Painted Panoramas
Painted panoramas; attempts at adding a new dimension to my creations… › Link to “Surreal Compendium” › Link to “Naasir’s Dream”
Read MoreWisp
Wisp is a magazine featuring personal stories, creative expressions, in a resolutely enthusiastic focus on our current world in all of its facets… Publisher and designer for the Wisp e-zine publication (ISSN 1760–4796). The project started in May 2008 as a creative challenge for a group of four friends. Even if I take care of most of its technical realization (website, publication) it is above all a group project with a wide variety of contributors. After six months of monthly...
Read MoreTea & Prune Flan
An improvisation around the classic “flan pâtissier” and “far breton”. Ingredients 4 eggs 150g sugar 1 vanilla pod (or vanilla extract, or vanilla sugar) 150g flour 1 litre milk (opt.) prunes (opt.) 1 teabag of strong flavoured tea (I used Earl Grey tea) Instructions Whisk the eggs with the sugar, add the flour. Boil the milk with the vanilla pod, and let the tea brew in the milk. Add this to the preparation. Pour into a non sticky cake pan (you can also butter and coat the pan...
Read MoreThe spectrum of emotions
At one point in the cult movie Donnie Darko (2001), the hero (Donnie) confronts his health instructor’s simplistic view of the spectrum of human emotions, based on the “teachings” of a local new-age celebrity. Basically, even if a voluntary over-simplification and caricature of some new-age philosophies (positive part of the emotional scale versus negative one; feels good/feels bad dichotomy), this is an interesting point that is being made. In this kind of view of our emotions, we tend...
Read MoreChococo Cake & Gingerbread (Pain d’épice)
Two cake recipes today, relatively easy and quite yummy alone or topped with some “crème anglaise”: Photo by Eschraiel Orange Blossom Chococo Cake Ingredients 3 eggs 150 g sugar 180 g flour 150 g butter some baking powder (half a dose) a pinch of salt some vanilla sugar 150 g dark chocolate (optional) 25 g grated coconut and 5 cl of orange blossom water (opt.) 25 g almond powder (opt.) 5 cl rum or other appropriate spirit (I used some chouchen) you can also add other ingredients...
Read MoreGhost in the Turk
I recently found out, through one of the referrers of my website, the Amazon Mechanical Turk website. Never shy of a new experience, I register to see by myself what it’s all about. The premise is simple. Some jobs cannot be automated by machines (doesn’t sound too bad to me) and are relatively simple to be done by humans —and we’re not talking of playing chess (the origin of the “turk” moniker.) These simple tasks are given to people to be done for a small fee. I found some...
Read MoreThe Elegant Universe
The following documentary is quite interesting. Although I am not a big fan overall of the string theory which seems to be (to borrow from JP Petit, a French astrophysicist) “science minus the experience, and mathematics without the rigorous approach” it does a good job to present some of the current challenges on our present scientific understanding of the universe. (PBS-Nova — The Elegant Universe) I can’t help to find it ironic as well, that the presentation of the subject is done...
Read MoreFlow of Time
How we read pictures, whether we know it or not, is often the result of a combination of factors. Of course, a prominent one is our own personality, the essence of who we are, regardless of our upbringing and all of the other common associations gravitating around our culture. But our own culture, its language (spoken and also its wider context) and the set of beliefs we adopted from it still has a great part in it, sometimes so deeply embedded that we won’t notice it. This latest picture...
Read MoreWrapping up the Rat’s Year
In a bit less than a moon from now (January 26 th to be precise), it will be 春节 (Chun Jie) or Chinese New Year. It will be the year of the Ox, a slow-paced, hard-working animal, while 2008 was the year of the Rat —and in more than one way. Being not only the mount of Ganesha, Hindu God of the beginnings, the Rat is a talented quick-witted and industrious little creature who was said, in ancient Chinese tales1 to have outwitted the other animals and robbed the Ox of the first place on...
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Tilendar 2009
If you remember the “tiles” (see below), you’ll probably like this calendar for 2009 where beautiful imageries have been put together around this concept, with photography and 3D renders by Jib. (preview of the images for the calendar’s interior) Tiles were introduced early in the collaborative story (Circle of Eights, p.229) in this entry, where Midora, a character in our future, uses her favourite handbook of symbols: […] So she had found a compass… Now, she...
Read MoreWisp eZine in Print — Volume 1 and 2
The long wait is now over, our favourite “out there” magazine Wisp is now available in a much expected printed format. Two volumes have been made so far, each full color, with 100 pages of 3 consecutive issues. Follow the links below if you want to order your copy. The archives can still be seen for free on the website http://wisp.focusphere.net. Wisp — Volume 1 (2008) Wisp — Volume 2 (2008) A printed compilation of the first and second quarterly bound of Wisp e-zine...
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