Une nuit avec Edward

Pas n'importe quel Edward! Edward, Hopper.

Je suis l'une des quelques 40-50 milles (ou plus!) personnes qui se sont dépêchées au Grand Palais ce week end, dans la nuit, pour voir l'expo Hopper.

Depuis l'annonce de l'expo je voulais aller la voir, mais j'ai traîné pour acheter les tickets.

Une expo la nuit c'est pas mal, mais il y avait trop de monde (j'ai fait 2h de queue, entrée à 2h30, sortie un peu avant 5h du matin).
La bonne heure est arriver vers 4h30-5h. Il y a très peu de monde qui attend pour rentrer, je pense que c'est plus tranquille pour voir les oeuvres.

J'ai été déçue par la mise en scène, je n'ai pas aimé la couleur des murs, mais ça passe encore. Je pense qu'on aurait pu jouer plus avec la lumière des salles afin de mettre les tableaux en valeur et donner la juste valeur au travail sur la lumière des tableaux de Hopper.
Mais passons.

Je n'ai jamais vu autant d'oeuvres de ce même peintre réunies dans le même endroit. Rien de surprenant pour une expo-retrospective!

Et là, bam! Je suis étonnée par le fait que certains des tableaux montraient des scènes en nous mettant un peu comme des voyeurs. Ses cadres originaux et modernes pour l'époque nous ont mis parfois dans la pièce avec les personnages ou à l'extérieur des fenêtres, et nous donnait le loisir d'observer ces personnes là sans être observés.

Rassurons-nous, son voyeurisme était connu de ses compatriotes et autres amateurs (mateurs?) d'art, Hitchcock s'y est inspiré pour quelques scènes de film.

J'ai découvert ses gravures, j'ai apprécié voir l'évolution de sa peinture, les influences qu'il a eu.
Belle  expo. Bel hommage.

Where have I been since mid-november...

A few weeks ago I lived an intense month as I took part on the #SMCSFBlogOff contest.

It was a rough month, I felt like publishing all day long, all the time, anything. But practically I couldn't blog that often as I didn't and wouldn't have that much interesting stuff to publish . Or the needed time to spend my days posting here.

However there was some positive effect. I mean the fact that I published during 30 days in a row made me feel that I can publish anything if I want to. It made me feel that I could do anything if I really wanted to do.

I took some blogging projects out of the drawer and... started publishing. as simple as that.

I got this first project on rail a couple of week ago. I set up a plain simple blog,  gathered the first informations that I wanted to post and started posting in order to force me to continue gathering information.

It is also helping me to build a new vision of the use of social media and personal branding. Even if these subjects have nothing to do with the main topic of this new blog (beauty, history of Rio de Janeiro and maybe some footbal, I mean soccer for dummies like me).

More to come soon!

I spy Smith m'y little eye....

I noticed a couple of days, weeks ago, that I may have a geeky neighbour.

I wonder if he is working, playing a game or simply twitting or blogging!

He always sits there and stare at his screen....

Maybe HE knows that I blog and he follows me!

If so.... Hi neighbour!

Lire l'amour

Je viens de commencer la lecture du livre Une histoire des romans d'amour de Pierre Lepape.
Je dois être dans une période romantique. Ou plutôt dans une période envie de lire sur les histoires romantiques.
Mais si ça se trouve ce n'est pas si romantique que ça.
Voyons voir. Ou allons le lire.

#SMCSFBlogOff - I'm shocked! Definately!

I just learned that yesterday was the last day of the contest!
I wrote yesterday's post with a feeling I still have one more to go and then... it all had gone!

Amazing.

I can say that I'm proud of myself, I managed to post at least one post a day. A had somedays which I felt like a compulsory blogger with 2 or 3 post in a row (or with a couple of hours between them).

