Tout pour le week-end #80/ How to enjoy your weekend #80

06/02/2017 18:25

Art by Jo Brocklehurst- Via: nytimes.com

Haven't been able to write in a while, but I'm back, and I hope for good ;)

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Je n'ai pas pu écrire pendant un moment, mais je suis de retour, j'espère pour de bon ;)

An Illustrator

Live flesh: the fetish club art of Jo Brocklehurst - in pictures

Jo Brocklehurst's vibrant illustrations were sketched out in the corners of 80s fetish and punk clubs, immortalising a flamboyant subculture. Her work is exhibited in the show Nobodies and ...

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/feb/03/jo-brocklehurst-fetish-club-art-house-of-illustration

Delicate Botanical Sculptures

Yuki Tsunoda - Via: thisiscolossal.com

Glass Insects and Plants Sculpted to Scale by Japanese Artist Yuki Tsunoda

Molding tiny bits of soft Moretti glass with equally small tools, Japanese sculptor Yuki Tsunoda produces insects, flowers, and other types of plants at a size that is nearly to scale. Her subject ...

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/02/glass-insects-and-plants-by-yuki-tsunoda/

A Website

Hyperallergic - Sensitive to Art & its Discontents

The Japanese artist collective Chim↑Pom has built a treehouse dubbed "USA Visitor Center" that looks across the US-Mexico border. In these stereoviews populated by skeletons, hell is host to boating

http://hyperallergic.com/

A Newsletter

If, in those troubled times, you are looking for some feminist guidance, Jessica Valenti's newsletter "The week in patriarchy" can help. The brilliant (that is what I think of her after having read several of her pieces) journalist who writes for The Guardian serves a refreshing, tongue-in-cheek analysis of current political, social and cultural events.

Btw, if you haven't signed up for Lenny, Lena Dunham's amazing feminist newsletter you need to get on that asap!

The week in patriarchy: sign up for Jessica Valenti's newsletter

In the wake of Donald Trump's win - a tremendous political and cultural loss for women - I'll keep you up to date on the worst news, the best news, and everything in between to help you cope with ...

https://www.theguardian.com/info/2017/jan/19/this-week-in-the-patriarchy-jessica-valenti-email

A Heartbreaking Story

Get well soon, statue <3

Snow In Kyoto Broke The Nose Of This Tengu, Japanese Fixed It With A Bandaid

Tengu are supernatural creatures that appear in Japanese folklore, and this one looks really mad. And it should be! A rare snowfall in Kyoto broke his nose. However, the Japanese didn't want to ...

http://www.boredpanda.com/snow-broken-nose-fix-tengu-kyoto-japan/

Corn Popping in Slow-Mo

Watching corn pop in super slow-mo is more satisfying than you know

Everything is more interesting in slow motion. That's not an opinion, it's a straight up fact. YouTubers, Warped Perception, have just proved as much with a masterpiece of elegance: Corn popping in

http://mashable.com/2017/01/17/corn-popping-slow-motion-hypnotising/

A Novel/ Un Roman:

Cormac McCarthy - All the Pretty Horses/ De si jolis chevaux (1992)

He'd go to the kitchen in the dark for his coffee and saddle the horse at daybreak with only the little desert doves waking in the orchard and the air still fresh and cool and he and the stallion would come sideways out of the stable with the animal prancing and pounding the ground and arching its neck. They'd ride out along the ciénaga road and along the verge of the marshes while the sun rose riding up flights of ducks out of the shallows or geese or mergansers that would beat away over the water scattering the haze and rising up would turn to birds of gold in a sun not yet visible from the bolsón floor.

All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy, Vintage Books, A division of Random House, Inc. New York

This book is one of the first presents I got from my husband. It took me over three years before I read it. Indeed, until now, every time I opened it, I was intimidated by the complexity of McCarthy's writing. Even now, after years of exposure to the English language, this novel was a bit of a challenge to me. In fact, the absence of quotes to indicate dialogue and the omnipresence of Spanish might make it an arduous read even to English speakers.

