Public Enemies is being aired on TV for the first time in France. The movie is of importance for us French people since it’s the first Hollywood movie of French Academy Award winning actress Marion Cotillard.  The chance to get an interview from media shy Johnny Depp. I admire his career and how he bounced back from gansgta’ star to loving father.

How he looks like Dillinger on this pic is stunning. Same haircut, same look, or rather same eyebrows. The smile is not identical, but both mean “Come if you dare”.

Depp has well thoughts words at the end of the interview that made me write this post. I like the definition of the word chance he borrowed to one of his friends.

“Chance is when preparation meets up with opportunity”

I kinda recognize my own life philosophy into it. I guess that folks who work their ass off to reach out a key point in their life agree with that. When you achieve something, there’s people out there to say it’s about chance. I believe that it’s because you’ve got yourself ready to receive Chance and that you eventually meet it. For Depp, Dillinger success’ key was chance. And he thinks the same for himself.

I love the decor of this ad. It got shot on Le Pont des Amoureux, which is a wooden and metallic pedestrian bridge that crosses the River Seine in Paris. Understand sweetheart’s bridge.

I was cleaning my photo library to make some room in my harddrive and I found this shoot. I don’t even remember when I shoot it. It was someday at the beginning of the spring. Look, trees awere still blossoming.

Easy shoot. Eiffel Tower will always look good.

is a once-the-sun-is-shinning sport. A sunny weekend get lots of Parisian outside glazing their leather at the café terraces. The truth is you can understand that behavior only when you live in Paris and you crave for some sun all year long.

Most cafés have not got the place to set up a terrace. They feel free to use the sidewalk (yes) to do so, 2′ away from traffic and amid strollers.

In that mood, I found out at Montparnasse what looked the most amazing place to sit down and enjoy.

A beautiful tree with flowers growing up directly from branches

This photo exhibition of nomad population have been exposed on the barriers of Jardin du Luxembourg. The pics drove me so far away from Paris.

I’m quite in awe with tulips.

It’s not a flower we get in the Caribbean. I remember I made one with plaster at 6 for mom’s day while my classmates favored roses. The first time I held one for real, I guess I was 18.
There are a lot these days in Paris. The bigger they are, the more I like them.

They do not last long unfortunately.

This guy got stuck from noon until I went to bed. It was 2 weeks ago.

May 1st is a holiday bank in France. We celebrate work day … by not going to work! How wonderful is that?

I shot this yesterday in Paris’ 4th arrondissement few steps away (10 actually) from the Seine river. This winter has been so tough and so cold. I felt it even harder that I enjoyed sunny Palo Alto last year.

I’ve been waiting those Prunus to come into flower for one month. I used to rollerblade around before I left to California.
For me, Spring is officially on.

I’ll be posting other shoots of Paris over the next couple of months.

Today was the inauguration of Burj Dubai, the tallest tower in the world with a half mile height. 160 floors, 20 minutes elevator from ground floor to top, $1.5 bn cost and 4 years to completion, the skyscraper gathers superlatives. Located at the heart of downtown Dubai,it is so massive that it can be seen from 50 miles away (85 km). The construction began in 2004, when Dubai economy was florishing with a 9.7% growth. The forecast are 2.4% for 2010 and is expected to be 0.2% in 2009.

Along with business offices and the biggest shopping mall ever, an Armani Hotel set up in the tower. It marks up the entering of Georgio Armani in resort and the first of a chain of hotels exclusively designed by Armani aimed to extend to Milan, London and NYC.

Yesterday and day before were buy nothing days (BND). This is the reason why I decided it would be that day that I wouldn’t buy those:

The dress is Preen Line’s. Shoes are Brian Atwood Lola Purple suede leather pumps. The ring is De Beers’ Talisman Organic ring, and the Necklace is Givenchy’s. Burberry oversized white python bag and Cutler and Gross sunglasses complete the ensemble. As I was saying yesterday, I am able to match only two colors + white and silver I don’t really consider colors. The total is around

or maybe it is tomorrow. Hmm. Nope. Tomorrow I’m off to Paris till the week-end for business reasons. So if it’s not today that this blog beinglovingdoing.wordpress.com is off, it will be by early next week. Then come over to www.beinglovingdoing.com.

Check out this home. I am wondering how they achieve such big rooms and clear spaces. It’s so huge. This is truely
art of living.

A villa according to WHY

And it’s green! It works with solar energy.
If you are ready to expand your real estate, go visit WHY website.

It seems that art, and art lovers, don’t care less about recession. After all, it’s no surprise that, we, folks secure our investments rather than take risk on more affordable pieces. You know, we, folks who go to Sotheby’s auctions to invest some $ millions.

Salt trailer

The movie release is expected this summer

Welcome to Africa

I first watched this video on Ayanna Nahmias Blog.

I found out those paintings while I was trolling along Annecy, a lovely city in the French Alps. The artist is Jo Manno www.jmanno.com. His atelier set in the Alps. I’ve fallen in love with the first one. I really feel I can walk the corridor and join the light there. I like the different textures he created. The contour looks like rusted iron, while the middle is stone-alike. Any shoot wasn’t good enough to show how the blue script enlightens the whole canvas, but it really does.