ELSA VICTORIA GLAUMANN LUIJER

On the 13th of October at the magical hour of 15.36 Our little Girl was born! Wauw...what an indescribible feeling. It is true what they say about life changing your perspective, because our view of the world has just been narrowed down to a bright little focal point named Elsa.
This afternoon she has been reported to the proper channels and is now a real person with a real identity! Not that she would need a piece of paper to tell her parents who she is... her unique screams have already taken care of that!

So now for a virtual introduction:"Welcome to the virtual world Elsa..." you are imprinted on the internets at this link (click here for set and then click on slideshow!) and more will follow!

Anna is doing fine and we will let everyone know when we will be coming home!

A big scream from all our harts!
The Glaumann-Luijer Family!!!

ONE MORE DAY!

Today...the 12th of October is the day before I become a Father, Anna a Mother, My mother a GRANDMother (FARMOR in Swedish), My Father a GRANDFATHER (FARFAR in swedish), My sister an AUNT, My GRANDMOTHER a 90 year old GREAT GRANDMOTHER...and all my close friends honorary UNCLES and SUGAR AUNTS... Wauw! Everybody goes up a step up the evolutionary ladder!
Our feelings are a bit mixed and planned because we know the exact day that this is going to happen...TOMORROW with a C-section in the OR at OLVG!!!! hich is strange because after a million movies and distant storylines introduced at diner parties, we have been conditioned to think that we have to have our water break after which we are supposed to rush to the hospital(to which you have been practicing to drive to for 2 months!). This weekend we have been running around cleaning on saterday,creating the perfect nest for our baby and hosting a wonderfull dinerparty. Today we had a relaxing breakfast, biked to the Amsterdam train Station to send off Mike and Joost to meet up with the guys of JAM on their way to Berlin; made a belly cast of Annas beautiful bulge; lay around and did nothing; will go see MamaMia in the cinema; have diner at RED and in the morning have our baby around ninish/tenish!
Strange to say the least...

My emerging feelings of worry and nervousness alternate with my curiousity and wonder about what is going to happen tomorrow! Your friends may tell you about this feeling, but you have not yet been able to empathize with their passionate tales of fathership...until now...

Let me say this: "I am 35 years of age and am ready to go down the road, which according to clichee, fokelore and evolution brings with it the most wonderfull rollercoaster you have ever been on! ...check back with me in about 2 months!

Anxiously awaiting my newborn, I will go out tonight and enjoy life as is... with my Girl by my side and my batteries on Full.

Soon 2B Daddy D.

LEF opening

At the opening of the LEF Future Center of Rijkswaterstaat there were some amazing flexible ladies roling themselves up in the curtains... worth checking my flickrsite

Swedish Sights

So by now the ones who know me also know that my girl is swedish, which allows me the priviledge to spend some time at the end of the world...LANDSORT. In fact nothing more then the most southern rock of the stockholm defence line, but for those who come ther eevery year it is a haven of peace & good times. The sun always seems to shine, there are only 2 cars on th etire island and the rocks tell no tales!

Every year they also organize a local art exhibition, which i getting more extreme every year. Check the whole thing out on my flickr page!

Wheels of Steel

Check out the wheels of steel website of the guys from NATWERK. These cars were also used at the WACOM event of 12 dc 2007. HARD PINK STEEL VEHICLES ROCK! Thatnks for the update frank!

to my unborn fruit

Too much... but i have to show this;

Ok, at the moment there are to many things going on. And what creates a better platform to get totally lost in then your multi purpose laptop pc. I have just returned hom and have gotten something to try out for during the holiday in sweden. It is this little PC:


I am hoping that the limit of its possibilities and its amazingly small size will get me to blog more. Everything is so shmall that the seemingly big step of sitting down to write a blog is reduced to a comparably size task...

image me on a beach... blogging my guts out to the world wide whirl... ok...now replace me with a nice looking girl and you'll see this:


will you posted!

OSKOPE

OSKOPE

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NEW SONY... 13.6 MP

DROP your Cybershot!!! And buy a new one today!!

IO Alumni

Last week there was a gathering of industrial minds (enterprising & designing) at Pakhuis de Zwijger . The mix was great the atmosphere loose and the company raw... just like the diner!
Check out some pictures on flickr!

It is rudimetary my dear Watson

In the beginning there was love... love for yourmother...for your father...and your sister. Then came the love of and for a swedish beauty... but now a whole new love is growing inside the swedish. We call it peanut (pinda in Dutch) and it is the beginning of a whole new life for 2 Dinks...
The top picture is a printout of the first ECHO...at 12 weeks. The face is already smiling (but then again that culd just be my special perspective). The bottom picture was just taken last friday after the 20 wek ECHO. Together with MurMur and FarMur we experience a greattour ofevery little part on pinda's now 20 cm little body...now weighing in at the incredible weight of 300 grams!

