At Public Collectors you can find a great collection of art ebooks to download!
I'm crazy with the geometric ones as usual...
Enjoy!

Thanks to my favourite Barcelona agenda last week I discovered Mariana Najmanovich's artwork.

Hyères is one of my favourite festivals. I love fashion and I adore photography, so when these two are together I'm as happy as I can be :)
Below I've selected some images that you are going to be able to enjoy at Hyères 2009.

Alexandra Catiere


Julia Krupp


Madoka Sakamoto


Suzuki Shiori


Jan Adriaans


Pieter Wiesmann


Jessica Roberts

Oh... I (really) can't stop listening to Ariel Pink.
I'd love to see them live on Lisbon together with Deerhunter... WHAT AN AMAZING GIG!

I love this japanese thing of placing smiling faces everywhere :)
Iremonya Design Labo has two shops, one in Kyoto and another one in Tokyo, I love their smiling file folders!

Zvahlav aneb Saticky Slameného Huberta (a.k.a Jabberwocky) by Jan Svankmajer.

Last week attended to Caixaforum to see their new art exhibitions and one of them was a retrospective show on Lord Richard Rogers and associates architecture.
My boyfriend and I were delighted with the models and the early work pictures, but the thing we liked most is their manifesto and urban statement. AMEN.

Today I'm really happy to at last share with you one of the new designs made for Cineplexx! (usually am really impacient when it comes to wait for months to show the projects I'm involved in... )

Mejor digital single is out today thanks to Cherry Red Records. The single contains "Mejor", a delightful, festive, tropical song great for sunny days; "Paint It Black", a pensive and mantric cover of The Rolling Stones and a previously unreleased folkie demo "Sentada".

Download it now to start the week a little warmer, tropical and happier!

Just uploaded to YouTube this Blondie performance at The Midnight Special playing Heart of Glass.
Debbie's blue dress is just gorgeous!

Starting today you can free download screenpapers for your computer's desktop and/or beloved iPhone at Pattern Tales.
I made the designs in different sizes, download the first two models and tell your friends, or not!


TOPO CELESTE screenpaper


XO screenpaper

These days I'm thinking a lot about an amazing art-decó jewelry exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Paris) I want to attend badly.

Image above: Brigitte Helm wearing jewelry designed by Raymond Templier.

Below I selected some of the pieces at the show. Gorgeous!

Jean Després (1932) Jean Després (1937)


Raymond Templier -cigarette case- (1930)


Paul Brandt (1928) Gérard Sandoz (1928)

Some movies and documentaries I've watched recently...

Food Matters (2008)
Super interesting documentary about health, food, pesticides, nutrition... a must see. You are what you eat.


Lady Snowblood (1973)
If you liked Kill Bill you may like its origin. Incredibly similar...


Histoire de Melody Nelson (1971)
Arty film inspired on Gainsbourg's concept album with the same name directed by Jean-Christophe Averty. Jane Birkin is gorgeous on it.


Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
3rd of Michael Caine as Agent Palmer movies -Ipcress File, Funeral in Berlin-. Featuring Françoise Dorléac!


David Attenborough - Life on Air (2002)
Amazing documentary about one of the most interesting human beings on Earth. Click on the name to watch the video, BBC disabled embed on YouTube :/

Paris vu par... Godard, Chabrol, Rohmer, Pollet... (1965)
Short films about Paris made by some of the most interesting french directors of all time.


Brigitte Bardot: Divine B.B (1961/63/68)
This is a musical video compilation of BB, some of them really good!


Paris when it sizzles (1964)
Very funny movie featuring Audrey Hepburn.


The Grass is Greener (1960)
Entertaining Cary Grant movie featuring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum too...

Today appeared at The Retrospective an interview with me, at their We Are Each Other section. You can read the interview both in english and spanish here.
Thanks for the coverage guys! It's been a pleasure*
:)


*This is a patterned illustration I made for them.

On 1926 Josef Albers designed these gorgeous nesting tables for the so called Moellenhof House in Berlin.
Now you can buy the reissue via Vitra, of course.

more at her website.

Loving Sarah Illenberger's work.

Jakob Nylund (Formconspiracy) has created some beautiful vector illustrator fonts to free download on this website.
I think I'm in love with Soraya, it's just my type.


Soraya font.


Layer Cake font


Sausage font

Some recommended spots in Barcelona's Raval neighbourhood...
(in case you are here for Easter time ;)

Still Light
C/ Notariat
Unique designer clothes and great selection of magazines and books (even delightful books from Nieves!) Below image from Via Snella, swedish fashion for men only available in Barcelona thanks to Still Light.


Barcelona Reykjavik
C/ Doctor Dou 12
Best organic bakery in Barcelona. I get hungry just to think about this place...

Kasparo Bar
Plaça de Vicenç Martorell 4
Great sunny terrace to chill-out a little while enjoying their homemade ice tea.

Ras
C/ Doctor Dou 10
Bookshop specialized on arts, design and architecture. Also art gallery inside!


Biocenter
C/Pintor Fortuny 25
Yummy healthy vegetarian restaurant.

Haven't post these days as I had a computer problem :/
Gigabytes and gigabytes of deleted information from one of my external drives... today got a new 1 TeraByte drive to duplicate everything and be safe and happy again!
But life goes on, and to prove it let's go for some Hosang Park photographs.

I made an artist selection from Culturehall an online community and curated space for contemporary art.
Some fresh art for the senses...
Enjoy!


Matthew Ryan Barton. The affects of the effects of gravity (2008).


Paul van den Hout. Pilgrims (2008).


Tema Stauffer. White Horse (2007).


Adam Brent. Ballad of Crook Horn rd (2008).


David Andrew Frey. Fixture (1997).


MichaelJohansson. Packa Pappas Kappsäck (2006).


Idan Hayosh. AH64a display (2006).


Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk. Untitled, from the series The Andromeda Strain (2007).


Robert Lucy. Elephant (2008).

Stuart and Caan : The Mayfly Dance
The kind of freak folk I like more.


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Jeremy Jay : Slow Dance
Oh Jeremy, soooo addictive. Makes me want to dance all the time.


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Julie Doiron : I can wonder what you did with your day
Beautiful record, beautiful lyrics and beautiful cover! BBB!


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Nick Garrie : The Nightmare of J.B. Stanislas + 49 Arlington Gardens
Legend 60s songwritter Nick Garrie is playing next June in Glasgow with my beloved Cineplexx. I'm so happy to be attending to this concert!

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Blossom Dearie : Blossom Dearie
This jazz record is perfect to cook! What a beautiful voice...

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Marissa Nadler : Little Hells
Dreamy psychedelic folk.


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Dan Deacon : Bromst
I love this cover soooo much. The record is an experimental jewel.


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Joanna Newsom : Ys
I know... again. When I listen to it once I get addicted again. Joanna seems like a super-gifted folkie elf!


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Yellow Balloon : Yellow Balloon
Sixties bubblegum psychedelic sounds for springtime!


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Chas Mtn : Chas Mtn
Gary War's side project together with Ned Egg. More freak folk.

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