New Year's Print.

I did my first engraved prints today.
It is a very enjoyable process and help you think of nothing else!

Remember to love.

Remember and look ahead.

Runaway.

Can't get bored of Kanye West yet.

Merry Christmas 2011!

Merry Christmas, Joyeux Noël, Boldog Karácsonyt, Feliz Navídad, Buon Natale!

I wish you, everyone
(my six readers and the people all around the world)
a peaceful and loveful
moment
with your family
and friends,
and may it be
even
all
year
round!
Love.
xx.
Nina.


(photo from old love)

Before Christmas. Kitsch.

Found this photo of Liz Taylor R.I.P, how lovely and kitsch!
One day left!!!

Before Christmas. Dance.

Watched Billy Elliot the other night.

So, I hope you're all dancing (literaly or not) while preparing Christmas.
For my part I'm going to swing the hoover... :)
Bonne journée!


(images: google images)

Oh Gene...

Photo via A Cup of Jo.

The other day I posted a video of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and Sarah commented that she always wanted to be Fred.

I think I'd like to be Gene Kelly. Or maybe Fred too...
Funnily enough, I'm sometimes more fascinated by male dancers (and actors), as if it was easier to be a man... Maybe, maybe not.

Fior di Nha Esperança...

Cesària Evora 27.08.1941-17.12.2011.

I've already writen here how much I loved Cesaria Evora.
Her voice crafted my ears throughout years.
She passed away two days ago,
aged 70,
and it feels like a hole,
but I'll keep her always in my heart!
(Photo from cesaria-evora.com)

Mushroom picking. again.

I love nature. I love mushroom picking. But now, I had enough.
I miss urban life. Get me out of here! please...
Bon week-end!

Béret rouge. Blue paint.

I haven't worn it since last winter in Lewes, UK, photographed then by Sarah Weal.

Pretty Woman.

Just watched Pretty Woman. Where is my Prince Charming? :-)

Bonne nuit.

We hear a lot about Diane Keaton's A Memoir. I'd love to read it. Who has?

Monday. Working. Goodnight!

(Photo from Old love)

Ice club.

Hola!

While here in Provence it's sunny and warm,
Hungary was just a bit icy...

Bon week-end!

Havana Kitchen.

It is so rare my brother Baltazar and I are home at the same time.
We did celebrate with Havana cigars and rhum...

Cold.

Apple tree.

Grandma's garden on a december foggy morning.
(I actually have a huge cold now)
Bonne journée!

Les enfants de pierre.

Goodmorning!

In april 2010, in took the first shot with my Diana mini, who's dead now. When I was a child, I used to love stroking those statues from my grandpa on my grandma's wall. I still love the touch of the stone, but this time, it was too cold...

I hope they'll be here forever.

Messy.

Back from Etyek, Hungary.
Messy head.
Like this painting.
(Diego Rivera-MoMA)

Happy Thanksgiving Americans!

I hope you spend/spent a peaceful Thanksgiving. I'm off to Austria to help my mother for her painting exhibition and then to Hungary to visit my family. I'm not sure I'll be able to post from there, so have a good week everyone!

(Painting: Palestine Israel by Niké Nagy)

Gatekeeper.

Listening to Feist.

(Wearing COS cardi; Nice Things blouse; vintage pencil skirt; h&m belt.)

Remember last summer.

Puerto Rico? No, Brooklyn, NY.

Come monday night.

Les feuilles mortes.

I always found fascinating the colouring process of the autumn leaves.
These are all from the same tree and picked the same day.

Note the tiles in my parents' house.
Amazing right?!
It is originals from -maybe- a hundred years ago ...

First Mushroom picking.

It was a gorgeous day, but we didn't get any luck. Just at the end we found some "pissacan", but they are not the best...

Nagymama.

Just stumbled upon that song of Lana del Rey, made me think of my grand-mother. She is the wisest person I know. An artist. Always listening, always saying the right thing. She is 85 and still works on a new book. She wrote lots of them, about weaving, natural dye, minerals... My cousin Dóra wrote an article about them here.

Little story: she never smoke in her whole life, but one cigarette and there is a photo of it.

Where you walk.

I've got something for pavements, for what you can find on the sidewalks.

Things, images, messages...

Vans at the Met.

Coney Island.
Chess table on Berry street.Williamsburg.Brooklyn.

Still Williamsburg.

Somewhere in SoHo.

Dr Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard.Harlem.