Schnitzel Paradise

Ideas deathstyle project

2008-03-11T22:24:00.006+01:00

DUTCH
Zoals de meeste van jullie weten, hoop ik, ben ik op school bezig met mijn major project. Dat is zeg maar een project dat meetelt voor mijn master titel op het einde.
Het onderwerp waar ik mee bezig ben is uitvaarten.Ik ben aan het proberen een aantal producten te ontwikkelen rondom dat thema dat laat zien dat dood ook iets moois kan zijn, en dat het geen eenheidsworst hoeft te zijn. Iedereen is uniek, en alles kan gedaan worden zoals je dat wilt.

Ik ben eigenlijk heel erg benieuwd wat jullie van mijn ideeen denken. Dus laat jullie op- of aanmerkingen aan mij weten. Stuur me een mailtje, of laat hier een reactie achter, of op http://yvetteinedinburgh.waarbenjij.nu .

N.B. Alle dingen zijn nog in de uitprobeerfase, en vrij ver van producten die klaar zijn.
Copyright: Yvette Dijkhuizen ©, niets hiervan kan gebruikt worden zonder de uitdrukkelijke toestemming van de auteur.

ENGLISH
As some people may know I’m currently working on my major project for my master degree. This project is part of my course, and in this way part of my final grade.
The subject of my project is a range of products around funerals.
I’m trying to design a range of products that shows that ‘death’ can be a good experience, it can be beautiful, it can be done in the way you want it. Showing that every person is unique, making it a celebration of life.

I’m really curious what everyone is thinking of my ideas. So please leave your comments (positive and negative) to me, here, on http://yvetteinedinburgh.waarbenjij.nu, or by sending me an email.

N.B. Everything is still in a prototype phase, and these are not finalized products.
Copyright: Yvette Dijkhuizen ©, nothing can be used without the permission of the author.

IDEAS

NL: Dit is het logo van het project. De * voor de geboorte datum en de + voor de sterfdatum. Symboleert op die manier twee dingen in je leven die zeker zijn, dat je sterft en geboren wordt. Deathstyle komt van een term die vaak wordt gebruikt in de marketing wereld voor het feit dat mensen steeds meer alles zelf willen beslissen over hun dood en dat ook zeg maar al plannen en ontwerpen.

EN: This is the logo of my project. The * is for the birthdate, and the + for the dying date. Symbolizes two things for sure in life, you're born and you will die. Deathstyle is a common term in the marketing world for the fact that more and more people plan their own death upfront.

ZAKDOEKEN / HANDKERCHIEFS

NL: De zakdoek is toch het ultieme symbool voor verdriet. Daarom voor de directe nabestaande een zakdoek met daarop naam en data geborduurd. Eventueel zou je ook nog kunnen denken aan een klein gedicht, figuurtjes etc. De zakdoek zou dan voor de uitvaart aan de familie worden gegeven.

EN: The handkerchief is the ultimate symbol of grieve. Therefore for the direct family an embroided handkerchief with name and dates. Possibly you could think of a poem, or adding of little figures. The handkerchief would be given to the family before the service.

NL: Het idee om ballonen te laten drukken en die na de mis of op een ander tijdstip op te laten. Met in de ballon een berichtje, of eventueel aan een kaartje hangend. Als een soort laatste groet aan de overledene.
EN: The idea is to let the balloons go after the mass or on another time. With in the balloon a message, or possibly hanging on a ribbon. The letting go of the balloons can be the final saying of farewell to the deceased.

GRAS MONUMENT / GRASS MONUMENT

NL: Aangebrachte letters op het gras kunnen een tijdelijk grafmonument vormen. Hierbij denkend aan de tijd tot dat de steen komt, of bij uitstrooien van as als een tijdelijke markering voor waar de as is uitgestrooid.

EN: Letters applied to the grass can form a temporary grave marker. For example for the time till the gravestone arrives, or as a temporary marking after an ash scattering.

