My Sunday Movie...

For my Sunday movie at last I got to see La Vie en Rose. An outstanding performance by Marion Cotillard giving a great homage to one of France's most beloved singers, Edith Piaf. Visually stunning film about an amazing life story of a great woman with such a sad life.
I personally loved this film and highly recommend it. A well deserved Oscar for the best actress of 2008.

Street Photography

I must tell you all that after writing the last post I've been looking through some of my old photos to submit for the Street or Studio at the Tate in collaboration with Flickr. So far I've found this image that I took in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia a year ago...I remember I was strolling through this busy area when I saw the cyclists with the caption on the bus going by " free flow of friends", it was one of those moments of quickly looking through the bag to find the camera and do an instant touch on the button, all I can say I'm glad I managed to get it time!

Your Photos in Print

How fantastic!..The Tate has teamed up with Flickr and Blurb to produce a photo book, Street & Studio, you can read more about it here. You can add up to two images per submission, closing date is 27 July. How to add the image instructions is here. Good Luck !

Spring Fair News Article

Thank you so much to Rachael Taylor for writing an article on the Spring Fair News page about me & my forthcoming online retail store coming soon . You can read it here .

My Sunday movie...

Many of you know from my previous post, Sunday afternoon is my movie time, although this weekend I had to give it a miss in order to celebrate friends birthdays, Mel and Piers ( fab friends & hosts, which was lovely to spend quality time with them) so as my regular posting of movie talk, I thought I'd mention my anticipated excitement for Woody Allen's forthcoming movie set in Barcelona. Those that know me very well will know by now I'm a huge Woody fan ( I know - you either love him or not ) but to me he is a genius & to have a movie set in one of my hometowns that is very close to my heart with one of my favourite Spanish actors Javier Bardem , well what can I say ??...
The name of the movie is Vicky Cristina Barcelona . I shall post the date of cinema release when announced for those Woody Allen fans...Have a good week.

Have a fabulous weekend !

Photograph by Massimo Vitali

Wherever you are, I wish you all a great weekend!

See you next week.

This week @ the studio....

Since my last post my week has been dominated in the Studio sorting out orders and deliveries; exotic fruit smoothies and iTunes library have been keeping me going through the long hours ....

Back to normality..

Here I am back to my posting which I have missed, but other events had to take priority, so I had to neglect my little diary for sometime...

The main reason for my last couple of weeks dominating my diary 24/7 was the exhibition that took place in Earls Court, London, earlier this week for three days, Pulse . I'm glad to say it was fantastic show not just for business but meeting lovely people that made the long days fun too...now back to my studio to work work work.... Have a good weekend to all.

What a lovely story.....

Reading through other Blogs I came across this fabulous story featured in the Blog A cup of Jo . The story goes that a guy in Atlanta tied a disposable camera to a bench with a note saying to take photos, have fun and he would be back later on the afternoon to pick up the camera...amazingly when he went back the camera was still there with the roll of film completed !! These are the results !! How much fun !! you can see them all here.

Site discovery : Square America

I love this picture, it tells so many stories !

As you might of gathered from my previous post, I'm totally fascinated with vernacular photography. I recently discovered a great website called Square America. I highly recommend to have a peek at the site for those interested in this subject. I personally found it interesting the family dynamics section as there's a lot of psychology to work out within the people in the portraits. Enjoy !

Every picture tells a story....

