Metronomy is a blast

The purpose of this blog is not music, but sometimes we can't resist to share with you some very good things. We find the following video clip and music very creative so why not to share it with you.

For the little introduction: Metronomy is an electronic music group from UK, more precisely from Devon and they released their second album in September.

Now enjoy:

Metronomy - A Thing For Me
Uploaded by Nile-On

Funny and design candlelight

Something creative and unusual as the website as Toxel would say, they have collected accross the web the most funny candles.

Illustre fabrique

I just quote their website: "L'Illustre Fabrique is a collective composed by two french freelance graphic designers." I have just seen a part of their work through their website and I found they are very talented. Just by reading the name of their work, I can guess that they are from brittany... but I'd like to know more about them!

via Graphic exchange

Merry Christmas

I would prefer to not wish a merry christmas rather than to post a "classical" Santa Claus postcard. Fortunately, I found a funny and creative video related to Christmas:



via La cuisine du graphiste

Merry hungry Christmas

Isn't French food an Art? A hours before Christmas, while we finish packing to go home (France) for the Holiday Season. We would like to share the blog of an american desert cook, David Lebovitz, who lives in Paris. I'll let you browse the content of his website, full of cooking recipes and info about Paris.

Before leaving, let me show you what we are mouth watering for (pictures from David Lebovitz website) and that we will be eating in a few hours. By the way...Merry Christmas

Francoise Nielly: French painter

Francoise Nielly is a french painter who lives now in Saint Ouen in the north of Paris. One of the reason why I like her work be is that she paints with knives. She studied at the beaux-art and she works as illustrator and photoprapher for famous advertisement agencies before to come back to her favorite activity: painting.

via Au secours j'ai un blog

Sonntags Zeitung advertisement

We don't often publish advertisement on this blog but I think this campaign for the newspaper Sonntags Zeitung in Switzerland is pretty clever :

via I believe in Advertising

The few gallery

The few gallery is an online shop which sells art prints. There are not so many prints to sell. But we have a french expression, which says: the quantity does not make the quality!

You can buy prints of the following artists:
- Adhemas Batista (Brazil)
- Brand Nu (UK)
- Gary Fernández (Spain)
- Matt W. Moore (USA)
- Sebastian Onufszak (Germany)
- Ville Savimaa (Finland)

Someting's missing

Just a... is a funny illustrator. In her French blog she pictured her understanding of this winter's fashion for jumpers (Pull Over, Sweater...name it as you wish) it seems that there is always something missing : no sleeves, huge decollete, too short, or the 3.

Skatiens

Good sound + amazing skater on their hands = excellent video!
And you know that french are proud of their country: the spot of those skater is at Gare de Lyon in Paris!

Skatiens
Uploaded by misterpuma

Don't hesitate to check all the following links to see who they are:

Belaid www.myspace.com/belaid

Youness www.myspace.com/youness87

Mister Puma www.myspace.com/misterpuma

Réalisation: JL - Onde2choc http://onde2choc.stunt.free.fr/

Musique: Anthem - Grand Panda www.myspace.com/grandpanda

Fujiya & Miyagi

We found this videoclip and we wanted to share it with you. We don't want to imagine how thousands of hours were needed to create this videoclip:


Fujiya & Miyagi- Ankle Injuries from Insound on Vimeo.

DRUKS - New brand from Paris

Druks have just been launched in Paris. Druks is a new brand of urban style t-shirts. The graphism are quite original. And you don't even need to go in Paris to get those french style t-shirt, since you can buy them online. The style is both fresh and agressive. Some of those t-shirts don't allow you to say hello to your gran'ma (not even your girlfriend for one of them) like this.

Even the brandname itself gives an idea of the culture of the creators. Druks makes me think of a (pre)mix of Drugs, Drink and Drunk. Am I right?

I love you but

I will just quote the site I love you but and you'll understand all it's about:

"This is a picture book about the moment in a relationship when you realise you don't love someone completely, because there is one little thing that keeps bothering you. When it bothers you so much it actually makes you physically cringe, you know it's time to say; "I love you, but..."

LA MODE ELLE

Lovely photos of a one time photographer for the French Elle magasine exposed at the Galerie Anatome in Paris. I will be in Paris in 21 days now, I will make sure to go visit this exhibition.

Cliche of France

I don't like cliche and I hesitated for a long before deciding to publish this video. This lovely video is based on a song from Edith Piaf. I can't deny she is a great singer but I don't want to confirm through this blog that every single French is a fan of Edith Piaf. She's not the only French singer, symbol of love and romantism. Maybe it's true but I don't like the cliche that french are so romantic!

But I like the graphism of the video, which is quite simple: black and white drawing. But thanks to this animation, everybody can understand the lyrics of this song without knowing french language. Moreover, this video is actually quite funny.

A quoi ca sert l'amour - Edith Piaf


via Journal Graphic

I am Collin: funny online shop

Sometimes I am very surprised by the webdesign of onlineshop. I am Collin sells T-shirts and there are lots of online shop of T-shirts and now it is more and more difficult to be different from other shops on the internet. I am Collin could be as other online t-shirt shop but he has something mad which worths a message on this blog!