Marble

It's a house of whites, wood and marble details, please!

Photo: Carolines Mode

Photo: Frida Fahrman

Photo: Alexa Dagmar

Last 2 photos: afterDRK

Life at 25

When you come out of a storm, you won't be the same person that walked in. That's what the storm is all about.

Haruki Murakami 

I don't believe that people change, like totally, in their inner most part.

However, I do believe that we can evolve and ultimately that is something that is going to happen anyway, because it's inevitable with the growing process - whatever how this one occurs... For me, it started a few years ago, when I started to explore "the world" by myself.

During this time, there was a moment when I actually thought I had changed, but that's not true, my soul is the same and I know that everytime I come home. What I must have changed, mostly influenced by the people I have the opportunity to meet, is my vision, ideas, plans, priorities, knowledge, culture, habits... And although all that, for a moment, seems a lot and enough to change a person completely, that's not true - our nature is our nature.

But the truth is, I feel comfortable on my skin more than ever and I'm so very thankful for all the things that happened in my life in this very last 2 years for they have changed my life forever, mainly because I actually let them have impact on me, so I could learn and also sort out what would be good for me or not, what would work in my life or not... So, what I was thinking today afternoon after reading this quote from Haruki, is exactly this that I wrote, something I've struggling with for few months and I think I already tried to explain here. 

In my life in particular, frustrating and annoying as it can be sometimes*, I cannot expect for other people to understand this, close friends, family, whoever, whatever, never, especially if they never experienced such things. I think it should be obvious (!!!) if I no longer care about this or that, if I no longer agree with old ideas or if my patience level for ignorance dropped to a minimum, for instance! I mean, there must be things that changed in this process, otherwise, there's no point for going out, we can stay home all life because nothing from the outside world will be welcomed.

*I don't feel particularly happy to write about the things I hate, annoy me and being focused on the bad-energies-side, but sometimes 'a girl gotta write what a girl gotta write'!

Maria Guedes x Eletta 2014

Há pouco mais de um ano, a história foi esta. Amor total pelos relógios e a admiração de sempre pelo trabalho, palavras e imagens da Maria. Andei a namorar o "antracite com ouro rosa", mas fui sempre adiando a compra... Eis senão que este ano esta colaboração regressa com mais 3 modelos que, não sendo uma novidade tão grande - à excepção das cores - voltam a fazer todo o sentido e despertam novamente os malfadados desejos consumistas!

Quanto às cores, a grande novidade, o grande amor este ano vem sob a forma de preto total, eleição óbvia e fácil e que desta vez não sei se me escapa...

É uma delícia voltar aos textos e aos moodboards de alguém que tem o dom de pôr as cidades e a vida urbana a fazer todo o sentido, como se de uma necessidade se tratasse. Para mim, pelo menos.

A nova colaboração com a ELETTA' celebra a vida urbana através do movimento; da descoberta de novos detalhes que surgem nas deslocações quotidianas - nas pequenas viagens dentro da cidade. São os reflexos criados pelas diferentes horas do dia, a arte urbana presente em vários cantos, as cores dos edifícios, as texturas em ferro e pedra, as marcas visuais de hoje e de outros tempos, a observação - em trânsito - das pessoas e dos seus ritmos.

Modelo BIKE

 Modelo SCOOTER

 Modelo METRO

Moodboards: Stylista

Nice to be in Nice?!

Very nice (!) photodiary of my days there...

Raw

Last week, end of a confusing day, with a very welcome walk along the usual suspect place (HOME!)... No editing, no filter. Raw pictures, raw feelings!

You take a breather, say fuck it, look at the clouds for a couple of weeks. 

Charles Bukowski

Same old state of mind...

If your ideas are bigger than the town you’re in, you’ve got to get out of there.

Brian Fallon

Morning at Antibes, Claude Monet

“How beautiful it is here, to be sure, but how difficult to paint! I can see what I want to do quite clearly but I’m not there yet. It’s so clear and pure in its pinks and blues that the slightest misjudged stroke looks like a smear of dirt.”

 

Reminiscing on my Antibes days (here, here & here) after looking and reading this description of Claude Monet's painting "Morning at Antibes"... So many wonderful memories!

Desejos de domingo à noite com a amiga

...era isto e dois dedos de conversa.

Foto: José

It's always a question of perspective...

You can look at a scar and see hurt, or you can look at a scar and see healing. 

Sheri Reynolds

The perks of riding a bike

(...)

In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame.

On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming.

in Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance