I’ve been working on school today, but I’m not sure if I’m satisfied with the results. I do think the pictures look pretty, but I’m not sure if they’re good enough. The leaves in the jar are hardly visible… Oh well, I’ll see! Today I also bought a cheap plastic camera at the thriftstore, instead of buying an ‘expensive’ Holga or Diana+! I’m curious for the results :D
Futher than that, internet is being annoying (throwing me on and off the internet, aargh!), I watched Super Size Me with my dad (oh so gross, I can’t imagine people going to McDonalds every week, let alone every day :() and ehm, that’s about it? I feel the sleep kicking in, so I’m just going to leave you with some pictures of the children’s book I’ve bought at the fleamarket!
The books, only 50 cent each! :) Some of the typical stuff every illustrator has to have, like Miffy and some other well known Dutch things as Little Frog, or illustrators like Philip Hopman and Carl Cneut :D And a popup book!
One of my favourites, because it uses my favourite colours: blue, purple, turquoise, pink! :D
It’s really ugly, but it’s popup! :P
Barbapapa :D
And one illustration of Carl Cneut :)
I made a tiny piano out of paper maché while listening, incidentally, to Regina Spektor. I love her music, I love pianos and she uses a piano for almost every song! The piano is for my school project, where I should work much more on!
Anyway, here are some other pictures from yesterday, where I was at my grandparents :) And I’m afraid that in the next few weeks you’ll be seeing lots more pictures of the jars ;)
I also bought 12 rolls of film today, for only 9 euro all together! So I wanted to shoot a few shots with my old Fujica, a present of my mom, but the light meter is broken. I already loaded film in it, so I’ll use it anyway. The results will definitely be suprising now.
A book about me ;) (Title: “The strange girl”)
Crazy old man a.k.a. grandpa
This picture was taken at the same parc where my parents shot their weddingpictures! They were taken by a tree, but we couldn’t find the old one anymore :( I thought it was funny to recreate that picture, has been 25 years ago! I don’t have the old one online, shamefully enough.
I love taking cheesy pictures :P
Today I went to a fleamarket, where I bought 6 illustrated childrenbooks! After that me and my parents went to my grandparents, where I took tons of pictures! I’ll post some more tomorrow. I’m actually really tired because we walked in the forest for HOURS, so I’ll keep this short. Well at least I’m finally tired, I’ve had sleepless nights all week.
Mm Thirteen is on tv, I hate that movie! Anyway, I’m off to bed :)
Felt a bit bored today so went outside to take some pictures for school, for my memory project! Found an abandoned school, I think, but it was closed so I couldn’t get inside, such a shame! Although through the windows I could see there was some sort of alarmstystem, still working, so maybe it’s better :P
(bought a dress at the thrifstore for only 50 cents! :D)
Still need to do lots more, but feeling kinda lazy :s
So yeah, when I get bored, I just take pictures ;) I don’t want to say that I’ve felt bored the last few days, but I definitely felt a need to create things! So I took tons of selfportraits, I have even newer ones than these, but I don’t want this post to get out of control ;) It’s probably the different surroundings, the different rooms, different lightning that just inspires me?
Anyway, I’ve been having quiet some inspiration lately and that just feels great. Not only have I got inspiration for some lame selfportraits, also for school! I’m busy with that right now, but there are some pictures of it coming up this week! Futher than that I’m reading like crazy and I should actually do a lot more than I’m doing… but hey, I’m just a lazy person ;)
I now also have a Tumbrl account where I post pictures & things that inspire me, so if you’re curious or looking for a bit of inspiration yourself, make sure to check it out: http://oktobergoud.tumblr.com
Lol weird one I know, but somehow I really like it? :x My jaw is crazy, I know :’)
More interesting posts will hopefully follow soon.
I hardly slept this week, just thinking and thinking things over. All of a sudden I came up with an idea for my assignment, so the next day I went to the thriftstore and bought all kinds of bottles. It’s an assignment about promotion for a book, I won’t bother you with all the details but my idea was to make pictures of bottles with memories in them. In the book there’s a detail about a woman who does that, only her bottles are empty, but in my bottles I want to make a real memory: a memory about something from the book! In these pictures there aren’t any memories yet (the buttons just were in the bottle already and I liked the image), so don’t worry, it’s still a raw concept ;)
the whole family :D look at the tiny one!
So, basically I’m annoyed with the colour of my hair (not white enough! too dark, too grey, too yellow? I don’t know anymore :o Needs more silvershampoo I guess!), bought a hat for 2 euros, cut my finger, took lots of pointless cliché pictures, read a lot and ate icecream.
Right now I’m at my parents (again, as you might have noticed by the flower pictures ;)), to work on my resit :( But it’s also good, just a bit relaxing :) Tomorrow I’m going to see Harry Potter in the iMax, omg, so excited! I can’t wait :D
Now I just let the pictures speak for itself ;)
I look so weird in those pictures, I have no idea what is happening to me :(
Me being bored and feeling the need to do something creative, the usual stuff, you know ;) Futher than that I haven’t got anything to say. My housemate & some neighbours saw me taking the pictures, which was quiet awkward, to be honest. I always hate taking pictures outside, but this time my urge was bigger than my fear ;)
& For the people viewing this from livejournal: I’m sorry for the big pictures, unfortunately WordPress doesn’t have a so called ‘cut’! ;)
It’s actually not supposed to look like blood, but I thought pink would be fun! So really, it’s not blood, it’s just a bright colour! (I actually think it would be kinda lame if it were supposed to look like blood, so just so you know, that wasn’t my idea!)
This week was weird and very tiring, lots of stuff have been happening! Yesterday electricity just fell out, out of the blue, in the whole city! It was really weird, I was at the hairdresser but couldn’t pay, simply because the atm didn’t work! I sat there for 6 hours, also, so I was hungry! But when I came out of the shop, every store was closed! :( And ofcourse I couldn’t pay anyway, so frustrating. It’s really weird realizing how much we depend on electricity! At home I wanted to look on the internet what the cause was, but ofcourse that didn’t work either. And the traffic lights didn’t work either, so it was total chaos! Anyway, after an hour or so it all worked again, I payed the hairdresser and everything was fine again. Thank god I had food at home!
(And never mind the different colouring on the pictures, I’m too sleepy right now to edit them again :( I hardly slept last night, it’s so HOT! Okay never mind me saying that, I already edited them… NOW OFF TO BED A.S.A.P.!)
