The conversation thing

Ik had aangenomen dat hij was al ingehuurd door Ben, anders zou ik nooit hebben hem die baan geboden.

Later, toen heb ik Ben weer ontmoet, en ik al zei ik had zijn Vicente ingehuurd, was hij verrast:

- Vicente? Hij heeft nog nooit gewerkt voor mij. Aah, hij herinnerde zich, hij kwam voor een proef. Ik heb hem gevraagd om met Martijn te werken voor een test . Hij heeft Martijn twee seconden geholpen, maar hij heeft de bar te sterk getrokken, en Martijn verloor bijna zijn vier dagen werken in het vuur. Ik heb onmiddellijk hem weg gestuurd. Nou ja, dat was lang geleden, heeft Ben gezegd.

En dan, hebben we over de grote rel, dar heeft gebeurd in de fabriek in die januari gepraat. I heb toen gedacht dat ik had een fout gedaan.

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Dit is hoe ik begon kijken naar wat Vicente werkte. Die wist dan weer terug, hij bleek de man die hij was in zijn jaren veertig worden.

- Heb jij die dag genoten? De hele ochtend en middag heb je op het strand doorgebracht…
- Het was geweldig! Hedurende vier uur, heb ik niet de stilte van de golven gebroken, en aan de horizon gekeken.
- Vier uur, en jij bent niet gedaan? ze heeft zoet gelachen. Je moet maar even schrijven al deze..
- Ik zal… , na een minuut stitle heb ik gezegd
Dan, hebben we over het nieuwe werk van La Chapelle besproken.
Al snel, hebben we aan de verhadering team punt aangekomen. Zij heeft wachtten we voor hen op een bankje in de zon aangeboden.
- Laten we gaan, heb ik gezegd.

Ik kijk uit het raam uit en ik zie veel groene bomen . De hemel is licht-blauw en de zon is bijna gaat slapen. Vandag heb ik heel veel dingen gemaakt gedaan, maar heb ik ik heb nog veel energie. Naast het stegje, zek ik een fiets. Wit met zwart, hij zit kalm en rustig.

Corrections:
Trix | Sorana

following the last two year’s tradition, here is a list of things I did for the first time in my life, during 2010. Enjoy!

1) was a paranymph at my fiancee’s doctoral defense at VU Amsterdam.
2) witnessed a full ceremony doctoral defense at Vrije Universiteit
3) was asked and got the ring on the Zeedijk bridge in Amsterdam
4) locked the love lock on the Hohenzollern bridge in Cologne

5) got married in Bucharest’s Town Hall with all my dearest friends and family and had a great party afterwards
6) helped organised my fiancee’s doctoral party and enjoyed the first official party in Amsterdam
7) got invited to an interview in Amsterdam
had my first Europe adventure when the volcano exploded
9) appeared on bbc.co.uk with my europe travel story
10) met Dr Calin Fabian Romanian ambassador in the Netherlands at Andrei’s doctoral defense
11) had my biggest so far extensive illustration animation job.
12) my team extended its reach from EMEA to Global.
13) created a new team in Guadalajara and met very interesting young designers there
14) had a personal business record of 186 email communications in one day with teams from around the world spanning across different timezones
15) fired the first team member from my people management team
16) accepted a new job offer in another city
17) had my first relocation to another city, and another country
18) got residence from another country
19) traveled to the Boston, United States
20) traveled to Stockholm, Sweden
21) traveled to London, UK
22) got our first neighbor party invitation
23) rented our first apartment with a rent of over 1000 eur/month
24) live on a small island 8 minutes close to the city centrum
25) visited Delft
26) were invited to the Romanian embassy in den Hague for the Romanian National Day party
27) traveled to Paris, France
28) got married in Church in Amsterdam in a Russian Orthodox church by a Dutch converted priest
29) had our friends and family fly over and enjoy the ceremony with us
30) bought our first real bed
31) had a lovely honeynight in a 4 star one-of-a-kind hotel on Keizergracht in Amsterdam
32) woke up to a lovely morning and left the hotel with the water taxi to our home
33) ran barefoot in the airport
34) had my first transatlantic flight
35) ran with Amir Kahn at 6:30 in the morning on a 5 miles track
36) ran 4 km on Sunday mornings with Andrei
37) discovered the marvel of Fallopian tubes
38) bought my first city fancy bike
39) had my first fall off the bike and sprinkle my left ankle
40) rented our first luxury car
41) had our first Christmas in Amsterdam
42) had our first guests to stay over at our place
43) bought my first Nude shoes
44) bought my first blue cocktail dress
45) had 3 hair coloring in a 7 days period - not good, I can tell you that
46) had a professional make-up artist session
47) got awarded at worldwide HP CIRCLE Awards for a digital marketing project with a ROI of over 130 times the investments
48) managed my first 6 figures budget
49) rented my first 1920’s theater costumes
50) designed and published my first professional book cover
51) got a 10 year visa for the US
52) I met for the first time Sint Niklaas, full ceremony
53) made my first pickles
54) painted my first series of portraits
55) lived more than one month in a business hotel
56) went to my first Sail festival
57) sailed with a sail vessel for 5 hours
58) went to the AC\DC 2010 tour concert in Bucharest
59) skied for the first time on the Varfu cu dor peak in Bucegi
60) visited the Vienna Art History museum

