Jul 2008
Saturday night concert: Caribou!!
If you are in Barcelona this weekend, don’t even
think of missing a Caribou concert in
Razzmatazz’s super-duper-5-club-in-one-Poble
Nou-factory...
2:30 AM though...but it’s summer! who cares!?
Here are two Caribou clips to enjoy meanwhile...
(great dreamy psychedelic pop songs)
2:30 AM though...but it’s summer! who cares!?
Here are two Caribou clips to enjoy meanwhile...
(great dreamy psychedelic pop songs)
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last night sketch
30/07/08 11:39 Filed in: my projects
Gandules at CCCB - free artsy cinema in Barcelona
Good morning everyone*
Once again Gandules is back in town!
The open-air cinema at CCCB (Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona) starts next tuesday! So start checking the line up...
See you there!
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Gandules 08 looks at the theme of interculturality, taking as its starting point an essential film principle: the viewpoint. In the form of fiction, essay and documentary, the films shown during Gandules 08 present works from the West and beyond which deal with two major themes that question the point of view: journeys that lead to another culture and situations of coexisting cultures in a single place.
Gandules 08 extends this year to provide a space for creation, inviting four young filmmakers to make a short film that dialogue with the programme.
NOTE: All the movies begin at 22:00, free admission (but limited capacity!).
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Week 1
Tuesday 5 August
*Óscar Pérez, If the Camera Blows Up / 2008 / 13'Óscar Pérez lends his camera to a Pakistani so he can send his family his view of Barcelona: his colleagues, a walk in the park... The domestic images he records, sometimes lyrical, sometimes full of humour, rediscover the city and our points of view.
Johan van der Keuken, To Sang Fotostudio / 1997 / 35'To Sang's photo studio in Amsterdam is visited by traders from every corner of the world: Dutch from Hollywood Hair wig shop, Chinese jewellers, Pakistanis from the Sari Centre, Kurdish restaurateurs, the Surinamese from Capricho travel agency...
Martin Scorsese, Italianamerican / 1974 / 49'Scorsese films a portrait of his parents, Italian immigrants in New York. While his mother, Catherine, picks him up on his badly formulated questions and shows him how to make meatballs, his father tells stories of things that happen outside the home. An intimate and humorous family film.
Wednesday 6 August
Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Le voyage du ballon rouge / 2007 / 113' In his first film shot in Europe, Hou Hsiao-Hsien tells the story of an actress (Juliette Binoche) who works with a puppet company, a Chinese student in Paris, the little boy she looks after and the imaginary world they share.
Thursday 7 August
Rainer W. Fassbinder, Ali, Fear Eats the Soul / 1974 / 93'Emmi, a 60-year-old widow and cleaner, meets Salem, a 30-year-old Moroccan, in an immigrants' bar. They start going out together, leading to Emmi's rejection by her children, neighbours and colleagues.
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Week 2
Tuesday 12 August
**Werner Herzog, Encounters at the End of the World / 2007 / 99'. Spanish premiere!!!!!Herzog travels to one of the Earth's most remote, sparsely populated corners: Antarctica. There he meets its exotic, solitary inhabitants: naturalists, geologists, philosophers and scientists who live with penguins and seals, threatened by climate change. This is a humanistic, funny and sensitive portrait of one of the last natural reserves. Cultures in a territory without culture.
Wednesday 13 August
Serge-Henri Moati, Les cow-boys sont noirs / 1966 / 15'A taxi-driver, a mechanic and workers film the first African western. Moati filmed the making of this wild and woolly project.
Aki Kaurismaki, La vie de bohème / 1992 / 100'A painter (Rodolfo), a writer (Marcel), a musician (Schaunard) and a dog (Baudelaire) are what remains of Parisian bohemia. They live in poverty but without renouncing their ideals or their friendship-between Boris Vian, Mozart and rock, between comedy and tragedy.
Thursday 14 August
*Lope Serrano, Akemi Negishi / 2008 / 2'A piece of animation featuring the face and body of Akemi Negishi, the actress who plays Keiko in The Saga of Anatahan.
