Ex navicula navis, and further travels of an idiot: Amsterdam

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Saturday, July 3, 2010

Sketchbook Interlude

I thought I would share the few sketches I did in Amsterdam.

Sketches below from Bitterzoet, waiting for Phosphorescent to come on stage. I did mean to actually draw the band but when they got there I was too busy listening. Very, very nice concert.

Half of these people look like they're in the band

Thursday, July 1, 2010

167/365: Film

167/365: Film, originally uploaded by Magic Madzik.

June 16th

I finally got my film developed- this was when I could upload the shots from Amsterdam. I'm a bit of a stickler about keeping the Flickr stream in chronological order. :P And of course since I'm back home and working late you get another half-assed shot. :P

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

159/365: Wizzair

159/365: Wizzair, originally uploaded by Magic Madzik.

Going home.

The trick was not to fly into Amsterdam Schiphol, but to Eindhoven instead. It's much cheaper,even including the train and bus ride you need to get to Amsterdam itself.

I'm glad I shot this picture on film (bad film, too). If it had been digital, the colours would have been more real, but also more boring.

This is not my plane, by the way, I think this one was going to England. But I flew Wizzair, too.

And as a bonus, here is the last photo I took in Amsterdam:

158/365: A Weekend in Amsterdam

158/365: A Weekend in Amsterdam, originally uploaded by Magic Madzik.

June 7th

Shooting Amsterdam on expired film in a dirty camera results in pictures that make me very sentimental- they resemble the bad quality prints on puzzle boxes, postcards and youth magazines from the eighties. They seem to recall a time when there was no geotagging, no free sharing of terabites of images across the globe- you may have had the one high-contrast, off-colour photograph in your sparsely illustrated encyclopaedia, and that was all you knew. You had to imagine the rest.