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As it is now, we’ll be heading to SXSW this march. Hopefully we’ll have a nice flight, nothing compared to what happened last year… Read my sxsw 2006 entries here.
Speakers list is here, schedule to be out later.
en surfant sur les tables-rabais chez indigo, je suis tombée sur un livre de julia cameron que je ne connaissais pas. je le feuillette, j’en lis des passages et je sourie toute seule. bon signe.
Letters To A Young Artist parJulia Cameron (5.99$, le deal !)
j’ai fait la démarche “the artist way” (son bestseller) il y a quelques années et j’ai bien aimé ce que j’y ai trouvé sur moi-même. “artist way” est plus près de la démarche psycho, qui nous nettoie des idées ancrées nocives, celles qui nous empêchent d’avancer. depuis, j’ai toujours gardé un oeil sur ce qu’elle écrivait.
Letters To A Young Artist est un livre de lettres où cameron répond à un jeune artiste qui voudrait réussir, mais manque de véritable détermination. il a surtout une fausse idée du travail de l’artiste.
ce qui m’a fait sourire, c’est qu’elle n’y va pas de main morte sur les idées clichées que nous avons du processus artistique ou créatif.
“art is about process not product”
“I like to create more than critique”
“a block is really just the ego’s resistance to working badly”
” your job is not to be interesting is to be interested”
il y en a à toutes les pages des phrases “choc” de ce type.
c’est tout à fait ce que je crois et que j’essaie de faire.
faire de la création le plus souvent possible, peu importe ce que c’est. pour moi, c’est une question de discipline mais surtout, le faire parce qu’on aime le processus, on devient “addict” au processus en fait.
pas d’attente, pas de jugement. ce sont les étapes difficiles à atteindre, mais on peut y arriver.
à lire, à petites doses pour se fouetter la motivation.
New pieces of the 6×6 project are online.
Si le goût vous prend de participer au projet, laissez nous savoir en laissant un message ici et on s’occupera de former des équipes //
If you want to contribute to the project, the easiest is to say hi on the group page. From there we can arrange teams for exchanging material.
Quotes. Because i couldnt find only one to post, follow the link.
When I was living in Germany, I had a subscription for the fabulous german magazine Brand Eins. By reading the magazine for 2 years, it changed my mind not only once. I learned so much from the well-written and critical articles about economy, society and psychology. It was one of my most important sources of inspiration… sitting silently, having a cup of coffee on a Saturday morning and reading Brand Eins gave me an energy boost for the week to come!
Anyways, when I moved to Montréal I canceled the subscription. I knew that they archive all magazines online but I never had a look at it. Until yesterday… 
And the power of the magazine got me into it, again.
I discovered an excellent article about “success”. You might think “oh my god, another article about success and how to be successful from a self-nominated success guru”. But no, not at all. The article gives a historical overview from the beginning of the industrialized society and the first books written on this subject by people who believed that everyone can be successful – whatever this means. Additionally the relationship between luck and success is covered as well as the term success and its meaning recently – “nowadays success is defined as material success only”.
If you can read german and if you feel like looking behind some values of our society, this article is a must for you. Check it out here.
I got up with this question asked by Maria in my mailbox, here are my thoughts:
Hopefully, a web by the people for the people: everyone wishing to have its own video, audio or written media channel will have it. Traditional media will be changed, created by contributions of citizen and journalist content;
Web everywhere: we’ll more and more be using it from home, coffees, using it from our computers, TVs and mobile phones. I’ll be walking on the streets, from anywhere in the world, having a Skype chat conversation at the same time;
A hub for creative people: as it started with Web 2.0, the web will continue to be used by curious and creatives to meet, share, exchange thoughts, ideas, and make the web and the world better. This movement will grow stronger as people will unite;
Geography disappearing in an immense web of sharing: the Web has made sharing thoughts and knowlegdge with the rest of the world easier than ever, how much of my life got influenced and shaped by meeting people online? How many ideas exchanged, that have evolved in each and everyone’s head, spreading, expanding, e v o l v i n g — changing our lifes? The amount of knowledge that get now shared, ideas that are created, how many lifes are influenced by virtually interacting with each other?
