As you might know, I am currently doing an internship at a local photo book store in Brussels, called Tipi Bookshop. Yesterday, Andrea, the shop owner, asked me to make a book trailer for an upcoming book launch and since he knew I was into music, he asked me to create an original soundtrack as …
‘Kamiki no oto’ by Hara Yoshiichi Just like the 1st Century Roman gourmand Apicius said “We eat first with our eyes“. My first impression of Yoshiichi Hara’s Kamiki no oto was one of fascination. A large, hard cover book with a plain sleeve. Once you open it, a beautiful cover greets you. Its size and …
As a person who likes to make stuff, sharing little creations like these can be a bit scary sometimes. I don’t think I’m a good songwriter, singer or even guitarist. Am I thinking like this because I’m measuring myself to unrealistically high standards? Or do the voices in my head speak some kind of truth? …
For this blog post I wanted to share a photo book I discovered while doing my internship at a local photo book shop in Brussels called Tipi Bookshop. “Reaching for Dawn” is a work by French photographer Elliott Verdier and is a startling, yet exceptionally compassionate perspective on the Liberian Civil War (1989 – 2003). …
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A while ago I posted another cover on my YouTube channel. This time I covered the song Lost Cause by Billie Eillish. It’s the first time for me to cover a song using my electric guitar and it was quite fun! Even though it might not be the ‘perfect’ cover, I was happy enough with …
Days are getting longer, temperatures are creeping up and ice cream cars are parking themselves on every street corner available. While most people are enjoying the start of summer holidays, I’ve experienced these couple of weeks as particularly hectic. Around this time of year, my university organizes its yearly ‘Graduation Expo’. This event is a …
What a strange year, yet again, it has been. Another year of waking up to the same four walls and having our social interactions mediated through a screen. At our campus, physical gatherings have become the exception rather than the norm. Whenever I’d see my classmates, an uncertainty always shrouded our goodbye’s. A single word …
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To be honest, I didn’t really have any expectations when I started this blog. Maybe I was/still am hoping it will open doors to future opportunities, but to where exactly I’ve never specified. A fun way of encouraging myself to create while refining my writing skills. That’s all I needed to know and more I …
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My personal story Except for the occasional messages to family members or the photo dumps in our group chat, I barely open up WeChat. News, updates on my friends’ lives and stalking strangers usually happens on a multitude of other non-Chinese platforms. So to be honest I don’t know why I decided to type those …
So, last week I borrowed a beamer from my university and had the idea of trying something new for my next cover. The song is called Piledriver Waltz by Alex Turner and was part of the soundtrack album of the film Submarine (2010).