But it was a challenge worth accepting. All the Pretty Horses is a great work of American lyricism that conveys a sense of freedom and beauty that is unique among its kind. The language wavers between pretenseless dialogue that grounds the novel in a straightforward reality and deeply elaborate, soulful descriptive sentences (many of which are half-a-page long) that allow for a wistful poetic mood to take over the reader.

A few words about the story now: at the death of his grandfather, 16-year-old John Grady Cole hopes to take over the ranch he left behind. Unfortunately, John Grady's mother is unsatisfied with life on a ranch and makes arrangements to sell it. As a consequence, John Grady decides to set off to a place where his skills can be put to better use and he can keep living his cowboy way of life. He settles his mind on Mexico and starts riding South with his friend Lacey Rawlins. On the way, they meet a very young traveler on a horse so beautiful that they suspect it is stolen. Unsurprisingly, this boy will prove himself to be an agent of disorder that will send our two main characters on a series of misadventures that are related with both great patience and fierce abruptness by the author.

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Ce livre est un des premiers cadeaux que j'ai reçu de mon mari. Il m'a fallu plus de trois ans avant que j'ose le lire. En effet, jusqu'ici j'ai été trop intimidée par la complexité de l’écriture de McCarthy pour me lancer. Même maintenant, après des années d'exposition à la langue anglaise, la lecture de ce roman a été pour moi un challenge. D'ailleurs, l'absence de guillemets et l’omniprésence de dialogues en espagnol pourrait compliquer la lecture de ce roman à n'importe qui.

Mais ce défi valait la peine d’être relevé! De si jolis chevaux est une oeuvre d'un lyrisme purement américain qui exalte une certaine idée de la beauté et de la liberté. La langue alterne entre des dialogues minimalistes qui enracinent le roman dans une réalité brute et des phrases descriptives (dont certaines occupent une bonne moitié de page) aussi exaltées que sophistiquées qui font qu'un sentiment poétique ne tarde pas à envelopper le lecteur.

Quelques mots sur l'histoire maintenant: à la mort de son grand-père, le jeune John Grady Cole (16 ans) espère hériter du ranch de ce dernier. Or, sa mère, peut adaptée à un mode de vie rural, le met promptement en vente. John Grady décide donc de trouver un endroit où il pourra à la fois mettre à profit son savoir-faire et continuer à vivre l'existence qui lui convient le mieux: celle d'un cow-boy. Il selle donc son cheval et, accompagné de son ami Lacey Rawlins, se met en route pour le Mexique. Bientôt, les deux amis rencontrent un jeune cavalier dont le cheval est si beau qu'ils le soupçonnent fortement de l'avoir volé. Sans surprise, ce garçon agira comme un agent perturbateur, précipitant John Grady et Lacey dans une suite de mésaventures que l'auteur relate avec une grande patience et, simultanément, une abrupte dureté.

A Song/ Music Video:

Mai Lan: Vampire

Une Newsletter

J'ai déjà mentionné Les Glorieuses? Me rappelle plus...

Les Glorieuses l La newsletter qui réinvente l'information sur les femmes - Les Glorieuses

http://lesglorieuses.fr/

De la lave

La beauté impitoyable des langues de lave

Tyler Hulett présente " Dawn of fire ", une vidéo qui explore toute la beauté, toute la dangerosité lente et fascinante des langues de lave.

http://www.laboiteverte.fr/beaute-impitoyable-langues-de-lave/

Les références artistiques de Pedro Almodovar

Bon, parfois c'est un peu tiré par les cheveux, mais c'est très beau!

Pedro Almodovar : une vidéo compile toutes les références artistiques dans ses films

Le Monde | * Mis à jour le Un passionné du cinéaste Pedro Almodovar s'est amusé à identifier les influences de l'histoire de l'art, et plus particulièrement la peinture, dans ses films. Entre...

http://www.lemonde.fr/cinema/video/2016/08/18/l-influence-de-l-histoire-de-l-art-sur-le-cinema-d-almodovar_4984436_3476.html

Des gens et des canapés

Bah oui.