MEMORY BOX

NL: Dit zou een soort toevoeging zijn aan het bid prentje. Een doosje met daarin een klein boekje ter nagedachtenis aan de overledene (foto's, gedichtjes, en quotes etc.) en bijvoorbeeld de geborduurde zakdoek. Verder zou je hier kunnen denken aan een cd of dvd met muziek van de dienst, foto's, video's etc.

EN: This would be an addition the the memory card, handed out after a mass. A little box containing a little book in memory of the deceased (containing pictures, poems, quotes etc.) and for example the embroided handkerchief. Further you could think of a CD or DVD with music of the mass, pictures and video etc.

King.com

2007-09-21T11:45:00.000+02:00

Are you bored? No clue what to do? Maybe that's also the reason why you found this blog....
And maybe you fancy a game....
Go and have a look at king.com , great place to play games.
Look for edwardsfan2000 if you want to challenge me!

Lifehacking

2007-09-20T11:01:00.000+02:00

Lifehacking almost sounds as some kind of futuristic dream. People all have computers and hackers can enter them and in this way change their lives ........ but it isn't :-) .
Lifehacking are ways to a happier life, from efficient time management, to shortcuts on your computer, to how to talk to your teachers
>> See Lifehacking.org (English version)
>> See Lifehacking.nl (Dutch version)
I found some useful things on these sites and try to read them everyday.

Colour schemes

2007-09-19T19:12:00.000+02:00

Color is an important thing for any designer. Colour make emotions, they set a tone. Mostly I have an idea what kind of colours I want to choose, but my biggest problem is always to find a good set. Till I discovered Kuler from Adobe. A great online tool to create awesome colour schemes. This is my last creation - my James Brown colour scheme.

The Apple iRack

2007-03-22T10:29:00.000+01:00

Great parody, I can't help stop laughing. Oh yeah the clue is in the end.......

Number one in Google!

2007-03-15T10:30:00.000+01:00

I don't know how I did it but my Schnitzel Paradise blog is number one on the Google index list when your search word is schnitzel paradise. Quite remarkable in my eyes as schnitzel paradise is also the translated name of a dutch movie. Wowowowowow cool :-), I'm happy with it.

Daihatsu Copen

2007-03-13T13:41:00.000+01:00

The Daihatsu Copen is not such an interesting car, but with LSD doors ....
It is a beetle or something, I think it is a fascinating car in this way!
pic src = http://www.autoweek.nl/images/480/5/b9de19be07e743624dc89e237f441c05.jpg

Speakers

2007-03-01T10:35:00.000+01:00

Last year somewhere I posted my lamp speakers.
Some time ago I found a company who know actually builds these things, I have nothing to do with them. Damned if I would have I might have made some money.
Pic src = http://www.gadgetgarden.nl/soundolier_speaker_lamp.jpg

But recently some much cooler speakers came, the stereo stiletto's. Who wouldn't like to own some of these super stiletto's with great handbag as subwoofer?
pic src = http://www.mathewaudio.com/Images/Products/SS.jpg
I think that I just keep using my lamp speakers or my JBL Creature 2 speakers.

Deconstruction

2007-02-20T12:05:00.000+01:00

I have an enormous affection for buildings that have a deconstruction style. Like buildings by Frank Gehry or Zaha Hadid. Today I found one on Bright.nl, a theater in Lelystad. Taken from the site of UN studio, the architects of the theater; ....The building’s envelope is composed of an overlapping multi-faceted surface that, because of perforations, creates a moiré or kaleidoscopic effect....
It might be time to travel to Lelystad to see the thing in real time.
Pic src = bright.nl

Queen bicycle jerseys

2007-02-18T17:53:00.000+01:00

I've always been hoping for the day to come of decent Queen bicycle shirts, and today I found a link at Queenzone where you can buy something like that. I'm thinking of buying one but I'm not totally sure yet as I have more than enough shirts....
You can find the shirts here.My personal favorite, above ....

