OMG we're in Narnia!

Last night I dreamt the snow was gone, but when I woke up it was still there. Too bad.
On my way to school I noticed the landscape looked a lot like a certain land in a certain movie. Which reminded me of the following (for those of you who know the Twilight books).

Translation Humour

So, you go to google translate.
You switch the languages to "from German to Dutch" and enter "Kohlmeisen".
Which is this little birdy.

Ever wondered what a tree thinks?

Some people from EOS magazine and Natuurpunt decided they do.
They took a 100 year old tree in Brussels, Belgium, and equipped it with all sorts of meters to measure ozone, light, dust and the weather. They also gave it a webcam and microphone. This equipment measures the tree's circumstances and let's the tree tell us how he feels. Pretty cool right? Check out how they did it here.

You can follow the tree's life via all sorts of media like Facebook and Twitter. Just check out the site.

Kroekroek.

Working on: Gwendolyn

I'm currently working on the papercraftmodel of Gwendolyn from the game Odin Sphere.

This isn't the hardest model I've worked on so far, but it is the biggest. There aren't really any good picture's of it online, so I took a screenie of the 3D model in pepakura viewer.

What I especially liked are the wings. I think the colours are magnificent. I also like the pose and overall look. I'm just about done with cutting out every piece, except the really small ones, I was afraid they might get lost (not the first time that would happen). I'll post pictures of the progress and hopefully I can make a good picture of the model as future reference for everyone interested in making this model.

If you're interested in making this model: It's 13 pages with 220 pieces. You can download the model here. You need to download and install a special program for viewing and printing it which you can download here. Look under "Download" and then select "Pepakura Viewer".
If you have any questions regarding materials needed or other things related, please comment and I'll get back to you.

Kroekroek.

And so it commences!

I've been thinking about starting a blog for a while now. But since I'm usually lazy in keeping diaries and stuff like that, I've been prolonging the idea. Now I've decided to finally try. I hope people will find what I write about interesting and I hope people will share their views and experiences with me. Wish me luck!

Things you might catch me writing about:
- Papercraft
papercraft is making paper models of all sorts of things like game characters or pokemon or whatever. I might post something about models I'm working on, the progress and models for future creation or of special interest.
- Nature
as you might have read, I'm a Biology student (specifically Plant Biology). So I'm interested in nature. I might post photo's of mushrooms or plants and tell something about it.
- My cat
I have a young cat of atm 7,5 months old. I've made lots of movies and photo's of him already, but haven't really posted anything online yet, so look forward to his cuteness! :3
- Anime and Manga
I'm a big anime fan and I've read tons of manga (even made a database for it), so I might share my opinion about certain series I'm watching or share wallpapers (idk).

Enjoy reading!

Kroekroek.