cursed-soul

I have been working my behind off the last few months working on an immense series of levels for littleBigPlanet,
Heres some screenshots and trailers:




Trailers:
Levels made with Adi (Friend)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzPjWL…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZKtWZ…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQUf5B…

My personal work:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYx4Tu…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhL0mS…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHQjJm…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHQjJm…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_0W2k…
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More to come when I got the time!

Mocht ik opeens van jullie heen gaan
If I am suddenly gone from you

niet meer samen op deze planeet staan
Not standing on the same planet anymore

Dan wil ik tijdens die donkere dagen
In these dark days, I would like it

niet dat jullie mij in het zwart dragen
If you wouldnt carry me in black

Trek alsjeblieft de felste kleuren aan
Please wear the most colorfull of clothes

en wees ook alsjeblieft niet zo stil
and please, dont be so silent

want ik zal altijd naast jullie staan
Because I will always stand next to you

jullie zien huilen is niet wat ik wil
Watching you cry is not what I desire


en als ik dan naar jullie zal kijken
And if I am watching you..

vanuit een heel ander perspectief
From an entirely new perspective

Hoop ik dat ik nog een ding kan laten blijken
I hope I can still show one more thing

en dat is....
And that will be..


ik heb jullie allen lief
I love you all


Jullie als een gek zien dansen is wat ik wil
Watching you dance like you are crazy

Geniet van het leven waar ik zo van hou
Enjoying the life that I so loved

zet voor mij dus niet je leven stil
So please, dont put your lives on hold

Maar leef hem zoals ik het had gedaan
but live life like I would have done

en ik wil niet dat jullie in deze kou
And I wouldnt want you to be cold

Helemaal alleen komen te staan
and totally alone

Zonder mij is het misschien wel heel stil
Without me it might be quiet

Maar dit is geen verlies zo is gewoon het leven
But this is no loss, this is just life

en dat is heus niet altijd zo'n bittere pil
And it wont allways be this sour

en jullie hebben allemaal nog zoveel te geven
and you still have so much more to give

dus ook al klinkt dit misschien een beetje gek
so even though this sounds a little crazy

uiteindelijk.. valt alles toch weer op zijn plek
In the end, everything will fall into place again.

More to come when I got the time!

Inspirational quotes,
these ones got to me:


No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
- Henry Adams

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
- Henry Adams

Character cannot be developed in peace and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
- Ella Wilcox

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.
- Ella Wilcox

Underwear is such an emotional thing.
- Elle MacPherson

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
- Ella Fitzgerald

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
- Elsa Schiapirelli

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- Isaac Asimov

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln

People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be
- Abraham Lincoln

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardour and attended to with diligence.
- Abigail Adams

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
- Tyron Edwards

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
- Ivan Turgenev

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
- Brian Tracy

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F Kennedy

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives
- William A Foster

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
- Moliere

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.
- Charles Baudelaire

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.
- Ross Perot

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
- George Eliot

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life.
- Henry Moore

Happiness is the sense that one matters.
- Sarah Trimmer

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner

Creativity is to think more efficiently.
- Pierre Reverdy

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to... there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
- Ayn Rand

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson

You always pass failure on the way to success.
- Mickey Rooney

Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.
- Horace

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
- Joel A Barker

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.
- Elsa Maxwell

Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Lawrence J Peter

Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
- Orison Swett Marden

To succeed... You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you
- Tony Dorsett

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
- Robert Schuller

You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.
- Jim Rohn

People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it.
- Brian Tracy

Get a good idea and stay with it. Do it, and work at it until it's done right.
- Walt Disney

To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
- Kahlil Gibran

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
- Orison Swett Marden

Failing to plan is planning to fail.
- Effie Jones

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
- Warren Buffett

Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
- Publilius Syrus

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
- Jim Rohn

More to come when I got the time!

Under construction!!


The black/white cat one?
He passed away a few days ago.
Some motherf* drove over him.
And to make things worse..
the lifeless body was dumped in a garbage can.

