[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YKH6eX-CJI&rel=1]Breath taking. Audi R8: The slowest car we’ve ever built. This is such a beautiful ad!!

Lovely images by Jan Postma

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFjeDctOCZ0&rel=1]Beautiful Losers: A film by Aaron Rose, release spring ‘08

A beautiful magazine where cycling meets design meets fashion. Rouleur

2007 was a lively year. Started my own company, traveld a lot, and found some amazing new inspirational stuff, collected on this blog. I hope you enjoyed my posts, my view, and I hope you’ll come back in 2008. I wish you all a peaceful christmas with your loved ones and a wonderful new year!

Here’s a short ‘best of’ 2007.
The Best Book
Presence is an intimate look at the development of a new theory about change and learning. In wide-ranging conversations held over a year and a half, organizational learning pioneers Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers explored the nature of transformational change—how it arises, and the fresh possibilities it offers a world dangerously out of balance. The book introduces the idea of “presence”—a concept borrowed from the natural world that the whole is entirely present in any of its parts—to the worlds of business, education, government, and leadership. Too often, the authors found, we remain stuck in old patterns of seeing and acting. By encouraging deeper levels of learning, we create an awareness of the larger whole, leading to actions that can help to shape its evolution and our future.

The Best Photography
Bill Henson

The Best Music
Tom McKean & The Emperors

The Best Photographic/Sculpture Art
Grzegorz Przyborek

The Stranges Story
After rumbling for weeks, part of a poor Guatemala City neighborhood plummeted some 30 stories into the Earth on Friday. Continue reading

The Best Manifesto
A little book that teaches you when to quit: The Dip

The Best Bag
Myron Glaser makes travel cases you’ll never want to give up. And they’re so well made, you’ll never have to.

The Best Music Video
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RJD2 and Bill Shannon.

The Best Illustrative Art
Beautiful works by Lenneke van der Groot! impressive live-size paintings and sketches, illustrations that resembles the struggle of being unique vs. going with the mass.

The Bigest Protest
Stand with the Burmese Protesters

This is it, for now. Next days I will continue some ‘best of’ lists.

Fresh colours, lovely illustrations by Jose M. Lallana

I can’t read a word of it, but this could be the best magazine release of 2007. It’s beautiful!!! Look At Me

More winter music:
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London was lovely again! I do so much enjoy this city!
Thanks to edsonwilliams

Via ROOM 116

Beautiful sounds by Sylvain Chauveau and Felicia Atkinson on their new mini album ‘S’.
The latest mini-album from French composer Sylvain Chauveau sees a radical change in direction in which the luscious strings of his earlier releases are replaced with prepared guitar and crisp sculpted electronics.

More beautiful images. This time by the German photographer Kira Bunse.

Stunning works from Saraha Smith

Lovely images from Swedish photographer Erika Svensson

Created for the sophisticated business person, this sleek expandable portfolio is a perfect combination of a handbag and a briefcase. The intuiteve design details make it a flexible, functional style for business needs.

Isn’t this beautiful!?
By Moore & Giles

Its the time of the gift guides. Everybody has one. And, especially in luxury world, it’s a hit. So, here’s another one: The upgrader by Men’s Style Gift Guide

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDHbnF0z4EE&rel=1]I got goosebumps watching this trailer. Lovely! Can’t wait to see the movie…

Some nice Prada Gifts

I love the work of Joël Tettamanti! A very swiss touch; desolate, silence places around the world. Beautiful!

An inspiring portfolio by Mike Meire.