February 2012
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Feb 19th
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Trifon Zarezan - or how Bulgarians celebrate St....
Ironically, we, Bulgarians, celebrate Trifon Zarezan (a.k.a. St. Trifon the Pruner) instead of St. Valentine on 14th February. This is a great excuse for all of us to avoid the love propaganda and cheesy merchandise that has recently flooded all stores in the world and focus on wine tasting and drinking. Why do we celebrate St. Trifon Zarezan instead of St. Valentine in Bulgaria and why is St....
Feb 14th
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The Honest Tales of Florence
Everyone knows Florence + the Machine. All the hipster say they dislike them because Florence is “too mainstream” for their taste and all the pop lovers worship them because Florence is “different than the rest”. Whether Florence + the Machine are indie or hip or pop is irrelevant in reality, though. What is important and interesting is the band’s tremendous success. ...
Feb 10th
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Ah, beautiful Florence, you are something else, aren’t you!
Feb 10th
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Feb 5th
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Choices in Life III
My full-of-experiences 6-month stay in Hamburg is over. I ate Franzbroetchen in summer, I walked around the Alster in autumn, I went partying in St. Pauli, I ate pumpkin soups at the Bio-company, I found friends, I learned German, and left a part of myself in “the most beautiful city in the world”. Looking back at the first day when I arrived in Hamburg, it seems as if I were another...
Feb 3rd
January 2012
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Jan 28th
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“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known...”
– Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross
Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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Jan 15th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 11th
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A Weekend of Exploration: Lübeck - the City of...
There we were: Lora, I, December, Hamburg and no snow on the horizon. And so our disappointment resulted into a spontaneous trip to Lübeck - a city far in Northern Germany, its old town - an island enclosed by the Trave river. The wind did not stop us to walk around and explore the city - beautiful medieval architecture and fairytalish Christmas markets. At one point of our walk it turned out that...
Jan 8th
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Jan 6th
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“There is a crack in everything. That's how the...
Jan 4th
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December 2011
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Joy is not in things. Joy is in us.
A certain handsome blue-eyed British actor once said in a favourite Christmas movie of mine: General opinion’s starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don’t see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often, it’s not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it’s always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands ...
Dec 30th
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Dec 19th
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“The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory...”
– Milan Kundera
Dec 19th
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Easy Peasy DIY Xmas Gift #2
Self-Drawn Cup What you need: Special paint for porceilan (which you can buy at any craft store) One-colour cup Paint brushes in different sizes Pencil Imagination You have got your idea - draw its outlines on the cup with pencil. Aftewards cover the outlines and fill them in with your colours of choice. Bake the cup in the oven according to the instructions on the paint. All ready! This is...
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Make Love, Not War
The “make love” part here can as well be replaced by “eat food and be creative”. These are series of weapons made from harmless materials by Kyle Bean. Such a nice soft guerilla endeavour :) I personally would love to try out the green jelly grenade! Kilck here to check out my previous post on Kyle Bean - the EAT! Design book.
Dec 18th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 11th
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A Weekend of Exploration: Copenhagen, the City of...
Copenhagen! Or should I say København for its interestingly written name means much more than one would think - namely, “the prince’s harbour”. Intriguing without a doubt! The winter when I arrived in Copenhagen for a first time was so cold that wearing Converse turned out to be the most courageously reckless idea I have ever had. However, the walk through the Danish capital made...
Dec 7th
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Easy Peasy DIY Xmas Gift #1
So here is to the new amazing trend of DIY presents! It makes me so happy that people are slowly starting to realize how important it is that we all start saving everything from energy through food leftovers to all kinds of (natural) resources. Awareness is important! I have been preparing hand-made Christmas presents for my friends and family for years so now it’s the time to share those...
Dec 7th
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Heidi Strom is a Norwegian textile designer with an impressive international background and radiating personality. She is so inspiring - the way she talks about textile, about “touching” and feeling the material, about imagining who this material is for and in the end producing it with her own bare hands. Beautiful!
