Happy New Year

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Les Puces

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These two pictures were taken somewhere in the Paris flea market porte de Clignancourt. They both look like art work, but actually the left one is a detail of a rusted pillar (not a painting!), and the one the right is a bunch of old stacked radiators (not a sculpture!). They both have someything in common. First the color harmony, and second something random about them. Nature and weather did their work on the first and some employees of the antique dealer must have stacked the radiators as well as possible, not thinking about making a work of art. My point is there is something about random accidents which can be most interesting in art and also design.

Emotions

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As it's been raining a lot lately, I noticed the gutter in front of my house was clogged; so I went upstairs to see what to do about it and this what I found! I usually don't post ugly things but this is the most disgusting thing I ever saw and wanted to share it with you! Yes this is a child's teddy bear! How it got up there, I do not know. Heavens! What I do know however is that usually such toys are cute, soft, and cuddly, which makes this one, that much more horrible. Communicating visually includes striking the viewers' emotions.

Why your passion is not enough

"Passion lights the spark; it's what keeps you going when times get hard but in the end of the day it's your skills, ideas, hard work and commitment that make you successful." says Maggie Doyne, a young extraordinary woman who got envolved in an incredible humanitarian project in Nepal. It's not often that I find something to post that has nothing to do with design and yet...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marianne-elliott/why-your-passion-is-not-e_b_1256424.html

http://blinknow.org

... something else I'd like to quote from the article: "Starting small is surely no barrier to progressing professionally." Sound advice! Click on the first link to read the article that made me want to know more.