The Whole World and Me

You know I love a great love story, more so when it involves some type of art form.

For this reason, I was mesmerized by these photos taken by the russian photographer Murad Osmann.

It all started on a vacation in Barcelona where Murad was with his girlfriend, Nataly Zakharova. She was annoyed with him because he was always staying behind to take photos, so she took his hand to try to pull him forward... the first picture was taken and an amazing project was born!

The series "I will follow you to the ends of the earth" continued with locations such as Russia, Venice, Hong Kong, Paris, Singapore and others. Posted on Instagram, they became a fast success and a love story which has travelled the globe!

I'm in love with this idea, with the images, with the name of the project, with EVERYTHING basically!

You know I love to discover new artists and also new mediums used to express beauty.

This was a great surprise: The german artist called Eno Henze.

The images below are from several different series and are laser drawings on photo paper. I would love to know this technique, I just love these images, how they float.... Inspirational!

Find out more here.

I stumbled upon this on facebook this morning and I can tell you this is the way to start your day: LAUGHING!!!!

Please read this and prepare yourself ;)

"These are from a book called Disorder in the American Courts and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and published by court reporters that had the torment of staying calm while the exchanges were taking place.

ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that morning?
WITNESS: He said, "Where am I, Cathy?"
ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you?
WITNESS: My name is Susan!
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ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?
WITNESS: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.
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ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active?
WITNESS: No, I just lie there.
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ATTORNEY: What is your date of birth?
WITNESS: July 18th.
ATTORNEY: What year?
WITNESS: Every year.
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ATTORNEY: How old is your son, the one living with you?
WITNESS: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which.
ATTORNEY: How long has he lived with you?
WITNESS: Forty-five years.
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ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
WITNESS: Yes
ATTORNEY: And in what does it affect your memory?
WITNESS: I forget..
ATTORNEY: You forget? can you give us an example of something you forgot?
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ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning?
WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam?
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ATTORNEY: The youngest son, the 20-year-old, how old is he?
WITNESS: He's 20, much like your IQ.
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ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken?
WITNESS: Are you shitting me?
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ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: and what were you doing at the time?
WITNESS: Getting laid.
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ATTORNEY: she had three children, right?
WITNESS: Yes
ATTORNEY: How many were boys?
WITNESS: None
ATTORNEY: Were there any girls?
WITNESS: Your Honor, I think I need a different attorney. Can I get a new attorney?
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ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated?
WITNESS: By death...
ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated?
WITNESS: Take a guess.
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ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual?
WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard.
ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female?
WITNESS: Unless the Circus was in town I'm going with male
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ATTORNEY: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?
WITNESS: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.
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ATTORNEY: Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people?
WITNESS: All of them. The live ones put up too much of a fight.
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ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral, ok? What school did you go to?
WITNESS: Oral...
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ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 PM
ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time?
WITNESS: If not, he was by the time I finished.
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ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?
WITNESS: Are you qualified to ask that question?
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ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?
WITNESS: No?
ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible the patienmt was alive when you began your autopsy?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: How can you be sure, Doctor?
WITNESS:Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
ATTORNEY: I see, but could the aptient have still been alive, nevertheless?
WITNESS:Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.
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LAUGHING-OUT-LOUD!!!!!

is it a good thing or bad thing?

I'm a firm believer that anything we do must be done with passion, because otherwise it's just not worth it.

But when your passion becomes your job, it's a totally different thing....

The things you used to love the most are suddenly your worst nightmares; what used to be fun, is just a job now; and everything you loved about it, is taken away from you because it's not a passion anymore... but a job.

Well... things I'm thinking and feeling... maybe just the result of some stressful weeks at work, or maybe just something to consider for the future...

Whatever it is... fear, confusion, doubt, stress, I just think we should always question and consider and analyse our lives as we continue to move forward. It's just so damn easy to stay at the exact same place and let life continue without you... we have to be alert and don't fall asleep, thus my continuous questioning. 

I question, so I'm alive and kicking ahahah! 

xx

The "good girl" syndrome is a condition many girls and women suffer from, present company included!!

While listening to the song I posted yesterday here, I started to realize just how much we feel trapped by this double standard that society has put upon us!... A simple and quick example: a woman who has three different sexual partners in one week is a slut. Period. A man who has 3 different sexual partners in one week is considered a stud. Plain and simple! Maybe some women will call him womanizer, but I'm not sure that will make him less appealing (the whole bad boy thing comes to play in these situations). Of course this is not limited to the sexual field, this example can easily be transported into the professional area.

So even though many of us may want to get nasty, as the boys sing, we feel we must be the "good girl". What's funnier is that I don't think this is about what other people would think of us, but more about the image we want to project to the world and our peers... It's more about what we think of ourselves, really...

Although many of us would like to think we are independent women who can do whatever we want, whenever we want and whomever we want (present company included!!) I believe that at the end of the day we refrain from doing certain things or acting in a sort of way, because we really want to be the good girl...

