My girl Mimi developed the cutest eating habit. No wonder she prefers tinned food over kibbles. A friend of mine was recently so fascinated when she saw Mimi doing this, she said I MUST upload a video to YouTube. Done.
She does make a bit of a mess sometimes—I wonder if she’d ever consider using utensils?
This video made me laugh like an idiot. Good fun. Enjoy!
I just love these flash mob videos. Here’s a flash mob at Copenhagen Central Station with the Copenhagen Philharmonic playing Ravel’s Bolero on May 2nd 2011. Conductor is Jesper Nordin. Just sent to me from my uncle in Israel. Music never needs a passport to get around. Watch it full screen if you can to get the full effect.
I should preface this post by saying that I feel fine today. A tad blue, but nothing to write home about. I just had to share this short animation that my cousin in Israel posted on my Facebook wall today and which I found funny, sweet and touching.
The singer Amy Winehouse has been found dead at her flat in north London at the age of 27. The award-winning artist, famous for hits including Rehab from the critically acclaimed album Back to Black, was discovered by police in the late afternoon. Her death was being treated on Saturday night as “unexplained”. – guardian.co.uk
Nuts. I went a bit nuts. Over a book of course. Ever since a LibraryThing friend posted the following video on her thread (which I promptly posted on this blog), which reminded me how much I love illustrator Benjamin Lacombe‘s work, I’ve been obsessed with the pop-up book, yes*, but, also with another recent project of his; an illustrated version of Snow White, which so far only exists in the original French edition as Blanche Neige. I think I obsessed over the latter more for the very simple reason that it was *hard to get* as not available on the local Amazon or comparative sites, and instead of giving further consideration to other merchants, like an idiot, I went and ordered it on Amazon.fr (France) since the price with shipping seemingly came out to the same as that of the other vendors. Or so I thought. Well it came in two days later via UPS, of course I got hit with duty charges on top of everything, which of course, I was not expecting in the least. Argh. But no matter. The book is gorgeous to behold, large, and extremely well printed on beautiful quality paper. I’ll be posting about it and showing plenty of visuals when I review it, but in the meantime, here’s the cover image just to give you a little nibble:
* now that I’ve reminded myself of the pop-up again, which has been sitting in my Amazon cart ever since that damn video, I’ll have to go and buy it. After all, my birthday is coming up very soon, so I should double treat myself, right? The only thing holding me back is that of course it won’t be the same experience as what we see in the video AT ALL; No animated little bunny trotting about; No flurry of butterflies as I turn the pages; No sound effects with crackling thunder…
although if the weather cooperates… I wonder…
A couple of my favourite songs from the recently released album, 101, by one of my most beloved “French” singer/songwriters, Keren Ann.
It’s rainy and grey today. I recently created a playlist for myself which I whimsically called “New Frenchies”. Whimsical because while, yes, there are several recent releases and new-to-me French singers on it, I’ve also added other singers that just went with my mood that day. That’s when, I discovered Melody Gardot. For all I know, I may be the last person on earth to discover her, but no matter. It’s never too late for that sort of thing. Whatever your musical tastes happen to be, I think you’ll agree she has a great voice which speaks for itself. But when you know the story that led to her becoming a recording artist to begin with, well… it just add an extra layer of poignancy to the whole affair.
eta: Not crazy about the videos, but this song, I think, is one of my favourites by her:
Back from MRI. All went fine. The technicians, who were young and rather cute, were really nice and did everything they could to put me at ease. Once in the giant machine, I just imagined myself scuba diving and practiced a … Continue reading
