May 2010
I just finished Timothy Egan’s The Worst Hard Time, which chronicles the horrors of the Dust Bowl. As I have been listening to the growing outrage about the Deepwater mess, I hasten to point out that that oil spill is horrible, but it is nothing like the enormity of the Dust Bowl.
In 1936,…
From Wikipedia: “[…]The Dust Bowl or the Dirty Thirties was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage toAmerican and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936 (in some areas until 1940). The phenomenon was caused by severedrought coupled with decades of extensive farming without crop rotation, fallow fields, cover crops or other techniques to preventerosion.[1] Deep plowing of the virgin topsoil of the Great Plains had killed the natural grasses that normally kept the soil in place and trapped moisture even during periods of drought and high winds.[…]”
Emmanuel Todd : « Le débat n’a aucun sens » Le Progrès 23.05.2010 (via netlex)
“l’avenir d’une société, ce sont ses jeunes, pas ses vieux” - Pourquoi parle-t’on autant des retraites si ce n’est que parce que la generation Babyboom est sur le point d’y partir.
From a sculpture of Blaise Pascal found on Wikipedia. I wanted to record the change. I might complete the drawing… some time, later
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periode de doute? Interessante mise en abime en tous cas.
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Again another portrait from again another book I’m reading: “the reader”
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Cover of a book Truman Capote’s “Summer Crossing”. To be honest I enjoyed drawing the cover more than I’ve enjoyed reading the book
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Portrait of an unknown old man whose photo I found while surfing the web.
Sorry, But the iPad is Not ‘Killing’ Netbook Sales - SuperSite Blog (via transnets)
Maybe a bit too soon to know for sure how much of an impact Ipad has on sales of Netbooks.
Inside Sali café, Rauma; not totally satisfactory. The portrait is of someone I already made sketches of, getting better (use of 2 sizes of lead)
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Still many mistakes in proportions. I like drawing portraits more and more though it can be a frustrating exercice
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One face is totally out of my imagination and the other one is my humble attempt at sketching a very famous Vermeer master piece.
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