Robert Ramser’s Golden Land with Smiling People

Welcome to Robert Ramser’s Burma. His up-coming exhibition “A Golden Land with Smiling People” opens at Espace Cyril Kobler on 3rd March. One of the white elephants belonging to General Than Shwe. In South-East Asia, white elephants are symbols of power, good luck and political credibility. In reality, they are albino animals with pink-brown skin and pale eyes. The official line, though, is that they are white. Two years ago, I met Robert at his… Continue reading

Those Swiss cows!

…t a new Swatch! The traditional mountaineer’s hat on the back of the prozac-free cow is just so photoshopped. The whole thing makes me chuckle. But I figure they’ve done their market research. The real subliminal message may be as simple as: “Buy a Swatch because we all just love cows and laugh about it!” I’ve found that Swiss people really do have a sense of humour. In addition, they are bafflingly law-abiding….. OK… it’s not a poster. But, I res… Continue reading

The Wind Tree

…good story. The Wind Tree is the brain-child of Jérôme Michaud-Larivière, free-thinking engineer and founder of NewWind R&D. Some years ago, whilst walking down a street, Michaud-Larivière noticed that although there was no perceptible wind, the leaves of the nearby trees were still fluttering. This got him thinking about how, in a city environment, the energy from winds from any direction can be harnessed. The outcome of his research is the Aero… Continue reading