20+10 in 2010: forcing it?

Here's another example of thinking (too hard???) about a title. This is now called "20+10". try to figure out why...

Naming process

I have new work to show. A lot of it, actually & i've had it for some time & have been adding to it. what i didn't have, was the time to take pictures, do uploads & sit down to blog a bit (it feels good now to be blogging about 'work num.2, rather than random wanderings & meanderings - nothing wrong with it, oh no, but still, the main purpose of this blog was/is something else).

ok, so last night i sat down to put most of my recent work (which is presents to my best friend & the best art curator...) into envelopes & write down each piece's 'name'.

the thing is, not every piece comes with a name (but everyone who gets one wants it to have a name - i quickly found out that it's a great 'selling' point). Like everything else in life, I love it when the name comes spontaneously, and fast. and for most part that's how it goes.

But in some cases - and i had about 3-5 like this last night - i didn't have the names.

The piece below that combines 2 of Vuillard's paintings with 2 photos of his mother & his model (i don't remember now if she was (also) his lover or not...anyway, what matters is the wallpaper & the cut of her dress!) had no name. it is part of the series i call "Known/unknown", but no title came to mind.

Then i went to bed & as I was reading "Wanderlust", a chapter dedicated to the rise of the flaneur in Paris, i stumbled upon the phrase that summed up neatly what my necklace was about: "Poetic possibilities of everyday life".

So here we go!

Working on webisodes...

One of the very few people who always stimulates me immensly got me to 'work' on a very fun project... can't - and will never - disclose any details on it, but i saw this place (on the street next to my house) and it seemed like the perfect title for the whole project...

yeap, this is why you need to drink less - keeping your eyes perennially open gives you 'prizes' lke this one!

Surreal Pringles

Here we go - a clin d'oeil to our dear Rene Magritte gone mainstream, all the way down to the food industry!!!

Intellectual drunkenness is better (for me)

While getting ready for a meeting on global packaging trends, I found an excellent Spanish designer & this is one of his wines. A great idea for someone like me who loves books....But apparently i'm wright in keeping up with my 0% alcohol policy... it does relax me too much & puts me to sleep...and i'd love to outsource sleep!!!
But great design should leave on!

Not sure, but still

Ha! If you've seen Houellebecq's photos, they're normally fashioned either after Baudelaire (to whom he bears a stricking resemblance), or just represent an unhappy creature in a parka. This photo is nothing like that at all (and that's why it's here, of course!)
I got confused: was expecting the Goncourt announcement on the 10th, but here we are. Not sure if this was the right (=best) of Houellbecq's books to have won the prize, but it's logical that it happened...And maybe we should simply look at it as a prize for his 'body of work'....

Will reread La carte e le territoire soon - first time around i gulped it in 3 days...

My shopping list on someone else's wall & why I love Banksy

I thought it was great when i stumbled upon it yesterday, but i only now realized that it's the only item that's been sitting on my shopping list for about 3 weeks now & that i haven't been able to get (time crunch!)
And then another coincidence: a couple of hours later i finally went to see Exit through the giftshop (a much better movie than I expected) & of course it made me think, yet again, about what's the difference between good & bad art.
This milk wall is good to me. And so is Banksy. Simple & unexpected. This is it.
If i only knew how to get the simplicity right....