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A trip on Saturday: visiting the local sheep farm. Lots of lambs were
there. Of course - it's spring :)
The farm has its own cheese dairy and a little shop. We did buy
some meat, cheese and coloured wool for felting.
Today was a day for sitting in the garden and make watercolour-
paintings of birds and lines. Will show you the next days.
A post that looks so colourful and lovely: here
In the loggia on our still not renovated first floor are some flowers
waiting for outdoors-season.
I like the tiny blossoms of the "Vergissmeinnicht" and their name.
It says: "Don't forget me"
Thanks to beton+garten I now know, that manos, the online shop
from Karin Eriksson is open finally. Next to the beautiful pieces of
her collaboration with Camilla Engman she offers for example this
lovely bag from the Dutch ontwerpduo there.
A book about anything around the forest. It's from the sixties and we
did find this jewel on a flea market on Saturday.
There was a puppet theatre festival in some towns here during the last
week, the imaginale.
Oskar and I did see this play from the Italian shadow theatre company
L' Asina sull' Isola.
update:
just found out, that exactly this book is on book by its cover today,
small world!
A collection of Oskar's crowns from Kindergarten.
This drawing is called "Sylvester and his dog Bernie"
How it looks in the garden today.
Orly Cogan - thanks Kristi for the link
fantastic bag from best behavior found via grijs
Here we are again. We had lovely days with a mix of rain and
sunshine, beautiful rivers-that unbelievable green one is called
Salzach-and very good food.
Like his work very much: Jean-Philippe Delhomme
Walking around: the trees wear blossoms now, getting brown of the
permanent rain.
Hope to have pure sunshine the next days, when we are making a trip
to Bavaria.
The happy man standing in a rain of blossoms.
Have seen a super film on the tv about young designers from Austria,
rosamosa for example ( also featured on grijs ), they make so very
wonderful shoes.
Another one was the jewellery designer Florian Ladstaetter.
See you next week!
Working on some little Monsters right now. Will put them in the shop.
Did get an award from Andrea. Thank you very much :)
1. You have to nominate 5 blogs, which haven't had this award before!
2. Each of the blogs must have a purpose!
3.The nominated blogs must make a link back to this page!
4. The logo from the award must be put on their blog and it must link
back to this blog!
Of course i t's not easy to choose five blogs, here are mine:
Kristi - for her beautiful photographs and her great eye
Lisen - I like her fresh style and her original art
Emma - she makes wonderful funny illustrations
j. - for her ability to use the words
fliss - just the whole mix of her works and family life "speaks" to me
Yasu posted about a fantastic book.
Ordered this poster (from Lisen :)
and this zine just arrived.
Today I want to introduce to you Margarida, a photographer I met through flickr.
She lives in Abrantes(center of Portugal) and works as a biology teacher.
When you're searching for her photos on flickr there are many addresses you have to go:
soulmargui, soulfood, soulways, soulinvestigator, soulmates, soulfactory
( so far :)
About her changing flickr-identities she says:
... well :S ... first of all is an economic question: i started with soulmargui then i get to 200 photos and i started to loose photos, for example i lost some photos of one serie i made of two old people: man and woman that i really love; i worked the powerfull color to them (maybe one day i upload again...) so i create another account i love the experience of being in another place with another identity because i feel that my work change to one place to another...flickr is like a diary if i can call it.
I've been asking her some questions about her way of work:
There are two things I always "see" when looking at your photos:
The one is, that you love to change colours, the other that you always make series of the subjects you are into.
Can you tell me a bit why you do this and what is important for you about it? For me it's always a little bit of "as time goes by" in your series, is that right?
- Since I was a little girl, I remember colors… I have a special tendency to select, feel and live colors… I’m a really disaster when I tried to paint something; just the worst I drawn… I think I don’t respect my photos or better, I use too much my photos; they are like objects that i use to transform… I have a natural tendency to filter everything in a perspective of - nothing is what it like- … the series I make it’s like fragments of a fragment; I love to discover and create fragments that are linked with a personal (microscopic or not) peculiar perception… while time goes by…
Do you think the way you choose your next topic is instinctive or more the result of thoughts and ideas? I mean: is first the visual part and then the conceptual or viceversa?
I'm asking this cause I see a strong wish in your photos to abstract beauty. I don't know how I can explain it better, but perhaps you understand me. Perhaps like this: Are you looking for photos that show what you want to express at the moment or do you walk around with your camera and find anything you love, take photos and see what happens next?
It’s difficult to answer… I think it’s instinctive… I’m always with my camera and… I think I’m an observer in a first instance, I love details, I observe by fractions and I love to create images above or maybe deconstruct what I see but this is quite obsessive… for example: if I look to an object, while everybody has captured the essential-basic tridimensional aspects, I am being indifferent to that essential points and this has the uncomfortable side…
I think I walk around with my camera until I found something I love, to express what I feel at the moment and see what happens next because this is another stage… sometimes just a fragment of a photo interests me because it’s another scenery and different things happens to me before that… and I’m already a different person…
How important is your day job for inspiration.
I did like the colourful biology book!
Where else comes inspiration from. What do you love to do when not taking photos.
Well, … my day job is not directly a great inspiration (I like my work. My working hours make me a discipline person, I feel that work makes me healthy… ) but gives me the necessary courage to work on photos. I pass my days working outside-inside (school-home) my familiar situation, I live with my two daughters with 4 and 3 years old; it’s a hard-gratification work… but i’ve been living wonderful moments with my children since they are born… and that makes me alive to work on Flickr that is also the result of my almost second life that I have… I’m a methodic or better, I must to be a methodic person so i tried to be rigorous with hours and I have some time to walk outside (just a few times) in so many different places; I like a lot of urban style, I love fashion; tried to be actualized, I can say that I love Marc Jacobs, specially Marc by Marc but I must confess, in this moment, I prefer the children line, it’s a wonderful-simplicity and I like to combination the maximum of simplicity combination with the maximum of souplesse … I listen a lot of music every single day; everyday when I start to drive I choose, in a question of 20/30 seconds, a cd of music. Sometimes I listen one cd or maybe one music in a week, I know that it’s an insane attitude but I can’t listen other music; like I need that to make my body works… it’s difficult to enunciate some musicians, it’s really difficult… I don’t want to forget nobody it would be unfair but on my flickr accounts I’m making my own-possible tribute. And I read, I would like to read more… I always have one book and it’s an inspiration; I’m thinking in to make an improvement on a serie of photos losted on flickr… based on a book of Adolfo Bioy Casares called Diario de la guerra del cerdo (1969)… a newspaper crytical called João Bonifacio ( newspapper called Público) said the next words about that romance: « Diario de la guerra del cerdo » is, in a first observation, a game of Bioy Casares, a peculiar great writer. A game that hides a deep reflection about the obsession with youth.
But in a generally way everything inspires me… ohhhh, yes and yes, Flickr it’s … it’s strange to talk about Flickr because he belongs, so intimately, to my life…
I think I don’t have any peculiar favourite style; my style is to have not style…
Thank you so much for this interview, dear Margarida.
Inspired by those many clouds all over on the blogs, for example here
on Elisabeth's blog, Oskar and I made a rain cloud with one big drop.
Fitting to that wet weather :)
kindra is here via Elisabeth as well.
Squeak Carnwath found via Heather
Corey Arnold via Kate
Fantastic interview with TAS-KA on Bloesemkids
