Analogue picture time!

Today I got the pictures back from development! These pictures where the first ones from my Olympus OM-10. I;’m so happy with the outcome!

My Olympus!

I have had a school assignment for my art class. I made a series of pictures that all had to have some kind of emotion in them. THANKS Ruben, for letting me put water in your eyes and make you cry! haha!

I actually asked Ruben to shout as loud as possible in the picture above!

The other pictures are just some random pictures I took to get the 25 pictures I needed before I could take out the roll. For the analogue people out there: I used a Lomography ladygrey 35mm 100ISO roll, and had my diaphragm on 5.6!

I took one of those random pictures for you guys to see!

Have a nice week! I’ll be learning the whole time :(

Oh ok, I will sleep and eat too, don’t worry….

 

 

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DIY Saturday.

I got this great brainwave a few days ago. I made an awesome lamp which is kinda easy to make yourself.

So I made this lamp out of leftovers wool I had from knitting something. I used gel I normally use for painting and diluted it with water (I think you can use glue too).  And I used a baloon for the shape.

 

<--- gel I used.

 

 

 

so first I put a little gel on the balloon so the wool would stick on it. I wrapped the balloon in with the wool until there is just enough room for light to peek out here and there. Finally I diluted the gel with water and soaked the balloon with the wool on it until the wool had absorbed enough gel.

Then you wait a few days for it to dry.

When it’s all dry, you pop the balloon. Make sure you don’t pull the balloon out to hard, then your lamp won’t be as round as you want it to be…

Then you get an old desk light from a thrift shop (or maybe you have one yourself). What I did was making a frame from iron strings, but maybe your desk lamp already has a good frame and you can use that one to put your own made lampshade.

Hope you liked it!

 

Almost forgot! You have to use a light that doesn’t get hot! you don’t want your amp to catch on fire!

Studying

I’m sorry I wasn’t able to write a lot this week. I’m kinda busy with studying for my exams and neglecting my blog. I really want to write something, and I do have the time to. The only thing is all that studying is not really inspiring me. Besides that, I can’t write about something fun I have done cause the only thing I’ve been doing is studying!  I’m working on an “about me” page right now, so that will be up in a week or so (yes it takes some time, I NEED TO STUDY) which will include pretty adorable pictures of me when I was about 5.
In two weeks my exams (the first period, there are 4) will be over. Then I’m going to do a bunch of DIY-ing and going to the thrift shop! But first things first, and passing my exams is my first priority right now. So that’s why I’m blogging a little less for now.

10 Things you don’t need to know.

Every time I want to study for school, I end up remembering the most useless facts. I have this fascination for them. When I read information that is completely useless, I ALWAYS remember it for some strange reason. So, I though it would be nice to let you guys know at least 10 useless facts that keep my brains busy.

1. I had read somewhere that the origin of the word “NERD” comes from the Dr. Seuss book “If I Ran the Zoo”.  I looked up the book to see if it even existed. It does! Just klick Here!

2. Coffee beans are not really beans, but seeds. Yet another thing I just randomly pick up somewhere!

3. The first digital emoticon was typed in 1982.

4. You can’t sneeze while you’re asleep.

5.The shortest street in the world is Ebenezer Place in Wick in Scotland and it is 2.06 meters long.

6. The most common password in the world is 123456.

7. It takes 40 minutes to hard-boil an ostrich egg.

8. A cockroach can change direction 25 times per second.

9. In 1814, eight people drowned in a flood of beer in London.

10. In cartoons unmarried gnomes always wear a green hat .

So there they are, totally useless facts!

Exams coming up!

Today I officially, seriously started learning for my exams. My first exam’s are in two weeks! I just finished learning about 29 pages of social sciences, which is a lot of work! But I hope It’s all in my head now! Still got about 120 pages to go in two weeks.. And art history, which I like a lot more since it’s about pop art! But still, a lot. Between those two subjects I just had to go outside and get some fresh air. The weather is really good right now. I picked up the dog at my grandmas house, took the camera and my music with me, and went for a little walk. It’s so pretty outside!

