Beat generation

photo: El País

It was a great and happy surprise to find out this morning, while reading the Spanish newspaper El País that the Brazilian director Walter Salles will start shooting the movie 'On the Road' in August. The movie is an adaptation of Jack Kerouac's book published in 1957.

Cook&Book

I was visiting my husband's family in Brussels and my father-in-law invited us for a brunch at Cook&Book, a great concept bookstore/restaurant.

The food is amazing, with great atmosphere and an excellent book selection. Cook&Book is divided into eight sections spread within three buildings each one with a different theme and design (music, cooking, arts, travelling, comic books, children's, etc.). If you are ever in Brussels, I strongly recommend it!

Adopt a granny that can knit for you

It's a real luxury to have a grandmother or a mother that knows how to knit and that have time to make your favorite scarves and hats for you every winter. So, if you are one of the average ordinary people like me, that don't have this luxury, you'll enjoy this great web created by Jérémy Emsellem called Golden Hook where you can choose a granny to knit your favorite scarf or hat, just the way you like it. Thumbs up!

DIY designer clothes now possible

Lika Volkova of Sans is a pioneer of 'sustainable' clothing. Her new project entitled 'home made' is absolutely fabulous: With minimal sewing experience (or simply hiring your favorite seamstress) you can buy and download the digital pattern / instructions of her designs, print them, cut and sew your own SANS piece choosing your favorite colour and textile.

Spanish version of Harper's Bazaar

Yes! The Spanish version of Harper's Bazaar at newsstands in March...

SPFW by Regina Guerreiro

Fashion editor Regina Guerreiro talks about her impressions and the highlights of the second day of the SPFW 2010 Winter collection. For the complete broadcast please visit UOL estilo.

Very funny condom viral

Watch video here.

TBWA and Wanda Paris have provided another brave and risqué spot for French AIDS charity AIDES in ‘Graffitis’. Following the plight of a lonely graffiti penis who ‘can’t get no love’ in his local tag-laden public toilet animation king Yohan Lemoine mixes the right amount of humour with an important message to produce a funny and memorable spot. (original source of this post The Reel)

Swap homes???

Ok, so this service is definetely not for me since I do not own a mansion on a deserted island or hidden in the fields of Provence, but I found it cool and perhaps you reader have a beautiful luxurious house or flat somewhere in this world that you'd like to swap with someone who owns a property in Thailand or Brazil... who knows?

The web is very easy to navigate, visiting the photos of the properties is fantastic (makes you dream!) and membership is not at all that expensive: 225 UK pounds a year.

Hopefully someone will start the same business but with middle range properties, I'd be delighted to participate!!!

Favorite comics I

Every time I travel to Brussels I stop at my favorite comic book's store in the city center and I buy two or three books from authors I hardly know but that somehow grab my attention for some reason.

This Xmas I bought two books, kind of romantic but in complete different ways.

The first one is called 'Au temps de l'amour' (In time for love), from the Japanese writer and illustrator Yamaji Ebine. The drawings are so beautiful that they captivated me the first minute I saw it. I've read the entire manga on the plane on my way back to Barna. For a preview, please click here (bear in mind that you shold flip the pages from the end to the beginning, just like in Japan).

The other book I bought is called Rosalie Blum and it belongs to Camille Jourdy's aclaimed trilogy. The story and illustrations are amazing. I'm reading the first book entitled 'Une impression de déjà-vu' (A feeling of déjà-vu) and I'm already excited about starting the second and third books.

World leaders and climate change 20 years from now

Incredible posters comissioned by Greenpeace that are hanging in the airport of Copenhagen to welcome the international representatives arriving for COP15.

Agency: Arc Communications

Images from Creative Review

New taxi project in SP to reduce drinking and driving

I've just returned from my three week trip to Brazil where I found out about this new government project called "Taxi Amigão" (Big Taxi friend) - a 30% discount on evening rides at weekends and bank holidays.

