^%STOP-MOTION NO. 3#$

This one's really short. Might be part of a short series of three or more. Song Bruises by Chairlift. Enjoy!

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^$A PUNCHUP AT A WEDDING{"

Well, not really, but when do I else get the chance to ever use this Radiohead song as a title?
It's early Saturday morning. I'm still tired from last night. Strange to see someone who used to be one of your classmates in secondary school get married. Even though the weather was great, it was really warm and very sunny, and the couple looked both beautiful and extremely happy, I don't think I would want to get married myself. Don't think I could handle being the center of attention like that and having all of the family in attendance. For me it would feel like they're kind of intruding into my love life. Bot who knows, my opinion might change and most likely will, 'cause that's what often happens! The night before I went to see Chairlift and even though Caroline the singer of the band sounded great live, I couldn't notice any false notes, it was flawless, almost couldn't believe this was live, that's how good she was singing, and together with the other bandmembers they were really into it giving it their all, the crowd was far from energetic. So unfortunately the gig itself was very boring. I felt like a lot of people didn't even know the band but just went to Paradiso for a night out with friends, having a drink a talk, and some live band providing background music. Apart from three people, no one was moving let alone dancing. But these three people were dancing so silly and out of tune that they could have better just not danced at all and just watched standing like everyone else did. So because of all this I was a bit dissapointed. It was like I was standing in a crowd of people who were watching a support act, 'cause during support acts people for some reason don't start dancing either. When they played their two most known songs Bruises and Evident Utensil the crowd became a bit more loose, but just a tiny bit. It was a shame though that they played Evident Utensil slightly different from the way the song sounds on the album, 'cause I felt it lost some energy the way they played it. But still Chairlift played really well and I really enjoy listening to their album. Down below you find some pictures which, as usual, aren't taken by me. This time however I kind of wished I had brought my bag upstairs with me 'cause I felt I could have enjoyed myself more with taking pictures than to stand in a crowd of people who seemed as if they could fall asleep any second.
I will do more of my laundry today and maybe I'll go and see Bowerbirds in Paradiso later tonight...

$#CHAIRLIFT AT 22.30_{

Every now and then you have one of those days you really don't know what to do. For me today is such a day. After waving goodbye to my parents at the airport and my brother drove me home I had no idea what to do. And the thing is, in a couple of minutes I will go to Paradiso to see Chairlift perform, they should still have some tickets left. But that performance starts at 22.30. So when you're at home around 12 or perhaps I was home even earlier you still have like another 10 hours before that gig starts. I thought about going to a movie before, but I haven't been able to find one which I want to see and which hasn't like less than one hour between the film and the concert. And I just don't feel like having to wait too long today. Sometimes it's nice to have a walk around town and I could do that for hours. But I have a feeling if that happened today I would have ended up buying something. Like on Tuesday I didn't mean to buy anything, but because it still took a while before I went to see Coraline, I thought let's go to the HEMA, there might be something I could use. So I ended up buying something I actually did need, but it wasn't really necessary to buy. I can walk for hours as well without being interested in buying stuff, but I'm not sure I would have managed today. :) Plus, today I'm not able to travel for free, can't use my public transport card because it's Hemelvaartsdag (Ascension Day is the correct translation I think) so I didn't want to have to go to Amsterdam during the afternoon and then come back home and then buy another train ticket to go to Paradiso tonight. Of course I could have spent all day in Amsterdam but I guess I didn't feel like it. So instead I read a bit, I slept a bit, and I spent much more time at the supermarket downstairs than I intended to due to the place being completely crowded as if it was a Sunday so I had to wait in line much longer than usual. It's probably the only store around here that is open today which is why it was so crowded. People have a day off and because all of the other shops are closed the one that's open, even if it's just a supermarket, suddenly becomes the number one place to go to. Haven't felt very creative today, or maybe I did feel creative, but I just can't focus on writing something right now or making some drawings. Although I did buy a white board some days ago, finally, so I can make some new stop-motion 'films'. And this morning I took some pictures, not many. I plan on taking some tonight when walking to the train station after seeing Chairlift perform. This time I'll make sure my camera will be in focus :)
For now enjoy some of the works of Mr. Slimane just to pass the day, some old some new + some pictures I took today and last night and other random stuff. And apparently the new Ken Loach film is said to be very good and might end up winning the Palme D'Or, while reviews for Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds seem to be either very positive or very negative.

By Mr. Slimane:










Nick Cave's son Jethro, cool name:



That kid next to Mr. Van Sant should be me!!!! Unfair.



Remember kids, smoking IS cool. Doesn't mean you should start smoking, but if you do start smoking I think you're cool ;) Or, actually, let me rephrase that, I think it's cool when you're able to do it in a cool way, like this girl below (Anna Selezneva is her name). 'Cause I've seen many people smoke who don't seem to be able to smoke in a cool way. And if you can't smoke in a cool way it's no use to smoke.



Plus, some of you might know them, but I can imagine a lot of you don't: Lara Stone and Ymre Stiekema. 'Cause if you thought Doutzen Kroes is still the only big Dutch female model out there, you're very wrong. Lara's only part Dutch though, her father's British, but she was born here.
No reason to post this other than that I just felt like it and the girls are both very pretty ;)

Lara:




Ymre:




Here some pictures taken by Luke Smalley who passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday:









Some of the pictures I took this morning. Nothing groundbreaking :)












Pictures I took last night operating as both model and photographer which isn't easy. When you do both you realize how much models do add to an image. They really don't just stand and look pretty. I'm mostly interested in taking the pictures, but as I don't have anyone to model for me I'm forced to do the stuff myself. So... anyone who's willing to volunteer as a model, I promise I'll be kind!! I'd like a girl with long hair.
Also, someone get me a real professional studio please with a solid backdrop, one that doesn't have wrinkles in it ;) and professional lighting and stuff!!!! Poor me...
These pictures are safe for work, right??
















I have to say I really like my profile:



Struggling to get out of a shirt:




So now I spent almost one hour being busy with setting up this post. Time well spent. :D
Tomorrow I got a wedding to attend...