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Heroes

lemmyboy — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:12:45 +0000

It’s been a while again since my last pot here. But things are going good, lots of work and my motivation at school is finally going upwards again. Ayways, here’s what I actually wanted to say.

Today is the marathon of Rotterdam. Every year I go there to see all the people trying to give it all. I’m not even really interested in who is gonna win the whole marathon. But I just love to see everybody going all out for one goal. Just to prove themselves, something they can be proud of. Even though some don’t have any chance of getting to the finish it still is great to see them try. They are all heroes, just because they really try. It’s amazing to see people going through all the pain and suffering, and still they don’t wanna give in. That’s just so fuckin awesome, I wish people would have that kind of motivation also in different ways.

CMD Identity

lemmyboy — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:48:04 +0000

Internships are over, and we are all going back to school again. New location, new teachers, new schedules… It actually feels like a completely new school, only I still got the same friends. But I think it’s actually a good move. The location looks nice, although some stuff could be better (need to go to the toilet?! go home!!!). And I really do believe we are gonna have a good time here. But one thing still really concerns me though. Who, or what are we? I really don’t see somekind of identity wich we as students can relate to. For example take the 3 main websites (why the hell three?!) we have to visit in order to get our documents and stuff. And what do we see; Three complete different websites, with really weird structures and they even seem to communicate with each other wich really confuses the user. How come a school called “Communication & Multimedia Design” doesn’t have a good identity? or at least a user friendly web enviorment?

Now I know it’s freakin easy to whine about school… But this is really a big problem and apparently nobody cares. To be honest I’ve never much cared about these websites either. Butduring my internship I saw how important it is to have a good identity and not confusing the user by mixing stuff up.

Funky Forest

lemmyboy — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:34:07 +0000

Not so long ago I visited a really nice lecture from Mr. Theodore Watson. I knew that he was part the Graffiti Research Lab, but this presentation was a huge inspiration boost to me and my collegue Dennis. I’m gonna try to convince my User Experience Design teacher to get him down to our class and do a guest lecture so all of my friends can see how amazinly cool this is!

Justice

lemmyboy — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:47:30 +0000

Not only do you get to meet interesting people and learn alot from your assignment you get on your internship. You also get influenced by other types of video’s, games and music. I wasn’t really into electro music or what ever but since ever since David has put down the needle on these tracks I have to admit that ‘m really starting to like these songs. Check it out.

(ohw and justice is extremly creative! not only the music is awesome but the video clip D.A.N.C.E. rocks! Kanye (remember mtv awards?!) eat your heart out! Creativity over american dollars anytime!)

Rod Stewart, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, and fuckin’ Rick James, all on one stage! Brilliant!

you should also check UFFIE!

Got the fun back!

lemmyboy — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:44:26 +0000

For about 3 months now I’ve been working as an intern at NLXL. And apart from all the stuff that I learned here, I also got something else. For a long time I was completely bored at school and couldn’t motivate myself anymore to really experiment and go wild design-wise. I really was beginning to doubt if this was really what I wanted, cause I couldn’t please myself nore my teachers anymore with what I made. But thanks to NLXL I really got exited and motivated again. I even started VJ-ing (lots of new stuff to learn there)! Anyways, I’m working on some new graphics and video’s just to express myself and will show them later on. Damn I love to be a designer!

Chemical Brothers

lemmyboy — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:57:53 +0000

Durig my internship at NLXL (witch Rocks!) we had a goodbye party for Marcel who used to work for NLXL. The party wasn’t just a dinner, but we also went to the Opening act of the STRP festival in Eindhoven. The Opening act where the Chemical Brothers we had an amazing show put together. The Music was as aspected really good, but the visuals….

Here’s an inspiration boost:

Tag for life

lemmyboy — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:33:35 +0000

While riding around my neigbourhood as a temporary mailman I came across this tram ad. It’s about making people realize that to fight cancer we need more funds, more man power and more support. So they came up with “Love life. fight cancer.” But the great part about this advertsing was that there where lots of tekst bubbles on the tram where you and everybody else could make a statement or show your support by writing your name or whatever. So infact you are tagging legal to support the fight against cancer. I think it was a cool idea…

Kuler

lemmyboy — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:29:47 +0000

Ever had any problems with choosing the right color combination? In times of lack of inspiration and high study pressure I often take a visit to Kuler. The site is all about color combinations. You can either chose your colors manual or use certain formula’s that will match some colors to each other. I recommend everyone to browse through some pages and just make some favorites and eventually you will use them cause there are some really good ones in there. But keep in mind, great color combinations only work really well when you use them the right way.

Kubus & Bang bang @ Waterfront

lemmyboy — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:41:41 +0000

F*ck yeah! Last night was amazing! After waiting for about 2 hours, and watching a support act wich was nice for a few minutes, it was time for Kubus & Bang bang! And DAMN it was good! The beats where so raw, and intense, not to mention the energy and truely sincere ryhmes of Bang bang. Here is a clip of what happend in waterfront, the sound isn’t as good as it was (crappy camera and editting) but it shows a good preformance and a crowed filled with adrenaline. Damn what a rush…

oranda-oyatsu

lemmyboy — Tue, 29 May 2007 23:04:44 +0000

There are thousands of flash games on the internet, but most of them are really poor executed or are just plain stupid. But there are some that really make a difference. This is a game I found via the Flashfocus forum, and I really liked it. The graphic style is very nice, and the game shows the whole process of making “stroopwafels”! The weird thing is, that they made it look like some asian experience, and actually it works! Go check it out now!