>&I NEVER WANNA LEAVE HOME^*

For the last two days I've been working 16 hours at the call center! Just imagine how exhausted I am. The afternoon I can take, but then come those 4 hours in the evening and especially the last two are killing! Fortunately I surrounded myself with nice colleagues who were able to get me through. This was the finale, now need to find myself another job. Maaaaaaaaybe, but really, maaaaaaaaybe, I'm able to stay at the call center for a couple more months, I have to check on Monday to see if I can stay or not. Hopefully I can, I've sent some letters for other jobs but so far no response. I could use the money!

This evening I'm going to FOAM to see the Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin exposition. It comes with a free guide tonight. They're a couple and are HUGE names in the fashion industry. Here are some examples of their work





One time Dirty Projectors and Björk collaborated performing together live, now they've recorded those live songs, the result being Mount Wittenberg Orca. I saw Dirty Projectors live last year in Melkweg in Amsterdam where they played When The World Comes To An End minus Björk unfortunately but amazing none the less. Here is the studio version. Start hocketing everybody!



And for you who don't know what hocketing is, I have Mr. Longstreth explain it for you



Another stream of images
















Last night after work I happened to crash a party looking like a total punk with my Dr. Martens, shorts, long socks, David Bowie T-shirt and cross necklace. I had everyone staring at me which was secretly kind of cool :P I didn't join the party, was hardly able to keep my eyes open, but I made quite an impression I bet

^.NOW AT FOAM/`

So I went to FOAM where they had a really cool exposition with work by Ari Marcopoulos. Think Larry Clark, Gus Van Sant, Harmony Korine. I love photographers who have a fascination for youth culture like skaters or punks. If you happen to be around I'd recommend you to check it out. There's a really cool video right when you walk in where they skate at a very high speed through the streets while being filmed on cam. It's very dangerous as there are cars coming towards them on one side of the street but they manage not getting involved in any accidents. At the next level of the building there's an Alexander Rodchenko exposition as well of whom I liked his photomontages and pictures he took from very unusual angles the most. A lot of good stuff. Here some examples of what I've seen

By Ari Marcopoulos




By Alexander Rodchenko




I've decided to check out The Soft Pack tomorrow evening, bought my ticket today. Have been listening to their album a lot today and have come to like it more than I thought I did.

Images via FOAM

Mr. Marcopoulos has a blog you can visit here

>^HOTTEST DAY OF THE YEAR?+_

This The Fashionisto website really is the best. They post so many new and very cool editorials.
I have to admit, something that I just realized recently, that at times I really look forward to seeing updates on certain sites or blogs that I visit on a daily basis. And when there's finally an update It makes me real happy and sometimes I even save them up and tend to read them a bit later or not all updates at once just to have something new to read or look at during the evening or the next day. Those sites are really a big part of my life when you think about it. Imagine having to visit all those places physically every day. It would take up all of my time.

Yesterday I went to FOAM (Photography Museum Amsterdam). Unfortunately I can't remember the name of the photographer that I liked most and for some reason this person isn't listed on the FOAM website. Strange. I also liked Guy Tillim's work a lot. Great and dare I say it simple compositions. It just shows that composition is key. Even if you find something really cool to shoot when you don't know how to frame everything the results won't be that great. Guy Tillim's pictures to me show that dividing the frame by a piece of wall or placing a certain object at the forefront so that it becomes a means to slice up the image so to speak, is very crucial and doesn't require that much. Just slicing it up using very simple objects can lead to great results.
Here's one of the pictures that are being shown.



For another two go here

Today probably was the hottest day of the year so far. Because yesterday was an active day for me I decided to just spend the day at my parents' place, but of course I couldn't stay inside all day. So I went out with my skateboard and camera and was very active taking pictures more so than I was skateboarding. Because I don't have a human being model walking along with me 24/7 that I can take pictures of I decided to use my skateboard instead. I seriously need to start stalking people and ask if they want to pose for me! 'Cause I really did got tired of flowers, grass, trees, flowers, grass, trees, flowers, greass, trees... I need to find a new and exciting place where I can take lots of pictures. I hope I'll find it soon.

