Here We Come, The Beautiful Ones

Come on superpeople! I got my new toy #937426 - a cheap webcam - running and michau, Adam and I decided to have a little showing-around tonight. Some of my Erasmus kids will be there and they don't know yet that I'll have to present them to you. And I wanna see how you're living!

See you on Skype tonight!



(I have never done this before, so I have no idea if it's even working... and I cannot promise to be there for a long time myself since I'll have guests... but it would be so nice to see you!)

Ardentes Music Festival in Liege

marie is not dead :)

Hey great people !!!

A long time ago I didn't give any news to anyone of you... Or I didn't get how the blog system is working :) Here I am. I spent a nice summer in Belgium. Holidays rythm was so sweet… I built again my life here… I went ten days on holidays with my friends in west France, 3 crazy days in Italy with Brice, Silvere and Giacomo and Giulio.

I started again school on September 17th, and since this time, I didn’t do anything except working on school stuffs, on my thesis, meeting with my boyfriend, eating and sleeping sometimes, and crossing sometimes my family in the stairs!!! I don’t regret my sleepy life in Tampere caus’ what I’m learning at school is much more interesting; but I’m missing all of you, and the free time I had. Ok, I’m missing the parties also, the snow, Mikontalo but as Marie said … not our pets! I’m afraid I won’t have time for any trip to Germany, France or Poland this year; or maybe after my thesis deadline at the end of January… Maybe! I hope!

School works are really enormous but all interessants. In the last year, they teach you all the good things to know to practice architecture in reality, in an office, with pressure and so on… I enjoy the reality of our theoretical courses.
In the workshop of architecture, we started a project in my city about the relationship between the river and the city. We can plan anything we want, like if we wanted to be elected by the inhabitants for a revolutionary idea to become parliament’s member or even minister! It means we have to find THE good idea to make the population living in contact with its river… It’s really nice. At the end, we’ll have to sell our idea to the jury as a marketing audience with an advertising poster...

This project is like a kind of premise for the international contest in Porto we’re going to participate at the second half of the year. We’re going to Porto 4 days in December, with my workshop, to visit the city and especially the site of the project. We’re going to work in groups of 4 people. I’m delighted about it. It’s also along the river that the project is gonna happen…

My last year is gonna past so quick… I’ve got two years of internship to make after my studies to be registered as an architect in my country. I could make my internship abroad but… it’s never easy to quit all and to come back after, building everything again… But maybe in the Flemish part of my country, in Brussel or in Maastricht (Netherlands).

Anyway, I don’t know yet if I’m starting my intership next year… BUH! I think I’ll maybe make a kind of complementary formation of one or two years. I wanna learn to speak Dutch quickly.

... I would like to explain you all this, of what I’m doing with pictures and pictures, but my camera is in a so bad state that I’m waiting to get the money to buy a new one soon!!! I’ve got here some pictures I got from a friend from the festival in my city we went at the beginning of July!

I discovered nice bands like Aaron, and watch concerts of Olivia Ruiz, Hooverphonic, Cassius, Ghinzu... I'd have liked to share this weekend with you!Here are some pictures of the concerts, of my friends… I went also one day to the Dour festival of music in west Belgium. I watch the concerts of Justice, Uffie, etc… But no pictures…

Hope to see you soon on Skype! Or better, in reality…

Greetings from the rainy country, really rainy rainy rainy at the moment!

:-*

m a r i e.

1st Herzliya Biennial for Contemporary Art

as announced earlier, I was at the Biennial a week ago. Herzliya is situated some kms in the north of TLV.opened from 5pm to 11pm it has quite strange opening because it's dark then.

the curators created a very good connection between the urban space of Herzliya's centre. The Pieces and Exhibitions are situated in streets or old parking building, warehouses etc. Very ggod introduction into a scene I haven't expected here. also the adience. Berlin like and much more krasser. was'nt brave enough to shoot. but...

some black and white and colors beside:









some broadcasted documentaries about the Defence Fence and Palestinians spoilt a bit the evening.
but good to see that they show critical stuff across all art medias there.

