Friday Amsterdam

This weekend is going to be warm and summery in Amsterdam. There are a lot of events going on: Taste (a foodie festival), Amsterdam Open Air (techno etc) and Shoeless for a hippy feeling. The boats will get out on the canals and the wine bottles will cork open easily. 

For all fellow Dutchies, have fun this weekend. For anyone in good or even murky weather, have an excellent time as well ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ

LFW: #trending Streetstyles

1. head-deco:

Caps, hats, cowboy/girl, head-jewellery and Prada headbands...LFW channeled their inner Kate Middleton, John Wayne or Bollywood Starlet.

2. Cobalt blues:

Cobalt was the shade of blue to be seen in.

3. Neo-Childhood: 

Maturity is overrated...pompoms, my little Pony hair & Bigbird shirts were the way to go.

4. Leather Jackets: 

 The quintessential fashion-staple.

5. Soft Pinks:

5. Camera women:

 Not just to be seen, but to see as well

6. Tartan

  

No highlands nor clans were needed to wear this trend.

7. Mirror-wear:

 Shimmering fabrics in either metallic, foils or patent-like.

8. Dandy Women:

A hint of a suit, some brocade: women were channeling their inner Dandy.

9. Dandy Men:

"Did someone transport Oscar Wilde into the 2013 century?"

10. Grey's revisited:

combined with large stripes, polkadots or checks.

LFW: Non Front-ational

LFW: Gilded

Weekend Obsession: Flowermania

I've been getting my Dutch on by buying a tons of flowers.

Gosh, and I have my garden too! I really feel like such a domestic gardeness right now...

Not the weirdest thing: I'm quite into scents and flowers often smell good. Besides that, I love cheerful colours and flowers are often bright to attract those buzzers and feathery creatures...

Foodporn for Dummies: Chapter 1

I made a pie... and I liked it...

And hell didn't freeze over either when I ventured in this endeavour: the outside world already had, so I baptised it as my snowpie!

I'm totally not a domestic goddess that likes to spend time on making pies. Therefore, I'm proud to say I spend 4 hours on this heavyweight. And that for the sake of practicing foodporn-photography.

Ps: this website has a good recipe of this Mississippi Mud Pie, and other bakings, and some lovely foodporn-photos

Horsing Around

Cuba still works with horses and carts at some places. The Spanish word "coche" usually means "car", but means  "horse & cart" in Cuba; for a normal car they have the word "carro".

I don't think this handsome fellow cares what it's called: he simply has to work as a real working horse does.

Oldtimers

Soccer

*Havana*

Tarifa

Summer '12

Jamaica

I made this photo in January 2011 when visiting the Bob Marley creek.

Although I'm not sure if that's the true name, as the heritage of Marley is being used and misused for almost every item in Jamaica.

Nevertheless, I think Bob would approve of the sublimeness of nature in combination with the hope and joyfulness of teenage spirit.

#Paris

#wordsseries

"So I let the sea wash away all loneliness that he had enscribed on me..."

Don't be grave...

I got this weird fascination with graveyards in warmer climates: the use of happy colours and opulent religious symbolism on the graves are more frequent over there than at our protestant graveyards.

As with the celebration of the dead in Mexico, I believe in a ceremonial form of beauty, art and sometimes kitch to remember...

These were made in Biarritz during my roadtrip this year...

Floating House

Re-Charge

The Hague / Den Haag

It's no secret I like cities and I like the Hague. Often the main-City of a country gets a bit too overconfident. I'd used to like Amsterdam when I still had tons of friends there, but the last 5 years I have felt more meh to it. In that case visiting another city in a country has the potential to be inspiring as well, and often with a bit more friendliness and originality involved.

The Hague has the mix of elitism with more-down-to-earthness that attracts me. Also, the coast is quite near. Architecture is impressive & the museums are varied in having both intellectual value (Esher) to just incredibly cute (Madurodam).  The shops have lots: for the Elite crowd there are some excellent speciality shops but Zara is there as well. And I adore Massimo Dutti: the ones in Spain are a bit too far away for me at the time being so it's The Hague in Holland for my Massimo Dutti fix.

Mexi-tography

I didn't just go the museum to promote myself  make artistic photos, I actually bought a book/magazine from the Photography museum next door.

Read more about Gup over here.