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Tag Archives: Africa
TRUE SIZE | USA no bigger than Sahara desert
Apparently most of us have been living with the wrong idea of the actual sizes of the continents, as we know our planet from the standard maps of earth which are badly wrong, due to Mercator Projection – a cylindrical map … Continue reading
Posted in OUT OF THE BOX, TEXT, THE FABRIC OF HOME
Tagged actual size, Africa, comparison, continents, drawing, eye opener, fake news, globe, inspiration, island, larger, larger picture, map, mapping, Mercator projection, perception, picture, small, sphere, thruth, tutorial, USA, USSR, wrong picture, you tube
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Be inspired while-u-wait
There’s a new weekend destination in our country, a zoo-slash-theme-park called Wildlands. An Adventure Zoo. I visited with my son (11) and ofcourse, we were not the only ones. While waiting in an incredible complicated line, I noticed this statue. … Continue reading
Posted in CREATIVE CAREERS, OUT OF THE BOX
Tagged Africa, african, animals, aquarium, art direction, artifacts, balloon, beadroute, beads, building, clay, decoration, design, djenne, Emmen, entertainment, Giraffe, indoor jungle, landscape, Netherlands, nordic, outdoors, plants, rocks, savanna, scenery, statue, theme park, water, wild, Wildlands, yellow, zoo
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Milan window report
Inspiration from shop windows in Milan this week.
Posted in Books, DESTINATION HAPPINESS, Fashion, Illustration, MUSIC, PHOTOGRAPHY, REVIEW, THE FABRIC OF HOME, Things I made
Tagged adult, advertising, Africa, army, ART, black and white, book, bright, camouflage, chair, color, colring book, cover, design, fabric, Fashion, flower, Hat, head, household, illustration, interior, Jazz, Jewelry, Milan, Music, Nigel Kennedy, pastry, PHOTOGRAPHY, print, shop, skarf, sportmax, street, text, throne, top shelf, trend, utensils, walk, window
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Real Or Imagined
One hundred trillion dollar notes rolling from a cash point… Not the luring image of our annual end of the year’s mega prize draw, but reality, somewhere. Or so it seems. The photo is part of the Bamako Encounters, the African photography … Continue reading
Posted in bloow, CREATIVE CAREERS, Education, Magic, PHOTOGRAPHY
Tagged Aboubacar Traoré, Africa, Afrique, Bakary Emmanuel Daou, Bamako, Encontres de Bamako, Fatoumata Diallo, Greece, Hrair Sarkissian, Ibrahima Thiam, imaginary, Kalfayan Galleries, Le Temps Ebola, Lucia Nhamo, Mali, Maouloud à Dilli Dina, oner hundred trillion dollar note, Oumar Ka, photo festival, PHOTOGRAPHY, real, sign, yesterdays staples, Youssef Lahrichi
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Skating on ice for water
Today our son will participate in a sponsorship for a pretty good cause: WATER. Together with the children from his school he will try to raise money for a water project in Zambia (Africa) by skating on ice. They have asked … Continue reading
Posted in (B)OOST, DESTINATION HAPPINESS, TEXT
Tagged Africa, Amsterdam, charity, Children, clean, Dalton School de Meer, drinking water, Education, help, hygiene, kids for kids, kinderen, Netherlands, Plan Netherlands, project, raise money, schaatsen, school, skating on ice, sponsor, water, Zambia
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Serious sh*t
These are our toilets, yes, two. We have two different bathrooms in our home. Downstairs with a rainshower, and upstairs in a proper bathroom with bath tub, where, on a day like today, we can s*it in the sun, as … Continue reading
Posted in TEXT
Tagged 3FM, Africa, anthem, charity, Chiel Beelen, Children, clean, diarrhea, do well, donate, donation, download, drinking water, Eric Corton, glazen huis, iTunes, Racoon, raising money, Red Cross, serious request, serious shit, Shoes of Lightning, soap
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