listen to on their website.

For more pics. Just check out Dennis' blog. Or...you can just stay on my blog and check out the pictures all over and over and over again. :)

Have a nice day!

And remember, no regrets this year, okay? It's only the 5th day of this new year...take risks! My year already started bad. But...when looking at these pics, you can tell I've also already exprienced some very, very good moments.


- Blowing bells. -


- When I was taking this picture, people were shouting and getting crazy about this solo-part of this lil lady. She was amazing. -


- She was cuuute. -


- Rocking boy -


- And all of a sudden...out of nowhere, there were these dancers on stage...dancing like there was no tomorrow. -


- Girl, boy, girl. -


- Martin Duvall aka Martin C. de Waal -


- A boy. Yes...a boy! Getting down on a girl...on stage. How lovely! -


- It looks like three different pictures, photoshopped in one. But that's not the case right here. It's one picture and the colours aren't added in photoshop either (Lights in the club!). Sometimes, blurry pics are niiice! This one is actually one of my personal fave's! It reminds me of a fashion shoot of photographer Steven Meisel's student. I can't remember his name-

Special thanks to The Man Who Knew Too Much for making my day.

Chagrijnig

- being cranky / bad mood -

Oh nooo...2009 already started bad for me. I have received The Blue Envelope from 'De Belastingdienst' (tax company). Which means good or bad news. OF COURSE it was BAD news for me and now I have to pay A LOT of taxes...Bitches! I was gonna save up some money for a new iMac but nooo.
I have to pay almost one third of the price of a new iMac. Boy oh boy. It's hard being Jack Daniel. Always struggling in life.
(I also had a flat tire, so I had to bring my bike all the way to a bike...thingy! Bikestore / Bike-repare-store / Bike-garage.)

Anyways. My sister cheered me up by telling me all these stories of people she knows being in bigger (financial) problems than me and took me to a nice place called Latei. Perhaps my fellow blogger and only regular Dutch visitor of my blog, The Man Who Knew Too Much, knows this cozy place. He probably does...hence his name. He knows a lot...

Check out these pics I made during my crankyness-mood to happiness-mood. Amsterdam is the right city which can make you smile again, even when you're in a very depressing mood and struggling hard to survive.
Thanks Mokum!


- There were these different lamps (for sale!) hanging on the ceiling. -


- Cups, boards, plates. Almost everything you see in this lunch / breakfast place was for sale. -


- Then, after lunch we walked into an unexpected Asian event: I think the Dragons are supposed to move the bad spirits out of the houses. But only the places where they had how do you call this in english? for the Dragons. -


- Hanging up the food which the Dragons had to eat. -


- Cute Dragon. -


- My sister. Scared like a mouse of what's coming up next! -


- Firecrackers! -


- And then we moved along. Walking over the little bridges to cross the canals. -


- Of course, we came across lots and lots of bicycles! -


- Almost near our place. This picture (of Sarphatistreet) was taken when we were walking through Sarphatipark.. -

Nieuwe ronde, Nieuwe kansen

Yeah, 'New round, New chances! It's 2009. Let's do it all over again.

Oh my LORD. What a night. I celebrated New Years Eve with friends starting with a nice dinner and booze. I'm glad we didn't had any fireworks because most of us were quite drunk at twelve. We would've blown our hands off, for sure.


- One of my mates bought some very nice thin cigars...I'm not a smoker. But yesterday, I smoked (a half!!) one. (This is not a 'blunt'!) -


- My friend, Eva, lives on the third floor so we had a good view! Yeah, sorry it's not a sharp picture but I had to be very fast for this one. If you look closely, you can see the trail of fire. :) -


- This was somewhere else. Me and a friend were going to this other party where his girlfriend was. But a lot of people were about to leave to a bar somewhere around the corner. So...they left us with a lot of drinks...hahaha...oh boy. -


- The place had a great view of the 'Maagdenbrug'. -


- My mate's girlfriend...drunk as hell! We didn't expect that, so we stayed there to take care of her. Poor thing. I fell asleep until 9-ish in the morning and around that time, we all decided it was time to go back home. -


- It looks like they had a party on this bridge! I hope no one fell off from this bridge into the water. But later that day, I heard on the news that they found a body of a man in one of the canals... -


- Fireworks... -


- Bikes -

If you reach the year 2010, I hope you're going to look back to 2009 with no regrets. Live your life to the max because it will be all over before you know it.

Last post...

...of this year!

I don't have the time to make a beautiful post with some nice pictures. So instead, just a picture of a text I found online.

I wish you all the best in the new year!
I hope 2009 will become an even better year than 2008. I have my doubts about that because 2008 was a very special year to me. Probably one of the best years of my whole life.

Enough rambling.

Have a great day / evening / night...

I hope to see you all in 2009!

It's Kwistmus!

explanation of the title of this post: that's what my sister said the whooole time


- What time is it? -


- 'It's Kwistmus time!!' -


- With one Bonbon to share with the whooole family! (Just kiddin'...) -


- And then it was time to go back to Amsterdam -


- Goodby boring Ede. It was okay to see you again. But I love my parents who are still living in this lil-nothing-special-to-do-getting-bored-and-getting-violent-very-easily-town and it was good to see them again. -


- Hello Amsterdam. I love you. -

Cousin in Amsterdam

My cousin from Doetinchem (a place, waaay back in the east of The Netherlands) came to visit me in Amsterdam. And of course I had to show him around town!

Well...here are a few pics I made tonight!


- Near the famous 'Spui square' -


- Taken near the huge warehouse called 'De Bijenkorf' -


- Close up shot! -


- Taken in de cozy Utrechtsestraat -


- Damstraat -


-Dam -

Well, me and my sister are going to visit our parents tomorrow...'cause it's Christmas!
Happy Holidays to all of you...!

G/L/A/S/S/C/A/N/D/Y

Karl Lagerfeld likes their music. (Picture by The Sartorialist)

It's Glass Candy (Portland, Oregon, USA) y'all. With the very beautiful, sexy voiced Ida No and producer Johnny Jewel. I've been to their concert a few weeks ago in Amsterdam's 'Paradiso' club. Their music is a mixture of 'Electro-pop/Italo-Disco', if I'm correct...:) I've been constantly playing their album ('B/E/A/T/B/O/X') over and over again, ever since I got it...for free (they threw a bunch of CD's into the crowd!) at their concert.





Here, you can read an interview with them and also listen to a track called 'Miss Broadway'. Check it out.

And also listen to the track called 'Candy Castle', which they've mentioned in the interview. Just click on the 'play' symbol........haha.

Can you imagine those models walking down the catwalk in Karl Lagerfeld's designs while 'Candy Castle' is playing in the background...?

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...!!!