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First day in South Africa

Just a few pictures of the first day in South Africa. Jorien and her roommates took me to Loskopdam, a thirty minutes drive from their home in Groblersdal.

Petina driving us to Loskopdam.

Sunset at Loskopdam.

Sunset at Loskopdam

Petina, Jorien, Rianne and Laura waiting for dinner at the River Side Lodge.


South Africa, here I am!

Today I arrived in South Africa! Yahoo!!
My girlfriend and her roommate picked me up at Johannesburg Airport. After a two hours drive we arrived at their place in Groblersdal. On the way there: green hills, rocky slopes and monkeys. Well, just two of them But so cool to see monkeys in the wild! [...]


Musical inspiration from South Africa

Some music from South Africa I stumbled on while preparing for South Africa.
A really nice videoclip and track of Gazelle.

Gazelle with the sights and sounds from home shot on location in Ohrigstad Limpopo province on xander’s family farm with all the lovely people he grew up with… A dedication of respect to the [...]


Portraits of Jorien & Gijs

First three pictures from a portrait serie of Jorien and her brother.


Ignite: TED talks, but shorter and funnier

Do you have 5 minutes of free time? Take a look at this cool talk about Psion chickens, which caused a social meltdown in Second Life.

My first encounter with the Ignite talks was at the PICNIC festival in Amsterdam. I watched a series of five minute presentations. Passionate talks covering a range of subjects, [...]


Guardian laat informatie vrij dankzij API

Nederlandse krantenwebsites zullen niet snel hun content gratis weggeven en door andere sites laten gebruiken. Sterker nog, ze klagen je er voor aan. Doodzonde, vindt Chris Thorpe van de Britse krant The Guardian. Hij is van mening dat je je informatie niet achter slot en grendel moet houden als je je verhaal aan het grote [...]


awsome 3D video by YellowBird

3D video, that’s a cool idea by the Dutch company YellowBird.

They took 6 video camera’s, recorded the festival Mysterland in all possible  angles and stitch them together. Now you can experience it, like you’re in the crowd.
This I noticed extremely while I was ‘walking around’ in the end of the video. Suddenly the crowed went [...]


Romanian Parliament: biggest building in Europe!

The Romanian Parliament, also known as the People’s Palace, is the biggest building in Europe and the second largest in the world. Only the Pentagon is bigger.
It was build by the Romanian dictator Ceausescu in the beginning of the eighties, but he never saw it finished. At the moment which he was executed, in December [...]


A top league stadium for regional football

There is a huge football stadium on the outskirts of the small Romanian town. The building is almost a hundred meters long, half that size wide and at least 15 meters high. If packed, it could house up to twenty, maybe thirty thousand people. Easily. But today, only seventy people are visiting the game of [...]


Parking in Bucharest

Parking in Bucharest from Emiel Elgersma on Vimeo.


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