Dig in

Pat having a burger before the drive home from the Madnes surffestival earlier this summer.

Dark Eef

This is monsterboards.org's Eef. If you've ever met him you'll know he is an incredible nice and creative person. However if you look at his blog you'll realize that somewhere underneath all that niceness Eef must have a dark and sinister side.

His veil of niceness was no match for my Mako machine which caught Eef's darkside with ease :-)

Fake Polaroid fun

Normally I'm not to fond of digitally altering images (partly because I suck at it), but sometime during the summer I did turn some images into Polaroid style pics, and I really liked how they turned out.
These shots are from a trip to the Swayholland shapers meeting in Wijk aan Zee. For some reason they have these crazy rockets lying around on the beach over there.

Next is a handplane that I made this summer. For this I was thankfully inspired by Cyrus Sutton of Korduroy.tv. It's a lot of fun building this kinda stuff. And even more fun to go and test-drive your own creations!

And then for something completely different, these smokin' bad boys. Two of my best friends shot from my window when they had to get their fix. I really love this shot. Oh and Joost, congrats on quitting smoking since then!

So I think the digital Pola effect in these shots is pretty nice, but really got to get me some real Polaroid film again sometime soon.

I'm off to bed now. That way it will be tomorrow sooner :-)  I'm really looking forward to tomorrow night when "Where The Wild Things Are" (which I post about earlier) finally premieres in The Netherlands!

A fresh start

2010 is upon us.

For me it couldn't have started a better way.
I got to celebrate new years eve with some close friends and we had a nice party in The Hague. The next day we woke up to a beautiful morning, and after a nice breakfast together a couple of us went to the beach. At the beach we were greeted by some very nice hip-high waves, offshore wind and sun!
It was still pretty cold (my too small booties and leaking gloves didn't help), but hey, it helped getting rid of the hangover :-) And somehow because the coldness of the water really made you feel the water washing over you, it just added to the feeling of washing off all sorts of worries, and really starting the new year afresh!

The second day of 2010 was spent rather nice as well. I spent the afternoon with my girl at a friends birthday, and later we went for dinner and to the theatre with friends. We went to see theatre-group Max's play about the rise off the Beatles. My closest friend from high-school Viktor was in the play, and I'm a pretty big Beatles fan, so my expectancies were pretty high.. Yet somehow those guys still managed to blow me away! The play was just so freaking nice, and the guys (and girl) in the play are really incredible musicians. I really really liked it a lot. Goodtimes!

So the start of the new year has been a blast, and I'm looking forward to what kind off adventures with my friends the rest of 2010 will bring. There are already some good things lined up for this year like my friend Joost's graduation film for the Dutch filmacademy called Wraak (which is Dutch for Revenge). I can't wait to go see that.

Without wanting to sound corny, I'm just really grateful for having what I got. My girl, great friends and such a nice start to the new year! 2010 is good.


Oh yeah... I brought the Mako for the surfsession, pics should be on here sometime later this week. And I will post some updates on new camera equipment on here sometime soon as well.