5/29/2014

top ten songs to freak out to when you are alone

Not too much of a discovery to say we all get these moments when we are alone and we want to dance and these somehow epic songs happen to pop up on our playlist. Here is a 100% subjective playlist of my ‘get crazy’ tracks of all times.

is tropical - dancing anymore


the emotions - the best of my love


sky ferreira - i blame myself 


black lips - bad kids


rick springfield - jessie's girl


glass candy - warm in the winter


new order - age of consent


GGOOLLDD - gold


journey - don't stop believing


the boys town gang - can't take my eyes off you




5/17/2014

balthus


A genius of post-war European art. A friend of Alberto Giacometti. A man who embraced eroticism and love in equal measure. Balthus.

He spent his life on creation, travel, but readings about the artist draft an image of his best days. These were the times he spent with Setsuko, an embodiment of a woman, wife, muse and frame of Balthus's works. Sharing their worlds of intimacy and inspiration in Villa Medici and in a Swiss chalet, they created art emerging from mutual respect and curiosity. She, exploring the culture of the old continent, he, learning about the Orient, painting Shunga-infused acts. 

In the last 17 years of his life, Balthus painted only 13 works, probably none of them masterpieces, that's what the critics would say.

But I do not need a proof in a form of papers and letters to believe Balthus was a man who harnessed art. He has achieved it and built a home of his own that he cherished and loved. He described it with strokes in  'The Mountain'. A home where he and Setsuko kept a room locked, filled with exotic birds.

5/12/2014

antwerp




Dear Antwerp,

you are a masterpiece. Created by Rubens and van Eyck and Bruegel and Adriaenssen, your streets are silent and dark.

I want to cross under the river Schedlt and think about your past. I see you from a distance and I see you close, the beauty of yours is all the same, no matter the perspective. You are home to fashion one of a kind, you let the creative minds of Dries van Noten and Ann Demeulemeester thrive and grow. Now it's time for you to get something in return.

People respect your tranqulity, they do not rush, they ride their bikes and take the trams and move slowly with clear minds. I was one of them for a while and back in London it is not the same.

I want to come back to be part of the way you embrace the history and novelty. There is something dated and fresh about you at the same time. This contradiction makes me understand why did I feel with you beside like never before. Cheesy, but true, you are exceptional.

See you soon and never change,

x