Nowadays I really can't leave the house wearing just a plain T-shirt with jeans, unless I wear boots with them, at least some kind of item that is a bit more fashionable. I do have a lot of clothes though and so far I've managed to put together some really nice ensemble every day. It has led to a young man and woman briefly stopping their conversation as I walked by with my boots and long socks as well as some random girls screaming after me: ooooo nice legs! when I past them on my bike LOL Another guy whispered to the person he was walking with: are boots very fashionable right now or something? And a while ago this girl who I guess was visiting a friend living in the same corridor as me asked me for a bottle opener. She rang the ball and her first reaction when seeing me was: whoa. I can't be 100% sure what kind of 'whoa' that was, but it seemed to me it was one of 'whoa, he looks pretty weird' instead of 'whoa, this guy looks good!!'. Could be the last option as well, but I doubt it ;)
I have to admit that at times I forget to take pictures because I'm too busy prancing around. Horrible, horrible, horrible and very pathetic. I know!! ;D

Here are pictures from an editorial posted on The Fashionisto. And apparently this site only focuses on male modelling because I don't see any editorials featuring women. I guess that's why it's called The Fashionisto and not the Fashionista.

I post the following editorial in its entirety. I like it that much.

Photographer: RJ Shaughnessy
Stylist: Jem Goulding
Model: the great and very inspiring Josh Beech

The editorial can be found in Future Claw Magazine and I just found out you can flicker through all of their three issues on their website! :D












From The Fashionisto

After having just found out COÛTE QUE COÛTE is back I noticed they have posted this editorial as well but with much bigger pictures!! So GOOD!!



The light in this picture really is to die for. If I was forced to only look at this image for the rest of my life I would feel content.

I hope it will rain tomorrow. A lot. I don't feel like being too active tomorrow. And even I can get tired of going to the cinema sometimes. 'Cause of course I didn't only go to FOAM yesterday. That was just to have something to do during the afternoon and make the day a bit longer. 'Cause after I watched Megane in this cinema called Rialto, a very relaxing Japanese film with lots of nice food. It's all about enjoying the simplicities of life. Very soothing. So by the time that one was finished it was already around 7pm which is close to the end of the day and thus a day well spent.
I could go see CocoRosie tomorrow evening in Paradiso but it's 25 euros and that's without adding the extra service costs. I find that pretty expensive. This morning I noticed that going to see Final Fantasy in Utrecht for 10 euros plus the train ticket will cost me something like 17,50 euros in total. So I decided to go see him instead. Gravenhurst will be one of the supporting acts which is pretty cool. Normally I would not have to pay for the train ticket 'cause it's on a Wednesday, but until August 16th I can't use my public transport card which gives me free access to all public transport throughout all of the country. Bummer.

I recently bought the latest Dazed & Confused issue which comes with 3D glasses. Unfortunately those glasses don't give me the Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince effect which I was hoping for :(( But then again what else could I have expected from a simple magazine. I'm just a tiny bit dissapointed.

This tea I'm drinking tastes like cardboard...

I just found out COUTE QUE COUTE is back already, meaning this post is getting a lil bit longer

I like these two pictures




From Vogue Paris August 2009 issue.
Shot by Inez Van Lamsweerde (she's Dutch and has made quite a big name for herself in the industry) and Vinoodh Matadin

Daria, I just had to post her. She can do no wrong.



OAK NYC Summer editorials. Don't worry, I won't get any tattoos. I do really like them though. More than I did ever before. A LOT more :)




This ad for Adidas SLVR is only one minute long and very simple black and white, but really good. Nice music/soundscape as well. I especially like this part. Nice shape.






I don't know why exactly but I really like these pictures from the new Lanvin campaign





All content from COUTE QUE COUTE

I've been going through a bit of a Bloc Party phase these last couple of days. Wish I could see them live.

Christopher Boone you'll always be my number 1 hero! :D