A Wednesday in Germany

I am passing by a kebap shop when I hear people yelling from inside. Having a look into the restaurant room, I see beer drinking men sitting in front of the tv, cheering for their team:
They are watching women's football.

What a wonderful wonderful world!

mtv cribbs

So finally i moved to Łódź, to my real urban flat at last. When it's still warm, it's okay, but we'll see during winter ;]


And city welcomed us with a concert of Irish drummers. 20m from our flat.

I wont ride my bicycle again

shalom shlomo!
I have to admit that I'm very lucky with my working term here. every bunch of days the period is interrupted by some holidays. this Fri, Sat was Jom Kippur as I previously wrote. the none+ultra holiday for Jews. absolutely everything sleeps then and going by vehicles is prohibited.
we took the chance and rode some bikes through the kids flooded streets. it was a kind of strange atmosphere. the city that never sleeps (too) was so quiet. just little kids, skaters, boarders and pedestrians were walking in the streets and highways. like an apocalytic scene but friendly in the feeling. the switched iPod would have destroyed all this wonderful seconds of silence. therefore it slept, too. Jom Kippur lasts 25 h from Friday 5pm to Sat 6pm.
yesterdays after 8, TLV was quite the same like every Sat. Why couldn't this last forever?
Me for myself vote for some vehicle free Sundays in Germany now!













actually nothing to see. but I need to tell the dirty story behind this wonderful riding. it's israel! it can't go the normal way!
we were supposed to bring the enormous number of 7 bikes back today. fine, no problem but some of the group just locked them yesterday nite next to the store, cause they travelled today. I did not, because my feeling said that's 'too hot'.
so I decided to bring my bike back today with Paul another German. We were appointed but he didn't appear. my mobile was down and the charger in the office and that is miles away. finally I found him telling me that he lost the key for the bikes. humm. punch. but the second key will be avaible at noon and we will bring in the bikes in the afternoon. okay, office first and later the bikes... meanwhile Paul broke another key while trying to open the lock with the missing key. 2nd punch.
at work the rental guy called. the others locked the bikes to a tree and thats not allowed. some fees impending. he needs the keys I had with me. urgent of course. I decided to send them with a messenger. little roller boys that seem to be quick. from time to time the guy called me. the keys, keys. I said, the messenger is on the way.
after 2h I got very nervous and decided to drive home. and the keys still didn't arrive after 3h. finally he got it after 3.5h (est. distance 5 km). 5 of 7 bikes now are save at the shop. level 1 accomplished.
now at home I'm still waiting for the alternate key for the remaining 2 bikes next to me. I hope this nightmare will end soon and I probably will be able to enjoy the opening of the 1st Herzliya Biennial for Contempory Art * later this afternoon. Later this week will rent a car...har har.

*and if this website isn't workin. it never did. update: it works with the famous and beloved internet explorer, but not with the crappy firefox, neither the sh*tt* safari. my fault.

I enjoy my time here and still like Israel, I enjoy my time here and still like Israel, I enjoy my time here and still like Israel, I enjoy my time here and still like Israel...

they see faces everywhere.

oh my god
photo from Rotterdam bienale, 2007 august.
great blog you have. greetings.
Margarita

ConcreteJungle

so...no dust, nor sun, nor sea here...(Michau, Peter is right, find and watch 'The return' if not done yet!! The movie is a photo gallery, you'll see ;])
Good that the Mikontalo-and-Baltic-Coast-surveyance keeps going on. How'd it go without you?!
Working like never, i'm lovin'it. City eats us. Sounds like some of you are in the same kind of boat, under a better sun.

Flower, area will be soon cleared for landing in Paris!

overdose...

i promised these pictures some month ago to Adam. Banks of the Seine, South-East of Paris : the
'Disneyland of architecture'...
scroll!
pieces by X'tu / Beckmann - N'Thepe / Frederic Borel /and much more