Karolina for president!

''[..] I mean, I never did stuff just for me anyway. I've always kind of done it for everybody around me, to help people and make them happy.''

Truths are simple because they are true and simple.




To read more http://www.wmagazine.com/w/blogs/editorsblog/2010/05/25/this-weeks-model-karolina-kurk.htm

Photo from Karolina's official MySpace http://www.myspace.com/karolinakurkova

best energy

I love the energy that occurs between 5:30-7:00am. It just seems like I get the best portion of work done during that time. 7:30 is great for exercise and 10:00 is the best time to enjoy a pain au chocolat with a big bowl of cafe creme ;))) Mmmmh:)))

Inspiring activities... for gal's :)

All right, I admit: I took 1/2 of the morning off to pursue something creative. In the last weeks I had been on a bit of a crazy schedule (but more about that later in that post as it actually forms an excellent transition between the last one and the reason I'm posting this).

So! I took some time to do THIS: Seasonal Colour Analysis. I did it on this website:

The Chic Fashionista

It's great fun! The next thing was assessing my body-shape and then my basic style. The simple joys are often the greatest joys in life.

My major issue has always been establishing my colour palette - each season, be it spring, summer, autumn or winter, divide into 3 more types. It seems to be light spring which seems to be fitting with my type (the soft autumn looks good too though). Now this is exciting because.... ***warning, now the following is really more for girls than for boys***.... I said I was on a crazy schedule earlier in the month, right? Right. I meant mainly the week of shooting 'Gossip Girl' in Paris earlier in the month. Mind you, I only found out a week after having passed the casting what it was for.

''Gossip Girl'? Oh, is that that American TV series? I think I've heard about it somewhere!'

Yeah, it was only when the fans and paparazzis started coming in higher and higher volumes with every day of the filming that made me kind of realise that not knowing what this series was made me part of a minority.

Anyways, even though I still don't know what the rest of the story is, I know pretty much every detail of episode 401 and 402. And here comes the important part: Blake Lively is a light spring, too! So that makes it easy, I just need to watch closely what colours Eric makes her wear and Bob's your uncle.

Some of his choices for the Parisian episodes were very inspiring. I'd never think of wearing anything bright green but that one dress... Thin, classy stripes are great, too!


























Neither would I ever consider wearing peach or even electric blue trousers...! However, the one that I found the most inspiring was the red/orange gown that Leighton was wearing on two occasions:















The photo doesn't give it justice, it was the 'in-between colours' bit that caught my eye. Sigh.

All in all, this entry was dedicated to stylist Eric Daman as I wanted to thank him for having given me a moment of inspiration. You can actually get a book on his styling tips so that's great! I found this interview: http://www.glamour.com/fashion/blogs/slaves-to-fashion/2010/01/gossip-girl-stylist-eric-daman.html

One-of-a-kind vs 'The Crowd'

The trade of my job is that I meet people. Used to be a loner ever since I'm born - hah! Oh irony.

Luckily, some 2 or 3 years ago, I actually found some interest in character studies on human creatures. I also learned that it's one thing to observe... and another to judge. (hear, hear!) See, when you judge someone it's as if you viewed someone through... oh I don't know... some kind of weirdly distorted window you put yourself in front. Whereas when you only OBSERVE there is nothing inbetween. You can always go but at least you have a clear view.

So anyways. People and character studies. I know a few people whose mere presence makes me D R E A M, who inspire me, teach me, who bring me into higher stratas of existence!! One of them is Jack Servoz, tutor, muse and friend (the dancer on the top left in this entry)

I love his painting of Iggy Pop:


















This is one of a series of paintings exposed in Place des Vosges, Paris:












And then there is the exact opposite, those people who make you feel uncomfortable, tired and they just have something uber-slimy about them. Then you have the type that.. just is. And that's all. He lives his sad little life and fine - that's his right. BUT WOULD YOU DO THAT?? I mean it's not like you don't have a choice. You always have a choice. Like someone dear to me said yesterday:'you could even stop breathing if you decided to'. Not like I was going to do that but it's true that 'I had no choice' is in most cases a lame excuse. And it just means you didn't look enough for other solutions.

Now, I went a bit off the subject.

I was actually inspired by the note 'A good muse is hard to find' on www.tylershields.com To read the full article go here: http://www.tylershields.com/2010/02/25/a-good-muse-is-hard-to-find/

And even if I hadn't found that particular entry there's loads more to get excited about. Like this one, with it's note at the bottom:


"Never let someone tell you that you cant do something because they will until you do it!"

or this one!

"If you leave the knife in my back longer then 24 hours I am keeping it!" - cheeky b...




Hope to see you in Paris soon, Tyler.

Perrrforrming Drrracula.................... Philip Glass and the Kronos Quartet in Lyon

Last week or so I got touched by this performance:


Dracula
envoyé par NuitsdeFourviere. - Regardez la dernière sélection musicale.

Already the venue was gave me goosepimples as it was in an ancient Roman theatre! Ha! I love open space performances when the weather is as beauiful as it was that night.

During the showing/conert I closed my eyes several times just to hear the music better and not get 'sucked' into the film. What I loved listening to was the music in combination with some spoken parts of the actors. In old films the sound gets distorted in that characteristic way. And even when the music stopped at some points so that the actor could utter his phrase - these solemn reminders of long-gone times got me nostalgic.

Looking at the female outfits in 'Dracula' - gee, those guys knew how to dress a woman!

























Ahh... I wonder what they'd say if they saw what was going to happen to fashion 80 years later?

Before the concert we went for dinner with Jeff - that was fun. I love trying different desserts :]] He said to check out his video which I did. I wish to hear more of his projects; this one got me inspired:

The why and wherefore of this blog

Because I waste too much time 'earning a living', being stressed, being uninspired, doing the right things, etc etc.

Hell, if life isn't about creativity then why bother at all??

And so this will be something purely for my own artistic pleasures. Whatever interests ME, IS NOT FOR SALE, whatever's beautiful or interesting, INSPIRING and mine. No chronology - this is art, not history, it doesn't have to be labeled correctly.

Amen.