Will keep you posted on the development of the belly and of our emotional state...

D.

Tour Della Bella Italia

Just a quick link to my flickr sets... CLICK!

Mi Amor e Miselfi arrivare i Garda... cruisare i Verona e Venetia...semper multo amore! Firenze --> Tuscani --> ROMA! --> Cinque Terra --> MONACO --> CANNES festival Cinematique --> VICHY --> Versailles --> Maison Luijer avec Chef Ewaldus --> Carrefour --> Den Haag --> HOME!

gunther!

Unter Gunther

This little guy found himself in our livingroom... he is an integral part of our corney corner chair and an inspiration to create an online character.
For now I shall refer to him as Gunther...who came from unter...

Demetri Martin - visual jokes

Just check out this movie and follow the visual joke trail on you tube!

kodak TEARJERKER

Holy Hart

On the 21st of December 2007 Blansjaar (http://www.blansjaarbv.nl/ ) made it possible for me to remove my 500kg Chalkstone sculpture of JC. This was also the start of a blog which turned into the subject of my first attempt to write a small autobio-story about the reason why I got to be the temporary owner of a modern relic.
I will let who ever is reading this blog know more as soon as I get to the point of publishing (or printing) this fabulous fable. Before that time I can show you some of the images on flickr: Holy hart on Flickr

NOSE 2.0

It is a great thing to be able to breathe through both nostrils… It has been a while, but after the operation everything has been going well. Except for the fact that now I can really not smell anything anymore. So I have the air…but I am waiting anxiously for my smell to kick back in… to be continued…

WIN-TER-Deep-pression

I have no idea why … but every year I get struck down from my usual high on life and just flatten out… This year my hibernation time was delayed and manifested itself about a month later than usual. The feeling of emotional molasses just kind of shows up and ruins a perfectly good flow or appreciation of most general things (like reaching a point of perfection (see earlier blog) or the love of my old lady…). I guess life can throw you a icy curve ball… it is strange when you know that the lion share of my lessened mood is linked to the deprivation of light, which makes me wonder why not to follow the “duck” to warmer and lighter places. Maybe next winter will be spend in a hybernatic hub that keep my enthusiasm at an acceptable level…

A state of Perfection

Have you ever had the feeling that everything around you just kind of falls into place...all at the same time? A little like Hannibals plan mixed up with an orgasmic surge of finishing a puzzle? All your little stacks combined with all the shelf space that you have been carefully structuring for about 10 years, now suddenly finds a perfectly "acceptable" state of being.

This is something that today, the 28th of January 2008, I have finally experienced.

No need for a visual...just a feeling...

D.

Operation (part III)

Operation (part II)

The following was recorded in writing and pictures. For maternal reasons I have done this in my native tongue...

Operation (part I)

The day before I get more AIR…


It is the night before my septum operation. And I am experiencing a light form of nervousness. Not so strange because tomorrow I will experience what it is like to be put down by a chemical cocktail which will make me go to sleep, make the muscles in my face go soft and which will take care of the pain of a surgeon probing around in my nose and sinuses .
This surgical intervention will hopefully give me a breath of fresh air, which will feel like a fishermen’s friend promise that is about 25 years overdue! After a simple and very short visit to the ear nose and throat doctor, a seemingly typical turn of events have lead to my current state of arrest. I am just waiting for tomorrow. Waiting for the moment to go under. Waiting for the moment I wake up… Waiting for the feeling afterwards. I really have no idea what to expect in that respect.
The same feeling crept up on me the day before the CT-scans which (ofcourse) turned out to be totally fine (see image). So where do these feelings of anxiety come from? Is it the fact that I have no idea of what is going to happen to me during the hour and a half of the surgery or is it the fact that I am afraid that something might go wrong? My trust in our medical system is such that I have total confidence in how they will treat me… but will their efforts reward me with a new way of taking in oxygen without any obstructions? I am thankful that by writing about this stuff a little, I get a little perspective on things. This procedure is so small and so common compared to all the other stuff that is going on in that hospital…. And recovery is only a couple of hours….



Let me leave this blog with some small visuals of what I thought I would be experiencing with the CT-scan and what it actually turned out to be. Tomorrow I will ask the nurse to take some pictures so I can discuss the feeling afterwards accompanied by some cool OR shots!
Long live my newly expected air intake!