Josef von Sternberg, The Saga of Anatahan / 1953 / 92'A group of shipwrecked Japanese soldiers reach an island that is apparently deserted, but home to a beautiful woman and her husband. The woman awakens the desire of the men, who start competing to win her. When they receive a communiqué informing them of the end of the war and Japan's defeat, they choose to believe it is a trap laid by the enemy and continue their obsessive dispute for Keiko. The camera and voice of Sternberg mark out the rhythm of this mythical film about the men's fascination with the woman.
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Week 3
Tuesday 19 August
Chris Marker and Alain Resnais, Les statues meurent aussi / 1953 / 30'A condemnation of colonialism and the perverting influence of Western eyes on African art, this documentary was banned by the French censors for over a decade.
Ousmane Sembène, La noire de... / 1966 / 65'Diouana, an illiterate woman, works in Dakar looking after the children of a white bourgeois couple. This is post-colonial Senegal. When her employers ask her to accompany them to Antibes, where they are spending their holidays, her situation changes: a France she is exploited and forced to do all kinds of household chores. Jean Vigo Prize at Cannes.
Wednesday 20 August
*Andrés Duque / No es la imagen, es el objeto / 2008 / 10'"How long could you spend looking at this picture card?", Pedro P. asks José Sirgado in Arrebato. "I've also kept my favourite childhood album. It's called ‘Hombres, razas y costumbres'. Each page provides me with new interpretations, sometimes imprecise and strange, about who we are and what the world is." (A. D).
Youssef Chahine, Destiny / Al-Massir / 1998 / 125' In 12th-century Andalusia, Averroes is pursued by fundamentalists. A film about mixed race, full of sensuality, inebriation, dance, singing and love interest. A musical, an adventure film, a melodrama; a hedonistic mix of genres and styles that condemns today's fundamentalism and celebrates freedom of thought.
Thursday 21 August
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, The Promise / 1996 / 93'Igor is 15 and apprenticed as a mechanic to his father, who exploits illegal immigrants in exchange for false papers. One day, Igor makes a promise: that he will look after the wife and son of a Ghanaian worker. One of the most realistic and sensitive portraits of immigration in European society.
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Week 4
Tuesday 26 August
*Isa Campo and Isaki Lacuesta, Alpha and again / 2008 / 22'Alpha is a political refugee from Darfur who lives in Melbourne. His personal experience shows us a series of unending digressions in a country built by immigrants, where the refugee camps and detention centres are worthy of a Kafka short story.
Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson, Black Harvest / 1992 / 90'Joe, mixed-race son of an Australian gold prospector and an aborigine from New Guinea, sets up a coffee plantation with his step-brothers of the Ganiga tribe. Over a series of years, Connolly and Anderson filmed the thrilling and fascinating story of a project to reconcile two cultures which gradually breaks down. Wednesday 27 August
Octavio Cortázar, Por primera vez / 1966 / 9' The inhabitants of a village in Cuba who have never seen a motion picture discover the cinema with the showing of Chaplin's Modern Times.
Jean Rouch, La pyramide humaine / 1961 / 90'Rouch suggests that a group of European and African students from a school in Abidjan (Ivory Coast) make a film together. This shared cinematographic experience helps them discover a way of expressing their political and sentimental conflicts. A film full of invention, in which the youngsters play themselves in all the fleeting beauty of youth.
Thursday 28 August
Joâo César Monteiro, À flor do mar / 1986 / 133'An Italian translator and her children, a shipwrecked North American man, a house overlooking a bay on the Portuguese coast, a hot summer. Somewhere between adventure story, romanticism, melancholy and satire, between Rossellini and Godard, this is a film full of light and air. * In-house productions commissioned to young directors.
Once again Gandules is back in town!
The open-air cinema at CCCB (Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona) starts next tuesday! So start checking the line up...
See you there!
()·()·()·()·()·()·()·()·()·()·()·()·()·()·()·()·()·()·
Gandules 08 looks at the theme of interculturality, taking as its starting point an essential film principle: the viewpoint. In the form of fiction, essay and documentary, the films shown during Gandules 08 present works from the West and beyond which deal with two major themes that question the point of view: journeys that lead to another culture and situations of coexisting cultures in a single place.
