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 !!!

The Fête de la Musique, also known as World Music Day, is a music festival taking place on June 21, which is usually the summer solstice. The Fête de la Musique began in France and has become a popular event around the world. I wish to be in France today...

Discover Queen!

Image Credit: taken here

Light well

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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

Sunset - that's nice !!

Credit Photo: mtchm (Flickr)

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)

Denis Darzacq

A picture sample from his project called 'hyper'. For more information, click here Denis Darzacq

Li Wei

Li Wei is a Chinese photographer living in Beijing.
Please visit his website: www.liweiart.com. He has a really nice portfolio.

Drops of spring

That's a nice picture...
Credit photo: Steeve_took_it (Flickr)

Bordeaux

I spent three years of my life in this wonderful city.

Credit Photo: Berenger_ZYLA (Flickr)

Blue eyes

Gazing deeply into your soul
those blue blue eyes tell it all
the hidden past you try to escape
the future that always dreamt...

- Lucinda

Credit Photo: VeDaNa (Flickr)

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 !

Urban squirrel

Credit photo: Rongem Boyo (Flickr member)

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

Hot chocolate time

Credit Photos: your_secret_girl

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)

MoMA in Paris

I took these pictures during my last trip in Paris...

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)

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 ;-)

More stars...

Credit Photo: For_Photo (Flickr)

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

Sunny side up

Credit Photo: code-poet, Flickr

A smile in the sky

Three birds and a smile... it's terrific !!

Source: Wallout

Koh Phi Phi Ley

Creidt Photos: Flickr (jeffshaw)

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

Spring time

Credit Photo: aussiegall (Flickr)

Sushi time

That makes me hungry.

More nice pictures

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)

Hello Sadness

Adieu tristesse
Bonjour tristesse
Tu es inscrite dans les lignes du plafond
Tu es inscrite dans les yeux que j'aime
Tu n'es pas tout à fait la misère
Car les lèvres les plus pauvres te dénoncent
Par un sourire
Bonjour tristesse
Amour des corps aimables
Puissance de l'amour
Dont l'amabilité surgit
Comme un monstre sans corps
Tête désappointée
Tristesse beau visage.

Translation:
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.

'Barely disfigured' by Paul Eluard

Xavier said:

I'm going to do what I've always wanted to do. I'm going to write. Everything seems simple and clear. I am not that. Nor that. But I'm all that. I am him, him, him... "I'm going to write books". And I don't want to deceive him. I am her, her... I am french, spanish, english, danish. I am not one but several. I am like Europe, I am all of that ! I am a real mess ! Now, I can start telling you everything. Everything started here

The quote is from the movie "The Spaniard Apartment" by Cedric Kaplisch
I feel pretty much the same today...

Credit Photo: KaRINe_fr

Portraiture

Some superb portraiture from Philadelphia photographer. Manuel Dominguez Jr.Manuel dominguez jr. is a photographer
www.mdominguezjr.com

Art Illustration by Oliver Jeffers

By Oliver Jeffers. Please visit his website...
http://www.oliverjeffers.com/

Illustration by Jack Blanchard

Jake is some sort of illustrative Dr Doolittle. Here’s an excerpt from ‘Animalgamation’, a poster for the Brighton Source.

www.gdi08.co.uk/jake-blanchard
www.jakeblanchard.co.uk

We are all made of stars...

Credit Photo: Flickr

In Ultraviolet Light

One of a series, this image of Saturn was taken when the planet's rings were at their maximum tilt of 27 degrees toward Earth. Saturn experiences seasonal tilts away from and toward the sun, much the same way Earth does. This happens over the course of its 29.5-year orbit. Every 30 years, Earth observers can catch their best glimpse of Saturn's South Pole and the southern side of the planet's rings.

Website: NASA
Image Credit: NASA and E. Karkoschka (University of Arizona)

Apple C

I have her picture,
I have her email,
Her heart at the tip of my keyboard
I have her face
And I want her
Without ever having touched her
Should I save it?
Or just quit?
Apple, it's a man and woman
And it's all a program,
An artificial sky
Apple, who turns me on and off
We love too quickly;
Our lives are virtual
She writes to me,
But my screen formats the feelings
But I imagine that a machine
Can only imitate
My goddess,
She is not really real
Apple, it's a man and woman
And it's all a program,
An artificial sky Pomme, who turns me on and off
We love too quickly;
It's virtual
A little love, copied and pasted
A little love,
Apple C
A little love downloaded,
A little love to save ... To save
But love is not virtual
Apple, it's a man and woman
And it's all a program,
But love isn't virtual
Apple, who turns me on and off
We love too quickly;
It's virtual
Should I save it?
Or should I just quit?

Calogero - Apple C (original title: Pomme C)

Carpe diem

Carpediem, 'Seize the Day'
And I do not want to hear you say
Memento Mori
That’s another Story

David Darbyshire

Yesterday, today, tomorrow...

I wonder, what's being a child in Belfast yesterday, today and tomorrow.
I took this picture in Belfast, a couple of yards away from one of the major sections of the 'peace line' that stretches between the Catholic and Protestant areas of West Belfast.