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It was so cold that night in Agimont Belgium
that they have to scratch those icy windows.
and put an autograph on the hood.
so cool...

Shopping at Agimont Belgium

Does shopping looks the same all over the world? Have a look at Agimont, in the Ardennen, Belgium

icequeen

The ice-queen is speaking, after taking a bite of ice:

Be prepared for the times to come. I ask for your blood, sweat and tears. Do not fear: there is no need to hide if you are hiding nothing...

the dog & the bell

We did not know where he is coming from. Maybe he is a straydog. That's pathetic, because we can't take him home.

He is facing the churchbell every daily hour in the streets of Agimont. It is his struggle, even in the X-mas days....

swimming certificate C

How to obtain swimming certificate C? By practicing weekly all those things like diving, swimming under water through a hole and all those things you need to know when you fall into the water.

Creating an audience (the arena part 3)

So with the animated applause still in my ears I entered the catacombs of the ultimate arena in Amsterdam.
There was an audience coming in. There was my DVD with a dozen of people eager to have 30 seconds of fame on the holy grass of Ajax...
Oops wrong city, does technology cares???

Jenny Dalenoord visits bookshop KrisKras

One day Jenny visited Kriskras, the children-bookshop. She is one of the most famous post-war illustrators of children-books in the Netherlands. She illustrated more then 150 books. Who does not know the famous book of Wiplala from Annie M.G. Schmidt or the books about the Mouse, Mole and Rat.
''I love her pastels and aquarels'', says Maarten the bookshop keeper.

Jenny was born in 1918 on Java, Indonesia and came to Holland when she was eleven years old. After the secondary school she went to the academy of art in The Hague. She was influenced by Paul Citroen, Rein Draijer en Willem J. Roozendaal.
From 1970 till 1978 she herself was a teacher at the same art-school.
She believes in the fact that an illustration has its own value. A story can not be told by words only. Words are like a bunch of peddle-stones. The illustration has to conquer the space in between. It is the visual concept that tells the story.
Before drawing she deforms her own mental images of the scene. "Willem J. Roozendaal", she told Maarten, ''has influenced me the most. He said to me: look at Picasso, take a look at Braque, look how they change forms."
Jenny developed her own style and her own deformation and became one of the members of the "New Hague School".

Sinterklaas back in town

Look there comes the steamer from Spain t'us again.
It brings us Sint Nicolaas he stands in our rain.
How's hopping his little horse on deck up and down,
and flags are just fluttering as the steamship's comes down.

Zwarte Piet is laughing and shouting to us:
'Who is sweet will get goodies, who is naughty will not.
'Oh dearest Sint Nicolaas do you come to me?
And don't pass by silently and leave me with the tea...
(the first sinterklaas song)