Archisaccuplastikophilie

Yesterday, 23rd of March, I've been asked to participate to a writing workshop with the OuLiPo members. 

The "OuLiPo" group has taken a formal state in 1960, when mathematicians and writers have decided to 

defend and illustrate french literature. Today, the OuLiPo aims to stimulate and preserve the language we 

have inherited by complex discussions and creating mazes in literature.

To stimulate our minds and constrain us to think about another way to put up with language, they've asked

us to come up with "CHICAGO" poems. Its basically a poem composed of four verses and homosynthaxes 

together with synonyms to form a word in the end...yeah I didn't get it the first time either.

Here you go, some Chicagos I came up with.... and since the theme was about architecture, please do enjoy:

Le solide rêvé

Le mortel imaginé

Le cadavre pensé

Le corps busié

Foule noue vache

Êtres nouent boeuf

Monde noue veau

Gens nouent velle

Franck faibli

Frank rétabli

Frank dépéri

Frank guéri

Miss fan de bleu

Miss fan de rouge

Miss fan de pourpre

Miss fan de rose 

Rangifers au xylophone

Mammifères au dolce

Cariboux au piano forte

Rennes au piano

Père est Romain

Père est Empereur

Père est Saint

Père est Auguste

Deux marcassins en réserve
Deux sangliers en prairie

Deux cochons en bergerie

Deux porcs en parc 

Mari au beau fixe

Mari au beau jour

Mari au beau ciel

Mari au beau temps

Le Bloempot

LE GRAND MIX

I'm back to writing quotes of my life. 

To be honest, I was far from imagining that life as an architecture student meant becoming a sort of survivor. But I can't abandon my blog, so here I am, back at it again.

We've been divided in several groups so we could each study a renovated architecture in the north of France. My group happened to receive the "Grand Mix" in Tourcoing, a concert hall that can room 650 people a night, that mostly invites young electro djs to perform. 

Everyone recognizes the Grand Mix by its circle, square and triangle that Thierry Baron asked to build to remind you folks of the three Bauhaus shapes ;) When you're an archi student, you get the privilege to see the backstage and meet architects for the only purpose that is your next weeks' presentation. However, the Grand Mix is going to be rehabilitated by the Chelouti architect agency and the construction is starting from December.

Hope you'll go visit!

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I haven't been writing since September and I terribly missed doing that but architecture studies do take a lot of time. I am actually living in a houseshare with 8 other students. There's Mathilde, Lucas, Lou, Laura, Billie, Philipe, Matthieu and Enzo. I'm sure you've already watched "L'Auberge Espagnole" from Cédric Klapisch, and to be honest, its the indentical scenario with the house chores and its a real merry chaos! 

This illustration is a dedication to all of my homies:

 

Its definitely the best house you can wish for as a student :) 

Lots of love to you 8 ! 

LILLE

It's been a week now that I've settled in Lille, in a student residence. My studio is great, all bright and new! Fortunately, some friends from Poland lived in Lille too, what made my first week as a confirmed bachelor much easier.  

Tomorrow is my first day of college, at ENSAPL (Lille National School of Higher Architecture and Landscape studies). Honestly, I already love the atmosphere there and the school building looks good!

Here's a watercolor/pen drawing I've made of the left part of the school:

Well obviously, It had to be a foggy day (cause we're in the north of France). 

BAC

 I haven't been posting for some time as lately, my daily life looked like this:

Anyway, my baccalaureate is DONE. Apart from that, next year i'll be in the Lille School of Architecture, i'll continue posting some stories... ;) 

Boog & Elliot in  Open Season movie digital painting 

KungFu Panda

Pencil, pen and digital 2D drawing of the dragon warrior Po ... 

My nut, my egg, MY easter. 

This guy has changed the world's history more than anyone else. Making a tribute to Scrat this Easter! Today on Easter Sunday, mainly in France and America, children wake up to find that the Easter Bunny has left them baskets of chocolate. I hope you've been faster than Scrat this time.... 

#PrayForBrussels

"More than 30 people are believed to have been killed and dozens injured in attacks at Brussels international airport and a city metro station." - BBC

ISIS spreads violence and cowardliness around the world, so let us spread joy and bravery.

Maison Conquet

The Maison Conquet is a known boucherie in Aubrac, at Laguiole. Its specialities are dry sausages with Roquefort and obviously the prime rib of Aubrac cow...

Do not forget to cut precisely the meat, with a Vent d'Aubrac knife.

Figaro in Pinocchio

I think I need to watch this movie once again.

“Remember, a boy who won't be good might just as well be made of wood.”

