The pictures were taken here and here
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Unbranded by Hank Willis Thomas
Hank Willis Thomas's project 'unbranded.' Hank's view on the project: "unbranded is a series of images taken from magazine advertisements targeting a black audience or featuring black subjects, which i digitally manipulated and appropriated....i have removed all aspects of the advertising information, e.g., texts, logos, in order to reveal what's being sold. nothing more is altered."
His website: here
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Thumbs up !
The Thumb by Cesar. Cesar, in a way, fell in love with his thumb and so decided to reproduce it at a larger scale ! Examples of his work can be seen at a number of places such as Museum of Modern Art (Centre Georges-Pompidou), at the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris (Facel Véga), his grave at the Cemetery of Montparnasse, on the esplanade de La Défense (The Thumb), in Marseille (The Giant Thumb)... Actually, there are many thumbs around the world...I only saw the one in Paris... pretty cool.
Image credit: Wikipedia
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Faces of London by Paul Bence
Amazing work by Paul Bence, who successfully captures faces of joy, sadness, happiness, anger. It's a bit like feeling the soul of London through all those strangers. London is not only one of them, but all together... diversity of faces, of feelings, of cultures...
Image credit: Paul Bence (Flickr)
You can visit his photo blog 'Faces of London' here
Proverbs by Laura Snell
These two pictures are part of a collection called Proverb.
Laura Snell is freelance designer working at Matt Wingfield Studio in London and Brighton.
Her website: Laura Snell
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Super8
I found a nice website full of drawings and paintings. It's in a way naive and simple but so good !! I think, I am going to post a list of my best 20 art blogs someday... I can't wait to go the Lousiana museum (modern art museum located in Denmark). I'll take plenty of pictures to post them here. The museum has indeed some masterpieces by Picasso, Wahrol and Miro...
The painting was taken here: Super8
Summer solstice, let's play some music !!!
Friday, June 20, 2008
Rice Stadium Speech
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
JF Kennedy - 12th September 1962 - Rice Stadium
Image Credit: NASA
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Borgarfjörður
Borgarfjörður is a fjord in the west of Iceland near the town of Borgarnes. The waters of Borgarfjörður appear to be calm, however the fjord is on the contrary a rather dangerous part of the sea because of its undercurrents and shallows.
Credit Photo: Ingibjörg H (Flickr)
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Li Wei
Li Wei is a Chinese photographer living in Beijing.
Please visit his website: www.liweiart.com. He has a really nice portfolio.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Sunday, June 15, 2008
What are you thinking about, Mona Lisa ?
I was strolling in the streets today and I found this... well her. I am wondering what she is looking at! Is she thinking of someone or just looking at the sky? I have more pictures of urban drawings and graffitis. I may post some of them someday. Actually, I met a 'graffiti drawer' last week. He had just finished a really nice fresco... that I will probably put on my blog next week.
Credit Photo: me !
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Volcanoes in France
French volcanoes, located in Massif Central. The entire region contains the largest concentration of extinct volcanoes in the world with approximately 450 volcanoes. One strip alone running north to south and less than 60 square miles contains 115 of them.
Credit Photos: renardjaunard (Flickr)
Source: Wikipedia
Jumping, jumping, jumping
The picture reminds the book 'Mr Vertigo' by Paul Auster... You should definitely read this book. Paul Auster describes strange heroes living in a violent, wild, naive, America in the 1930's. The America of jazz, gangsters, cinema... You can feel the same creative writing in Paul Auster's book as in Twain's or Steinbeck's books.
Credit Photo: Andre Lazaro
Friday, June 13, 2008
Thursday, June 12, 2008
My favorite quotes
Here is a selection of nice quotes:
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
Coffee isn't my cup of tea.
Samuel Goldwyn
Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world's perfect food.
Michael Levine, nutrition researcher, as quoted in The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Maya Angelou
If music be the food of love, play on.
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
The game isn't over until it's over.
Yogi Berra
Credit Photos: this_is_my_brain_in_lithium (Flickr)
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
FOUND magazine - drawing
FOUND by Grant in Los Angeles, California
'While looking for a new place to rent in Angelino Heights, I found this comic drawn on the back of an old receipt'.
Story of toes
“Empty-handed I entered the world
Barefoot I leave it.
My coming, my going --
Two simple happenings
That got entangled.”
- Kozan Ichikyo
Credit photos: dhammza (Flickr)
Number 12
The 12-step chocoholics program:
NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE!
Terry Moore
Credit Photos: Stefano_Lewis (Flickr)
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
1000 visits on my blog in about a month...
So, for a change, a nice music video by Cocoon, a very good French band. I love their music. So simple, so peaceful, so... cocoon ! Enjoy you all !!
By the way, thanks Mark and Morgane !!! You're great ;-)
By the way, thanks Mark and Morgane !!! You're great ;-)
Monday, June 9, 2008
Looking at the sky
This image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. During the course of the collision, billions of stars will be formed. The brightest and most compact of these star birth regions are called super star clusters.
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Chocolate
I have this theory that chocolate slows down the aging process....
It may not be true, but do I dare take the chance?
Unknown
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Pavement and Concrete
I like pavement... sometime there is no better place to chat. You know, it's just it. Fair enough, it's usually dirty, wet, cold, late... BEURK... It does not look as good as a cosy sofa (I like sofa too). But, it's the way it is. Whatever... You sit there, it's the night with the light of a new day starting to shine. I like it... so simple. You just let yourself going, speaking, listening. I can't say how many times, it happened so far here and there. With her or him.
Tribute To Courage
Courage is doing what is right
Without having to be told
Courage is manning up
When you know you've done something wrong
Courage is looking the enemy in the eye
And telling them to just bring it
Courage is having fear
But still staying strong
Courage is facing adversity
But being able to overcome it
Courage is leaving your family behind
To defend the country you love
Courage is being a soldier
In the greatest army in the world
Thank you for this courage
That lets us live free
May God bless you
And come home safely to your families
James Elston
Credit Photo: my sister - Ireland 2008
Beautiful pictures
Here is a collection of pictures taken all around the world... our planet is so amazing. It's definitely time to protect it and not to waste and to destroy it. We have only one Earth...
Credit Photos: 480 x 272 (Flickr)
Credit Photos: 480 x 272 (Flickr)
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