pic src = http://www.bicycle-gifts.com/rockjers/queen.htm

The past and the Future

2007-02-13T14:15:00.000+01:00

Aiptek pen tablet

2007-02-09T20:15:00.000+01:00

I recently bought an Aiptek Hyperpen 8000U at the Aiptek store.
I've been looking for quite some time for a WACOM tablet but in my opinion they were to expensive. It is also my first pen tablet so I have little to compare too.
Till now I'm very satisfied with my pen tablet, only thing I dislike about it is the mouse.
Thing is reacting very slowly and needs a lot of strength to be pushed around.
The pen is working very well, reacts also very well and great thing is that it needs only some drivers to function. I hate it to install large amounts of unneeded software.
The tablet is quite big quite big with dimensions of 34,2 by 33,6 by 2,2 cm. It is not really a tablet you take when traveling but for workstation use it is very good.
pic src = http://www.aiptek.de/images/product/100025_1_g.jpg

Online brainstorming

2007-01-30T17:16:00.000+01:00

Well I love brainstorming and mapping things.
Now I found two online tools;
- Bubble .us ~ an online mapping tool which you can use for brainstorming.pic src = http://mindmapping.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/bubbleus.jpg
- Thinkature ~ a kind of virtual whiteboard where you can add topics, remove them and move them around.
Pic src = http://mindmapping.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/thinkature.jpg

I do not really know how all these tools work, but I will try to find out the coming time. They certainly look good to me.

Source information: Bright.nl , http://mindmapping.typepad.com/the_mind_mapping_software/2007/01/another_webbase.html

iDuck

2007-01-24T09:48:00.000+01:00

Just saw this on Engadget and I think the iDuck rocks. Now just find a place where you can buy these cool things for a reasonable price.
pic src=http://plusd.itmedia.co.jp/pcupdate/articles/0404/16/si_iduck.jpg

Wireless power?

2007-01-22T14:53:00.000+01:00

One of my biggest material design dreams would be to have wireless power. That you wouldn't need a plug when using your laptop, yeah I know such a thing has a battery. But as your laptop gets older the battery gets useless after a while. Further it would be great just to take your laptop with you without any cables. Theoratically seen this would mean that you also can charge your mobile phone or iPod anywhere.
Well back to reality, there is a company that claims to have a wireless power technology called eCoupled, based on an induction technology. More info on their website.

How stupid are Americans?

2007-01-19T19:06:00.000+01:00

Just have a look at this and it just confirms what we already knew. But they are a fascinating nation ....

What were you listening today?

2007-01-17T19:54:00.001+01:00

As some people might know, I'm a big fan of old vinyl records. To be honest I do not have an extensive collection but enough to please me. Big part of the collection is my Queen collection, some of them unpacked, but therefore I have the digital version somewhere.
Now what did I listen today:
- Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen (Still my alltime favorite, I just love the sound of it, just uptempo and then Bruce almost screaming in his mic)
- Flash Gordon - Queen (Strange album, written for the movie Flash, but the sentence: I'm Flash, quarterback of the New York Yanks, and the bass of Mr. Deacon makes it rocking)
- Greatest Hits I - Queen( Yeah sometimes I just need a dosis hits to keep going and do some kaoke)
- Roger Taylor - Fun in Space (Drumer of Queen with his first and best solo record)
- Abba - Super Trouper (typing a report can be boring sometimes, and then such a record is quite fun)
- Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection (I just love the inlay and the whole cover, but the record is good too. Great graphical style the record cover has :-) )

All terrain laptop

2007-01-17T18:23:00.000+01:00

An all terrain laptop, jep such a thing you can use everywhere and anytime. It would be specially for the military, ambulance staff, firefighters and the police. But I think it is made especially for me :-) . Why? I like to feed my computer coca cola, that costed me 60 euro's at that point. Further I have the tendency to let things drop, my laptop never luckily till now. So I think my next laptop should be an all-terrain laptop, how great that I can choose from 3 manufacturers; Dell, HP and Panasonic.
Dell Latitude ATG D620 notebook.
Pic src = http://www.gadget.nl/wp-content/uploads/lat_d620_atg_300.thumbnail.jpg

DarkRoom and Youtube

2007-01-16T19:05:00.000+01:00

I had to do some typing work and therefore I tried Darkroom, the program I posted about a few days ago. To be honest it is a great program, brings back my first typing experience with using WordPerfect 5.1 on a 2.86 . It is a great tool, type full screen, two big disadvantages: no way to style your text (bold and italic etc.) and you only can save your document as txt file. This means that you always need Word or another processor to get a document everybody will be able to use.

