For fourteen days there is a graphical design festival in the city of Breda about 1,5 hours drive from Amsterdam. I have visited the city and I got very inspires. And best of all, it was free! I can recommend anyone to go there. My favorite part was the paper toys.
I just came in from my weekly treasure hunt with one piece of gold, a “put your bike on your car thing”. It wasn’t even opened. Just like from the store, only I don’t have a car so I wouldn’t buy it… hmm.. what am I going to do with it without a car? Ill probably get one sometime
I just came inside from my weekly second hand tour around the streets. In Holland everyone throws away their stuff outside their buildings once a week. In my neighborhood they do it on Sundays. Today I found three boxes of books that I went through together with some dutch girl I met at the books. We talked a bit as we went through the books. After going throuhg them all we figured he must have been an alcholoic that was very interested in food. He was interested in language and new English, Dutch, French, Italian and was learning Spanish. He had an interesting life and studied psychology (just for fun), he knew guitar and maybe piano, he was interested in traveling, economy, advertising, film and photo (a bit like me) and he was intrigued by cannibalism. When it came to fiction and novels he only read popular ones.
I liked going through his books and fantasizing about who he was, but I didn’t like to think about why the books was on the street.. though my head says he drank him self to death over time. He must have been an interesting man, and I say man because of the sort of books he read and how old they where.
I now wish I could meet the man and see if my interpretations are correct, but fantasizing is just as good. now he is who ever I want him to be and I’ll be thinking of him when I read one of his books.