Gandules 08 extends this year to provide a space for creation, inviting four young filmmakers to make a short film that dialogue with the programme.
NOTE: All the movies begin at 22:00, free admission (but limited capacity!).
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Week 1
Tuesday 5 August
*Óscar Pérez, If the Camera Blows Up / 2008 / 13'Óscar Pérez lends his camera to a Pakistani so he can send his family his view of Barcelona: his colleagues, a walk in the park... The domestic images he records, sometimes lyrical, sometimes full of humour, rediscover the city and our points of view.
Johan van der Keuken, To Sang Fotostudio / 1997 / 35'To Sang's photo studio in Amsterdam is visited by traders from every corner of the world: Dutch from Hollywood Hair wig shop, Chinese jewellers, Pakistanis from the Sari Centre, Kurdish restaurateurs, the Surinamese from Capricho travel agency...
Martin Scorsese, Italianamerican / 1974 / 49'Scorsese films a portrait of his parents, Italian immigrants in New York. While his mother, Catherine, picks him up on his badly formulated questions and shows him how to make meatballs, his father tells stories of things that happen outside the home. An intimate and humorous family film.
Wednesday 6 August
Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Le voyage du ballon rouge / 2007 / 113' In his first film shot in Europe, Hou Hsiao-Hsien tells the story of an actress (Juliette Binoche) who works with a puppet company, a Chinese student in Paris, the little boy she looks after and the imaginary world they share.
Thursday 7 August
Rainer W. Fassbinder, Ali, Fear Eats the Soul / 1974 / 93'Emmi, a 60-year-old widow and cleaner, meets Salem, a 30-year-old Moroccan, in an immigrants' bar. They start going out together, leading to Emmi's rejection by her children, neighbours and colleagues.
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Week 2
Tuesday 12 August
**Werner Herzog, Encounters at the End of the World / 2007 / 99'. Spanish premiere!!!!!Herzog travels to one of the Earth's most remote, sparsely populated corners: Antarctica. There he meets its exotic, solitary inhabitants: naturalists, geologists, philosophers and scientists who live with penguins and seals, threatened by climate change. This is a humanistic, funny and sensitive portrait of one of the last natural reserves. Cultures in a territory without culture.
Wednesday 13 August
Serge-Henri Moati, Les cow-boys sont noirs / 1966 / 15'A taxi-driver, a mechanic and workers film the first African western. Moati filmed the making of this wild and woolly project.
Aki Kaurismaki, La vie de bohème / 1992 / 100'A painter (Rodolfo), a writer (Marcel), a musician (Schaunard) and a dog (Baudelaire) are what remains of Parisian bohemia. They live in poverty but without renouncing their ideals or their friendship-between Boris Vian, Mozart and rock, between comedy and tragedy.
Thursday 14 August
*Lope Serrano, Akemi Negishi / 2008 / 2'A piece of animation featuring the face and body of Akemi Negishi, the actress who plays Keiko in The Saga of Anatahan.
Josef von Sternberg, The Saga of Anatahan / 1953 / 92'A group of shipwrecked Japanese soldiers reach an island that is apparently deserted, but home to a beautiful woman and her husband. The woman awakens the desire of the men, who start competing to win her. When they receive a communiqué informing them of the end of the war and Japan's defeat, they choose to believe it is a trap laid by the enemy and continue their obsessive dispute for Keiko. The camera and voice of Sternberg mark out the rhythm of this mythical film about the men's fascination with the woman.
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Week 3
Tuesday 19 August
Chris Marker and Alain Resnais, Les statues meurent aussi / 1953 / 30'A condemnation of colonialism and the perverting influence of Western eyes on African art, this documentary was banned by the French censors for over a decade.
Ousmane Sembène, La noire de... / 1966 / 65'Diouana, an illiterate woman, works in Dakar looking after the children of a white bourgeois couple. This is post-colonial Senegal. When her employers ask her to accompany them to Antibes, where they are spending their holidays, her situation changes: a France she is exploited and forced to do all kinds of household chores. Jean Vigo Prize at Cannes.
