Cool prison...

Cool prison...
A couple of months ago I got the opportunity to walk around, with my camera and 11 other photographers, in the beautiful empty prison in my home town. Even the famous Dutch resistance hero Hannie Schaft has been kept locked in here by hte Germans in WW2. I have been biking past this building since I was born. For years now there are no prisoners kept in there anymore and it's been used to house refugees and now it's totally empty.
They are planning to create an university in there, after adjusting the inside of the building. The accoustic in the center of the main hall is really crazy, it would drive many man crazy being kept prison there. Even the guards needed rest after their shift. One guard would sit in his car for half an hour enjoying the silence, before driving home to his family. I just love this building.

Cool ute...

Cool ute...
This old beautiful Peugeot 404, we found on the side of the road in France this summer. My hunt for sleeping beauties never stops. Wherever We go I keep my eyes open like a hawk to spot these sleepers and catch them with my cameras.

Cool recycling...

In France, on our way home, we stayed the night in a hotel after riding 500 kilometers that day. The lobby of that hotel was filled with 'recycle-art'. Oil drums transferred into seats, bicycle double folded and sprayed silver as a side table. Here you see the re-use of traffic signs, build into a table on wheels.

Cool building...

Last night I visited one of my company's  client's office warming in this building. I visited this building (formal sugar cane storages, converted into offices) before to take pictures of it and again now I could not resist to catch them on my internal sd-card of my smartphone...

Cool hidden treasures...

Holiday season is always a good time for me... Always finding hidden treasures somewere... This time it was right under my nose, behind the barn on the campsite... Three cars about to be taken over by nature... One of them, this nice Fiat truck...

Cool scooter...

I spotted this nice little ride ealier this summer in France. I really like the retro look and the colour on this scooter. Also the goggles on the helmet are a real cool detail.

Cool company...

It's been over a year now since I started my own company. Loads of things happend and I learned a lot as well. Got myself interesting customers and creating beautyful stuff. Not only PowerPoint presentations but also graphic design, house style design, Blufftitler animations, some photography and just having a good time at being my own boss... hahaha.

Check it out at www.promoois.nl

Cool new challenges...

Here ya have it... Started my own company designing and creating presentations in PowerPoint and Keynote... Next to that I do some dtp work as well...
Here is a quote of my sister after she heared the news...

Cool chopper for sale...

So my son out grown his cool mat black with flames Electra cruiser chopper bicycle... He now wanted an ATB so this little black beauty has to go, make room in the shead...
Sometimes you have to let go to grow...

(had fun customising the thing and enjoyed all the positive comments -and he jealous looks of the youngsters- on the road)

Cool holiday encounters...

Almost every vacation we run into sleeping beauties... Also this vacation in France, three of them sleeping in an open barn next to the road in a village... Yeah, what can you do but stop and catch them...! Here's a Citroen CX, late eighties...

Cool designin'...

Doin' some more Indesigning lately... Also for my sportsclub; designing business cards... Back, black on yellow... Front, yellow on black...

Cool group of heroes...!

Here is a very cool pica of a cool dude, a hero to me... Close to liberating the Netherlands this pica is taken in the South of the country... Young men risking their lifes to come over and fight for our freedom, from all over the world young men (and women) left their homes and came to side of the world to liberate us from nazi Germany...
Every year we remember the ones who didn't live to tell... Foreign soldiers but also the countries heroes from the resistance... The next day, May 5th, we celebrate our freedom...
A big thank you to all of them fighting for our freedom...

(Pica source: theworldwidewebster)

Cool ride out...

Like a smart man once said: "Alway expect the un-expected"...

Cool statue...

Another piece of art we ran into Sunday on another annual sickle expo overhere in the Netherlands... The call it the start of the season but I wonder when the season ends then? This custom build sickle is welded-up sheet metal, the rider is made of recycled glass, kept together by metal wire... Nice one!

(Drink and drive...??)

Cool Roques show...

You better go there if you're into custom-garage-shead built sickles...

(I will be there to make a little image story...)