In front of Central Station, Amsterdam 5:00 pm
This picture I took while sitting in tram 5, heading home. I don’t mind travelling with trains and trams, but find big crowds of people kind of scary. Especially when a large herd is heading towards me, I sometimes feel like an extra in a zombie film. People look like drones when they’re heading to their trains, don’t you think?
Amsterdam central station, 8:50 am
My fellow travellers going to or from their trains. One guy is hugging his bike 🙂
Leidsestraat, 5:05 pm
It’s umbrella time again, that’s for sure. I shot this picture heading home. Not looking forward to step out of the tram since it was raining. Then again, I prefer this weather over the soaring heat of summer. Funny thing about this picture is that the guy on the right looks like he’s posing. The whole picture has sort of a staged feel to it. Though it’s just an average street scene on an average day.
Overtoom, Amsterdam, 2:45 pm
I am no dog person, I hate the bastards, but not really a cat person either. But I thought this cat was kind of funny, sunbathing on the terrace table of a restaurant.
Amsterdam, 12:30 pm
No, this is not a part of the gay canal parade. I took this picture this afternoon while taking a stroll with my girlfriend who has just returned from her holiday. We had a lot of catching up to do. The boat in the front is towing the other ones. I thought it was a funny site. Notice the waves on the water: a moment later it started to rain.
De Bekeerde Suster, 7:15 pm
This week Jooper and I had dinner at De Bekeerde Suster in Amsterdam. I had a brilliant hamburger – it was really quite excellent. We talked about all kinds of stuff, but specially music and his recent holiday to Lesbos. Yeah, the place where some lesbians still roame around these days. During our conversation I could help but look at the very kitschy, yet fascinating, candles that we posted near the window. They made me think of Anton Pieck’s work.
Vertigo, Vondelpark, 12:30 pm
Today I had a lunch date with Marcella. We met at university when we both studied film. We’ve kept in contact since, although thanks to busy schedules it had been a while since we talked. So we had a lot of catching up to do.
Kerkstraat, 5:00 pm
Heading for comic book shop Lambiek, I encountered this van. Apparently it is an art courier. But would you entrust your precious artworks to such a van with such a shabby written message?
Café Vertigo, Vondelpark, 11:50 am
Comic book artist Merel Barends and I had an early Monday morning meeting to discuss everything from comic books, life and blogging. She has just started her own blog, which pleases me very much, since I’ve been nagging her to start one for ages. Check out De Woelige Barends.
Bosboom-toussaint straat, Sunday 1st of August, 1:12 pm
Heading for the ABC I encountered this message written in chalk in front of a house: ‘In the mood for love’. Aren’t we all? Still, a great invite if I ever saw one, but since I’m already in a happy relationship, I didn’t knock on the door and just walked on.
Last week posts about my short trip to Delft have occupied this blog. So since none of last week’s photographs could be published, I’ll make a special post with the pics I took while meeting with some of my friends.
Natasja van Loon, Stanislavski, 7:00 pm
She’s a writer and pr-specialist who loves comic books.
Nicoline Hermans, Le Pain Quotidien, 12:45 pm
She is a very good psychologist/HR consultant who wrote blogposts for me while I ran an website for Intermediair back in the day. She actually still writes them.
Paul Bodoni, Comic shop Lambiek, 7:00 pm
Bodoni and I met for the first time, actually at the comic shop Lambiek, where there’s a get-together every Friday afternoon. Bodoni is a comic book artist who currently lives in Sweden.
Jeroen Mirck, Stanislavski, 12:30 pm
Jeroen is a journalist, a blogger and a local politician (but still a nice guy actually). Today he started a new job at Deloitte Innovation. Recently he has grown a beard. Just so you know.
Vondelpark, 10:00 pm
Some trees in The Vondelpark are still covered with caterpillar goo. It’s looks kind of spooky. Although, it also looks as if the trees are wearing stockings.