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Summer time has come and with it, vacations for many people. Maybe it’s time for me to be more ‘epicurean‘ on this blog. Each country has great places to stay, such as two specific regions in Northern Italy (since I barely know Southern Italy -for now): Emilia-Romagna and Lombardia. First time I went there it was almost twenty years ago and I ate a ‘polenta e gorgonzola’, a dish made from boiled cornmeal cooked with Gorgonzola cheese. I was young and it looked like the Couscous (and Tajine) my grand-mother used to cook, but with cheese only. Traditional polenta is slowly cooked, up to two hours; totally different from the made-in-a-minute microwave oven recipe you can find at the supermarket… Later I discovered what true Parmesan really was with Parmigiano-Reggiano (region of Parma). Taste and texture are far from what we all use to call Parmesan outside of Italy. No…⇒ READ MORE

As you probably already know, I don’t like being on photos but I do like take photos. Then I samaze them which means I draw (using my computer or a pencil) some elements from the World Of Sama onto them. The result is like real world incorporated into a weirdo world, in black and white. Lately I came to Trouville sur Mer (Calvados, France), a beautiful french town, a bridge away from Deauville, a city mostly known for its casino, the beach where the great movie from Claude Lelouch: ‘A Man and a Woman’ (Un homme et une femme, 1966) was filmed and of course, for the Deauville American Festival (in September). Trouville and Deauville are separated by a bridge but sometimes it looks like there is a world between the two cities. One is believed to be hype and the other one more typical; I like both cities even…⇒ READ MORE

In may, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) at the Los Angeles Convention Center used to be the annual rendezvous for the video games industry with console makers, publishers, developers, journalists and gamers joining the event. Each year had its announcements and for at least 3 days, video games news from E3 coverage were almost everywhere on the Internet, on newspaper, on television… E3 became so big (60 000 attendees, 400 exhibitors) that I wondered if it could get any bigger. Electronic Software Association (ESA) president Doug Lowenstein was very proud of the 2006 edition and qualified E3 as “the most important gathering of interactive entertainment industry professionals on the planet“. And he was right. But it couldn’t get bigger and then ESA decided to give E3 a new format: no more music, no more giant screens, no more booth babes (one of the favorite and memorable attraction on the show…⇒ READ MORE

The period between Great Depression and World War II is remembered as Hollywood’s Golden Age, from the 1920′s to the late 1940′s with introduction of television. I’m a huge fan of the 1930s to 1940s movie decade, when Bette Davis was Mildred Rogers in Of Human Bondage (1934), her fights with Jack Warner and the Hollywood Canteen with Cary Grant. Errol Flynn was Peter Blood in his first starring role in Captain Blood(1935), he came to Europe to write about Spanish Civil War and had a controversy friendship with Nazi Herman Erben. Then he was a supporter of the Cuban Revolution and he was a well known womanizer. Marlene Dietrich was Amy Jolly in her first American film, Morocco (1930) with Gary Cooper. She was a fashion icon and she was openly bisexual (remember the kiss Lola Lola gives to another woman in Blue Angel?). During World War II she…⇒ READ MORE