In: Graduation| Journeys| Video Projects
18 Feb 2010On december the 29th I flew back to The Netherlands from Lisbon, Portugal. My internship at CheckTheGate had come to an end. After very nice goodbyes with both company CheckTheGate and other people that I’ve met over the past 4 months that I was there, I was packed and ready to go back home to [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
Exactly 7 days ago I arrived in Lisbon. Around this time I had my first Portugese beer, but my first week is now truly over and real life is about to start again! And what better way to end my sightseeing time with a day at the Atlantic ocean and swimming in it before meeting [...]
On the fourth day Linda and Marielle (also from my faculty in Holland) joined us to visit the castle and gaze at some amazing viewpoints over the city. The castle itself is nice, but for me personally the view was the most interesting. There wasn’t a lot of information about the castle itself, allthough you [...]
So, I’ve finally arrived in Lisbon almost a week ago now. After a strange flight that involved two firetrucks fixing the right wing of the plane at Faro airport while we were escorted into the terminal, the same plane touched ground in Lisbon a few hours later with a small delay of about an hour. [...]
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 [...]
I’ve been putting this off on my blog for a long time because everything was still a little uncertain, but now things are finally starting to pay off for me regarding to my internship. I Had to fill in a lot of forms again (just like with Turkey) over the past few weeks, and make [...]
When I got back From Slovakia, Hungary and Poland I went to Vlieland island with my mother and brother. My brother arranged this for my mother. We would only stay for the weekend and my mother would stay there the whole week with a friend of hers enjoying the sea, the dunes, the beach et [...]