As of yesterday you can book your tickets for the Avignon theatre festival. In only a few weeks the Festival d'Avignon will start and during 1 month the rhythm of this city in Southern France will be defined by street theatre performances, tons of visitors (over 150.000!) and great theatre productions. But not last week. Read article…
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Übercool Berlin
With the beautiful desaturated Berlin photography of Sandra Juto in my head, I traveled to Berlin. The city turned out to be so much brighter than I thought it would be. So many colors everywhere! The amazing weather and creative conference absolutely helped a lot there too. It appeared to me that somehow Berlin is Read article…
What the jelly?
One of my soft spots is definitely for Jelly. The bright colors and translucent glossy appearance really attract me. A few years ago I found out that there are serious Jell-o Mold Competitions going on where fanatics create the weirdest things out of jell-o. Bompas & Parr work with jelly ever so often, but take Read article…
LV & MJ at Les Arts Décoratifs
Only a few weeks after visiting the Jean Paul Goude exhibition, today I was back at Les Arts Décoratifs to see the Louis Vuitton x Marc Jacobs exhibition. Not that I'm very fond of either of them, but after the live broadcasted opening last night I was quite curious to see what all the buzz Read article…
Sunny Island
Sunshine really brings out the best in Londoners. I got to spend a few days in London last week and was lucky to meet lots of happy & polite people. The peak of enthusiasm was reached when I visited the Lush store on Regent Street. The sales girl and boy both (literally) jumped around to Read article…
Soooo Goude!
Enfin! Finally I went to see the huge Jean Paul Goude Retrospective: Goudemalion at Les Arts Décoratifs in Paris. It closes in a few weeks and was still loaded with visitors. It showed an impressive amount of beautifully mounted photos, lots of famous images and some new ones. The only thing missing in my opinion Read article…
So Far, So Goude
Before settling in France in 2002, I never heard of Jean Paul Goude. However I was familiar with his work. It is pretty impossible to take a Parisian metro without meeting up with Goude en route. Or to think of Grace Jones without remembering his graphic & avant-garde imagery of this goddess of disco. And Read article…
Travel smart
For my job I spend many hours in trains & metros. Usually it's fast and easy, I can read a book or a magazine, listen to music, prepare a meeting, write to-do-lists. Sometimes it's annoying due to delays or smelly & noizy co-passengers. This tool by Mapnificient is really cool: it visualizes the areas Read article…
Monumental
I missed out on the huge exhibition by Anish Kapoor for Monumenta 2011 in the Grand Palais in Paris. The photos featuring the exhibition are amazing; the color of the 4-armed balloon goes so perfectly well with the green construction of the Grand Palais. And the inside is just spectacular. I got more familiar Read article…
Easy Fortune
This spring everyone needs a little fortune. These Fortune Cookie Coin Purses made by Diana Eng are made from recycled leather and each purse has a unique number so you can track its origin. I've always wished for a website like The Cutting Class: easy and precise insight on how garments are technically achieved. These Read article…
