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Voilà une soirée qui m’intéressait beaucoup mais à laquelle je ne pourrais malheureusement pas me rendre (une fois n’est pas coutume…). Mais cela reste un événement Steampunk de premier ordre je trouve, et comme vient de le rappeler l’excellent French Steampunk sur Twitter (@frenchsteampunk), c’est donc ce soir que The Maxi Monster Music Show se produira sur la scène du Palace. Présentation de ce show : Orchestre de phénomènes de foire, le Maxi Monster Music Show plante le décor d’un surprenant cabaret clandestin librement inspiré du cirque d’antan et du cinéma burlesque. Dans l’ambiance feutrée d’une roulotte grinçante, l’affolante Poupée Barbue, maîtresse de cérémonie au charme vénéneux, exhibe tour a tour ses curieux complices : la Femme Tronc, l’Homme Fort, l’étoile filée du Bolchoï, l’être aux deux visages, l’Ange Noir et le Fakir insomniaque. Singulière et attachante, cette famille de freaks vous embarquera dans un concert road-movie horriblement drôle et bouillonnant d’inventions. Un…⇒ READ MORE

Remakes are nothing new in Hollywood but when it comes to your favorite movies, you often hope there will be ‘nothing new’, at all. In Scarface: first and second impact, I explained how some movies inspired my creativity and made me write my first short stories; Scarface is definitely one of these great movies that changed my life. In Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Nip/Tuck, House M.D… Addicted!, it was about The Twilight Zone (and The Prisoner) and the way the TV show fulled my imagination when I was a very young teenager. Blade Runner was one of the most important film of my childhood. I could feel the oppressive and stifling atmosphere, it was dark and always raining. The synthesiser-made music and most of all, the dystopian/cyberpunk world really impressed me (and maybe is the reason for my interest in #Steampunk). It’s only years later that I realized Blade Runner was heavily…⇒ READ MORE

J’ai évoqué le #Steampunk il y a quelques temps déjà (trop longtemps manifestement…) dans mon article : The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss. La très inspirante exposition de #Claire Nouvian au Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle de Paris m’avait donnée l’occasion de faire allusion (certes brièvement) à l’univers magnifique de Jules Verne et son Nautilus à bord duquel je m’imaginais observer avec émerveillement les improbables mais pourtant si extraordinaires créatures des profondeurs (Tuscaridium Cygneum et autre Himantolophus Paucifilosus) présentées lors de cette exposition… Trois ans plus tard, il était temps d’évoquer à nouveau le Steampunk. Je pourrais en parler pendant des heures tant cet univers est riche, varié et hautement créatif.  L’époque Victorienne et les gadgets anachroniques inspirent beaucoup mes créations ; et si mes tenues sont parfois plus proches du gothique que du Steampunk, je n’en reste pas moins fascinée par cet univers et ce depuis plus d’une décennie. Avant de publier un article plus complet sur le sujet (et probablement en anglais…⇒ READ MORE

Osama Bin Laden is dead. Al-Qaeda founder and leader died last Sunday in his Pakistan hideout at the hands of Navy SEALs. The mastermind behind the worst-ever terrorist attack on U.S. soil is no more. Although Bin Laden’s death summoned joy for good reasons, it was only for a short time. Eric Schmitt explains: Bin Laden’s Death Doesn’t Mean the End of Al Qaeda: ‘The Al Qaeda of today is a much different organization than the one Bin Laden presided over on Sept. 11, 2001. It is much less hierarchical and more diffuse [...] That was Bin Laden’s vision from the start. Al Qaeda means “the base” in Arabic. His plan was to spin off terrorist subsidiaries that could request ideological guidance or material support from time to time, but were meant to be largely self-sustaining soon after they were launched.’ Steve Coll in his article Notes on the Death…⇒ READ MORE

First week of May, I went to see an amazing exhibition in Paris titled: Abysses. It was at National Museum of Natural History (MNHN), in front of the Great Mosque of Paris. I have always been fascinated by deep-sea and the creatures living down there; Jules Verne and his ‘Steampunk-like’ Nautilus definitely has something to do with that. A couple of years ago, I read a very interesting article about Claire Nouvian, a French journalist who became enthralled with the deep after visiting the Monterey Bay Aquarium in 2001. I took the title for this post from the book she published: The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss. With this book, containing more than 220 large-format color photographs, descriptions and short essays, she invites us in a voyage to the bottom of the sea, where strange creatures live in some ways we could never expect they would. No light,…⇒ READ MORE