These pictures were taken by me in the summer/fall of 2010 and are too good not to be posted. So I thought, even though it's winter already, why not share them with you guys. I hope it helps to boost your mood in this depressing weather. Looking at these pictures made me realize how beautiful Amsterdam is in the summertime.. Anyway, I already have a couple of winter streetstyle pictures and can't wait to show them to you guys soon! For now, enjoy these last-summer styles!
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Last Saturday, 4 pm sharp, about twenty thousand culture lovers cried their hearts out for at least one hour in front of Amsterdam’s City Theatre at Leidseplein. The ‘Netherlands scream for culture’ initiative encouraged all these people to scream on top of their lungs and featured speakers such as Ivo Niehe, Sophie Hilbrand and Cornald Maas against ‘the impoverishment of the cultural life’.
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A couple of weeks ago Yoga wrote about the launch party of Fromanteel's 'Luxury Credit Card Holder', and promised we'd get back to you with the 'making of' photos for the promotional shoot. Today is the time. Our befriended bloggers at Ajanaku wrote a nice article about the photo shoot, which took place in the old Restaurant Koevoet in the Jordaan area. Photographer Reinier van der Aart was heavily inspired by the Hungarian artist Brassaï, and did a great job in recreating the high society 1920s Parisian atmosphere in the series.
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Yesterday, a demonstration took place to preserve the squatted home of Schijnheilig, a creative collective that strives to use vacant space as free, non-commercial meeting points for art, music, poetry and more. Well, here’s the problem they are facing: new mayor van der Laan, enforcing the new law against squatting, ordered to clear their building, which would mean that the gypsy vibe of Schijnheilig would soon be gone and that their home would become another empty space in Amsterdam once again.
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Love photography just as much as I do? Well then you must have heard about GUP magazine. This bimonthly published photography magazine is distributed worldwide and is your ‘Guide to Unique Photography’. On rainy Sundays (typically a November thing), when all I feel like doing is sitting on the couch, I grab a GUP magazine and immerse myself into the work of international photographers for inspiration and find out about all the best museum exhibitions to visit once the rain has cleared away.
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