Different subject:

About yesterday, my family was here for my birthday! Had a lot of fun! Got a few pretty awesome presents too!

I got this old camera from my grandparents! LOVE THEM!

 

And these I got from my aunt and uncle.

Even my niece had made me a little arty present! (she is nine)

My other aunt an uncle had gave me this awesome old book. It is a register of the art that was in the museum of Amsterdam in 1892 (the book is from 1892!!!!) It has 120 heliogravures.

And my boyfriend gave me something too! SO SWEET!

Thinking big.

Holy Moly, I just finished a drawing that I’ve been working on for 8 hours(!!!???) It looks quite simple and if you don’t know what I know you’d probably think I draw very slowly… But what you didn’t know (but now you do) Is that this portrait is One by One and a half METERS. So I started drawing on Tuesday, stopped for two days, and finished it today. I hope you guys like it!

 

 

I used: A pencil, my fine liners, and a big black marker.

Post office atelier

I have been working on a project for a long time now. Tonight I can finally pick up the keys of the atelier so I can finally get this thing going. The atelier is an old post office, I googled a picture. So this is the atelier back in the post office days.

Here is a picture of me, sketching in the post office a few Years ago, when I did a project for school. Its so much fun in there, the big post halls are now one big art hall with about 30 artist working on their art!

So you’re probably thinking, what project is she working on? well…

The whole idea of the project is about recycling. How can you make affordable recycled products that people actually really want to buy? It has to include the following points:

1. It has to be cheap/affordable.

2. It has to be attractive. People WANT to buy it.

3. The products have to be made entirely out of recycled products.

I’m not alone with this project. I’m working together with a friend. She Is going to do the exact same project. I’m curious about what she’s going to make!

So tonight, I’m going to a museum first, and then pick up the keys to OUR VERY OWN ATELIER! I’m so excited! This is going to be so much fun!

I’ll post the sketches of my product ideas when I’m able to blog IN THE ATELIER!

Thrift shop Tuesday.

So I finally had a chance to go to the thrift shop today. This time in one I’ve never been before. I was in “Weesp” today with my friend Koen. Koen bought me an awesome analogue camera, which I’m definitely going to use sometime. This camera is a 135 mm camera from 1959.  So here it is!


And of course, I couldn’t resist the temptation to buy myself another one. This one was only 3,50 euros! It’s SO little and cute! This one is a 127mm camera from 1953. If you know how to get 127mm film, PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT!

So that was a real quick update for today.
BYE

Plastic bottles and apple crumble!

I stayed home from school today. Felt very sick this morning and my back still wont get any better. In the course of the day my back got a little better so I decided to do something.
I have had a bag full of empty plastic bottles in my room for a  long time now. It was finally time to actually use them in stead of just letting them stay there on the ground forever.  So here is what I did!



Its really simple to make, and looks good on my desk.
Oh yeah!
I also made an apple crumble…. HMMM jum!

breakup…

Dear homework,

The last few weeks you have been waiting for me at my home every single day. You also followed me to school, went to class with me, been with me when I was with my friends and kept me awake at night. I really appreciate that you take this relationship so seriously. As you may have noticed, I’ve been neglecting you for a long time. I was hoping you would get the message and move on. I just don’t think we should be friends. I’m sorry, I just really don’t like you.  I think it’s really creepy that you sneak up to me every moment of the day. It’s getting to a point where I am obligated to go to the police. Stalking is a crime. You know that right? I beg you, PLEASE go away and leave me alone!

Yours faithfully,

Len

 

Help, I’ve got a “nothing to do and ooh so bored-day”!

It has been raining all day today. I wanted to start the day by going to the thrift shop. Unfortunately, I have to go there on a bike and I’m not willing to ride my bicycle in the rain for 20 minutes. To and fro, so that would make it 40 minutes of getting soaked. 
So what to do, what to do…. I have been knitting for the past couple of hours, but my back is killing me right now. I had to stop and do something else. But yeah, what I just said, what to do, what to do… I’m really bored.



