sorry for the lack of updates. i've been actually having fun this past semester as some of you can tell by the lack of posts. not to say that in the event of a constant barrage of posts translates to boredom, but the past few weeks has been pretty busy for me.
exposés (typical sciences po), the break, and finally stockholm last week.
the break was pretty awesome. my sidekick norwegian has a house in aix-en-provence and we ended up going down there with a bunch of friends and it was a blast.
highlights from the first few nights of cooking or as facebook would put it, 'a night of mayhem'.
o rly now?
i swear, we didn't plan the beach house cover.
da family portrait.
next, maria, katherine and i went to casablanca & marrakech. it was such an awesome experience. it was my first time going to an islamic country and everything was beautiful. while in casablanca and marrakech, we stayed in the "old part" of both cities. the colours were beautiful in morocco and now i know why even ysl bought a house there.
some highlights:
some of you guys asked me about my pictures that i posted a week ago on my other blog. actually, if you like them, it was not because of my 'newly found photographic' skills, it was actually all a surprise for me until i opened up aperture on my mac.
being only 'slightly' nerdy... i went to my usual rounds of dp preview & other leica blogs and i found some accounts of photography in morocco. like most islamic countries, most women & children do not want pictures taken by tourists. since i really wanted to capture the local people during my trip, i decided to wrap my camera around my neck and literally pressed the shutter with every passing person.
however, problems quickly arose when i reviewed my first picture because i keep forgetting, the m system on my leica is completely manual in terms of focusing. so throughout the trip, the only 'skill' that i exerted on the photos were my shaky depth perception as i guestimated if the passing person was 8 feet away from me or actually 3 feet closer.
like my trip to beijing two years ago with my family, i've quickly realized that i'm attracted to old locks. maybe its because of how antiquated it looks or the colour composition of it. i really do like the old metal clasps along with the faintly painted wooden door.
and the next week? sweden!
stockholm was definitely another animal. i was able to dress better with my "parisian wear" and wasn't at all going back to my "bo ho chic" of marrakech.
stockholm was a bit of a test actually. since i haven't been back since last year with my family and i don't know even a bit of swedish, i expected it to be a bit tough.
during the trip, i discovered that alec & i are pretty similar and we ended up doing very little "touristy" things and ended up vintage & record shopping.
not to mention the amazing food with had there:
my food journey began in the airport.
for people that know me, i eat. actually, i eat a lot. and also, im a CARNIVORE. these, however, are not meatballs. in fact, this was in a vegetarian restaurant called chutney in soldermalm, stockholm. i'm not gonna lie, these vegetarian meatballs tasted like the real thing and it was a lot better than our favorite swedish warehouse, ikea.
eat cunt for mental health? ahh what? THAT TERRIBLE C WORD????
well, it was actually an exhibit that we saw in the stockholm modern musset. while i didn't appreciate her drawings of 'cocks' & 'vaginas' as much, i really enjoyed lozano's social experiments.
i will post lozano's piece on the next entry.
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