Once upon a time in France ?

To be continued

viviartis@hotmail.com (gynie) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:52:00 +0000

I can't blog anymore:
Firstly i don't know what to blog about.
And I have really a lot too much to do with my new flat,
and i will be very busy for a long time by painting, so i prefer say good bye on this blog.

I will look forward in creating a really website about my paintings.

I will come and visit your blogs sirs and ladies as much as possible of course ^^
thank you all of you for reading my blog

Flowers time

viviartis@hotmail.com (gynie) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:50:00 +0000

I've been finding myself back whithin drawing ,
and a François Cheng's book which it's called
Cinq méditations sur la beauté
(5 meditations about beauty, will beauty save the world ?).

My lilly are huge this year,
i wonder how big they will end in a few years !

Here are my old friends the bumble bees
and a new one hairy bee comes to collect pollen on my balcony
i'm so happy !

This is the last picture from my real big irl painting,
i'ts almost finished now, i need to create the frame,
and all will be done:

i will then start a big real dragon painting.

Working hard !

viviartis@hotmail.com (gynie) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:19:00 +0000

I'm still in the need to draw, Encircled by boxes for the coming move in the new flat . Hopefully i've got still my computer until we really move in july. I did get my first kung fu graduation but it was not that important to me, i was not even ready for it. I'm suspecting they offer this first graduation to encourage people to keep on learning ...

I've learned a lot wit these martial arts and it is helpfull with my drawings ^^

I'm really busy for a long time so i hope you are doing well ^^

Meeting the Master of the school

viviartis@hotmail.com (gynie) — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:32:00 +0000

Last saturday and sunday i've been to a training course made by the founder of our Kung fu , Tai chi chuan and Yi Chuan School. It was the 30th anniversary of the creation of the french school.
It was very rich of experiences. We met schools from th Whole france (in fact we all are located in South : Pau, Tarbes, Anger, Toulouse).

I've learned a lot, and it was all of a sudden as if i did found my tribe, or my heart country : the one of knowledge, sharing and exchanging happiness. We've done a lot of tai chi chuan, and the Master Tran thahn has explained to us many things. It was a huge event for all of us, and even more for the kung fu lads red belt trying to get their black belt of the school, which is a lot more difficult than the federal belt to get. It was so cool to see the high levels meeting and setting their exams with the whole french school as spectators. One of the school performed a lion dance (a dragon running after a lion), and the most graduated lads have done the second Tao altogether for the master. Its was simple, and it was to show we could all do something together, thanks to him. The school would like to be recognised now, and to let the shadows behind in the past.

There is 2 legends about our master Tran Thanh :

- at the begining the master was really fighting with the first 'pupils', and beat them up if it was not propely learned. He has stopped it more than 20 years ago as it was not helpfull.
- the master has some kind of rose flower smells , not a perfume one smell, something from his body, or even his breath: that is definitively a true legend too : i did smell it ! it smells like rose but it's even more delicate, astonning !!

I knew some people might smell the apple when they have diabetic problems, but never heard about rose-like smells for a man, which does turn as a male rose smelly thing !

Here comes the month were i might try to get my first level in Kung fu. We'll try to film ourselves with a few friends while traing, so we might see how to be better,
i'll see if i can get some pictures in here at this time (shaking knees ^^)

And also, at last the bank office said yes for the money : here we go, we shall get the keys on the 29th june Yahoo !

I've been delighted to meet a Jay yesterday since i didn't for such a long time ! no Pictures, i didn't took my camera ^^

Violence in France

viviartis@hotmail.com (gynie) — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:06:00 +0000

Facing the truth noone would see, French people have to realise that there is some violence in France just like everywhere. Our education minister wants some rules to allow somes searches kids before they come inside the schools.
The thing is that no one wants to admit that there is some real violence in our schools. But such a law might not be a solution either !
There is already one step which has been done to punish parents who have violent kids : they should pay some money... Is it a good solution or a bad one ?

Here is an english explanation

Their is also a possibilitie that bad drivers might be punished one day: they wants to get their car and sell them and the money would be for the government.... money money money !!

I wonder !

an other subject: i've discovered some lady gaga performance, i didn't know her at all and i think she has something like some beautiful energy.
enjoy ^^

Banana cake from Vietnam - Bahn chuoi nuong

viviartis@hotmail.com (gynie) — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:10:00 +0000

Here is an other banana cake i've been tested from this old book i've found again while sorting out my books ^^
It's delicious and so does agree my boyfriend too ^^

I think i've got at least already 10 boxes of books from all kind and it's not finished yet !