Wednesday 20 August
*Andrés Duque / No es la imagen, es el objeto / 2008 / 10'"How long could you spend looking at this picture card?", Pedro P. asks José Sirgado in Arrebato. "I've also kept my favourite childhood album. It's called ‘Hombres, razas y costumbres'. Each page provides me with new interpretations, sometimes imprecise and strange, about who we are and what the world is." (A. D).
Youssef Chahine, Destiny / Al-Massir / 1998 / 125' In 12th-century Andalusia, Averroes is pursued by fundamentalists. A film about mixed race, full of sensuality, inebriation, dance, singing and love interest. A musical, an adventure film, a melodrama; a hedonistic mix of genres and styles that condemns today's fundamentalism and celebrates freedom of thought.
Thursday 21 August
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, The Promise / 1996 / 93'Igor is 15 and apprenticed as a mechanic to his father, who exploits illegal immigrants in exchange for false papers. One day, Igor makes a promise: that he will look after the wife and son of a Ghanaian worker. One of the most realistic and sensitive portraits of immigration in European society.
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Week 4
Tuesday 26 August
*Isa Campo and Isaki Lacuesta, Alpha and again / 2008 / 22'Alpha is a political refugee from Darfur who lives in Melbourne. His personal experience shows us a series of unending digressions in a country built by immigrants, where the refugee camps and detention centres are worthy of a Kafka short story.
Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson, Black Harvest / 1992 / 90'Joe, mixed-race son of an Australian gold prospector and an aborigine from New Guinea, sets up a coffee plantation with his step-brothers of the Ganiga tribe. Over a series of years, Connolly and Anderson filmed the thrilling and fascinating story of a project to reconcile two cultures which gradually breaks down. Wednesday 27 August
Octavio Cortázar, Por primera vez / 1966 / 9' The inhabitants of a village in Cuba who have never seen a motion picture discover the cinema with the showing of Chaplin's Modern Times.
Jean Rouch, La pyramide humaine / 1961 / 90'Rouch suggests that a group of European and African students from a school in Abidjan (Ivory Coast) make a film together. This shared cinematographic experience helps them discover a way of expressing their political and sentimental conflicts. A film full of invention, in which the youngsters play themselves in all the fleeting beauty of youth.
Thursday 28 August
Joâo César Monteiro, À flor do mar / 1986 / 133'An Italian translator and her children, a shipwrecked North American man, a house overlooking a bay on the Portuguese coast, a hot summer. Somewhere between adventure story, romanticism, melancholy and satire, between Rossellini and Godard, this is a film full of light and air. * In-house productions commissioned to young directors.
red & golden SEAGULL
28/07/08 10:04 Filed in: photography
Just 25 pieces available worldwide of this
magnificent camera... Lomo shop is selling it, what
are you waiting for?
Chandal: a fantastic shop!
27/07/08 13:11 Filed in: barcelona
| object
design
Last week I bought this collector E.T ring in a shop
called Chandal.
They have beautiful vintage furniture accesories, retro cameras, vinyl records (a great selection of them -including Testla’s Aquarium by Felix Kubin and Pia Burnette!!-)...
If you are in Barcelona visit them, you won’t regret it.
Chandal
Valldonzella 29
08001 Barcelona
+34 933 017 061
They have beautiful vintage furniture accesories, retro cameras, vinyl records (a great selection of them -including Testla’s Aquarium by Felix Kubin and Pia Burnette!!-)...
If you are in Barcelona visit them, you won’t regret it.
Chandal
Valldonzella 29
08001 Barcelona
+34 933 017 061
Mina Perhonen
26/07/08 16:34 Filed in: fashion
Playground Magazine - Viva la música de verdad!
Playground is a great spanish
music magazine that you can enjoy online...
The project is only three weeks old but it’s quality is amazing!
Spanish only... sorry :)
The project is only three weeks old but it’s quality is amazing!
Spanish only... sorry :)
Black Whole Conference by Michel de Broin
25/07/08 09:07 Filed in: art
Here’s a stunning chair sculpture by Michel de Broin (artist
living and working in Berlin/Montreal).
