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Didn't post anything this weekend and lots of work on my plate so I searched through my video impros from last year for one I could repost quickly. I was happily surprised to see that one of the most viewed was also one of the most spontaneous.

Another beatnik thing:

There are certain external views that we have internalized.

That of a parent, a teacher, a friend, an idol. Someone who mattered to us at some point - recently or in our childhood - and who has become a permanent filter in the way we see the world. So much so that we no longer realize it.

In every new situation, we react for that person.

Here's a great video by exurb1a, a youtuber that I (and a lot of people) follow:

Yes, it's a cliché, but I've recently experienced it in a very personal way.

In a hurry, so here's a repost of a short video I made a few months ago from a movie from 1907 called "Eastern Eggs" by Segundo de Chomon found on Internet Archive illustrated with some text from wikipedia.

I burst out laughing at this clip from the Netflix documentary The Mask by Olivier Bouchara and Jérôme Pierrat about the Gilbert Chikli phone scams. I hope they don't accuse me of hacking, but I couldn't help but put a screenshot here:

I stopped watching the first episode of Wednesday half way through. (I tried to go to the end, I promise, I even stopped then resumed it). But I want to take this opportunity to tell you what I really liked about Barry Sonnenfeld's The Addams Family.

Our habits are a boon and a curse.

A boon because we don't have to reinvent the wheel every time. We can rely on the routine we've built for ourselves: the same actions, performed in the same order, produce the same results. We can't put everything into question every morning, can we?

Excerpts from films I've written and directed:

A few years ago, I started using electronic music to add sound to my films. I am the proud owner of a Prophet Rev 2 synthesizer, a Digitakt, and an Eventide Space pedal.

Let’s say that when I’m too busy, I’ll just post some old stuff. Like this drawing I made during lockdown. Not super cheerful but it went with the times:

When in Marrakech, I found myself at an exhibition called A Moroccan Winter, showing paintings by Majorelle and his contemporaries. I was blown away.

Not so much resolutions as general principles that I've discovered and explored in the past years:

Found these on my phone. They were taken a few days ago on another continent.

(Disclaimer: I listened to the podcast in english, wrote this post in french, then relied heavily on Google Translate to translate it back into english. So the original terms might have been lost in translation, sorry about that.)

This website will become my facebook, instagram, twitter and youtube all in one.

I’m tired of letting a profit-based algorithm choose what I can and can’t see, and decide what my friends see of what I do. And if that wasn’t enough, Mark Zukerberg’s and Eldon Musk’s latest tribulations convinced me that I didn’t want to leave them in control of what I share.

One minute of stork during Muezzin:

Two very bad reasons not to act.

And yet: the two main causes of our inaction.

I could tell you the history of how I started meditating and why it changed my life but we’ll do that another time. It’s a mistake I’ve often made: when I create a new website or a new notebook, I want to start over from the beginning and explain the genesis of everything. But soon enough, I’m overwhelmed by the task and I give up.

So let’s talk about the present.

You can imagine that a pagan like me is not particularly concerned with the birth of Jesus Christ. As for New Year's Eve on the 31st, I'm too much of a snob to want to celebrate at the same time as everyone else.

Yet, I really like the holidays.

New website.

I usually spend months tweaking with the appearance, the menus, the code (so far I’ve coded all my websites in php myself). Never mind all that!

My resolution for 2023: content first.

I’ll post once a day, no matter what. An image, a text, a sound, a drawing… anything. Who care about the website? I mean: I care, but it comes after the content.