A little more of Thailand - part 1

We are having  a terrific time in Thailand despite the (very) unpredictable weather for the season. I had already posted some picture in my last 52 project post.  So here is a little more.  There will be a 3rd part coming soon.If you care to check, you can click below.I have a thing for long tail boats and you will see many pictures of it.We went on a trip to an Island called Pha. The tiniest thing you have ever seen. It was entirely devastated by the Tsunami 12 years ago. But they managed to use it touristically anyway. You go snorkelling first and then you have lunch on the island.  And we had the Island almost for ourselves:A lot of fishermen around. Kids went fishing with us while we were snorkelling. Different priorities.Always with a book in his hands.He recently read the entire French series called Manoir: And we also went to a busy market in Khao LakWe stayed on an Island called Koh Kho Khao. Ideal, if you ask me. It's quiet. It has beautiful beaches. But still a lot to do around if you wish so.The beach near our hotel was almost for ourselves every day. I'm dreading recommending it as it might spoil the place. I'm therefore hiding the name of our hotel from this blog, haha.We didn't have much sun in fairness. Especially for the season. But when it came, it was quite a party!To be continued...        

June memories

It's November and I'm posting the little film for the June memories! I have had so many project in the meantime but I'm really trying to catch up to be able to do all the monthly films before the end of the year (and make space on my computer!). Maybe I was reluctant because it wasn't a very good month. It felt that it was dark, cold and rainy. And I had broken my camera! It's also when we took the decision to go to Sweden. An emotional roller coaster! But I found pockets of light in those footage.  We had memories and they are worth keeping. So if you click on the read more sign you'll see it!All our usual Brussels habits can be spotted. And the end of school party (the last one!), piano and dance shows. Otherwise there was always "scenes from the week-end" you can watch here . Hopefully, I'll see you soon for the summer memories!

May memories (the beauty of a second)

It took me some time to edit the May memories time capsules.  I posted the April ones mid-May. Then life took over. Last minute decision to move, things to organise and weather not really on our side.In the month of May, I filmed every day. This was a challenge I took from Xanthe Berkeley after finishing the make films course.  As you can imagine, there was a lot of footage and I got a bit scared of dealing with the editing. I also decided to take on another challenge: each clips are only one second long, this is when you see "the beauty of a second" in a movie.It's funny how I first had a feeling that May and June hadn't been that good. But looking at the footages and making that movie made me realise that it wasn't so bad at all! Fun week-ends in London and the blue forest, Lily's birthday...If you want to check more videos for that month, I also made my weekly "Scenes from the week-end" movies that you can watch every week if you follow me on Instagram or on my vimeo account in particular here. I'll try to be quicker with editing June and July movies to catch up and be on time with August! See you soon.

Yayoi Kusama at Moderna Museet in Stockholm

Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama

If you are in Stockholm, I would advise you to go and see Yayoi Kusama at Moderna Museet! It's only until the 11th of September though. Of course, you have to like psychedelic obsessive art (or lines and  polka dots, like me). I had already seen one of her infinity installation at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark. I also saw a dot installation at the Tate Modern in London before that and really like it all.This exhibition is an amazing retrospective of her work and life. Installations are fantastic as usual but there are also paintings and movies of her provocative actions earlier in her career. Yayoi Kusama is a peculiar artist. I really like her work and the mental influence in her art. It's also a very easy exhibition to go see with kids. Mine really enjoyed it! If you don't have the luxury to go see it or want to be convinced a bit more, click on read more (don't worry, I'm not showing it all):I have a thing for her infinity rooms and her polka dots obsessions:She is there in many forms, films and texts. But for this one, Lily thought it was her for real:She had also many other obsessions in the past, like food and protuberances. She thought she was seeing the world as a massive field of protuberances. She also had a phase with food. In one of her exhibition in New York in the 60s, she filled a room with pasta and people had to walk on it and really disliked it (well, except the Belgian commentator of the movie telling the story. He really though it was cool, sacré belges!):Another advantage of going to that exhibition is that you get to go to Moderna Museet. That means crossing a bridge with really nice surroundings and later see that arty Island called Skeppsholmen where the museum lies:All in all, I just love that museum:Hope you have the chance to see it!

April memories

April memories. It seemed to me it was quite calm when I looked at it from a distance and in fact it was more like roller coaster...Emotionally too. This video is not summing it all but as I do a lot of week-end memories too it's hard to make a longer video without being repetitive (click "read more" to watch :))There was Amsterdam, Paris and Stockholm. Not always with the kids, who enjoyed being in France while chaos was happening in Brussels. Visits to friends we miss so much.  Meeting friends we love so much. Some quiet times, some routine times, some laughter even. We ate some dim sums, bought flowers and went to drawing class every Wednesday. And then Spring finally sprung:Quite a hectic and busy month in the end. See you in May :)

Kamasi Washington

Kamasi Washington

Kamasi Washington

First of all: Best wishes to you all! This year will see many changes (for me at least but I hope in the world too and for the better!) and I'm also hoping for more family time, friends time, lots of culture and nature in my life.I thought it was good to start the year with a bit of music. I have been wanting to talk to you about Kamasi Washington that I went to see in concert at Ancienne Belgique mid-November and somehow never managed too... but it's never too late! Mixture of jazz, funk and soul, he has such a presence on stage, great musicians and an amazing crazy woman back vocal surrounding him. If you have Kamasi Washington passing by near you, I strongly advice to go and see him, it's brilliant!I even got a signed CD and managed to talk to him about the Paris attacks (which had happened just the week before), he didn't seem to mind!This one was my favourite I think even though it's not the best representative of Kamasi Washington's style:Enjoy!

Filter vs no filter

flowers for midsummer

As I have stated in my presentation, I love colours and I think it is ok to saturate a bit my pictures to make them look bright and joyful. But I had a look at my old tumblr on a new screen and wow: it's a little too much even if I want to have a look at life in kodacolor... In the class I am attending on wordpress blogging with the great teacher Steve Mepsted, a class mate made the opposite statement: she wants to have photos without filter, saturation etc. Just the pure beauty and truth of the moment.While I find this statement beautiful, I also think that photos are not taken with my eyes in real life, but with a camera and therefore twisted in any case. So why not a little bit of jiggling?Here are a picture I had taken for Instagram and edited:So what do you think?[polldaddy poll=8962755]