Friday we had an office party (4people) to celebrate the end of the year...
Yesterday we made Soba to celebrate the end of the year (2 of us)...
Tonight we'll have a home party with our family friends (5 people) to celebrate the end of the year...
2008 is really expected...
December 31, 2007
Buren, Daniel
Daniel Buren, the artist who defeated the anti-modern art in Paris with 'les colonnes de Buren'... Check this article from Libération in which he criticizes the State and the City of Paris for their lack of care regarding his masterpiece installed in the Jardins du Palais Royal.
What more than stripes? We made so many jokes about the artist like when we had a T-shirt with stripes and we called it "T-shirt Buren". We also applied the concept to shirts...
More about the artist in the following links :
What more than stripes? We made so many jokes about the artist like when we had a T-shirt with stripes and we called it "T-shirt Buren". We also applied the concept to shirts...
More about the artist in the following links :
December 28, 2007
Canard, Duck, Kamo, Ente
Ducks are my friends and my favourite food too! Sorry!!!
I remember the story of a little kid who was followed by his pet duck.
I recalled also the Japanese experiments with scientists who laid a color cube next to a duck egg. The freshly hatched duck immediately took the cube for his mom/parent. The stiry had me cry ; I found it sad and dsiturbing to imagine that poor little yellow thing ignored by a non creature with no souls and feelings...
I hate it when people take ducks for more stupid than they are.
I remember the story of a little kid who was followed by his pet duck.
I recalled also the Japanese experiments with scientists who laid a color cube next to a duck egg. The freshly hatched duck immediately took the cube for his mom/parent. The stiry had me cry ; I found it sad and dsiturbing to imagine that poor little yellow thing ignored by a non creature with no souls and feelings...
I hate it when people take ducks for more stupid than they are.
Dell asks customers
My first PC was a Dell 200MMX... That was somewhere in 1997. It was still working couple years ago.
I switched back to Mac this year after many PCs... I am so crazy for Apple hardware (and excellent software too!).
Yet Dell has realy impressed me with the consumer/user forum : http://www.dellideastorm.com/
Ask a customer about possible product improvement sounds like the road to wisdom and success.
I switched back to Mac this year after many PCs... I am so crazy for Apple hardware (and excellent software too!).
Yet Dell has realy impressed me with the consumer/user forum : http://www.dellideastorm.com/
Ask a customer about possible product improvement sounds like the road to wisdom and success.
December 20, 2007
Chinsagu No Hana ["I'd like to be involved"]
Sakamoto Ryuichi's most beautiful song with Okinawa inspired music had me cry a couple times simply because it spoke to me long before I would actually find its title and meaning (it just happened a couple minutes ago and lead me to write this quick post).
This is the feeling I have when I am among foreigner people who 'do not seem to care' about me.
Have you ever experienced that feeling : you can't speak a language that you love and the people around you are talking so much. You feel like you do not belong to the party and nobody cares about you. Of course they do care but they enjoy their culture. Yet you feel lonely like the guy outside the restaurant looking at the people enjoying ; he feels more hungry for company than for the food itself.
Next time it happens to you, focus on the beauty of the language and try to decode some expressions on the faces and in the eyes.
Listen to this beautiful song and raise volume at 2:00 to get the emotional musical background melody. The women's voices give humanity to the song too.
Sadness and yet hope are in this song. I can almost picture a movie scene with a daunted human being who finds the courage to stand up and look at the rising sun with a slow moving smile on their tear covered face.
Chinsagu No Hana, Beauty, Sakamoto Ryuichi
This is the feeling I have when I am among foreigner people who 'do not seem to care' about me.
Have you ever experienced that feeling : you can't speak a language that you love and the people around you are talking so much. You feel like you do not belong to the party and nobody cares about you. Of course they do care but they enjoy their culture. Yet you feel lonely like the guy outside the restaurant looking at the people enjoying ; he feels more hungry for company than for the food itself.
Next time it happens to you, focus on the beauty of the language and try to decode some expressions on the faces and in the eyes.
Listen to this beautiful song and raise volume at 2:00 to get the emotional musical background melody. The women's voices give humanity to the song too.
Sadness and yet hope are in this song. I can almost picture a movie scene with a daunted human being who finds the courage to stand up and look at the rising sun with a slow moving smile on their tear covered face.
