Saturday, 5 May 2012

The Dice Man

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And the dice says 4.

 

After, planning them would spoil the surprises at the corner, my brain might not have been a friend there. Yet, I am happily accountable for any of my decisions whenever I chose to take one. So that's enough philosophical cornerstone thinkings for the next 6 months.


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The Dice Man

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And the dice says 4.

 

After, planning them would spoil the surprises at the corner, my brain might not have been a friend there. Yet, I am happily accountable for any of my decisions whenever I chose to take one. So that's enough philosophical cornerstone thinkings for the next 6 months.


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Wednesday, 2 May 2012

Marc Bloch - L'etrange defaite

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"Ces pages seront-elles jamais publiées? Je ne sais. Il est probable en tout cas,
que, de longtemps, elles ne pourront être connues, sinon sous le manteau, en
dehors de mon entourage immédiat. Je me suis cependant décidé à les écrire.
L'effort sera rude: combien il me semblerait plus commode de céder aux conseils
de la fatigue et du découragement! Mais un témoignage ne vaut que fixé dans sa
première fraîcheur et je ne puis me persuader que celui-ci doive être tout à
fait inutile. Un jour viendra, tôt ou tard, j'en ai la ferme espérance, où la
France verra de nouveau s'épanouir, sur son vieux sol béni déjà de tant de
moissons, la liberté de pensée et de jugement. Alors les dossiers cachés
s'ouvriront; les brumes, qu'autour du plus atroce effondrement de notre histoire
commencent, dès maintenant, à accumuler tantôt l'ignorance et tantôt la mauvaise
foi, se lèveront peu à peu; et, peut-être, les chercheurs occuper à les percer
trouveront-ils quelque profit à feuilleter, s'ils le savent découvrir, ce procès
verbal de l'an 1940"

 

If we've got to review the whole history of France in the past centuries, let us go thoroughly. Some times call for deep thinkings, sometimes for actions. Well, we might turn around the spot too often while our modern world calls for a balance of both, active and efficient, don t you think?


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Le ballon rond


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So tonight, went to the stadium, this time the velodrome. I d rather go to see an opera than a
football game, but well, kind of a classic to close my travel away. Apart froñ Bristol, visited the hamburg stadium, Goodison Park, Athelico Madrid. Well visited, not thoroughly enjoyed. I am
watching football now and then, and mostly watching the highlights at the end of the week to discuss a fair bit on the Monday morning with the operators in production. Yes, the common factor,
doesn’t bother me that much.



 



But tonight, I went to close my travel in Marseille, so my home town against the team down here.
And during the whole game, I kept having images hitting my mind. The strongest one: the players being politics, the referees being the medias, and the public being well the public.



 



What is the point in booing everytime the adverse team got the ball? Everytime the referee whistle
a fault? Every time of every time: Well a deep rooted hypocrisy showing the hypocrisy and the feeling of being unwell. Well, it can be a solution, I doubt this is THE solution. You know, the
constructive one.



 



Going on another field, the presidential election, and inputting some basic French
psychology to it all, Well Mr. Hollande, even if foreign newspapers are bringing more lights to his program than French ones, would be president. At least, for the elections straight after, the
most relevant one in my view, if the national assembly wasn’t such a useless congress, so the assembly elections might go on the other side, given I would say that as French, we love to change
our mind from black to white back to black.






























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Saturday, 28 April 2012

Comment écrire à son voisin trop bruyant quand il fait l’amour ? - Rue89

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Ce sont les mots qu'on scotche dans l’ascenseur, ceux qu'on placarde sur une porte ou ceux qu'on dessine... Il y a peu, ma collègue Aurélie Champagne, qui s'occupe de Rue89 Culture, et Olivier Volpi, qui collabore avec elle sur le blog Chez...

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Friday, 27 April 2012

Tribeca: Film vs. Digital in 'Side by Side'

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The director Chris Kenneally discusses his documentary "Side by Side," which looks at how digital technology is transforming filmmaking.

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Thursday, 26 April 2012

To Avoid Stupid Mistakes, Think in French

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Si c est eux qui le disent, enfin encore une fois, je vois un décalage la aussi entre mon vécu de l'intérieur et ma vision venant de l'extérieur par cet article aussi.

 

"Would you take a bet that offered you an even chance of winning $12 and losing $10? If you’re like most people, you would not. But what if someone offered you the bet in French?"


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