I discovered some nice interesting awesome people. It made me wish go meet everybody in Miami or nearby! Yup, you're guyas are all definately more intersting than Magic Mike.
Ok ok I'll stop talking about him... hehehe.
I know, he'll get old one day and will get all wrinkled his muscles will fall as well as his derrière. 
Hopefully this will happen when I will be far far from tv and movie screens.

Anyway, it happens as I science said it would happen repeating something everyday creates an habit and you will get used to it. Someone told me once that we have to repeat 24 times. I read somewhere that 21 is enough. I repeated - posting posts - 30 times. So I did got used to posting!

I'm glad it has finished though, today I didn't have a special post to publish, nothing serious and even no special #nutspost.

#SMCSFBlogOff - I missed my birthday!!!

Can you believe that this humble blog completed 9 years old!!

My first post was on November 1st 2003.

Oh wow!

I explained here how it all started. And it is still going on.

Please please please Blogger continue upgrading and going upwards so I don't feel like changing platforms. I'm kind of attached to you, you're an old friend!

#SMCSFBlogOff - The more you blog the more you want to blog?

Right or wrong sentence?

I can't say if it is right or wrong or if it works for everyone.

What I can say is that it kind of works for me.

We aren't finished yet we still have a couple of days to go. 

NB1: A question to #SMCSFBlogOff people: when do we finish? On the 7th or on the 8th?? I'd say the 7th so... tomorrow???

So we aren't finished yet but I'm already getting to some conclusions:

- forcing myself to blog here was a good thing it go me on the blog-rails again

- it is very hard to blog everyday but if I did it so far it means that I can blog at least once a week. This blog should never be abandoned again!

- I got used to post in english! My few readers in french will excuse me if from time to time I post in english?

- I decided to launch another blogging project, I'm still thinking of it but this contest opened my appetite

- during this period I tweeted less but as the blogging stuf I could tweet more, couldn't I? It's so easy, 140 signs...

- I definately continued instagramming everyday.

So the more I blogged the more I want to blog.

I don't know about you but I'm feeling like a conqueror from the middle ages! 

The territory I conquered is mine! All mine! 

It's the wicked wide web!!

NB2: The post started right but became a #nutspost didn't it?

#SMCSFBlogOff - Monday, another week starts

When monday comes, another week starts.
I'm sure you didn't know this.

...

From time to time I meet suppliers of different services, offer.
Not that I'm particularly looking for a company. It's important to stay up to date to the market, know what people have to offer out there.

Sometimes I'm appalled by how companies stick to the fact only to offer their know-how on development. Companies (huge companies) do need developers to realize some projects but developers can be found anywhere.
Just open a drawer at an IT department and voilà! A developer comes out.

Companies need innovative products.
Even if the products aren't that new and don't change very much from the normal world of highly connected people. It does change a lot for people/companies who aren't or very little connected.

Offer simple tools that don't need 12.000 man/day to go live (for 2,5 features and a search engine....).

The market changes fast, customers needs too. But huge companies need lot's of time to change. They need new fast applying tools that would meet their external requirements. Not their traditional internal requirements (even though they can't be left aside) but their time-to-market requirements.
Give what customers are longing for.
If they don't show the need, create the need.

Think about it before offering your traditional services....

#SMCSFBlogOff - Caught by TODO

I was fearing this would happen, and so it did.

A scheduled post "TODO" which should male me run to the conputer so it doens't go live went live.

Up date

Here I am "running" to type something to republish it.

This week-end took place the ENEM in Brazil - it's the name of a huge exam which allows youngsters to be admitted to the university. It goes through many hours, in two days. If you arrive after the doors are closed you miss the exam.
On the papers you can read new about this huge event in the students and the country's life. With this exam there's about some equal chances to people who didn't have the chance to study in a good school to go to a good university. There's more to it than this but this is one of the advantages. There are disadvantages also but it isn't the subject of this post.

Three topics I read about:

1 - A teenager gave birth in the bathroom.
She got to the local of the exam already feeling the contractions. She is the only as far as I know who will be able to resit later, in december. It's a baby boy and the baby and the mother are fine. There was a nurse working as a supervisor who helped them after she gave birth while they were waiting for the doctors.

