New website and snow battles...

Hi!

As you have may noticed, there are some new stuffs here... music during the intro, new pictures... a new category (hello new category!)... i hope you'll like it!
a piece of advice : switch on your speakers before you load the first page... the music is from Collection d'Arnell Andréa, they are good friends of mine (cf the "Music" category of this website, some of the previous pages of this Journal, and the links). I wanted to credit them, but there were not any space available on the page, so i credit them and thank them here!

There's been a fall of snow almost all the day on Orléans today (you can see some pix of this event, because this is an event, in the Seen On Earth category). I haven't seen that kind of beautiful heavy white snow here for years! i haven't played with snow balls for around 15 years! and now i know it's still funny! i've attacked a friend this afternoon, and it was a great battle! I've conquered her parking lot, all by myself, so she hadn't other solution but to turn back into her house...
i am a conqueror!!

About the new stuffs of this website... i am not going to reveal you everything because you are supposed to find them out by yourself.... but... don't forget the links...
It's so quiet to see snow again. Not as peaceful as staring at the ocean, but it's a kind of relief.

Principles...

Hi

Today was my "consumer's day". I went to my organic shop, to buy food... and now i am about to cook a Miso soup. If you are wondering what a Miso soup is, here is the recipe, it's a very healthy dish!

http://starburst.cbl.cees.edu/~tara/miso.html

It's one of my basic principles: i am vegetarian for around 8 years, and i am a vegan ( i don't wear leather, and buy only cruelty free products (not tested on animals for cosmetics, by ex) and stay away from dairies and pet shop!). The animal rights are one of my causes... because i think it's so selfish to kill other beings or to injured them just because it's a good taste, or because i wanna look different... to my opinion, every being (humans and animals) want to avoid suffering, so why should we inflict pain, fear and suffering to innocent beings, unable to defend themselves against us??! to me, it's so cruel!! and too easy because animals can not do nor say, nor pursue anyone!

And i've decided to stop dairies, because i am really shocked by the way, we, human race, treat animals in farm houses! it's really so unsane! and today's farms are billions miles so fare away from the one most of us learned about in school : they are mechanized factories where an animal's welfare is of little concern compared to profit: production is the only word:

"On today's factory farms, animals often spend their entire lives confined to cages or stalls barely larger than their own bodies. Death for these animals doesn't always come quickly—or painlessly. House of Representatives Agriculture Committee member George E. Brown has written that to keep production lines moving, slaughterhouse employees "often find themselves resorting to unbelievable brutality. ... Slaughter workers admit to routinely strangling, beating, scalding, skinning and dismembering fully conscious animals."3 Every year, nearly 9 billion animals are killed for food in the United States alone."
http://www.peta.org

I am maybe too naive, but i've learnt only recently how comes from milk... i thought cows were made to produce milk... that it was their "speciality"... as i was told at school, but the truth is so different from that!

"As with any mammal, cows produce milk only when pregnant and stop after their calves have been weaned. When a dairy cow delivers a female calf, the calf becomes a dairy cow herself, born to live in the same conditions as her mother. But when a dairy cow delivers a male calf, the calf is sold to a veal farm within days of birth, where he is tethered to a stall, deprived of food and exercise, and soon slaughtered for meat. Life is only a few years longer for the mother. Because it is unprofitable to keep cows alive once their milk production declines, dairy cows are usually slaughtered at 5 years of age. Thus, a cow's normal lifespan of 25 years is cut 20 years short just to cut costs and maximize production."

www.vegan.org

So despite the common belief that drinking milk and eating eggs does not kill animals, commercially-raised dairy cows and egg-laying chickens, whether factory-farmed or 'free range,' are slaughtered when their production rates decline. The same factory farm methods that are used to produce most meats are also used to produce most milk and eggs. These cows and chickens live their short lives caged, drugged, mutilated, and deprived of their most basic freedoms.
Although chickens can live up to 15 years, they are usually slaughtered when their egg production rates decline after two years.(www.vegan.org)

To me, that really sucks!!! so i beg you to do everything you can to avoid suffering to animals. I think that our only real force is to be "consumers", in this "consumer society". That's the only power we have to make the difference. So we must use it on purpose, to try to make things change. That's why it's important to buy organic vegetables, and to be conscious that "meat is murder" and that "fishing hurts".
thanks for taking on your time to read that!

