I met a lot of interesting, talented and funny people lately. They are located in different countries all over the world. We follow each other’s activities, we share dreams and thoughts, we make plans and we even party together ……. And it’s all happening in a virtual world. I never expected to find myself chatting [...]
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Author Archives: White Rabbit
Jun
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Haute Nature – Haute Couture
American photographer Phyllis Galembo has an obsessive love for attires and garments which people from different parts of Africa are wearing during religious and profane celebrations and rites. Her images are disconcerting. The photographer abstains from every form of décor or stylization, thus drawing the spectator’s eye directly towards the ‘living statues’. The natural extravagance [...]
Jun
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Do you think you stand out from the crowd?
When I was in high school there was this group of kids whom I considered to be really cool and I desperately wanted to join this group. So I asked my parents for the same (expensive) sneakers they wore convinced that would do the trick. My mum then bought me the cheap fakes, which off [...]
May
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Beach Animals
I mentioned it before but for those of you who are new here, I grew up near he beach. During the summer it is a crowded place with playing kids, ice cream and all other kinds of summer recreations. But off-season the beach is empty and that’s when I like it the most. Then it [...]
May
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The Cosmopolitan Chicken
There is a little bakery near my house and behind the counter stands an iron basket filled with eggs. Every time I’m in this bakery I imagine how the shop owner, a big guy with big hands, is putting the eggs in the basket. It seems such an easy task but it’s not. He really has [...]
May
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Tjielp ……
De Mus Tjielp tjielp – tjielp tjielp tjielp tjielp tjielp tjielp – tjielp tjielp tjielp tjielp tjielp tjielp tjielp tjielp tjielp tjielp tjielp Tjielp etc. “Thousands of bird species cut out from the New York Times move as a coloured swarm cloud through small alleyways and over the pavement. With New York City as a [...]
May
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From Nothing to Nowhere
Imagine yourself driving in the Dutch countryside and all of a sudden on an empty road in the middle of nowhere there is this bridge. Thank god it’s a quiet road because I can imagine you hit the breaks, u-turn or do other wacky actions just to get another look. The bridge, located in Sneek [...]
May
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Little Red Riding Hood
Little girls, this seems to say, Never stop upon your way. Never trust a stranger-friend; No one knows how it will end. As you’re pretty, so be wise: Wolves may lurk in every guise’. As a little girl Hinke Schreuders used to dream about being Little Red Riding Hood. Wandering in a dark wood she [...]
Gone With The Wind
A long walk at the beach made me think about my roots. I grew up near Scheveningen, which is an old fisherman’s village where women used to wear beautiful traditional costumes. When I was a little girl there already weren’t many woman left who actually wore these costumes but my friends grandma was one of [...]
Apr
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Lost-Persons
I once met someone who collected old family portraits because he felt sorry for the people in it. He thought that they would be very sad knowing they ended up in a garbage can because nobody cared anymore, so he made it his task to save them. It was a wonderful story and the same [...]