Another interesting thing is the iPhone hunt Apple is doing, everywhere movies are posted and then again deleted. Just going to try it here with a Youtube movie with a persiflage on the iPhone.

L'Amour

2007-01-15T14:25:00.000+01:00

L'Amour, love, my favorite collection of Nokia phones. I felt totally in love with the Nokia 7360 when I saw it the first time, it is a bling-bling phone but it has something. A great play between a leather textured back, white plastic and metal. Further it is a telephone you can use to call, how rarely to have a phone without bluetooth and mp3-player.
I totally love my phone and when somebody sees my phone they always to hold it and see how it is looking.Pic src = http://www.nokia.de/de/28/186272.data.jpg

Your own Nintendo DS iPod

2007-01-11T18:21:00.000+01:00

Great thing I found today on Bright.nl is the possibility somebody found to put an iPod with touchschreen on a Nintendo DS lite. So now you don't have to wait for the iPhone, unless you want to call ...
Movie can be found here.

Ruba Rombic

2007-01-10T21:15:00.000+01:00

I'm totally fascinated by the Ruba Rombic serie designed by Reuben Haley. The serie is designed in 1927 as a line of glassware called Ruba Rombic for the Consolidated Glass Company of Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, USA. This glassware line was introduced to the glass buying trade in January 1928 at the annual industry show at the Fort Pitt hotel in Pittsburgh.
I'm just fascinated by all the forms that all the pieces have, I now and then have a look at Google to see what is ther while I find some new pictures every time.

Picture src= http://wisconsinpottery.org/Show/ArtDeco/Pictures/Muncie%20Ruba%20Rombic.jpg

Picture src=http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/images/large/2000_136.jpg

Dark Room

2007-01-10T09:19:00.000+01:00

Heuhm .... you're now probably thinking on some kind of gaylord bar, am I wrong?
Well I can tell you, you're wrong. DarkRoom is a program like Word but has a full screen function. This means that you can type and are not disturbed by MSN, Skype or anything else. The looks are a kind of word perfect 5.1 .I'm currently trying the programm, and I think it is working quite well.

Picture src = http://they.misled.us/images/dark_room.gif

Building sculptures

2007-01-08T12:24:00.000+01:00

I love those office gadgets with which you can play.
A thing I have for some time but becomes more and more fun is my magnetic sculpture unit.
You just use magnets to build a sculpture and when you're bored again you build a new sculpture.

Happy new year

2006-12-29T21:14:00.000+01:00

Dear all, I would like to wish you a very happy new 2007 with all the best you may wish yourselves. Just a great quote which I want to share with you again here to take in account for the coming year:
Live the life you've imagined,
go confidentially the direction of your dreams.Source picture: http://www.timesnews.net/UserPhotos/17319100_0645-fireworks.jpg

Firefox themes

2006-12-28T18:38:00.000+01:00

Most people will know Firefox. If not go to the site and download it, and you will thank me on your knees for relieving you from Internet Explorer.
There are ofcourse some extensions you need to let it run smoothly, most importantly the IETab while some website developers don't understand that not everybody has Internet Explorer.
Further there are enough other plugins to use.
The theme of Firefox started to irritate me so I decided to download a new one: Doodle plastik.

Weird mp3 player

2006-12-15T13:58:00.000+01:00

New mp3 players appear everyday, including clones of Apples' mp3 players like the Shuffle. Nothing new, but iRiver made a remarkable clone, especially the icons of the player are interesting.
Left: iRiver S7
Right: Apple Shuffle

I'm very curious what kind of user research they did to come to the conclusion that these icons suit the best to a mp3 player. There are some other skins available, but well yeah they're not so different.

