Photo service Flickr is an almost endless source for beautiful, grungy, business, artsy or hip pictures. Since their archives contain literally billions of photos, you’ll find pictures about any given subject. So, if you’re running a non-commercial site, why would you mind buying photos at iStockphoto or risk some serious suing by violating copyrights? Just browse to flickr.com and discover the plethora of creative highlights.

Whenever I talk with bloggers about visuals in their publications, I always advice them to use Flickr.…

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I love the United States. I love movies. I love Amsterdam. I love the beauty of lost glory. It all comes together in this pic I’ve made:

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Today I’m at the Transformatorhuis to help preparing this impressive and industrial building for The Next Web Conference. To be honest with you, for me it comes down to writing blog posts about the conference, taking pictures and showing some start-ups the way. Fun work though, and I’m pretty excited about witnessing the organization of such a big event from the inside. How excited, well…, a photo says more than a thousand words:

Photo by Lenniez

Tomorrow I’ll be conference blogging with Anne Helmond. We’ll…

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This weekend was all about photography for me. Let’s start with the most interesting part: I’ve visited the MAGNUM exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in my hometown Amsterdam. The independent photo agency celebrates its 60th birthday, thus the extra attention. Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David Seymour founded MAGNUM in 1947. They were convinced that photography was the best medium to document world events and raise public awareness. Yet to be able to tell their stories they way they wanted to,…

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