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Reading your comments about my posts: Davis, Flynn, Dietrich… They did it their way, Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned The Power Of Satire and Scarface: first and second impact showed your interest into movies addressing real issues. The movies I like the most watching are the ones with strong themes, whether they are political or about social trends, so you won’t be surprised to learn that the script I’m currently working on is about the 1930s, with a political/historical backdrop. Lately, I have watched several movies, the type which make you think about our world, what we do (or did) and what we don’t (didn’t), our unconsciousness, our blindness and our lies but also the way some people fought (and still fight) against the evil, whatever it may cost them. I won’t talk about a specific genre and this list is by no means exhaustive; if I wanted to…⇒ READ MORE

The 1930s were a great time for movies and design, as well as the 1950s and the 1970s. I have several furniture and objects from the Seventies, reminding me when I was a kid (along with Abba, Star Wars, flares pants…). Everything was ‘designed’, from the Maruman table cigarettes lighter (made in Japan) to the ‘Boby’ storage cart by Joe Columbo (made in Italy) in the late 60′s. Colors were fresh, orange, green, red or yellow. If you like this period, then you would probably enjoy this photo I took 2 days ago. This is the vintage desk I’m often working on, listening to Donna Summer or Leonard Cohen. There is an orange phone (I don’t use it), an orange alarm-clock (displaying the right time only once a day), an orange apple shaped ice-cube storage and some orange vinyl toys (Stereotype 04: Be My Guest, two red Rolito birds). And…⇒ READ MORE

A few months ago, I posted an article on a French web site about the situation in Darfur. I thought it was time to write something about this conflict nobody would care about since no images from the disaster were available. It’s difficult to aware people about a conflict when we can’t show it, everybody knows chaos images are selling just like in everyday’s TV news about Iraq, we get plenty of bloody bodies laying on the ground after yet another car-bombing. When I first talked about Darfur with some friends, it was almost three years ago, the answer was: “It’s yet another conflict in Africa, we can’t do much about it“. Things were supposed to be that simple, “yet another conflict in Africa“. Nobody really cared and since last January, things started to change -a bit- and I was thinking: “Now people know, the situation is going to change“….⇒ READ MORE