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The Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Mr. Simon Smits, has the honour to invite you to a reception and the opening ceremony of the Holland Art Expo on Wednesday 2 November 2016 from 6.30pm until 8.30pm.

The Holland Art Expo is an exhibition of Dutch contemporary artists.

Dutch Centre and Dutch Church
7 Austin Friars
London EC2N 2HA

SEE YOU THERE!!

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Beautiful silence

Another Closing

Pacha rocked it

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AaRON – Blouson Noir .. Love the song

Yves and the One ..the rest can go home

Brilliant …

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So Yes the dress needs to go back to the water..

The dress, photo shoot , video , never a dull moment ….now make something nice out of it all ..

Deadlining !!

No Not ready,. water runs in mysteries ways !

hehe smile on in the cold water

Kiss!

Pavement pounding, hand shaking, paint swirling, harsh lighting and hangovers: it hardly needs to be said that Frieze Week can overwhelm. The biggest week in London’s cultural calendar—that marks the official start of the season across Europe—started here 14 years ago and is now bigger than the art market, with top curators, critics and museums featuring as prominently as artists in the programme of talks, panels, screenings, book signings, awards, special projects, and live events that the non-buying public will attend. It’s reported that 80% of the visitors to Frieze—that usually caps 68,000—are there to observe, not to buy.

In fact, it may be that Frieze Week is less about selling art than ever, but it’s a glimpse of who is making the decisions about art at the top level and who is really included in the conversation. Since 2006, Frieze magazine publishers Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover, who founded the fair, have not released any sales figures, so even if you want to know what’s selling, you won’t be able to find out. What Frieze is still good at is fashion: from the well-heeled guests to good-looking gallery booths, you can expect to find the bleeding-edge of the art world in London.

See you the 2nd in London ..

Love this garden with the amazing view, it is another side of Ibiza, nothing hip or trendy just good old hedges and buxus, makes me a bit homesick.

Pacha Friday another closing.. can’t wait! It has been too long !

Yay!

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You will not be forgotten .

May you rest in peace my friend.

Whilst writing my story ‘at the wrong place at the wrong time’ I now find out you have been on the wrong place at the wrong time at the time of my writing.

But knowing you, you were not on the wrong place you were probably spot on, at the right place to capture the right moment for the rest of the world to see. You were determined to write the story what was necessary to bring to the people at home.

This time you payed the highest price.

We had the privilege to see through your eyes , through your camera what was going on in this world even if it were not the things we like to see, it was the real world. The wrong side of the coin.

You were kidnapped before with John Cantlie your friend, who is (now and still) again kept by IS since 2012. Politely you pleaded for his release. John, the British journalist who has been held hostage by jihadis since 2012, is used now as a journalist and exploited by Isis in an attempt to lend credibility to propaganda films.

One of the famous words of John Cantlie ‘I am a prisoner, that I cannot deny. But seeing as I’ve been abandoned by my government and my fate now lies in the hand of the Islamic State I have nothing to lose. Maybe I will live and maybe I will die, but I want to take this opportunity to convey some facts that you can verify, facts that if you contemplate might help in preserving lives.

Luck was on your side and you could continue to spread the stories , the beautiful pictures .

And now you are shot near Za’afaran in Sirte Libya by an IS sniper.

A very big loss, I hope this was worth it , it must be.

Confused, shocked, deeply touched , I stay

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“The wrong plane was in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

Imagine that you lost your loved one on the plane crash MH17 and the reason you get is not more than “The wrong plane was in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

Terrible horrible that is not an answer , that makes you shiver, that makes you mad, frustrated and everything else. I will not get to all the details, to describe this the easiest way is in my opinion another endless dispute between countries…which ends in misery for the ‘not involved ‘.

Why I started to read the theories is because of this picture, it caught immediately my attention.
A field full of men looking for rest pieces of the crash , searching for personal stuff , everything which will be of any clue to solve the mystery or to give to the people left behind.

My picture (click on to see the other pictures) underneath in black and white is the picture I sold on ArtBasel Basel, the one under the B&W is the field I was in making pictures to get finally to the black and white one.

The field where I was standing was in a total different country but it looks so similar! The world up side down. A moment to realise in which heaven I was making pictures. But also the moment where in a spilt second you can find men looking for rests of a plane crash….

My field where only little bees were flying that day, birds were playing hide and seek , the absurd silence of Ibiza hay field.The click clack of my camera resonated in the silence.

A field so similar to the field above, a field without a tragedy. No men walking, searching,.
Look at the picture with the men searching, where the last 4 could be easily the four trees on my picture , squeeze your eyes..you will see what I mean .

‘What is your point Lolo’? I hear you think! ,.I don’t know! ,

A realisation that my life is wonderful ?,

That things sometimes can look so similar but are so far apart that the difference should be black and white if you actually have to describe it . So basically things are not always what they seem!
That we really have to enjoy today and not thinking that tomorrow will be better because today already is !

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I call him every day,

He still knows how to pick up the ‘normal’ home phone when it rings.
The iPhone is in our eyes the best invented not to miss in our lives , but for my father hopelessly difficult and impossible to handle .
So when that one rings he probably rather throws it in the pond to be left there with the fish.

I don’t go enough, to Holland , I call him, we talk , sometimes I call again , we talk again.. about the same thing.

I love our conversations people with Alzheimer are better with their intuition, they are more honest , they are in a hurry to tell you everything they know and remember , because God they precisely know that they forget…
I realise I have the best part of him, the phone calls. To hear the voice of a loved one makes everybody happy. Only that can put a smile on their face.

So we want solutions but the world is not ready to find a cure which is approved by Big Pharma.
Diseases are coming and going we are very intelligent people and in some cases it is just a matter of time and we cure that particular disease.

Meanwhile families are tussling , loved ones are left with situations they simply did not learn how to handle and can’t be taught either .

Alzheimer’s disease has become the third-leading disease cause of death, behind heart disease and cancer. Its rate has risen almost exponentially over the past few decades, and the numbers are expected to triple by 2050.

Meanwhile, Big Pharma is clueless, which is a blessing in disguise, as some more effective, less expensive and less toxic remedies are slipping through the cracks.

And there are herbs from traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurveda that are helpful, while Big Pharma struggles with failures to create a profitable Alzheimer’s pharmaceuticals that might help more than harm.

But now there is another effective non-pharmaceutical solution to add: cannabis.

Gary Wenk, Ph.D., professor of neuroscience, immunology and medical genetics at OSU, told TIME, “I’ve been trying to find a drug that will reduce brain inflammation and restore cognitive function in rats for over 25 years; cannabinoids are the first and only class of drugs that have ever been effective.”

Wenk added, “I think that the perception about this drug is changing and in the future people will be less fearful.” Let’s hope so.

So my dear father is on cannabis..yep, he is , my cool dad dude.

Love you forever

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Proud of my Madrid son !Time to come home again ,jeez stranger !