2 - On the second day, today, took place the dissertation. The subjecy was the immigration in Brazil on the 21st century.  Gosh I can't write about it. And apparently most students couldn't neither. I wanted to check about the other subject (of other disciplines) but the ENEM website is down. The results can be published at any moment - you can even follow live the correction, just NOW - and there as thousands, millions of people trying to access the same page.

3 - Some students got caught taking pictures of the classes and of the exams and posting it to social media. They got excluded. I read about 37 being excluded on the first day, 28 on the second day. Among 5.79 millions students enrolled to take the exam. Why they took pictures on th second day? You could read on the press about the people of the previous day being excluded... Maybe they didn't read the press.
I'm mad about social media but I don't think I'd publish during exams. I don't tweet during pro conferences it the subject/the conf isn't about social media or any of the kind.

#SMCSFBlogOff - Time flies

If I'm counting right today is day 27 of the blog contest.
And I'm still blogging. Horray!
I was away for 2 days, I didn't manage to connect to a wifi very easily but I managed to post yesterday. Anotehr horray for me!

I went to London with 3 girls friends. We went there for a shopping spree. We go there last thursday in the afternoon so I could post before leaving Paris.
As the blogging time is flying our week-end also was soo short. I'm sure the last 3 days lasted less than 24 hours each.

We enjoyed our thursday night having dinner in a nice thaï restaurant and went to the flat (it's english, so it's a flat not an appartment ;-) for a good night of sleep. We also went to an uthentic english pub according to the local friends we met. There we had a nice beer, I watched people around us and appreciated the decoration. Typical I'd say, in a certain way at least.
(Click on the pictures to enlarge).

We didn't sleep that well for diferent reasons. The two who shared the bed found it too soft for their backs and woke up with a back ache. The two who shared the sofa-bed found it too hard and felt the slats on the ribs and as soon as the other person sleeping there moved the other felt the movement too and they woke up with a back ache. It was kind of a water bed. I was of the team on the sofa-bed.

We didn't go for sleeping but for shopping so there was no problem, but as we would be tired after all the walking and carrying bags full of goods (or of good goods).

We spent the friday walking all day long. We went in about a 100 shops. Compared to Paris we can find in London some basic items cheaper than here and with a better quality as if we bought at the similar french shops. However I'm tempeted to say that if we lived there we wouldn't go as much in these shops, we'd do like an italian girls who lives there: she comes to Paris for shopping...
I bought about 3 years of socks and about the same for underwear and tights.

We walked Oxford Street up and down 300 times and also took the tube to save our feet (a little bit).
You know, it's not the métro as it is in Paris nor the subway as it is in New York. It is really a tube, it is small, round shaped, as a tube, it is crowed (specially if you amuse yourself to take it during the rush hour when the normal commuters are going back home while you are just trying to get your shopping bags safe between all that people's legs....
It wasn't that crowed when I took the picture. I couldn't take a pic when it was crowed of course, no space to move my arms and even I like to take picture and not be noticed. When you're "glued" to the people around you they do see your screen.

After our day of walk when we got back to our flat I was desperately trying to connect to post my yesterday's note. My friends couldn't understand what I was doing. It's a contest! And I need to blog.
They decided that I was completely crazy - nuts - and that soon they would come pick me up and take me to a psychiatric hospital. I was hanging with non social media non bloggers almost not facebook people. Twitter? Don't even mention, they don't have an account. They don't have a blog. I'm not sure they see any interest in it.

What we did the next day in London? Well we went shopping. I tool the girls to Victoria's Secret shop as it openned a few months ago in London. First shops in Europe. Plenty of coulours plenty of differnt items for  all tastes. Women's and men's taste. ;-)
Men go with their partners and moms and do what they can to spend their time.
This young man for instance, his mom showed him the bench, with a word, he sat there, openned his book and stayed for her to come back. Hopefully for the male gender in this label strategy there are plenty of seats for these aimless people who come to their boutiques.

