MrPingouin's Igloo

I've just spent 4 days in Vienna, for the Frequency Festival, and for the town itself of course.

The town is great, the buildings are really beautiful. The streets are wide (public lighting is most of the time hung in the middle of the streets, having no lamp "bodies" on the sidewalks make them really wide), and oh god, it's so clean : no cigaret ends, no craps on the floor, almost no posters (compared to Paris), and the main part of the posters I've seen are about art exhibitions, it may sound so silly but it's hard to find this in Paris !

The public transports network is awesome :
- It's, again, and I really insist on it, so clean, no ugly graffitis or scratches (I precise : I have nothing against artistic and beautiful graffitis, I love them, but the little nicknames written with a felt pen everywhere with no more artistic sens than vomit, I just can't stand them).
- Still no ads... I mean, just come to Paris and see how much you're assaulted by posters claiming that the tomatoes are only 1 euro in such shop, or how you do feel better and stronger with such clothes or whatever
- it's brightly set up : each lines of the subway (the "U-bahn") has a specific color, which is common would you say, except that the props you'll find in the stations, banisters for instance, do have the same color than the line they serve, it's just simply ingenious
- and the best : there's no gates. No. Gates. I mean, what the hell, there must be such a civic and polite education that people doesn't cheat on this paying no tickets ? You'll NEVER find this in Paris, never.

I've never been shoved out at anytime by people (even in the festival !) except at one time : when I got into a church to listen to Mozart's requiem, people was from everywhere but Vienna. Shhh... tourists.

And then you come back to Paris.
You take the "RER B" to go from the airport to the center of the town, and finally you realize.
After only four days, I keep in mind an idea I've never really noticed before : we french people (especially in Paris I guess) are just ****ing gross barbarian porks.

I had a teacher at school, Jérémy Mariez, who invited us to go to the Louvre on week-ends as often as possible to improve our drawing skills.

As a 3D animator, I don't especially need a high drawing level, but it's always good to work on this, it's not wasted time as drawing should help to express idea quickly, but for this I need to work a lot !

Time to return to the Louvre.

Take some time to visit my teacher's website, his sculpture page is great !

http://jeremymariez.free.fr/
http://jeremymariez.free.fr/nsculpt.htm

It's been 4 months I haven't tried anything for the 11 second club contest.
I'm still working at Indigenes Productions as a character rigger and animator, I also had to develop some very little scripted tools for our workflow.
Animation and Code, all that I love.

We have been pretty busy by now ("hello you beautiful 12-hours-day-work"), but there's always free time for animation, well, at least some sleep time.

Ho, I also take some time on my week-ends to go back to the Louvre to work my poor drawing skills, there might be some drawings soon.

I still have 15 days (off time and week-ends) to finish the animation. Here's the blocking stage.





I'll be back shortly for some music and art news !

Try to imagine a marvelous Atlantis built by a crazy man, a world where the body perfection was an aim of life, where insanes doctors were trying to reproduce Picasso's art on real bodies, and all of this surrounded by a wonderful 60's soundtrack.

It's been a while I haven't seen a game with such an atmosphere, kind of a dreamy atmosphere you'll never ever find anywhere else. If you've never heard of Bioshock, go, run for it, buy it, and let yourself be immerged by its wonderful mood.

And here are some of the sounds of Bioshock OST, just for our pleasure.

"- Personne ne sait ce qu’il se passe aujourd’hui parce que personne ne veut qu’il se passe quelque chose.
En réalité on ne sait jamais ce qui se passe on sait simplement ce qu’on veut qu’il se passe. C’est comme ça que les choses arrivent.
En 17, Lénine et ses camarades ne disaient pas nous allons faire la révolution parce que nous voulons la révolution. Ils disaient toutes les conditions de la révolution sont réunies la révolution est inéluctable. Ils ont fait la révolution qui n’aurait jamais eu lieu s’ils ne l’avaient pas faite et qu’ils n’auraient pas faite s’ils n’avaient pas pensé qu’elle était inéluctable uniquement parce qu’ils la voulaient.

Chaque fois que quelque chose a bougé dans ce monde ça a toujours été pour le pire.

Voila pourquoi personne ne bouge, personne n’ose provoquer l’avenir.
Faudrait être fou pour provoquer l’avenir.
Faudrait être fou pour risquer de provoquer un nouveau 19, un nouveau 14, un nouveau 37…

- Alors il ne se passera jamais plus rien.

- Si parce qu’il y aura toujours des fous, et des cons pour les suivre et des sages pour ne rien faire…"



Extrait de “Liberté la nuit” de Philippe Garrel