I revisited in the past week Eugene Ionesco after more than ten years: a theatre play collection of The chairs, The Lesson, Victims of Duty, Jack or the Submission, and Amédée, or How to Get Rid of It to mention a few. Absolutely amazing.

Interestingly enough now I stopped seeing the absurd in his plays, but more the incredibly crisp evaluation of human moments: childhood and adolescence: gathering and passing on of knowledge, burst of adolescence with its freedom quest and love motions; adult life: emotional distress and subconscious burst of blockage, artist and the quest for inspiration; old age: memories and death, the theatre subject as such.

By far the most authentic writer and the best book I have read in the entire year: and I have struggled a bit with books, trying old and new, famous or not, awarded or not - after this true literary experience, I can say that one year of reading resumes to “books, three at the price of two”. Ionesco on the other hand, even though i have known his works since school, I have never paid too much attention to him: in my mind, the term “absurd” had secluded his works in the idea of manipulating form in its most pure sense. I could say: form which leaves meaning as a side note; now, though, I have discovered incredibly succulent meaning in its plays - true metaphors that create powerful messages in the reader’s mind.

Going back to Schwartz Responsive Chord, I truly see Ionesco as a point of art expression where the chord is touched in the most ingenious way.

I have always been interested in how publishers, and I mean, big publishers, have constructed their presences online, and BCC and CCN - just to make a silly joke - were THE ones I have always looked up to and always checked their online presence for the trends.

In the last three months, though, I’ve rather watched BBC on telly, than checked the news online, while for CNN, I only watched during some business trips to US.

Today, after a long long time, I had again this idea … let’s see what news CNN has & what is on BBC, what are their designers doing … well, I was in it for a surprise .. : the sites look like each other. One might get to the idea that BBC and CNN will soon merge. Hehehe … I don’t really wish I’ll see it, cause that really means economy goes to dust … though it does look like the two want to make a pact of non-aggression, or they’ve both found the key to usability going through the same layout and color codes. Ah, another explanation could be that they share the same design agency designer

I am mean, I know. But look at the two printscreens, and then remember how many and significant differences were between the two giants, just half a year ago. To be even more mean, I would say that in this merge CNN is the one buying out BBC, since CNN’s design is a bit better. Eh, just being mean.

Finally! When I was beginning to think and fear, for that matter , that Google will be the mastermind of all information around the globe, here comes a google-competitor. Cuil.com, pronounced cool , is a search engine that not only provides results faster than google, but organizes information upon relevancy. God, that is refreshing!

I’ve searched for the keyword “streaming” and the results that i have received are organized into tabs: all results / streaming video / streaming audio / streaming media / etc Plus, each tab has a category organization that helps you better navigate through the results. So you either browse the results in the list, as you did before on google, or yahoo or any other search engine, or you use the embedded classification.

Going down on patterns (15′ 29″)

This experiment has a very unusual result, I filmed the whole moment in one move using b/w grain contrast. The movie in itself is powerful, but when I experimented with multiplications, I discovered that all of a sudden, the entire perspective has changed. I love the sliding cars and way light changes shapes.

Walking the hill to and through the Patriarchy Church’s park.