About Me

bremen-fisheye058-1 I’m Jay Versluis, and I’m doing all sorts of creative stuff on and off the web since 1995. I’m involved in plenty of freelance TV work in and around London for clients such as

and many others. Read my full CV/Resumee here, or check my company’s website www.pinkstone.co.uk

I’m currently involved in:

Alternative Photography
Web Design
Broadcast Work
3D Animation
Loving Life

So here we are, with the ump-teenth incarnation of this site. Can you believe it’s been up in some shape or form since 1997, and before then it was hosted at http://ourworld.compuserver.com/homepages/pinkstone – that was way back when 1MB of webspace was a generous donation from my first ISP Compuserve.

I’m glad those days are over

The site is currently running Wordpress, with a Theme based on Chris Pearson’s amazing Thesis framework, amended by myself using the cracked paint on my lounge door. It’s featuring all kinds of funky plugins, but since they keep changing weekly, an attempt to list them all would be out of date by tonight.

What’s “Alternative Photography” again?

In short: the courage to explore something you’ve not done before, and to become obsessed with the results. I think I’ll write a whole book about this subject, when the time comes (spare time that is).

For me it means to use photography in ways that aren’t meant to be, or to do it the way current times aren’t doing it. Everybody can take a perfect picture with a mobile phone these days. But to take film (remember film?), expose it beyond its capabilities with something not even resembling a camera and then cross-processing it in home-made chemicals, well that’s out of this world.

Or to use a £5k camera and swing it through the night sky in front of street lights on long exposure, instead of doing a Vogue shoot with it.

Or to put a piece of film into an old shoebox, point it at a subject and pop a hole in the front. Those are good examples of Alternative Photography.

Tell us about this website… WTF?

Life is complex. So is this website.

It’s about my life, my work, my ideas, my passion, everything that happens. It’s about things that have happened, and it’s about things I’d like to happen, or I’d like to happen to. I’m doing it for me really, not for you – so you don’t really have to understand, judge, quesiton or even like it.

You’ll find plenty of pictures here, some conceptual ideas, some reviews and my thougts on several subjetcs. Also things I want to quickly jot down so I don’t forget them. There’s no particular order to any of it. I can’t really explain it; it just “is”.

In that sense, it’s a lot like life. The more I stop asking “why am I doing this” or “what’s the purpose of this”, the more creative I become – and the more I enjoy life (which – like this website – we don’t quite understand).

Life is not about “survival”. Survival means one step up from death – and death will be here sooner than you want to know. So cherish this moment and have some fun. Then, have some more. I wish you all the happiness you can find.

You don’t get it? Not a problem – for years I didn’t either. It took me forever to find out.

“Found what out, Jay?” – You got to find out for yourself, and I’m sure you will.

Remember that happiness is in you. Don’t doubt yourself, believe in yourself, and do what you really want to do. Do that, and you’ll find happiness.