Just because I loved this video back then, and I still do now. Sony BRAVIA Bouncy Ball Advert from Josip Kostic on Vimeo.

An Evocation of Japan II Images from the exhibition   Front: Lotta Volka Adam styling the gals with clothes from ra. Back: “Untitled”,2011 by Ruiz & Santoro. “Centered” 2001-2011 by Pierre-François Lethué. Wallpaper made out of Paris, LA posters

An Evocation of Japan Until 14th of May, in Antwerp. An exhibition at ra for the launch of Paris, LA #6, Special Fashion This exhibition features longtime contributors for Paris, LA including Cédric Rivrain, Lotta Volkova Adam, Oscar Tuazon, and Madame Paris. Here is the film Alexandra Ruiz developped in collaboration with Sandro Santoro. The [...]

It’s just a flying house —  

7.4.11 Dans quelques heures –

Madame Paris makes newspapers for Madame Pelletier. –––––

La Cité — Le nouveau Journal bi-mensuel à découvrir absolument! Voici une illustration que Madame Paris a réalisée pour les pages de la Quinzaine. Allez-voir leur site, www.lacite.info et abonnez-vous!

Paris LA — Number 6 Special Tokyo Fashion Launch & exhibition in Antwerp.  

La Journée de la Femme C’était le 8 mars. Et Madame Paris a créé un visuel pour la Maire de Genève, avec la typo Jean-Luc: l’atelier Carvahlo Bernau a numérisé la police de caractères du générique “Made in USA” de Jean-Luc Godard.

PORNTIPSGUZZARDO — Laurent Kropf a gagné le prix culturel Manor et nous avons fait une affiche. Vernissage vendredi 21 janvier. Venez nombreux & visitez son site: http://www.laurentkropf.net/

If you are in Tokyo, go see: Oscar Tuazon & Gardar Eide Einarsson, Young Patriots, 2009, Silkscreen poster featured in PARIS, LA #2 Oscar Tuazon & Gardar Eide Einarsson Sex Booze Weed Speed 17 dec 2010 – 20 feb 2011 Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo

Working on my last xmas card of the year…

FRIED GNOCCHI: A Jamie Oliver rival? Or maybe not… but he does have a great laugh.

IT’S XMAS TIME Madame Paris has collaborated with louise blanche and made some wonderful bows to stick on your xmas presents! Each package comes with several different bows silk screened on transparent sticker. Just cut and stick where ever you want! They are available to buy through mondo.ch. (14.90 a pack). If you order before [...]

PARIS, LA #5 on sale For the lucky ones, it will arrive directly in your mailbox. For the other ones you can find it at: Colette, Paris; Ooga Booga, LA; Printed Matter, NYC; United Bamboo, Tokyo, Post Poetics, Seoul; Papercut, Stockholm, and Motto, Zürich and Berlin. And in selected bookstores around the world. In this [...]

Compagnie Nicole Seiler bis Pour la carte de vœu du Département des Finances et du Logement de la Ville de Genève, Madame Paris a choisi d’illustrer le thème de la rencontre (thème de l’année de Mairie de Sandrine Salerno) et du logement avec une image de la première performance de Living-room Dancers de Nicole Seiler [...]

LIVING ROOM DANCERS in BARCELONA Depuis quelques années, Madame Paris travaille avec Nicole Seiler pour son projet Living-room dancers, sous la forme des plans de ville et dessins de bâtiments qui sont distribués dans le cadre des performances de Living-room dancers. “La danse est leur passion; ils y consacrent une grande partie de leur temps [...]

VITE UN FESTIV4L Le 17 et 18 Décembre aura lieu à Genève à l’Usine l’événement FESTIV4L. “Événement composite dédié à la promotion de la scène musicale genevoise, FESTIV4L mettra chaque année en lumière quatre groupes qui se distinguent par leur originalité ainsi que par les démarches qu’ils entreprennent pour se faire connaître à l’étranger. Fers de lance [...]

NUMBER 5 / SNEAK PEEK. The issue 5 or PARIS, LA is about to hit the Newsstands! Here is a sneak peek of the cover (by Hedi El Kholti) and poster (by Karl Lagerfeld).

WORK / PRINT / WORK / PRINT

RAPPEL If you are in Lausanne tonight, and tomorrow, and the day after… Festival 2 Claques! at Le Bourg, Café-théâtre 24 + 25 + 26 + 27 Novembre. Tonight: Come see Sumie Nagano (SE) & Micro Soul (CH) More on the programme of the next four days: www.le-bourg.ch

A lot of wooden palettes later… The women catalogue for Chopard is finished! Updated portfolio soon on line.