So what do you do when You’re bored? Leave me a comment. Then I’ll have something to do the next time I’m bored.
THANKS
Have a nice day!

My summer in analogue pictures

I was thinking about making my blog post about my vacation and show some pictures of my trip to Turkey.  But since I got all my analogue pictures at once on my mail I decided to make one big story covering my whole summer. All the pictures on this blog post (except for the first two) where made with my analogue camera’s. Two Olympus trip 35’s and one Kodak ektralite 600.

The Kodak:

The Olympus:
So what did I actually do this summer? Lets start at the beginning of it. The last few weeks of school. The weather as getting warmer and nicer. the vacation was so close nobody could concentrate on learning and going to school. For me, the first real summer day was when we made a trip to “De Strook”. The teachers had all decided we could get free from school and all hang out together and have some fun. We had a nice barbecue and went swimming together.


So for me this was my first summer day. It was also the first day of warm weather (about 25 degrees centigrade). 
Then the actual vacation begun and it started good. We – my mother brother and boyfriend and I- had a few trips to the beach in “Zandvoort”. I had a really good time there. We normally don’t make any trips to the beach, and I hadn’t seen de beach for over a few years then. This summer we made quite some more beach trips to Zandvoort.   We had a lot of fun!

The last highlight of my summer was my vacation to Turkey. I had never been to Turkey before. I went together with my boyfriend. Who came with the fantastic idea to go somewhere for a week. We had found this amazing hotel in the old center of Antalya. If you ever plan on going to Antalya. The Alp Pasa Botique Hotel is really beautiful and affordable too!














So that was, in a short story, what my summer was like.

I hope You have had A great summer too! Lets hope the winter is going to be as much fun as the summer!

Birthday blog!

Last night I was at my boyfriends’. I had just received an email from the Lomography LomoLab. My pictures where developed and send to me. So I went to my boyfriend as soon as possible to show our vacation photo’s. They’re really cool! I’ll post a blog with more pictures and vacation stories later. Here is one vacation picture to get a little sneak peek.

But I wasn’t going to blog about my analogue photos right now.

At about 6.30 in the morning I woke up hearing my parents and brother singing happy birthday to me! It’s my birthday! I’m finally 18! I’m officially an adult now. I got an awesome new little laptop from my parents! So now I’m able to write my blogs everywhere I go! (right now I’m writing at school). I’m in my Dutch class at the moment. Just got a bottle of wine for my birthday from Pelle. So now I can walk around school looking like a alcoholic person. :p

This evening I’m going to eat somewhere with the family. I’ll make some funny post and put them on the blog somewhere.

(Well now I did)

Right now I’m going to actually listen to my teacher. :(

HAVE A NICE DAY!

Moving to NYC in 1951

Today, I thought it would be nice to do some DIY-ing! Which I did! I had brought an old film from the thrift shop with me. I get them for free because you can’t know if the film has been out of its casing. Nobody wants to buy film that could be damaged. I wanted to make a cover for my photo album out of the damaged film by cutting them in strips and glue them on the cover of the album.

I had to go to my grandma to get some things I needed to make the cover. I came to her home, finding her almost hidden in her closet. She was looking at her old postcards from the 1950’s. She had actually kept a lot of them in a box in her closet. We sat there for a while, going true all those cards. Reading some of them. Then she gave me a few of them! Which is AWESOME! I got a bunch of cards from – I think – her aunt.

For what I could get out of the cards was that a friend of my grandmas’ aunt had moved from Holland to NYC in 1951. She writes how she loves it there. How all her bags where opened at the airport, and how she would love to hear from her (the aunt) soon. Gosh, sometimes I think by myself: “ wouldn’t it be nice to have lived as a young person growing up in the 50’s?” In the 1950’s the Dutch economy grew very fast. The Dutch people where getting richer and richer. Which made them able to move to NYC(!!!).

The imprint says APR. 25 1951

I’ve got a few postcards from in the war. From around the 40’s. I wasn’t able to figure out what the cards say because of the handwriting. But they look pretty awesome don’t they?

OK. Back to my cover. This is what I did with my album!

Enjoy the rest of the week!