Carmensita by Devendra Banhart
24/07/08 14:14 Filed in: music!
Tea lighting*
Loved this DIY lamp idea!!
Is created by Domestic Construction.
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Is created by Domestic Construction.
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♥ ERNST HAECKEL ♥
23/07/08 09:27 Filed in: art
So in love with his illustrations that I’m
thinking about creating a pattern capsule
collection inspired on them...
Studioilse Lamp by Wästberg
22/07/08 08:20 Filed in: object
design
Adore the combination of materials and the
neo-organicism of it all. Great lamp. I would love to
have one of these on my desktop!
More info.
More info.
Picnic at Hanging Rock VS. The Virgin Suicides
Yesterday had the chance to see a classic movie
called “Picnic at Hanging Rock”...
knew some things about it but was stunned by the
cinematography and the overall beauty. Amazing
scenes, light games and psychedelic effects.
Felt like watching Sofia Copula's inspiration before making The Virgin Suicides...The soundtrack is mostly pan-pipe music but if they were changed into synths could have been made by Air easily.
A perfect sunday aussie movie.
Felt like watching Sofia Copula's inspiration before making The Virgin Suicides...The soundtrack is mostly pan-pipe music but if they were changed into synths could have been made by Air easily.
A perfect sunday aussie movie.
Work in progress for a handmade pattern
20/07/08 12:17 Filed in: my projects
itte ladies @ El Mundo newspaper
18/07/08 15:05 Filed in: barcelona
partial translation from the interview...
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“Slowly but surely”
“A perfect tandem between Alex, the business brain with enviable skills learned in New York and Ana, an unstoppable torrent of creativity with a degree in Fine Arts.”
“The success came quickly, and with it the big clients like L'Oreál or Biotherm ... but something did click inside the two, pro entrepreneurs but bon vivants deep inside”
“Proudly they explain what they are doing now is slow design....”
“I did not want to simply do style exercises. Design is a process, requires research to reach a solid concept -says Ana- who defines herself as a ravenous of images by historicist spirit. What translated means: addicted to magazines, blogs, and at the same time scanning design in their purest sources -like 18th century japanese ornaments-”
“From this crossing between modernity and crafts, projects arise as a) Pop Pervert (itte studio’s b-sides), where you can find from their own sketches to the Kinks covers; b) a collection of ideal t-shirts, T_Milk, with handmade illustrations sale on-line and c) the major launch, Pattern Tales: a collection of more than 120 prints that they inhale to cover something more than walls (houses, fridges, textiles, anything and everything).”
Historic Fashion WIP gets better...
17/07/08 01:53 Filed in: fashion
2 previous variations of yesterday's pattern
15/07/08 21:24 Filed in: my projects
Both designs were created with the same initials “M”
and “P” and following the client’s brief:
minimal, cold chromatism, typographic..
Out of three which one is your favorite?
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Out of three which one is your favorite?
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Our first bespoke pattern!
14/07/08 17:24 Filed in: my projects
Isn’t it cute?... A special pattern for a
contemporary wedding...Vive l’amour!!!
It’s constructed with the letters “P” and “M”, the initials for the lucky couple!
Comments are welcome... and in case you want to order a tailor made pattern, contact us.
It’s constructed with the letters “P” and “M”, the initials for the lucky couple!
Comments are welcome... and in case you want to order a tailor made pattern, contact us.
blublu the king of street art stop-motion
10/07/08 11:29 Filed in: art
HISTORIC FASHION continues...(1st stage of the drawings)
07/07/08 11:08 Filed in: fashion
A preview of our "Historic
Fashion" drawings in
it’s very first stage... just paper and pencil.
Soon will be posting the rest of the process...
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Montjuïc de Nit! Nuites Blanches pour l'Art...
Yesterday was the first Montjuïc Nit, an Art night at the Montjuïc mountain in Barcelona. About 50 different activities, lots of people and a great warm sunset. We stop-by at Fundació Miró, MNAC (Duchamp+Picabia+Man Ray exhibition) and the Barcelona Etnologic Museum.
