Love Exists!

Love exists – in this piece of Spanish graffiti art on a wall in Barcelona….

Christmas Gift Calendar: Wants and Needs

The idea behind Wants for Sale and Needs for Sale is simple Two artists paint their wants and needs. Wants are paintings of things they would like to have. The paintings sell for the exact price of the thing they depict and with the money the artists go out and buy what they want. Needs are paintings of things they would like to donate to people in need. The originals are auctioned, the prints can be ordered online. The money then goes to a good cause that provides for the need depicted in the painting.

Last Christmas I gave the be2 team the picture you see on the right, which now takes place of pride in the be2 office. The sale price went to a charity that gives toys to children who would otherwise not receive any presents at Christmas.

The originals are usually hard to come by, but prints are cheaper and easy to order online. And if you’re worried they won’t be delivered in time for Christmas, just do as I did last year: the delivery was late, but I printed a „placeholder“ from the website until the original arrived.

Best Halloween Pumpkins ever!

We found a fantastic blog post about Social Media Halloween Pumpkin Carvings and we are re- posting two of the pictures from that post here, because they show the two things that help us create this blog:

an Apple MacBook and the blogging platform WordPress. Huge spooky props to the pumpkin artists!

Love and Passion – not just in Relationships

If a music video director had made this music video, it would be a job well done by a good music video director. But this video was made by a fan – and that makes it a work of love and passion! See for yourself:

Two Weeks – Grizzly Bear from Gabe Askew on Vimeo.

To me, this video proves (aside from the fact that the director is very talented), that love and passion should infuse all areas of our life; not just our relationships, but also our work, our hobbies and our little fan projects, that we do just because we want to, even though nobody is paying us to do them.