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Challenge fear!?! – DAY 286, originally uploaded by auxpetitsoiseaux. Found guerilla card, on flickr

Bienvenue aux auditeurs de Christiane! J’ai entendu au même moment que vous, ce matin en buvant mon café, mon nom à la radio – j’en suis très flattée. Je suis m-c (raccoucis pour Marie-Chantale) artiste, illustratice, et communicatrice. Mon travail a pour but d’inspirer les gens et d’éveiller les esprits paresseux, cela via différents médiums,… Continue reading Bienvenue!

make a personal pledge to the values that unite our human family by signing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Dear readers, i must say that i now feel the excitement as i finally confirmed today a trip to Budapest. This trip will be the farthest east i’ve ever been to date. It will be combined with holidays in Salzburg to visit Chris’s family, to renew with the original Apfel Strudel, gluewein, and again to… Continue reading Budapest, Hungary

An Open Letter to Barack Obama, by Alice Walker

does anyone know how i could have my paintings reproduced on canvas (something like canvas printing)? i’d be happy if someone could recommend something, thank you!!!

It’s a new documentary film about women and creativity, in a world where 80% of students in art schools are women, but 80% of featured artists in museums are men. Watch the trailer. Link to film web site.

I’v updated our green log section with new info on stores i have bought from over the last months – find it here.

I’ll give away 2 sets of inspiration postcards, here is how to proceed to get yours: i’ll send one set to the 1st and the 10th person getting in touch with me about this give away – either by commenting on this entry or emailing me. Good luck!

for eye pleasure

A little hello for those of you coming on this blog via Niki’s advice on the Skirt’s Daily Muse! Hope you’ll enjoy my blog! My book, First Thoughts on life, blogging, and the creative process, is available here… magnets, prints and other art goodies can be found on my Etsy store… Thanks for stoping by!… Continue reading Hello to Skirt Mag readers!

If you missed last may newsletter, make sure you sign up so to be included in the mailing of the June issue which will be out in the next days. More infos about the newsletter can be found here – some morsels of inspiration in your inbox! Fill the box with your email to receive… Continue reading June newsletter

provides a platform to comment, analyze and influence; where young women are given the opportunity to speak on their own behalf on issues that affect their lives and futures. Via Mariannebanane.

the thingie allowing you to stay notified of new comments made to a specific entry is now functional! Just click the checkbox under the comment field and tadam!

I just had a kind of “Oh-my-god-i’m-on-decor8!” moment – Welcome to all new visitors!

We are currently looking for a short stay flat in Manhattan, please get in touch if you can recommend something!

Here are the cities blueprints we’ll use to build on Mars’s territory.

Welcome to Stefan, a new guest contributor to Vu d’ici! Our first European contributor, Stefan lives in Hamburg, Germany, and takes wonderful pictures – hopefully you’ll see some of them here. Long time readers will know him for his short visit in Montreal last year, when we’ve been together at Mutek, and have also traveled… Continue reading Introducing Stefan

Turning 6 today, we ask what is your wish for Vu d’ici 6th anniversary – more love, world domination or the live witnessing of an UFO – cast your vote!

This is my kind of humor: Monty Python’s Ministry of Silly Walks. I love it and sometimes I cannot resist to do some silly walk by myself. 😉

While everybody is talking about the exploration of space and our solar system, its a little weird to discover that we know nearly nothing about the Earth itself! Specifically I am talking about the deep sea and the outer core of the Earth. Certainly, to dive deep into the sea or to dig into the… Continue reading An expedition into the Earth

Nous sommes curieux et voulons connaître votre opinion: devrait-il y avoir plus de contenus franco sur vu d’ici? Est-ce que le mix anglo-franco vous conviens? Répondez au sondage ici!

The site has every minute a new photo showing the current time… See it here.

For those of you who like this kind of trick, check out this optical illusion. Disclaimer: we are not responsible for your dizziness afterwards!

I love street fashion photography, and Face Hunter is one of my favorite web destinations to see what’s being worn on streets in Europe.

I think next time i attend a conference or party i’ll bring Ethernet cables with me, so to try to create an image of a physical network, to connect to people and do what is so popular nowadays: “networking”…

Just remembered that mid-february is THE time where people around start to complain about mid-depression… Could i skip this episode? Some resources here.

First I did not wanted to blog about that but I told m-c this story yesterday and she said that it would be interesting for Vu d’ici. It’s a tragic story which happened in Germany and I read on the Spiegel magazine about it. Last year in November 2007, a 58 year old man got… Continue reading A decision to die

Visual pleasure on a Monday morning for all people interested in avant-garde fashion photography can be found on Foto Decadent.

On January 4, 2008 a new sunspot appeared on the sun which signaled the start of Solar Cycle 24. Sunspots are just spots on the sun, but they always come with solar winds which hit the magnetic field of the Earth and can cause so-called “geomagnetic storms”, which can lead to power outages. Scientists at… Continue reading Solar Cycle 24

please no, http://tinyurl.com/2k9s3d #

found someone in the Netherlands to exchange material with me for the 6×6 project 🙂 (http://www.flickr.com/groups/6×6/) #

I saw this on the status updates of Facebook and was fascinated. We are in 2008; that’s how it looks nowadays, if you break up with someone and jump into a new love relationship.