Another new friend

2006-12-13T11:08:00.000+01:00

After playing with plastic and cardboard for a few weeks to create some models it was finally time to photograph the models. There I met another great new friend: Mr. Ed. He figured in several of my pictures, I think he is great. What do you think? Mr. Ed

Mr. Ed figuring in one of the models

Post it

2006-12-07T17:32:00.000+01:00

It might be known, but I'm a great friend of the post it. You can stick it everywhere, and if you have the real ones, they will stick there for a veryyyyyy long time. Post its are great to play with like;
Post it your office:

Make Elvis posters:
Or make post it movies;
>Watch it here, as Blogger refuses to upload this movie!!!

Or you can ofcourse use them as they're meant ;-) .

Yep I'm alive in case you're wondering

2006-11-27T15:16:00.000+01:00

I just have some short things I want to share with you. Just to show that I'm alive.
A picture (promoboard (I mean it is 1.00m by 0.75m)) I bought recently from Freddie Mercury and Brian May;
I love the picture as it is black and white, two great rockers, and a superb picture.

This is some artwork which I made during some of my last Photoshop experiments;
Yep that's me, you're right, well seen.

Bruceeeee

2006-11-08T13:52:00.000+01:00

I've been to Bruce Springsteen on Monday (6th of November)in Cologne (SETLIST). He played together with the Seeger Sessions band, they totally rocked. Great concert, Bruce was relaxed and everybody was having fun in the audience. I´ve to admit I´m a Born in the USA fan (the only album I really know well from him). But this gig was cool, country, jazz, western, folk music, big band mix, I loved it. So if you have a chance to go and see him GO NOW.

Pacman chart

2006-11-03T13:39:00.000+01:00

I found this at the Core 77 weblog and I just think it is cool;

More great charts, check here.

Zorbing

2006-10-30T14:39:00.000+01:00

Are you thinking what to do tomorrow because you've bungeejumped enough? Go Zorbing.
Just found this crazy sport on the internet when looking for a plastic ball on Google.
It is fairly simple, you get into a large inflatable sphere and enjoy your ride downhill.
For us Dutch people this might be a bit harder, but I think this should be possible in Limburg.

Ipod dock rock

2006-10-27T18:03:00.000+02:00

Ipod docks from stone, this just looks enormously cool. Everyday new Ipod products appear around the net, but I like this dock from iStone.

Quote

2006-10-25T15:43:00.000+02:00

A quote I found back on my desk at home yesterday:
"Live the live you've imagined - go confidentially the direction of your dreams."

Mop

2006-10-20T12:19:00.000+02:00

What is this? It is a mob

Oh no :-D . It is a Dog.

My first Ipod

2006-10-19T09:37:00.000+02:00

Tadpole designed this Ipod cover for kids, with extra big handles. So now your kid can enjoy your Ipod too and you can be less afraid that your beloved music library will die.
This whole thing reminded me of the Fisher Price camera;

Interested in a little trip?

2006-10-17T11:50:00.000+02:00

I know it was real, I had heard from it: "Kaffee-Kuchen fahrten" (information trips) to crematoriums. I know you might find this morbide, imagine the idea that the old ladies club joins in. I don't think this is morbid as it is a great way to show people what is hapening in a crematorium and that it is not scarry at all. It also sets the discussion what do you want after your death, never wrong to think about that point.
Now I found a German funeral undertaker offering this kind of trips. Okay but when I was reading it, I had to laugh, this is morbid (sorry it is in German):
Translation: At 9:30 we will have a tour through the crematorium of Geleen. Followed by a visit to the Christmas fair in Aachen.

Darth Vader goes USB

2006-10-16T15:41:00.000+02:00

Firstly I'm not a Star Wars fan, but this gadget is incredible.
A Darth Vader USB stick.
Darth Vader will save 1 GB of your files in his body.
I'm wondering when the Lego man edition will come.
Source: gadget.nl

Yahoo Time Capsule

2006-10-12T09:54:00.000+02:00

One of the most recent projects from Yahoo to make a digital time capsule.
I know it's not new, but I find it admirably interesting to see what people left.
It is just amazing to see and scroll around, great voyeurism.
Taken from Bright.nl

My new friend

2006-10-11T14:39:00.000+02:00

This last week has been very bright with my new friend Gunther der Flieg.
He visits me almost every day, and today I decided to show him to the world.

