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Let me introduce you to the Smart Volta family, some of our amazing ambassadors and friends helping out in this adventure...! IN OTHER WORDS, THE SOULS, HEARTS AND FACES BEHIND SMARTVOLTA.COM SOOO MUCH BEAUTY AND GOOD VIBE WORLWIDE! I FEEL BLESSED TO HAVE THE CHANCE TO WORK AND LEARN FROM THESE MARVELLOUS PERSONS IN THIS AMAZING JOURNEY....THANNNNKSSS SO MUCH FROM THE DEEPEST OF MY HEART. LOTS OF LOVE AND GRATTITUDE TO ALL OF YOU. WE ARE BUILDING SOMETHING AMAZING.

Johanna made a new house/basket for her bees

all made with her own hands! my dear friend johanna went to a convent to learn how to make these traditional baskets - houses for her own bees. purely made with straws, they are so beautiful and seem so cozy! a nice change of domicil for the lucky bees that make the delicious honey from starnberg at johannas garden .

kaufhof@berlin vs old city´s_zouk@jerusalem:two ways of going shopping

i must say i am exactly like my mother in this:  somebody who haaaates going shopping in like big department stores and retail spaces: malls, kaufhofs, corte inglés, wallmart, so horrible spaces. some people like it. i hate them and avoid them as much as possible.  even sometimes basic shopping like groceries, feels sooooo boring and waste of time. 
but at the same time, i love getting lost in zouks in middle east and markets in asia, flea markts in europe, antique shops in usa, artesania shops y mercados in south america, and meet amazing people and their products and buying special things i find around in the dif. cities i travel to. still, I must say that the middle east zouks (Specially love Khan el-khalili in Cairo or Jerusalem Old City Zouk)  and their amazing handcraft and atmosphere are really really hard to beat in terms of beauty and magic atmosphere.

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Our Visual Diaries/ Girls Photo Exhibition now at Städtische Galerie Bietgheim- Bissingen

our photo exhibition Visual Diaries / Girls is right now @ the Städtische Galerie Bietgheim- Bissingen, as part of the „Von Tagebuch bis weblog. Tägliche Strategien in der Gegenwartskunst“ exhibition (from October to February ) which is a great expo on the portrait of daily life in contemporary art. Our expo is part of it as an installation among the work of other artists like hanne darboven or on kawara , and really was a suprise to see how the curator have really worked the visual diaries topic in contemporary art.loved to see how many dif. conceptions of contemporay diaries have so many people been working on, each one with its own style. felt at home! :)

jonas de visita en münchen

quiero empezar una serie de ciudades y personas, ciudades que no conozco porque no he estado pero que sé me van a encantar porque la gente que he conocido de ellas me encantan. ciudad 1: lima. persona que me encanta de lima que espero me acabe ensenando su ciudad tarde o temprano: Jonas Kecskemethy-Vass. esta foto de jonas la saqué hace como mes y medio, cuando vino a visitarnos a münchen y le pude mostrar un pedazo de la realidad en esta nueva ciudad. a jonas lo a-do-ro con mucho amor. son muchos anos desde la primera vez que la vida nos encontró en berlín y es una persona que además de encantarme su presencia, me inspira su energía creativa un montón. jonas está a punto de abrir un restaurante/ club en la playa los lobos, en el sur de lima. espero poder ir a la inauguración y fiestear como se merece. ill keep my fingers crossed.

@weissenhofsiedlung haus 13 . by le corbusier

very little time and too much excitement to be in a complete neighbourhood built by the bauhaus in sttutgart. while for most of the houses of the weissenhofsiedlung gets this of "you can only see them from the outside" since is people living in them, there are a few where you can visit inside. this le corbusier haus 13 felt like a really clean, minimal space and was great to see how things that are envisioned to go beyond their time remain totally modern. i love this emptiness and cleaness, just very little furniture, lots of natural light, all like a empty space giving you lots of space to the thoughts to wander, keeps the mind clear. very zen. the colours and how they worked with the light. loved it. such a marvellous space. really looking forward to go to tel aviv and visit as many bauhaus houses as possible! :) dont forget that once the house was built (1927), it was used it as a backdrop location for a car advertising and the effect was quite shockening. also you could notice the same effect on some of the little original furniture that is still present in the house like the kitchen stove , etc. amazing how advanced was the arquitect on his vision in comparison to the design wave of his living time.