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories...

I am reading a book titled "Un viejo que leía novelas de amor" (The Old Man Who Read Love Stories ) by Luis Sepulveda, a Chilean writer. it's a very good book.

chill the FUCK out

i've learnt a new american expression today :"chill the fUck out".
i like it. and it could be a good motto...
The more i look at my website the more i want to change things...
maybe i should stop to look at it! actually i don't watch it that much (i don't spend my days watching it!) but when i do it ... i always want to change stuffs.
i'll may have to sell my car. people who know me know what my car means to me!! but she (her name is Iréne) is so old!! and costs me a fortune in insurance, repairs and gas!! so... well i dunno yet, i have to think of it... i wish i can't buy a star ship instead, so i'll take pictures of master Yoda!

don't watch television, try to be constructive... and chill the fUck out sometimes!

"Make Believe

I feel like I'm lost somewhere in the middle of nowhere
And when I open my eyes, I got no place to stare
Maybe I woke up too early, so I go back to bed,
My body's weak and I'm miles away
I won't go to work today, today is like just yesterday
And I ain't gonna take that winding way to get my own happiness
Cuz I'm insane and my chains are hurting me
I think I'm tired of this, Tired of this ...

Living in a world of make believe,
That's the way you make things go
And I ain't gonna let you get me

So I quit and I return to my self-made universe
Cause you're not in it
Without your pills and your chemicals my pleasure is all
You pretend to be free in this beautiful world,
I leave it all to you
You can destroy it, break it in two

Living in a world of make believe,
That's the way you make things go
And I ain't gonna let you get me

I stop working and start running, but I run from you
I stop running and start dreaming, but I dream of you
I stop dreaming and start flying, now I'm flying over you

Living in a world of make believe,
That's the way you make things go
And I ain't gonna let you get me "

the Burning Heads (you can see them in the Music category of this website, and you have their web address in the links)

Back from Paris... and still alive!

Hi,

I just come from the Who's Next (a fashion event which takes place in Paris until tomorrow night), where i have took a lot of pictures of... everything!
Most of the brandts of clothing are there... it's interesting, if you like clothes and art... and if you can go through the impression of visiting one of the temples of the consumer society!
I have only used my digital camera... because i have to learn to use every single function of it... i didn't miss my Leica that much this time... i think for that kind of pictures a digital camera is great. Just taking pictures of instants, of everything i feel and everything i see (fashion parades, people, funny lights, decoration... )
and you know the refrain now: "soon on line"!

Tonight i am going to watch a play at the theatre, some good friends of mine (guys from Collection d'Arnell Andréa, you have some pix of them in the music category of this website) play in it.
i am still going back to India the 1st March, and i think this time i am gonna go to Nepal too. Nepal seems to be such a great place to be...

see you later...
and don't forget : don't watch televion, try to be constructive.

" Kergal

A young child in a daisy field
shivery flower of a glade
prodigal trees sway on the wind
covering her refuge in shade

Forgotten fears beyond the lake
vanish into the foggy light
and when the gloomy boughs awake
a dreamy face lights up the night.

Bunches of dream stretch over dew
bushes of pledges over time
a young child's kneeling for rescue
she's turning a glade into smile"

Collection d'Arnell Andréa

The 20 $ day...

Hi

I am exhausted tonight, i 've spent the day shooting on a shooting... i mean taking photographs of the shooting of a short film....
it was interesting... i am a bit worry about what's gonna happen to these pictures, because the production doesn't have any budget to do anything with them... so maybe they will stay for ever in a drawer... but i guess you don't want to read anything about that... But i've done some funny shots about how making up bleeding scares... and it's really amazing!
Anyway... yesterday i have finished the prints of pictures of the band Girls against Boys... and i hope they will like them.... i'll try to put some soon on this web site (one more thing for my "stuffs to add list"!)
well, that's it for tonight!

don't watch television, try to be constructive...

"Everything I Do Seems to Cost Me $20

It just occured to me
That after today
I won't have any money anymore

It just occured to me
That after today
I don't know where I'll be
And don't know what I could be doing ?

It just occured to me
That actually
I'm still gonna have
Still have my credit card

It just occured to
That after today
I won't have any money

That guy
He was so full of sh*t
That he had burned/brown eyes
He went come walkin over
Just wearin a smile

I said hey fellow
Where did you get to feelin so good?
Where did you get to feelin so nice?

