Last carnaval Vesna painted her hair red to match her Jessica Rabbit outfit. She said she didn’t want to paint it back to match her original color before she would have some nice pictures of it. So, as I don’t care too much about the red color, there was nothing else to do other than take some picture of her.
Here are already four pictures of the session we had, some more will follow. Enjoy!

 

This weekend me and Adrienne went on a sailing trip with her colleagues. We were 23 people on 3 boats. Our boat was called the B’eau, I have no idea what that means, but it sounds like the noise that half of the crew members made after half a day of sailing… I never sailed before in my life, but knowing that I am very prone to motion sickness, I stocked up on drugs, just in case… But when I wanted to change the lens on my camera and went below deck into the cabin during sailing I had the pleasure of enjoying my breakfast for the second time, “B’eau!”. I wasn’t the only one, on the other boat even half of the crew was mentioning the name of our boat over and over again (check out the picture of Tomasso and Ruben scrubbing off the breakfast from the deck).
Of course you can’t go sailing with a lot of engineers without bringing a bunch of laptops and establishing a live video connection between the boats. Obviously it wasn’t very useful but hey, who needs useful, it’s cool right!
The second day me and Adrienne also got to sail for some time, which works excellent against sea sickness (when you do it yourself, not when Adrienne makes the boat do the port starboard merengue). I shared my pills with everybody and with a double dosage nobody got sick on the last day. Beau!

 

On Monday the 15th me and Adrienne went with my sister, her husband and her daughter Yinthe to the Efteling. We had a great time there. Of course Yinthe was very impressed by all the fairy-tale characters. She even dared to try and steal the dragon’s crown (I had to press the shutter really really quickly because she ran off to her mom a fraction of a second later). Enjoy the pictures…

 

Last week me and my colleagues Ralph, Ellen and Roy visited the ASCI conference. For those of you who do not know what the ASCI is, please check out their amazing website… Well I’m sure that that didn’t help you a lot, so in summary, the ASCI is the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, and they organized a conference in Center Parcs in Flevoland. The secretary of ASCI asked me to take some pictures of the event after she stumbled upon my website by accident.
Well the pictures of the conference itself are not all that interesting but there was a workshop that I would like to share with you. This was the workshop “Art of Communicating” by Peter van der Roest. The ASCI website states (when you find out which buttons to click) “Peter specializes in communication styles and techniques and has developed a highly unusual workshop based around a combination of martial arts techniques and military strategy. He uses martial art as a metaphor. Through martial art participants interactively discover their impulsive behavior and learn how to act strategically.” Right…
So what it was about, basically, was putting on boxing gloves and beating the living daylights out of your colleagues. Which, in essence, I have nothing against. However, this had to be done in the context of communication. Your fighting style would represent your communication style, aggressive, passive, leaving each other space, etc. So after three hours of trying not to seriously injure small female PhD students and fending off overly fanatic and aggressive computer nerds, I was supposed to have learned about my way of communication and better myself in the future… Yeah right!