Change the world, maybe not. But you'll stop bugging me.
1. No more "bon appétit" at every turn
At the table, with your family, with your friends: have a blast.
A quick word on how I make my websites because my method is:
- Extremely slow,
- Very tedious,
- Not secure at all,
- Unable to share/scale,
- A huge waste of time in my life.
If you want to do the same thing, here's how.
Distance walked this morning: 8.9km
Number of children dropped off at daycare: 1
Desire to work: 0
Diary entries: 1231 words (7287 characters)
Money spent on coffee and drinks: €11.40
Number of very important meetings this afternoon: 2
Number of meetings postponed without date: 1
Number of meetings postponed by one hour: 1
Those who have the eye will have noticed that a large part of my posts here are illustrated by images produced by an artificial intelligence, in this case Midjourney.
When I post old drawings, it means I'm busy. An other lockdown doodle made in memory of my trip to Scotland and of... Nope, I can't explain the giraffe. It's a mystery.
Didn't post anything this weekend and lots of work on my plate so I searched through my video impros from last year for one I could repost quickly. I was happily surprised to see that one of the most viewed was also one of the most spontaneous.
Another beatnik thing:
There are certain external views that we have internalized.
That of a parent, a teacher, a friend, an idol. Someone who mattered to us at some point - recently or in our childhood - and who has become a permanent filter in the way we see the world. So much so that we no longer realize it.
In every new situation, we react for that person.
Here's a great video by exurb1a, a youtuber that I (and a lot of people) follow:
Yes, it's a cliché, but I've recently experienced it in a very personal way.
In a hurry, so here's a repost of a short video I made a few months ago from a movie from 1907 called "Eastern Eggs" by Segundo de Chomon found on Internet Archive illustrated with some text from wikipedia.
I burst out laughing at this clip from the Netflix documentary The Mask by Olivier Bouchara and Jérôme Pierrat about the Gilbert Chikli phone scams. I hope they don't accuse me of hacking, but I couldn't help but put a screenshot here:
I stopped watching the first episode of Wednesday half way through. (I tried to go to the end, I promise, I even stopped then resumed it). But I want to take this opportunity to tell you what I really liked about Barry Sonnenfeld's The Addams Family.
Our habits are a boon and a curse.
A boon because we don't have to reinvent the wheel every time. We can rely on the routine we've built for ourselves: the same actions, performed in the same order, produce the same results. We can't put everything into question every morning, can we?
Excerpts from films I've written and directed:
A few years ago, I started using electronic music to add sound to my films. I am the proud owner of a Prophet Rev 2 synthesizer, a Digitakt, and an Eventide Space pedal.
Let’s say that when I’m too busy, I’ll just post some old stuff. Like this drawing I made during lockdown. Not super cheerful but it went with the times:
When in Marrakech, I found myself at an exhibition called A Moroccan Winter, showing paintings by Majorelle and his contemporaries. I was blown away.
Not so much resolutions as general principles that I've discovered and explored in the past years:
Found these on my phone. They were taken a few days ago on another continent.
(Disclaimer: I listened to the podcast in english, wrote this post in french, then relied heavily on Google Translate to translate it back into english. So the original terms might have been lost in translation, sorry about that.)
This website will become my facebook, instagram, twitter and youtube all in one.
I’m tired of letting a profit-based algorithm choose what I can and can’t see, and decide what my friends see of what I do. And if that wasn’t enough, Mark Zukerberg’s and Eldon Musk’s latest tribulations convinced me that I didn’t want to leave them in control of what I share.
One minute of stork during Muezzin:
