31.12.11

2011


Dear you,


2011 has been an AMAZING year...Really. It is the last day, so it's time to sum up some of the things that happened:


First of all, i would really like to thank you all of you, individually that are following this blog. 
It is unbelievable to see that you are nearly a thousand different people from all around the world everydays to visit those pages. 
Then i would like to send all my thoughts to you, my customers, that make my life a wonderful adventure, full of gifts, full of new directions to explore, full of people with so much love to give.
I know who you are, you know it too.










2011 has been a very great year to travel in so many places: France, England, Denmark, Norway, Belgium,  Sweden, Singapour, Borneo, Indonesia, Arctic in the far North, Malaysia, the border of Brunei and Czech Republic. A big thank you to all the people that helped me during those trips to share their life with me.






2011 has been a year with some very cool books that show my work:
"tattooisme", one of the best sale in France about tattoo books.
"Art Corpus family", the book with 700 pages. A must.




2011 has been a very intense year concerning the music process for me also:
A new production of GRANIT 665 has been done with Stephanie Cabdevila as a singer.
And with her too, we've started COPENHAGEN our new 2 pieces act.
The first release is out on Eek recordings, and we are working on a full album for next year.




2011 has been the year of new graphic projects. Many things are planned, i Hope to be able to give you infos soon concerning the releases of new limited prints, book(s) as an illustrator, new music, and last but not least, new tattoos on 2012!!!












30.12.11

Tattoo of the day on a german customer.




At Art Corpus, Paris, France.

29.12.11

Tattoo of the day





Black Pearl, La Roche sur Yon, France.

27.12.11

Gift of the day

As we are at the end of the year, i want to spend a little bit of time as i'd like to talk about a few things i've really liked recently.
First of all, I've received as a gift this fabulous book written in french: "la Femme-ciseaux".
It is written and illustrated by Michel Villar, and published by le pied de biche editions.
                                                                     Aide-moi à naître
De mon vivant je n’ai vécuQue des instants qui ne sont plus.Une enveloppe faite d’étherRemonte le temps
Mais jamais ne se construit.
Un silence pour quatre soupirs,Une ronde d’idées noiresToutes de blanches vêtues,Dans une pause éternelle

                                                                  Sont ainsi suspendues.


They also run a small shop and website. If you're in Paris, go there, they have lots of indie comics, some very cool exhibitions too. I dont know them personnaly but I really recommend this place.Le pied de biche, 86 Rue de Charonne  75011 Paris.


Another one that really impressed me is: " M, la conscience feline malheureuse"




Aurelie Lachevre, the illustrator offered it to me, and i must say it is a masterpiece. Even if you re not reading anything in french, the illustrations on every pages are awesome! you can find it here. And her website is here.



And at the last tattoo convention in Nantes I could talk to Nicoz Balboa. She is an amazing italiano-french artist. I know her work for a very long time but it is never easy to say that you like the work to someone I mean. I offered her two of my books and i went back with many little things from her production. And this week she sent me an email to say that she drew me in her daily blog... here it is, ahahahah!!!!





She is soooo talented and has made buttons/books/stickers/badges/posters/prints/and also runs an art gallery in La Rochelle and do some workshop with children! oucht! visit her website here!!!!!!!!

Ariane Rivalin, is a self taught illustrator, living in Nantes. She is doing some hand made small books, very cool and unique! her blog is here!!!!
I'm lucky enough to have some of her work! thank you to her!




That's it for tonight, i've got so many other things to share, more to come, soon!





Tattoo Snob webzine


Blah blah blah about my work in USA, here.




Trust no one.

Day  drawing






pen / watercolor / cutting.





26.12.11

Day drawing + video

Here is the drawing of the day


And one of my favourite video! ahahah!


25.12.11

Christmas drawing day

Today is Christmas, kids are playing, it's cold outside, the sky is white, I finished to draw my greetings cards... Best wishes to all of you!




24.12.11

Night drawing


"Things I wish I'd said that would have been wonderful"
Done this night at home. hearing the wind and the rain outside.



Merry Christmas to you all.
Life is a gift.







23.12.11

A day with Zelda l' Azare and an exhibition with Isabelle Marcelli.


A few weeks ago now, I've been travelling in the big south area of Paris for a particular photo shoot.
I went in a lovely small city to meet Zelda l'Azare a young student photographer that I know for a few months now.
She worked with Granit 665 and did the cover of the 7" Ep we share with Stephanie Cabdevila.


Since this time, COPENHAGEN was born and that's why I went there with her to make some photos for this new musical project.


Zelda l'Azare is in her early twenties and is extremely talented. 
Her family lives in a lovely cottage, in front of a forest and all of them are in an artistic process: 
Her young daughter plans to study in the animation world, 
her father is a FANTASTIC metal sculptor/designer (dont miss this link, seriously!!!), 
and her mom is a professional photographer.
 Just a few words about her mom, as I have space for that. 
Her name is Isabelle Marcelli, she has an AMAZING exhibition at the moment in Paris. 
If you're there, Don't miss it!!!!!!!


OK, I'm back to that day with Zelda l' Azare and Stephanie.
Originally she proposed me to come for having a portrait of me, done for her studies.
But even if it doesn't looks like, it's hard to find one day off for any side project, and by the biggest hazard I was free, Stephanie was free also and last but not least, Zelda l' Azare was free too!!! 
It was a sign to start something altogether. 
I was very excited by this (new) meeting as I am a big fan of her photographies and especially when she works with this strange technique: the wet collodion.

Ok, here we go for a small but interesting technical definition of the wet collodion via wikipedia:

" The collodion process is an early photographic process. It was introduced in the 1850s and by the end of that decade it had almost entirely replaced the first practical photographic process, the daguerreotype. During the 1880s the collodion process, in turn, was largely replaced by gelatin dry plates—glass plates with a photographic emulsion of silver halides suspended in gelatin. The dry gelatin emulsion was not only more convenient but could be made much more sensitive, greatly reducing exposure times.
"Collodion process" is usually taken to be synonymous with the "collodion wet plate process", a very inconvenient form which required the photographic material to be coated, sensitized, exposed and developed within the span of about fifteen minutes, necessitating a portabledarkroom for use in the field. Although collodion was normally used in this wet form, the material could also be used in moist ("preserved") or dry form, but at the cost of greatly increased exposure time, making these forms unsuitable for the usual work of most professional photographers—portraiture. Their use was therefore confined to landscape photography and other special applications where minutes-long exposure times were tolerable. "

Now you know! But i didnt know to be honest.
So, we've spent the afternoon in her garage, listening to her knowledge, keeping our eyes wide opened because it was so magic for Stephanie and I !!!!
Here is one of the result:


And before I leave you for today, you have to know that for a photo like that, you dont have to move of any sorts during approximatively 11 seconds!
Now, here are a few photos plus one video taken backstage (in her garage, I mean).
Enjoy!






Here they are!!!