Tuesday Tune

New Old Magazine

An ad from a 1953 magazine.

Encyclopedia

Mail!

Paper mail, delivered by the mailman. An envelope, with a beautiful, funny Indonesian postcard inside. What I can understand from it this is an orginal image from 1930 (smoke Prijaji sigarets). I love spending time in paperstores, especially when I travel. In Indonesia there are so many nice graphics to be found. On the streets, in the supermarket. This postcard made me very happy (and not just for it's looks, it contained a touching message... how my little Moed Moet-boek inspired someone) Besides this postcard, there were two bills and a letter from the city council in my letterbox. And.....another postcard all the way from New York New York. O.M.G! I'm a lucky girl today.

Big big big smile!

Op een sprintje naar beneden voor de zaterdag-krant, zo begint mijn weekend meestal. Vandaag rende ik met een hele grote smile, weer naar bovenwant ik vond deze envelop in mijn brievenbus! Deze is niet door de postbode gebracht, dat zie ik. Ik vermoed dat iemand aan wie ik een boekje heb gegeven mij zo wil bedanken en betalen. WAUW BEDANKT! Dit is zo mooi! Een oude indonesische postzegel. een mooie postzegel uit de us, en heel een fijn bedankje.

Inspiratie

Inspiratie

De zomer is over. Er zit kou in de lucht. Mijn wangen tintelen ervan en het paard loopt een pasje vlotter. De lucht is blauw en de bomen zijn schitterend. De distels zijn ruw en langzaam in verval aan het raken. En het park staat vol met grote, kwetsbare paddestoelen. Ik hou van dit seizoen. Ik hou heel erg van dit seizoen. In de zomerperiode heb ik veel op de redactie van Nrc.Next gewerkt maar nu heb ik weer meer tijd om aan mijn eigen werk te besteden. Hard werken doe ik altijd wel, of ik nu veel of weinig tijd heb. Het meest waardevolle aan veel tijd hebben is dat ik kan lummelen: ik fiets naar de kringloopwinkel. Ik drink koffie en luister naar FolkRadioUk op Itunes. Ik ruim op en kom daarbij oude tekeningen tegen. Nieuwe input, nieuwe energie, en dan komt het vanzelf: nieuw werk. Deze twee tekeningen komen uit 'Mijn mooiste encyclopedie', Natuur-en Scheikunde, uit 1966 van B.A.G.E uitgevers. Vol met mooie pijlen, scheikundige attributen, chemische processen en mooie kleuren.

Inspiration

October is 'Buy nothing new-month'. I seldom buy anything new and love secondhand stores. Im going around all the second hand stores around Amsterdam the first half of the month, cause im hoping it will be busy with new customers. Yesterday I found an amazing science book, and this magazine, called Maffia, printed in 1975 and the cars inspired me the most.

Inspiratie

De zus van mijn collega Steven is ook illustrator. Haar stijl spreekt me heel erg aan. Ik vind dat veel jonge illustratoren erg hetzelfde werk maken maar Vera Verseputs stijl is fris en simpel. Hier een link van een filmpje dat ze maakte. Ik krijg meteen zin om te tekenen!

Inspiration

Second hand stores with all their hidden treasures are my biggest inspiration. Today i checked out the children-book section (hoping to find another Alain Grée-book, I know I would'nt. You can't be lucky all the time) and the human physiology-booksection. I found this old, smelly book with nice colourful drawings. Just what i was looking for!

Im not sure if you we really have Indian Summers in the Netherlands, cause I don't exactly know what the description of an Indian Summer is, but the weather sure is wonderful. Today I made a lovely ride with a kind, mischievous horse called King. And the weekend I spent with my rather large family in a big house in the woods. I played ping-pong with my cousins ('We rather play your sister, she is much better than you, but she's not available for ping-pong right now so yoiu will do.' Ok thanks guys...), and I gazed at the latest addition to our family, a two week old baby called Jonas Theo. The theme of our weekend was skiing/mountains. We ate raclette, the windows were covered in fake-snow and we even had a breathtaking mountain view from our windows. One of my aunts loves secondhand shopping as much as I do. Their whole house is filled with vintage design. All found in thriftstores or saved from dumpsters. It was my aunt who found this book: A childern book from Alain Grée. Beautiful, precise drawings with colors that resemble the colors in my own drawings. What an inspiration! Another Lost and Found treasure that made my day. My day? My whole weekend!

France

Music!

Monday-morning cheer-up! My friend Kathy Ziegler writes amazing songs, and has a beautiful voice.
This is a video of her in Prague!

I had forgotten how much I like Blogetheques Take it Away sessions. An oldie by Jason Mraz and a more recent one from Iron and Wine, and yeah that last band is coming the Netherlands soon! Now Im off in my wellies and raincoat, into the rain, to see some live music.

Plant III& IV

Beautiful yellow flowers from my courgette-plants. Instead of going to the supermarket if I need a courgette for my pasta I open the door to my balcony and cut the biggest courgette. Every day I see the plants grow, flowers blossom and I get regular visits from bees and other flying insects. Such a delight!
And I guess my weekend will be filled with making courgette-soup, carrot/courgette-muffins, grilled courgette etc. Cause they grow like crazy! Some good music from Trevor Moss and Hannah Lou while im in the kitchen grating the courgette.... have a good weekend!

Wrapping Paper

My friend Onneke gave me a very nice gift. Today I'll show the wrapping paper (already soooo nice), I will show you the actual gift later this week.

Door

This is a picture of a house in Nicaragua, I think. Im not organized enough to put all my pics in books. Well sometimes I'm. From some trips all the pictures are nicely organized in big books, dates, places mentioned. I never take these books out to look at them. My plastic box on the other hand, full of random pictures, pieces of paper and letters is such an inspiration. Once in a while I take the box of my shelf and spent a whole evening looking at everything thats inside. Reading old letters and postcards. Lovely to read the words my loved ones once wrote me, and pics of mountains or waterfalls take me back to places I've been before.

Mail

If you are interested in receiving this envelop and postcard, please send me a mail. Im more than happy to send you one. (info[at]stadsgiraffe.nl) All we receive in the mailbox these days are bills and tax-letters. So brighten up some-ones mailbox with one of those. Or with another nice letter or postcard, if you like. And isn't it much nicer for the mail-man too to deliver happy mail instead of tax-letters?

Another traveling song

Traveling is great; everything is different. It opens up my ears, my eyes are wide open and I smell scents that are new to me. But I also left some things at home that are important for my work: my table, my coffee and more important my daily routine.
Finally today I felt I could draw again. While having a coffee i got my sketchbook out. (I dont like that very much, it's in intimite thing for me, drawing) I was very pleased with the drawing. And yes, daily routine can be a bit boring sometimes, but for my creative proces it is quite important. But so is traveling. I need the traveling for the inspiration but I also need a good table, and a quiet place to draw.

Monster