You will need :
4 big mature bananas so they have all their flavour
200 g of flour
100 g of starch
200 g of sugar (or some others substitutes)
3 dl of coco milk ( around 11 oz)
1 vanilla clove
20g of butter (or substitute)

Recipie for 6 banana fans ^^

It's quite quick to prepare but the cooking i don't know really because it was written 30 mins in the haven around 150 ° but i had to cook it more than 1h 1/2 with 180° to get it eatable. I suggest to you to get a dish not longer than 30 cm and to watch out until it seems ready

Here is a picture of the final result si you can see what the inside must look like ^^

1. Start the oven for baking at 150°. You need to butter the dish for the bake.

2. in an other dish filter Flour, starch. You need then to mix up flour, starch, sugar. Open the vanilla clove and get the tiny vanilla sands to mix it up with the rest. Then add the coco milk. You mix it up all together so you end with a pastry.

3. get the skin off the bananas. Cut each banana in thin slices. Incorporate delicately them in the pastry. Get the whole pastry in the baking dish, and start the oven.

4. let it bake around 30 mins, until the cake has golden. When ready let cool outside the oven around 10 mins . ready to eat or get it in the fridge and eat it cold and fresh !! miam!!

Astonishing Parrots !

viviartis@hotmail.com (gynie) — Sun, 17 May 2009 12:46:00 +0000

We all have discovered recently on tv that Parrots might be dancing and have fun like us !!

If dancing and having fun, and singing are some human activities, this parrot is surely human ! ^^

Here it is

and here also

Answers

viviartis@hotmail.com (gynie) — Sat, 16 May 2009 13:21:00 +0000

You were pretty close both ^^

The first is a usefull thing for little used and almost finished pencils you can't hold by yourself
The second was a chignon stick ^^ tricky !

Guess what it might be used for

viviartis@hotmail.com (gynie) — Mon, 11 May 2009 09:32:00 +0000

If your weather is grey and that you need to change your mind :

Here is a game where you should guess what are the 2 objects used for (i've been inspired by Glenda larke's games which are always so cool ^^)
I don't have very much to offer to you but only some answers ^^
answers will be this week-end with pictures !

230000 People living in Bordeaux

viviartis@hotmail.com (gynie) — Mon, 11 May 2009 08:31:00 +0000

I've been watching back my blog and i've realised that it will be one year i'm blogging with blogspot, and i'm not getting bored of this new habit. My mother keeps on telling me, 'beware, they will know everything and might used it against you, they will know what you buy, who you are talking to and so on'. I'm not sure i'm worthy enough for people to lose their time in spying me !! lol !!
I've been noticing an other thing: by watching my blog you might think it's a lost town, empty, and so calm ! It's true if you compare Bordeaux to Paris, and if you are visiting Bordeaux a late Sunday in the month. But most of the time people are all around me, in a stuffy way, that is the reason why i'm looking for some calm points of view, and because i love nature. You have to know : Bordeaux has 230000 people living in it's wall and more than 100 000 more should be settled in 2010 or so do the studies say. No doubts : there will be some other general strike in the futur as the recent government keeps on digging the gap between rich and poor people.

We are full of people, in the city center trying to look like a little Paris with it's brand new tramway, the longuest european pedestrian street (1.2 km) . We have also a very popular football team... My boyfriend like them a lot of course, he is a football fan. The first sport for the boys is the football in France, and then comes the Rugby and the Cycling.

My work office is like a beehive, where i receive most of the news i have to give back to the other people of the company. I'm working with 10 girls around in the same room, and i have to talk to many people everyday (more than 100 per day). It's difficult to find some rest and some silence. I am hardly alone, for i live with someone and because of the way we live in a metropolis, rich of experience but difficult if you wish a solitude. That is quite a paradoxal situation as it's also in such metropolis that we can find to most people abandoned and lonely and they didn't choose it !

New Lodger in my flat !

viviartis@hotmail.com (gynie) — Sat, 09 May 2009 12:31:00 +0000

Here is a new lodger in our balcony garden: a tiny spider ! She creates her web on my redcurrant which is supposed to be a good news. That means my little 'garden' i growing up fine enough so the insects can find som way to live in ^^ Here is the star, playing hide and seeck, the cunning one ^^

May

viviartis@hotmail.com (gynie) — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:32:00 +0000

This month is full of surprise. I wish you happiness of course with the lily of the valley, we call it "Muguet"here in france.