One of the pieces exhibited in Fundació Miró by Kohei Nawa.
...and this picture is one of our Duchamp’s favourites... He was “lo más”.
MOST LISTENED ALBUMS IN JUNE...
01/07/08 10:13 Filed in: music!
The Kinks (can’t mention just one
album...)
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VA - Through the Wilderness : A Tribute to Madonna
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El Guincho "Alegranza"
(great cover design by a friend of us Jordi Ferreiro!)
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Cineplexx “Picnic”
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Tara Jane O’Neil “A Raveling”
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The Wedding Present “El Rey”
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VA - Shadow Music of Thailand
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Los Clásicos de la Ópera - 400 años. 37 CD/book collection.
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VA- Juno B-Sides: Almost Adopted Songs
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The Pastels. EVERYTHING!!
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VA - Through the Wilderness : A Tribute to Madonna
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El Guincho "Alegranza"
(great cover design by a friend of us Jordi Ferreiro!)
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Cineplexx “Picnic”
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Tara Jane O’Neil “A Raveling”
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The Wedding Present “El Rey”
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VA - Shadow Music of Thailand
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Los Clásicos de la Ópera - 400 años. 37 CD/book collection.
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VA- Juno B-Sides: Almost Adopted Songs
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The Pastels. EVERYTHING!!
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AT LAND.
Back to Barcelona again... Had a terrific time in
London and Glasgow! Thanks to all for taking care of
Mr. Cineplexx and I...
Here a picture selection from the journey.
Cornelia Parker installation at Tate Modern
Mushrooms by Cy Twombly. Tate Modern.
Delicious birthday breakfast. Eggs benedict at “I heart Buchanan” (Glasgow).
Huge bubble observatory at Psycho Buildings exhibition. Southbank Centre London.
Whitechapel Gallery corridor.
I love these kind of cylindric sculptures...
Restaurant window at Southbank Arts Centre.
Great ephemeral micro-house!!
Psycho Buildings poster... amazing exhibition.
The trashier installation at Psycho Buildings.
Macaronni beeing the coolest cat in the United Kingdom.
Strange view from our hotel room in London.
Steam.
Stunning Maya Deren...I never get bored of watching her films...
A great installation in Glasgow city centre... see next 2 pics for detail.
Fast London Underground!
East London ghosts...
Fantastic Sherlock Holmes tiling!
At Sunny Govan Radio.
At the radio with Cineplexx, Ally Kerr and Paul Tasker.
Ceiling at Southbank Arts Centre.
MacLoneliness.
Here a picture selection from the journey.
Cornelia Parker installation at Tate Modern
Mushrooms by Cy Twombly. Tate Modern.
Delicious birthday breakfast. Eggs benedict at “I heart Buchanan” (Glasgow).
Huge bubble observatory at Psycho Buildings exhibition. Southbank Centre London.
Whitechapel Gallery corridor.
I love these kind of cylindric sculptures...
Restaurant window at Southbank Arts Centre.
Great ephemeral micro-house!!
Psycho Buildings poster... amazing exhibition.
The trashier installation at Psycho Buildings.
Macaronni beeing the coolest cat in the United Kingdom.
Strange view from our hotel room in London.
Steam.
Stunning Maya Deren...I never get bored of watching her films...
A great installation in Glasgow city centre... see next 2 pics for detail.
Fast London Underground!
East London ghosts...
Fantastic Sherlock Holmes tiling!
At Sunny Govan Radio.
At the radio with Cineplexx, Ally Kerr and Paul Tasker.
Ceiling at Southbank Arts Centre.
MacLoneliness.
Just a teaser from the My Bloody Valentine concert
MBVroundhouse240608
I recorded this while people were pogo-dancing around me... that’s why the video is soo short.... but totally recommend this gig.
The noisiest experience in my life! EVER!
There were free earplugs for the audience at the entrance of the Roundhouse... A MUST.
You can download the video from the link above... YouTube was banning the video the two times I tried... :/
...and below a couple of Kevin Shields pictures I took.
