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20 May 2011For the same reason I went to London a short while ago, I am now in Istanbul. Networking – job hunting basically – and meeting good friends again from my ESN days back in 2008. I had not seen most of them since then. It is great to be back. – I have been here [...]
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6 Apr 2011Just a quick update here to let you know that my personal website is undergoing a heavy concept fase for a new portfolio at the moment. All this due to the fact that many of the works online there are pretty outdated and the current website apart from that is very hard to actually update [...]
In 2008 I studied and lived in Turkey for about 8 months. I was a participant of the Erasmus Student Network (ESN), an exchange program that gives students the oppurtunity to study in a foreign country. I chose to do this in Eskisehir (Eski = Old, Sehir = city), Turkey. In Eskisehir I studied at [...]
In this blog I would like to share two songs from ‘Letting Go’. I made other versions after I finished the script and never used those. After we started shooting I was able to compose more ‘visually’ then before. The first video is the song Iyi Yolculuklar. I wrote it for the film under a [...]
It was one of the oldest tricks in the book and it had to happen some time, I suppose. I’ve seen it happen many times before allready in Lisbon and in other cities in the world, but I never fell for it up untill now: my iPhone got stolen last saterday right in front of [...]
A few days ago I learned that my short film ‘Letting Go’ has been nominated in the ‘Noordelijk amateur Film Festival’ (NaFF) in the student catagory in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. It will play on the 14th of november 2009 and the film will compete with several other films from the same catagory. During the day lunch [...]
I had another great day today at Check The Gate. Made a short edit in final cut pro and after that I with Jose to Christian Robinson, an American who had just arrived in Lisbon. He’ll be doing a medical documentary with his company Morningstar entertainment for Discovery channel. Also, Jose told me today that [...]
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24 Sep 2009Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (also known as Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam) was born on the 27th of october in 1466. He was a was a Dutch Renaissance humanist and Catholic Christian theologian (and much, much more..). And he was way ahead of his time when it came to opinions about war, women rights and for example Christianity. [...]
Yesterday I went for my first meeting with Jose Mineiro at the film production company Check The Gate, where I will be doing my internship for the upcoming months. And it allready was a learningful expierence by only talking to him. I learned he works with the best equiptment (RED for example) and people in [...]