Staircases and Flower Pots

2007-10-27T10:05:00.001-07:00

it has been a really long time since i updated my blog. So to let you know a little bit about what i've been doing, read on.

The past seven weeks have been a little dull, i found a job which was great but it was at a logistics company for ericsson and to say the majority of people who work there have the intelligence of sheep is an understatement. the work was monotonous and repetitive, paid minimum wage and took up more than 40 hours of my week. so i quit yesterday. i'm now on the look out again.
This week has been the Dutch Design Week. Eindhoven is a very design orientated city and there are exposities and parties all week, one of which i'm recovering from now. Wouter and Alex have had there work set up and it looks really fancy they have three prototype lamps and about 6 or 7 coaster designs on presentation, as well as the programs they built for them on two computers.
In november we are going to prague, i'm super excited! we are going with a friend of wouter's who used to live there so he's going to take us to all the good spots :)
For my birthday wouter bought me a print of 1000 business cards, because now i am getting pretty serious about selling myself as a photographer and illustrator and when i meet people i should leave them with something so they dont forget me. and he also is going to take me to maastricht. Maastricht is an old town at the very bottom of the netherlands, i've been told it's very pretty.
other than that not much else has been happening. i've been taking lots of photos and i have now finnished my website, i just have to buy the domain.
i hope all is well in little aussie! it's really cold here, freezing overnight, hope it's not too hot there. sending my love!

2007-08-31T08:26:00.000-07:00

our new home!

small room out the back for storage:

back of the house from the back yard:

books...

cameras...

umbrella and chairs out the back

2007-08-29T03:37:00.000-07:00

http://sziget2007.walmink.com

Photographs from Sziget, taken by Wouter.

2007-08-27T07:28:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we moved into our new house. It's three bedrooms, two on the first floor and one on the second. It's typically dutch, narrow with a big window at the front. But the best thing is that it is clean! and we're not living with a bunch of other people.

Tomorrow i am giving a presentation at TAC for a studio space. In the evening i am going along to Dekate Mousa, a photo club. They have dark rooms and a lighting studio.

till next time...

2007-08-19T08:01:00.001-07:00

pebble beach in Ireland. 2007.

2007-08-17T08:50:00.000-07:00

just arrived back from Sziget (music festival in Hungary). Budapest was an amazingly beautiful city. We spent the week camping and not showering, music was being played somewhere on the terrain 24 hours a day for 7 days. Beer ran from low pressure taps at 380 forents per half litre (about 1.50 euro cents, i think about 2 AUD!) Towards the end of the festival my body simply refused to digest the thoroughly awful and often deep fried food served by lazy and entirely uninterested caterers. I wore sunscreen with an SPF of 10!! it was just as hot as the big day out but i managed not to get sunburnt! There were a few moments of relief from the sun, in which it poured down rain. Try to imagine the 10 000 people camping on an island basically trees and dirt without showering for a week. But on Sziget you get into a different mind set, clean is strange. On one of the days i went with Wouter, Alex and Thys to a Bath House in Budapest. We stepped out of the subway in the middle of a park and into a really massive old building with about 20 pools and saunas all with slightly different temperatures. The first one was freezing cold and the second quite warm, around 34 degrees. The hottest one i think was about 38 degrees. The saunas ranged from 40 to 70 degrees (ugh!). Overall Sziget was definately my best festival experience ever! If i am around next year i'll definately be going!

2007-07-31T09:36:00.001-07:00

i haven't updated my blog for a long long time. I have so much news that the task is almost daunting. soon, ik belooft.

In the meantime, last week we went to Hamburg in Germany to see a little australian musician called Darren Hanlon. Venue was tiny and echt gezellig (very cosy). German highways make long drives a little less dull:

There is no speed limit and apparently no need to use indicators. We were in the slow lane at 140 km/h. People passed us at around 180km/h...zoom! This sign frequently provided amusement, atleast for me. It's the exit sign:

Then to the concert, supported by a lovely australian female singer, piccolet (i think):

And then Darren. We spoke after the gig and he signed the set list for me :)

2007-07-11T09:29:00.001-07:00

Antwerpen. 2007.

2007-06-25T04:03:00.000-07:00

Photos from Antwerpen. 2007.
more to come.

2007-06-14T06:13:00.000-07:00

2007-06-13T13:12:00.001-07:00

last week i went to antwerpen in belgium. but i'll tell you about it later when i get my photos back from the lab. :) for now, here are some digressions...