-The Blue Fairy

Plots and drawings

Today I felt like writing a plot for a story. I usually gather my ideas in my head but I wanted to throw them on paper for once. The plot talks about a creature from the moon, that somehow landed on  earth. Humans get frightened, and call the police to put it in jail. A few days later, the inhabitant of the moon's body starts to slowly disappear. Once day, less than a quater of it is left. Narrow enough to pass between the prison bars, he escapes... 

Thats a sketch of the creature, using the graphic tablet:

Moony before he reaches Earth. 

A little later it becomes to look like this... :

And that's a Walt Disney reproduction of one illustration from the MICKEY book of 1998:

Funicular in the old town of Lyon

In November, my Mom and I drove to Lyon, so technically, the visit of the old part of the city is a must-go. First of all, you can access this place by the funicular - pretty typical, here. You walk on the heterogeneous pavers and take pictures of a tremendous cathedral. 

View from the inside of the funicular

Going down the stone steps on the left of the monument, you'll find two roman theaters and you'll discover the mysterious traboules of Lyon. Traboules seem secret, stone corridors, from building to building and unique in France, from the Middle-Age. They're great places to hide yourself in, or sit down and draw for hours their complicated architecture. 

All right, now that you can't stop yourself from wanting to open each ancient door, running through every single traboule, open your eyes and take a look at these lovely grocery shops and traditional patisseries. Especially the "Boulangerie du Palais" ... yes, I'm giving you my secret address here, be careful.  Yum, I can already feel the delicious taste of the praline buns in my mouth!

The Week of Democracy and Fraternity

The week of democracy and fraternity project aims all students to take part in debates such as tolerance and freedom. It is taking place in all french schools of central europe, and is looking forward to allow debates with primary and high-school students to build constructive ideas, so they can learn and make their own judgements, after des events of November.

This is the poster I have made for the project:

C'est le petit Nicolas qui se prend en selfie avec le reste du monde, un pied sur la tour-eiffel pour rappeler les attentats du 13 novembre.

Observation drawing at politechnika architektury

Since September, I take drawing courses at the warsaw school of architecture. Our teachers are two man, one that looks really old and another one that is a little youger, and they are both great. The level is really high, but we are all full of determination and we keep our humour despite the critics we can get!

I met three girls there, Julia, Natalia and Martyna, and we usually fool around at each other's  drawings.

This is my latest drawing, the theme was "flower pots using watercolors" :

Animation

I've been pretty busy with doing all of my portfolios for the studies. You know from a previous (and old) article that I'm a Disney fan, and I have always loved animation sketching. I'm really into it now, and my hand can't stop from drawing over and over a character under thousands of face expressions and movements, even if I got still a lot to work on. 

This is a character I have created.

The dog face expressions and the frog are sketches I have made using Preston Blair books, where I have learnt how to make a story-board and the basics of character sketching. 

 I just love how this mouse really seems to fall straight down in a hole!

That's Figaro, the cat that appears in the Pinnochio movie and Pluto&Figaro cartoons. I have tried doing the 2014 records of the Gobelins school admission exams, making Figaro jump on a sofa.

Aubrac

It's time to write an article about this place, really. At first I just wanted to tell you that I spend all my summers there and I love it each and every time, I'll tell you why. 

To be honest, the food may be 99,9% of what makes this place terribly attractive. Ok, I must have exagerated, cause the landscapes that hides the plateau are breathtaking.

Then there's the cows. I need to draw an Aubrac! They seem to have eyeliner on the top of their eyes... 

This article is not finished at all. I mean it can't be, I could write a whole book about this place: Nasbinals, Laguiole knives, Aligot, the people there... 

That's a watercolor painting of the typical beer in Aubrac: 

Nantes

On the 13th of April, I went to visit Nantes because I would love to enter the Ecole de Design de Nantes Atlantique. 

On the way there, my Mom and I had to stop by the JB Rautureau Factory at 2 Rue des boutons d'Or, La Gaubretiere. Its the biggest  factory of sexy and fashion shoes I have ever seen! 

4 hours later we decided to drive to our hotel.

The school had eco-mowers: sheep. Thats such a great idea, seriously.

At the information day, I met Pierre-Marie Martin, a student that is really cool, and he explained us a lot of things they do there. He showed us his stop-motion court-métrage called "Oscar l'escargot" ;)

Anyways, Pierre-Marie loves what he does and he's a great designer!

Sunday morning, we had to leave the city and drive back to Paris...

Dior 2015 Haute Couture Show?

Whether it was on the runway, in Vogue or at the 40th Ceremony of Cesars, you have already obviously seen this wonderful Dior dress somewhere. Marion Cotillard was wearing the star dress of the 2015 Haute Couture Dior Show, for the 40th Ceremony of Cesars. This illustration is just a part of a project i'm working on, maybe a gift i'll make for Dior Poland...who knows? ;)

You can see the making of of the dress using that link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEDgf_ezWFw