Signs of Lisbon

It's the signs that mark the city. Little signs everywhere that tell you how to behave, where to go and what's going on at the other side of the door. Here's today's signs of life, with love from Lisbon.

First, the beautiful sign. Neat and elegant and probably photographed by many tourists. Nice, but not very interesting:

Then the street sign. Simple and inevitable, yet stylish and beautiful. Signs as they shall be:

 

 I think the most beautiful signs are the ones that just blend into the wall and make a perfect, everlasting entity:

The most interesting is the old, worn sign. I love how it tells you about the long life of the shop and of the greater times that passed:

 Then there are the sign that tries to tell you not to do what you just feel like you have to do. Those are the sexiest signs I know:

 

Some signs are just messages written on the wall. Instant meaning to the ones who made them, but might outlast generations if put in the right place:

And some signs are just altered - from the original meaning to the additional one:

Oh, and don't forget the message from one person to another. To be adored, envied and maybe even hated by others:

Ah, the feelings that these signs give you! I am inspired and soon ready for a hot, late date in Lisbon. I love this city. And all the signs of it <3

My Caterpillar Lisbon

Oh, the joy of noise. It shakes up our picture perfect life and shows us the world is alive and moving and going somewhere. Arriving in a new city, it’s the noise I first experience - Because it shows you the lives of the people who live there.

Let me show you the noise I saw through my lense today.

It's the Caterpillar Lisbon. You know, not that little larval with many feet, but the large machine. It is the tourist square all filled with Caterpillars and people doing their work. I found the meeting between the beautiful square and the noisy Caterpillar to be almost poetic:

There is a fence. We are not even let inside. This is the area of the workers – not to be experienced by the tourists. I find the workers kinda hot in their sweaty, bossy kind of way. They now rule this area, and we can only watch them.

This is not a museum, it is the work place of several people.

Even noisier. Even more alive. Even sexier part of Lisbon. I love the shifting, stinky asphalt and the machine heading directly for the colonialist arch.

Even the ferry terminal is noisy. It's made for travel, not beauty. And yet, it is so beautiful.

Oh, but yeah, if you absolutely need to sit down under a three, just take this one. There are plenty of them. Just sit down and mind the Jesus in the far, far back.

Hot feelings of spring

One of the great things about moving back to Europe is that you really get to experience the 4 seasons again. I moved back in the worst of winters, with ice hanging from the roofs, threatening to fall down on your head and temperatures too cold to even look outside. I mean, I took a taxi to the gym one day – how ironic is that?

But now. Now the ice is soon melted, the sun is warm again, the street is (at least some places) dry enough to only wear pumps and everyone is outside again. It’s the little wonders of spring approaching. The wonders you can only experience when you have been hidden in the winter, just waiting for change under your blanket. It’s like a new awakening, a new start at the wonderful life.

I love the seasons. They make me feel like I am alive and developing. They get out the worst and best in me and make me love what is around me. The last couple of weeks I have been so emotional. I have been happy to wake up early, I have been moved to tears by commercials, I have loved baby cries, I have kissed my friends on the lips, I have flirted with strangers on the internet and I have watched TV-series only to live and feel with the characters. My current fav show is Generation kill – about the Iraq war. So full of eye candy – so interesting to learn about the life of soldiers.

So come on, wake up with me. Go for a walk and drink your coffee outside, hug your friend or chat up a hottie (or a nottie) on the internet. Put a happy song on your iPod, like this amazing Jackson-cover by The Singers.

Or just watch Swedish hunk Alexander Skarsgård as a soldier below and feel your spring desire as it awakens – because, lets be honest, it’s the spring desire that is the best about this season. Yes, Sergeant.

Happy spring time <3

Academy Awards - hottest and nottest

The Academy Awards are just over. It is my fav time of year. Not only do I get to see who's winning, but there are so many beautiful dresses and hot guys in tux. And a few dissapointments, of course. Here's what I found to be the highlights:

Best dressed woman: Sandra as a bullet

I have to admit, I never really liked Sandra Bullock - neither her looks nor her acting. But am I changing my mind now. I don't know if she deserved the award, but this Marchesa dress is amazing and suits her perfectly.So classy and elegant. And the hair is just flawless. Worthy the queen of the night.

Worst dressed woman: Come back, Katie

Dear misfit woman in pants or horrible skirt (can't tell), what did you do to the extremely well dressed woman I used to know as Kate Winslet.  This can't be her.

Hottest man: Hello, mr Ford

Tom Ford. Of course he knows how to dress. And with these looks, no one can really match him. I love.

Worst looking man: Too small, that's not all

Javier Bardem - He was so great a year ago. Now hos tux is too small and his hair too messy.

Best couple: New cool in town

Robert Downey Jr is one of the best candidates for the hottest guy on planet award. Great look with the sunglasses, sneakers and turquoise bow tie along with his Lanvin tux. His wife matches perfectly with a super cool dress and as natural glow as always.

Worst couple: Hairy trouble

OMG. No one had more of a possibility to pull this night off. Instead Clooney forgot his hairdressers appointment. And so did his chick, who has a nice dress, but it does not look good with the corset showing through. Who would have thought these people could have looked this old, unprofessional and boring?

Best new look: Queen Demi

Don't know how new this is, Demi keeps changing so much I wonder if she is several persons, but this is anyway great. No wonder she can keep her young, hot lover with this Atelier Versace success story.

Most pleasant surprise: Diva Diaz

I love that Cameron Diaz let her hair down and put on a sparkling Oscar de la Renta. Not the looks we are used to from her, but very, very nice.

Biggest dissapointment: SJP nightmare

 

 WTF, SJP, WTF??????

Coolest dress: The color purple

This Givenchy dress on Zoe Saldana is allready loved and hated on different Internet sites. I love it. It is cool, fun and refreshing. Go purple.

Norway's contribution to Hollywood

I just watched the first episode of the Norwegian version of Hollywood housewives; TV Norge; "Ja, vi elsker Hollywood". It is hosted by Norwegian stylist and gay loverboy Jan Thomas, which makes it far more enjoyable than it could have been. But the ladies?? Here are some of the highlights:

• Lillian Müller is probably the most famous one. She says she left Hugh Heffner because he asked her to join him and another woman in a hotel room and Müller thought that was too liberal for her. Interesting, coming from a former playmate and porn star 

• One woman, Kjersti, uses four illegal Mexican workers around the house. One for the garden, one for housekeeping, one for babysitting and one for colour coding her wardrobe. I like the last one.

• One woman is a real estate agent in her ex husband's company. The name of her ex husband is Dick Dollar.

•  There was a yoga woman. I cannot even begin to describe her.

• Linn Bjornland is trying to be an actor in LA. The one thing she can think of when looking at LA's beaches is the ancient TV show Pacific Blue. *Not impressed*,

• Tove claims to be from Oslo. She can't talk Norwegian. Her perfume is sold on TV shop. Jan Thomas claims she is the Ameriacan dream impersonated. Somehow I don't believe him. He also claims her husband is one of the most experienced actors in Hollywood. I've never heard of him and forgot his name allready.

Yup. It should have been a TV show I hated. But I will watch it next week for sure. Don't know why. No more comments.