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Naked we are born,(often) naked we multiply, naked we should be when we die because there isn’t much reason for a dead body to have cloths. This concept of not needing clothing is interesting. We came from the warm planes of Africa and moved north for search of what? Cold? The Neanderthals did have

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This second card is much more daring. It was taken for a picture I took in Holland of a dead rat that the cat of my sister brought into their boat. It always made me curious about what is life about, How do we live and how we die. We often ...

The chair/table was designed by Rob Oudendijk. The need for designing it came form his living situation in a old Japanese house and not having a dedicated place for putting a "standard" height table and a standard chair. Table needed to be easy moved out of the way for enter and exit of the chair. Simplicity was ...

Symbols are often created to express oneself more simply and though limited communication channels. So why do not make an ascii version for a kiss (emoticon)? Instead of expression icons. The symbol presents two persons kissing seem from above. Can be made in many variables with different color lips, different color eyes etc. Emoticons are already 20 ...

Work for the embassy includes maintenance, graphics, website setup, custom software development for economic section, custom software for the dutch citizens in japan for an earthquake alert system with the use of mobile phones and database registration, etc.

Abiko house was original a classical Japanese house. Free standing with a garden. Build just after the second world war. With tatamis, shoojies, 2.40m height ceiling, dark, simple. Monique van Kerkhof and me modified the home to make it more open and let sunlight be our friend in many ways. We took out the ceiling and where ...

Edited video for BMW Germany homepage together with producer Roland Hagenberg. We created some short documentries for their homepage. With the emfaces on the human/funny aspects of photo shoot done for BMW all over the world. Roland Hagenberg often used his own music to fit the mode of the program. Sample is on BMW UK site (site can be ...