Chinsagu No Hana, Beauty, Sakamoto Ryuichi
And on YouTube!
Chinsagu No Hana
Chisagu nu hanaya, chimisashi ni sumiti.
Uya nu yushigutu ya, chimu ni simiri.
Yuyu harasu funi ya, ni nu fa fushi mi-ati.
Wan nacheru uya ya, wan du mi ati.
Tun nu buri-bushi ya, yumiba yumariyun.
Uya nu yushigutu ya, yumin naranu.
Takara tama yatin, migikaniba sabisu.
Asayu chimu migachi, uchiyu watara.
Agari akagariba, shimi nare ga ichun.
Kashira yuti tabori, wa uya-ganashi.
Chinsagu nu hana ya, chimisachi ni sumiti.
Uya nu yushigutu ya. Chimu ni siniri.
The Flower of Balsam, one dyes on one's fingernails.
The words of one's parents, one must dye in one's heart.
Ships sailing the night seas take their bearing by the pole star.
The parents who gave me birth take their bearings by me.
One has to study and to master the name of constellations.
But the lessons taught by one's parents are no mastered by study alone.
Even gems and treasures will rust unless polished.
Polishing my spirit night and days, I traverse this transient world.
When the sun rises, I shall go off to study.
Please plait my hair, my dear mother.
The Flower of Balsam, one dyes on one's fingernails.
The words of one's parents, one must dye in one's heart.
December 13, 2007
Depression
Not talking about 1929 though investments at the end of the year are at the same level they were at its beginning (sigh!)... We're talking about "feeling blue" and more. Check Wikipedia and Van Gogh's painting.
I wrote a post about depression as the French Ministry of Health issued an advertising campaign to help people suffering. The document is mostly useful and testimonials are used as a way to show that it can happen to anybody and they are not alone.
With an increased competition, weakened family, materialism and lightspeed news, we are submitted to stress, frustration and attacks.
I still remember the feeling before exams or right after bad news... The only way is to dive into action. Even hopless action is still better than let go and be passive. The least passive, the least depression can enter your brains. And it is one way to strt changing your life too.
www.info-depression.fr
I wrote a post about depression as the French Ministry of Health issued an advertising campaign to help people suffering. The document is mostly useful and testimonials are used as a way to show that it can happen to anybody and they are not alone.
With an increased competition, weakened family, materialism and lightspeed news, we are submitted to stress, frustration and attacks.
I still remember the feeling before exams or right after bad news... The only way is to dive into action. Even hopless action is still better than let go and be passive. The least passive, the least depression can enter your brains. And it is one way to strt changing your life too.
www.info-depression.fr
December 11, 2007
Headroom, Max
When the first French Pay TV arrived in France, it was a revolution! in 1984 Canal + came with a new definition of television. One of their programs came directly from the US and it was, at that time, a state of the art computer generated entertainment show entitled "Max Headroom".
I liked this character and as many other teenagers, dreamed of having Max in my own computer. As an icon from the 80's, Max Headroom had to have a post in this blog.
By the way, the picture comes from a very interisting book with great names : Jean-Francois Bizot (founder of Radio Nova, and Nova magazines among many other things, died in 2007/09/8) and Jean Rouzaud (musicologist with extended knowledge, still on the air on Radio Nova). It is one of the few valuable books about the 80's.
December 4, 2007
keitai shousetsu
Mobile phone novels? I found the news this morning on one of my favourite blogs from Francis Pisani. He found the initial track from Tech Crunch and from this Australian newspaper.
During my trips to Japan I saw all the passengers using their "keitai" [mobile] with an astonishing usage of their fingers whatever the size of the keyboard. Looks like the keitai becomes an extension of their person : key, wallet, TV, eBook, games, email...
Japan is way ahead of technology yet the content/themes of these books is more frightening than the innovative way of publishing.
TO BE COMPLETED
During my trips to Japan I saw all the passengers using their "keitai" [mobile] with an astonishing usage of their fingers whatever the size of the keyboard. Looks like the keitai becomes an extension of their person : key, wallet, TV, eBook, games, email...
Japan is way ahead of technology yet the content/themes of these books is more frightening than the innovative way of publishing.
TO BE COMPLETED
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