Bertien van Manen

A house in neighborhood

Painted this pretty house near my house. I love that my neighborhood is calm and there is lots of nature and animals.

I went to Stedelijk museum last weekend without researching what's on there. It was my first time to be there since the corona crisis started. There was a few types of exhibitions and I loved the one of a Dutch photographer Bertien van Manen. 

Photographs of Bertien van Manen

As combinations of her work, there was also the other photographs of Josef Koudellka, Jitka Hanzlova, Seiichi Huruya, and more. Especially Bertien and Seiichi, I am glad that I discovered them.

PAPADAG

Fan art of Dutch series PAPADAG

PAPADAG is a Dutch series about the six fathers who are struggling with life and family. They met at a park, start seeing each other there every Thursday, and become good friends. The latest season just ended a little while ago.

It made me laugh a lot through its two seasons. I was also sometimes surprised from the sense of humor but maybe it's mostly because I am still learning the culture here?

You can watch it on NPO if you are interested and understand Dutch (even a bit, the program on NPO has Dutch subtitles and it helps)!

Let me know if you know any nice Dutch programs as well :)

Alice (Ellen Parren), Louis (Hajo Bruins), Merle (Linde van den Heuvel)

Sadiq (George Tobal), Thijs (David Lucieer)

Bouzian (Hassan Slaby), Puck (Loes Schnepper), Martijn (Guido Pollemans)

Cadeau

A little box of shards from excavation in Amsterdam 

Saw this pretty thing in the city a while back but don't remember the shop.