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janiedean · 7 years

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four memes in one

my week from hell is over and I can catch up on memes so, tagged by @francisperfectionbonnefoy here we go with this one idek which meme is which

Name: lavinia

Nickname: lavi, occasionally janie if we know each other online

Height: 1,65 m

Hogwarts house: dunno I took a test once for science just to see what the fuck was the big deal and I scored exactly the same on hufflepuff and ravenclaw soooo

Go to ssbb character: I don’t know what this is, I asked for info and never heard of it sorry guys XD

Fictional character i’d date: if I can’t have eddie dean I’m going for sam tarly lol

Favorite band or artist: oh god top fifteen so we get it out of the way: bon jovi, bruce springsteen, led zeppelin, patti smith, the beatles, steve earle, warren zevon, queen, bob dylan, the doors, neil young, johnny cash, nick cave, rhcp and stone temple pilots + special mentions gnr, nirvana and gaslight anthem but like THIS ISN’T EVEN 10% OF WHAT I LISTEN TO

When did i make this blog: 2011? or 2010

Do i get asks on a regular basis: yes XD

Aesthetic: richard madden’s face

Relationship status: single

Favorite Greeting: idk kissing on the cheek? it’s automatic here XD

Pets: none for now

Last song I listened to: I’m listening to a mozart aria rn xD

Favorite tv show: DEADWOOD

First Fandom: in which i knew what I was doing? yu yu hakusho

Hobbies: writing, movies, going to what few gigs of people I like I can manage, occasionally baking, reading, the usual? XD

Books I am currently reading: I’m almost done with joe hill’s 20th century ghosts, I started gaiman’s trigger warning and chabon’s moonglow as well but I need to give my full attention to the latter

Worst thing to have graced my taste buds: I don’t like cheese, so you can imagine I had a good share of terrible surprises in my life. >> WHAT DAMIEN SAID NOTHING TO ADD

Favorite place: paris, if counting just ONE SINGLE PLACE campo dei fiori in rome

Coke or Pepsi: Pepsi

Disney or Dreamworks: disney tbh but I don’t particularly lose my head over it

Coffee or tea: Coffee but tea is a+ too

Books or movies: BOTH IS GOOD

Windows or Mac: MAC

DC or Marvel: marvel

Xbox or Playstation: guys I can barely play videogames ON PC

Dragon Age or Mass Effect: .... see above XD

Night owl or early riser: night owl, but even if I go to bed at like 10 pm I’d never rise early

Cards or Chess: CARDS ABSOLUTELY CARDS MY DAD’S FIXATION WITH CHESS RUINED IT FOR ME IN ALL THE WORST WAYS

Chocolate or vanilla: chocolate

Vans or Converse: I have weird feet and wearing both would kill them so none

Lavellan, Trevelyan, Cadash or Adaar: .... what??? XDDD

Paragon or Renegade: whut2 > what he said

Star Wars or Star Trek: star wars

One episode per week or binge watching: two episodes per day XDD

Gandalf or Obi-Wan? obi-wan. like IT WAS A TOUGH DECISION BUT OBI-WAN CAME FIRST and I’ve been nicknamed lavi-wan kenobi too many times for it to be any other XDDD

Heroes or Villains? heroes

John Williams or Hans Zimmer? williams

Disneyland/Disney World or Six Flags? I only ever went to disneyland paris at eight yo and sixteen (the last time it was to go with someone actually) and like I enjoyed it when I was eight but when I was sixteen the MOVIE THEMED PARK HAD OPENED AND IT HAD THE AEROSMITH ROLLER-COASTER IT WAS THE MOST AMAZING SHIT EVER 100% WOULD RE-DO IT

Forest or sea ? sea

Flying or reading minds? flying, I’d never wanna know what others are thinking and you know how useful it would be when my city’s public transport is so shitty???

Twin Peaks or Northern Exposure? twin peaks

Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings? LOTR are we even asking it

John Watson (BBC Sherlock) or Joan Watson (Elementary)? greg lestrade (sorry I’ve never even seen elementary rotfl)

AU tropes: fake or secret relationship? both

5 things that make you happy: making others happy, listening to music I like, writing stuff, good books, good food?

