Quote of the Day.

"Every life is a pile of good things and bad things.
   Good things don't always soften the bad things but visa-versa
   the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things or make them unimportant.
   We definitely added to his pile of good things."

- Doctor Who 
  S05E10


Xoxo.

Intern.

The new internship has started. This time I'll barely be at school for 5 months.

I'm an intern at a furnishing company in the marketing department to take care of everything graphic. My first week has given me excitement for the next 22. I can see myself walking around here as a part of the company. Pretty happy right now.

It is going to be a very busy period, though. I don't only work as an intern 40 hours a week, but I also have my usual job one day in the weekend and my last internship company offered me a job, which I will do in the evening hours after internship days. Not sure if this is a good idea and if it will work out, but only time will tell.

I'm excited.

Have a nice life,
Xoxo
Winnie.

Sziget '14 | 10-day journal.

>DISCLAIMER this is probably going to be a very long post. It is litterally going to be my diary from Sziget. I'm not expecting this to entertain you in any way. This is more just for me to look back to in some time. This blog makes it a bit more easy to find. So if you're not looking for a gigantic 11-day diary blog post, happily scroll along. Thank you, Love you Bye!<

Sziget 2014.

I think festivals are great. I went to my first full on (whole festival plus camping) festival last year with two friends and I loved it so much. I told myself I had to do this more. So this year I went to my second: Sziget Festival in Budapest.

Sziget Festival lasts 7 days and is held on Obudai Sziget (Sziget means Island in Hungarian) in the Donau. It doesn't only host some big music names but also has a lot of art shown over the whole island.

My musical favourited were, hands down, A Day To Remember, Bastille and Macklemore&Ryan Lewis. I enjoyed all those gigs greatly and they will be charished for a long, long time.
Jimmy Eat World was pretty fun as well and the little bit that I've seen and heard of Tom Odell was pretty damn good. On the last day I quite liked The Kooks and Calvin Harris, only I, sadly, wasn't able to see the big finaly with the fireworks.

The rest of the festival was greatly enjoyed as well. There was a lot to see ~for example the Luminarium a big balloon building you can walk through~, to do and to experience ~I bungee jumped~, there was great choice in food and the food was pretty damn good as well ~Zing Burgers are fantastically good~. The paying method they use here is quite handy, you get a pass you can charge money on and you just hold it in front of a scanner thing and you payed. The only things a not so cool about it were the charging, the lines usually were very long and the charging took quite some time, so you couldn't just 'go and charge your card' and it's a bit harder to keep up with what you payed and what's left on your card. Apart from that I loved it. Oh, and all the prices are Florint, so you do have to do the maths every time you want to buy something plus a lot of things in stands are only written in hungraian and a lot of the people working there aren't very good at english, so sometimes ordering something could be a little more challenging.

The festival is great. It's long, very long (7 days!!!!) (You can read about how tired I was here (you get a pack of Salted Caramel TimTams squished into your mailbox if you've read that whole blogpost) (Not really but I love you if you did)) But it's great. 

So much music, so many experiences. A lot of love from me. 90% would reccomend. ~You do have to be up for not too much sleep in a loud enviroment.~

Have a nice life,
Xoxo
Winnie.

A life lived for art is never a life wasted.

I'm not sure if you know this about me, but I have a fascination for Damien Hirst. One of my dreams is to go to a full on Damien Hirst exposition.

So when I saw some of his work was shown in the Netherlands, I had no choice but to go there and see it.

They were 'Photogravures' of For the love of God , other skulls and butterflies, all signatured by Damien Hirst. It was amazing. I got just this one step closer to seeing For the love of God ~I would almost go as far as saying my favourite Damien Hirst artwork (but I don't do favourites)~ in real life. 

This exposition was very small, so my mum, my sister and I chose to also take a look at the rest the museum had to offer. 

This was a good idea. We sawa lot of great things. One of them being an exposition on Mondrian & De Stijl, where we saw the Victory Boogie Woogie the famous unfinished Mondrian piece. 

There also was an exhibition that showed artworks from unknown artists. Regular humans could submit their artworks in the theme 'Light' amd a jury chose some works to display in the museum. This makes for a great variety in art. There was photography, normal paintings, mixed media art, sculptures, a little bit of everything. A lot of inspiration for me. I loved it. I saw some things I have to write down to not forget, for they maybe be useful later in time for school...

Have a nice life,

Xoxo

Winnie.

Ps. Please, if you have the chance and are interested in art, go to a museum. It brings inspiration and creativity and there is so much greateness out there. Something of every taste.

~photo's were taken with cameraphones, hence the quality. Taken by me and my mum.~

Welcome to your new family | Albums.

I went to Nijmegen again. Nijmegen is a great city in the Netherlands with a great recordstore. No way I will ever skip that one when I'm in this city.
So of course, I got some albums.

First of, I got Humbug form the Arctic Monkeys. This was the album I was mostly going for this time. Since I knew I was going, I told myself to get that one. And I did. The album id great. It contains Crying Lightning, something that makes it undeniable allready. But it also has great songs like Pretty Visiters and Cornerstone. Very happy to finally own it.

Next I got Save Rock and Roll by Fall out Boy. I've loved this album for a while now and I finally got it. Not really a lot to say here, I told you about my love for this album when I put it on number 4 in my 2013 top 10 albums. So it's just good to hold it in my hands now.

Then, I found Woodkid's The Golden Age. I think I wrote about this one as well in my 2013 top 10, so you'll know I love it. It's just a great album to come to peace with and now I have it standing on my shelf between the rest. So great.

There you have it. My last new buys. Very happy, as you can probably tell. I love just wondering around a recordstore and finding the little treasures you're looking for. Always makes my day.

Have a nice life,
Xoxo
Winnie.

Watercolor. | DBTC 27

No, this wasn't planned out. I know I happened to post something about my DBTC project a few days ago, but today I just got inspired and made something and I got confident enough to also post it on my blog.

This week I decided to experiment with watercolor. For a while now, I've been following the artist Allison Kunath, who is great with watercolor and I really love her work. 

Recently, I got myself a block of watercolor paper, to encourage myself to try things with that as well. I finally did it and I'm so happy with myself.

I made a circle filled with red, orange, yellow colors and I'm so happy with how it turned out. This is the kind of thing Allison Kunath makes and I was able to kind of do that as well. So, so, so happy! 

If you want to see what Allison Kunath makes, I will link you to her website. I knew what kind of technique she uses to make these artworks from this video she shared a while ago.

Have a nice life,

Xoxo

Winnie.

What is all this about? Go to this blogpost and you can read all about the project I've started for this year!