Saturday

The winter keeps being really generous when it comes to sunny, beautiful days :)

Now I work a little while listening to this playlist by PeriodicMusik.

I have little to say, but three nice things to share :)


How to pronounce street names in Danish, a very nice project by Momo and Andrew. Via The Inspiration.

A very nice article written by Peggy Orenstein about Caitlin Moran and her book "How to be a Woman" in Slate Magazine.

The latest Greenpeace Campaign. They have fooled a few with this one.


Top photo is from the park near my house, one of this amazing "winter" days we've been having around here last couple of weeks. Bottom photo is from a German restaurant called Hermann. So beautiful!

Animal Wonders

This is my latest Treasury List on my Etsy. Every single item on this list is absolutely lovely and I really want them all.

Have a look clicking on the image and have a super nice week! x

Today's Mood

A big portion of this:

 - What do I win trying to avoid my homework?

I have to go and do it. At the end, is for my own good.

- Damn! My own good make me so anxious.

With this on a side:

- There must be a lot of people doing important things while I'm lying here!

- Am I not ashamed of myself?

- Come again? I am not?

- Well, one never end to know oneself!

Quino is a genius. Nothing else to say, and I'm going to sleep!

Etsy Women

This is my new treasury list with 16 products made by my favorite Etsy sellers, all of them women, all of them amazing designers, illustrators, photographers or crafters.

Click on the image to have a look and have a happy Women's Day everyone!

This Year

"This year, I will
stop saying yes
when I really mean no,
and stop saying no
when I'm too afraid to say yes.
I will stop caring what perfect strangers think,
and hold close the opinions
of those who care for me."

Hila, a nice writer based in Perth, Australia, whose blog le project d'amour I've been following for quite a time now, wrote a poem and posted it in her blog. Lynn from Satsuma Press, who makes delicate stationary, cards and invitations in Oregon, US, liked it and -after asking Hila, of course- printed it. Now if you like it too you can buy it online.

Words made a tangible piece of art. This is the kind of cool collaborations are happening more often thanks to the Internet and make us feel closer together even if we are in opposite sides of the world. It is inspiring, don't you think?

Congrats girls for making it happen!

My Friends: Germán Herrera

Awesome designer, animator, comic illustrator, story-teller, and a super cool friend. From time to time he enjoys making stories about the people he knows, specially his kid sister and his friends. The one in the drawing is me, and although I'm a wicked witch I loved the story he wrote.


"The interview with patient "L" was without any doubt peculiar. Of course you could say that about every person that steps into the office, but this one had some extra value because she suffered from some kind of language-curse. 

An innocent spectator  might think that she only mixed different languages and accents when she speaks, but the sounds that escaped her throat were no other than diabolic words. Most likely a consequence of the studies she recently made. That was easy to deduct from the School of Magic and Necromancy crest stitched in her tote.


According to her story, after a brief but successful time as End of the World Prophet, she decided to add to her resume an Apocalyptic Management and Cults Administration specialization. For her thesis dissertation she broke her soul into little buttons she handled to her followers. With those innocent little objects she would be able to catch the minds and hearts of the entire world... and maybe she would become immortal.


Knowing that she will never be alone and considering her love for classics and cliches, she is planning to take her knowledge to good old (but actually new) England."

Fingers crossed Ger ;)


---> Have a look at German's work on his lovely Blog de monos.

Send me a postcard

... drop me a line.

I love postcards. Looooove, and cards, and all stationary stuff really. That's why I made this new Treasury on my Etsy Shop. Have a look at the lovely cards and postcards I selected by clicking on the image, and if you're interested in buying something from my shop, you have until Monday, so I can go to the post office on Tuesday... if not, just go ahead and pay me a visit! :)

Seven Bar Jokes

Seven Bar Jokes Involving Grammar and Punctuation

By Eric K. Auld

- - - -

1. A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves. 

2. A dangling modifier walks into a bar. After finishing a drink, the bartender asks it to leave.

3. A question mark walks into a bar?

4. Two quotation marks “walk into” a bar.

5. A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to drink.

6. The bar was walked into by the passive voice.

7. Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They drink. They leave.

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Even though I must confess that I don't understand the first two jokes (now you probably know why I make the mistakes I make when I write in English), I think this whole thing is genius. Equally brilliant are most of the texts that you can find in Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency. If you're up to some cool way of procrastinating, definitely have a look, is worth it.

Here's another story about a guy that walks into a bar ;)

The Big Bad Wolf

Like the song, but pretty. A new Treasury List I made on Etsy.

Have a look by clicking on the image! :)

London Bus Tour

Simple yet full of very nice images and well edited with a super ideal tune from Ratatat, Moritz Oberholzer's London Bus Tour is the kind of video that make me think: why didn't I come out with something cool like that? I hope you like it.

I'm off to a Festival. The Strokes, Broken Social Scene, Goldfrapp, Beady Eye and some other cool bands awaits. A nice way to start the weekend, regardless of the non-stopping rain!

Happy Friday everyone! x

Anarchy in the UK

Silly, I know, but it made me laugh.

Via my friend Luis and The Curious Brain.

You Can Leave Your Hat On!

My new Treasury List on Etsy. Have a look by clicking on the image :)

Morning Thoughts

Trapped between sleep and consciousness.

A new Treasury List I made in my Etsy Shop.  Have a look clicking on the image :)

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Of all the things that are being said right now about Steve Jobs I really like to remember the speech he gave in Stanford in 2005 named How to Live Before You Die, here are some extracts:

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

(...)

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

(...)

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Watch it here. Read it here. Bye Steve and thanks a lot for everything.

You are here

Everything is closer than you think.

OCD

The Swiss artist Ursus Wehrli demonstrates that OCD can be a rather amazing visual exercise. You can see this in his book Kunst Aufräumen where he shows "die ganze Welt in Ordnung", the whole world in order.

If your obsession, whatever that is, can deliver such beautiful images, I definitely would encourage you to love it, live it and share it with the world! x


Found via Jeannie-Jeannie.

Shoot With Your Heart

Lomography just announced the finalists of their Ten Prophecies Contest and it happens that my friend Susie Lomovitz is one of them. For the challenge she made a beautiful book and documented the process with an equally nice video so I'm almost positive that she's going to be the winner. Fingers crossed for Su!

Her 11th prophecy is: Shoot with your heart. That's definitely good advice both for lomography in particular, and life in general.

Have a look at her work, leave your comments here, and have a lovely Monday everyone! x

My Artist Statement

This is funny. Get yours here.

The Dark Side of Oz

I guess everybody knows the urban legend about syncing Alice in Wonderland or The Wizard of Oz with Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon but just a few have actually try it out. Well, now is your chance. Bryan Pugh a Sound Engineer from Brooklyn has done all the dirty work, now you just have to click on his Vimeo Channel and see/hear for yourself if it was just a legend or if Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Sid Barret were actually this crazy playful Oz/Wonderland fans.

PS: Did you check the new Blogger look already?