1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
ABBA - Super Trouper
The small faces - Lazy Sunday Afternoon
Handmade Forest Rolling Ball Xylophone plays Bach
Beatles - Day Triper
2. PLACES TO KNOW
Stockholm
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA’s Founder - the frugal billionaire
“Music for one apartment and six drummers.”
“Hi! I’m Ethan, I shop at Ikea. I bought a $300 dining suite and it took me three days to assemble!”
“Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.”
“Where does personality end and brain damage begin?”
“One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.”
Favourite dinner movies - a very short list.
Mr. or Ms. Gulf Shores Inn
- “Le Diner de Cons”
Stockholm
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA’s Founder - the frugal billionaire
Douglas Coupland - Canadian novelist - the site
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
5. INSPIRATION
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
"Got a good reason, for taking the easy way out, now.
She was a day..... tripper, one way ticket, yeah!"
The Beatles
“Music for one apartment and six drummers.”
“Hi! I’m Ethan, I shop at Ikea. I bought a $300 dining suite and it took me three days to assemble!”
“Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.”
“Where does personality end and brain damage begin?”
“One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.”
Favourite dinner movies - a very short list.
Mr. or Ms. Gulf Shores Inn
- “Le Diner de Cons”
- “Bon Appetit”
Jürgen Pfeiffer
Jürgen Pfeiffer
-“Murder by Death”
Glaucia Burgi - “Parenti Serpenti”
- Chocolat
Brigitte Ockers
Glaucia Burgi - “Parenti Serpenti”
- Chocolat
Brigitte Ockers
-“Little Shop of Horrors”
Rosanna Li
Rosanna Li
- “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover”
- “Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life”
San-Marie Scheffler
- “Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life”
San-Marie Scheffler
- Like Water For Chocolate”
6. HOMEWORK
If you think about it well, do you have a special place you really like going to? A place that involves a service. It can either be a restaurant, a store, a website... Think of something that is designed in a different way from what we are used to. If you feel like it, you could share a nice picture with us and a few words to let us know about it.
Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art. I think that this Museum has a great service in what making culture accessible concerns.Serralves aims to offer a representative collection of Portuguese and international contemporary art. But the Museum has lots of activities. So it's not just a building with cool art inside. It's very much alive. You can go there often and have different experiences.The building was designed by architect, Álvaro Siza. It's not the pink building you see on the photo. (By the way, these photos are from 2000. Last time I was there it was 2011.) That's Serralves Villa, a unique example of Art Deco architecture, built in the 1930s. These are the gardens. They were inspired by mildly Art Deco also. One of the qualities of Serralves park is the diversity of its set of trees and shrubs. This Museum fascinated me since the first moment. It opened doors in 1999. Everything is very organized and programmed. It's not just the permanent collection and temporary exhibitions that atract me. It's the way everything is organized like programms for education of the public or family visits, workshops, conferences, festivals. The response of the public was awesome. I think that this happened because the Museum was able to create a unique dynamic and community proximity.This Museum fosters the understanding of contemporary art and culture but it promotes a narrow connection with the environment too. To visit Serralves was one of my great pleasures a couple of years ago. Now I can't go so often because I live away from Porto. I also met some of the people who worked there. I attended a course on cultural management and they were my instructors. So I had the chance to learn closely about the Museum and that's how I got to admire it so much.
One last thing. I don't like cooking but I enjoyed the way the instructores designed this week´s tasks. This was like Season 4 of Breaking Bad - I just finished watching it. In the beggining it was a not catching my full attention. But I stayed and watched one episode after another. Finally what was delivered at the end was very satisfatory.
6. HOMEWORK
If you think about it well, do you have a special place you really like going to? A place that involves a service. It can either be a restaurant, a store, a website... Think of something that is designed in a different way from what we are used to. If you feel like it, you could share a nice picture with us and a few words to let us know about it.
One last thing. I don't like cooking but I enjoyed the way the instructores designed this week´s tasks. This was like Season 4 of Breaking Bad - I just finished watching it. In the beggining it was a not catching my full attention. But I stayed and watched one episode after another. Finally what was delivered at the end was very satisfatory.
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