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Monthly Archives: January 2015
Digitizing vinyl
Finally -at home with a sick child- I find the time to digitize some old records, turning vinyl into bits. A few months ago I bought a Stanton USB turntable for the job, but hadn’t used the cable, until now… WOW! … Continue reading
Posted in ART, CREATIVE CAREERS, DESTINATION HAPPINESS, EARLY WORKS, Fashion, OUT OF THE BOX, THE FABRIC OF HOME, TIME LAPSE
Tagged 1983, crackling, Dee C. Lee, Dexy's Midnight Runners, digital, digitizing, drums, dust, Introducing, Mick Talbot, mod, mp3, Music, Paris, Paul Weller, records, Stanton, Steve White, The Jam, The Style Council, turntable, vinyl, Woking
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Amsterdam Arizona
Cactus Country… is it me or is it suddenly everywhere? I am (we are, carcrazy son of 9 included) very excited with the prospect of traveling to the USA this summer. Arizona! to be exact. This is the first of undoubtedly many posts … Continue reading
Posted in (B)OOST, DESTINATION HAPPINESS, PHOTOGRAPHY, TEXT, THE FABRIC OF HOME
Tagged 2015, anticipation, Arizona, cactus, desert, Grand Canyon, Holiday, Home, how to survive the desert, Las Vegas, native Americans, Nature, PHOTOGRAPHY, roadtrip, route 66, summer, travel
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First impression of welcome
As you may know, we rent out a guest room through Airbnb. This week a guest made a wishlist for Amsterdam, and our room was on there. They booked, so maybe us on the bottom of the list doesn’t mean … Continue reading
Posted in (B)OOST, DESTINATION HAPPINESS, PHOTOGRAPHY, THE FABRIC OF HOME, Things I made
Tagged airbnb, Amsterdam, bed, blanket, canals, compostion, cosy, cushion, duvet, fabric, first impression, guest house, guest room, Home, host, light, natural light, PHOTOGRAPHY, pillow, rug, snapshot, space, storage, sunshine, THE FABRIC OF HOME, view, welcome, welcoming, wide angle, wilma tichelaar, windmill
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The Theory of Everything
The other night I saw The Theory of Everything, the film about the life of star-scientist Stephen Hawking, well-known for his findings on black holes and the nature of time. But to most people I would say, he is the famous-but-peculiar-looking professor leading a … Continue reading
Posted in ART, CREATIVE CAREERS, FILM, PS, REVIEW
Tagged affection, ART, attraction, birth, black holes, Eddie Redmayne, fame, Felicity Jones, film, Hawking, hollywood, infatuation, love, marriage, Maxine Peak, Oscars, religion, science, space, Stephen Hawking, the beginning of time, the other woman, the theory of everything, Time, universe
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Blog Sold Out Three Times
The WordPress.com stats prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. {And they have a way with words ;-)} Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 9,200 times … Continue reading
Posted in CREATIVE CAREERS, REVIEW, TEXT, Things I made, TIME LAPSE, work
Tagged 2014, Beards, Blog, hits, iforinspiration, Ira Glass, Jimmy Nelson, REVIEW, statistics, trend, wilma tichelaar, wilson tichelaar
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Mega minature
My son (9) grew the mushrooms. Supposedly edible stropharia. The first one became a big one, the rest, did not. A joy and a frustration. Before clearing the styrofoam box from the centre of our living room, I decided to capture the … Continue reading
Posted in (B)OOST, EARLY WORKS, OUT OF THE BOX, PHOTOGRAPHY, Stuff, THE FABRIC OF HOME, Things I made
Tagged blue, bouquet, Delft, fungus, grow box, home grown, minature, mushroom, PHOTOGRAPHY, pleats, pottery, strophoria, styrofoam, vase
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Keeping an eye open
The other day I read an article in the newspaper Next about ‘The inflation of the word inspiration’, written by Lonneke van Genugten: (in my words): From the divine world of the arts inspiration has moved on to the common … Continue reading
Posted in CREATIVE CAREERS, DESTINATION HAPPINESS, PHOTOGRAPHY, TEXT
Tagged creatie, creation, desire, divine, faces, flower, food, force, inflatie, inspiratie, inspiration, Lonneke van Genugten, marketing, Next, NRC, ott, pepper, routine, sandwiches, yellow
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