I took a short, spontaneous trip to Holland, which seems like one big blur of colors, lights and people in retrospect. There was the sea, pancakes and Belgian beer, there were old friends, new friends and unexpected encounters. We would go swimming in the morning and I got to ride around on my old, dilapidated [...]
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Haagse Lente
In November while I was visiting my old home in Den Haag, I found myself sitting on the balcony talking to Annie. The temperature was somewhere around freezing and in the middle of our conversation she made a statement that stuck with me: “I am like you, Lars, I love Den Haag and I have [...]
Dutch Delight
I recently stumbled over something called the Dutch Light, apparently an ancient theory postulating that the light is different in Holland than anywhere else in the world. Having come to the world’s attention by the Dutch paintings, it was supposed to possess a specific quality, clarity and brightness not shared by anything else in the [...]
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10 moments of 2010
Wrapping up 2010 with a bunch of impressions. Here’s to an equally great 2011.
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Jumboliefde
Returning to Berlin, I really wanted people to ask me what I had done in Den Haag just so that I could answer “I went to the supermarket a lot.”. Having barely arrived in Den Haag, I was told about a new supermarket chain that had a special policy in place, enabling the inclined shopper [...]
Fully submerged
Something I always enjoyed about Den Haag was that the place seemed somewhat removed from the passing of time. Not only did it barely change since I first went there 4 years ago, it also looks historic in many places, which allows me to take pictures that could have been taken in the exact same way 30 years [...]
Catching up
It’s been a few weeks that were both busy and incredibly slow at the same time, mostly since their momentum picked up while I was sitting at my desk, typing away on my master thesis. All the while I lived on coffee, melons and almost ritualized breakfast ceremonies. Yet at this point in time I [...]
Van de bos naar de zee
Part of an overall effort to capture the fleeting summer months- a proper album is somewhere on the horizon.