This body of work is a self-funded film series, telling personal stories of popular artists, creatives and bloggers mostly known from the Internet.
Wasted Rita calls herself a graphic designer and illustrator. Others call her an artist. Although based in Portugal, she needs to stay in constant motion, so she can continue to be inspired by the world around her. Her pieces are sarcastic but sincere, and her wit can often come with a bite.
wastedrita.com
society6.com/wastedrita
Video and photography by Bas Berkhout
In May 2012, Geffen Refaeli, freelance illustrator from Tel Aviv, Israel, uploaded her very first @DailyDoodleGram on Instagram.
The concept: select elements from different pictures appearing in her Instagram photo stream and combine them into a doodle! Refaeli then tags the users from whose photos she drew inspiration so that others are able to click through and see the originals.
geffenrefaeli.com
instagram.com/dailydoodlegram
Video and photography by Bas Berkhout
James Victore’s is an amazing artist and posters designer. His work has been exhibited at the MoMA, and belongs to permanent collections of museums in Paris, Washington, D.C., Zürich and Amsterdam. His clients include the New York Times, TIME Magazine, Moët & Chandon, the City of New York and Esquire.
Victore speaks regularly around the globe, is a professor at the School of Visual Arts, lectures at RISD and also teaches through his own events like “The Dinner Series” and “Take This Job & Love It.” He inspires many with his Burning Questions series on YouTube.
jamesvictore.com
shop.jamesvictore.com
youtube.com/user/JamesVictore
Video and photography by Bas Berkhout
Helena worked at startups in the Silicon Valley, but she recently decided to pursue her dream of being a full-time photographer. She’s done work for Google, Dropbox, Rdio, Samsung, Square, Uber, and more.
Check out her work:
blog.helenaprice.com
helenaprice.com
Video and photography by Bas Berkhout
For more then twelve years, Dutch born photographer Chantal Heijnen worked as a refugees and immigrants counselor in the Netherlands. Eventually she decided to pursue photography and moved, together with her husband Bart, to the Bronx. Check out some of her beautiful photo series:
chantalheijnen.com
instagram.com/chantalheijnen
Photography by Marije Kuiper
Video by Bas Berkhout
Rafaël Rozendaal is a visual artist who uses the internet as his canvas. His artistic practice consists of websites, installations, drawings, writings and lectures. Spread out over a vast network of domain names, he attracts a large online audience of over 40 million visits per year.
newrafael.com
facebook.com/newrafael
twitter.com/newrafael
Photography by Marije Kuiper
Video by Bas Berkhout
Victo Ngai is from Hong Kong and a multiple award winning Illustrator, who lives and works in Manhattan, NY. You might have seen her stunning editorial work in magazines like The New Yorker, The New York Times or on her very popular Thumblr blog: victongai.tumblr.com. she also made it to the Forbes 30 Under 30!
Photography by Marije Kuiper
Video by Bas Berkhout
Brandon Doman founded a very special storytelling initiative called "The Strangers Project". Living in New York City he has collected over 7000 stories from strangers who have passed his sign saying;
Hi there! I'm collecting your stories. Share them anonymously or just ask "what for?"
strangersproject.com
facebook.com/strangersproject
Photography by Marije Kuiper
Video by Bas Berkhout
Short and personal documentary about Jessica Walsh who is a designer, art director and illustrator working in New York City. She is a partner at design studio Sagmeister & Walsh and teaches at the School of Visual Arts. Her work has won numerous design awards. Recently, Warner Bros. has acquired the film rights of her viral side-project called "40 Days Of Dating"
sagmeisterwalsh.com
behance.net/jessicawalsh
twitter.com/jessicawalsh
Photography by Marije Kuiper
Video by Bas Berkhout
Music by Joel Pickard
When she was 20 years old, photographer Amanda Jasnowski followed her heart. She left her family home in Ohio and moved to New York. Known as @hokaytokay on Instagram she shares her stories about work, love and living in New York.
instagram.com/hokaytokay
amandajas.com
amandajas.tumblr.com
Photography by Marije Kuiper
Video by Bas Berkhout
Meet the talented musician Jesse Boykins III. Jesse gains inspiration from classic soul to contemporary music. Born in Chicago, Jesse spent the first six years of his childhood in Jamaica prior to settling with his family in the US again. Listen to his story, music and the interesting life-lessons we got from him at the door stairs of his home in New Jersey.
twitter.com/JesseBoykins3rd
youtube.com/user/Jboykins3
Photography by Marije Kuiper
Video by Bas Berkhout
Tina Roth Eisenberg, a Swiss born and raised graphic designer, runs four “side-projects gone businesses” out of Brooklyn; a collaborative co-working space called Friends Work Here, a global, monthly lecture series called CreativeMornings, TeuxDeux the simple to-do app and Tattly, a design-y temporary tattoo shop. Tina is often referred to as Swissmiss after her popular design blog which is also the name of her Twitter handle.
swiss-miss.com
creativemornings.com
tattly.com
Photography by Marije Kuiper
Video by Bas Berkhout
This is Justin van der Lek, he is a former Visual Effects Artist at Digital Domain in LA. Now, he’s a Compositor at Weta Digital in New Zealand.
Photography by Marije Kuiper
Video by Bas Berkhout
This is Ali Jardine, she is an iphoneographer and artist living in Petaluma, CA
instagram.com/alijardine
Photography by Marije Kuiper
Video by Bas Berkhout
Meet Kelsey Brookes, artist from San Diego, California
kelseybrooks.com
instagram.com/kelseybrookes
Photography by Marije Kuiper
Video by Bas Berkhout
This is Ike Edeani, he is a photographer and art director based in San Francisco, CA
edeani.com
instagram.com/edeani
blog.edeani.com
Photography by Marije Kuiper
Video by Bas Berkhout
This is Jessica Hische, she is a letterer and illustrator living somewhere between San Francisco, California and Brooklyn, New York.
jessicahische.com
twitter.com/jessicahische
facebook.com/jessica.hische
Photography by Marije Kuiper
Video by Bas Berkhout
Meet Jeremy and Claire Weiss, photographers living in Los Angeles, CA
day19.com
facebook.com/ilikeday19
day19.tumblr.com
Photography by Marije Kuiper
Video by Bas Berkhout
This is Lisa Congdon, she is a fine artist and illustrator from San Francisco, CA
lisacongdon.com
instagram.com/lisacongdon
twitter.com/lisacongdon
Photography by Marije Kuiper
Video by Bas Berkhout
Meet Matthew and Katie Ann Denis, filmmakers living in Los Angeles, California.
instagram.com/katieanndenis
instagram.com/matthewdenis
Photography by Marije Kuiper
Video by Bas Berkhout
This is Ryan Schude, photographer from Los Angeles, California
ryanschude.com
ryanschude.tumblr.com
Photography by Marije Kuiper
Video by Bas Berkhout
This is Tessa Rose Jackson, singer/songwriter living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
tessarosejackson.com
facebook.com/TessaRoseJackson
twitter.com/TessaRoseJack
Photography by Marije Kuiper
Video by Bas Berkhout
This is Robin Nas, illustrator and graffiti-artist living in Breda, the Netherlands.
zenkone.nl
kuvva.com/featured/2012/17
facebook.com/robin.nas.3
Photography by Marije Kuiper
Video by Bas Berkhout
