En vrac
April 7th, 2008
Wow it’s been a while since my last post. Shame on me ! The thing is that I don’t spend much time at my place and when I’m home, well, I have to admit I’m a bit lazy. Cheap dvds don’t help either :]
Last weekend was a 3 days long weekend so I decided to go out of Shanghai with some friends. We went to Zhujiajiao, a lovely small water town not far from Shanghai which looks like Venice in a chinese style. It’s a nice place to visit, although a bit crowded. But which place is not in China?
The week before I’ve been to Attica, a famous local night club, to attend a Ministry of Sound’s party by Sébastien Léger. The french DJ played a great set compared to what I’ve heard here. There were some really good tracks like Daft Punk’s “Around the world” or “A new cage” by Sono, but the one I will remember is definitely Depeche Mode’s “Enjoy the silence”. Yeah, that was good ! \o/
Well, except from that, I spend a lot of time eating and shopping. Cost of life is kinda low here so you can eat for pretty much nothing compared to France. That’s the good thing here! I miss french food though.
Ok, that’s it for today. Take a look at my pictures on my flickr page. And here’s bonus track for you : Symbolone - Love Juice.
Lense Week
February 18th, 2008
Last week was a very productive week in terms of photography.
Monday was the deadline for the 10th We Contest of Lense.fr whose subject was ‘Géometrie’ (Geometry). I really wanted to participate in this one so I grabbed my DSLR and walked for 3 hours (until I ran out of battery) near the BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France). I was amazed to see so much new buildings with original architecture and of course I took a shot for the contest there (see the shot a the end).
But the BIG event of the week was clearly the Lense Party #7 (Paris Safari) which brought together about sixty members of Lense. After gathering at Chatelet, this small world was split up into 8 or 9 teams, each one of them heading toward different places. The lottery made me join the group leaded by Soket : Double black gommettes \o/. We spent about 3 hours walking from Gare de l’Est to Montmartre with a little coffee break to warm up. I really enjoyed this afternoon, everybody on my team was nice, we talked about our equipment, techniques, and experiences while shooting. Around 7pm, we got together with the other groups for a party at the Cleub, the occasion to see the favorite shot of each member on a big screen and of course talk, drink some beer and blind everybody with a tupperwared cobra flash for others ;). In one word : A-W-E-S-O-M-E !
A funny thing about this Lense Party is when I realized that I kinda knew Beorn, one of the coaches. Actually, he attended to my end of studies project final presentation as a jury a few weeks ago :).