July 2011
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WatchIn Situ, a splendid interactive film about artistic interventions in the public spaces in Europe. Watch and play with it here. Read my review there.
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Mensch, Anouk Van Dijk
“The more I travelled the world and worked with people from many different cultures, the more I became interested in what ‘being different’ actually means. Identity is an elusive thing, yet many people feel called upon to safeguard it. Just look at the Netherlands, with its tradition of being tolerant and open to the outside world, though in recent years suddenly fearful and closed off. In our...
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Omer Fast at NIMk, Amsterdam
I don’t think that would be relevant to share or describe bits of Omer Fast’s film installations. The disconcerting and powerful experience of his work comes from the journey from one space to another, from one video to another, from one story to another. He blurs the frontier between fiction and reality and plays with anachronism but he always trusts the visitors’...
June 2011
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“Dans une cacophonie d’informations, chaque auditeur, en se concentrant sur...”
– Asterios Polyp, David Mazzucchelli.
WatchWaikato River in central New Zealand, shot over the course of one single day by Derek Henderson.
Via The Anthropologist.
May 2011
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April 2011
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“The rule of thumb for this sort of anti-photojournalism: no flash, no telephoto...”
– http://antiphotojournalism.blogspot.com/
Antiphotojournalism at Foam (1)
Antiphotojournalism explores the practice of photojournalism from the 60’s to the present. The experts might be able to assess how the selected works challenge(d) the approach of photojournalism. The exhibition also encourages ordinary visitors like me to examine their relationship to images, especially images of conflicts.
During my first visit, I particularly looked into:
RFK Funeral...
March 2011
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WatchStrandbeest by Dutch artist Theo Jansen. Via OpenCulture
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Memento Mori
Saturday. Rêve d’automne by Jon Fosse takes place in a cemetery. Patrice Chéreau chose the museum to stand for this place where generations of visitors meet dead artists endlessly. The repetitive language of Josse is made with bones. The direction by Patrice Chéreau is made with flesh and sensuality. The result is fascinating, provoking and it will make you cry and laugh about the human...
Sense of uprootedness
Huis Marseille Museum For Photography is located in a maison bourgeoise built in 1665. Despite the innumerable rooms, the stuccorwork, and the ceiling paintings by Jacob De Wit, I felt at home. The photographies of interiors by Bert Teunissen and Marrigje De Maar participated in that cosy atmosphere. Until June 5, 2011, the museum highlights an interesting parallel between the works of these two...
WatchQueerosities, The Human Spider, Brooklyn Bridge
Via @urbain_
February 2011
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“The real meaning of travel, like that of a conversation by the fireside, is the...”
– Dr. Paul Tournier (via franziskakrueger)
January 2011
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I wish I was a red head #2
Melisse and Jacquelien, break before the photoshoot, Leidseplein.
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Gelukkig Nieuwjaar!
Amsterdam, view from the Magere Brug. To possibilities!
September 2010
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WatchGood ideas glow in the dark #4
The Ocean of Light project is a collaborative research venture, led by Squidsoup. squidsoup.org oceanoflight.net
via FeedGeeks
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Summer #3
August 2010
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Is it just a coincidence? #July2010
Generous and humorous satyrs about the artistic creation and the human condition…
* Pierrick Sorin, Rétrospective/Prospective, Lieu Unique, Nantes
* ‘Tamara Drewe’ by Stephen Frears
* ‘Barton Fink’ by Joel Coen
July 2010
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WatchModernist Basque Surfing, ‘thought, filmed & surfed in the Basque Country’. By debolex films and Loreak Mendian. Via Korduroy TV.
Summer #2
This summer, we ate fresh peas raw, we made funny faces in a sunflowers field, we went for bicycle rides at sunset, we swam near waterworks, we drank some rosé almost everyday.
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June 2010
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It's been far too long...
…since I didn’t share some thoughts, projects or pictures on this blog.
