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A relaxing sunday evening in the Hamptons

Rainy day in Berlin

Summer holydays in Croatia

Late evening cooking

Single bathroom in a colocation in New-York

Enjoyable dinner in Barcelona

The room of Mirrors in Versailles

 A rest after a stroll at the beach in Brighton

 Standard evening in Chicago

 Hypnotizing TV in Tokyo

Imitating birds in Kiev

Preparing a barbecue in Biarritz

 A night in Roma

 Teenagers in Paris

"For artists with big ambitions"

I never refuse an invitation to IKEA. To me it is like walking through an amusement park ! A path is drawn to guide the crowd,pregnant women are the most represented segment of the population and young couples picture themselves in their future living room. 

How did this happen ? 

How did a brand succeeded in selling standardized lives ? IKEA, this big capitalistic multinational really seems to share some communist features such as the same sofa for everyone...Which student didn't have the Klippan sofa at one hundred euros ?  I never thought of furniture as a medium itslef that conveys its own ideology and language Jag talar svenska nu

Like little theater scenes the furniture is arranged so that, in turn, people can project themselves. We had a lot of fun imitating people's behaviors around the showrooms. 

Goudemalion

In an edition of PHOTO magazine, I cut an image of a woman with opening a bottle of Champagne (picture #2) and pasted it on my wall along the thousands pictures covering my room at this time. This image in particular kept my attention because it was written on the bottom "1977 BC." BC means before computer so no photoshop on this photograph and because I am a bit dumb I did not think of any options instead that this massive-bum woman knew how to open a bottle of champagne and that her skills definetely should cost a lot on Mulholland Drive parties.
Anyway I finally got the answer when I went to Jean-Paul Goude exhibition at the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris: painting on photograph. I found interesting his way to depict motherhood
 When I''ll be pregnant I'll copy that

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and his preparatory sketches.
After the exhibition we decided to do a bit of tourism in our own city so we went to the Eiffel Tower and once there we saw the sunset on the Sacré Coeur so we headed there and saw Paris burning.

2062

Last week, we decided with the girls to head to the future. The departure from Paris is located at The Gaîté Lyrique. From there you can travel through fifty years along four floors.

In the future, people look dead

Hypnosis

Where does my Tweet go ?

Leaving a voice message in 2062

Sending a mail from year 2062 

Designers, artists, engineers and performers are asked to deliver their vision on creation and innovation in the social uses. To be honest, the real motivation of my visit was to see the hoverboard of Back to the future. When I was younger I was pretty sure that in the 2000's these skateboards would be flying everywhere (it was the rumor running on the playground) but I was disappointed once again. I found the video of the experience.

The skate slides without friction above magnetic rails and can carry people over 100kg. I've already experienced the strength of quantum physics while visiting my brother in China and taking the Maglev. The Maglev is a levitation train traveling through superconductor magnetic fields 30.5km in 7 minutes in 400 km/h. Not sure I understand every words of my last sentences.

I found a really interesting article in Vice Magazine THE FUTURE SEEN BY FASHION DESIGNERS IN 1982. Women were predicted to dominate the space...

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