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Swen

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About Me

I'm one of those fruitcakes who dared to cross the canal.. Originally from The netherlands, I'm now living in wonderful Camden Town, London. I'm doing a MA in 'design management for the fashion industries' but really miss being creative and making stuff. I graduated at the school of arts in Arnhem, The Netherlands in Fashion design with a menswear collection. I'm totally chaotic and unorganised, can't remember names, forget everything, and always lose stuff, but hey, aren't all creatives ;) If anyone still has the slightest interest in being my friend after seeing my vicky pollard picture, please send me a message, it's so silent and lonely since I've put that one on:( ;) Ignore the music! Apparently we were send back in time to the 1980's where the pet shop boys and synthesizer sound effects were still very cool and trendy.

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My Interests

Art (Colourfield, impressionism/pointillism, pop-art, video-thingies, graphical designs, product design (especially from the 70s and new stuff),DROOG design, david lupton, schiele, douglas gordon, rothko (late work), kline, Richter, Jasiek Mischke :P) FASHION/DESIGN, photography, youth culture, music, Berlin, Rome, London/UK, Camden, (english)accents, people, endless discussions (about life, people, religion), baby animals, talking :D, good belgian beer or jenever (especially KRIEK and coebergh) eating and cooking ;) snowboarding, apple, the zoo....... did I mention I like to talk much?! my ducks, my black cat, destroyed buildings/ruines, rust, old trees, castles, people that lose theirselves while doing something they love, Guitars, drummers, skinny guys, roses, old graveyards, Melancholy, Nostalgy, saturated colors, friet speciaal met fricandel speciaal :D going to the movies, playing games (and winning of course, if necessary by cheating)leather, shoes, men's clothes, standing in the rain after a hot summer day, learning to ride fakey, collecting postcards for my wall, diving/jumping in the water, sleeping in the sun with lots of noise in the background, listening to music on my ipod in the sun on a crowded square, onserving people, having 'quiet nights out' that end up in huge hangovers, DAVID LUPTON ILLUSTRATION I love his work

I'd like to meet:

I'd just like to meet some interesting people who can think for themselves, are a bit weird, aren't afraid of a good party, love discussions, can accept my obsessions about art/school/ any other thing at that moment. Still believe in their dreams, show interest in art, don't take themselves too seriously and so on....
I love old buildings

Music:

spherical movie music (howard shore, hans zimmer) Eskobar, Yann tiersen, Razorlight, And his voice became The Departure, Richard Ashcroft, The Strokes, Spoon, Maximo Park, Keane, Athlete, Moloko, Placebo, Stereophonics, The Verve, Editors, Phoenix, Massive attack, QOTSA, Racoon, Budapest, Royksopp, The Bridge, Augustana, K's choice, Incubus, Prodigy, saybia, TSOOL, Oasis, Infadels, U2 (older shit), Metallica (S&M), Rufus Wainwright, Alice Russell, Novastar, Gorillaz, Alkaline trio, the organ, the kooks, OK GO, Damien Rice, Fionn Regan, hooverphonic, sebastien tellier's 'la ritournelle' Spinvis and lots of other things on my ipod.....

Movies:

Trainspotting, Amelie, LOTR (I'm an addict), Memento, The Discovery of Heaven, Der Untergang, Schindler's List, a Clockwork Orange, American History X, Crash, Broken Flowers, the magdalene sisters, goodbye lenin, children of men, the rescuers, requiem for a dream, virgin suicides, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, lost in translation, black book, Pan's Labyrinth, the departed, pride & prejudice tv serie, elizabeth (actually I love costume/historical drama)

Television:

I only watch 'boring' Discovery/National Geographic programs some bbc mini series, House, That 70s show (I'm a 1970s addict) bit of simpsons, but I really only watch tv once or twice a week for an hour or so

Books:

Ontdekking van de hemel, Tolkien books!!(especially simarillion,hobbit and LOTR), oorlogswinter , Gilles Lipovetsky (the empire of fashion: dressing modern democracy) historical novels... Kate Mosse -labyrinth, photography books, dan brown- da vinci code & bernini mysterie, men in the mirror, books about regency england. magazines: 10+, another man, sports&street, i-D, Dazed&Confused

Heroes:

Huub & Nettie, Vicky Pollard, Hedi Slimane, Ann deMeulemeester, My grandpa Don