2007-06-04T03:47:00.001-07:00

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2007-06-04T03:30:00.001-07:00

Alex and Wouter shooting the forrest. Limburg, NL, 2007.

2007-06-04T03:20:00.000-07:00

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Wouter diptych with tree. Limburg, NL, 2007.

2007-06-03T02:34:00.001-07:00

my new land camera (polaroid). EE100 Special. new cameras make for giggles and smiles.

2007-06-03T02:31:00.001-07:00

Eindhoven.

2007-06-02T17:30:00.001-07:00

night pub, amsterdam.

2007-06-02T17:14:00.000-07:00

sharks and ducklings in the canals of amsterdam.

2007-05-30T09:32:00.000-07:00

headache and dizzy from spray painting zines. this morning was sunny, this evening is dark.

2007-05-25T04:39:00.000-07:00

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2007-05-25T04:32:00.001-07:00

Boolean Rehearsal, thursday.

2007-05-24T04:32:00.000-07:00

This is a tshirt i made for wouter for his birthday. i hope he likes it :)

2007-05-23T04:13:00.000-07:00

Carli: Temporary citizen of Eindhoven, Nederland.
Residence permit and right to work.
now i have no excuse...

2007-05-23T04:07:00.000-07:00

Photographed from the train window. Schipol to Eindhoven. A man walks the trains with a tray of coffee and chocolates.

2007-05-23T04:04:00.000-07:00

Photographed with my new rangefinder on my last night in my old city. Coffee and drawings with friends and strangers in an apartment with wonky staircases and dull white walls.

2007-05-21T07:38:00.000-07:00

sunday we drove to amsterdam. it's only about one an a half hours away. we walked around the city amongst old leaning buildings and through narrow cobblestone streets. The place was packed with tourists, although being a sunday i imagine it was not as busy as usual. we walked through the red light district, feeling instrusive and awkward looking at the girls through swarms of peering asian tourists. I noticed the change in shift between the older fatter women during the day to the young slim women at night. We went to foam, the fotografie museum which was pretty nice. it seems the new trend of printing is on aluminium, not sure whether it is a process straight onto it or if it is simply mounted on there.
i think i'll give lovely amsterdam another visit very soon but for a bit longer.

2007-05-21T07:30:00.000-07:00

bikes in amsterdam!

2007-05-19T15:37:00.001-07:00

lissa and i made books on thursday. she taught me about hard cover binding and i showed her how to make a japanese pillowbook. she lives with her boyfriend bas, and they have a house with lots of plants and a friendly rabbit that rubs it's head on your foot. in the morning it growls.

2007-05-19T15:21:00.001-07:00

pplane.

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2007-05-19T14:45:00.001-07:00

baking tomatoes and rooftops as the sun sets. a sunny day where we cycled into the city and drank from plastic straws iced coffee. in a square watching people lethargically wasting their saturday. we spent the afternoon in second hand stores buying typewriters and love heart tea cups, slide projectors and old toy cameras. why oh why am i so attracted to junk? we drank beer from white bottles with pink elephants on the label, then to a rainy party where family were friendly and birthday pie in abundance. tomorrow driving to amsterdam.

2007-05-19T14:44:00.001-07:00

i dont really know what to do when i am in front of the camera, so i act silly. i am definately suited behind the camera. just to let you know, i haven't turned into a monster, yet.

2007-05-19T14:42:00.001-07:00

a dutch bbq.......more of a student bbq.

2007-05-16T14:54:00.000-07:00

shopping trollies are 50cents.
frietjes speciaal is hot chips with chopped raw onion, mayonaise and dutch curry sold at snack bars.
smoking is still allowed in bars, train stations and shopping centres.
coffee shops aren't specifically for coffee.
there's a bar on every corner and a church on every street.
it's been raining for a week and the breaks on my bike squeek.
every tuesday there is a market in the city and every thursday a fresh produce market on zeelsterstraat.
i bought three meters of fabric and made a new dress on tuesday.
on wednesday it was sunny and i cycled to the supermarket at 7pm and bought some vegetable and dutch cookies.
the dutch like apfelstrudel.

2007-05-16T14:52:00.000-07:00

Strijpstraat, Eindhoven, 2007. Polaroid back on Bronica ETR.

2007-05-16T13:08:00.000-07:00

Strijpstraat, Eindhoven, 2007. Polaroid back on Bronica ETR.