J.O.B.

2006-10-06T11:18:00.000+02:00

Due to my internship I'ven't had much time to update this weblog, but today something interesting came to my ears. My boss at my internship heard this during a meeting of his from a german professor; Herrn Prof. Hans Nickel .
A slogan that should be perhaps accompanied by "Make your live a JOB. " Just think about it .......

Picture show (2)

2006-06-21T10:54:00.000+02:00

The rest of the pictures;

Picture show

2006-06-21T10:39:00.000+02:00

It took some while to post here again, been very busy with school. But finally made it through my project and my self evaluation. Now time for a little fun.
This are some pictures shot during my project, that I wanted to show to you.

Queen Ipod

2006-06-12T11:23:00.000+02:00

On the iBirth weblog an idea was posted to bring out special Queen ipods. This as a birthday surprise for Freddie Mercury's 60th birthday. As a queen fan I think this is a great idea. Though the ideas posted were a bit lame.Though I think a better job could be done on it. And this inspired me to make my own version. A gold colored version with crest printed in the clickwheel. Logo on the front side. Back just silver as normal with engraved Queen crest.

Funny games

2006-06-09T12:00:00.000+02:00

I like to play these funny little games, which cost little time, but can be a bit difficult. Not too much otherwise it is no fun when you will never reach the finish.One is Freerun, it was a bit hard to master but when I got the hang it was a bit simple. Just too bad it is only one level. My time now is 2:15 but this could be better I think :-).
The other one is drag racer. Again such a stupid game, you just have to tune a car and race. I do not play this game strategically, just for fun.
Orangutwang, is a funny game from teagames.com. You have to grab all the bananas, and you use the rings to climb higher.

Sponge Bob

2006-06-03T21:14:00.000+02:00

First of all Sponge "Bob the Runner"

Now Sponge "Bob Freddie Mercury"

Stupid frog

2006-06-01T12:55:00.000+02:00

As a big fan of Queen I don't understand the Jamba company. That first Crazy Frog thing was bad very very bad. Now they decided to cover We are the Champions from Queen. Oh lord, it really is bad because probably thousand of breezah kiddies will download this song and it will be a hit.
For this time the video here, watch it once and then promise me never do it again.

Superhero

2006-05-29T14:56:00.000+02:00

The proof I'm a superhero. Click here.

Buzzer

2006-05-29T14:17:00.000+02:00

No this is not about the MSN buzzer, although that thing irritates me most.
Buzzer is a dutch agency which works on the word of mouth campaign.
People can sign in there, and fill in a profile with things they like and about what they like to talk.
The copmpany (Buzzer) has contacts with different businesses and on a certain moment gets products to be tested and to be talked about.
Then depending on your profile a test is sent and when there is a match, there can be signed up for the campaign.
Well now what is a campaign?? People get the product at home (this can be a book, CD, game, service etc.) . They can keep this product and try it out. The clue is that they talk to other people about it and tell them more about the product. In this way spread the word of the product.
The people then report back to Buzzer to whom they talked, what they think of the product etc.
I lately was selected to buzz the game: "Vroeger of Later" from Jumbo. You can get an impression of the game on the site of "Vroeger of Later". I can't tell you yet what I think about it, because I met my friends sunday, but it was our cinema night :-).
So as soon as I can tell you all more about it if the game is worth playing. I'll let you know.

Cheap printing

2006-05-22T12:53:00.000+02:00

A lot of ID students with me will know this problem. You have to print your final report. Printing it at the faculty is useless, it looks crap. Same problem when you want to print your portfolio, printing this will approximately cost you 100 euros or more.
Today I found this great service on bright.nl called Lulu.
They print books, but for several of their issues, you need a small amount of pages(35) to have it printed. And you also can order just one copy. Cool if your write books, but portfolio's and end reports must be able too. So check out the site and who knows maybe it can help you.

