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...très joliment situé entre des bâtiments de 40 étages de haut et 2 routes à fort traffic, le Hong Kong Art center plaza accueille tous les vendredis de fin de mois un spectacle en live. Hier, c'était concert/impro. M'étant acheté un nouveau feutre pinceau de compétition, j'y ai crobardé sans prétention.




Notez que ce style de dessin et de mise en page est complètement et honteusement pompé sur un grand maître: Erwann Surcouf, dont voici un (superbe) exemple. Et puis non, c'est pas de la pompe, c'est de l'inspiration. Merde!

english translation:
Between 40-floors-high skyscrappers and high-density-roads stood the Hong kong Art center Plaza on whom there's a live event every last month's friday.
yesterday was a concert/improvisation. I bought a new ink-paintbrush and went sketching.

Yesterday we saw a live concert at the HONG KONG ART CENTER
Yes
There was a real crowd
And musicians
that was cool
And maaaaany photographs
(and some hands)
Young singers from Bengladesh
And theirs uncle
and Auntie! Dunnot forget me..
And a brazilian band
THAT ROCKS!
I'm the rocking bassist
but sometimes comes a bus
then, you cannot hear the music anymore?
just like in Paris's subway!
Wha'?
Fucking Bus...
Say, it's a weird place to play music anyway...
Between Buildings and roads...
Nahhh... That's Hong Kong youd'know
No Gov' aid
No budget,
Nor sponsor
We play music because we want to!
Shit, here comes another bus...
please note that this style of sketch+texts is stolen from the master Erwann Surcouf, and there's a (beautiful) example here. Well, it's not really stolen, it's inspiration!

english translation:
Meet Bebert.
Yo.
Bebert is a Geotrupidae (from Greek geos, earth, and trypetes, borer), a member of the family of beetles in the order Coleoptera. They are commonly called dor beetles or earth-boring dung beetles.
Indeed.
Wings-equipped, the geotrupidae can fly with a characteristic buzzing.
Do I look "characteristic" to you? WTF.
Those insects are typically detrivores, provisioning their nests with leaf litter (often moldy), but are occasionally coprophagous, similar to dung beetles.
Yeah, yeah. Not my favourite meal really. and I... Uh? what's that?
They sometimes drink the sap of cutted trees or mature fruits.
GOD! Look at that!
You can witness dozen of them dying in a beer can left in the forest.
Yumm, it's an 5-days-old' one at least!






english translation:
(TOC!)

(singing): 99 bottles of beer (hips) on the wall...

According to the latest news, Bebert and his pals are alright, they are sleeping it off in lamma's garden.

I got up to 6 drunken beetles a day, falling in the garden. Even my cats are bored.
But every time, I felt I HAVE to help them to rollover upright.
(drinker's solidarity)

Après près d'un mois (UN MOIS!) de pluie torentielle, le soleil a ENFIN décidé de remontrer le bout de son nez, derrière de gros nuages certes, mais toud'même-on-va-pas-se-plaindre, c'est toujours mieux que la pluie.

J'en profite donc pour foncer à la plage (....)

Et là surprise! tout est transformé.

'fallait s'y attendre, en s'écoulant vers la mer l'eau a creusé le sable.
Or, dois-je vous le rappeller, Lamma Island étant une île avec une part décente de végétation et pas trop de béton, eh bien le relief s'en est trouvé bouleversé.

(la séance de crobards a été interrompue à 3 reprises par la euh... reprise de la pluie, donc. Ceci expliquant cela, que je vous poste ces dessins bien après la tempête).





english translation:
After a month (A WHOLE MONTH!) of rain, the sun finally decided to show up (behind the clouds, but hey! this is still sun-like).

So, I ran to the beach-MY beach (...)

And there SURPRISE! All is messed-up.

Right, after the rain, water went down to the sea and digged the sand. And you-know-what? as Lamma island is an....island, right, well the relief got changed.

