Framfab

Un autre bel usage de flash, unpeu plus corporative cette fois mais bien fait :

* Framfab

Un blog de plus dans la blogoshpère montréalaise

Félicitation à antoine qui a enfin mis en ligne son blog. Par le fait même, il se mérite la mention Nerds2004 pour les nombreuses heures passées à gosser du code pendant qu’il fait beau dehors.

Vendus

Caractéra, l’entreprise pour laquelle je travaille, vient de passer aux mains des imprimeurs Solisco. Contente ou pas, je ne sais pas trop encore, je fais confiance au flair des dirigeants de caractéra qui ont choisis de vendre. Ca n’empêche pas que je trouve bien triste de laisser partir nos chefs d’entreprise, qui ont bâtis ensemble Caractéra et qui l’ont fait grandir pendant 35 ans, de québec à montréal.

Le vent souffle, les années passent, la vie suit sont cours et on doit tous avancer…
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WEFAIL LOVERS

uuuhoo, absolutely amazing use of flash and immagination:

* WEFAIL

Le paradis

J’ai découvert le paradis.

Un endroit complètement zen, calme et enveloppant.

Suivant les recommandations de mel et gina, Je me suis payé une heure de massage à l’ovarium et en suis ressortie complètement space. Tellement que par la suite, je suis restée à contempler l’étalage de yogourt de l’épicerie durant un lapse de temps qui m’a semblé une éternité. Fraises – citrons – prunes et noix – fraises – citrons – prunes… Comme un buzz en d’dans, le stress qui tombe et je me rappelle combien on se sent bien dans un corps détendu.

Je me rend surtout compte de toute la pression que je me met sur les épaules, combien de stress inutile je m’impose… en faire plus, toujours plus… putain.. je me sentait tellement légère en sortant de là…

Faits divers, encore à l’épicerie, la couverture du dernière heure : ‘Terrorisme, épidémies, blablabla. Les prédictions de l’été 2004′. Wooooooooolà, quecé ça? Merde… ya vraiment des gens qui vont acheter ça et jouer à se faire des peurs et se cloitrer chez eux tout l’été, pis un gun avec ça?
Ce genre de truc devrait être interdit. Welcome back to reality.

Shake it

Pourquoi une compagnie d’ici, Bell, doit aller à l’extérieur du pays pour avoir un concept de pub qui sort de l’ordinaire? L’agence responsable de la campagne Solo est canadienne, mais le concept et le design ont été fait par Cuban Council (aka guys from k10k).

Est ce qu’on va finallement se faire confiance et sortir de la marge un jour? Fuck, ca me fait chier des trucs comme ca. Pas que j’aime pas les gars de cuban council, mais je dois admettre qu’ils ont eu le culot de faire quelque chose qui n’aurait pu être fait ici.

Est-ce à cause de leur réputation (fame can change lots of things my dear, bring the client’s trust and more $$$), ou bien est-ce à cause de leur audace et leur créativité qu’on a fait appel à eux?

Twist it

(14:44:00) A.J.: hey
(14:44:22) m-c: hey
(14:44:28) m-c: how is it going
(14:44:30) A.J.: what’s new?
(14:44:38) A.J.: well, not a lot

(…)