One of my friend has just been engaged and the wedding was very sunny ! She was like a cartoon princess and the party was simple and nice in the garden.

In the morning i keep on meeting nice matters here a bar-headed goose couple, singing nicely before starting some fun fly.

The grapes are growing in south west with the return of the sun, and my redcurrant are surprisingly numerous this year.

From France

viviartis@hotmail.com (gynie) — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:50:00 +0000

This spring is quite cloudy, misty and it keeps on raining.

I can't help walking outside as often as i can still as i'm far quite too busy to do it everyday. I've seen many people running two in the morning in the vine cultures, and they are so right as it is alway so marvellous in the early morning. It's quite cool that the castle picque caillou let people run through their property. It's raining a lot those last days and it's a good thing as pollen are very agressives and it has covered up the whole south with a yellowish skin.

Since monday we are mostly selling ffp2 mask and tamiflu 75mg, and also nailner some tv advertising for foot's nails ! it's really ridiculous ! Hope this piggy flue will pass on quickly. In france as we are used to, of course the flue hasn't been detected in here, which is quite strange as spain and Uk have some case... But just like for Tchernobil the clouds have certainly been flying around us, and we all have to suppose the clouds did'nt cross the borders...

Our President and his wife are still living in an other world, and french radios only talk about the carla bruni sarkosy dress, what else could we talk about ? Not about some sad way of life when you only can see old buildings everyday after work when you have some.
Here is a picture from Pessac.

Our actual small flat is getting bigger since we've started to pack some things and we'll have to live with box for one or two month until we get the new keys ! The next flat we have choseen is like a huge lego we have to build up. I used to thnik i would only be able to live in a house, but i believe we are only getting some shell for the time we are spending in this world. According to this point of view i can easily see the futur within a flat, simply. French people are trying to shelter themselves within their homes they said in tv reports. This flue is sadly an other thing which will not stimulate people to discover new people.

There is a surprising new book in France recently : Histoire de la nuit written by Alain Cabantous , it's dealing about what's happening in the night and in the european society and way of life. It's very interresting ^^

I'm still trying to find some time to finish my dogg and also my english text for my friend but it seems time is slipping away as some sand.

Lesson from the tiger masters !

viviartis@hotmail.com (gynie) — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:48:00 +0000

Female bengal tiger approaches another female aggressivelyBBC Natural History Unit

Sometimes we need to see things in other points of view. I would have never expected the left resting tiger female to turn round that way for an attack respons !!

Male and female bengal tigers fight in forest clearingBBC Natural History Unit

According to this other video i understand better now what does my real Kung fu and Taichi chuan master says when he talks about the nape of the neck, and what he means about calling up energy !! what a strenghth !!! I'll never watch a tiger in the same way now !

Translation : need your help !

viviartis@hotmail.com (gynie) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:45:00 +0000

I'm trying to translate my french text for my friend's New york exhibition. Would someone have some extra time and be kind enough to read it when i'm finished and find out what i need to change in order to get an acceptable thing ?

Here is a part of the french version one ^^ The english version is still WIP !! it's soo difficult to translate what i'm writing, i feel like dealing with a chinese logical game , we call that casse-tête in french meaning it's breaking your head and giving you a big headache ! ^^

I came to see my friend
Aveuglée par un monde embrasé de consommations, je suis venue voir l’exposition de mon ami Armel Promeneur.
Dans notre mémoire, des flots d’objets fusionnent : le monde urbain, humain se déverse. Rien n’a vraiment changé depuis la naissance du pop art ou des nouveaux réalistes. En plus des objets, tels à une communauté de micros araignées nous tissons le monde d’images et de concepts. Les publicités règnent sur les routes et les murs que nous bâtissons, sur nos écrans, nos vêtements, nos idées de vie et de liberté. Du pixel jusqu’au gigantesque panneau impromptu, notre inconscient collectif se répand mondialement. Chaque espace jalonne nos désirs et nos besoins divers, parfois improbables. Tout est filmé, filmable, visible, à voir ou à monnayer. Les images virevoltent autour de nous et voici que celles d’Armel entrent dans la danse.