I've always been fascinated how an image can tell so much, specially family & friend snapshots. I find myself looking closely at the body language, the backdrop, what was the ocasion?, the story behind the photo, their life then and now, where are they now?.. all those things come to mind, in other terms, vernacular photography is what totally fascinates me.
The photograph above is a fine example of the quote " every picture tells a story ". This picture tells many stories and a very significant one too !This photo was taken in Argentina on my christening day (wont tell you how long ago) in the picture you can see my parents & godparents (my mother and godmother having been best friends since the age of four). Unfortunately we lost touch for twenty years with countless attempts on both counter parts searching for each other, it was a difficult task as all that time my parents, little siblings and I were moving round the world like nomads!
Finally thanks to modern technology, the fabuolus Internet, we managed to track the down, which actually it was this time four years ago when my mum and I were sitting nervously by the phone to make the call after all that time and not knowing what to expect, thankfully they were all fine and chatted for a good couple of hours exchanging life stories, some good some sad, but the main thing it was like time hadn't passed them by. Months later I went to Buenos Aires and found myself sitting in a Hotel lobby with this very photograph in my hand waiting impatiently for my godparents to come through the door for the great reunion... as I was waiting for half an hour or more (Argentines are always fashionably late, me falling in that category I'm afraid ) it was when I met my lovely boyfriend Matt, an English guy staying for a couple of days in Bs As and travelling round South America. Later on this evening my godparents and mother are coming for another reunion to stay at our home for the weekend, so as you see " every picture does tell a story" !

Cakes, coffee and catching up...

This weekend was national bank holiday to celebrate the lovely month of May...a great opportunity to catch up with my fabulous friend Zoe over iced coffee, cake & enjoying the sunshine, lets hope this great weather is here to stay!

Artwork of the week

What can I say ??? Thank you again to Artfair 365 for nominating my poppy image as Artwork of the week !! In September one of my paintings had the same priviliege...mmm...I feel xtremeley honored !! Thank youuuuuuuuuuu !!

My Sunday movie

When I was a little girl growing up in Barcelona my grandfather used to take us to the cinema on many Sunday afternoons, his love for the cinema was seriously catchy. The excitement of looking through the Sunday papers to decide which movie we should go and see, the getting there and queuing round the block with other cinema goers, buckets of sweet popcorn , the lovely comfy big red velvet seats, the trailers, intro music and the images on a big screen that would take you to another world, yes , that's where my love of film and cinema started and a tradition that somehow it has stayed with me through my teens, twenties and to this day... whatever country I'm at, weather is in the cinema or at home it has become a some sort of Sunday ritual, which I see as my little treat of the week that takes me to somewhere else to either learn from or dream about. This Sunday my treat was a Wes Anderson film, The Darjeeling Limited . A soul searching film set in India with the fabulous Owen Wilson and Adrien Brody, the lighting and camera angles contribute to a visual feast by the cinematographer Rober Yeoman as so do the costumes and set designs. I totally recommend this film if you enjoyed the Royal Tenenbauns and The life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

Gregory Crewdson in Lndn !

When I first discovered Gregory Crewdson was at uni @ a lecture. I was totally fascinated by the images shown to us on the slide show that afternoon, which was from Crewdsons' Twilight series. From that day on he has become one of my favourite photographers of all time.His images have a dreamlike feel, Lynch and Hitchcock coming to mind as does Edward Hopper. Complicated sets lit by large crews of 15-20 people can take three to four days , Crewdson himself directing most of the time whilst somebody else takes charge of clicking the shutter.Today I'm so excited to read that there 's currently an exhibition of his work at the White cube gallery in London.

The exhibition runs till 24 May...enjoy !

Retro cool?

What can I say?? There's a few of us out there that as teenagers grew up wearing the good old Converse trainers and many years on as grown ups are still wearing them!!...We all have them in different colours, old and new and can't part away from them or is it that still feels good to have that free spirit & unconventional feeling once in a while that takes us away from the everyday mundane routine ? Personally it works 4 me!

Book day & Sant Jordi

Today is a day in the calendar that I miss most for not being in Barcelona.The 23 rd of April it's a day of two celebrations, Sant Jordi ( St George's day ) where roses are given as a sign of love and book day when gift books are exchanged with friends and family.The centre of Barcelona is full of bookseller and red rose stands which by early evening the streets are full of smiles, laughter, music, people walking in the streets with handful of books on their way to hook up with friends for evening drinks also to celebrate it with those of the name Jordi too.This evening there's a very important football match, Barcelona V Manchester United semi- final, which will another reason to have a party and have fun....Oh well, I'll just have to do with going to my local bookstore and get myself a book...Happy Book day and Feliz dia de Sant Jordi!