ABOUT ME

I'm a thinker but also somebody who can make fun and laugh real hard.

Friends of me like to joke with me by quote me like; "I do not listen to music when I don’t like to" which was very appropriate in some past discussion :P (but I see the funny side of it). Also they will often ask me a question about hip-hop, which I don’t know an answer to. Then they will say "Maurits; who knows a lot about hip-hop!" and then they laugh. I probably once have claimed that I know a lot about hip-hop :P. So yeah, I’m also someone you can make fun of.

I'm often described as someone who can make new contacts very well ("you know everyone around here don’t you?" my friends at art-school often say to me).
I am sometimes a daydreamer.
I like to go to party’s, especially of friends at there home. Even more to go to a really good concert.
I like to work very hard/much for my study (I'm studying graphic design).
I like to know/get to know people.

Interests

Well, the thing I like most is to "make" stuff. By this I mean expressing myself creatively in whatever art form it may be. I study at art-school in my current city, Utrecht on the graphic design department (Utrecht school of the arts). This is by far my biggest interest and the thing I like most doing. I work very hard for this study (most of the time I’m at school 5 days a week from 9am until 10pm). Yes I’m a nerd in that sense but hey! At least I’m an artistic one :P. But it’s also a place where I meet very much people and where I can hangout. It's not that I work very hard all day long.

Besides my interest in graphic design - because of my study - I also have some other great "interests" or "hobby's".
Photography is something I like to do very much. I always carry a camera in my bag and like to make pictures of all kinds. I only work with film (this because my first camera, which I bought on a fly market, was analogue and also because I just like to work with these older cameras where you still have to think a bit more about the photo and the settings. its feels more of "making" a picture instead of "taking" one). One of my greatest inspirations is Wolfgang Tillmans.

Reading magazines, especially interviews is also one of my favourite ways to spend my free time. My favorites are; Appartamento and The Fantastic Man.
Music is a great inspiration. Amon Tobin, The Gaslamp Killer, NAS, J.Rocc, MF DOOM, Portishead, Joy Devision, etc. I like the more "unknown" stuff or maybe more "outspoken" artists I think.

Sport is not really my thing. I tried skateboarding but I’m just not good at it, which makes it less fun for me. Riding my board once in a while is still fun though. Riding on my race-bike is still a great pleasure but I don’t consider it something I do as a sporting activity.

Thinking, this is also one of the things I like to do very much. Oh, and cooking!

• arts
• design
• graphic design
• photography
• concerts
• cooking
• flying
• reading
• music
• cycling
• skateboarding
• sports
• mountains

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Pff to hard. I can even consider seeing a butterfly flying right in front of my eyes "awestruck". I can enjoy the very small things in life. Maybe seeing mountains for the first time (in Italy) is worth mentioning because I thought they where really amazing.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Netherlands

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands