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Le Mur de L’Art 2012 – Day 4 + conclusion
To close my series of articles about Le Mur de L’Art 2012, I want to talk about feelings and abstract things relating to street-art and graffiti. After interviewing 35 graffiti and street artists...
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Shaka: True relationship between art and spectator
I recently visited the studio of the French artist Shaka who emerged on graffiti style for an interview. Alternative Paris and My Life on My Bike came to submerse ourselves in the anxious universe of...
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Art of Bustart: Paris – Amsterdam
During the year of 2012 I travelled several times between Paris and Amsterdam. Because of my huge passion for street art and biking, those two cities attract me as a perfect alchemy. On my first trip...
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Paris Street-Art retrospective of 2012
Dear reader, as this is my last post of the year, I would like to share a retrospective of my work in 2012. Aimed to be a journalist specialized in street-art, I did a selection of 20 works that I...
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Les Frigos – Mecca of Creation
To welcome 2013, launching the new My Life On My Bike website, nothing could be more exciting that an unexpected visit at Les Frigos, accompanied by a warm reception by the artists Paella Chimicos and...
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Madame, monsieur: Voici La Snow in Paris!
Today I’m flying to my beloved Brazil. Over there I will find temperatures of almost 40 degrees of pure blue sky. My next post will be about ‘hot’ feelings surrounded by tropical street-art. Before...
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II International Graffiti Fine Art Biennial – Sao Paulo
Last Tuesday I landed in Sao Paulo. This state is the home of my heart. Even with lots of social problems it is a place that fascinates me: Gray, chaotic and cosmopolitan, this massive concrete jungle...
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L7m – Brazilian street-art video portrait
In Paris, months ago, I got to know the work of the artist L7m through the internet. I was fascinated by his strong lines, at the same time delicate and colorful, when I found out L7m was Brazilian. At...
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São Paulo bike tour – a great way to get to know the city
Until some years ago, it was quite impossible to think about riding a bike in São Paulo, a city with a chaotic traffic. But things have been changing over the past years and São Paulo, that is the...
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Colorful street art tour in São Paulo, Brazil
During the bike tour that I did in São Paulo a few weeks ago, I was introduced by the guide Lincoln Paiva for the lovely Manuela Colombo, who runs the Conexão Cultural blog and also promotes a...
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Zezão – Street art and noble heart
While visiting Brazil recently, I got the opportunity to interview the graffitist, plastic artist and photographer Zezão. Emergent from the third generation of graffitists in Brazil, Zezão, 41 years...
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In Milan street-art saved my Life
Last April, I flew from Paris to Milan during the time of the most important design art fair in the world, “Milano Salone”, an important fair that was launched in 1961 and hosted almost 3,000...
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Montebelo – A one week experience with surf, music and art
Paris is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, no doubt. However, Paris is beige, full of concrete within a competitive environment. Two weeks ago, I went to the south west of France, Hossegor...
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Berlin: The meeting of fashion and urban art
After a hot Saturday night in Paris, I took a car-sharing towards Berlin. Even with a long, tiresome trip (1000 km) on the road, it was completely worthy to arrive there late on Sunday night and see...
View ArticleOnce upon a time Paris was blue…
“Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true” - Lyman Frank Baum August, 21st 2013. Sunny and bright day. At different hours,...
View ArticleMidnight in Paris by bike
Today I won’t talk about street-art. Ops, I mean, not about street-art in the concept of urban art, illegal and transgressor. However, if we can expound the world in the literary sense (art on the...
View ArticleEduardo Kobra – video portrait
While visiting Brazil, early this year, I got the chance to interview the muralist and street-artist Eduardo Kobra at his new studio at Vila Madalena. Kobra is one of the brazilian artist, who is...
View ArticleAutumn in The Loire Valley
- Brief Passage (passage originally written in Portuguese) The summer went away, barely bringing warmth and joy, the summer went away, without looking back, let the doors open for melancholy and...
View ArticleMy Life on Videos – Retrospective of 2013
Last year, to retrospect 2012, I made a selection among more than 600 images of street art that I had photographed in Paris during that year (see article here). 2012 was my first year living in...
View ArticleMeeting artists at the Favela in Rio de Janeiro
January 31st, 2013, last day of a busy year and an acid desire that my 2014 started with the energy of the sea. Rio de Janeiro, the wonderful city and with a thousand charms, welcomed me with open arms...
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