You can buy my screenprints at the Bob Smit Gallery.
1 screenprint for only 30 euros. So check them out!
You can see The Little Red Book Series and the
Yellow Pages Series among work of others like Andy Warhol!
I used to have a camera in a (very old) phone which allowed me to sometimes take pictures of stuff that was happening to or (mostly) around me. What it couldn’t do was move taken photos out of the phone and into, let’s say, a computer. Don’t ask. Don’t say that it probably could have been done. Trust me… it couldn’t. Now, a couple years later, because of a major breakthrough in technology I finally did it! Please enjoy some of the subliminal messaging, people, places and situations I have actually lived.
In order of appearance: 1. guy on Leidscheplein Amsterdam had me tricked for at least two minutes, 2. Suus thinks it scary that the blue sky turns black eventually, 3. great sticker, stickered on toilet in club watt, 4. I was there when Paul McCarthy’s Santa Claus (AKA Kabouter Buttplug) was installed in the Rotterdam city centre. (Great moment!), 5. Something nice I saw at the WDKA graduation exhibition (2008?) If you know who made this, please let me know. 6. Daan is Tof just changed his name back to Den Houter, 7. A 2 cm. x 5 cm. sized sticker in the subway says ‘I love Marc Dutroux’ 4 times, 8. Eline getting ready for ‘birthday buikspek en bonen’ at Schiller, 9. A Print Service I wouldn’t trust with the printing of my presentations, 10. In Gent (BE) you can buy a Kurt Cobain action figure, 11. Back in the day when Suus was an Indian squaw, 12. A subway sign I had not seen before. Or since for that matter, 13. Mautaz must be the finest delivery bear I know. (this one’s for you Maksiem), 14. Marieke and Nienke making party at the ‘1 Jaar Woei’ Party (Parkzicht, Rotterdam) and last: 15. Rotterdam Binnenrotte Market Sign.
Great couple days in the food ’n drinks department. My favourite night shop’s selling (get this) ‘Duff Beer’. Shit yeah! The crate says the beer you thought you could only get at Moe’s. Pret-ty, pret-ty, pret ty cool huh? Not two days later I find out there’s one (1!!!) video store in town that’s still selling Ben & Jerry’s Half Baked icecream. Something to do with the owner of that shop buying the icecream all the way in Belgium… I’m not going to tell which video store it is, but they who must eat some now at least know there’s still some left. To quote the legendary Ice Cube ‘it was a good week’.
A while ago DC asked me to help ’em out with the art and direction of this book they were makin’ in a collaboration with André Platteel, a dutch well known author on (mostly) visual culture and Dennis Duijnhouwer, who did the (splendid) photography. I had me some fun talking on youth (and with youths) and deciding especially what not to do with form and coming up with this ‘forever friends’ section in which I tried to show the diversity within the similarity of eight of the books main characters.
I think it became an eye opening book on the youth of today and I especially like that it holds the promise of a somewhat more ‘opened up’ future of thought. More info through post editions. Good collaboration, everyone!
Nice to meet you, André Platteel, Maikel van Berkel and Josien Dragt.
