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Mar
13
Vintage! This is a random post. The year was 2007...
It was April 1993. I think I wrote:
I am in Bangkok at night having dinner with a group of Germans in a restaurant serving sauerkraut, driven around by a chauffeur in a luxurious car, and going back to sleep in a fancy tower, with this girl I’m not sure to really know after all, in a bed surrounded by African sculptures. The evening flows by slowly without letting me get a grip on it. I can’t clearly grasp where I am or why. Thailand has moved back to a remote corner of my conscience and I am absent-mindedly watching my own skid off of reality...
A few nights ago, these words came back to my mind, Vancouver having simply replaced Bangkok. Some things have changed. Some remain. Bis repetita placent. Always. Life is a long slide sideways. In the end, accepting that I am perpetually out of control might be the only empowering solution.
[Written and posted via my IPaq and Wi-Fi.]
We now go back to current chronological entries:
May
21
I almost smashed into a Seawall tree the other day while watching for incoming bikes on the path I was stealing from them. I now know that I should always look where I’m running. Bikes are still softer than trees.
May
18
When the power goes out, one is left with much time to ponder. This is for Don Estorbo de la Bodega Dominicana, a very sweet, big, black cat. Day in day out.
Mar
18
As Marie was mentioning it, linking to this interesting article of the New York Times, the bees must know something... Here’s my interpretation of it:
They’re bailing before it’s too late. Everyone, grab your copy of the Guide and brace!
Oct
17
In the Gutter Bunnies series, here are a couple of my latest experiments with a sheet of paper and a pencil. When completely lacking drawing talent, one can still have a lot of fun by just pretending. I do.
Oct
10
Darn, I still can’t draw. But this one is for the Cause, à bon entendeur salut! The coalition for unmoderated blog comments is rising! Allons enfants de la Patrie, le jour de gloire est arrivé! 
Jan
27
They are hybrids. Born from a combination of
photography and digital painting, the newcomers of the Digital Art section keep defying my attempts at categorization. I guess that’s why I called it that way.
I’ve selected a few photographs that don’t appear in the photo galleries and subjected them to a highly sophisticated process called « super - re - color - enhancing - filter - painting - retouch - metering »...
Ok, maybe not. But I do use a very cool photoshop plugin that converts a photo into a painting by applying brush strokes to the image. Of course, the result is a little too automatic looking, so I then hand-retouch the whole image with different custom brushes using a tablet and stylus.
May my aunt Marie (who is a real painter, and an awesome one too) forgive me for choosing the screen instead of a canvas, but I am an incorrigible child of the 21st century. Check out the results in the second half of the Digital Art gallery.
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« La référence à Bangkok est judicieuse.
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Date of comment: 2007-03-14 06:13 • ReplyC’est toute la différence entre la philosophie occidentale :
« Tu te bats pour avoir ce que tu veux »
et l’orientale :
« J’accepte ce que la vie m’offre, épreuves et joies confondues ».
C’est difficile de naviguer entre les deux, sans se noyer.