My girl put me on to this awesome website called kickstarter.com. It’s a funding platform for creative projects – once a goal is decided on, the project establishes a time period in which it will try to raise necessary funds. If you like what you see you can donate money to help with the project and in return will receive benefits, products, or experiences, depending on the amount donated. The catch is ‘no money unless the goal is reached’. If the goal isn’t reached by the deadline the money goes back to the investors. This is supposed to motivate the investors and the artists to achieve the desired result. Projects range and include  films, fashion, music, illustrations, writing etc. The point is to help out those you believe in and so become part of the process. So if you want to contribute or have an amazing project that is in need of more funds, this is your chance.

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“Spread and feel love! That’s the only message. Emotions are the result of your life.”

– Brusse

Belgian artist Brusse has an important message for everyone. The material things in your life have nothing to do

with who you are. It’s the love you give out and are given that make up your person – so please focus on it.

His street art style, called “Street Love”, relays that message through a romantic creativity using all types of mediums.

Love to Love Love…

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Today was one of those ‘tanktop in sun/fleece in shade’ days. A typical spring day in New York: rain in the morning, sun at noon, strong random winds at all times.

Started the day in Queens, crew breakfast and a quick chill in A’s crib..

Hit up the drawing center on Wooster street, where across from each other were exhibitions of Leon Golub and Dorothea Tanning. Opposite as can be:

Golub’s drawings emphasized erotic impressions and dark virtues of sexualized females, skeletons, and angry dogs.  Impressive and repulsive at the same time..

Dorothea Tanning is a well known American painter, sculptor, set and costume designer, and writer (her peoms have been feautured in ‘the New Yorker’). The exhibition included mostly her costume drawings  for various ballet productions. Among them a collaboration with George Balanchine (notably for ‘the sleepwalker’). Her designs are soft and feminine yet contain subtle distortions or edgy head masks that give them a surreal distinction.

Did some more walking..

Wooster, Broome, Mulberry, Spring; not a dull moment.

So it’s only right that we ended up at our brunch spot ‘L’orange bleu’ – a delicious Moroccan-french restaurant. A call for salads and bellinis..  followed up with some couscous and garlic greens (very yummy!!)

SoHo responsible for yet another chill saturday..

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Architectural designer, photographer, conceptual artist, curator and a prolific blogger, Ai Weiwei, is doing it all and speaking out while he’s at it. Born in Beijing, to  parents who were rightist rejects in a communist society (sent off to a “reeducation through labor” camp), he has become an influential advocate of freedoms of expression in China. As somebody who has lived through the cultural revolution of the late 60’s and 70’s, he has strong reservations on this issue -  societal conflicts and government inflicted limitations are detrimental to the individual’s self-awareness and recognition of aesthetic values. With this in mind, Mr. Ai has been  showcasing his creations and opinions all over the world – criticizing various political leaders and notions using “an in-your-face style” that seems “suicidal given Beijing’s limited tolerance for dissent”, so described by a NewYorkTime’s article last November. Well, he certainly lives his art to the max, and to me personally, his pieces speak louder than words..

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