Dec 4th
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Saturday DO
So today I picked a book and went to a favourite coffee place to enjoy an aromatic cup of coffee and freshly baked chocolate cake. Sometimes all you need is a few hours of reading and contemplating all by yourself, observing the people around you and thinking about past, present and current in a cosy dim-lit cafe with the rain pouring outside the window. 1) 2) 3) 4)
Dec 3rd
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...”
– Mark Twain
Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
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November 2011
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Nov 28th
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Nov 27th
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5 Inspiring Must-See European Movies
Deep. Poetic. Down to earth. Real. Young. Magical. Bigger than life. Fun. Sad. Controversial. Surprising. Open-ended. Questioning. Bizarre. Full of ideas…These 5 movies are all of that and more. With their European origins they encompass the cultural ambiguities of our nations and everything there is to move you and make you think, daydream and wish of fairytales and books. Below, their...
Nov 25th
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Nov 24th
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The Last Message
The dying’s last words. One’s last confession. The runaway. The soldier. The suicidal. The broken-hearted looking for an answer. The one who leaves on a journey never to return home.  Regardless of its cause or unpredictable nature, the last message bears always the great responsibility to convey a person’s whole world in a few words, a few sentences, or perhaps a few pages. This made me think of...
Nov 19th
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Nov 18th
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Nov 17th
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Kafka on the Shore
“Yeah. I prefer being unfree, too. Up to a point. Jean-Jacques Rousseau defined civilization as when people build fences. A very perceptive observation. And it’s true - civilization is the product of a fenced-in lack of freedom. The Australian Aborigines are the exception, though. They managed to maintain a fenceless civilization until the seventeenth century. They’re...
Nov 15th
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This Week's Inspiration...
… Soviet Winter Post Cards - just like the ones that I grew up with in Bulgaria, the ones that I had to fill in with colour, undersign and send to my grandmother in the countryside to say “Happy Holidays”. My amazing source: http://sovietpostcards.tumblr.com/
Nov 13th
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Nov 12th
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Simple video with a great emotional impact. Rob Ryan is an artist that gives his work a deep meaning and a thoughtful touch - it’s handmade, it’s personal, it’s real. So much of his wisdom, life experience and inspiration packed in this video. It made me ponder (anew) on a few questions that have been on my mind for quite some time now, mainly about the importance of crafts and...
Nov 11th
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“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the...
Nov 9th
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transWARMation
Berlin Music Days A weekend in Berlin can mean only one thing - having fun in unusual ways and simply being yourself with no inhibitions! Very much spontaneously we bought tickets for Fly Bermuda Festival, dressed up accordingly and had a whole lot of fun in a crowd of 13,000 people with the usual suspects - James Holden, Sven Väth, Richie Hawtin, Loco Dice, MAGDA and Pan Pot (RECOMMEND!). On...
Nov 9th
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“As the days go by Autumn turns to Winter and the golden leaves fall.”
Nov 3rd
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A Weekend of Exploration: Skagen, the City where...
Some good three years ago at winter time I went on a little road trip through Denmark with a few friends of mine. Naturally, I loved the country (it’s no secret that I love Scandinavia) but what fascinated me the most was Skagen - a little northern Danish city, literally setting the North and Baltic seas apart. It felt cosmic there; as if we were at the end of the world and there was nothing...
Nov 2nd
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If you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.
Alice: Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too! I never saw one alive before!
The Unicorn: Well, now that we have seen each other, if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.
Nov 1st
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October 2011
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Oct 31st
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This Week's Inspiration...
…Halloween! And American Apparel and Lookbook Spookbook came up with an awesome contest where everybody can upload their most creative outfit for the night of all saints, evil witches, werewolves, zombies and everything else living and non-living but certainly macabre! Below, a fine selection from the contest to inspire your disguise for the night! >:)
Oct 29th
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“…If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings -...”
– Rudyard Kipling
Oct 29th
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Oct 29th
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