Unedited shot of people in Amsterdam, reflected in a puddle. Taken with my Sony HX1. No editing, no magic tricks, no Photoshop :)
Sometimes I am wondering if we Amsterdam people have bricks for heads, we often (yes, I'm including myself here as well, because I am sometimes as bricky as the rest of my fellow Amsterdammers) act as if we crawled from under a rock just yesterday, especially when it comes to participating in the public traffic. We never look left or right, we usually don't take anybody else into account and we sure as hell don't give any other biker, pedestrian, car, tram or bus the right to go first, because it's all about Me, Me, Me, so step aside traffic, here I come!
Needless to say that this creates extremely dangerous situations all the time, and often enough one or more of us ends up bleeding in the street or crushed underneath some vehicle that was simply bolder and/or stronger than we thought we were, just to get someplace a few seconds earlier, or in the scenario I've just mentioned, never to arrive at all. Again, I am guilty as charged, I'm usually the leader of the pack when it comes to rushing down the street as if my life depended on it, only to make it home those few crucial minutes earlier, and then waste that spare time wondering if I should look at Internet Porn get a bigger bell for my bike, to be able to 'Rrrring Rrrring' everybody else to the side of the road in an even more aggressive, mindless manner...I guess that's just how we roll in the best city in the world, so beware, we don't stop for anybody or anything, unless he/she/it is made out of sturdier material than we are, lol :D
I've also shot a wicked reflection movie of this puddle, check it out on my YouTube channel, thank you :)
Movie
Amsterdam photos
Wicked reflections
www.amstersam.com
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Welcome...
...To Brickhead...
Unedited shot of people in Amsterdam, reflected in a puddle. Taken with my Sony HX1. No editing, no magic tricks, no Photoshop :)
Sometimes I am wondering if we Amsterdam people have bricks for heads, we often (yes, I'm including myself here as well, because I am sometimes as bricky as the rest of my fellow Amsterdammers) act as if we crawled from under a rock just yesterday, especially when it comes to participating in the public traffic. We never look left or right, we usually don't take anybody else into account and we sure as hell don't give any other biker, pedestrian, car, tram or bus the right to go first, because it's all about Me, Me, Me, so step aside traffic, here I come!
Needless to say that this creates extremely dangerous situations all the time, and often enough one or more of us ends up bleeding in the street or crushed underneath some vehicle that was simply bolder and/or stronger than we thought we were, just to get someplace a few seconds earlier, or in the scenario I've just mentioned, never to arrive at all. Again, I am guilty as charged, I'm usually the leader of the pack when it comes to rushing down the street as if my life depended on it, only to make it home those few crucial minutes earlier, and then waste that spare time wondering if I should look at Internet Porn get a bigger bell for my bike, to be able to 'Rrrring Rrrring' everybody else to the side of the road in an even more aggressive, mindless manner...I guess that's just how we roll in the best city in the world, so beware, we don't stop for anybody or anything, unless he/she/it is made out of sturdier material than we are, lol :D
I've also shot a wicked reflection movie of this puddle, check it out on my YouTube channel, thank you :)
Movie
Amsterdam photos
Wicked reflections
www.amstersam.com
...City
Unedited shot of people in Amsterdam, reflected in a puddle. Taken with my Sony HX1. No editing, no magic tricks, no Photoshop :)
Sometimes I am wondering if we Amsterdam people have bricks for heads, we often (yes, I'm including myself here as well, because I am sometimes as bricky as the rest of my fellow Amsterdammers) act as if we crawled from under a rock just yesterday, especially when it comes to participating in the public traffic. We never look left or right, we usually don't take anybody else into account and we sure as hell don't give any other biker, pedestrian, car, tram or bus the right to go first, because it's all about Me, Me, Me, so step aside traffic, here I come!
Needless to say that this creates extremely dangerous situations all the time, and often enough one or more of us ends up bleeding in the street or crushed underneath some vehicle that was simply bolder and/or stronger than we thought we were, just to get someplace a few seconds earlier, or in the scenario I've just mentioned, never to arrive at all. Again, I am guilty as charged, I'm usually the leader of the pack when it comes to rushing down the street as if my life depended on it, only to make it home those few crucial minutes earlier, and then waste that spare time wondering if I should look at Internet Porn get a bigger bell for my bike, to be able to 'Rrrring Rrrring' everybody else to the side of the road in an even more aggressive, mindless manner...I guess that's just how we roll in the best city in the world, so beware, we don't stop for anybody or anything, unless he/she/it is made out of sturdier material than we are, lol :D
I've also shot a wicked reflection movie of this puddle, check it out on my YouTube channel, thank you :)
Movie
Amsterdam photos
Wicked reflections
www.amstersam.com
Tuesday, 1 November 2011
The...
