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This is the project I'm into lately. SWING!




ARCHI+hoppers is a community for all architects that are also in love with swing dancing, as we have already been called a sub-specie among the lindy hoppers. We are more than architects, we are ARCHI-hoppers!

landscape architects / interior designers / urbanists welcome!!

adventure

spring is here. I met some friends and we searched for adventure

My Milk Toof by Inhae Lee

Here there is something which will make my dreams tonight cute and childhood-like. This is the story of My Milk Toof by Inhae Lee, an artist from California which lives with the two friendliest and cutest teef ever! How lucky she is to have these two warm hearted little creatures at home.

We spanish kids put our milk teeth under the pillow and by night we have the visit of the Ratoncito Pérez (ratoncito means "little mouse" and "Pérez" is a very spanish and common family name) and get some coins or little presents beneath our pillow the next morning. I remember finding once one little ring with a polly-pocket fairy that could be sitted on it and the magic of how a single mouse could transform a teeth into a polly-pocket just like that.

But yes, eventually Inhae Lee's milk teeth came back to her one day to live at her place. The story of sick Lardee and how ickle tells him a story to make him eat some soup just filled me with joy!



Her photos are so intimate, homey and tender I'd like to believe them real...







They are so messy and so active!

I have already read almost all the blog and stories (and I don't go all the way through because it's very late and I have to study tomorrow!). This girl has developed such a personal, fun and complete work that it makes me want to work harder on my exams and my projects... I really do feel this nice 'good envy' I've spoken in some other post.

You can find her book here.

Hooray for Inhae Lee!!

And hooray for little ickle and Lardee!!

À Paris

Ah, I love Paris, specially when I have a good reason to visit it so often. This time I took my reflex camera with me, to try to improve my skills on photography, since it's not long since I got 'catched' by it. I find it curious to think I used to reject Photography in benefit of Art and Design. I used to have a wrong concept of it and I even thought that if I had to make proffesional photos, I should always have to control the object I am shooting. I remember having this conversation with 2 danish girls who where studying architecture in Vienna with me, and I explained that I would always modify and interphere with the object, to be a mediator between the photo and the observer. That is just a deformation of having being educated on an artistic background.

But, alas, at that time I had never made a photograph. Not a real one (digital compact cameras and mobile phones doesn't sound to me like real photography). Not a mechanical device. I had not heard the "click", the sound of the camera. How I arrived to hear it, that's another story which I might tell some other day, when I feel like it.

Wish I could have a long nice talk again with those two nice girls from Denmark which were so interested in Photography, with a coffee and maybe one of those delicious cakes they make. A photo is not a canvas. I think I'm happy to have learned that. It's not much but it's a start.

Here are some photos I took in Paris this weekend. The objects I photographied are not very interesting, for there are tons of photos of flowers and flohmarkets around the blogs of the world. However I felt I wanted to have my own photos of them, and move over to new things.


from the window seat




near le Panthéon.




at Le Marais














Delacroix Museum






lovely shop at Saint Germain




Marché de Saint Sulpice




Pavillon de l'Arsenal

My first photos

Every lonely girl has something that makes her happy.

Taken with a Canon AE1-Program