Improbable Research

2006-05-21T12:29:00.000+02:00

I saw the link to the institute of improbable research today when looking at Nu.
This institute recently opened a new European research bureau in Rotterdam in the Natural History Museum Rotterdam.

Their goal is " to make people laugh, then make them think. We also hope to spur people's curiosity about science, and to raise the question: How do you decide what's important and what's not, and what's real and what's not -- in science and everywhere else? "

Great site with all kind of research topics you think, euhm yes, and later you really start thinking, there is something interesting about it. Just like their idea about using dogs internal clock for medicating people, see here.

Murder (2)

2006-05-21T11:33:00.000+02:00

Friday we made the floor decoration on school, as you can see a bit down.
Now there has been this action of Spits (a Dutch newspaper) together with 6Pack (cool tv show) to cut out "a t-shirt" from the Spits. The idea was to make a picture with something that wore the shirt and MMS it to the 6Pack site.
This is what someone who helped on the floor decoration send in, I think it is a good one;
More entries can be seen here.

Murder?

2006-05-19T13:21:00.000+02:00

Today it was time for some fun at school. Someone decided that a bit of floor decoration was needed. Inspired by Baantjer, the famous Dutch detective serie the following decoration was created. Now see how long the tape sticks to the floor.

Share links

2006-05-18T14:30:00.000+02:00

Today I want to share some cool links with you all.
First of all: A dutch radiostation 3 fm made a cover of We are the Wolrd from USA for Africa.
They called it We are the Worst. The singing is bad, but it is great fun to watch.
Watch here.

Second a blog I read almost everyday from the magazine Bright. Unfortunately for some people it is in Dutch. It is a kind of Tech, Design and lifestyle magazine with an online blog. They have some great links and all kind of things evryday. To see the blog, click here.
They had this great link there yesterday to Peekvid.
This is an site where videos that are posted on youtube and googlevideo are found together. Mainly tv series, music videos and anime. Well the anime isn't very interesting but the music videos and series are.
Another interesting nlog I read from time to time is the DECO blog.
This blog mainly is about products with a user interface, but still sometimes very interesting things pop up here. So always worth to read quickly.

Folding screen

2006-05-16T11:40:00.000+02:00

Another project finished for school is a folding screen. Three MDF plates, 9 mm thick, 2 by 1 m. The folding screen will function as a wall to hang inspiration and ideas.The brown areas will be used as notice board, sort of softboard. Well normally it is used as an foundation for parquet, but I'm using it to stick pins in it.

Lamp speakers

2006-05-16T11:12:00.000+02:00

I've been playing with this idea for quite a while, put speakers into lamps. Lately I decided to finish this project and actually built the speakers. I
bought some cheap speakers from the local computer store. A friend of my mum was so friendly to give me two old lamps.

First I removed the speaker cases and cut all the wires. I then soldered soem wires again and glued the speakers into the lamps. Then I soldered the rest of the wires.
To be honest it will not bve completely safe with 220V and just some ducktape as isolation.
The sound is also not supreme as I already used cheap boxes, I put them upright and put them in a covering case.

But here some pictures to show it:

My desk with the two lamps as speakers.The control unit.The speaker in a lamp.

Cardboard

2006-02-17T15:18:00.000+01:00

A pile of cardboard cards for my paper prototype.

Holiday pictures

2006-02-14T16:51:00.000+01:00

I've been on holiday to France two weeks ago. I went to Saint Sorlin d'Arvez in the neighborhood of Corbier. I didn't shoot too many pictures because I was snowboarding. And that is much more importan ;).

New Desktop

2006-02-06T13:26:00.000+01:00

I've created a new desktop today in 5 minutes. Wow what a time you will say. I took some pictures from the digital collection of the new york public library, I told Picasa to make a collage and voila, done. So this is the result, it might need some improvements, not sure yet.

2006-01-21T17:44:00.000+01:00

Today I went to "the Vlasroot" and I saw this amazing sky with light breaking through. I particurlay like the black and white pictures.

