Inspiring picture of the day sent to me by my husband. Love! (not sure of image source….)
Still loving all the graphics from genius band Stereolab, re-visiting again.
Duke Ellington + Charles Mingus in Fleurette Africaine 1963, simply lovely.
The Marrakech Biennale is underway! The participating artists are arriving from all over the world to begin their residencies, the final program is going to print and the artists works are in progress. I had a great day of preparing for the student workshop component that Zid Zid Kids will be running. Today felt like a day of endless artistic possibilities paired with fantastic energy and ideas, melted in with the history of Marrakech and all that its future holds. It was a day of beginnings in a century old part of the world.
SUPER excited to be participating in this Sunday’s 23rd Marrakech Marathon! Not running the entire race, but running the 3 mile relay with 500 school children from all over Morocco, my 10 yr old daughter will be included. Can’t wait!
Our new blackboard kitchen door (with homemade chalkboard paint), kids couldn’t be happier!
‘New Indian Paper Art’ School Book
A few months ago, the Marrakech French School where our children go to school, was selling this little book to each classroom for maybe 5 dirhams each (like 10 cents) with no explanations.
The front and back covers are written in English with the last line on the back page being the best. Inside, tiny, complicated illustrations of paper crafts are fully explained in complicated steps written in French and Arabic. It is a book that a child would most likely never, ever use.
This little ‘Training Center’ handout is a bit of mystery to me and I suppose that is exactly why I love it.
Not sure how or why, this book of all books, made its way from India to the French school system of Morocco, but seemed like a nice happy accident of sorts, at least in my eyes.
The amazing Tinariwen, a band of Tuareg-Berber musicians from the Sahara Desert formed in 1979 in Northern Mali, here playing with one of my favorite bands TV on the Radio. If you have yet to hear about Tinariwen, take a listen + they will blow you away with their raw, honest sound of true rock and roll.
I’ve always loved the illustration on this classic Moroccan school notebook…
