Seeing H&M’s Shades of Grey
I'm very far from (wanting to) become a fashion blogger, but in a spontaneous inspired moment, here's an iPhone selfie of me wearing the t-shirt, scarf and (killer hot) boots from the H&M Divided Grey "The Grey Concept" fall 2012 collection.
There’s something about Sandqvist
Recently on a spontaneous wintery day trip to Maastricht my eye got caught on a beautiful canvas backpack with a label with a Swedish surname Sandqvist. Then I got fixed on the idea that I needed a new backpack...
Winning movie tickets from Are you Swedish?
I don’t follow so many companies/brands on my personal Facebook account unless they post content I really care about. Amsterdam-based PR agency Are you Swedish? is one of them.
Nice bag. Bad taste in trainers
Spotted a girl with a pink Fjällräven Kånken (and hipster glasses) waiting for the metro.
God jul! (Swedish for Merry Christmas)
This Christmas I had fun building a gingerbread house from Annas ("pepparkakshus" in Swedish) and quite a lot of difficulties getting the roof to stick to the walls and lack of decorating skills. I guess that's what happens as a gingerbread house building novice. God jul!
Spotted a Kånken in Amsterdam!
Spotted a girl with a forest green Fjällräven Kånken (and hipster beanie) waiting for the metro.
The deep string sounds of Sweden’s von Thord
Von Thord is an upcoming Swedish two man band playing non-genre‐bound string beat. The concept of the band: excellent. The cello and double bass combination cannot be smoother. The boys pluck their strings like slap bassists. They tap their instruments like percussionists. They slide like blues guitarists. They rock it like electric guitarists. The cello...
Sound of Noise, another strange Swedish film
REVIEW/RECENSIE: Sound of Noise – Unheard Film Festival, Amsterdam – 24-27 March 2011 Unheard Film Festival? Never heard of it! But I never say no to a Swedish film. Last week I saw Sound of Noise in my local Amsterdam cinema Kriterion: a Musical Thriller which had 6 percussionists drumming as terrorists, and using the...
