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Patreon

Last week i made a Patreon page for myself. It does remind me of this kickstarter page i made on lfs.nl a year and a half ago. I got one dollar there. So i don’t have any high expectations. But still, this could be a nice way to add some monthly income. My fonds are a bit low at the moment.

I will add some information on this website about this page. And yes, i will need to make a Paypal account for myself.

I do need to think about where i will add the information about this Patreon page. It could be in the footer. Or on the about page. It’ll work itself out i’m sure.

Glad i got this done.

Published on July 6, 2016 at 6:00 by

Pinterest

I have some minor boards on Pinterest. The past months i added a board about jewelry and about the Dutch royal family. Both were for posts. The most expensive jewelry in the world. Staatsieportretten.

I started out with a Do it yourself-board, a Rotterdam-board and a Cooking-board. All three are still quite bare. Minimal fashion has some more, 29 pins. And the jewelry and Royal Family boards have loads more. Most i actually got from Pinterest itself.

I just made a new board about Raf Simons. I love his work. In yesterday’s post, The most beautiful dresses of all time, i showed three of his dresses. He does give an extraordinarily extravagant minimalistic feel to his clothes.

I do follow a few people. Jeffrey Zeldman. David Lebovitz. Heidi Swanson. Joline Jolink. Angelique van Velzen-Smeenk. L P. lotte v. Carlos Restrepo. Gretha Agate.

Jeffrey Zeldman is a webdesigner whose books i learned from so much, whose blog i read irregularly. Lebovitz and Swanson are cooking bloggers. Joline Jolink is a fashion designer whose clothes i love. The other people i’m not sure about. I must have come across their boards and simply enjoyed them.

Aah, L P has many gardening, permaculture and food boards. Carlos Restrepo has boards with artists and photographers. Gretha Agate has some royalty boards and royalty dresses.

Of these nine people i follow, Jeffrey Zeldman has the most pins: 68.900. Music, directors, cinema, design, places, photographers, artists, fonts, illustration, cats, writers, albums from hell. Too much to get all in once.

As a closing remark to this post, i never really got into Pinterest. I probably never will, but it is a good way to get stuff from the internet together and go through it once in a while. Just as a reminder.

Published on July 5, 2016 at 6:00 by

The most beautiful dresses of all time

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Published as the worst dress ever, the Swan dress worn in 2001 by Björk. I think this dress is enchanting. Designed by Macedonian designer Marjan Pejoski.
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The dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in 1954, designed by Givenchy.
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Backless Guy Laroche dress worn by Hilary Swank in 2005.
HOLLYWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 27:  Actress Michelle Williams arrives at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards held at the Kodak Theatre on February 27, 2011 in Hollywood, California.  (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
Michelle Williams wore this pearl embellished Chanel dress for the Oscars 2011.
HOLLYWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 24:  Actress Amy Adams arrives at the Oscars at Hollywood & Highland Center on February 24, 2013 in Hollywood, California.  (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
Oscar de la Renta designed this dress. Amy Adams wore this to the 2013 Oscars.
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A Dior Raf Simons dress for Jennifer Lawrence for the 2013 Oscars.
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A light blue dress designed by Prada for the 2014 Oscars, worn by Lupita Nyongo.
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A dress designed by Jan Taminiau for the Autumn/Winter collection 2015.
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Dior Raf Simons strapless white organza dress embroidered with chiffon, Fall 2012.
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Alexander McQueen designed this silk dress for Spring/Summer 2003.
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Raf Simons designed this wedding shirt for Jil Sander in Spring 2012.
Published on July 4, 2016 at 6:00 by

About Ads

Ads is very Dutch. The subtitles are Dutch. The ads itself are Dutch.

It is hard for me to see. This is the world i’m living in. A Dutch world mostly. Yes, many influences from outside, of course. Mainly from the UK and the USA, but also Belgium, Germany, a bit of France.

So i don’t know how people from other countries view a clip like this one. With interest? With curiosity? Or maybe they don’t like it all? Eew…

I posted this clip on facebook, where it went away silently unnoticed. Most people use facebook to publish stuff, not to read, a friend says.

My work is very much outside the current art world. First of all, it is impossible to sell. I don’t want to sell it, i simply want to show it.

