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A review about a lens
The following text is an Essay first, it’s something new and something weird. I am going to write a review of my new old, old new, Sigma 16mm fisheye lens. It’s a weird little fisheye lens, with a small UV filter inside it. You can take off the front element which unveils this ne…
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April is the month of videos
April has been a great month for Dutch skateboard videography. Besides Essay/I relaunching the Quick Boys series, ahum, a few other, and mostly bigger videos were released this month. With the 100% Skateshop video by Jonas Sars still on the agenda and the knowledge that the secon…
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Skater skates a skatespot for six hours straight
There are places in this world that have a certain pull towards some people. Located in the eastern part of Groningen lies a parking lot at the weird intersection of a furniture mall, a high school, a busy bus lane, the city’s biggest park, the road to a village nearby and the ed…
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Tomorrow is a crazy day
and Tjerk Oosting is a crazy guy
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"switch willy"
Yesterday I wrote a reasonably long instagram caption to go with clips from a new video, “switch willy”. It’s a video by Hidde Tuinte, a skater from Hoorn I have known for a few years now and somehow only met in person twice. Back when Essay was still trying to be the go-to plac…
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