Gerrit Croes

On the road to the middle of nowhere for the weekend!

Haven’t listened to this good of a playlist in a long while! It’s by @MarijnWerf93 Click play, You can thank me later. spoti.fi/ZrOLOh

Giant TEDx Logo in the office. Why? Because, YOLO. (at Hogeschool Utrecht Bestuursgebouw)

Me and my girls winning best idea for “Melli”! #dragonsden #HUkriebels

‘Adagio for Strings (ft. Maiday)’ by Bastille
This week’s jam is so good, I am at loss for words. Naturally, it has to be a song by @BASTILLedan, duh!

This year’s spring collection looks to be very revealing…

DES MUSTISCH!

FaceTime session with family back in Aruba before New Year’s

Eating Apples in the Apple Store because that’s how we roll. with @tsnelderwaard

The best pictures are always blurry.

DailyBooth, a “photoblogging” social networking site to which I’ve been a member of since (almost) the very beginning, just announced that they are shutting down business.

This shouldn’t be a big deal (and probably it’s not) but I can’t help but feel weird about it shutting down. I mean, there are a bunch of websites that start-up and shut down all the time, but this time it’s different. It’s weird, I know, I shouldn’t talk like a sap about a website, but I feel bad for the company…and the loss of my awesome username.

I remember back in 2009 when it was all the rage; All the cool kids had a DailyBooth account. I found out about the website because I remember a bunch of YouTubers were promoting it, to the point even Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore being on the site. I hesitated creating an account because I didn’t see the point in having one. But naturally, as I usually do, I gave in.

I’m happy having created it; because even though I wasn’t the most active user on the site, now, I’m so glad that I was a part of it. Looking back on all the pictures and moments that I’ve had on the site just brings a smile on my face. It’s like going through a giant online photo album of what my life has been these past 3 years. Naturally not all of them are as worthy of an “ahhh” moment, but some great memories come to mind from some of those pictures…

A nice example of a great memory is when I was in Argentina I took this picture and when I was in the airport moving to Holland I took this picture. All significant moments in my life, to which if it not had been for the site, I wouldn’t have them so easily documented and shared with the world.

It’s such a shame that more work hasn’t been done to the site, it just feels as if the site was abandoned. The hype was gone and it felt as if nobody cared to keep it going. I wish the company would explain more as to why they’re closing up shop, because (I believe) a site like this in the end is worth saving. It just lost its mojo. I mean, there has been throw pillows dedicated to the site by Throwboy, API-Integration from Twitter and Flavors.me (and countless others) and it even made a bunch of appearances at several web-related conventions like VidCon. So, people (and other businesses) saw potential.

Alas, all great things must come to an end. So with that, I bid you farewell DailyBooth. May someday another site come that is as awesome and fun like you were…and let’s hope I get as awesome of a username again!

This is Daniel Sloss. He is amazing and hilarious. I haven’t been so obsessed with a comedian in a really long time.

I nearly died of laughter.

enflamme-le-ciel:

Oh, I also made this today. Woowoo~

I wanted to…do a little Thought Bubble-ish thing xD So I put those awkward speech bubbles there.

I can’t help it, I’m hooked on Bastille. They are probably one of my new favorite bands.

This is going to be my new ringtone.

Can’t think of a better person to be around right now, at 2 in the morning, than my brother. Love you, bro. (Taken with Instagram)

This is only place in Europe where you could physically be in 3 different countries at once! My left leg is in Belgium, Right leg in Germany and my torso in The Netherlands! (Taken with Instagram at Drielandenpunt)

Oh, you know, @gerallysa89 and I decided to put @tyleroakley on the big screen just so we could get ourselves educated with the teachings of Honey Boo-Boo Child. (Taken with Instagram)

Wow, It’s been a while.

I’m afraid I don’t even know where I should begin! In exactly a month, it’ll be a year since I last wrote something on my tumblr. Well, what a better way to sum-up the past 11 months with something that I’m really excited to tell everyone about. (The whole “uncnsrd” thing will have to wait for now.)

But yes, on to the good part!

Today, June 4th, 2012 will mark my 1 year anniversary with my Macintosh computer. [Click here for the dailybooth picture I took in the Apple store on that day] As pathetic as this may seem, this brought me to a bigger revelation. Because, on this same exact date a year ago, whilst on a shopping trip in Miami with my mother and one of my best friends, I bought a pair of white “Authentic-styled” Vans. This may not seem as much to the average person, but when I look back on the dirty, seemingly disgusting mess I call shoes now, I see a few great memories.

In the past year; I moved to a different country, changed my college major, started a new school, started living on my own and joined a fraternity. I could easily go into detail about all of the adventures I have gone through in the past year, but I’m not going to. That’s besides the point. My white Vans show me all of the great memories I’ve had throughout the past year. I’ve also dubbed them my “Party shoes” because they are generally the only shoes I wear when I go out with my friends and such.

Now, that’s great and all…but what meaning does that have?

You know how many people say, “your 20’s is while you are in the prime of your life and what-not?” Well, then I’ll do a little experiment. And, I’m doing it on myself. Generally speaking, most people tend to settle down and become more “serious” with their lives around their late 20’s. (I know this isn’t true for everyone, but stay with me here.) I want to put this to the test. When I bought those white Vans last year, I was almost 20. (by a few days.) Now, I’m almost 21. Which means, those white Vans have practically gone through my entire 20th year of living. Today, I just bought new ones. But, they have a purpose.

I’m going to measure my shoes. This may sounds insane, but just hear me out. If I wear brand new white Vans every year, starting on every June 4th ‘till I’m the age of 30, I’ll be able to measure my partying level by each year depending on how gross, nasty and discolored it is at the end of each year.

Now, this is a win-win situation. Either by the end of this experiment in 2021 every Vans will get whiter and whiter by the year; thus, confirming general thought of “the older you get, the less you go out etc.” or It will fluctuate in the level of whiteness in each year; Which could show the periods of my life that I have gone through. Either way, it’s neither wrong or right.

This isn’t fool-proof. I’ve already gotten questions like: “What’ll happen if you go to more formal events in your later 20’s?” or “What if at one point you don’t want to wear Vans shoes anymore?” The beauty in this is, that it will give an answer in any way. If I stop wearing them as often or stop wearing them all together, It will show the level and/or stage(s) of my life that I’ve gone through.

Funny thing is, anyone can participate. And, if you have old shoes laying around you can apply this experiment right now! Just try it! (I could seriously go on for ages about this, but alas, I’ve got other things to do.)

So, let’s see how far I get with this experiment. One things for sure, I’ve definitely got this year ahead of me!

• Monica: *drawing*
• Me: What are you drawing?
• Monica: Trying to draw some waves..
• Me: OK..
• Monica: These don't look like waves -- I can't draw.
• Me: What are you talking about!? You drew such an awesome flower the other day!
• Monica: YEAH! That was a FLOWER! I'm a GIRL! That's what WE are supposed to do! We practice drawing flowers from the day we are BORN!
• Me: ???