(14:56:55) A.J.: anyway
(14:57:02) A.J.: on the blogger side of things, there was some sad news
(14:57:11) m-c: what?
(14:57:46) A.J.: someone who had come to a couple of YULBlog meetings died in a car accident on vacation, she was friends with a few of them
(15:00:33) m-c: ah, yeah, i have read that yesterday.. it is so strange, blogwise i mean.. what happens then? keeping online the blog of someone who passed away is kindof strange.. I didnt knew her, but its the first time i get to ask myself about what happens when a ‘virtual’ being passes away..
(15:00:48) A.J.: i was just thinking the same thing, what happens to your Friendster profile? she had one there too, a lot of friends, for a shy girl from Ottawa she knew a lot of cool people
(15:01:54) A.J.: I guess the rule is, put your passwords in your will
(15:02:15) m-c: i went out yesterday with a friend of mine, and like many others she didnt knew what a blog is… it always amaze me.. Its crazy how all this is still underground, and in the meantime, it is changing our culture in so many ways..
(15:02:49) A.J.: yeah, for those who do it it seems like everyone in the universe does too, but 99% of people can’t even use the internet properly
(15:03:07) m-c: soooo weird still..
(15:03:12) A.J.: yeah
(15:03:59) A.J.: Nika (aka Veronica) has mentioned maybe some sort of informal meeting to drink some jameson’s in her honour…she was quite friends with her, spoke to her just before she left.
(15:06:30) m-c: did u ever thought about the fact that one day, my actual blog, where i write about many things happening in my life, might be something my ‘petits enfants’ will be able to access in 20 years if properly archived? this is awesome..
(15:06:46) A.J.: and scary
(15:06:49) m-c: hehe
(15:06:54) m-c: i think its cool
(15:07:10) A.J.: that’s sort of the point of adulthood, you get to hit the reset button and start over
(15:07:26) m-c: u say it
(15:07:32) A.J.: depends on how cool you were as a kid. For some it would be like an embarrassing yearbook picture…*forever*
(15:07:36) m-c: how old are u?
(15:07:39) A.J.: 33
(15:08:19) m-c: yeah, i feel like i just got into adulthood, strange thing.. like if until 6 months ago i was still a teenager..
(15:08:42) A.J.: I still don’t feel grown up yet
(15:09:23) m-c: well, i feel like a teenager trying to be an adult..
(15:09:28) m-c: doing my best to..
(15:09:40) A.J.: I think that’s when you really become an adult, when you realize even presidents and prime ministers are basically still making it up as they go along
(15:10:02) A.J.: yeah, when do we get to be the cool kids in school ?
(15:11:50) m-c: in the last 3 weeks, i happened to fall on pictures of me as a kid, like age 7 and 12. I took the pictures out and hanged them around, realizing that in my head i am still this kid, well, hard to explain.. like if ‘this’ would be the real me..
(15:12:47) A.J.: when I feel the most ‘me,’ I feel the most like when I was around that age
(15:12:56) A.J.: I think that’s why people like travelling,
(15:13:06) A.J.: because being someplace new stimulates that part of the brain
(15:13:15) A.J.: because back then, everything *was* new
(15:13:36) A.J.: we had no neuroses, worries
(15:15:13) m-c: i think becoming adults, we loose the spontaneity all kids have, replacing it by hard thinking. This changes everything, in our everyday life, in the art we do too..
(15:15:30) A.J.: yeah, like we stop ourselves before we even start
(15:15:34) m-c: right
(15:17:07) m-c: like if there would be a non written rule for everyone to follow, about being serious, doing only things which have a meaning and can bring you a concrete result
(15:18:42) A.J.: yeah
(15:18:53) A.J.: must do work according to what is written in my day-timer
(15:19:06) A.J.: cannot deviate from plan to look at interesting art
(15:20:42) m-c: that is where traveling is coming back, the only way for many people to escape an agenda, to get into adventure, the so scary unknown of not planned events.. That is maybe why we have so many workaholic people around there, maybe they just try to escape the smallest possibility of having something not planned!
(15:21:37) A.J.: i look at it from a kind of buddhist perspective
(15:21:48) A.J.: they are the kind of people that do not know how to "do nothing"
(15:21:56) A.J.: they always need music or the tv on
(15:22:07) m-c: i think im gonna get this conversation in text format and call it ‘changing the world on a sunny monday afternoon on msn’.. heh
(15:22:08) A.J.: they can’t sit around quietly with their own thoughts
(15:22:23) A.J.: go ahead

Swing it

sixtoo launch :
this was saturday evening at la sala rossa. I had a great time there, loud music, young trip hop fans, 3 guys, a bass, keyboard and what i think was a drum machine. A really nice first part of the show by i have no idea who. This kid just sat with his stuff on the floor in front of the stage and mixed some good tunes.
Check out the short clip from the show, with visuals from james at presstube.

makes me want it more :
this week i will finally get my german tax papers done. Over. Shit, a year after my return from germany these things are still not done. This done, i will finally know how much money left i have (or dont) and will order my new powerbook (with or without the ipod, depending on you know what).

I cant wait to do some flash stuff on my new computer, also some print and some music stuff with garageband. Eric’s got some nice tunes going on, all done with it. Check it out.

6 piasses pour rire :
Spent this evening watching an improvisation show with ‘les cravates’ at le petit medley. Went there with friends for the second time, it is well worth the 6$ cover… I am always amazed at how spontaneity can bring smart-twisted ideas on. If you want to escape the sunday evening mood-swing or just need a good laugh, this is the place to be (or you do like me and take mondays off from work.. no sunday evening mood-swing ever.. guaranteed).

Otherwise, my obsession with jay-jay johanson should be ending soon or my neighbors will call the police. Tired of waiting for atomheart to get my Patrick Wolf record, i have downloaded some of his stuff. This should give you an idea of what this week obsession will be..

All for now, i too must go to bed..

Done

Lots of work has been done this week, and here are some new paintings, Birthday and Older Now (+detail pict).
Sorry about the bad quality of the quick picts, but taking canvas on picture is not an easy thing…

It do es n’t mat ter what we say, so fa r

Far away, once so close
But now yo
u’re far away

You’re stil l here with me
But not like ye
sterday, so fa r
Far aw

ay, I hear you breathe
But you’re so far away

Once so colourful
But now all t u rns to grey, so far
It’s oh so strange

Seconds like hours

No
w it’s true love has died

No m

ore roads left to try, far away
Far a w ay, long ago
When lov

Mac Buyer’s Guide: Know When to Buy Your Mac

Many thanx to AJ who helped me sort out things with this link:

* Mac Buyer’s Guide: Know When to Buy Your Mac

hold out for the things you believe in

i have found this tonight while searching for a picture. I made a copy of this article when i was 20, starting graphic design classes. I had it on my wall for so long, now its all broken.

I have no idea who wrote it, it think i found it in a old issue of print magazine. But it still gives me the same drive as it did 9 years ago.

‘Our mission here on earth is to change our environment…’

yeah.. right on…

Hidding

Funny how life is sometimes.

Talking with my dad on msn tonight, he, complaining about me never giving news, told me that he and my brother came to the conclusion that i was a cat. Hidding, sleeping, asking for affection only when i feel like, being independent…

Last week at my birthday party, i got a postcard from friends.

A friend, years ago, once told me i had cats eyes.

Here’s the postcard,
here’s a picture of me at age 12 with it.
Here’s a strange but true comparision.