Jane on the freeway

5/31/11

awesomeness to the max

Step Into the Lights Intro from LA Gear on Vimeo.

5/30/11

Gisteren werd ik er op uitgestuurd om vlierbesbloesemsiroop te gaan maken, aangezien het nu de beste tijd is om die te oogsten. Gewapend met een enorme pan (10 liter, zoeen waar je de was in kunt doen) en een schaar kreeg ik de opdracht de meest witte bloesem te knippen "en als de pan uitpuilt, dan stamp je t aan, vind zoveel mogelijk!". Mijn onstabiele tour ging over velden, door brandnetels, langs varkensstallen en over stenen wateroevers.
De oogst viel enigszins tegen maar het uiteindelijke resultaat was magistraal.

pluk 1 enorme pan met bloemetjes (let op de luizen!) vol
goed wassen (zeker 3x) het liefst zonder steeltjes
in een rvs pan met een zwaar bord erin zodat het goed is aangestampt
met water aanvullen tot de hoogte van het bord (tel de liters)
1 kilo suiker op 1 liter water erbij
citroensap erbij
snel a/d kook brengen
zeven

en dan drinken met spa rood

5/26/11

life is so sarcastic

IT"S ONE OF THOSE DAYS;

I woke up way too late by a textmessage
I did the laundry and found out that the most colourful items I posses are the yellow towels to whipe the sink
I tried soooo hard to start, but until 2.00 am the only thing I was activating was the word-document ... in which I was supposed to double the words... the only thing I doubled was the amount of liquorice I was munching
I could only seriously start my after my second glass of wine (at 1.59 am I finially gave in to my needs)

there's nothing on the radio and tomorrow it's gonna rain
cheers.

5/22/11

Questionaire

10 things you want to say to 10 different people right now;
1 - G: everyting is going to be o.k. //
2 - M: i'm sorry but i hope to see you soon //
3 - T: we did a seriously good job //
4 - ?: thanks for the company //
5 - T: you are so awesome //
6 - K: goodluck! //
7 - L: you are so bold //
8 - P: i miss you //
9 - G: i love you //
10 - D: i despise you //

9 things about yourself
1 - caring
2 - impulsive
3 - anxious on expectations
4 - light minded
5 - heavy hearted
6 - mediating
7 - ironic
8 - serious
9 - wanderlustig

8 ways to win your heart
1 - say hi
2 - take care
3 - be nice to others
4 - be not to serious on life
5 - be funny
6 - have something to tell
7 - are curious
8 - be one of a kind

7 things that cross your mind a lot
1 - must learn spanish
2 - must not forget the books
3 - must pay attention
4 - the abstract future
5 - the serious future
6 - people
7 - what am i doing??

6 things you wish you'd never done
not a single thing

5 people who mean a lot (in no order particular)
1 - G
2 - C
3 - P
4 - I
5 - G
(too less space)

4 turn offs
1 - no own opinion
2 - no backbone
3 - no interest in the world whatsoever
4 - no appealing phizog

3 turn ons
1 - the appearance
2 - the shoes
3 - being left handed

2 smileys that descibe your life right now

1 confession
1 - I'm addicted to questionaires

2/11/11

NEON ART

(Kauf dich glücklich, Berlin.)

Ever since, I've always been attrackted to neon. It's cheap, it's tacky, it got a very American appearance, it's everything I don't like. And I'm highly attrackted to things I don't like. Things I don't like trigger a strong reaction and that's in fact, exactly, what I do like.

Neon in an art-sense makes an even better impression on me because then I've got something to interpretate. Neon graphic design art is my favourite combo; and I've started a little collection-project on that. (I prefer doing projects; they are better than events in my opinion. Events are short-timed and limited, while projects are more open minded and open ended.)

Things have been done with neon in art history, Dan and Joseph and their minmalistic movement companions... And although they are highly interesting, they are not so contemporary anymore... I like to look in the now, what is happening? Actually the thing that triggered me to writing this, were some pamflets around the city regarding a work by Tracy Emin.

(tracey emin)

some collected, musealized neon;

(cerith wyn evans)

Of course it is cool to spot neon-art in a museum or gallery, but it is even cooler if you spot potential art outside the institutes. I am always scouting for those neon signs, that weren't intended to be art, but in fact could be when they've been put in a museum-setting (how Duchampian of me..). When you cut them out of their daily context they can be seen as art, the barbershop sign could be art... pure street-art!

all images + references: http://fuckyeahneontexts.tumblr.com.

2/8/11

HERE IN MY ROOM

This party is old and uninviting.

Participants all in black and white.

You enter and close the door behind you.
Now show me the world as seen from the stars.