Right now my work is hardly noticed by anyone. Some people enjoy it, like it. Let me know that. Something which i love! Many other people pass this website and don’t leave anything. No idea what ideas go through them.

I should search more for ways to showcase my website. It is hard though, you gotta go through so many spam filled content to find a little gem in between hoards of trying to make money sites.

I should try again.

Published on June 29, 2016 at 6:00 by

Ads

Halfway last week i got this idea of filming ads on tv and making something with them. I made two long shots of ad breaks and started to work with them. I enjoyed it. The material is lovely. I also liked the grainy tv images. First i wanted to use a tripod, but later on i simply made shots with the camera in my hand.

Music was a bit hard. First i tried Miss Kittin. But then i thought of this song i really like and from which i have no clue how i got to know it: Motor from Jewelz and Sparks.

To be honest, up until half this day i thought i would publish this clip the end of this week. But i realized it was nearly done.

I did add some images of the movie Independence Day in between. Especially the plane flying into the fire. It is a bit hectic, with the music, the images.

When i watched it coming together i sat there with hands before my mouth and tears in my eyes.

Enjoy!

Ads

Published on June 28, 2016 at 6:00 by

Work for another day

I hardly slept last night. It was raining. Hard. Thunder and lightning.

Today i kept things easy. I did do a bit more work on the clips. Listened to some music. But i do need to listen more. Try out more tracks.

I also made a patreon page. But i need to work on that. Choose a good photo. Write some good text. So next week!

I’ll leave it for now.

Have a good Friday. A good weekend. Alone. Or with friends. Either way.

*kiss*

Update Friday 24 June
Sad to see the UK has voted to leave to EU. Not sure how this will pan out.

Published on June 24, 2016 at 6:00 by

The garden, some shopping, some planning and tv

I played a bit of vanilla wow this morning. I started a tauren shaman this week. I felt the need to be alone in the game for a bit. I don’t listen to global, full of requests and people talking and bickering about all sorts of things. I don’t have any friends on the horde side. So i’m simply playing along quietly all by myself. Good for an hour a day!

I will go to the garden once i’m dressed. Yesterday i was thinking about going this evening, but since i plan to go for a walk this afternoon, i thought i would be a bit tired afterwards. So i decided to go before. Simply water the tomatoes, the basil, the greenhouse plants. Sit and enjoy the sunshine for a while. Because the sun is shining! Yay!

And now i’m reading this article in the Guardian: The secret of taste: why we like what we like. I don’t think i’m part of the group of people written about. My taste hasn’t changed that much. I still have all my records. OK, apart from the ones i sold when i was 17 years old. Something i regretted most of my life. My taste in music is widening – apart from the Eagles, which i thoroughly dislike for the past twenty years or so. My taste in clothes, well, that does change. But slowly. I do enjoy wearing dresses with leggings nowadays. I don’t drive, so cars are simply not existent for me. And to be honest, my furniture is either given by friends, bought at IKEA, or bought second-hand. Ooh, and a Kewlox cabinet.

inbetween

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Potatoes, aardappelen
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Orache, melde, tastes like spinach
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Orache, melde
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Zucchini, courgette
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Zucchini, courgette
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Onion family, ui familie and carrots, wortels
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Leeks, prei, just planted and onions, uien
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Beetroot, bietjes
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Not sure 🙂
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Sugar carrot, suikerwortel
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Cabbages, kolen
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Corn, mais, beans, bonen and pumpkin, pompoen

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I planned to walk this afternoon. But i didn’t. I stayed at the garden around an hour this morning. Someone came by and i showed her the garden and we talked a bit. I went to the shop on my way home. Bread, butter, eggs and some sort of sponge cake, eierkoeken. And then i played a little vanilla wow, watched Escape to the country and the instant gardener. I also slept a little. And now i feel tired.

But, i am gonna make a miso ramen soup now. That will wake me up for sure!

inbetween

Watching The Devil Wears Prada. Liking it. I also made some clips of advertisements. Got this idea of making a short clip with those. Not sure how that will worj out, but i do like the idea. No music yet. Will search for a good bit tomorrow. Will also make new clips for it. But i have time. Also thought a bit about love. I might write a post about that. A bit surprised about all the ideas, but hey, i do like em.

Getting busy 🙂

Published on June 23, 2016 at 6:00 by