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There are only a few hours left before 2008 and this year like the year before, had its good and bad times. I already talked about non-profit organizations and peace movements on this blog, we are approaching the moment of the traditional new year’s resolutions, and this is when I look back and hope the new year coming will be better than this one. I am not saying each new year is worse than the previous one, but the betterment is thin, if nonexistent. Environment has become a real issue, freedom of speech is threatened in many countries and for different reasons (I couldn’t not mention here Pakistan‘s former Prime Minister and opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, assassinated a few days ago), peace movements are put down (Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi and a thousand monks. Again.) and volunteers working for nonprofit organizations are risking their life everyday in some part…⇒ READ MORE

I’m not really into Christmas celebrations to say the least but a while ago I promised I would give you access to an extract of my book, and this post comes right on time to be a ‘Christmas Gift’. So the registered regulars will receive within the hour an email containing a link, providing access to a ‘secret page’ on this blog. A restricted access for members only, and for a limited time. The link will be active for a couple of days, it will then be gone on the first day of 2008. Since my book is not published yet (and it won’t be anytime soon, like fine wine, better with time ), read the extract, enjoy it, remember it but keep it for yourself and please don’t spread it. It is not like my book is going to win the next Pulitzer, but being my first book, it…⇒ READ MORE

I usually don’t comment french political facts, but since this blog is about my work, projects AND thoughts, this post fits in. French President Nicolas Sarkozy is on television everyday and he is described as a workaholic. It is not a decease, it could even be a harbinger for presidential ambitions. So if you’re worried because your young boy is hyperactive, don’t be, if Sarkozy were still a schoolboy, he would be for sure diagnosed as hyperactive. Everyday or week, a new statement, trip, event or plot (yes, plot). And last week, the new episode of the French presidency soap could have been titled: ‘When Gaddafi met Sarkozy’ (you decide who plays Harry and who plays Sally). A high budget event (but a drop in the ocean of the high French Public debt…) with the French State producing, and an imposed world premiere, for which French citizens had front-row seats….⇒ READ MORE

Jacques Tati was born in October 1907, and 2007 is the 100th anniversary of his birth. We are now in December, and it is not too late (yet) to celebrate this anniversary and mention some of his movies. A few days ago, I had the opportunity to meet with Tati’s niece, Macha Makeieff. She manages Tati’s artistic patrimony and she created Les Films de Mon Oncle, a company aimed to restore Tati’s movies and spread his work around the world. She held a conference about the design in the work of Tati and the place was almost full but not crowded, with elders who probably first saw Tati’s movies on screen when they came out in the 1950s-1960s, and youngsters who mostly discovered them more recently on DVD. His work is definitely appreciated by young and old alike, the movies Tati made still fascinate today and I’m among his biggest…⇒ READ MORE