We moved to a new place, Angoulême, for professional reasons, three months ago. Since then, I tend to forget the most important things in life… Hopefully, family, friends and generous random people are there to wake me up.
My first portrait in Angoulême : Carole. Thanks!
April 2010
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Is it just a coincidence? - Week 3/15-3/19
* Read ‘Thousand Cranes’ (Nuée d’oiseaux blancs in French) by Yasunari Kawabata
* Listened to experimental rock by birds. Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at Barbican Centre, London:
* Found birdsound fascinating. Olivier Messiaen:
March 2010
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WatchThe local without walls…
‘The ABC has just launched a national call out for the best and brightest multimedia producers accross the country to drive the ABC Open Project. Based in regional centres around Australia, 45 producers will be working at developing new ways for engaging and interacting with audiences in their local areas. They’ll be active in their communities and will...
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Pénélope, trapeze artist, Paris
Pénélope is a trapeze artist and comedian. I saw her in the ‘Trapezi, Butterfly, Chair’ performance two years ago. There is no trapeze in this creation but a table (trapezi means table in greek) with two holes, a hanging garden and the flesh of two acrobats that was emphasized and magnified by the light. It’s thrilling, confusing, voluptuous and poetic.
I met her again at...
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Is it just a coincidence? - Week 3/1-3/7
The space between
* Seen on channel France3 on 3/2
‘Aurélie Dupont danse l’espace d’un instant’, a documentary by Cédric Klapisch
During a rehearsal of ‘Le parc’, Preljocaj encourages the dancers to find the movements between the notes.
* Read in the train on 3/3
‘Ma’ or the Tokyo space by Xavier Comas, Courrier International, Special issue: ‘The triumph of the other Japan’
‘The ma can be...
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Tout cela n'est que pure coïncidence - semaine...
L’espace entre…
* Vu sur France3 le 02/03
Documentaire ‘Aurélie Dupont danse l’espace d’un instant’ de Cédric Klapisch
Preljocaj, lors d’une répétition du ballet ‘Le Parc’, encourage les danseurs à trouver les mouvements ‘qui sont sur les notes, et ceux qui sont dans l’espace entre les notes’
* Lu le 03/03 dans le train
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February 2010
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Jean, comics author, Landes
May I have everything? Yes, everything. Having a job I like, living in the country but not too far from the sea, in a little house with a big garden and a compost bin in the backyard, where I would raise a happy family, and travelling as often as possible. And now, please! Does that sound like a utopia or a whim to you? Do you think it’s because i’m turning 30 soon or the consequence...
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“Trouver un équilibre entre quelque chose qui parle de soi, à soi mais qui parle...”
– Jean Harambat, auteur de BD
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Jean, auteur de BD, Landes
Don’t speak french? The post in English is following!
Est-ce que je peux tout avoir? Oui, tout, quoi. Avoir un travail que j’aime, vivre à la campagne mais pas trop loin de la mer, avoir une tite maison avec un grand jardin et un composteur au fond, y fonder une famille heureuse, sans oublier les voyages le plus régulièrement possible. Et maintenant s’il vous plaît! Utopie?...
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All the good things, cold weather brings #2
Snow. Blue light.
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All the good things, cold weather brings
Interior elements images by Woodnotes via SeeSaw Design. Reminded me…
Snow Flakes and Schnapps by the Australian chef, Jane Lawson. I gave this cooking book for the nostalgic journeys through Germany and Austria and the following recipes. Winter vegetable crumble (p.49). Polenta loaf with chestnut honey and fennel butter (p.59). Schnitzel with pickled cabbage (p.109). Crisp roast...
January 2010
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Where is Home?
Back in France after travelling in Australia and New Zealand for one year and living in a van for a three-month roadtrip. I realized that I haven’t asked myself THE fateful question for a while, the one I’ve been asking myself since I left my tiny French Island 12 years ago. Where is Home? I think I found the answer.
Home is wherever I’m with you.