(my sketching sessions got interrupted 3 times because of rain's resumption, I'm posting later than ever, after the storm)

The path to the beach (looking upriver)
A bit lower, still looking upriver, at its highest point, the sand trench is one meter high.

Plants and roots saved the trench (Junior Woodchucks Guidebook: if you have to camp on the beach, choose to put your tent on the plants: it's the point the sea never reach)

Remember last year, when the barge run around on the beach, right there? Well, now an english-speaking guy is building a cairn with big pebbles. "One day, one little more" as he told us.

english translation:

-Why? You... You draw me looking like an old lady!
-Ah-ha not at all!
-If I wanted to draw you looking old... I would have sketched you... this way...
-...Waiyim?

On est allés voir la HK INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2008 au convention center le week-end dernier, et je dois dire que c'était très bien. J'ai presque fait une overdose quand on compare avec le niveau artistique habituel de Hongkong.

Des peintures, des sculptures, des photos, quelques installations et même des performances.
Des portraits de Mao détournés un peu partout, comme icône de cette partie de la planète, vous savez? Celle dont on parle aux infos surtout quand il y a une catastrophe.

Parmi les "vieux copains", je reconnais Andy warhol, Dubuffet, Yan Pei Ming, Nam June Paik et Calder.

Des artistes coréens, chinois, japonais, taiwanais, indiens et indonésiens
Une "Fiac" de très haut niveau et qualité.
Franchement, les dinosaures de la scène française ont du souci à se faire.

Quelques crobards faits sur place, et colorisés à l'arrache à la maison (cliquez pour argrandir):





english translation:
We've been to the HK International ART FAIR 2008 at the convention center last week-end, and it was just great. I almost had an overdose comparing to the usual level of Hongkong art.

Paintings, sculptures, photographies, installations, even performances.
Embezzled Mao's portraits, as he is an THE Icon of this part of the planet.

I saw "old friends" such as Andy warhol, Dubuffet, Yan Pei Ming, Nam June Paik and Calder.

Corean artists, Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese, Indian and Indonesians artists. A high quality FIAC.
Honestly, I believe that our old-fashionned (old and young) french artists better start worrying.

Here are a few sketches from there (click to enlarge).

english translation:
Last thursday, I went to a job interview as they were looking for a "visual art teacher" in college.
It was not the first time I applied for this kind of job in Hong Kong, so I diden't worried.
When I arrived, I felt ready and decided to ask for more money.
(30 minutes in the waiting room break my enthusiasm)
Finally, someone came to get me.
...mister..."charmes"
Thank you for coming, so as you already know we are looking for a candidate for the job of "headmaster" of the Artistic Department of all the University's Campus. So, we'll let you introduce yourself and then we will all ask you a few questions...
Headmaster?
-well-shaved cheeks (look very young)
-Cannibal Corpse T-Shirt sticking out from the shirt
-Old geek pant
...and?
and? Well, I answered their questions, they answered mines, and it was done.
You know, this "headmaster job", it's 10% sketching classes and 90% of administrative work. Not really the kind of student's relationship that you like.
Hmm... yeah, I guess so.
I also think it's time for me to stop wearing my lucky shirt for job interviewes...

in english:
As by us, "civilized occidental people", chinese like to have some fish tanks at home, with many fishes, as goldfishes (and others) bring luck and happyness (you know, Feng Shui and stuff).
When I was visiting Waiyim's aunties in Guangzhou, I've seen beautiful fishes in the main room... with HUGES FISHES inside!
the bigger fish you have at home, the more luck he'll bring you.

Ans don't shed no tear little darling, even if the tank might be a bit small for the fish lord, I guess he fells better there than in a restaurant's fish tank.

Aucun doute, je suis rentré à HongKong.

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english translation:

Boss, this is Waiyim, she was my professor. She's an artist.

"Artist"? What is that?





Tout comme dans je ne sais plus quelle marque de jus d'orange, rien n'a été rajouté, rien n'a été enlevé. Enjoy.