I cannot express my shear agression and powerlessness at this moment.

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More to come when I got the time!

I am thinking!

Okay, I just got back from the photoclub (and had some dinner) so here goes.
It seems that this photoclub strongly focusses on the story within/behind the photo.
Now I am not afraid of this, But it did make me think about my work.

I didnt even had time to sit down and the conversation allready started about the story within/behind a photo.
But when is a photo just a photo, and when does it contain a story.
And should an artistic photo have a story to begin with?

Lets say for instance we have this photo:


I just want to focus on the cube part. (so: no title, no artist comments)
If I where to create this photo, I'd get some place to put down a cube.
Add some lighting to it to spice it up if needed, maybe try to make it feel dynamic.. who cares.
I get the shot, it looks great (for this instance).
there is no story behind the photo, there is no story within the photo.. but just the way it looks, the contrast, the shadows every element adds to make the viewer say "ahhh" or "wow".
Shouldnt that be enough for a great photo? or is it just a photo since there is no story being told.

Obviously I have seen my share of photojournalist's work...
People at war, starving people, massacres, the life story of a junky and much more.
And even without a story (title/artists comments) the photo oozes with "Story".
Call it empathy, call it shock, call it "Emotional trigger" it does something to you.

Now this might not be the best example since something that might end up fairly abstract cannot be compared with something as emotionally heavy as some of the better photosjournalism.
But I am trying to make a questionable point here.
When does a photo tell a story, and when is it just a very nice photo.

example:


Now, I created that shot..
how? well.. I saw a fly, I got my macro lens on my camera so I made this shot.
Yes, I shot in b/w but I added massive contrast.
To me it doesnt tell a story.. does it tell a story?
When editing I noticed that the fly was tilting his head a little bit and to me that added to the overal photo.
A tilted head might obviously be recognised as curiosity or amazement. (in this case at least).
But does it tell a story? (not to me at that time)
Does this mean that this is just a photo and nothing more.

If a photo needs a story to be of artistic value.. I should almost delete all of my work.
(wont do that, dont worry).

Last example.


I really love this shot, probably since it was one of the first shots that made me think beyond normal vacation-like photography.
Does it tell a story, hell no.
But is this just a macrophoto of a zoomed in caterpiller.
Some might say yes, some might say that this goes beyond the regular "Lets take a photo of a caterpiler" photo's.

Why should a photo without a story be any less than a photo with a story?


when does a photo become artistic? good question.... the following would be the very definition of artistic, it may or may not help.

1. conforming to the standards of art; satisfying aesthetic requirements: artistic productions.
2. showing skill or excellence in execution: artistic workmanship.
3. exhibiting taste, discriminating judgment, or sensitivity: an artistic arrangement of flowers; artistic handling of a delicate diplomatic situation.
4. exhibiting an involvement in or appreciation of art, esp. the fine arts: He had wide-ranging artistic interests.
5. involving only aesthetic considerations, usually taken as excluding moral, practical, religious, political, or similar concerns: artistic principles.
6. of art or artists: artistic works.
7. of, like, or thought of as characteristic of an artist: an artistic temperament.




Okay, enough mindramblings,
Upcoming monday I am invited to take a looksy on how the photoclub-members give critique on photo's and to meet the other (50) members.
After that we (the club and I) have to decide if I am a valueble member to the club.

It was weird to actually have face to face conversations about photography..
It has been a while.. almost two years.
I might have grown with my photography on certain parts..
others have rusted and need a good brush-up.

As a final note, thank you for supporting me



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Photocompetitions

So far I have entered 8 competitions.
One just ended, focussed on the Local beauty of nature. didnt win though.

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Summer has ended

The first signs of fall arrived at my door yesterday,
The tree in my front lawn is turning yellow and brown and the pathway is covered with its leafs.. Summer has ended.
Spiders walking and climbing around, flowers start to wither away and all the vibrant colors in my backyard are slowely fading away... Summer has ended.

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Ive released two example texture for your personal usage here:

(they also contain links to the textures)

More to come when I got the time!