So thank you for being that kind of girl.

text by Incubus, pictures by me

INSTALLATION ART

apIn a new seminar they asked 'what kind of art are you interested in?', well installation art is right on top of my list. This was my #1 fav art piece I've seen in 2010.

all photo's were taken by me

1/19/11

you took your love babe

love the graphics

1/13/11

MONO

some things were meant to come in stereo
eyebrows are one of them.

see more great work on http://www.fatherfutureback.com/

1/12/11

we gonna find you

something like...?

Slight differences; they are all about the details...

I have the strange habit reading my newspaper (yes ... PAPER...) backwards. So when I chucked my newspaper out of the mailbox today I started on page 27 (going out section). When I reached page 22 the heading was something like

"Staying up one night equals a 3 km walk"
(saying sturdy things like this definitly catch my attention... I mean, 3 km... that's like nothing! I can do that... HA)

The sleep deprivation of one night costs a human being the same energy as a 3 km long walk. It only costs 7% extra... Ok. fine, whatever would one think... BUT (and here comes the best part) the same test was done on rats, and they use 50% more energy. Significant huh....

ONE MINOR DETAIL: the test on humans was performed on people who were aloud to watch TV, read, knit, whatever BUT the test on the rats was performed on animals which were forced to balance on a floating raft .... ALL night long ...

SAY AGAIN?

(oh that's Heidi, by the way)

1/6/11

LISTS; fictional brands & most clubbiest burgerjoints

It's on #7 of the top10 list of fictional brands;
Big Kahuna Burger

It is definitely #1 on my list of clubbiest burger/fastfoodjoints ever, 2nd is White Castle,

( I recommend all of you to watch; Harold and Kumar go to White Castle)

3th the notorious Hungry Howies.

(it's a pity there's not yet a movie on this one)

I'm sorry to inform you that the Krusty Krab is still on the shortlist...

(but it is on TV ... EVERYday!)

12/17/10

analogue throw away camera

So now that my beloved (see this post) Polaroid had shut down, and is really hard to get nowadays, I had to find a other (cheap) way to snap around-solution. Since I'm not a big fan of looking trough the screen when you should be looking through the lense, throw-away camera's appear to be the next hot item in my bag.

Here a few views from october/november 2010

vogue's cover graphics

Creative Review layered a bunch of covers of Vogue Magazine on top of the other. This to lay bare the structure of the formula of the cover's graphic design.
Actually, I like the layered ones so much better than the originals. They really look autonomous, outstanding and beautiful. It forces you to think on the way graphic design is used and put into practise.

The centered, white skinned, dark hared model:

I also remembered a artwork on vogue on the 'niet normaal' exhibition in Amsterdam.

Read the whole article on
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/december/vogue-covers-2010

12/13/10

positive critique

Positief roddelen, de eigenheid in mensen zoeken, originaliteit bespeuren en kleine belachelijkheden uitvergroten (het gigantische bril-opzet effect) was wat wij urenlang deden vanaf het terras. Midden in de winter, midden in Amsterdam. Terwijl we zelf in een hele elendige, onbesluitbare, onorginele en brakke staat waren en we ons naar koffie en brood hadden gesleept. We waren oorspronkelijk bezig onze slechte gewoonten te legitimizeren. De zon was vandaag in de magna-plaza opgekomen, tenminste daar kwam het licht vanuit.

11/2/10

Triviant Pursuit

Het uitgelezen spel voor wie wél een goede algemene kennis heeft! Slaan de woorden nerderig en betweterig op jou en ben je in het bezit van een flinke dosis onzinnige kennis? Weet jij waar Rusland nog meer ligt dan op aarde? En van welk hertogdom de hoofdstad vroeger Lucilinburhuc heette? En welke ex-pingponger met zijn zonen Cor Jr en Michel een tennispark in Bergen opende? Houd je van dobbelen? Vind je het geen probleem om urenlang om de feiten heen te draaien?

Harry Mulisch

Het was 2001 en ik zat op dezelfde school als Harry ooit ook zat. In de bibliotheek presenteerde hij op kartonnen wijze zijn nieuwste boek (Siegfried). In een rebels moment sleurden wij Mulisch de bibliotheek uit. Onder onze armen, rennend door de gangen, het meisjestoilet in. De congierge stond op het bordes naar Mulisch te kijken die nu achter het raam stond. Omdat wij niet vonden dat Harry tot z'n recht kwam in de, toch al sterk meurdende, meisjestoiletten, sleurden we 'm in een onoplettend moment via de oude-talen-zolder het dak op, waar Mulisch preikte als een ware schrijver des vaderlands, totdat het begon te regenen.