I said hey brother
Where did you get to feelin so good?
Where did you get to feelin so nice?

Well I know about you and
I don't know about me at all
But I'm gonna change

That guy
He was so full of gin
He come in
He don't know that he just walked in

That cat
Get a drink about at 9AM
That's what I call gettin a good ???

Oh man
You know what I'm talkin about

I know about you and
I don't know about me at all
But I'm gonna change
I wanna change"

Girls against Boys

India, Studio Nyima and prisons...

Hi,

I am so excited, i am going back to India the 1st March, i can't wait!!!
Some friends of mine are going there next tuesday... i think they don't realize that they are now living their last "before India"moments ... it's so amazing how much going in India change your life...
anyway,
Yesterday, i've finished an article about the black tide for the american magazine Transworld Surf, it was a good experience to write an article all in english! well as you have may noticed english is not my birth language... so it was amazing to think and explain your feelings in english... i loved that! if i feel more comfortable, expressing myself in english maybe i should ask if i can trade my birth language with english??
if any of you knows where i can do that, please, tell me!!

My friend Terence has just inaugurated is new recording studio... he 's done it all byhimself with some friends... so i have the pleasure to introduce you, Studio Nyima! it was born the 1st january 2003. the parents are alrights, but it's a very heavy baby!
you can have a look at it at : www.studionyima.com

I have to go back in my dark room to make some prints... so, see you tomorrow !
don't watch TV, try to be constructive...

"They all became part of the river. It was the goal of all of them, yearning, desiring, suffering; and the river's voice was full of longing, full of smarting woe, full of insatiable desire. The river flowed on towards to it's goal. Siddartha saw the river hasten, made up of himself and his relatives and all the people he had ever seen. All the waves and water hastened, suffering, towards goals, many goals, to the waterfall, to the sea, to the current, to the ocean and all the goals were reached and each one was succeeded by another. The water changed to vapour and rose, became rain and came down again, became spring, brook and river, changed anew, flowed anew. But the yearning voice had altered. It still echoed sorrowfully, searchingly but other voices accompanied it, voices of pleasure and sorrow, good and evil voices, laughing and lamenting voices, hundreds of voices, thousands of voices............."
Siddartha
Herman Hesse

Happy New Year...

Hi

Happy new year everybody...
As you have may noticed, there are some new stuffs on this website... mostly in the "Misc" category. There will be biggest changes soon, like the pictures i took of the black tide, in west south of France and in Spain. i haven't put them yet, because i think those photographs need their own category... so just the time to work on that and it will be on line.
I already talked about this shelter for the birds injured by the oil, in the "News" of this forum, so i won't tell you again about it... but to sum up : that reallly sucks.
if you wanna see the states of the french coast you can visit the website of surfrider Foundation europe :
http://www.surfrider-europe.org

I'll tell you more about my trip soon...
and yes, i am gonna add a special page for Laudanum, a very good french band i've followed on tour... well, those who already know Matthieu Malon will know who is behind Laudanum... anyway, you have the link of his website on the "links" page of this website...

and don't forget : try to be constructive.

noémie.

"when they start falling executions will commence
sides will not matter now matter makes no sense
how did a difference become a disease?
i'm sure you have reasons a rational defense
weapons and motives bloody fingerprints
but i can't help thinking it's still all disease
here comes the argument
folderol it's all about strikes now
so here's what's striking me
that some punk could argue some moral abc's
when people are catching what bombers release
i'm on a mission to never agree here comes the argument
here comes the argument here comes the argument here it comes"

Fugazi - The Argument -

about the shelter for the birds covered of oil...

Hi there,

I just come from Spain and west south of France, where i have shot the consequences of the black tide on the beaches and on the birds...
i went in a shelter for the birds injured by the oil... the volunteers are doing such a great job there !
By the way, if some of you want to help the volunteers to save the birds, you can help them by sending them money (money is what they need the most : they didn't get enough from the french government and they are now buying all the stuffs with their own money)
so :
to send them money :
you can send them cheques, to Hegalaldia Marée Noire and send it to :

Hegalaldia
mairie
64220 Uhart-Cize
France

thanks for them

noémie