So, I’ve been thinking about doing some sort of mix, album, compilation, podcast sort of thing for a while now. I finally decided to just try and do it. I started working with the ‘winter’ theme, selected my favourite songs that in one way have a winter feeling to them (not Maria Carey, Wham! and more of that christmas crap, just alternative songs that seem to be suited for the wintertime..atleast for me), and put them in a big list. I then put them in an order which I thought would be exciting. Deleted some songs which didn’t feel appropriate to this album, and then put them all together in a nice little download for you. It turned out not as a ‘mix’ but see it more as a ‘blend/compilation’. It’s purely for fun and just to play around with some songs that I thought would form a lovely album. Have a listen if u like and let me know what u think! Click the image to get your’s or click HERE. Enjoy!

After 150 blogposts here I was looking trough my ‘dashboard’ statistics. I noticed that I get a lot of visitors every day that end up here via google. When I looked up when my blog appeared under the search term ‘portfolio poster’ I found that my work is image #2 you see, and the 7th web link you’ll see. It’s an old experimental poster I did whilst studying graphics a couple of years ago. Quite remarkable that my blog/work is already quite high up in the google hits. Also when you google ‘avant garde poster’ or ‘avant garde font’ my work seems to appear on the first page.

Made a colorful painting  with Brit thats now hanging above my desk

apple crumble!

pineapple frenzy

Other then the above I went out with friends, watched a couple of films, finally started Mad Men season1, worked on my dissertation, reworked a couple of briefs with Neil, gave my room a proper cleaning (it’s always tidy but covered with cobwebs…) Made some progress on the RvZ website and of course enjoyed the lovely workshop by PunchItUp! Back to work now, starting the YCN competition briefs!

As you might have noticed by the lack of blogging..Busy times at the moment! We’ve been working on numerous briefs over the past few weeks, we hade a couple of workshops/lectures, London bookcrits, disssssertation, and a lot of other things going on. So this weeks brief came as a welcome relief to all of us 3rd years creative advertising students: The Creative Detox! A week of catching up sleep, doing things u postponed for a while, reflect back on your work…or even your life if you want to. A week filled with nothing..only 1 workshop, the creative detox, on thursday. I can’t wait to see what that is like. For the rest of week im planning to go for a couple of runs on the common, make a painting with my girlfriend, e-mail or call some friends and family back in Holland, watch a lot of films and documentaries, make a nice meal for me and my housemates (inc deserts), read that copywriting book I purchased but never really looked at, flick trough ‘the art of looking sideways’, practise my guitar skills, rework some old briefs and get pissed (actually, I bought the biggest bottle of Cobra beer I could find when I walked out of uni at 12.45 and enjoying it right now) See u all next week!

Neil as an evil clown ft. Stefan the Cow (?)

World’s shittest playground:

Stumbled upon this 1943 Willys Jeep in the Lincoln high-street yesterday. Ive always been interested in WW2, and visited many museums, but never saw a real Thompson up close! Too bad they didn’t let me hop on and stand behind the 50.cal for abit!

After last years succes, the Lincoln Ink houseparty is back!! Check out these promo posters me and my dutch housemates made to promote the party:

I recently saw ‘Moon’ in cinema. Didn’t really know what to expect…just went for it. I was really struck by the set design, costume design, ..just the whole film in general was really good in every aspect. Interesting story, good casting, and just the whole vibe felt right. Really good film! If u still can, go and check it in the cinema

I’m not gonna try to explain what it’s about, just Visit the official Moon website

Last week I had my best friend back from Holland visiting. It’s good to extend your horizon, And live and study/work abroad like I did, But consider that you also leave a lot behind. But it was really good to spend some time again and catch up. We went for lush dinners, played some football, watched a good film, drank refreshing pints, had nice lunches, I even gave a little cultural tour around Lincoln, we played some darts, went out, but mostly…talked about all the fun times ‘back in the days’! There was some trouble with his journey back home to Holland…but he landed safe and sound in the end.

Here’s Ruud ‘back in the days’