The most important was that I felt relieved for posting.
So far I haven't missed a single day.
But I missed a day on my personal project of a photo of Paris a day on Instagram. The connection where we were was very bad I couldn't post a picture. I missed one day.

#SMCSFBlogOff - Londonners are still the same

Here I am, less than 20 hours in this city that I used to love.
I don't know if I still love it there are too many french people all over everywhere!
...
Thanks to Eurostar they can come easily (tickets start at 88€ and the trip lasts 2:35 hours).

Londonners are still the same. We went to have dinner at a thaï restaurant.
As before you ask for a non spiced dish when you eat it you feel the pepper.
Ouch

They drink so much so they go out at night almost naked.
The temperature is around 5-6 centigrades they go out with miniskirts and no stockings sleeveless tops extremely high heels for girls and jeans and simple t-shirts for men. No coat for any of them.
It was around midnight.
It's humid as it is as island.
They don't get dressed because they are going to a pub or night club and they'll drink a lot.
A great lot.

So they haven't changed they already were like this when I lived here last century.

But there are too many french now. I like less. They should stay in Paris.
:-)

#SMCSFBlogOff - News from the world

The last 24-48 hours people have been talking about Sandy. All over France, maybe all over Europe, people were really caring about Sandy and New York.
It's good and nice to have this sens of solidarity.

But don't forget people at Haïti and Cuba who faced the storm a couple of days ago and had people killed. We talked less about them maybe because there's less people tweeting and instragramming from there.
It's also strange all this passion in France.

A few days ago, last week, people got killed with a storm, the wind was quite like Sandy, before hitting the continent the wind was like 150 km/h (hum, I can't talk/write miles) and apparently when it hit New York this have dropped to a little bit less.
We had in the south of France wind of 120 km/h. And there was no fuss like I read about the States.

I'm not saying it isn't serious.

It's just that there was some other bad events elsewhere too.

I am glad to hear that people I know who lives in New York or was just in the middle of their holidays during the storm.
I'm glad people I know who lives in Richmond are okay.

Just let's not forget that other people are suffering from the same storm, or other storms.
Let's be solidary about eveyone.

Now, that the strom is over, let's clean the cities and move on!
Go Go Go!

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NB: As I said, I'll be away during a couple of days, but I'm leaving home in 2 hours, so I had the time to right something for today. Now the thing will be to manage to publish something tomorrow and the day after tomorrow! Stay tuned, the challenge on the challenge in on!

#SMCSFBlogOff - Feeling quite like a marathonian

Had a though day at work. Well shouldn't say so I've lived worst ones before.
Am I getting to be a little natured person?

I forgot my book at home so my hour in the bus will be on my iPhone.
Rha as if I hadn't done that before even with my book in my bag.

There men who really have nothing IN their minds.
Here I am sitting in this local bus. Eyes glued to my phone's screen.
I'm sitting on the seat just behind the bus driver. When people get on the bus they see me right away. I sit here list of the times.
In 20 years of living in Paris it happened for the first time: the bus isn't croweded there are plenty of space.
A man steps on the bus. He stops by my side. He stares at me. I feel his look but don't move.
He says 'Hi' after a minute or two.
I do my 'basic french attitude': blog out some air like we were an animal a bull or something then openned my hand bag and got my head phones out.
He started talking: you don't wanna talk?
Me: No.
Him: Life is beautiful.
Me: Yes and I prefer to listen to my music.
Him: Why don't you wanna talk?
Me:Because I don't want.

Then I switched on the music.
He left to the back of the bus maybe looking for another victim.

Being alone in a bus doesn't mean I'm on getting to know new people, men.
My skirt doesn't mean neither that I'm available.
Can't women just live their lives? Why can't we eradicate these macho-man who could possibly be beating their women at home?
Maybe this guy who talked to me don't but who knows?

