I made this animation from top to bottom during my 2 weeks off. The story board, the animation, the audio, everything was produced by me.
Interesting Calendars
About a year ago Google removed the Interesting Calendars feature from their calendar app, so figured it might be worth it to handle that in a completely different approach. With about 1 night’s work, I whipped up the site www.interestingcalendars.com just to make a quick prototype of how it might work alongside a business-model. Afterwards…
Valedictorian speech
At graduation, the teachers requested me to give a speech to the student body so I did. This was the recording of that speech.
The Real Deal on the Social Revolution
People are naturally social people. Without social interaction, people cannot live. Even the most introverted people need to have at least some kind of social interaction. The social revolution is here to give us that – but why is it really a social revolution? In today’s modern age, there are so many people around the…
Translation User Interface Ideas
[highlight]UPDATE: Since the writing of this article Google has already implemented these ideas.[/highlight] I was just brainstorming a bit, after reading through some online articles in a translated form. It occurred to me that online translation services often suck, even though processing power shouldn’t be any kind of an issue anymore. What the real problem is, is…
Missed opportunity for Google Maps
I was just thinking today that sometimes I hate the way Google Maps forces you to load a map of the whole country before you go to an actual place. With an over exhausted laptop in front of me running 30 programs and 20 tabs on Chrome, it takes about 30 seconds to load that…
The Chrome Go/Stop Button
[highlight]UPDATE: Since the writing of this article Google Chrome has already changed their user interface.[/highlight] Chrome was released into the public with an impressive new style and quality compared to most of its competitors. The astonishing speed it has (and maintains!) is an absolutely incredible accomplishment. As usual, Google has excelled at making something simple…
Newspaper article Avans Xplora
Today there was an article with me in the all of the southern newspapers in the Netherlands. The article is all about the Xplora at Avans, in which I worked for the last few years. I must admit, the Xplora is a pretty good concept when it comes to a study environment. I was asked…
Máxima
In 2009 I was asked by school administrators to welcome Princess Máxima to the open study environment ‘Xplora’ for the grand opening of the new school building. I show up at 1:00 in the video. Volledige aflevering on Uitzending Gemist
Sollicitatie.tv
It’s been a while since I actually posted on here, but I’ve got some news to announce. I’ve finally gotten around to gathering all the required pieces for me to start my own business: a good idea, a financier, advisors and the time to do it. Now the only thing still missing is a programmer!…