January 16, 2009 – 9:24 pm
This is the Habitat Montreal designed by architect Moshe Safdie , built in 1967 for the 1967 International and Universal Exposition known also as the WORLD’s FAIR. My dad attended that Fair and says it was one of the most memorable times of his life. I’ve always loved that building.
This week has been brutally slow at work so I find myself distracted on the net…I am always looking for inspiration, beautiful things inspire me, a beautiful photograph, a great quote, a good book suggestion, new trends in design, 100 creative ways to solve the same problem, and so I am always looking…I doubt there will ever be an end to the net.
Today I read this great quote:
When someone loves you for a long, long time… REALLY loves you, then you become Real. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real, you can’t be ugly.
— The Velveteen Rabbit (via overflowing)
I am currently reading: “The Time Traveler’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger
I am about half way through and I already don’t want to finish it. It’s a great love story and I am the eternal romantic..I remember one day that Ricardo told my dad how much he loved me and how I had changed his life…We had been having drinks with my dad the whole night and we were on the 10th round and I could barely hang anymore…Ricardo said he had to go but that he wanted me to go home with him and since we were at my home, I dared him to ask my dad thinking he would say ‘Nah, I’ll see you tomorrow then’.
To my surprise, he said ‘Ok, come on’ and so we went to talk to my dad…He began telling him the way he felt about me and my smile couldn’t have been wider because the edges of my mouth were about to touch in the back of my head…At last he said, ‘I love her with all my heart and I respect her even more and she’s changed my life in ways I couldn’t have imagined…[he said other things too, but at the end here's what he said].. do you mind if she comes home with me tonight? I’ll take care of her.’
My dad didn’t know what to say…he thought he was asking for my hand in marriage, hahaha, but alas, he said: ‘I understand and I am happy that you are happy but I can’t allow that, but we can have another round if you’re up to it!’ we just laughed and sat down again for another one, but my smile was still there. I remember telling him the next day that what he said to my dad was one of the most romantic things he ever did for me. This is one of my most beloved memories of Ricardo. The sincerity of his words and the way he looked at me as he told my dad how much he cared for me are deeply etched in my heart.
Getting back to the book…The story is very engaging and the story line is like nothing I have ever read before. I highly recommend it and it will soon be out in theaters with Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams (love them both!!) I can’t wait to see it.
I’m also designing some new posters for myself 
They are inspired on song lyrics, snippets of poetry that have touched me in some way or the other at some point and I haven’t been able to let it out of my system so I decided to design them and put them out there.I will post them as soon as they are finished.
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