Weekly obsession: Keane

A little more of it. Just a little. One more song.

I have been listening to Keane’s album on and on since 3 days, and it is of course, this week obsession:

From their debut album Hopes and Fears, a blend of sumptuous and catchy melodies along with poignant verses. If you liked Travis, Radiohead – the bends, you might enjoy their music as much as i.

* Everybody’s changing mp3
* This is the last time mp3.

Dating in 2004

Me and my new chumé have now shared enough saliva to go to the next step:
playing ‘everything and anything you wanna know about (lover’s name here)‘.

Type of question that could be used for the game are (you can also invent your own ones, be imaginative):

- why did you moved over here?
- last girlfriend (if and when, how long did it last, why did it ended)?
- tastes (music, food, favorite places, travels, readings, etc.)
- how does he spend time (beside being with you)?
and, the last but not the least,
- is he dating other people (girls/boys/pets) other than you?

Switch, it’s now your turn to answer questions.

There aren’t good or bad answers, but check out for the level of honesty in your partner’s eyes. This might reveal some things you’d better be careful with.

Good luck.

p.s: he keeps telling me that he isn’t reading my blog.

Obsession and new work

As you can see here, something close to be called an obsession is going on with Keane’s debut album.

Otherwise, i am about to finish a new painting. There’s no name for it yet.

I have several new pieces that aren’t online yet, this is because i am working on a new portfolio and i also prefer to spend time drawing and painting than updating my website. There should be about 10 new pieces, paintings and drawings, online in the next weeks. Stay tuned.

Under electric light’s performance

At Missy Bar on september 31th 2004.

This was dan’s first live performance under the name Under electric light. Earlier collaborations where with friend and roomate Adam (from Sabola) and workmate Mathieu Rodier (guitars) as first part for Vitamines for you.

We were a pretty receptive crowd, all expecting a great time between friends, eager to hear dan’s new stuff with live bass and guitars.

The boys did more than entertain us, they actually blew our socks off by the simplicity of well calculated bass and guitar lines over dan’s emotional electro beats tracks and strong melodies.

This isn’t just the beginning. They’re gonna rule the world someday, i am convinced.

Pictures and short videos of the show can be found right here.

Conversation

“Salut, comment ça va?”

(blabla à propos de tout et rien qui dure environ 5 minutes)

“Et puis, quoi de neuf?”

“Euh ben…”

(là je me demande si je dois lui dire… fuck, je plonge)

“Ben j’ai rencontré quelqu’un. C’est encore tout nouveau, ca fait que 2 semaines. Il est anglo (un autre que je me dis…), il est arrivé ici en janvier. On s’est rencontré sur le net (un autre que je me dis encore… ca fait décidément partit de mon karma on dirait).”

“ha oui?”

(là les idées doivent défiler à 200 mille à l’heure dans sa tête : un étranger, qui parle pas français, qu’elle a jamais vu, que j’ai rencontré sur le net.. ça regarde mal)

“il fait quoi dans la vie? il ressemble à quoi? pourquoi il est ici?”

“Euh, ben, je sais pas encore tout sur lui.. On apprend à se connaître…”

“ha bien, c’est bien.. Ca commence par de l’amitié et on verra bien ce que ca donnera!” (dit sur un ton encourageant, ca sonne plus comme de l’insécurité…)

“Ben là, c’est parce que en fait, euh.. écoute maman, on est en 2004, les choses se passent différemment de ya 15 ou 20 ans…”

(longue pause… et je replonge. La descente risque d’être unpeu rough cette fois ci…)

“En fait, on est pas vraiment des amis… disons amis-amants?”

(ok, c’est fait. je l’ai dit.)

(trop long silence de sont coté.)

(et puis la question : )

“Tu te protège au moins?”

Et bizarrement, je me retrouve à converser avec ma mère de condoms avec spermicide au lieu de l’habituelle conversation sur le temps qu’il a fait cette semaine.

C’est ça maman, on est en 2004. À l’ère du speed dating et de l’extrême dans tout.
Ca se passe définitivement plus comme avant.

Hell lazy

l’automne de force – 2

nooooooooooooon!

dites moi quelqun que l’été se tire pas déjà.

m’semble que je commencais juste à en profiter.

l’automne de force

I got up feeling a bit cold and sick. Drove to work, with long sleeve shirt.

god damn, nooooooooo! summer has to last much longer!

Une nouvelle recrue

Toute mes félicitations à mon amie meb qui a mis en ligne hier, à 2h38, son premier blog: Chez Meb.

Le premier post fait exactment 67 mots et nous promet plein de belles réflexions profondes sur le temps qu’il fait ainsi que sur sa vie d’artiste dans le jus d’orange.

* Chez Meb

once upon a forest

Joshua Davis’s Once upon a Forest:
A new print piece being installed at the Maxalot Gallery in Barcelona – www.maxalot.com for the upcoming “We have explosive” show. This design (#16) will be printed at 6m x 3m (19 x 9 feet) and also at 120cm x 60cm (3.89 x 1.95 feet).

* once upon a forest

+++

About the upcoming Flash in the can, which will be held this october:
In John Maeda’s new upcoming book “Creative Code” published by Thames and Hudson (rel. 2004) I was given the opportunity to write an essay in the chapter addressing “dynamic abstraction”.

Fundamentally, art/design has been taught as very static process… executing style/method and arriving at an end result. I prefer to write programs (or machines, as I like to call them)… and it’s these programs that generate the compositions for me. With this method, the end result is never static; making room for as many anomalies as possible, every composition generated by the programs I write is unique to itself. I program the “brushes,” the “paints,” the “strokes,” the rules and the boundaries. However it is the machine that creates the compositions — the programs draw themselves.

stay tuned.

Naked & Angry

Submit a design for a fabric pattern to be voted on by other users. The design will be scored for 7 days at which time it will be given a final score. The highest scoring designs will be manufactured and products will be created from the fabric.

Fabric created from the winning patterns will be manufactured and cut & sewn to create various garments such as tops, ties, polos and sweaters.

* Naked & Angry website

l’bbs, ijhnitwa

I’ll be back soon.
I just have nothing interesting to write about.
Or it’s just too personal..