Down on my knees

viviartis@hotmail.com (gynie) — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:24:00 +0000

Sometimes i'm wondering why i keep on painting about things people don't care. I wonder why painting things which does look like what we know should be 'has been'. Anyway, what i'm painting is about a fantasy world and anyway, i don't feel good in this world when i'm not painting. I feel unfinished. I am not feeling myself. But i need to work to earn money, and i need to see people to buy the flat. If i could i would only be painting the whole day and night. I mostly do it on the floor, as i don't own much place. I'm already thinking about the next real painting one and i believe it will be about a bird.

We have chosen a nice flat. We can't afford a house in here. Bordeaux tries to be like a little Paris. I will get a craft room, which is very cool, but i can't believe we need so much energy in order to sign only papers, and it's still not signed until the end of April.

30 years of the Kung fu school are up in the end of May, and teachers are effervescent.
I've learned at last all the movements i need for the first level. Posture, Tao, sequence, blocking. Now i need to practice it.

Trees

viviartis@hotmail.com (gynie) — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:21:00 +0000

unexpected sitting possibilities after the storm ^^

Nature is better painter than me ^^

And here a good news: we 've found our futur nest, we only need to sign the papers with the bank office and stop shaking our knees ^^

Squirrels

viviartis@hotmail.com (gynie) — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:45:00 +0000

Here are my news friends, i see them often when doing Tai chi chuan in the Park. I'm anoying them so i'm bringing some nuts each time to pay a kind of tax to them ^^
It's really funny hearing them while running and scratching the trees so loudly, they seem to have fun ! Some people say it's because of the fleas that they are running and jumping so fast ! lol ! I guess it could be true ^^

We went to see Gran Torino VoE , so we could hear the real clint estwood voice. So cool ^^
And it was a great story, love Clint Eastwood ^^
As usual i've been crying, and clucking all along the film ... I guess it was all right as did also most of the people around ! I didn't loose my time by watching it ^^

Blue tit

viviartis@hotmail.com (gynie) — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:54:00 +0000

What i've learned from practicing Tai chi chuan 'routine' within 6 months and by doing it in a park :
The best moments are unexpected and they are intense. I was delightful to meet this blue tit so close from me. This bird seems to feel easy with head upside down !

The pictures are not really good but i did get a shot.

Bees in the Park

viviartis@hotmail.com (gynie) — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:05:00 +0000

Spring 's flowers

viviartis@hotmail.com (gynie) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:56:00 +0000

In France we've had some strangeprojects: like in England (Hrugaar talked about it for england as well not so far away), It was proposed to do some 'ethnicals Statistics' so it is supposed to help with discrimination problems. Yurk ! What's going on in here ? What statistics would help against female discriminations ? What is it really about this project ? I can't believe it and yet no one is telling anything about it, people are so happy to have a job around me and that's all. What's the point in counting how many asian, black, and what else will be count ? I don't need no tables to know i've got friends from many parts of the wolrd and that i'm the result of a melting pot !

Here some english links for U ^^
BBC
Google

some french one, about the fear of an ethnical list
Nouvel Obs
Le figaro
Google

Bloomering spring

viviartis@hotmail.com (gynie) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:17:00 +0000

It looks like nature was painting itself, on the delicates and numerous branches are bloomering some green touches ^^

Enky Bilal has created a new comic strip called Animal'z
i think i might get it ^^
He said he was coming back to a drawing line rather than a material painting. He needs to clear up the pages he said on the tv interview.
He has created the comic strip called The Nikopol Trilogy that turned to a film called 'Immortel' which was very poetic as his comics strip but not an obviously very good film ^^

Enky Bilal Web site Off
here On wiki

Robot fish ?

viviartis@hotmail.com (gynie) — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:55:00 +0000

I was wondering what was Reuters since i've read about it on Glenda larke's blog and discovered the french reuters: they talked about some Robot fisch created to seek for pollution in the seas !! Is it a hoax ? Very strange days, i believe our world is really changing a lot whithout we might realize it sometimes. It will be activated next year on the spain coast ! This is true that we have big pollutions problems around here in south west of france and in Spain, but i never heard about the robot fish it before !

The complete French Article
On you tube

The rest of the goose

viviartis@hotmail.com (gynie) — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:06:00 +0000

Here is again my new star, having a rest after a lively day with kids and dogs around !
Spring has bloomed and every one is outside since last W-end. This is a quite big public park with a lake but it was difficult to find some place to sit that afternoon !

Outarde du Canada

viviartis@hotmail.com (gynie) — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:18:00 +0000