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Why did the chicken cross the road, during the American elections?

(Friday, July 4th, 2008)

I had previously commented on the history of this little comic genre, but here is a detailled sample from political actors of the 2008 American presidential elections.

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?

Homage to MC Escher - By Shane Willis

(Wednesday, June 25th, 2008)

Homage to MC Escher - By Shane Willis

Source: Photo.net.

Platon portraits

(Saturday, June 21st, 2008)

A photographer must love his models to make the best possible portraits and to serve completely the models. This is all the more obvious when it comes to photographing celebrities and famous people.

Platon does a great job for this.

Barack Obama - Copyright (c) Platon

Vladimir Poutine - Copyright (c) Platon

Source : Platon.
All photos are Copyright (c) Platon - All rights reserved.

Red cars, old cars

(Monday, June 16th, 2008)

If you liked my photos about Le Mans, you’re just in time to jump to Michelle Roohani’s web site. Excellent blogger, graphist and photographer, she has just posted a series of photos of Delahaye, Hispano Suiza, Kurtis 500, Bentley, Ferrari, Bugatti.

Michelle Roohani

Buy my photos

(Friday, June 6th, 2008)

You can now start buying some of my photos at RedBubble. I sent them a few original artworks and it gives you access to some products like:

  • Cards,
  • Matted Prints,
  • Laminated Prints,
  • Mounted Prints,
  • Canvas Prints,
  • Framed Prints

Buy my photos at RedBubble
Buy my art

MC Escher in video

(Wednesday, May 21st, 2008)

Graphic artist and painter MC Escher produced a few very interesting paintings and engravings. But today, I give you the opportunity to see it differently. Bring on the video!

Escher animation

Source: Magic Design.

Doorways and streets in Shanghai

(Sunday, May 18th, 2008)


Street and bike - Copyright (C) 2008 Yves Roumazeilles Sleeping barber - Copyright (C) 2008 Yves Roumazeilles
Door and scooter - Copyright (C) 2008 Yves Roumazeilles Narrow street - Copyright (C) 2008 Yves Roumazeilles

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Free movie: B horror movies from the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s

(Friday, May 16th, 2008)

Logo Internet Archive

  • List from Internet Archive

Hollywood in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s created a long string of cheap horror movies that never reached the top rating lists. However, some of them, despite being left mostly abandonned by their authors, are worthy of some renewed attention. In this context, it is interesting to notice that the Internet Archive has recently pointed to a nice list of these B horror movies. In there, you will find (available for free download):

Colors in Shanghai

(Thursday, May 15th, 2008)


Three and three lanterns - Copyright (C) 2008 Yves Roumazeilles Red lanterns and gold fishes - Copyright (C) 2008 Yves Roumazeilles
Four red lanterns - Copyright (C) 2008 Yves Roumazeilles Red lantern and green leaves - Copyright (C) 2008 Yves Roumazeilles
Blue and yellow cords - Copyright (C) 2008 Yves Roumazeilles Blue shirts - Copyright (C) 2008 Yves Roumazeilles
Red peppers and red ears - Copyright (C) 2008 Yves Roumazeilles Yellow spiral - Copyright (C) 2008 Yves Roumazeilles

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Portfolio: Anne Roumazeilles

(Wednesday, April 30th, 2008)

You may think that I am partial presenting you this portfolio today. Yes! Anne Roumazeilles is my nephew. But I really love what she does while she only began shooting photos a short time ago.

I let you judge these images taken in テ四e de Rテゥ (on the Atlantic coast of France) and feel free to leave a comment (or constructive criticism).


テ四e de Rテゥ - Copyright (C) 2007-08 Anne Roumazeilles - All rights reserved テ四e de Rテゥ - Copyright (C) 2007-08 Anne Roumazeilles - All rights reserved
Boat from テ四e de Rテゥ - Copyright (C) 2007-08 Anne Roumazeilles - All rights reserved
Pebbles - Copyright (C) 2007-08 Anne Roumazeilles - All rights reserved Pebbles and feather - Copyright (C) 2007-08 Anne Roumazeilles - All rights reserved
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Copyright (C) 2007-08 Anne Roumazeilles - All rights reserved.
For Jacques.

PhotoShop Express online - a few reviews

(Sunday, April 27th, 2008)

This was a little event a few days ago: Adobe launched its first beta version of the online PhotoShop under the name of Photoshop Express. As it was easy to predict, it’s not as simple as marketing would like you to believe and you cannot replace one by the other as most of the reviews hereafter will show you:

  • Les Numテゥriques (en franテァais): would better use Picasa to share the images prepared with Photoshop Express, and would want to see Raw files management, curves and histograms, and masks.
  • Ars Technica (in English): it is rahter a cross between iPhoto and Adobe Bridge, but they love the basic features and (including color correction).
  • Baekdal.com (in English) : disappointed; This is not an image editor, by far - just a fun way to apply a few corrections/effects. Woudl rather recommend Splashup, he feels is superior.
  • Photojojo (in English): This is certainly not Photoshop but it does very well what it offers (basic image edition/correction).
  • LifeHacker: Not the Full PS Package, but Good Web-Based Editing
  • Pixinfo.com (in Hungarian): Honest! I didn’t understand what they think about it…

To notice: Photoshop Express is free, limited to 2GB of online storage (easy to reach) and in English only for now.

Fiction of the day: Security question, by Ramon Rozas III

(Friday, April 25th, 2008)

I found this funny little piece of SciFi/security litterature. I’m sure you’ll like it.

The man blurred into existence behind the dense shrubs, and checked a small device he took from his pocket. Since time and date seemed correct, he straightened his sports coat and stepped from behind the bushes.

[...]


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