2005-12-27T10:32:00.000+01:00

This are some pictures I made during my stay in The Hague, the Netherlands. I was just having some fun in the night and in the car.

Glowing ball

2005-12-06T10:11:00.003+01:00

Yesterday evening I was experimenting a bit with my magic LED ball I became for Sinterklaas. I'm not totally satisfied but it still delivered some nice pictures.

Just some fun

2005-12-02T11:00:00.000+01:00

Yesterday I thought about pepernoten and my schnitzel paradise, so this morning I decided to make this, just for fun. A "pepernoten schnitzel".

Sinterklaas Queenforum banner online

2005-11-30T09:34:00.000+01:00

Yesterday my Sinterklaas banner was put online on queenforum.nl . I think it looks good. Here can you find the link to the Queenforum.

More greek photo's

2005-11-29T16:00:00.000+01:00

As promised more photos of my infamous greek serie. Maybe I'll upload more, but I think it is time to make some new photo's at home. And some new photoshop work should be able to come your way.

Greek Photos

2005-11-28T09:56:00.000+01:00

I've been to Greece this year and today I was scrolling through my pictures file and I found some great photo's, so I decided to upload a few. This is my infamous "Palm Tree Series".

New template

2005-11-25T12:10:00.000+01:00

I've tried a new template, because the other was was starting to bore me. This one is very very simple, but I like that. I'm playing a bit with the colors, the link colors still have to be changed as well as the font colors. The color of the post titles and blog titles is #9E0000, the text is going to be grey: #616161 or #9E9E9E . The links going to be something witht he following color; #EB0000 or #9E3500 or #EB4E00 . Interesting link for color schemes can be found here.
So come back in a few days and it is changed here completely.

Queenforum Banner

2005-11-22T21:45:00.000+01:00

Again it was time for a new banner for queenforum.nl This for the commemoration of the day Freddie Mercury died. This banner was used as inspiration.

Creative Lights

2005-11-18T09:48:00.000+01:00

2005-11-18T09:26:00.000+01:00

I've shot these pictures during my bicycle ride home from school. Some pictures are moved because I shot the pictures riding my bicycle but that still creates something cool to my pictures.

2005-11-14T16:06:00.000+01:00

The new middle part.

New topleft

2005-11-14T10:57:00.000+01:00

This is the new top left I've used. I'm currently trying a bit to change the template, because I don't really like standard templates, but I like the style, so it really is customizing.

Sinterklaas QueenForum Banners

2005-11-13T12:14:00.000+01:00

These are some banners I've created, I'm still a bit searching for the one that will be used. But I think the banner above is the most promising. The one in the middle is very subtle and the last one is a bit too much.

2005-11-13T12:06:00.000+01:00

This is a recent Photoshop I did. I'm a member of the biggest Dutch QueenForum. And in Holland yesterday Sinterklaas arrived, Sinterklaas is a childrens celebration. Children get presents and candy, it is a bit like Santa Clause.
For the forum I Photoshoped the members of Queen a bit in a Sinterklaas atmosphere. It is merely for fun this picture.

My recent Photohsop work

2005-11-12T09:48:00.000+01:00

I'm currently using Photoshop 7.0, this because my laptop is too slow to be able to work with Photoshop CS or Photoshop CS 2.0 . But Photoshop 7.o will do just fine.
I've been creating some PhotoSoups. Which I'll be posting here so now and then.

A lovely Schnitzel

2005-11-11T11:41:00.000+01:00

A lovely schnitzel, just like I like to have them. Well this is probably the only Schnitzel related picture and text you will find here.

Welcome to the Schnitzel Paradise

2005-11-11T10:53:00.000+01:00

Hello all,

This is my first post on the Snitzel Paradise. I'll be updating my blog every day, or at least I will try. Where will I'll be talking about?
Euhm not too much about Schnitzels although I love Schnitzels.
You can see this as a kind of place where you have an opportunity to look into my brains and see my work. I'm currently studying Industrial Design so sometimes I'll do something which I will be posting here so that you people can give feedback on it.
If you want to know more, email me or comment.

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