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How I became the village idiot (Unexpected effects of CC licenses)

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This is the picture of myself I found on the website of the well known UK newspaper The Guardian a couple of weeks back (check out the full article). I thought it was hilarious to see myself accompanying an article on the dangers of wi-fi signals. I also found it to be a tad worrying as I never really intended to have my goofy self-portraits spread out over the internet like that! So how did I go from being a normal young guy to a paranoid celebrity conspiracy theorist? I owe it all to Creative Commons!

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Cuidad de las artes y Ciencias

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The Cuidad de las artes y Ciencias or City of arts and Science in Valencia must be one of the most magnificent collections of architecture that I’ve ever witnessed! During a recent trip to the laid-back city of Valencia, Spain I had the joy of walking around there for an hour or so to take a few shots. I could easily pass a week shooting at this magnificent complex, but somehow I think my girlfriend wouldn’t have enjoyed that. It’s an impressive collection of buildings and if it wasn’t for the 10.000 other photographers and tourists, you’d probably feel like walking straight into the future on entering the complex. It’s unlike anything we’ve got in Amsterdam, except maybe the Eye Film museum, but on its own it fails to impress as much as the outer-space setting from the City of arts and Science. In the short time there I took almost 90 shots, and I haven’t even been inside anything. I hope you enjoy the photos!

Stanley Kubrick exhibition at the Eye museum

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A few weeks ago I visited the ‘Eye’ film-museum in Amsterdam for the first time. They started off with an impressive exhibition on Stanley Kubrick, the movie director famous for films as A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining and Full Metal Jacket. As those are all films that have had their influence on me somewhere in my youth, I had to see this.

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Time-lapse and stop motion video’s

Graffiti keuken - Graffiti by Roy Valk / Karski and THYZ

Last week I was invited to shoot a stop motion video with street artist Ives One. I can’t tell you for what or when it’ll be published, but it was loads of fun though! I’ve done some time-lapse and stop motion shooting with street / graffiti artists before and enjoyed it a great deal. I’m not really confident enough to squeeze them in between my portfolio but I’ll gladly share them over here! I hope you’ll enjoy!

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Light painting on the frozen canals of Amsterdam

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Ever since I discovered light painting photographers via CFYE, I’ve been inspired to try out light painting for myself. As temperatures at night have been hitting minus 10 degrees celcius and the canals are frozen solid, unique opportunities arise! Light painting on the frozen over canals of Amsterdam is something you can only do once in about 15 years! Together with a few friends we went out on the ice to create some unique shots! Tim van Vliet aka Reyone handled most of the light tools which we received from Twin Cities brigthest (TCB): Dana Maltby – who deserves the most credits for the amazing job he did on the lights.

Of course, I had to do a few normal long exposure shots as well! By the way, if you like this you might also like the shots I’ve done on the ice earlier this week.

Ice skating on the canals of Amsterdam

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It’s been freezing in Europe for the last week, and it’s no exception in Amsterdam! The canals are fully frozen, an event that hasn’t occured since 1997. People are ice skating over the Prinsengracht and Keizersgracht and everyone is having major fun with it. For me and hundreds of other photographers, it’s a unique chance to capture the city of Amsterdam for a different angle. Check out all the pictures after the jump.

Real winter in Amsterdam

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Appearantly there’s a real winter going on outside! The whole of Europe has been suffering / enjoying the winter weather. In Amsterdam people have been ice skating on the canals for the first time in at least a decade. I haven’t had much time to take pictures of Winter Paradise Amsterdam yet, but seeing I live closeby to the ‘Amsterdamse Bos’, I had a walk over the Bosbaan. The bosbaan is a two kilometers long, dead-end canal created for rowing games in the summertime. Right now it’s completely frozen over and perfect for ice skating, or a walk if you prefer.

Panorama Alexanderplein

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I absolutely love the Alexanderplein in Amsterdam. This small square / crossing in the east part of Amsterdam holds the Muiderpoort (one of the old entrances to the city) at one side, the Artis zoo at the other. Even though it’s in quite a traffic-heavy area, it always seems to be peacefull. I shot this panorama from a bridge looking over the ‘Plantage muidergracht’. See how it looks on Google Maps right here.