A global phonebook: with everyone having either a blog, or just a ID page where we can get to know about this person (picture, occupation, city of living, hobbies, social groups they belong to, interest, favorites, etc.), the web is becoming the largest phonebook ever. Blogs as we know them now won’t be blogs anymore but virtual id’s – our thoughts-ideas-tastes- virtual memoir, archived as a straight html files – intellectual souls, classified by day/week/month/year/decades – family trees, fully linked network of all our related friends, family, interest and hobbys. From these pages, everyone will be able to get into people’s webspaces, and make the move (or not) that could bring you to interact with each other. From there, many things could happen;
More than ever, a new media: slowly replacing, changing, adding to the TV, Radio and Newspapers, or complementing these. New kind of contents will grow: organic, spontaneous, original, and of course, trash (as in any media) and cooperation between traditional and citizen media;
A powerful showroom and marketplace: for a new generation of entrepreneurs, amateurs, writers, musicians, craft artists using the medium to have their productions seen by like minded people and interested buyers;
Advertising Wallpapers: many are saying the future of advertising is on the web – visual pollution and trashy content are what we’ll be having to deal with. Targeted intelligent advertising will be developed, centered on people’s interest and location;
Niche vs mainstream: I believe some communities will hit mainstream, attracting milions of users (social softwares, games, …), but most of them will be small, intimate communities. We won’t be strangers anymore, we’ll all be invisibly connected together, growing / sharing with each other. The more of yourself you’re gonna put into your community, the more will be given to the community – this entity, ecosystem, it’s gonna grow.
Web 3.0 is about communities, difference, market, online IDs, and the exploding of new media and entertainment format.
I just stumbled accross Walter Van Beirendonck’s newest clothes collection. I like this guy for his sense of humor and criticism in his collection. I made some screenshots from his website…
Link to the collection. I definitely should have a look at where his clothes are sold in North America.
Feeling like shopping, but havnt got money to spend but a wardrobe full of stuff you’re not wearing since months?
Join the flickr Wardrobe Swap Shop: girls are invited to post clothes they would be ready to swap/trade. Shirts, dresses, pants, shoes, jewelry, bags, hair items, etc.
Telle une série de films d’horreurs, le iPod Battle continue sans cesse à nous hanter. Cette fois si, on aborde le chapitre 4; La revanche. Why Alex Why?/Violette Vilaine viendront-ils à bout des intuables Omnikrom? Les Georges Leningrads, Sons of Warsaw, Bande à Part, Cherry Cola/Catherine Love-City (LVÉAM), Royal Air Togo et Plastik Patrik feront aussi partie du carnage sonore toujours sous la supervision de Annie Q. Venez voter, enfin crier, pour vos participants préférés, parce que finalement la musique compte pas tant que ça dans ce, somme toute, combat de popularité. L’ambiance sera bien évidemment au rendez-vous.
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Samedi 20 janvier 2007, 21h00, Club Lambi.
” On s’en va à Granby ” n’est pas une télé-réalité, mais plutôt une rencontre avec des artistes à travers leur musique et leur quotidien durant les deux mois de préparation du festival. Lesquels se rendront jusqu’au bout? nous laisse savoir le site de cette nouvelle émission à Musimax. Le tout semble prometteur et une vitrine incroyable pour des artistes relativement inconnus. On devrait suivre les hauts et les bas de Éric Bélanger, Serge Fortin, Stéphane Lacroix, Inès Talbi et Geneviève Toupin alors qu’ils participaient à la dernière édition du Festival International de la chanson de Granby. Le choix des ‘protagonistes’ semble assez éclectique; des gars, des filles, certains seul au piano, d’autre accompagné d’un groupe, le tout dans des registres musicaux assez variés. Pas de grande surprise tant qu’au vainqueur, on le sait déjà; Alexandre Désilets. En espérant que ça tombera pas trop dans le carcan de l’infâme téléréalité et optera plutôt pour la tradition du cinéma direct (shout out à Perrault, Groulx, Brault et les autres), quoique j’en doute beaucoup. Bah, ça ne peut pas être pire que Star Académie.
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Première; Mercredi 24 janvier, 21h00, MusiMax (cable 32), en rappel tout les jours suivant.
I took this photo last week as my colleague gourmet délice was preparing to leave to tour france with his band le nombre.
j’ai pris cette photo la semaine passée, au départ de mon collègue gourmet délice qui se préparait pour partir en tournée en france avec le nombre.
I love the web who’s not talking about the web. I love the web when its used as a tool to make me discover great art, talents and artists works.
Ordered today:
via Harry.
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