5 things that make you sad: hypocrites, grillini, assholes on the internet, matteo salvini and donald trump still not having been impeached

Name: Lavinia Birthday: august 13th Age: too old for tumblr (lol 28) Sexual Orientation: straight School Status: I really fucking hope I’m done

YES/NO

Drink?: who do you take me for, how do I watch GOT according to you (yes obv) Smoke?: nah Eat cake?: YES Believe in true love?: I do but it’d be nice if the guy in question showed up at some point soon XDDD Afraid of the dark?: nah Cat person?: TOTALLY

FAVORITES

Shampoo: idk this aloe vera thing that I buy at the herborist’s and is the only thing that can manage my hair decently Disney song: hellfire, I see the light and I won’t say I’m in love probably Actress/Actor: oh, I pick ONE for each, no fuss and no hesitations? k uma thurman and humphrey bogart probably Car: man I can barely even distinguish car BRANDS Person: none of the people I could mention for this have a tumblr xD Type of Weather: SUMMER WHEN IT’S AROUND 27 DEGREES AND THE SUN SHINES AND IT’S NOT HUMID AF AND I DON’T HAVE TO SLEEP WITH FIFTEEN BLANKETS 90s Sitcom: father ted

oh god who do I tag XD guys this is a lot if you want to do it and are bored feel free to and tag me pretending I tagged you :PPP

#about me #meme

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nichetraveldesign · 6 years

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Things Don’t Always Go As Planned

This past February the “Beast From The East“ descended upon Amsterdam just as we arrived to visit. It was cold. Really cold. In fact, it was miserable walking around the city and bikes seemed like it would only make it worse as we would have to cut through the cold wind.

So what to do Amsterdam when it is colder than a Polar Bear’s toenails outside?

Head inside. Thankfully, my daughter loves art and plans on studying art history, so off we went to the Van Gough Museum. The next day there was a discussion of going to the Rijksmuseum. I opted out. No offense to anyone, but Dutch Masters aren’t my favorite period of art and I’ve seen it. I said I’d find something else to do. But my mind wandered to the modern building we had seen the day before. Hidden in the shadow of the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gough museum is the Stedeljik.

The Stedelijk is the Goldilocks of museums. It is not too small, not too big. It is just the right size.

The collection is primarily modern art, but it also houses quite a few paintings from other artistic genres. For a medium sized museum we all agreed that it is packed full of great art.

The Stedelijk Building

As I mentioned, the Stedelijk can be found tucked behind the Van Gogh Museum and the Rijksmuseums on Museumplein. The Stedelijk is a contemporary art museum and thus, it is fitting that the building itself, a modern glass and steel structure, is a stunning piece of architectural art on its own.

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Photo credit: http://www.lensvelt.nl

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Photo credit: ArchDaily by Jannes Linders

The Original Building

The original collection was made up of art and antiques that were donated to the city of Amsterdam by Sophia Augusta Lopez Suasso de Bruyn, a wealthy widow who wished to have a museum opened in her home and in her name upon her passing. Indeed, the Stedelijk was originally called The Suasso Museum and was housed in her home.

Eventually, Madame Suasso’s home was deemed too small and a new building was designed by A.W. Weissman, a local architect. The new museum building designed by Weissman has a neo renaissance façade with several ornate, figurative sculptures. When the new, modern, wing was added many of the flourishes were lost to modernization and renovations. The Stedelijk´s original and main building was constructed between 1891-1895 at Paulus Potterstraat, at the short walking distance from the Rijksmuseum.

The New Building – aka The Bathtub

Stedelijk Museum. Photo John Lewis Marshall

A more modern and more functional building was opened in 2012 after almost a decade of renovations. The modern addition, designed by Dutch architects Adriaan Willem Weissman and Benthem Crouwel Architect, is a pretty sharp contrast in style to the Weismann building. After the unveiling of the new addition, many locals thought that the modern aesthetic clashed with the old Stedelijk building, The Concertgebouw, the Van Gogh Museum and the Rijksmuseum. Essentially, they didn’t think the modern style went well with the other buildings in the neighborhood. Locals took to calling the new addition “the bathtub.” In my opinion, the new building fits its purpose of showcasing contemporary art and, an added bonus, it offers amazing views of the Museumplein. I sat and people watched through those big beautiful windows for 40 minutes as I sipped my coffee, warm and toasty away from the cold. It was lovely.

Overlooking Museumplein

The museum’s purpose has changed many times over the years – going from a private collections of art, collectibles, furniture, and antiques to medical instruments and finally resting on contemporary art and design.

