Next Generation Tees #4 featuring Jaap Ploeger

Jaap Ploeger | The Netherlands

Portrait by Jelle De Groot

Every Sunday a new artist is featured on our blog and social media in their Worn Free Tee, sharing short personal stories.

Jaap's Story

"I live in the local area and found out about the Photoshoot from a friend of mine that works at WornFree, so I came down to check it out and meet some of the students at Minerva.

"I really like it when creative things happen out of the blue and have started to listen closer to the things happening around me to help with my own creative path. I co-owed a film production company for the past 14 years, in which time I really achieved everything that I wanted and was feeling like time for a change. I met a couple of dudes at the Oerol Festival 2 years ago and was telling them how I felt stuck. They helped me see a new beginning. Since then I have moved on from the film company and I am truly following my creative heart.

"I am writing a blog with my daily observations and I am excited to see what the future will bring. That is why I picked this Zoltar t-shirt to see what he had to say about my future, on the back of the tag is a message from Zoltar. Mine read:

"Haha well I guess I am on the right path. You can check out my blog (in Dutch) on my Facebook profile.”

Jaap's Style

About Zoltar

Zoltar is a fortune telling machine that came to fame through a role in the movie Big in 1988. Big starred Tom Hanks. Hanks played a young boy who went to a carnival where he put a coin in a fortune teller machine, and made a wish that he was "big". The fortune teller, Zoltar, then gave him a fortune on a card which said "Your wish has been granted". The next day he had become a man instead of a boy!