Archive for the ‘Inspirational’ Category

Getting in shape!
After spending about 2,5 weeks in Namibia without sports, I’ve started running again and working out a little. I really started missing it so I figured it was time for a run around Gobabis. An extra motivation for me is  that I was curious what I would come across while doing this. On [...]

The Harnas Wild Life Foundation
A few days before Albert and the others went back home, we went to the Harnas Wildlife Foundation. It’s about an hour and a half drive away from Gobabis.
Harnas is a wildlife park where you can go on a safari trip by 4wd and on foot and watch lions, cheetas, [...]

welcome to Africa!
So here we are, Namibia! Departed from Holland with Albert Scheffer, his daughter Judith Scheffer, and Albert his collegues Thea Seinen, Date de Vries and and my fellow grad student Jelmer de Jong we drove for 6 hours to Europes largest airport which is placed in Frankfurt, Germany. From there we took a [...]

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 the [...]

Just recently I have finished my showreel 2010. It’s been on YouTube for a short while allready, but I haven’t even had time yet to put it into my own blog. But here it is! The reel contains material that I have either directed, co-directed or shot myself. To get a discription about each project in [...]

On the 23rd of january a photography exhibition about the great city of Istanbul opened up in ‘De Kunsthal’ in Rotterdam. It’s called ‘Onmoetingen langs de Bosporus’ which basically means ‘Meetings along the Bosphorus’.
Photographer Nicole Segers travelled the bosphorus river up and down by some of the ferryboats on the river for about a year, starting [...]

It’s been a while again since I last posted here so I figured it’s time for some new ones! Firstly some more about my internship! Finally went to the filmset some weeks ago and it was great! We did a 23 hour job straight on but I got so much positive energy from it that [...]

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 – [...]

Desiderius 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 rediscovered a few videos I made years ago. In this blog post I’ve added the introduction of a film I made about a journey in Croatia in 2004 with a close friend of mine. Allthough the voice-over is hardly hearable because I had no real microphone at the time.
Nonethelless, I was surprised about [...]


  • Jaap Ruurd Feitsma: nee, die heeft niks gecomment...ik stuur nog even een mail hierover naar je ;) [...]
  • henk: Heel mooi gedaan JR. By the way: heeft je studiebegeleider al eens een coment gestuurd? Tot volge [...]
  • Jaap Ruurd Feitsma: yeps, guess so!:) at your mothers house, right!? hope we'll be able to finish it by then ;) cu in ho [...]
  • Emma: I did not read everything yet, but I like the idea of going there. I guess Ill get to see the movie [...]
  • Arne Mulder: Amazing stories dude, enjoy your last week over there and return home safe. :) [...]

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