Rose Cantine

The New York Times has a funny article about shopdropping, the opposite of shoplifting, where people put products in shops:
Anti-consumerist artists slip replica products packaged with political messages onto shelves while religious proselytizers insert pamphlets between the pages of gay-and-lesbian readings at book stores.
I can’t imagine it’s fun for the personnel of the stores who [...]

Happy New Year!

If you love reading, you will appreciate the speech that Doris Lessing gave on December 8 when she accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is printed in The Guardian, my favorite newspaper:
Last night Doris Lessing, aged 88, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In her acceptance speech she recalls her childhood in Africa [...]

We are assaulted everyday by noise — sounds from cars, alarms, security people yelling in airports and music (or muzak) in stores, cafes, bars and restaurants. We can’t have decent conversations or concentrate on what we are doing. So I enjoyed this article from Salon talks about No Music Day in Britain (November 21) where [...]

I’ve been looking for an online guide to modern architecture when I travel around Europe. If I’m in Paris, I’d like to know where are the modern architectural gems, find them on a map and go. This is what MIMOA helps me accomplish.
Set up by two Dutch women, Mieke and Naomi, MIMOA is a user-generated [...]