Along with the masters of modern painting genres such as Impressionists, Fauvism, Cubism, Expressionism, the Stedelijk also has a unique collection of furniture, and, photography.

The Collection

The collection includes modern and contemporary art and design from the early 20th century up to the 21st century and features famed masters such as Vincent, van Gough, Wassily Kandinski, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollack, Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning, and Keith Haring.

Highlights From The Collection

The Stedelijk has everything from quirky artists previously unknown to me . . .

Martial Raysse and Elaine Sturtevang, installation view The collection, STEDELIJK BASE. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij

Personnage Hilare (Portrait de Francis Ponge) by Jean Dubuffet. 1947.

Lady Chatterly’s Horse. Bill Copley. 1960.

Mexican Women in Profile. Erwin de Vries. 1989

to the masters of the modern movement . . .

Composition with Blue, Yellow, Red, Black, and Gray. Piet Mondrian. 1922.

Rosy Fingered Dawn at louise Point. Willem de Kooning. 1963.

Cathedra. Barnett Newman. 1951.

Untitled (Umber Blue). Mark Rothko. 1962.

Improvisation 33 (Orient 1). Wassily Kandinsky. 1913.

North Atlantic Light. Willem de Kooning. 1977.

The Water Bull. Jackson Pollack. 1946.

to the masters:

La femme enceinte (Maternité). Marc Chagall. 1913.

La Montagne Sainte-Victoire. Paul Cézanne. 1888.

Odalisque. Henri Matisse. 1921.

Femme nue devant le Jardin. Pablo Picasso. 1956

Le Violoniste. Marc Chagall. 1912 -1913.

Kitchen Gardens on Monmartre. Vincent van Gough. 1887.

Two Surroundings. Wassily Kandinsky. 1934

Femme assise au chapeau en forme de poisson. Pablo Picasso. 1942.

Femme dans un paysage – Anna Boch 1890. Legend has it that Anna Boch was the only person to have purchased apainting from Vincent van Gough while he was alive. This has been dabted but it is the reason that her work hangs next to van Goughs work at The Stedelijk.

La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle. Vincent van Gough. 1889.

And, The Keith Haring Velum

American artist, Keith Haring, began his career in 1980, drawing graffiti in the New York subway. During a brief, but intense, career that spanned the 1980s, Haring’s work was featured in over 100 solo and group exhibitions. In 1986 alone, he was the subject of more than 40 newspaper and magazine articles. In 1986, at the heigh of his career, Haring agreed to create a special piece for The Stedelijk. From The Stedelijk website: “The American artist painted the canopy, which filters daylight into the grand hallway, especially for his solo exhibition at the Stedelijk in 1986. For this show, Haring didn’t simply want to present artwork he’d already made – he insisted on making new work. Laying out the velum (which measures almost 40 x 66 feet, 12 x 20 meter) on the floor of one of the museum galleries, he painted it in just one day, using spray paint. Haring turned the event into an energy-fueled performance: while photographers and journalists looked on, he painted rapidly and rhythmically, moving over the canopy, hip-hop playing in the background. He filled the canopy with dancing, waving figures, crawling babies and squirming animals. Known as the ‘Keith Haring velum’, the painting was stretched below the monumental glass cupola above the historic staircase. The painting was an instant hit. Now, more than thirty years later and restored, the velum is back for everyone to enjoy.”

The photos do not do the velum justice. It was beautiful in person with the light slipping through and contrasting the parts untouched by sun.

Keith Haring. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

The Keith Haring velum. The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

Practicalities

Hours: Monday – Thursday and Saturday and Sunday: 10:00 – 18:00 Friday: 10:00 – 22:00

Tickets: You can buy your tickets in person or online at Stedelijk museum tickets.

Adults: €17,50 Children under 18: free Students (29 yrs or younger), Cultural Youth pass (CJP) €9

20% discount with Amsterdam City Pass

Address: Stedelijk Museum Museumplein 10 1071 DJ Amsterdam The Netherlands

If you get a chance to visit the Stedelijk, I hope that you enjoy it as much as we did. Maybe because we had not planned on going, in fact none of us had even heard of it, it turned out to be one of those serendipitous moments where things did not go as planned, but we ended up with a lovely surprise.

The Stedelijk – The Goldilocks of Museums Things Don't Always Go As Planned This past February the "Beast From The East" descended upon Amsterdam just as we arrived to visit.

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