This article was first published on Friday 13th, 2007
In April we visited my brother and his family in Peer, then we drove to Düsseldorf to meet Anja and finally we drove to Bremen with Claudia’s family to celebrate her mum’s birthday. What was supposed to be a nice little get-together turned into something close to a nightmare!
On our first day (Friday the 13th) somebody broke into the hotel and stole all our stuff : 2 laptops, mobile phone, mp3 player, exams by Claudia’s students (which they had to redo later that month…poor children), all of Claudia’s pictures which had been burned on CDs. This means that for most people I don’t have their telephone number anymore. Please send me an sms with your full name so I can add you again.
At night we went to the police office to look at pictures of criminals, but no luck. And now 8 months later I received a letter from the Bremen Police saying that they are closing the case as they have no chance of finding them.
I didn’t lose a lot of money as the hotel was insured and most of my stuff was quite new, but Claudia’s pictures were of course irreplaceable.
We tried to have a good time in Bremen and in the end we did enjoy ourselves (the weather was great) but there will always be a part of me that associates Bremen with bad luck and Friday 13th.
woensdag 13 mei 2009
dinsdag 12 mei 2009
The White Album - The Beatles
And in the closet was a nice selection of music that was popular around that time: Herb Alper, The Two Man Sound, Marva and some Russian folk music. And also a white album. It said "the Beatles" in white letters. And inside were 4 A4-size pictures of guys with long hair. I put the record on, and hadn't noticed that the volume dial was pushed all the way. The sound of the airplane (the beginning of "Back in the USSR") blasted through the loud speakers. Luckily nobody was home. My first encounter with the Beatles. They would never leave me.
Until this day The White Album is still my favourite Beatles album, because it is so eclectic.
Deviantart - Urbex
My Urbex account on DeviantArt contains some pictures taking during my Urban Exploration trips. Some of the places we visited (alone or together with friends) were an abandoned theme park, an old hospital, a crypte, a sanatorium, an orphanage and some factories. We only take picture and leave footprints. On some occasions we also took models there for some interesting combination of abandoned beauty.
maandag 11 mei 2009
The Modelling Business - How to Become a Model
Last year I started taking pictures of models, and 2007 saw me continue on the same line. I registered with several websites where photographers and models can meet. The website vary in quality, but most are very user-friendly website
A list of those I registered on :
- Modellennet
- Eye-on (the old "Photograaf.be")
- Model-kartei
Many boys and girl dream of becoming a photo model. When you check the visitors of our website, it strikes us how many type in "how can I become a photo model". But there are many misconceptions about how to become a photomodel.
First of all, it is not necessary to look like a babe or have a six-pack tummy to make it in the modelling business. What you DO need is some courageous, ambitions and feel well. Some people say that they are not photogenic, that they don't "stick" to paper, but that is not true. Everybody is photogenic, you just have to find the right photographer to bring it out in the open.
Also you don't need to be 7 feet tall. Photographers have their ways to make you feel taller (or smaller) than you really are.
Just contact me if you want to make it in the modelling business. I can help you with your portfolio.
Two years ago I became member of a great Internet Site called Deviant Art (www.deviantart.com). It’s a kind of artist’s community where you can upload your artistic works (pictures, paintings, poetry, etc….) or just comment on other artist’s works.
A list of those I registered on :
- Modellennet
- Eye-on (the old "Photograaf.be")
- Model-kartei
Many boys and girl dream of becoming a photo model. When you check the visitors of our website, it strikes us how many type in "how can I become a photo model". But there are many misconceptions about how to become a photomodel.
First of all, it is not necessary to look like a babe or have a six-pack tummy to make it in the modelling business. What you DO need is some courageous, ambitions and feel well. Some people say that they are not photogenic, that they don't "stick" to paper, but that is not true. Everybody is photogenic, you just have to find the right photographer to bring it out in the open.
Also you don't need to be 7 feet tall. Photographers have their ways to make you feel taller (or smaller) than you really are.
Just contact me if you want to make it in the modelling business. I can help you with your portfolio.
Two years ago I became member of a great Internet Site called Deviant Art (www.deviantart.com). It’s a kind of artist’s community where you can upload your artistic works (pictures, paintings, poetry, etc….) or just comment on other artist’s works.
