Untitled 03 Series: The Chinese 'Dust Bowl' by Benoit Aquin
It is called the World's Premier Photography Award on Sustainability , is it the only?
in 2008 Benoit Aquin won. The theme was Water. I love that he won the prize on Water showing the Chinese Dust Bowl, it portends the future and in many ways the now - where and how to keep/give safe clean water to everyone?
Untitled 08, Genghis Khan Braving the Storm by Benoit Aquin
On July 9, the Prix Pictet 2009 Shortlist was announced...I am so excited to see who will be selected as this year's winner but even more excited to look at the work, excuse me a while...
Okay it did not take that long, did it?
Please take a look when you have the time to go through all on the Shortlist, the work is amazing.
I remember walking hand in hand with a beau (seems like the right word when discussing skipping). We were walking down the street in Nairobi and I started thinking (as I often do) to do something unexpected. So I started skipping. And naturally came the smiling, a big bright smile and then humming a little ditty (again word choice, appropriate here.)
My beau did not join in, had I hoped he would? In face after I skipped a few steps and hummed a few notes, he kind of pulled my hand to say, "Okay babe that is enough of that." So I did stop.
I think we broke up not too long after that moment. There is a direct correlation between my skipping and how long I stay with a man. The man I mentioned lasted only 2 months. Another, three and still another six months.
I will date a man, that does not inhibit my skipping joys, for a very long time and love forever the man who joins in.
I fell in love with baroque pearls at a young age because my father gave my mother a pair of very contemporary pearl earrings - they were like huge grey rain drops on a single slim gold rod and a matching necklace. As far as I know they are both sadly lost now.
But I can still remember as I child holding them and thinking that they were, next to my mother's custom-made wedding ring, the most beautiful pieces of jewelry in the world. I cannot remember if I ever wore them - even just for fun in the mirror the way I wore my father's shoes to clomp, clomp, around when I was two. In my mind I did - I imagine my mother's pearls, my dad's big shoes he wore to sculpt in and me in diapers - a perfect evening ensemble.
My friends Tia and Garnette are getting married in September and their wedding theme is Black Pearl - I am making their wedding dresses - different shades of pearl from opalescent white-gray to the deepest of darkest gray - in natural silks and vegetable dyed fabrics. I am so excited.
Also for my birthday this past month, I found a lovely baroque pearl. I was happy to discover that the pearl is also my birthstone. It is large and like a 'little buddah' as my friend Nic calls it.
So I am making a ring out of it, something completely over-the-top - the large pearl set interestingly I suspect, not something typical or what you can easily visualize or maybe you can.
I imagine I am making a bit of an heirloom, for whom I am not sure.
I will post pix of the baroque ring in the upcoming weeks. Which reminds me....
I also loveBaroque Music , especially Bach. Someone asked me recently if I could only listen to three musical artists the rest of my life who would it be I said:
1. J. S. Bach
2. Sarah Vaughan
3. John Coltrane tied with Charlie Parker (you cannot get to Coltraine without Bird right?)
What a beauty, what an inspiration, classic, modern, sexy. Cool.
Shala Monroque is an artist, writer and hope she does not mind the title, socialite.
Being photographed with other socialites too like Dr. Boardman here...And traveling the world looking at art and fashion and being a great beauty while doing it and dating art world mogul Larry Gagosian.
I love it! More sistas need to go global! To travel, showing the entire world just how beautiful you/we/all are and smart, alive, unique and so much like someone you know as well.
So I was sewing last night and next to zippers, pockets piss me off the most. No pockets suck. Yeah I have a masters degree and I hate putting in pockets. Everyone should carry handbags - women, men, boys, girls, babies so we do not need to have pockets anymore.
So as I was cursing pockets on my iPod appeared "S.O.S." by Earl Greyhound. I was like damn I love these guys, I started boppin' my head and banging the sewing table and jammin', just jamming.
Earl Greyhound is really one of the most rockin' American bands out there. I don't listen to the radio (only NPR and classical music) so maybe there are in the Top 10 and I missed it or something but this band
ROCKS, rocks, rocks and rolls and have soul that oozessss....off the stage onto you in a very good way. And it is not just that they look good, and they do but they can play their assess off.
And on their site you see their killer logo which looks like some ancient Egyptian relief of a greyhound - if they had them back then I am not sure. And their slogan is "Rock your faces Mix the races" - how awesome is that?
Idia'Dega is an elegant ethical apparel company founded in 2008. In this blog are the thoughts of creative director, Tereneh Mosley. Re: how to make a dream a reality but mainly the inspirations, obstacles and surprises along the way.
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Ciel Tombé #7008 / Paris underground
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