jeudi, septembre 27, 2007

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Pumice, pumice, pumice stone. We call you pierre ponce because in french poncer means to sand down. You're a stone and you're light, lighter than water. You're a floating stone, a very special stone. A house made of pumice stones wouldn't kill anyone during an earthquake. A boat made of pumice stones could cross oceans. A man can throw pumice rocks as far as fake paper rocks in peplum films. During the prehistoric era a naked army waving big pumice rocks could spread terror. Louées soient les pierres ponces!

mercredi, septembre 19, 2007

Maybe it's because of my german name (weinzaepflen - which means little wine cork) that I feel more german than french in the depth of my being, more french on the surface. I'm like a black american, or a black french who's never been in Africa, who doesn't even talk the language of his ancestors. I remember feeling like a stranger in the big family gatherings as a kid, when everyone (but my mother) spoke in alsatian. I have no relationship with the german culture (except my 2004 Lou étendue album on Karaoke Kalk, an excellent Berlin based label) but I can hear a german voice from an ancient era, where there was no civilization, no globalization, just the man and an undiscovered world. The Germans invented the hippies because ancient Germans revered the elements as Gods; and the new Germans never lost the link to these roots... (By the way, I believe that immigrants, by living enough time in a new country, are taken along the same collective unconscious as the old inhabitants. Even if they don't speak their language). The Germans discovered and revealed all possible connections between man and primitive times in a modern world... After reading the story of Eden Ahbez, the yogi and pre-hippie who lived on fruits under the first L of the Hollywood sign in the 1940's, wearing long hair and beard, his song "Nature Boy" is becoming much more than a 1948 beautiful hit, by Nat King Cole.

lundi, septembre 17, 2007

SONO UN INIZIO

gilles et clément


- Sono un inizio.

- Ricomencia.

- Sono un inizio.

- Ricomencia.

- Sono un inizio.

- Ricomencia.

- Sono un inizio.

- Ricomencia.

- Sono un inizio.

- Ricomencia.


(etc...)


To start again, or to start something new.

(This picture right after the Air interview for the Jean-Jacques Perrey film. Clément Chauvelle helped for the sound and Florence spread white flowers on the grass.)

mardi, septembre 11, 2007

adamites

I've always been interested in utopia. When I finished my litterature studies in 1994 in Aix en Provence, I wrote a 100 pages dissertation about utopia. It was called "L'échec originel" (the original failure). My idea was to prove that revifying the times of origin in a civilized world is impossible. You have many books about this; for instance, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, The Lord of the flies (William Golding) or The Island of Doctor Moreau (Wells). The Golding's book even shows that those attempts lead their adepts to more cruelty and less freedom. I'm still interested about it and feel like Spencer Tunick's naked crowds photos are not far from a certain idea of utopia. And when I watch this old gravure of the second Adamit sect, being beaten naked in the streets of Amsterdam, it looks like a hippie movement from the XVth century.

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The Adamits must have influenced the theoricians of primitive contemporary nudism, which is nothing but the most recent avatar of adamism. I hope that there will be a Nudist film festival in Paris one day soon, because a lot of nudist movies were shot and this is a realized utopia for millions of people. It's also something that could become an exhibition in a museum and I could be der Kommissar.

jeudi, septembre 06, 2007

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