These pictures are all from a series called The Architect´s brother, and they are just mesmerizing!

The Windmaker

Listening to the earth

These are photographs, and I find them so inspiring in every aspect. Click on either of them, and you´ll head to Parke Harrison´s website for more inspiration.

Here he is in front of the finished building. Click on the picture for the article. And click here and here to see the process. Cool, huh?!

I´ve never really understood the shoe-fetish some women seem to have. but I wouldn´t mind getting my hands on some of these wonderful creations by shoe-designer Kobi Levi.

This is the feature-wall that greets you as you come into the space. Cool, huh?!!

I tell you, that girl is SO talented! Look at these three souls on a wagon. They´re all soap-spitters! Push down their head, and they spit soap. Practical! Not just pretty, little things, but practical!

I got this beautiful little Christmas-tree ornament from Michelle as a pre-birthday present. Isn´t it adorable!?! I know there is more in the box too, I´ll save it, and open one each day.

Speaking of which: Oh, I can´t wait for the Christmas ornament exchange! That is so rockin´ good fun! I wonder what I should do this year.

How cool is this poster made for the Sildajazz festival in Haugesund. Jan Terje Rafdal made it. I attended a workshop of his last winter in graphics. This whole thing is made the old fashioned way, by cutting in wood, and then printing on a big old metal printer in his studio.

Irena Sendler 1910-2008

A 98 year-old German woman named Irena Sendler recently died. During WWII, Irena worked in the Warsaw Ghetto as a plumbing/sewer specialist. Irena smuggled Jewish children out; infants in the bottom of the tool box she carried and older children in a burlap sack she carried in the back of her truck. She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers wanted nothing to do with the dog, and the barking covered the kids’ and infants’ noises. Irena managed to smuggle out and save 2500 children. She eventually was caught, and the Nazis broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar buried under a tree in her backyard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and reunited some of the families. Most had been killed. She helped those children get placement into foster family homes or adopted.

I wasn´t even planning on looking for round things. There is a treasure-chest of shapes, textures and colors to be found there.