Maybe this has something to do with fairy tales and the fact that most princesses are good girls... We grow up listening to these tales of perfect women who suffer and carry the weight of the world, but, because they're good girls, they will be happily ever after. And what about the bad girls?! Well,  pop wisdom tells us they go everywhere, for sure!, but will they be happy?

This is food for thought and I feel this subject will be running around in my mind for a long time... 

But you know I like to share my thoughts and make you think with me :) 

So tell me, do you suffer from the "good girl" syndrome?

xx

I can't stop listening to this song, it's just so damn good!!!!

From the lyrics, to the beat, it's just... AMAZING!!! Pharell, I just heart you man!

A little bit of this poetry eheheh:

"Ok, now he was close/ Tried to domesticate you/ But you're an animal/ baby, it's your nature/ Just let me liberate you/ You don't need no papers/ That man is not your mate/ And that's why I gon' take you

Good Girl I know you want it/ You're a good girl/ can't let it get past me/ You're far from plastic/ Talk about getting blasted/ I hate these blurred lines/ I know you want it/ but you're good girl/ The way you grab me/ Must wanna get nasty/ Go ahead, get at me"

As I told you on Monday, I wan in Italy for the Calzedonia fashion show.

Well, I wasn't in Italy per se, I was on Rimini's Convention Center to be more precise as I had no time to see the city!!! But I can tell you the Center is amazing ;)

But there was time to see all the stars that Calzedonia invited for the show, especially the one and only SARAH JESSICA PARKER!!!!!!! 

I'm still trying to recover from the fact we were breathing the same air ahahahah! She's so beautiful, smiley and nice, really, really nice. And honestly, I had to control myself not to scream like a little girl, I was really starstruck...

Well, me and the other 3.500 guests who greeted her with screams as she entered the show venue. I wonder what one must feel to see and hear 3.000 people scream for you... chills!!!!!

Besides SJP there was also Poppy Delevigne, also favorite of mine, as other stars that blew me away. Oh well, one of the perks of working in PR I guess :)  

I'm really going to spare you all the bad  stories of this trip and leave you only with the good :) 

The show? 

The show was amazing, it really took my breath away! I mean, Ke$ha performed, as well as the Misshapes and the italian band (a great surprise) Planet Funk. Beautiful models, dancers, a wonderful choreography and the sets... well let's just say the videos and effects were just too grand to describe!

I leave you with the only pictures I was able to take...

And while watching, ask yourself how do you see yourself and if that image, the one in your head that you carry with you all the time, is the right one...

One of the most powerful ads I have ever seen. This campaign speaks to people everywhere and really shows how our perceptions of ourselves are so wrong and can be so damaging to the way we live our lives.

I hope you like it, but most of all, I hope you feel inspired to love yourself more and look at yourself with truthful eyes, not critic eyes...

Expectations are a dangerous thing... Mainly because we normally set them up so high that we can never reach them. If having expectations can be an impulse to make you go out there and make things happen, they can also be deadly traps which will make you feel small and unworthy.

There's a saying I particularly love which speaks to this subject: prepare for the worst, expect the best. Most of the times, it's a good thing you were prepared, because life tends to follow its own path and our expectations normally crash and burn. It is also true what they say, if you don't expect anything, everything that comes your way will be a good thing. But, if you don't expect anything, how can you move forward? Because expectations are normally, at least in my case, built on dreams which make you want more and work hard to achieve them...

A double edged sword, like most things in life, expectations should be managed carefully. As I get older, I am more and more protective of myself. I don't dare to expect as much as I did before, because let's face it: people disappoint you, life doesn't follow a script and even you won't sometimes perform as expected, by yourself or others. 

Accepting life as it is, seems to be an answer for this, albeit not the one I was hoping to find. I like to dream, I'm a dreamer at heart. But my expectations are also killing me softly, making me question just how much should I let myself, dare myself, to dream... If I set my expectations low, will I be happier? 

Moreover, expectations bring pressure to the table. You want to meet expectations and you want your expectations to be met, which usually just means we will live in continuous pressure. 

But there also the occasional times when your expectations are met and even surpassed, like my red hair... I mean, can you say perfection? Because my hair can ;) eheheh 

Those glorious moments in your life are precious and all the more special, because we do tend to expect too much.

All and all, I continue my quest for answers to my life issues, just these little things that keep my brain on its toes, always on work mode, trying to find the answers.

Although I haven't found many, I guess the journey is the best part... The path you choose to take in your quest is as fundamental as the quest itself and, often, part of it.

As far as expectations goes, I'm learning how to manage them in order to be safe, while leaving, at the same time, space in my life for wonder :)

Have a wonderful day, that's my expectation for now :)

xx

In looooooooove with these shoes!!!!! 

Melissa + Karl Lagerfeld = HAPPY me 

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