It makes me remember this british video I watched recently. Lauren Luke has a chain on YouTube and she talks about make up. She's quite known for her videos I didn't know her before.

As I'm posting from my phone I'm not sure the video will be nicely embeded.

If so I'll correct later!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-XHPHRlWZk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

What do you think about?

Oh! The original title of the post was intended for my daily activities: I feel like I'm running all around and therefore running a marathon. As simple as that.

#SMCSFBlogOff - I think I got a problem

I'll be away for 3 days strating next thursday. Well, I'm leaving home around 11 am.

I'm going on a long week-end to London with 3 girlfriends.

Shopping shopping shopping!

(Note to myself: Maybe I should "forget" my credit card at home....)

I should have internet connexion where we're staying but I'm not sure it works before getting there.

I still have all my empty posts to fill.... and if I don't fill them they'll go live with just a title "TO DO".

Holy crap! 

Let's pray the saints-of-the-connected-addicted-to-blogging-and-tweeting-travelers to easily find wifi connexions everywhere in London! 

Hopefully it'll be like when I was in New York last year: just stop by a Starbucks café and get the free access for a few minutes - or while you're drinking your coffee!

#SMCSFBlogOff - The 5th age (not element)

Or a family #nutspost.

I just hung up with my Mom. We weren't on the phone, we were on Skype having a video conf.
My Mom is 79 years old and she lives nearby Rio de Janeiro/Brazil while I live in Paris/France.

She says computers are too difficult for her to learn, that she'll never be able to use them correctly and so on.
If you take your time to tell her "click here... can you read the message? good ... are the little lights  blinking on the thingy by the CPU? (yeah she knows better CPU).... great.... now write down the steps you have to follow to connect, then you'll be able to do alone... that's it... let me turn my webcam so that you can see my screen... see it? oups it's in french... do you want to learn french Mom?"

There she goes.
She's so used with Skype now that she even says in a baffling manner that Skype is telling her to shut down the video because our connection isn't good. She doesn't like Skype to ask us to disable the video. She likes to see me. Better than the simple phone.
I turn off the conversation and before I have the time to call her back she is already calling me with the video on.

With this computer we also got her a Gmail account.
She uses gmail webclient, it was easier to show her it working this way than installing Thunderbird or Outlook or anything else. She got kind of pissed off with Mr Google for pushing adds on her inbox according to what she's been writing.
To piss Mr Google off she sent me some emails with stupid stuff written (let's say she sent me nuts emails - now you know: I'm my Mom's daughter, the #nut stuff is a family matter). Gottcha! Mr Google sent the wrong adds. Or better saying the correct adds for her nuts emails.

During our conversation on Skype I told her that we found some lost cousins through the Internet.
I told her that there's a website kind of like Skype, where you create an account, you can chose a nickname, you can put your pictures, publish stuff, status, videos, quotes, you don't call people, but you mostly chat (written chat) and etc. This site is called Facebook.
I spoke about my cousins, she remembered some moments. We laughed. Then she remarked that she didn't want a Facebook account, she doesn't want people looking at her life and doesn't want people asking for her news.
She didn't leave me say anything else and said that she doesn't want a Twitter account neither, she doesn't want a Facebook as she said nor an Orkut account or any of these accounts that appear with all these websites.
She only needs her emails, Skype and the Internet to do her researches and check on certain websites when she sees a programm on TV and they give their website address. But only for specific subjects, of course. Some tricot websites, crochets, and crafts and some DIY (for crafts only).

She says we can tweet her, facebook her, but she doesn't want them on her own.

I'll be extremely astonished the day she'll say someone poked her!!!!

