Founder of le cool magazine and the very proud father of LucaTumblr (3.0; @larsrene)http://wisepunk.com/<p>I am the founder of <a href="http://www.lecool.com" target="_blank">LE COOL PUBLISHING</a> based in Barcelona, Spain. We started back in 2003 with a free, weekly e-mail based cultural agenda and alternative city guide. First city was Barcelona, we now do 8 cities around Europe and with some 200.000+ subscribers making us Europe’s largest alternative guide media. </p> <p> <img src="http://www.lecoolbook.com/IMG/LOGO.gif"/></p>http://wisepunk.com/post/36022865http://wisepunk.com/post/36022865Sun, 25 May 2008 19:29:00 -0400<p>I am also the founder and director of <a href="http://www.lingmagazine.com" target="_blank">LING MAGAZINE</a>, an award winning inflight magazine for Vueling, a Spanish airline. We just won the <a href="http://spd.org/pdf/SPD_PUB_43_MEDAL%20WINNERS.pdf" target="_blank">gold at the SPD Awards</a> - the Oscars of magazine design, which is quite amazing since we are this tiny mag in Spain and the other huge winner was The New york Times!</p> <p><br/><img src="http://www.lecoolbook.com/IMG/LING16.png" align="left"/></p>http://wisepunk.com/post/36025185http://wisepunk.com/post/36025185Sun, 25 May 2008 16:48:00 -0400<p>We are currently producing 5 amazing guide books (don’t take my word for it; <a href="http://www.lecool.com/books" target="_blank">have a look</a>) for Barcelona, Madrid, Amsterdam, London and Lisbon - all done by local design studios and our local LE COOL team.</p> <p>The books will be on sale from early june. </p> <p><img src="http://www.lecoolbook.com/IMG/book.jpg"/> </p>http://wisepunk.com/post/36024942http://wisepunk.com/post/36024942Sun, 25 May 2008 16:45:00 -0400<p>Outside work, sort of, I organize Beople - Barcelona People, a monthly gathering for entrepenuers and those who aim to become, where an inspiring guest share their personal story on how they have managed to reach success. Events are all filmed and the videos can be found <a href="http://www.beople.net" target="_blank">here</a>. </p> <p><img src="http://www.lecoolbook.com/IMG/beople.jpg"/> </p>http://wisepunk.com/post/36024986http://wisepunk.com/post/36024986Sun, 25 May 2008 16:45:00 -0400““First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Mahatma Gandhi”http://wisepunk.com/post/36023458http://wisepunk.com/post/36023458Sun, 25 May 2008 16:24:00 -0400<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=465634&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=465634&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=465634&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>A video I did when my son Luca was born 5 months ago. </p>http://wisepunk.com/post/36023025http://wisepunk.com/post/36023025Sun, 25 May 2008 16:16:18 -0400<p>My long time LE COOL business partner Andrew Losowsky is the curator of <a href="http://www.welovemags.com/videos/">Colophon2009 - International Magazine Symposium Luxembourg</a>. He also has a <a href="http://www.losowsky.com/magtastic/" target="_blank">blog</a> about magazines.</p>http://wisepunk.com/post/36425842http://wisepunk.com/post/36425842Wed, 21 May 2008 16:48:00 -0400<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/CoLAV2nil9foe0gg9HcxY07f_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The European LE COOL team at our Barcelona HQ in Summer 2007. </p>http://wisepunk.com/post/36026680http://wisepunk.com/post/36026680Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:13:00 -0400<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/CoLAV2nil9fpj1w45kwFZ5Rf_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>My amazing super man son Luca and his super man mum! </p>http://wisepunk.com/post/36028831http://wisepunk.com/post/36028831Fri, 25 May 2007 17:44:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/CoLAV2nil9fpbo7bdaDhEc53_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Me and beautiful Erika! </p>http://wisepunk.com/post/36028387http://wisepunk.com/post/36028387Fri, 25 May 2007 17:39:00 -0400