Ryan McGinley!!

When I first saw it I immediately fell in love with this editorial with Agyness Deyn in POP Fall/Winter 08!
But I was even more surprised with the name of the photographer.
It was Ryan McGinley!
Now you might not know this, but he is one of my favourite photographers.
I love the way I always get surprised by new work of him:)

Ryan McGinley is only 30 years old and lives in New York and he's very big in the artscene there. He started with photography as a teenager documenting his friends in NY. The art community started to take notice of him when he published a book called 'The kids are alright' and sent it to the artists and magazine editors he loved. At the age of 25, he was the joungest person ever to be given a solo exhibiton in the Witney Museum of American Art. He used to only take pictures of his friends but his newest photographs are shot mainly in a natural settings and focused on subjects interacting spontaneously.

I'm totally in love with his work. All of his pictures have such a strong feeling or mood to them. And I've seen them so many times now but they never get boring:

The band Sigur Rós used a photo of him for their album 'Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust':


Go to http://www.ryanmcginley.com/ for more photos!!

Iknowthisreallyisaweirdsetting

A couple of days ago I went with some friends to the shed of Suze's parents. We had like an idea to inflate some balloons and have some sort of huge photoshoot with us jumping inbetween all the balloons. This is how it went (had to make the pictures a bit smaller and less quality so uploading was easier)(just a couple of pictures of the large bunch of weird photos):
Inflating balloons is a tough job.
But they look really nice, right?

We actually got really hungry of inflating all those balloons, so it was pizza-time!

Tim and Jasper had to take the guitar back to suze's house or something, but the pizza was already there, so there we sat, 3 people eating pizza in some sort of shed with a lot of balloons.

I said come on Suze, let's make some pictures. So I and Maxine did like a 5 minute photoshoot with Suze. We were all kind of tired/in a weird mood so it was pretty lame and I thought that the pictures would look boring but they were actually pretty cool:

Suze is a fun model;)
Tim and Jasper arrived, we had some more pizza and some beer. It was already time to go back home and we thought, we have to take some quick pictures with us and the balloons, because of not inflating those balloons would have been a waste of time.
Well it ended up being a very weird and messy fotoshoot, without looking at composition or whatever. We just did fun things in front of the camera;) I think they're very funny!
JUMP!

Who made my friends pregnant?
Hihi.
Tim and I were posing, while Jasper was touching his balloony tits and Maxine was concentrating on fixing her balloon
Don't you ever touch Jap's tits, there sacred!
Yeah, Suze's got some fine boobies:D:D

The photos are all copyrighted!!

the finest examples of the other sex

hey guys
or hey girls I think actually
here are my favourite guys I'll never have:

1 MICHAEL CERA

yes, he's awesome

no he's more than awesome

he's freakin awesome

Michael is:
- 20 years old
- Canadian
- an actor
- best known for the movies 'Superbad' and 'Juno' (go watch them!)
- very funny
- supercute


see for yourself (if you don't agree after watching these, I don't think you're a human being):


(yes, he's acting)


I'm the paint!



Convinced right?


2 SIMON AMSTELL

I know he's gay.

Do i mind?

No.
Simon is:

- gay (ok, I do mind, wished with all my heart he was straight)
- 28 years old
- english
- a comedian and a television presenter
- very funny
- cutecutecute!

One of the best Nevermind the Buzzcocks (go watch all the shows!):

"I'd rather have cat aids"
This one is so good because not only Simon is extremely funny, but Amy too:D

Simon Amstell on the red carpet:

Support Pajamas For Lamas!

Simon playing psychiatrist with the kooks

Poor Luke Pritchard;)

3 RUPERT GRINT

Who can resist a good redhead?

...

Rupert is:
- 20 years old
- English
- an actor
- Ron Weasley in HP movies
- sweet, funny shy and cute

Rupert Grint on Graig Ferguson:

he's kinda shy..

Pete, you're an ass and I love you

Went to festival de Beschaving yesterday, and it was greeaaattt!!!
I went there with Suze, Tim, Matthijs and Bas, a couple of friends.

We started with Friska Viljor, and they were really good. I didn't expect that.
And I thought singer Joakim was really cute;) We saw him later on standing somewhere and me and Suze wanted to talk to him but we were too scared, so we stood next to him for about 5 minutes, and then I said 'Hey we think you're really great' and then we ran away:p

You probably couldn't see for the lights but you were staring straight at me;) Sweet Joakim.

Daniel from Friska Viljor.

Adam Green was also really cool! And he had the best dance moves ever^^ Go check it out on youtube!

