January 2012
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Jan 20th
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December 2011
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1Q84
I received the Alfred A. Knopf hardcover, English edition of Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 a few days ago and I am already a huge fan. The fonts, the layout and the paper quality are awesome. This is one of the reasons I feel it hard to abandon ‘dead wood’ and jump entirely on the eBook bandwagon. The same goes for vinyls vs. digital music or medium format film photography vs....
Dec 29th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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Dec 15th
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Desolation
Dec 13th
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Dec 10th
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Shadow Ripples
Dec 6th
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Dec 3rd
November 2011
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Grandeur et insignifiance
Nov 8th
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Nov 7th
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Nov 4th
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“Malheur à l’homme qui, oubliant son devoir de merveilles, a, par voeu de...”
– Trouillot, Lyonel. La belle amour humaine. Pages 166-167. Editions Actes Sud.
Nov 1st
October 2011
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“Quel talent faut-il à un homme pour qu’au soir de ses funérailles on ne...”
– Trouillot, Lyonel. La belle amour humaine. Page 163. Éditions Actes Sud.
Oct 30th
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“… la stabilité d’un système ne tient pas à ses vertus mais à sa...”
– Trouillot, Lyonel. La belle amour humaine. Page 153. Éditions Actes Sud.
Oct 27th
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Lutte des classes
Oct 22nd
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Oct 22nd
September 2011
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La myopie de J. Viewz
Friand de musiques qu’on ne sait cataloguer, qu’on ne sait mettre dans une case particulière, c’est avec un plaisir non dissimulé que j’ai abordé l’article de National Public Radio portant sur Jonathan Dagan, un jeune artiste de Brooklyn plus connu sous le nom de J. Viewz. D’après l’article, le sieur Dagan saurait mélanger des influences aussi diverses...
Sep 14th
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August 2011
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Aug 18th
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Pedro Almodóvar, La Piel que Habito et quelques...
Lorsque j’ai visionné la bande-annonce de La Piel que Habito, le nouveau film d’Almodóvar, je fus profondément intrigué. “Voilà une proposition nouvelle, qui change et qui -en tant qu’humble spectateur- m’attire et m’invite à la découverte” me suis-je dit. J’ai du la voir une bonne demi-douzaine de fois sans que cela ne me lasse et je pense que les...
Aug 16th
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Aug 15th
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Health Recipe: Greek Salad
Over the years, I turned black belt in the art of making delicious Greek salads. I have no merits as the recipe is dead simple. The following recipe from the New York Times is as close as it gets to a good and healthy Greek salad. Do skip the muffins (or bread altogether) and mayonnaise doesn’t really compute. Feta is a bit too salty for my taste, given that the recipe already contains red...
Aug 12th
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July 2011
3 posts
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A Peek Thru Time
Jul 29th
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Art de rue à Beaubourg
Jul 20th
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The Sorry State of Music
Call me an old fart but when I hear people lauding Raphael Saadiq’s musicianship, I feel sorry for their ignorance. Haven’t they heard of Marvin Gaye? Good Man, Saadiq’s latest single which invaded most hype-ish radio stations in France would have been good if there weren’t some awful, AWFUL, female voices that are way too RnB (read fake soul) and if Saadiq’s voice...
Jul 19th
June 2011
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Jun 17th
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May 2011
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May 31st
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May 30th
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May 30th
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Trees and Kids
This shot was taken earlier this month with a Hasselblad 501 C/M Medium Format film camera, somewhere in France. No post-processing has been performed at all. The Kodak 400TX negative was scanned by a professional (though sometimes sloppy) lab in downtown Paris. While the composition is not particularly outstanding, I like the fact that the motion of the kids which very presence adds a...
May 25th
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R201105-03E08
May 23rd
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La dame de Beaubourg
S’il ne regorgeait de monde, Beaubourg et ses alentours serait un lieu fort sympathique pour un amateur de photographie. Mais, me direz-vous, on n’y rencontrerait pas ces personnages décalés s’ils n’étaient attirés par la foule qui peuple ce quartier populaire de Paris. Je vous l’accorde. Votre remarque est pertinente et elle dénote mon besoin, certes égoïste, de...
May 19th
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May 6th
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May 6th
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Late Afternoon Walk, Ymittos
The picture above was taken by long-time friend and photography “teacher” Sascha Welter. I like the washed out look of this exposure and the composition is quite original as we can see a little bit of civilization (or rampant craziness, YMMV) at the bottom right corner and the difference is quite striking with the empty, relaxing sun and those leaning plants (windy?) in the...
May 4th
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May 2nd
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April 2011
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Apr 26th
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Apr 20th
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“[…] il faut des dizaines de milliers d’années pour que le plutonium...”
– Philippe Frémeaux. Alternatives économiques, numéro 301, avril 2011. Page 5 (éditorial)
Apr 15th
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