Usually taxis cost more at night and at weekends and bank holidays in Brazil. To incentive people to leave their cars at home when going out to drink and and to reduce the number of car accidents in the capital, the government of São Paulo has decided to create the Taxi Amigão. Drivers can choose to participate in the action or not. The main incentives for taxi drivers is to be granted free parking in restricted paid zones as well as special credentials for high demand events such as Carnaval, Formula 1, Reveillon, etc.

The taxis that adhere to the programme have a special sticker fixed to the window as well as a green light placed on the top of the car.

To watch the video, click here.

Tuesday afternoon at MASP

Today we visited the exhibition "De dentro para fora e de fora para dentro" at MASP (São Paulo Museum of Art), that opened last Friday and goes until 5 December.

Photos are not allowed, so I had to borrow some images from Flickr.

Photos by Nicoli Barea. Grafitti by Ramon Martins.

São Paulo tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!

Illustration by Leonor Zamith.

Total São Paulo: a guide to the unexpected

São Paulo now has a "cool" guide created by the American journalist Phuong-Cac Nguyen, who works as a correspondent in SP for the trend-hunter blogs CoolHunting.com and JoshSpear.com. "Total São Paulo: a guide to the unexpected" is the perfect companion for travelers who wish to discover the true soul and secrets of the amazing South American city.

The guide is divided by neighbourhoods and has plenty of restaurants, bars, shopping and nightlife tips. It's also packed with interviews with celeb paulistanos such as fashion designers Marcelo Sommer and Fábia Bercsek, the skater Fábio Cristiano, and the Galeria Vermelha art producer, Marcos Gallon, amongst others.

For the online version of the guide, visit the site www.totalSPguide.com

Expo Miguel Cococrash

For the ones in Madrid this weekend, don't miss Miguel Cococrash "I don't wanna longer be a man, I wanna be a bird" exhibition that opens this Thursday at EspacioValverde (Calle Valverde, 30).

For more information, please visit Brianda's blog.

MIGUEL COCOCRASH at ESPACIOVALVERDE
"I DONT WANNA LONGER BE A MAN I WANNA BE A BIRD"

Opening on Thursday 12 November at 20:00h
ESPACIOVALVERDE C/ Valverde 30 Bº1ª
MUSIC BY PABLO PADILLA JARGSTORF
CATERING PINCHÍN

Tired of it? Recycle!!!

According to Fer and Cris, the girls from Oficina do Estilo, the secrect to dress well during pregnancy is not to shop at maternity shops (I promise that I've tried many of them in Barcelona and I can never find anything that pleases me) but to go to the shops that you are really like and to buy the right stuff that you might event be able to wear after pregnancy.

And searching their blog for more pregnancy tips, I found this cool post on online second hand shops in Brazil (known as brechós). There were so many links suggested (yellow pages style) that I thought of fishing some of my favorites and listing them here. Enjoy shopping!!!!

My favorite one, no question about it! The name Enjoei means
'Got Sick of It'.
http://enjoei.com.br/

Great concept!!!
Some girls from Rio de Janeiro who revamp old clothes and sell their work online. http://www.euamovintage.com.br/

Blog FruFru's bazar, with lots of cool stuff. Unfortunately
they don't always have new things...

http://cabidefrufru.wordpress.com/

Campana brothers for Lacoste

I confess that Lacoste was never a brand that really caught my attention, but I must admit that their 2009 partnership with the Campana brothers really impressed me.

All the shirts were made in collaboration with Coopa-Roca, an artscraft cooperative from favela da Rocinha, a slum in Rio de Janeiro.

Sermoneta Gloves

It was a coup de foudre when I saw this store at the Linate airport in Milan. I had 15 minutes to rush to the gate and catch a plane, but I managed to enter the store, try a pair of purple gloves (just to confirm my size 7) and get a card so that I could remember the store name and shop online.

Great design, beautiful colours and excellent price!!!

Sermoneta Gloves
www.sermonetagloves.com

Divine Dita!!!

Dita Von Teese Harper's Bazaar Russia cover shooting - divine!!! (wedding gown by Christian Lacroix)

Imagess: BuzzNet.com

I wanna see it...

The new feature by Jean-Pierre Jeunet opens in France on 28 October... how long should we wait in Barcelona???

http://www.micmacs-lefilm.com/#/l-affiche