And of course, I had to see the Babyshambles! I was already happy that they actually showed up, but on top of that Pete looked surprisingly sober and they played very well:D
I did got almost crushed, because there were so many people and there was a huge pit, but I didn't care actually;)
Soko and Adam Green also went on stage and sang Twist & Shout from the Beatles along with the Babyshambles. That was awesome:D I filmed it:

(you can find more videos of this on youtube)
Fuck Forever, their final song, was the best and I totally went nuts on my own (I lost my friends somewhere in the pit).

Soko was also absolutely amazing. She sang most of her songs with Kate Nash as backing vocals. She also sang a song with Adam Green called 'Babycat'. That was so funny, because Adam Green made catsounds in a very low voice. I filmed 'I wanna look like a tiger', also with Kate Nash:


Other pics:

Bas:)

Me and Suze with blueberryslushpuppietongues.

Me, Suze and Tim.

I've also seen: Kate Nash (terrible), The Dodos (mwah), The Mystery Jets (very cool!), Voicst (mwah), Pete philly & Perquisite (cool as always), Kaizers Orchestra (not in the mood for that), I am Kloot (only 1 song, but it sounded nice), Slagsmalsklubben (those nerds are great!), Pete & the Pirates (only wanted to hear Mr.understanding, so that's what I did), Boemklatsch (great, again)

It was a wonderful day!

Photographycamp & Lowlands!!

Long time no see, I know. But I've done so much the last couple of weeks.
I've been to a photographycamp, Buitenkunst. It was amazing! I made a lot of nice photos and the critique on them by the teachers was really good. I'll post those the next couple of days on my flickr, and I'll post some photos that I made on my holiday (there are already about 4 of them on it). Check them out if you like!

I've also been to Lowlands, which was sooooo cool:D:D
I went with Matthijs, Tim and Jasper, a couple of friends of mine.
The highlights: MGMT, Franz Ferdinand, Laura Marling, Pete Philly & Perquisite, Lucky Fonz III, Editors and morrreee..
Some pics I made with a crappy camera:

Beer & weirdness:D

Smokin' Jap.Saskia and Jorinde, two girls I met at Lowlands
After I saw the show of The Kooks in the biggest tent of lowlands, I went with Saskia and Jorinde to the Magneetbar, a little bar where you can sign up to perform an act yourself. When we came, we saw someone playing who looked and sounded a lot like Luke Pritchard, the singer of The Kooks. But we thought that it couldn't possibly be him. Afterwards it turned out that it really was him, and I was only about 2 metres away from him :o
Laura Marling, a female singer/songwriter who I completely adore, she's so good.

Jorinde and Jasper with a ponytail;)

The Editors were so good.
Lowlands is overrr... damn

Has one of you been to Lowlands?

O, school is almost gonna start. I have about 5 days left...:(
Saturday I'm going to de Beschaving, a festival, I'm excited:D
byeee

Spanish vintage food for camera's

I wrote this on Tuesday but I had problems with the pictures (so yesterday is monday etc)

I came back a couple of days ago from North-Spain, where I went with my dad and sister. It was really nice, we stayed at 3 different places there. One nearby beaches and old towns, one in the mountains and one in Bilbao. I took a lot of pictures. I wish I could show you all. Here are a few (click on them to see them better):

San Vincente, a city nearby the place (Santilliana del mar) where we stayed.

I'm very into abstract and minimal photography lately, made a lot of minimal/abstract shots (this is not a really good example of that)
The second place where we stayed, the one with the mountains. It was a very pretty old farm.
My dad on the left, surrounded by nature.

We went with a cable car high into the mountains )1850 m). It was really beautiful there. We also saw a couple of vultures.My sister in front of the mountains.

This one is called ´Bird, Bridge & Building in Bilbao´ Me in front of the Guggenheim Museum.

Yesterday I went with my dad to Amsterdam to go to the photography museum. It was a lot of fun. Afterwards I went to a couple of vintage shops.

I bought these two baggy pants. They are very low and soft.
..and these nice blue shoes
And finally a Holga camera! If you wanna know what kind of camera it is, just type holga in google and you should find it.
And of course I had to make a picture of the camera and of me and the camera

Today I went to the Ikea to buy a mirror . The weatherman told me it would be bad weather so I thought Ikea would be a great idea but it wasn´t bad weather so I thought that was kind of mean. But I do have a mirror now, so it´s not thát mean.

I had a delicious dinner outside with my dad. We had Greec wraps with chicken with cinnamon and Tzatsiki. It´s one of my favourite dishes. We had some lovely prosecco with it.

O, and that´s me enjoying the prosecco, hihi.

If anyone has some nice holiday stories, tell me!

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