She turned 79 last august. She was telling me that now she is on the 5th age and not on the 3rd age anymore. Before going any further and before saying any stupid thing I asked her to explain and develop her thoughts.
Recently a 61 years old woman gave birth to a child in Brazil. She should be a 3rd age person who don't bear child anymore.
As my Mom isn't planning to have a baby like that woman did, she says she can't be in the 3rd age.
I said that for me she should be in the 4th age. Mom didn't agree: when you're almost 80 you're in the 5th age.
Ok, got it. I won't fight. Never fight with your Mom, doesn't matter her age and even if she is wrong, I mean she is your Mom so she is right, right? You're a stupid kid (even when you're in your 40's and you work with Internet and Social media....).

Remember, my 79 y.o. Mom says that computers and Internet and all this technology is too much for her head.
Hum-hum. I see.
Imagine if she thought it wasn't enough I mean if she wasn't scared about it?

#SMCSFBlogOff - Social network, social family

Sometimes we discover different ways to use a social network that we haven't imagined before.

A few months ago we lived a sad event in my family. Someone died and the best way we found to keep everybody informed about what was going on in time was through Facebook.

In a single place we could find everyone, post a news and all the concerned people would see/read. Publish the ceremony date and people would also see.
It was quite strange to be part of it.
It was interesting to be part of it.

We all leave part of our lives on Facebook. We left a sad family episode there. We exchanged news, little words, infos. We went through the event together we went through a social family event.
Using FB allowed my family to keep everyone posted, those who were in Brazil and those few, like me, who aren't.

Then we posted pictures. So to remeber the person who was gone. And we all shared the album.

Who passed away was my half brother.
We had met again a few months before after not having news from one another for more than 20 years. We are 5 half brothers and sisters. Lately w have been meeting 4 at once. We were planning to meet the five of us. We wil never do now.

I'm glad I met him on that occasion. Our parents didn't get along anymore but we are not them. I hope the other 4 brothers and sisters, one of which is me, will keep in touch. And won't be away of each other's sight for more than a couple of months.

Since them we got to be a social family: we don't live in the same city, event those ho live in Brazil, but we got used to say hi, show our faces through Facebook.
Thourhg Facebook we also found lost cousins who are living ar away from Rio.
To keep in touch with family is one good use for this app. And probably the only reason I still use it a lot.

#SMCSFBlogOff - Jazzy yôga

I've been practising yôga for more than a year now.
It's not only yôga it's a method. DeRose method.

But this is not the issue today.

My classes take place in an unsual place by Quartier Latin in Paris. It's a... cave!
And if you know a little bit the history of Paris, of jazzy Paris, you may know that in the 50's, 60's, 70's and even today there are still some jazz clubs run in caves around Quartier Latin.

So, the other day the director of my school told us that "our" cave used to be a jazz club in the 60's and 70's.
Then there was probably lot's of smoke from cigarrettes and cigars. Now the only smoke one can see/smell will come from the insense we alight to practise.

The director is still working on the history of the place, she is still gathering information about the different occupiers of the cave.  She is already in the 80's, she is pretty much close to our epoch.

For those who believe in aura, energy, all of this on the walls, maybe we get this happy old energy during our classes. Maybe love stories started in this place, or ended there. Great or sad news were given here. Or people just spent good times there.

Well, for this and some other reasons I love Paris.

#SMCSFBlogOff - If I keep the rythm...

I'll have published more posts probably than last year. Didn't count though.

Today it's friday and I'm lacking of inspiration.

I could talk about the weather: it's getting cold in Paris, I was freezing this evening while I was waiting for the "RER" train to get back to Paris - I work outside Paris, I'm a commuter the other way round I'd say, but I'm not the only one.

NB1: Everytime I write/say 'I'm not the only one" I remember a song. Damn, which one?

The station is outside, if it is raining we are quite getting wet. There's a ceiling but if it's windy....

I got home, had dinner and rushed to the computer: as I said I scheduled posts to go live but most of the times they're empty.
I rushed to make sure I had prepared something to go live today.
Nothing was waiting for me.
Sometimes when I prepared this bunch of pre-posts I managed to leave a title, which should give me inspiration to write afterwards. But this time I only had a TO DO as title.
Oups.
Even the day I prepared it I was without ideas.

