Great live: Phoenix at La Blogotheque

If you have been reading my blog before, you know that I am huge fan of the French site "La Blogotheque" and of the French band Pheonix. Really it was just a matter of time before the two had to work together and what an amazing result!! La Blogotheque basically takes artists outside and around and let the perform and see what happens. My favorites so far have been Beirut and R.E.M's collaborations with them and this one is also amazing! Click on the La Blogotheque tag on the right side of this blog and you can see more posts about it.

http://blogotheque.net/Phoenix,5176

Features the songs: 1901, Lisztomania and Long Distance Call

Sports: Benneteau beat Federer

Some moments in sport just thrill you and makes you cry of the miracle and brilliance. Roger Federer has been the miracle man in tennis the last year and beating anyone and anything. Now however a miracle has happened. This unbeatable wizard of tennis was beaten by number 42 in the world, a totally unknown Frenchman in no other place than Paris. And what a game... You don't beat Federer by easy balls and medium play. And as the game progresses you can see how Benneteau gets more and more excited and shocked and happy, and when he realizes he has won, he just sits there and cries. I am tired of the Federer over-confidence-style and I hope we see more of Benneteau in the future.

Here is a 6 min version of the game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e670eOLIU78

La Blogothèque and Andrew Bird

This blogg will tell you about a fusion of two very good things. First of all you have the amazing makers of "Take-away-shows" La Blogothèque and the Andrew Bird. I first became aware of La Blogothèque though videos they made for Beirut. They are all simply breathtaking. The concept is that an artist plays live and walks around and gets filmed. I have always though thought that I have to look for more videos by La Blogothèque, but I always forgot, until today when my kind friend posted a link to their site at Facebook. Andrew Bird is exactly the same, a musician that I always wanted to check out more and always like when I hear him, yet forget to check out more. So, here I found the combination of two very great things: Andrew Bird and La Blogothèque. It's quite lovely. Oh, and I love the whistling :)

This is a link to the general site, and if you have a look around you can also find other amazing stuff, included... Beirut :)

Life: Embroidery exhibition and Paris

Two great new news for you people :)

About a month back I applied to be a part of an exhibition that is gonna display a more modern approach to cross stitch embroidery. They call it gerilja embroidery and mix like dirty words with the traditional flowers and cute birds :) I wanted to be in on it from the start, and now I am accepted. Two embroideries will go on the wall of an café in Oslo and hopefully get sold. My plan is to make something with an old like expression for something like "Oh darn" or "What the heck?" or "Couldn't say boo to a goose" That kind of old expressions, just in Norwegian. I now have to plan out the project exactly :) Thankfully it's not due til October, so I have all summer :) I have some thoughts about how to do it, so I will keep you posted.

Secondly, I went to Paris a few weeks ago. The city took me by surprise and I loved it surprisingly much more than last time. I think my photos with comments speak for themselves. I took 460!! They can be found here. I will add more as I find the time, so keep checking back :)

Looking forward to my birthday and to June ;) I will tell you more about that some other time :)