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Dutch SOA-awareness commercials :-D

These are hilarious!!!
They want to promote taking a SOA-test before you "do it" unsafe... They're in English with Dutch subtitles and in the end a Dutch woman tells you to go see a doctor for a SOAtest. (her voice is in heavy contrast with the rest and IMO totally wrong for this commercial, somehow I just can't take her serious...)
Frankenstein has a girlfriend and wants to make love without protection but can Sally be sure he's healthy? LOL!!!

SOA AIDS commercial - Bodyparts

SOA AIDS commercial - Greatbody

SOA AIDS commercial - Doctor

Posted at 09:59 | Permalink | Comments (0)

home alone: ramblings about whatever

I'm home alone tonight...daughter is with my parents for the weekend, hubbie is helping out a friend at a party...
So I decided to make it a movienight with all my fav movies. The last one of the bunch was "Down with Love", for me that's a designer's orgasm! I'm passionate with the style of the fifties/sixties, it's so positive and full of hope for an amazing future! The design is just amazing simple but at the same time elaborated... (the story of the movie is fun but really not the main reason to watch it)

This year Belgium is celebrating the 50th birthday of the world fair of '58. It's logo was a star in the typical fifties style, so simple but so iconic. My father went to see it with his parents when he was little, it was the year his brother (my uncle) was born. He always told me this amazing stories about seeing the first "black" person (ok, this may sound racial in this time but then it was something very new and special) and riding a teleferic (a sort cableride) and seeing a real elephant at the booth of chocolatier Cote-d'Or.
I grew up with these stories and I loved to watch the illustrations in his history books, they were so different than the ones we got... so naïve, so optimistic, so idealistic! The space-age just began, one of my great-grandfathers died the month before they landed on the moon, saying mankind would never do so. People gathered together at my grandparents as they were the only ones in the neighbourhood who had a tv. In summer everyone brought their chair to their frontlawn to watch it.
My other great-grandfather died October 13th, 1975. Exactly 2 years after that, I was born... They tell me my character is much alike... I sure loved my great-grandmother! When she died (I was almost 4) I was devastated! She was such a modern woman, always wearing the latest fashion... and such a strong woman.

OK, I got side-tracked... What I wanted to talk about: design of the fifties & sixties. I'm such a fan of the Bauhaus... please give me a Barcelona chair, egg or ball-chair, an Eames,... !
I would love to wear long black gloves, hats and pearls every day... And please play some crooners... I'll melt away.
Probably the romantic part in me that tries to escape.
I sooooooo desire to design something in that style that doesn't look fake, too clean, too... I don't know.
I just bought an old TV from "His Master's Voice" to make some art of. It will become a "viewing box". I don't know yet how but it's boiling...

I guess these are all ramblings that are flying through my mind and not really a coherent post... but they'll be kept now.
And isn't that what every thought wants, to be reminded; not being thought of and immediately forgotten?

Posted at 01:12 | Permalink | Comments (1)

Please vote for me... pretty please???

Hi everyone,

these are the two last days to vote in a contest I entered. It's all about Blythe dolls and heroes (personal/fictional/...)

Dare I ask to vote for me? Well, I've nothing to loose

Would you please send an email to gina@thisisblythe.com with HEROES VOTES as subject and add my entry ( Entry #113 from Peggy (Ugly Betty) ) in your top 3?

If you can't log in on flickr (where the entries are grouped for easy browsing) to see the other entries, may I suggest some of my other favourites (you can pick 2 out of to add to the top 3 beside mine :P)

the Incredible Hulk: Entry #87 from Snoopygirl
Mark Ryden: Entry #16 from Erika/Peppercorn_pixie
Within Temptation: Entry #13a from Verity/Dolly*Hex
Charlie Chaplin: Entry #68 from EffieDal (view 1)
Barbarella: Entry #114 from blender70 | jaszmade (view 2)
Audrey Hepburn: Entry #2 from Paula

This is an ode to Ugly Betty. I loooooooooove the show, it has been a long time since I was so addicted to a show that isn't about crime/SF/law but just about feelings and being yourself... I added Daniel in the back, who's watching Betty, and a model that wants all the attention of Daniel...
Betty is a prism in that cool sleek world, giving everything she touches a bit more warmth and colour ^__^

"How to vote (quoted from the site)
Pick your top three and send them to me at gina@thisisblythe.com. be sure to put them is order (top choice is #1) and please title your e-mail 'HEROES VOTES' so it doesn't slink into my spam box. The deadline for voting is May 22 and the winners will be announced on May 23rd. To read more about the contest (and the great prizes) go here:
http://www.thisisblythe.com/newforum/viewforum.php?f=36&sid=953b37ff99d38cf226399c3d080b3b31"

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First snow of the year... yeah, but don't expect too much

Yesterday it snowed!
Giddy as a schoolgirl I took one of my Blythes to get some snowpictures, very quickly 'cause the snow melted immediatly... I had to enjoy every minute of it as long as it was falling ^__^
So here is the little photostory I made with Lunaria, nothing fancy, just about our shared love for snow ~_^

Lunaria and the snow 1/7

Lunaria and the snow 7/7

The after-snow-chat on the sofa 1/6

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What do you think of these?

I'm still working on them and TBH I really NEED a softbox for this but just quickly before I do anything more...
Which do you like best?
(I still need to clean up the background,... )

Spoon in thoughts

Spoon in thoughts 2

Spoon in thoughts 3

Posted at 18:07 | Permalink | Comments (6)

Go and spread the joy (or annoy the cr@p out of them) ;-)

Last night the decision fell which candidate to send to the Eurosong Contest for Belgium this year.
Ishtar with "O Julissi Na Jalini" (it's a made-up language based on eastern europese languages)
Personally, I couldn't be more happy with the decision! I think that we will stand up from the crowd this year between all the pop- and rocksongs. Ofcourse this year it's a new format (again!) so we'll see if it will do anything...

It's a song that you either love or hate, no grey area in between... And I must admit that the first seconds I heard it, I thought WTF??? but after 10 seconds it got me and it won't release me anymore!
I'm skipping through the house humming this song and the grey stormy weather doesn't bother me at all ^__^
For me this is an absolute feelgood-song but I can imagine that people get nervous hearing this...

So decide in which camp you fall: the lovers or the haters? ^___^

Ishtar - O Julissi Na Jalini (Eurosong 2008 - Heat 2)

Posted at 13:52 | Permalink | Comments (2)

Thank you Wedgeh!

gifts from Wedgeh

The wonderful Wedgeh has send me an amazing christmass package which arrived just in time before we moved. I didn't had internet access 'till yesterday afternoon so that's why it took so long to show off the loot ^__^