Now that I managed to get things settled, I'll go back to my dinner.

I wont' leave you alone. João Bosco will keep your company.

NB 2: And of course this is a #nutspost

#SMCSFBlogOff - Photo geeky girl

I like a lot to take pictures. I used to use a Minolta before digital photo, then I got a compact Sony which took wonderful pics. Then I got a half-reflex half-compact Panasonic camera. I like the variety of lenses but I don't feel like carrying 3 tons with me.

Further to this, I love my iPhone 4 too. I can take nice pics with it.

So I got Instagram addict.
I started a personal project on July 29th: I publish a photo from Paris per day. I don't necessarily took the picture just before publishing it but the picture was definately taken with my iPhone and I publish from the iPhone.
I'd like to keep it for a year. I have to keep until July 28th 2013.

The hashtags I use are these:

 #paris #editoftheday #picoftheday #shotoftheday #iphone #iphonegramers#igers #igersfrance #mobile #mobilephotohraphy #instamood#intagramamando #france #iphotography #iphoneonly #instaaddict#instapic #instacanvas #statigram #instadaily #iphonegraphy#streetphotography #tribegram

Sometimes I add others like #metro #beaubourg #quartierlatin #passy etc. It may depend also on the picture.

This could be another nuts post.
Not only I got in a contest to post one note per day during 30 days  but I also challenge myself to post a pic a day during a year.
So far, I've been doing good.

Ok, new hashtag : #nutspost. I'll update the previous ones.

#SMCSFBlogOff - Social fooding

I like to cook. I often cook recipes I have at home or have some brand new idea and try something different.
For this reason and because of the web and social networking I discoverd the social food. I took once cooking classes, I'd like to take more classes.

I'm a food reporter - I don't know if a similar app exists in english (oh yeah they do have an english version, I added the right link) but this one is made for those people like me who like to take pictures of the dishes they cooked or from what they're having at the restaurant.
You can share the pics and the recipies and people don't like they "miam" your pic.
Lovely. You can follow me there, but sometimes I post these pics on Instagram too.

On the same subject I started following a couple of chefs. Not many, just a few. And they share their cooking in different ways.

Take Jamie Oliver. No need to introduce him, right?
I follow him only on Instagram. He publishes whatever. Almost never his cooking. We get people he meets, we get pics of his kids, we get pics of funny moments of his trips/life.

Take Roberta Sudbrack. I didn't know she had served a brazilian president until sometime after I was already following her. I never looked for information about her, but I had heard about her.
I follow her on Twitter and on Instagram. She publishes pics of her trips but they're all - 97% about ther cooking. Her staff in the kitchen, her staff having fun during a service, she and her staff when they were in Paris for a special event. She was in London for the Games and she'd cook special meals and bake special brazilian sweets (brigadeiro) for the brazilian athlets who got medals. She and her followers jokes about her team what she does: it's the sudteam, sudplate, etc. She always say hello or byebye to the "social kitchen". Yeah, we can quite experience her kitchen during the service.

I also follow some other chefs, mostly brazilians because I tell myself that I'll probably go to their restaurants one of these days.
One who is really funny is Carlos Bertolazzi. Him and a group of other male chefs (or common mortals like you and me?) take part on a sort of program called Homem Gourmet (Gourmet Man or Male). I follow him on Twitter. They exchange non-sense tweets. You feel like going one of these days to his restaurant because you certainly will spend a fun time.

I do agree with Roberta: the kitchen is social. When there's a party at home, at one point, at least with latin origin people (be them brazilians, french, italians or spaniards!) at one point of the party we are socializing at the kitchen. I would even love to have a kitchen to throw parties in it!

Eating and food is a way to gather people. When we can't be together IRL we get virtually together around a dish.

But as we know, the world isn't this beautiful. While there are people with tons of food, there are people starving. Maybe we could think of a social kitchen project who could give some food for those in the need. Don't you think?