2007-05-14T08:28:00.000-07:00

Printed Matter Exhibition, April, 2007.

2007-05-14T07:33:00.000-07:00

Montreal, 2007

2007-05-09T05:26:00.000-07:00

Last night we went to Utrecht in wouter's new shiny car. I had my first taste of dutch traffic jam, although a small one. There are so many people here with so many cars that traffic jams can often reach from one end of the country to the other! We met with Jona and Daan at Cafe Belgie for some dinner and beers. There was about 100 different types of beers to choose from! I had a Flierfluiter and zee...something. Later on we saw Tom Mcrae, which was really awesome.

Today i've been busy with my new chinese ink set. Later on i'll do some writing. I'm starting to think about projects and showing work somewhere.

2007-05-08T05:16:00.000-07:00

Click on image to see a bigger version. I like looking at the detail in the petals. pretty :)

2007-05-08T05:14:00.000-07:00

2007-05-08T05:12:00.000-07:00

Today i went for a ride through the industrial area. One of the streets ran parallel to the canal.

2007-05-08T05:09:00.000-07:00

i've been going to this park every few days or so. It's just down the street from our house.

2007-05-06T05:00:00.000-07:00

this weekend i met wouter's parents. they live in a village about an hour away from eindhoven called oirsbeek. they are really nice people, they are divorced and both have partners so it was like meeting two sets of parents. We went to a windmill on the top of a hill where they were making flour. We were able to go upstairs and watch the grain fall between the grinding stones. We bought some speltflour and then made cookies with it in the afternoon. They were really nice. Last night we went to sittard and met alex and thijs and went for a beer and then back to thijs' place to play some poker.
today is wieke's birthday and we are eating pie :)

2007-05-02T03:14:00.001-07:00

2007-05-02T02:15:00.000-07:00

old school in lunenburg. april 2007.

2007-05-01T09:08:00.000-07:00

whisky for only 8 euros!

2007-05-01T09:00:00.000-07:00

2007-05-01T03:15:00.000-07:00

yesterday was queens day, a public holiday. on sunday night, queens night the whole of the netherlands is in party mode and coated in orange. Wouter and i went to Utrecht, about an hour on the train. At night the streets are lined with flea markets and games few can win. Wouter tried one where you try to eat three maria cookies in one minute. looks pretty easy but apparently qutie dry hehe. There were people everywhere and it was pretty tricky getting into bars. Utrecht is so picturesque with the canals and old buildings and pavement streets. It's a bit tricky when we're with a group because everyone is speaking dutch so most of the time i have no idea what people are talking about. Although it's cool to watch people's manerisms and such. They have qutie some nice beers here, i tried a cherry beer which sounds gross but is really good. The building we are living in is a student house with about 20 rooms and they buy bulk beer when it is on sale so it ends up being about 25 cents each, and then you can recycle the bottles for 10 cents each, so cheap!

I have been cycling heaps, it's so much fun. Until today i have been cylcing with wouter who knows his way around but today he is working at little mountain so i hope i dont get lost! the streets are not really planned out like halifax or sydney, and a lot of the buildings look very similar. On the weekend we painted our bikes. Becuase bikes get stolen a lot here, painting them makes them a little less appealing. I painted the body of mine a light blue colour and wouter painted his body bright red and then we'll switch colours for the guards over the wheels. We also got some glitter paint to go on top :)

This afternoon i am going to visit the van abbe, which is the museum of modern art here in eindhoven. My printed matter teacher from NSCAD lent then some a piece of art recently so i'm going to drop his name and see if i can get some work there.

This weekend we're going to Limburg, where wouter's parents live, to meet them.

2007-04-28T14:34:00.000-07:00

2007-04-28T14:11:00.000-07:00

carli arrived in europe this week.
she flew from halifax to montreal to zurich to amsterdam then a train to eindhoven. wouter got me a bike! we have been cycling around lots it's so much fun! tonight we went for a dusk ride and i ate a bug. wouter's room is really cool with a pointy roof. thrusday night we went to wouter's band rehearsal then for some beers afterwards, i met some of wouter's friends and they're really neat. last night we went to Alex's place for a bbq and salada. I am still pretty jetlagged. tomorrow we are heading to utrecht to Jona and Daan's place to celebrate Queen's night because it is her birthday on monday. apparently everything is transformed into orange (national colour) and lots of parties around.

tot ziens.

xx.