2 CLAQUES! SALOPERIE DE FESTIVAL Madame Paris poursuit sa collaboration avec le Bourg en réalisant l’affiche du festival. Le Festival 2 Claques! est né de la volonté de la bande de salopards du Bourg (café-théâtre à Lausanne) d’inviter des groupes et artistes à revenir mettre une deuxième claque après un premier passage au Bourg. Un [...]

PRINT IN PROGRESS One of our projects is at the printer’s in Bienne (Switzerland) right now. Each 16-page leaflet is sent to the binder’s as soon as it dries: 35 wooden palettes are necessary for each 16 pages! Amazing. Look! More news on the project soon.

“Bicycles of the world: Unite and take over!” We all now that the new IT thing to do is ride a bike, thanks to the economical crisis and the desire to have a sustainable lifestyle. It’s fine with us. People who know MP also know half of us love la bicyclette. Here is a nice [...]

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Until 3/10/10 Centre d’art contemporain, Geneva> go and see my wavy installation – and lots of good things Bourses Lissignol Berthoud 2010

This is MY FAVORITE VIDEO. Thank you, thank you Jenny Slate & Dean Fleischer-Camp. www.deanfleischercamp.com MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON from Dean Fleischer-Camp on Vimeo.

The day I stumbled upon the Local Natives: So here it is, yesterday is the day I stumbled upon the Local Natives during one of my daily temporal slip – when I disappear in a hole made from the web, and reappear some time later with new information (new to me) about something that could [...]

WILD CAT Michael Cera has the typical size and shape of a nerd, but don’t judge a book by it’s cover. You might know him from the 3 year show “Arrested Development” where he was George Michael, Maeby’s cousin. If you have never heard of AD then you should maybe try to rent it, buy [...]

les videos du vendredi: A new addition to the fashion-houses-that-make-films is Zoe Cassavetes film for Louis Vuitton aka Marc Jacobs. Two models play a game of Hide and Seek in the english country side. A little bit on the Sofia Coppola side, all girly and pretty.Cheers!

XXXO Yeah! The new M.I.A. video is out! Directed by HYPE Williams.

les vidéos du vendredi: Voici un film qui a été présenté à Cannes à la Semaine de la Critique et qui est passé dimanche au Festival International du Film de Locarno. ”Rubber” de Quentin Dupieux Un film qui rappelle “Duel” de Spielberg, une histoire de pneu vengeur. Mise à part le synopsis qui suffit pour [...]

Who am I?* Hard to recognize this pop star. I watched this 27 minute documentary on Zurich Rock bands in 1983 (out of the archives of the Swiss Television, Rock et belles oreilles). A vision of Zurich in the 80′s through it’s music. Interesting, naive, and a nice flashback. But beware!!! “il y a certaines [...]

Red boy / Grey stone Travail sur ma première litho.  Coming soon / check the blog!

If you don’t know this man already… I am a total fan of the The New York Times’ video library. There are great videos with all kinds of topics, from breaking news to the editor’s picks of all time favorite movies. This website is MY tv. One contributor I follow is Bill Cunningham and his [...]

A Genève cet été, en dehors de se baigner dans le lac et de zoner dans les parcs avec un bon magazine, on peut aussi avoir des activités “durables/sustainable” et écouter de la musique locale. Pour cela l’Association Culture propose 4 concerts pour se mettre au vert le dimanche en fin de journée — Allez, [...]

Back from Italy – It is a very pink year, is it not?

Les videos du vendredi. Ari Marcopoulos, contributor to Paris, LA has now done a short film for YSL called “No Way Back”. It is a portrait of Mark Mahoney reknown tattoo artist founder of the Shamrock Social Club in  Los Angeles — an interesting collaboration for Yves Saint Laurent. In 2008 Ari also directed a [...]

Romance is the new black Madame Bâle  

Todd Cole Todd Cole, who just signed the cover image for the last issue of Paris, LA with an image he has made in Big Sur, California. Todd has been a regular contributor to the magazine, with picturesques skies images in the first issue, and a fashion shoot for Rodarte in the second issue (you [...]

PARIS, LA — The issue number 4 of Paris, LA is out this week in selected places of the Global Village. We are happy to be part of this project initiated by the amazing Dorothée Perret two years ago. This magazine started as an imaginary link between Paris and Los Angeles, and has been growing [...]

CHEERS! At last, Madame Paris is here! Have a drink with us and celebrate — After shameful years with an empty website, we are up and running! Please take the time to visit and redesign: here you can zoom & resize, and move the images around. Drop a line, say hello. Say goodbye