Friday, April 09, 2010

reBIRTH:

spring...is almost here. It is still cold in Switzerland. I am back from hiatus with no regrets. Only a deep desire to get back into it. Here I am peeking forward from my nest after hibernating in adventures and melodies.

Speaking of melodies, my good friend Loren Lopez, an absolutely brilliant + talented girl, just released her first album - BLUE CANDY. Loren's voice is at once luscious, soft, rich, and tender. But it has strength & power to it. A bit of a jazz edge that reminds one of luminous evenings in the 1920's when subtle elegance was key. It's available on iTunes and her single "British Attraction" just got picked up by MTV, Virgin, MCM (French MTV) etc. I am bursting with pride. We used to be peas in the 9-5 pod but she broke away and concentrated full time on music, her true love. She always would sing and do gigs at night or on weekends after her day job. Little by little, she worked her way into her dream. That's the best story I think. Not the overnight success that makes it all seem like luck. But the very adult, real world story of working to pay the bills while chipping away at your dream one layer at a time. For many of us this is the one and only action plan.

So I am here to let you in on a sweet masterpiece by an emerging artist. The director and creator of the video is also a young, emerging French talent. They created the video with pretty much no budget. Just friends, a couple of plane tickets GVA to LONDON, a rented British taxi cab in Grenoble, France (for the interior shots), and maniac cool ideas. Oh, and some wicked fierce style from Miss Lopez courtesy of Zara and H&M (yes that's right! It doesn't cost much to look goregous. Don't believe what you hear!) If you dream of love affairs in Paris, luscious adventures around the world, and being a techincolor girl in a black and white world...Loren's music will take you away and inspire you.

Welcome to Spring! We're so glad you are here.

LOREN LOPEZ - "British Attraction" music video
envoyé par amourangora. - Regardez la dernière sélection musicale.

Monday, February 01, 2010

Thought for the day....

What if we all lived our lives like this?...



Saturday, January 30, 2010

I, i am a verb...

I live on earth at present and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing - a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process - an integral function of the universe...


exceptional & exquisite


fervently fearless


work in progress...


- and this is my sacred dream...


I created this (above) tonight. The visuals and poem. I have been doing this thing recently - where I put images together that I love and have collected or that I find which are inspired by dreams I have or poems or stories I am writing...and then I write the words to go with the images so it becomes a bit like a visual prose poem. The first paragraph was directly inspired from architect, poet extraordinaire B. Fuller's idea that he was a verb. The rest is all me.


Sometimes little pinprick writing helps to inspire bigger writing...especially when one lacks the discipline all great writers must have had :P


Off to pirate away my dreams...

Friday, January 29, 2010

Worth a thousand words...

WoRdS can create thousands of pictures in our mind...musings...& daydreams of how our lives are...or how we wish them to be...

Kind of like an invitation to use your imagination...






or embark on a year's worth of resolutions....


to live what you believe...