Our friends are leaving Brussels
This article was first published on 24/4/07
Quite a lot of people that we know through BeWelcome.org left Belgium this year. Katherine, Laura, Danah, Dylan, Patrick…. I hope we can stay in touch and meet up again soon. But also some new people came to Brussels, like Asia W. and Tadeusz and Asia H. And we helped Olga move to her new house near Vilvoorde, and visited Wokzter and Karamia who spent Easter in Brussels at Mart_o-clock’s place.
Update:
many more have left since then. Beyhan to Romania, Bartek back to Poland, Krista to Finland, Joeri to Scandinavia (surprise, surprise...)
Quite a lot of people that we know through BeWelcome.org left Belgium this year. Katherine, Laura, Danah, Dylan, Patrick…. I hope we can stay in touch and meet up again soon. But also some new people came to Brussels, like Asia W. and Tadeusz and Asia H. And we helped Olga move to her new house near Vilvoorde, and visited Wokzter and Karamia who spent Easter in Brussels at Mart_o-clock’s place.
Update:
many more have left since then. Beyhan to Romania, Bartek back to Poland, Krista to Finland, Joeri to Scandinavia (surprise, surprise...)
zondag 10 mei 2009
Hospitality Exchange Movie Mondays
This article was first published April 2, 2007
In April I started organizing my Movie Mondays. First the idea was to invite some friends from the different hospex websites like BeWelcome.org to join we at the cinema for a monthly movie. But the concept proved to be so successful (sometimes we had up to 20 people joining us) that I decided to have it every week. We saw some great movies together this year (Eastern Promises, The Simpsons, Shoot ‘m’ Up) but also some not so good ones (Beowulf). But in the end we always went for a drink in Café Monk and talked about life, movies and other interesting topics. I have made some great friends there (Sylvie, Franco, Krista, Kristina, Stef, George, Beyhan, Olga, Tadeusz, Bartek and all the Asia’s …)
Every week we also write a review about the movie for inclusion on the Becultural website
In April I started organizing my Movie Mondays. First the idea was to invite some friends from the different hospex websites like BeWelcome.org to join we at the cinema for a monthly movie. But the concept proved to be so successful (sometimes we had up to 20 people joining us) that I decided to have it every week. We saw some great movies together this year (Eastern Promises, The Simpsons, Shoot ‘m’ Up) but also some not so good ones (Beowulf). But in the end we always went for a drink in Café Monk and talked about life, movies and other interesting topics. I have made some great friends there (Sylvie, Franco, Krista, Kristina, Stef, George, Beyhan, Olga, Tadeusz, Bartek and all the Asia’s …)
Every week we also write a review about the movie for inclusion on the Becultural website
Hospitality Exchange Movie Mondays
This article was first published April 2, 2007
In April I started organizing my Movie Mondays. First the idea was to invite some friends from the different hospex websites like BeWelcome.org to join we at the cinema for a monthly movie. But the concept proved to be so successful (sometimes we had up to 20 people joining us) that I decided to have it every week. We saw some great movies together this year (Eastern Promises, The Simpsons, Shoot ‘m’ Up) but also some not so good ones (Beowulf). But in the end we always went for a drink in Café Monk and talked about life, movies and other interesting topics. I have made some great friends there (Sylvie, Franco, Krista, Kristina, Stef, George, Beyhan, Olga, Tadeusz, Bartek and all the Asia’s …)
Every week we also write a review about the movie for inclusion on the Becultural website
In April I started organizing my Movie Mondays. First the idea was to invite some friends from the different hospex websites like BeWelcome.org to join we at the cinema for a monthly movie. But the concept proved to be so successful (sometimes we had up to 20 people joining us) that I decided to have it every week. We saw some great movies together this year (Eastern Promises, The Simpsons, Shoot ‘m’ Up) but also some not so good ones (Beowulf). But in the end we always went for a drink in Café Monk and talked about life, movies and other interesting topics. I have made some great friends there (Sylvie, Franco, Krista, Kristina, Stef, George, Beyhan, Olga, Tadeusz, Bartek and all the Asia’s …)
Every week we also write a review about the movie for inclusion on the Becultural website
Abonneren op:
Posts (Atom)