laurie rosenwald = belle grande franchise graphique

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je suis une fan finie. elle m’épatera toujours ! voici le troisième livre de laurie rosenwald, celui-ci est destiné aux enfants et porte sur la couleur. les images/collages sont d’une belle grande franchise. le résultat est tout simple et tellement fort. inspirant? ça, c’est certain.
en regardant ses pages, on se dit qu’on se complique la vie pour rien parfois. créer est si simple !

mc avait photographié son livre “new york note book” en mai dernier. on peut lire l’histoire “organique” de ce livre via cette chronique du magazine communication arts.
rafraîchissant !

Female Icon Personator

Flickr Set

How to:
*Print and cut out your favorite female icon’s face
*take a photo
*save as jpg file (no larger than 600×600 pixels)
*mail it to info @ geuzen.org

or

*use your own flickr account and tag the picture as follows:
melikeher + marilynmonroe (if you are impersonating Marilyn Monroe)

For other De Geuzen projects see: http://www.geuzen.org

Lonely-nest

Topics and things i would like to write about:

- how to be alone together (about couples and relationships, how to be able to fully be one so that we can be 2gether). This topic seems to be kept silent around couples, not wanting to acknowledge the fact that to be in love and live with someone are not always things that should go hand-in-hand;

- how i can become mediocre if i dont spend time alone and create stuff;

- the need of loneliness in a creative life.

At the end of the day, Yahoo like others, just wants your money

We are just about to hit the flickr Montreal party, i get a strange feeling when i see all the ‘word of mouth’ going on about the event.

People sending me messages and invites of all kind – but who are these people? Who’s really wanting me to party there tonight?

Who are these people, hired and paid to make me feel i should be there or i’ll be a looser?

This is the danger of Web 2.0!
Marketing people wearing cool flickr masks, its like a nightmare where i cannot clearly see who’s who!

Until when will flickr be the coolest? ‘Till this happens, i’ll be getting some free drinks at the event tonite – trying to remove masks from faces.

Workspaces

I have a fascination for artist’s workspace. Images of artist’s studios are inspiring me, making me travel into someone else’s world.

Chris posted a link to famous DJs’s living rooms. Favorites ones are Ellen Alien and Lawrence’s room.

Note to myself: I need to build up a collection of artists workspaces.

German DJs and their living rooms

Excellent photos of personal work spaces of some german DJs (DJ Koze, Ritchie Hawtin, Ellen Allien, DJ Hell and many more; I know, not all are from Germany, but they live in Berlin, at least, and that for a good reason ).

Link

Wreck this journal

It is a new experience for me to get one of my favorite author’s book just when it’s hitting the stands, while at the same time i can read on the author’s blog all the excitement she felt from having her work out.

I did not know what to expect from Wreck this journal, until i received my copy. Hell fun! — tear, rub, break, lick, stick, drag out, wash — carry it around with you, here is your new friend!

I see this book as a statement that in order to create freely, we as creative beings must be able to experiment, explore, polish and scratch over, disrupt, destroy and rebuild constantly – let go of preconceived ideas, just play in a innocent and almost savage way, as we did as kids, color on our fingers, over our faces. There is no right and wrong, just do it.

Let go. Let go! You should be playing!

The Tent

You Should be Playing

24hrs flickr

Do not miss the 24hrs flickr event in Montreal this friday, june 22 – we’ll be there, wearing our flickr socks!

Björk Volta

“neurosis,
only attaches itself to fertile ground,
where it can flourish

it locks up your chest,
shuts down the heart,
miserly ,
and stingy,
let’s open up : share!”

Lyrics from Innocence.

I’ve been listening to Björk’s Volta since weeks, walking around Manhattan and bike riding along Montreal’s bike paths with the african beats of Earth Intruders and Hyperballad’s version 2007 Wanderlust.

Sounding a little chaotic at first, i thought of this album as a retrospective of Björk’s work – but in fact no. I realized that the main difference in this album was that for the fist time in Björk’s work, i could clearly hear and feel the influences of other pop-eletro singer-songwriters women of the last years, the like M.I.A, Peaches and PJ Harvey.

Fascinating to see how this icon who inspired many is now herself remixing these inspirations on a new ground, opening herself with powerful lyrics no one should ignore, where she is clearly pointing fear as being a drug, and at our own responsibility for the lifes we get.

No need to say the artwork for this record is truly amazing.

“I have lost my origin
and I don’t want to find it again
rather sailing into nature’s laws
and be held by ocean’s paws

I feel at home whenever
the unknown surrounds me
I receive its embrace
aboard my floating house”

From Wanderlust.

Videos:
Bjork- Earth Intruders -Live (Later with Jools Holland)
Björk – Interview (Later with Jools Holland).

Volta podcasts:
part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 part 5.

Milles Femmes lumineuses

For those who havent seen it yet, the 1000 pictures are now online here. I am number 652, there is also Luce and Yannou somewhere.

Vraiment superbe de voir 1000 visages de femmes-filles d’ici, lumineuses et allumées!

meïdia is now 2 years old!

meïdia is now 2 years old!

After many (MANY!) experiences, leaving the 9 to 5 world, jumping into the unknown, learning to listen to my intuitions in all business aspect, meeting different collaborators and clients, trying to integrate artsy ideas in commercial projects, looking to find my own way (and finding a partner on the way), start to earn a living doing what i want – 24 months have gone, and all this is still growing. I feel like i planted seeds, and after much work and taking care of the seeds, something is coming out. I can now look at it, and give it direction.

This whole business thing is completely organic, and we are now gardeners, using our creativity to create the garden we are dreaming of!

In review, our clients over these last 2 years : Bandeapart.fm (Radio-Canada), Musique Plus, Astral Média Radio Interactif, P45, Ubisoft Montreal, Cirque du Soleil, Tellabs, Luce Beaulieu.

Our laboratory, experimental, freestyle projects – the ones we do for fun, by passion :
Stars-of-the-Web,
blogging more than 15 events for Cirque du Soleil, Mutek, Elektra, Fimav, Berlin transmediale, Pop Montreal,
blogger shop for Longtail Superstars,
about 80 podcasts and videocasts,
Reahmicks.us,
our Second Life universe,
Creacamp,
the list goes on.

We are always on the look for collaborators – developer, programmer, project manager, designer.

meïdia in Second Life;

Under the stage at Cirque du Soleil;

Our blogger t-shop;

m-c with Modeselektor at Mutek;

One of our videocast;

Traveling in Berlin for the Transmediale.

Who’s meïdia and press, meïdia’s website.