Somewhere in the older posts I have confessed that for a while I was suspecting myself of being a deviant, trying to isolate, building a suspicious museum of myself, filled with found or given objects and trying to evoke the climate of nostalgia for the era gone by...
But then - here is to the Internet - I noticed that it is not only me. I felt consoled and relieved.
I felt like poor Mr. Jourdain form The Bourgeois Gentleman who upon learning that he speak in prose and has been doing so for a long time feels adequate and so much closer to being an aristocrat!
So I have been speaking Shabby Chic and Rustic and Reclaimed and all this without knowing it!
I am so relieved...
Here is some good Mr. Lully, who even set some music to Moliere's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme just to set us in a mood of French style...
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18 Feb 2013
13 Feb 2013
Dame Edna
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Yes, as some of you know, I am all-time fan of Dame Edna, who is a bit ugly creature, the natural daughter of the Australian comedian Barry Humphries and the figment of his creative imagination.
She/he is a superb entertainer and a talk-show and the founder of the Prostate Olympics.
Yes, you've got it right: The World Prostate Olympics!
The photo shows her at the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
Yes, she is something, look darling - isn't she adorable?
This is what her website says about herself: http://www.dame-edna.com/
A tad more on the subject of Funerary Traditions:"Possibly Jewish, Dame Edna is a widow, with three grown children. She spends her time visiting world leaders and jet-setting between her homes in Los Angeles, London, Sydney, Switzerland and Martha’s Vineyard. She is the Founder and Governor of Friends of the Prostate and the creator of The World Prostate Olympics."
When I die would love to have her notoriously stylish eye glasses put in my coffin, or shoe box - whatever it will be at the critical moment...
Of course, there is a whole list of items I would like to take with me to the afterlife, so I better prepare the box ahead of time or someone may do that not exactly to my liking....
But the plans for the internment of my precious earthly remains a subject of a whole separate blog post. There is still, statistically, a little bit time left for the preparations, because as most of you know I am still well in my thirties..... YES? or NO?
27 Jan 2013
Carlo Scarpa - coolness of bearding and smoking
One of the purposes of this blog, besides communication with some people I know and respect and possibly engaging few more people around certain ideas I like to explore is quite simple.
In case I am being struck by something on the head, and my long-term memory is hopefully short-term affected by the trauma this could be one of the band-aids.
I hope a diary of recollections of things that "made a spark for me", will help to reconnect enough synapses to rebuild some memory and consequently to "restart the engine".
And if my short-terms memory goes, oh well, who needs to remember last weeks' snow or yesterday's breakfast...

This is the little book by Taschen that I love and made me seek more about his work.
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He combines wood and concrete in such a way that mere concrete is elevated to a state of nobility, it binds together with wood or metal like precious stones set in silver and gold.
13 Jan 2013
I am a patriot - part II
There was a discussion on the CBC Radio on that very subject.
The issue was simple - would you buy a BlackBerry or and iPhone.
I am a patriot and I use iPhone.
But my shirts are made in 中华人民共和国. (Ch...)
I am a patriot and I vacation in Canada.
And I compost.
The issue was simple - would you buy a BlackBerry or and iPhone.
I am a patriot and I use iPhone.
But my shirts are made in 中华人民共和国. (Ch...)
I am a patriot and I vacation in Canada.
And I compost.
12 Jan 2013
"Buy local" corporate gift
Original, useful, local, beautiful, unusual corporate gift ideas:
Disclaimer: I do not work for this company and I do not get paid to advertize, I do not own their product but as soon as I have some disposable funds I may... I would surely like to have their moccasins or winter gloves!!!
- Native-made object from the Manitobah Mukluks - an array of hand-made accessories, moccasins, gloves, you name it. If it doesn't fit the person who had received he will give it to his daughter of a neighbour, or maybe it will fit him like glove... It will not end up in a garage.
Items costing as little as $15.00 to the hundreds. Look: http://store.manitobah.ca/collections/accessories/products/mitt
Disclaimer: I DO produce such Limited Edition, I make them totally professionally and beautifully.
- Set of Limited Edition prints by local artists - prints on archival paper, nicely packaged, described, certified and ready for display.
Cost starting at, say, $120.00 depending on the number of prints and size.
Link to the proposal coming soon...
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