YouTube can suck my quinoa balls

I have been loving YouTube for a while, some years at least. Recently I've been getting tired of it, the sponsored videos, the tedious rambling, the cheesiness. For me, it's about the editing, that's my favourite part. It's about creating. I have been living through my camera for years, so this is just one step further. I'm not going to talk about makeup and skincare products. In fact, fuck products. I want to make fun video diaries of good times, and if you want to watch them, then you're welcome to. I love seeing into other people's lives, I love seeing new cities, and that's what I want to show in my videos. 

You can find my channel here.

Woodstock spot // 35mm Film

I've been in Cape Town for just over a month. It was strange to be back here at first, but then I found myself emerged in coffee dates and green juice dates and beautiful sunny wintry days and horrible windy rainy days and lovely people who make life worth living. A working holiday is the best kind of holiday, even if you have to give up your European summer for South African winter (mainly because I can now afford to buy a large amount of MAC lipsticks) (and this I have done). 

I found this little explosion of street art in an area in Cape Town called Woodstock, amongst broken buildings and homeless people asking me for money. I dragged my friend Mikhaela with me, forced her to put on makeup and my favourite pair of jeans (bought when she was with me at the vintage kilo shop in Amsterdam) and shoved my camera in her face. I think my friends are getting used to me doing this to them now, let's hope so anyway.

Cape Town at it's finest.

35mm

I will be in Cape Town for almost two months. Season hopping can be fun, just when you were tired of that one pair of summer shorts in the European heat wave it's back to leather pants and layers and rain and the smell of the sea. I haven't been home in almost two years (it doesn't feel like home anymore) and after a few days I already miss my Amsterdam bedroom walls covered in photo prints and my bike and my friends. But leaving paradise is always a lesson in appreciation (Oh Amsterdam I fucking appreciate you) and at least I'm getting snuggles from my fat old cat.

I tried this Lomography Purple Chrome film for the first time, I think the trick is to overexpose it (or expose it multiple times) - at least it's the trick if you want the magical pastel colours. Lower light gives you a very dark, very purple effect (distorted reality/not good for selfies).

I'm finally finding some pretty girls who don't mind being photographed in Amsterdam, so life will be looking up. In these pictures are Esther (Belgium) and Nina (Slovenia) both beautiful people whom I love. There is also one picture of myself and James, my hairy friend from Cape Town who visited me in Holland some weeks ago.

And now I will try to make the most of these next few weeks, being close to the sea. I'll try to capture my city again, but in a new way.

LomoChrome purple XR film and Lomography LC-wide camera

Introduction (summer nights, mosquitos, washing machine hum)

After some years at my old blog, I have decided to begin a new one. Here's everything important you need to know about me for now:

I live in Amsterdam.
I study music (the jazz music).
I am a photography slut and I believe in analog all the way.

I am an Instagram slut (@systemcrashbas, find me, talk to me, let's be friends)

I'm not really a slut, but how else to describe the intense relationship between myself and photographing things, and myself and Instagram?

I like to write.
I like to create.
I like to cook.
I like to text people on Facebook while I'm on the toilet (don't pretend you don't approve).

This blog will be about whatever I want it to be about, but mostly it will be about film photographs accompanied by meaningful text about my life.

Welcome:)

Bas xx

well, me.