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Category: Work in progress
Publish date:07/17/07 @923Editor:
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New photo's; We're getting there.Well, there's progress. We've been living here for about 2,5 months and it's a great house. Still not finished entirely, but we're getting there. Check the previous blog to see the differences.   We had to wait 6 months for that bloody table...tree wouldn't come down I guess...  That cupboard was bought on Ebay for 50 euro's. Than we scoured it, it had to be primed two times, and laked two times....SEE ALL THOSE DETAILS?!?....luckily our aunt did the painting  |
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Category: Work in progress
Publish date:04/22/07 @918Editor:
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Redesigning a houseWhen I see the pictures they don't reflect the ammount of work at all! All those subtile things changed on the square inch.....but when you're in our new house you can allmost feel the new state, it's fresh, it's solid, and totally redesigned. What started as 'some changes' ended in us stripping the place down to the foundations. We (my wife and I) bought this house last december and since january we've been brainstorming, designing, balancing, and most of all working bloody hard to make it the most beautifull house ever. Besides work, it's consuming all of our spare time, so no internet for a while The pictures you see here are not the most recent. We're still working on some final paintwork, corners, doors, etcetera. But it's fun to see the change allready.  The one with the tiles is our new design.  The one with the tiles is our new design.  The blue one is our new design 
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Category: Announcement
Publish date:04/19/06 @972Editor:
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Thanks to everybody!Yay! Well finally, here they are, some pictures of me and my wife (!!!yay!!!) Trude. The wedding was great, it really really couldn't have been better. I just can't find the words to describe the whole day so I won't, but if I had to find one word to describe 13-04-2006 it would simply be: Love. We never experienced so much warm love as on that day. Everything, from the ceremony to the dinner to the big party and every step in between, was overwhelming. For the first time in my life I wasn't capable of eating my dinner because of all the emotions. (ask my wife; That really says a lot) Thanks everybody for all the goodluck wishes and support on my previous blog. We will never forget this most beautifull day of our lives. Here are some pictures, as promised        
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Category: Announcement
Publish date:09/09/05 @764Editor:
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I'm getting marriedOn April 13th 2006, I will be getting married to Trude, the lady on the picture. I'm very happy she said yes. I think it's quite something. I mean, someone like that wanting to marry ME. It's a big deal to me. I wanted you all to know. |
Category: Opinion
Publish date:01/09/05 @985Editor:
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thought-transference in creativityCreativity is often used as an instrument for therapy. I guess when someone gives in to creative impulses, they create spaces in their emotional barricades. Creativity is part of our emotional capacities. But how does that work when creativity is a job? The process of creating artwork will involve a lot of planning, thinking for target-groups, discipline, deadlines, clients, etc. So where does that leave the artists? Ofcourse, he/she gets the privilege of putting in their style and maybe some ideals. But can creating art in assignments have an emotional building value for the artist? I am convinced it can. But not if the artist hasn't learned how to express his/her own feelings in communicative pieces. As an art-teacher I often see students struggling with the flipside of creating commercial arts. They often think that creating art in assignment is dry, keeping distant, being 'proffessional'. But that doesn't have to be true. It all has something to do with the word 'must'. Or 'Have to'. One assosciates this with obligations and responsibilities. 'Control freaks' trip over it, and so do 'slacks', but they both do it for the same reason. I once learned the saying: 'Reality doesn't excist, only perception.' First you have to learn how to track all the 'musts' in an assignment. Once you have found these, you could hold on to these obligations. That is, in my optics, a negative approach. The positive approach would be to determine the 'musts', simply because that gives you insight in what the area of freedom is. Once you've made thinking this into a habit, and you've made sure you know what you have to take into consideration, you can focus on what YOU want with an assignment. What are your ideals? What are the possibilities? There is ofcourse the enemy: The biggest enemy to an artist is 'the infinite possibility'. Once you've learned how to spot the ammount of freedom that an assignment offers, this is a new problem that shows up. how do you deal with that? The answer is as simple as the problem is complicated: Do. Move. Action. In Buddhism they say: 'Everything that is truely still, is dead. All that lives, moves. And movement can only move forward. There is no decline in life.' So with that in mind, what would be the reason in fearing failure? Emotions can be communicated. We can see, hear, smell and feel emotions in our surrounding and ourselves. That means we can also depict them. How? By showing litteral actions and situations? That is a possibility. But an obvious one. By letting viewers interpretate our images, we create possibilities for different interpretations. This can be exploited by using colors, compositions, stroke- and linetypes, etc. What does color do to the emotion of the viewer? Is this universal? Maybe. According to Carl Gustav Jung it is. (see: Archetypes) What does composition do the way an image communicates? What influence does stroke- and linetype do to the way an image expresses emotion? When you experiment on art with the answers to these type of questions in mind, you can steer in the direction of what emotion you want to depict. And chances are, when you stay sharp and objective, you're vision will reach the majority of the viewers. In theory this is all very dry and rational. Maybe you can try to look at artworks with the following questions in mind: -What atmosphere does this image breathe? -What elements and way of handelling the medium influence my experience of this image? These were some thoughts i wanted to share with you, my fellow artists and art-students. Please feel free to share your thoughts on the topic. |
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