Unedited shot of an office building in Amsterdam, reflected in a puddle. Taken with my HTC Desire. No editing, no magic tricks, no Photoshop :)
For some reason that I fail to understand, Amsterdam is covered with empty office buildings, that are not used for anything besides filling up the empty space of the best city in the world and making the skyline look uglier. Somebody clearly has waaaaaay too much money, almost every month a new office building is being erected somewhere in Amsterdam, only to be doomed to being another empty promise of an accelerating economy that will need all those hundreds of thousands of square meters of extra possibilities to house more wage slaves, slaving away for the benefit of those 1% of fat cats sitting on top of the economy pie like rotten cherries.
Once I am in charge of this planet, I will make sure that every single one of those buildings will be remodeled to allow us decent, regular 99% to live in all these pretty, shiny, glorious towers of power, because, let's be honest, unless somebody is going to create some 50 000 new jobs anytime soon, these babies will start molding away before they'll ever even get anywhere near being used for what they were intended for. Rich people, eat your freakin' heart out :D
P.s. Have you noticed how cleverly I've hidden a reference to the movie "Office Space", possibly the funniest film of the 90's, in the title? No? Damn, haha :D
Amsterdam photos
Wicked reflections
www.amstersam.com
...Office...
Unedited shot of an office building in Amsterdam, reflected in a puddle. Taken with my HTC Desire. No editing, no magic tricks, no Photoshop :)
For some reason that I fail to understand, Amsterdam is covered with empty office buildings, that are not used for anything besides filling up the empty space of the best city in the world and making the skyline look uglier. Somebody clearly has waaaaaay too much money, almost every month a new office building is being erected somewhere in Amsterdam, only to be doomed to being another empty promise of an accelerating economy that will need all those hundreds of thousands of square meters of extra possibilities to house more wage slaves, slaving away for the benefit of those 1% of fat cats sitting on top of the economy pie like rotten cherries.
Once I am in charge of this planet, I will make sure that every single one of those buildings will be remodeled to allow us decent, regular 99% to live in all these pretty, shiny, glorious towers of power, because, let's be honest, unless somebody is going to create some 50 000 new jobs anytime soon, these babies will start molding away before they'll ever even get anywhere near being used for what they were intended for. Rich people, eat your freakin' heart out :D
P.s. Have you noticed how cleverly I've hidden a reference to the movie "Office Space", possibly the funniest film of the 90's, in the title? No? Damn, haha :D
Amsterdam photos
Wicked reflections
www.amstersam.com
...Space
Unedited shot of an office building in Amsterdam, reflected in a puddle. Taken with my HTC Desire. No editing, no magic tricks, no Photoshop :)
For some reason that I fail to understand, Amsterdam is covered with empty office buildings, that are not used for anything besides filling up the empty space of the best city in the world and making the skyline look uglier. Somebody clearly has waaaaaay too much money, almost every month a new office building is being erected somewhere in Amsterdam, only to be doomed to being another empty promise of an accelerating economy that will need all those hundreds of thousands of square meters of extra possibilities to house more wage slaves, slaving away for the benefit of those 1% of fat cats sitting on top of the economy pie like rotten cherries.
Once I am in charge of this planet, I will make sure that every single one of those buildings will be remodeled to allow us decent, regular 99% to live in all these pretty, shiny, glorious towers of power, because, let's be honest, unless somebody is going to create some 50 000 new jobs anytime soon, these babies will start molding away before they'll ever even get anywhere near being used for what they were intended for. Rich people, eat your freakin' heart out :D
P.s. Have you noticed how cleverly I've hidden a reference to the movie "Office Space", possibly the funniest film of the 90's, in the title? No? Damn, haha :D
Amsterdam photos
Wicked reflections
www.amstersam.com
Monday, 31 October 2011
Welcome...
Unedited shot of a girl in Amsterdam. Taken with my Sony HX1.
It's almost Christmas, and it's getting warmer and sunnier every day, for the end of this week we're expecting temperatures around 20 C or more...normally I would find this somewhat disconcerting, as it is November now, but considering that this years Summer sucked so badly, I think we more than earned a warm Winter, hehe. I am still wearing T-shirts and shorts, it just feels right, and I don't easily get cold, but it seems that a lot of my fellow Amsterdammers take offense in me enjoying the breezy, fresh air to the max, I get lots of confused, amused and angry looks from those wearing their Winter-gear already, almost as if I was shooting them in a puddle, lol. So if you see me wearing the clothes that you wished you could have worn this Summer, don't be mad, you know how they say, don't hate the Player, hate the Game, hahaha :D
Amsterdam photos
Wicked reflections
www.amstersam.com
