Everybody keeps telling me how lucky I am because on Saturday I'm going to Maldives. Maybe it could be true if it were vacationing with my wife and daughter but this is just one more business trip, this time with an unusual destination.

The worst is that I stay in a n all-inclusive resort on a small private island - that has no public space, no street, no bar, no bazaar. Everything is controlled by the private security. Sounds like a paradisiac dystopia.

My work there consist of a workshop I do with the world's best long board surfers that participate in some competition. I'm going to ask them to paint slogans on t-shirts. Sometimes the football players lift up their shirts after goaling revealing a message, either political or personal, on their undershirt. My proposal is to ask the surfers write messages they would show after cathcing a perfect wave. All this is part of my collaboration with the French surfing garment brand Oxbow and should result as a series of mass produced t-shirts next spring.

I suppose that I'll have a plenty of free time there, too, but it sounds terribly boring. My super white skin can't resist any sun, I don't like fishing and I'm so bad swimmer that I can't do any water sports. On top of that, Maldives is a strict Muslim country applying a local version of sharia and I think it's difficult or at least very expensive to get any drinks there. At the Male Airport they X-ray the baggage at the arrival and confiscate all the alcohol.

I've been three weeks home after coming back from Beijing and Berlin. Basically, I've been building Lego towers, vacuum cleaning the car and preparing lasagnas. I haven't stepped in the studio, all the work I've done has been boring OL stuff. I've been, once again, an office lady sending e-mails, filling forms and planning production of the next projects. Sometimes the paperwork makes sense: I've been awarded with the a monthly grant of €1558,55 from the Arts Council of Finland for the year 2010.

Anyways, the most important thing has been, after the two-month absence, taking care of my daughter and my pregnant wife. This week I'll try at least organize my studio and do a couple of A4 drawings of the fantastic materials I brought home from China. And today I'll play more with my daughter and the Lego because it's the last tranquil weekend before the frenetic traveling begins again: for the next 30 days I've planned trips to Maldives, Malaga, Helsinki, Bordeaux and Lisbon.

French Lizard (Benin), Brown Lizard (Zambia), Desert Lizard (Cameroon), Vertical Lizard (Sudan), Three-color Lizard (Chad), Semi-arid Lizard (Northern Alliance), Greek Lizard (Cyprus), Purple Lizard (France), Hellenic Lizard (Greece), Portuguese Lizard (Cape Verde), Grey Tigerstripe (Philippines), Desert Tigerstripe (Singapore), Tamil Tigerstripe (Tamil Tigers), Red Sparse Tigerstripe (Taiwan), Green Tigerstripe (Taiwan), Tigerstripe with Palm Leaf (Vietnam), Flames Tigerstripe (Ecuador), Asian Tigerstripe (Australia), Salamander (Czechoslovakia), Two-color Ameba (Kuwait), Puma (Poland), Panther (Poland), Frog Skin (Honduras), Frog & Leaf (United States), Duck Hunter (India), US Urban (Brazil), US Universal (Ivory Cost), US Woodland (Liberia), US Three-color Desert (Iraq), US Six-Color Desert (China), Eggshell (South Korea), Fried egg (Hungary), Scrambled Egg (Egypt), Bamboo Leaf (East Timor), Oak Leaf (Germany), Palm (Germany), Plane tree (Germany), Seaweed (China), Cactus (India), Potato (Germany), Parsley (Romania), Bleeding Vines (Indonesia), British Lime (Central African Republic), Greyish Lime (Kenya), Lime Woodland (Vietnam), Patriot Woodland (Colombia), Elm leaf (Cuba), Oak Leaf (United States), Clouds (Czechoslovakia), Sky Cloud (China), Smoke (Germany), Six-Color Desert(Djibouti), Oman Desert (Philippines), Desert Jigsaw (Belgium), Red Desert (Slovenia), Desert Night (United States), Rocks & Sand (Somalia), Safari Sand (Iran), Three-color Tundra (France), Splash (Zimbabwe), Squiggle Splinter (Bulgaria), Moons and Balls (Belgium), Brushstroke (Palestina), Russian Green (Kazakhstan), Bulgarian Grey (Bulgaria), Snow White (Japan), Pink Choco Chip (Philippines), Bomba (Malaysia), Ragged Stripe (Burkina Faso), Swirl (Nepal), Urban Bricks (Philippines)

Fear and loathing in the European art world: McDonald's (the biggest fast food chain in the world) announced that it opens next month a branch in Louvre (the most visited museum in the world). The snobbish French art people hate this because they see it as American cultural colonialism and introducing something extremely low to the pinnacle of the high, Louvre and La Gioconda. Europe becomes a museum owned by the Chinese and decorated by the Americans but some people just can't assume it.

It would be naive to think that Louvre, originally a royal palace,  has something to do with art or culture - it's all about power. In 1672, Louis XIV moved to Versailles leaving Louvre primarily as a place to display the royal art collection. After the revolution in 1789, the First Republic continued showing there the collection, now as a trophy and owned by the nation. Some years later, Napoleon renamed it Musée Napoléon and the collection grew through successful military campaigns.

In 2009, the global capitalism has conquered the world and the Frenchmen love French fries and Happy Meals. France is McDonald's second biggest market in the world. Obviously, Ronald McDonald wants - and has the right - to show its triumph in the same place where the previous rulers did it. This is the Free World.

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