Past 5 months in a tiny nutshell

Okay, so I said last week that I was going to write a post soon about what I've been up to the past 5-6 months. Whale, here it is. Honestly, I haven't done much besides chilling at home or with friends, but there are  few highlights I'd like to point out.

In January, I went to this Enter Shikari + Cancer Bats gig in Amsterdam and guess who we ran into, while getting cash at an ATM? Rou Reynolds and Rob Rolfe!!! So we took a picture with them, I gave them a high five and said "Yeahhh" to which they started laughing. Our night was already made. After the concert, we also ran into the drummer and bassist of Cancer Bats, but we only took a picture with the bassist.

 

 

Also, my Bart Simpson sweater finally arrived:

One of the first times I wore this sweater, I went to my mom's place and on my way this girl came up to me and asked me if she could take a picture of me for a street style project she was working on. I was extremely flattered and said yes.

Andddd, a friend of mine helped me to get Yvo's artwork up the wall (finally!):

Also, I wanted to share a school project I worked on last block; a mockumentary. In this project I was the art director and was mainly responsible for the characters' clothing & make-up as well as set design.  I made a sketch of the three main characters, but unfortunately I handed those in before making a copy. So, I can't share those. Due to time restraints I was unable to go all grammar-Nazi on the subtitles, so they suck. Also, the camerawork is done badly on purpose, but the shots suck as well. I hope it's enjoyable in a way for non-Dutch speakers. One thing though about this project I am sort of proud of is that our team kind of tied with another team, who were superpro and won an award. Didn't expect that at all. We tied because somehow we made the entire audience laugh. Note: there was an awardshow soon after the deadline, where all the videos were shown. I love the commercial though; one of "Lensflare Pictures'" projects. It's a spoof on H&M commercials: "M&H", aka MEH.

Dancetour schmanzetour

Couple of days ago there was a free festival in the city where I live. Usually I never go there, because the people that do, are not really my kind of people. However, a friend of mine does - so I went with her anyway. We drank some alcohol in the park beforehand and I became a little tipsy, which made enjoying the crappy music much easier for me. Overall though, I still had a good time.

Feeling awkwardly out of place

Damn you, Lazy Oaf

Fuckkkk, every time a new Lazy Oaf collection is out, I can't help but drool. I wonder how many times I've mentioned this brand on my blog already...  A LOT. Why does this shit have to be so expensive? CHECK IT OUT:

Concept document shite

God, time for me again to keep my fucking blog up... I say this everytime, whatever. Anyway, I think I'll write another post soon about my highlights of the past 5-6 months, but right now I just wanted to share something I worked on past 20-25 hours for school. Me and my group didn't make the deadline, because the file was too big (1.06 GB..). Eventually, I compressed the file and someone else managed to upload it anyway, so I hope the teacher won't mind.  I'm really hoping he won't.

The assignment is to create an Android application with jQuery that centers in a city in the Netherlands. We picked Eindhoven for our project. Our deadline this week was to deliver a concept document and we were allowed to be as creative as we wanted to be. I'm the creative supervisor, so my task was to design the concept document. The name of our project is still a working title, so we're still going to change that later on. I worked for 12 hours non-stop - because I had to make a deadline - so a few sloppy mistakes were made. I only had an iPhone template on my laptop and I didn't know - nor did I have time to figure out - you could download an Android phone Photoshop template on the internet (which I now have anyway), so I used the iPhone one with an Android search bar pasted inside, lol. So yeah, that part is kind of sloppy (I only had an hour to make that page) but I'm still satisfied overall though. Managed to improve my Photoshop skills a little, hehe. The rest of my group worked on the text and because I was so busy with the design I didn't have the time to go all grammar-Nazi on it, unfortunately.

Also, I took my inspiration from the Effenaar and Dour Festival website as well as another concept document a friend of mine made once. If I look at the pages now, I see a lot of sloppy mistakes... meh. So, here goes nothing:

 

TWINSIES!

New shit

Yesterday, my sweater from Choies finally arrived and I'm so happy with it. It wasn't as 'oversized' as expected though, but I still love it. Unfortunately, because of this I can't wear it as a dress, but I guess now I'm able to come up with more creative ways to combine it. I'm used to oversized sweaters, so this is a new thing for me. It says 'Planet of the Greed Apes" (you can't really see that from this picture) and has a giant monkey with dollar signs on it, which is why I love it.

The second picture is another combination I tried recently. I bought a purple dip-dye shirt off Ebay and cut off the sleeves and collar, because this shirt also turned out to be smaller than expected and I didn't know how to combine it otherwise. You can see me wearing a bow-tie necklace, but I'm not sure if it actually fits, or if it's too much. I'm too lazy to take a picture without it though.

SHOES ❤

Today, I FINALLY got my 'care allowance'. I don't know if this is an actual word in English, but this is what Google translate told me it's called (in Dutch it's 'zorgtoeslag'). I've been waiting on this for almost two weeks, and have since been living on the edge money-wise. By that I mean eating garlic bread every fucking day to be able to get my belly stuffed without spending too much money. Thank god that's finally over. Have to be more careful though.

HOWEVER, because it's fucking sale everywhere it would have been a shame of my existence not to benefit from this. If the world is actually going to end tomorrow, life would become non-existent and carefree anyway. SO, I bought two pair of brogue creepers at my local H&M today for only 20 bucks!! Normally, it would have cost me 50, SO YOU UNDERSTAND WHY I ABSOLUTELY HAD TO BUY THESE. Yeah, I know my priorities are fucked up, but heeeeey the world's going to end tomorrow.

See how absolutely adorable they are?

One more thing, I finally fixed a bug in my blog. Well, it never really was a 'bug', but if you have a low screen resolution the illustration on the top left corner was 'cut off' and now I finally managed to make it visible to all resolutions by setting my wrapper background to transparent, lol. I already tried to fix this before of course, but somehow I overlooked it or something. Last but not least, I also added a 'Scroll to Top'-button. So, now you don't have to go through the hassle of scrolling all the way up if you're lazy and can press the small button in the right corner below. 
 
I wanted to end this post with a song; 'Floats My Boat' by Aer, which I happen to have on repeat almost all day since I got back home.

 HASTA LA VISTA!