Small survey

Here´s my most recent collage - and a quick question for you. If you were to recieve it or buy it would you prefer it with or without the text? And does the text makes sense to you at all?

Please leave a comment today - because I have to finish it tonight!

When I make these collages I can´t help creating little stories as well, and so this is the cat that dreams of being the first cat in space. And being a type fan it´s hard for me not to add type to my collages - let me know what you think, please!

Kunst For Alle

Tomorrow the local Art exhibition Kunst For Alle starts, and it´s always worth a visit due to it´s mix of artists - and one person worth looking out for is definetly Line Juhl Hansen, who made the painting above - I really like her big collage paintings, 80 x100 cm - and the fact that I will soon be sharing a studio space with her - I´ll tell you more soon...

GRIB - the crowd

Here´s a few pictures from the opening night - it was a great and curious crowd, and the gallery had the perfect location and size for the event. More pictures here

GRIB- the show

Here´s a few pictures from the exhibition- before it all started - I´m trying to get hold of some pictures of how packed the space was during the reception - we estimate that more than 400 people showed up and we were all quite overwhelmed with the response - it was such a great day!

You are invited!

If you are anywhere near my city, Aarhus in Dennark, you are hereby invited to the opening of our small group show, GRIB! - and if you decide to pop by, please come and say hello!

In short GRIB, which means catch, is a local project inspired by this project. It all started last september when I met the talented photographer Ida Schmidt and we started talking about our freelance lives and all the clever freelancers/designers/photographers we knew here in Århus. To make a long story short - we invited 6 persons/studios to take part, and each got a wildcard - so that we would enlarge our network and end up beeing 12. The project is now over and the result is a great group of people, a book that is now full of ideas and very diverse projects - and a great calender with all the final results displayed. You can read more about the idea behind the project in my blogpost here.

There´s also a blog in Danish - but I hope you will enjoy it just the same. I´ll post some pictures of the calender soon just because I´m so pleased with how it came out. It will be for sale at the group show - and I´m planning to organize a little give-away also...

And at this period of time, where everybody is focused on new year resolutions, I think it´s very important to celebrate all the things that one succeed in during 2007. And this project has been a succes and a wonderful experience, seeing how our first idea has grown and developed into something much bigger than expected. I think this is what happens when you start sharing ideas, dreams and passions.

Open the invite in Danish as a pdf.fil here

Blog Local Week - childrens drawings

My daughter´s kindergarden is another local spot where I get inspired! It looks very fancy from the outside - and inside it´s full of great childrens drawings that makes you smile. Nanna is more a painter than a drawer so I enjoy to snap mobile pics of the others drawings. Notice the cribs at the top floor it´s open air - since in DK most kids are napping outside in their cribs or prams.

Blog Local Week - Old Books

I´m not sure how local these patterns are - but they are from some covers of old books found in a local thriftshop - and I´m inspired by their texture and colour palette.

Blog Local Week - Windows

Here´s a glimpse of one of my local inspirations - window shopping. I often snap a photo with my cell phone when I see something interesting, like this wall at a local hairdresser, a Diesel dress, a vintage print and these wonderful glass shapes from the local museum of natural history. What´s your local inspiration??

Blog Local Week -please join in!

Due to the local GRIB-project and because I´m always curious to get a glimpse of other people´s lifes, I dedicate next week to be Blog Local Week. A week with focus on what or who inspires you in your local enviroment - like what does your favorite shop, bakery, dish, person, park, building, coffee, cake, libary, transport, book shop, museum, beach or neighboorhood look like. All the stuff that inspires you when you are offline! Grab a camera and give us a glimpse of your world and hood and local inspirations!

Join the fun - leave a comment, spread the word and add your pictures to the BLOG LOCAL flickr group.

The first person to join in and spread the word at their blog will recieve a Grib Calender 2008. So join the fun - I´m looking forward to get a glimpse of your world.

Here´s some inspiration, A City Guide Through Lomo Eyes, Fika with Sandra, A year of mornings

Happy raincoat

On a grey and rainy winter morning this raincoat, Pink Bird by Danefæ made me happy. Raincoats with prints are very popular here right now - and it somehows makes sense to wear something bright when the weather is grey. I´m wearing this today.

Pinocchio carpet

I´m not sure how much longer I can resist from buying this Pinocchio carpet from Hay for Nanna´s room - since I pass it in a shop window almost every day. But as they say in Pinocchio "Money doesn´t grow on trees" - but the colours and the texture is just sooooo yummy!
I´ve never seen the Disney version of Pinocchio but "Le avventure di Pinocchio" (1972), an TV mini-series by Italian director Luigi Comencini, starring Andrea Balestri as Pinocchio, Nino Manfredi as Geppetto & Gina Lollobrigida as the Fairy - is probably the movie that has stuck with me for the longest time since I saw it as a child - and I´m sure it´s still worth seeing if you can find it.

Airport Flowers

We had some waiting time on the way home from Thailand in Trat airport - so I grabbed my macro lense and wandered around the tiny airport to capture these beauties.

My favorite picture

Here´s my favorite picture from our holiday - Nanna and I on the boat to Koh Mak. I love her little hand on my shoulder...and how relaxed I look - my New Year Resolution nr. 1 this year is to relax!

Happy New Year 2008

I´m back after a wonderful holiday and my jetlag is almost over - so I´m ready for a new year of blogging, sharing and meeting new people and ideas... so let me start by wishing you all a wonderful and prosperous New Year 2008 - I´m looking forward to share it with you all!

See you next year!

I think this is what our Christmas holidays will look like again this year. We leave for Hong Kong & Thailand tomorrow - and will celebrate Christmas on Koh Mak, with friends from home and with my cousin + family, who lives on Iceland rigth now. It´s our 4th Christmas holiday in Thailand - which means that so far Nanna has only seen Thai Santa´s and plastic trees - but who cares when the sun is shining, the sea is warm, the food is served and all you have to do is to kick back and enjoy the holidays. I wish you all a warm and merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year 2008 - see you next year!

Flickr favorites

Here´s some of my recent Flickr Favorites to get the week started. I recommend you check out the Snowflake project full of amazing macro´s of snowflakes - and Linzie Hunter´s Spam one-liners a hand lettering project- based on spam subject lines in her mailbox - and this collection of Naruko-style vintage kokeshi dolls. Happy monday!

Giving birth to a giant baby

I love this photo, where artist Ron Mueck (pushing the head) works with the Brooklyn Museum staff to install the exhibition Ron Mueck on view. See the whole progress in a Flickr set here. This photo really speaks to me since I admire Mueck´s work a lot + the project I´m working on right now feels a bit like giving birth to a giant baby...

Hello world!

Just had to share this little piece from my Site Meter statistics - It´s been a very international day here at Spagat´s blog. I love to see where my readers are from and how they found me - and to me this is the true power and joy of blogging - communicating with people all over the world, and meeting people who share your taste and passions. Welcome!

If you don´t have a stats on your blog already - I recommend you get one - it´s really interesting to keep track of your blog.

La Marelle

The new website from La Marelle, is a treasure trove of great products and clever illustrators, like Lilidoll and miss clara - and don´t miss Miss Clara´s magical website. I´m so busy the next weeks so blogging will be very sporadicly - but La Marelle´s collection of illustrators and cards should keep you entertained for a while. Enjoy!

DIY- advent calender

I love this idea for an Advent calender, from Boligliv nr.11/07 - but I can´t crochet - nor cast on a stitch - but if you can I hope this inspires you - it surely makes me want to learn how to crochet or knit before next december...