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I am fascinated by the Photo Project Dancers Among Us. Since 2009, photographer Jordan Matter creates pictures of professional dancers in everyday situations everywhere around America. The images are not digital manipulated, but a result of hard training. In 2013 the work will also be published as a book. Look at the control of the […]
Delicious, inspiring, tasty looking, inventive, beautiful… gosh, food films like those I show you today are just indescribable. On me they have the effect that I want to run into my kitchen immediately… I think I will start with the Pesto today. Enjoy watching and cooking and eating! My New Roots – How to make
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While searching the net for new looks and clothes three interesting shops drew my attention during in the last weeks: Modcloth (indie), Fancytreehouse (vintage) and Gorman (australian). All of them selling inspirational, creative and often colourful items with a certain twist. I picked two favorites of me from each shop to give you an idea…
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Because my time schedule is a bit tight right now, only a short post today. Singer-songwriter Annie Erin Clark, better known as St. Vincent, grabbed my attention already several times. But since her performance in the show Conan two weeks ago I’m officially her fan!
Sometimes life is tough. Then it’s time to dream yourself away from all these daily troubles and your spirits will rise soon. Come with me and join me at those perfect places… Somewhere inside Leslie Thomson’s colourful world. Laying here in this cabin observing the play of the sunrays (via cabin porn). Enjoying the rough
When I had to decide for a topic in this weeks Arts and Books category, my first thought was, „That’s too tough a decision to make. There were just too many great Artists in the 1920s.“ But then I realised that it is really simple because a great number of them were members of the
Bauhaus (1919-33): Epicenter of my Art Icons! Read More »
Despite the prohibition in the United States (1920-33) as well as the Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic, 1920s people never really stopped drinking alcohol. Instead they became creative in masking the taste of inferior booze by adding fruits to their drinks. Thus, the Old Fashioned Cocktail was born …and more creations that can still be
Not so old-fashioned: 1920s Drinks! Read More »
„Flapper in the 1920s was a term applied to a „new breed“ of young Western women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. … Flapper dresses were straight and loose, leaving the arms bare (sometimes no straps at all) and dropping
20s style-up: Flapper Dresses! Read More »
Music of the 1920s always remembers me of two things: Extremely wild dancing (in one word: Charleston) and the tunes of black and white movies (Have you already seen The Artist? …Again, a point on my to-do list.). International seen, it was the decade of Jazz music including such famous performers like Louis Armstrong or
Shake your legs, I can hear 20s tunes! Read More »
Since a few weeks there was this idea in my mind to have once in a while a week-long theme. And today I would like to give it a try. First I plan to travel with you through our last century, beginning in the roaring 1920s. Thinking about lifestyle in the 1920s, the first things
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