j. crew & jenna lyons, GORGEOUS.
photo via style.com
i am obsessed with magazines.
you would think that having recently relocated to a new country, that my magazine subscriptions would have dwindled. WRONG.
i have actually started two new subscriptions in the week alone.
1. gentlewoman
bi-annual, fashion, women, BEAUTIFULLY styled, phoebe philo on the inaugural cover. RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT! this also happens to be carried by my corner market in plainpalais, right next to some auto magazines. i love this place.
2. self service
a magazine that until recently i associated totally with american apparel, and therefore could not muster the courage to spend money on…. that is until i saw scout holiday’s coverage of it.
hello wes anderson.
The Centre Pompidou outpost in Metz is due to open in May.
A massive 780-piece show will launch the Museum (700 pieces on loan from the main museum in Paris), and will be sure to attract loads of attention and visitors.
I wonder how long it will be before other museums, galleries, and art-oriented businesses will open in and around Metz. Could the Ballet go on summer break here? Visiting opera? Hotels? Cafes?
Architecture by Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines
Loving this studio visit with Confetti Systems over at Site Unseen (via Jordan Ferney)
Makes me want to go scissor and paper crazy in my own apartment.
Yesterday was World TB Day, this is one video from the mini-site we created for last year’s World TB Day that really hit me.
One of the major issues facing global health today is TB, and one of the real issues facing control (and eventual eradication - am i dreaming?) is a lack of a point of care diagnostic test that works on kids and also HIV-TB co-infected patients.
Devindra is an 11 year old in Mumbai - he explains the difficult diagnosis and the pain of having TB. His uncle looks on lovingly, you can really feel how happy they are to be sitting there today with Devindra healthly.
Check the whole site at msf.org/tbday2009
Fabrice Luchini is one of my favorite dancers as of this weekend. This is a scene from Les Nuits de la Pleine Lune, which is a good example of his talents. (Hat tip to Stephane for finding this). I am still on the search for THE scene from Paris (2008) where he dances to some incredible American Rock n Roll aka Land of 1000 Dances by Wilson Pickett. More soon. Je vous promis.
UPDATE:
From NYT
A fluid dancer and passable singer, Mr. Luchini said he was inspired by James Brown, whom he saw in concert at the Olympia when he was 15. He learned how to move not in a classical dance studio but at a nightclub in Pigalle frequented in the late 1960s by African-American soldiers on leave from Vietnam.
Toward the end of the show he strutted to “Stayin’ Alive,” stripping off his jacket and just for a second revealing his soft, white belly. The audience was on its feet by then, cheering and dancing along, a very un-French thing to do at an upscale theater just off the Champs-Élysées.
So much has just be explained to me.
The New & Improved.
Cole of wearelove is one of the best.
He manages an amazing store in Chelsea and now they have a new website. I missed visiting my last trip to New York, but the many times I have been there have always been colored with wonderful memories, and a laundry list of dream items for my future home.
Proud of what Khoi and I made together.
Ca fait longtemps!
It’s been ages. I must admit that my new profession doesn’t allow me quite the same amount of time for leisure as my previous one did. This could also be read as, “work rules my life.”
That being said, the last few months of 2009 and the beginning of 2010 have been epic.
Things I am currently obsessed with:
1. Readernaut
Do you like to read? Do you read a lot? Do you like knowing what your friends are reading? Were you a HUGE nerd in elementary school and participate actively in the Accelerated Reader program? If you answered yes to any and all of these, then Readernaut is for you.
I love it mostly for the reassuring glow I get watching friends tick their way through books (and not just 140 characters of life).
2. Le Marche aux Puces de Geneve
Seriously, I love the flea market near my apartment in Geneva. It is a little too cold right now, but I am obsessed with the energy it brings to my neighborhood on the weekend.
3. The Broken English Soundtrack by Scratch Massive
Also, I love the movie Broken English.
Parker Posey is phenomenal in this film, and the music sends Zoe Cassavettes debut over the edge.
4. Backyard Bill and his new site
Better than any street style blog I follow (although there is always a place in my heart for them)… more real, and incredible shots.
The shots of Adam Pedersen-Doherty are phenomenal.
5. North Africa
Too general? Well… deal with it. The beginnings of a massive vacation to North Africa are now in the works. I am embodying the spirit of a middle-aged mother of four taking her first vacation without the kids, and will shortly be throwing myself into proper trip preparation.
I love my city vacations, but I need a real life-changer and I hope this is it.
Travel in 2009
- North Adams/the Berkshires, MA
- Paris, France
- New York, NY*
- Los Angeles, CA
- Geneva, Switzerland*
- Montreux, Switzerland
- London, UK
- Lausanne, Switzerland*
- Boston, MA* (well, it was my former home base, so it counts on some level, right?)
Past years here (2008), (hmm… 2007?), here (2006), here (2005).
* indicates multiple visits
It was a slow year for a diversity of travel, but I made at least five visits to Geneva from Boston before relocating here at the end of August so…. there’s that.
2010 promises travel for work near and far, as well as a great “home base” for extensive traveling Europe and Northern Africa.
noah and the whale
via deb
from an unexpected source, john mayer.
it is really beautiful.
thank you bmkk:
— It’s like we bring a new pair of eyes and ears, a new mind, an entirely different person, he opined, to anything we experience for a second time.
— Sure, sure; I hear you, she replied. I know what you mean, kind of. Except … Except there has to be some sort of common agency that passes from each person as it transforms into a new one, right? I mean, how else could we know we’re encountering something for a second time?
— An author asked me a question the other day, and now I’m putting it to you: “How long is it since you’ve seen the sun rise?”
