street view

This may be seem like a stupid post (and old news) to some of you, but I just discovered an interesting option in already-amazing Google Maps. It allows to see the address you're searching at just that, street view. the picture above is the part of the street where we stayed in NYC two years ago. Awesome, man.

Holidays

Dog leaving the European Union

We just spent a few days in Copenhagen, home to all things design, cleanliness and Scandinavian coolness. The picture was taken in hippie, squatter and communist Christiania.


As a bonus, we also went to Sweden. You just take a train (and that beautiful bridge), and half an hour later, you're in Malmö, at the other side of the Øresund strait. The city, although smaller than Copenhagen, has jewels like Calatrava's Turning Torso, which at 190m, is the country's tallest building.

Hairs moving in all directions

Rectone

How can you not love this? This is soooo much better than our Hemoal.

Art

I have recently seen two excellent exhibitions. the first one is Andreas Gursky's impressive, oversized photograps at London's White Cube.

This german artist takes pictures (I guess) with a large-format camera capable of producing incredibly large positives ( a series of Formula 1 pit-stop photos were 4 by 2 meters) with great level of detail. Looking him up on Wikipedia I just learnt he hold the record for the most expensive photograph ever sold: $3.3m for his 99 cents II.


The second one is Chuck Close's amazing retrospective at Madrid's Reina Sofía. I had already seen some of his works at MoMA, but somehow it failed to impress me then (or perhaps I was too impressed by everything else in there).

He also produces extremely detailed, large-format paintings. In this case he only paints portraits, his method involving taking a photo, dividing it into a grid and then copying each cell into a large canvas.While the technical side is amazing, the most interesting part is how he manages to capture the subjects's personality as few photographers - let alone painters - can do.