I am a slightly
big-headed chaotic. You can wake me up for bananas, yoghurt with muesli and reruns of Barbapapa.
I was born in Dordrecht in 1974. It is not a particularly notable place. Next to falling in love continuously, I spent most of my time there struggling with
athletics and (with arguably more success)
graffiti.
While
at university, I excelled at eloquently stating the obvious about geophysical stuff so obscure that nobody noticed anyway. It’s no wonder I ended up doing something completely different. However, I loved the shady field trips to long forgotten areas, like the snake-infested mud mountains of Inner Mongolia.
After a few years of experiments in the internet world, I started my own company
Centrical. Customers were for example Akzo Nobel, Utrecht Medical Center and of course Albumprinter - this rapidly growing start-up employed me in 2006 as their
chief architect.
So,
at work I am the guy who draws shapes with mysterious blocks and lines that other people eventually try to convert to software. Furthermore, I tend to have an opinion on almost anything. Don't ask why, but they call me
Ming the Merciless here.
I like to travel, to all sorts of places, preferably filled with cold mountains, hot deserts and/or the wicked and the strange.
I do not eat meat because I like cows, pigs and octopusses too much to eat them - and I am way too lazy to sort it all out.
I sometimes produce
weird paintings full of blue women, hectic letters and depressed animal cartoons.
In the meantime, I am trying to master the basics of some obscure martial art, named
Kung Fu Toa Simorgh; I will let you know when I get there, but for now I am also known as
Sir Break-a-lot. Bummer. O, by the way - I
teach Kung Fu in Amsterdam, so you can join me if you like.
Currently, you might
find me in Amsterdam, anyway.