Archive for June, 2012

Zulu Winter “We Should Be Swimming”

How awesome is this song? Very awesome. And the band name? :)

Happy weekend!

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Don’t want you to wake up – Teitur

This is one of my favorite songs, unfortunately without a video, but the song is good enough to still press play :)

Winter in Cape Town

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Desmond made this lovely gif during our fashion shoot last weekend!

Badeschiff Berlin

I cannot wait for my working holiday in Europe. How cool is this? The ‘Badeschiff‘ in Berlin is the place to swim this summer!

P.S. This is how the Badeschiff looks like in winter:

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Without cycling there cannot be real urban city culture.

In a newsletter of the World Design Capital 2012 Helsinki I read the following and I fully agree:

Cycling Makes Cities Work

Here’s the fact: Without cycling there cannot be real urban city culture. This is why several projects of WDC Helsinki 2012 are aimed at making the Helsinki area an even better cycling environment for all, children, youth and working adults. Exhibition center Laituri’s Fiilari exhibition (12.6.-4.8.) offers a wide variety of cycling related information. Recently opened “Baana” provides a new route for exclusively cycling/walking/jogging from Ruoholahti area to city center. Baana is yet another example of Helsinki’s desire to renew and improve its cycling routes. We love cycling.

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Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door – acoustic cover by Dave Kull

I have seen Dave Kull live a couple of times, I love his voice AND his acoustic cover of ‘Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door’. Enjoy.

Fashion shoot for Hello Again

Yesterday early morning Desmond and I did a fashion shoot for Hello Again. Excited to share the pix, soon!

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Candy stools

How sweet are these candy stools by Kirstin Overbeck? Have a look at her other sweet stool designs.

 

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And Then Life Happens: A Memoir – Auma Obama

The other day I went to a reading and interview with Obama’s sister Auma Obama. It was a fun and moving evening. Of course, after this, I plan on reading Auma Obama’s book!

‘A moving account by Auma Obama about her life in Africa and Europe, and her relationship with her brother, Barack Obama.

While her younger brother Barack grew up in the U.S. and Indonesia, Auma Obama’s childhood played out at the other end of the world in a remote village in Kenya, the birthplace of the siblings’ shared father. Barack and Auma met for the first time in the 1980s, and they built a lasting relationship which lead to travels together in Kenya, research into their family history and finally Auma’s support for her brother’s political career and eventual bid for the U.S. presidency.

 Auma spent sixteen years studying and living in Germany, moved to England for love, and gave birth to a daughter there. The tension between her original and chosen worlds and cultures was a constant challenge, and eventually Auma returned to Africa and worked to support young men and women in shaping their futures.

In And Then Life Happens, her candid and emotional memoir, Auma shares her own story as well as recollections of and experiences with her famous brother, who says about their first encounter: “I hugged her, we looked at each other, and laughed. I knew right then that I loved her.”

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