Thursday, December 31, 2009

2009 - A summary, top ten things....

A summary of the 2009 year in picture.



And to get in line with the annual top ten from Time, here's my personal top ten for 2009.


  • Movie: Pixar Up
    The 10 first minutes are absolutely fantastic in term of story telling. And I got my quote of the year: "I hid under your porch, because I love you"....

  • Galway Volvo Ocean Race
    In June, the Volvo Ocean Race visited Galway, fantastic atmosphere in town.
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  • Halloween in Mickey Martin
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    One of the best party of the year.

  • Irish seals
    2009, will be the year where I saw most seals, the first one were down in Cork in Union Hall basking in early march/april
    Then we saw one or 2 venturing regularly near Kilkee.
    Who's there ?

  • 90 years ago, my granddad was born, just had to celebrate his birthday.
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  • Concert: Mick Flannery in Dolans
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  • Snorkel with Dolphin in Milton Malbay
    On of the most amazing encounter in the sea, as i was training for duck diving in Miltown Malbay, a curious dolphin came to see what i was doing...

  • PS3 Game: Assassins Creed 2
    Finished it but still addicted to that game by now... have to wait for the third installment, now.

  • Obama election / French politics
    Big hope from the USA with Obama election, and at the same time in France... the left wing are left arguing between themselves in front of a media omnipresent president.

  • ASM 10th final... lost again....
    No comment. Congratulations to Perpignan.




Top ten Movies seen in 2009
1. Inglorious Bastard - Q.Tarantino
2. Up - Pete Docter / Pixar
3. Moon - Duncan Jones
4. (500) days of summer - Marc Webb
5. District 9 - Neill Blomkamp
6. The Wrestler - D.Arronofsky
7. Vicky Cristina Barcelona - Woody Allen
8. Fantastic Mr Fox - Wes Anderson
9. Where the wild things are - Spike Jonze
10. The Ugly Truth - Robert Luketic

Additinal interesting movies:
Bolt - B.Howard/C.Williams/Disney
The Men who Stare at goats - ??
A Serious Man - Cohen
Waltz with Bashir - Ari Folman
The imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - Terry Gilliam

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Reeling the years (2009)

Following the post from last year, let's make that a yearly tradition.

The idea is very simple and based on a simple question: Where was i 5 years ago, 10, 15 ...etc ?
So let's go back in time by 5 years leap...

2004
Location: Grenoble, France


My last year, in Grenoble, a very strange year indeed, between "successful" promotion at work ( project and people management ), both great and tumultuous friendship moments... anyway that's the year I've decided i had to leave my job in Grenoble, and go abroad to see if things are different; at the time I had no idea of the country I would end up.

1999
Location: Clermont-Ferrand, France
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In Auvergne, studying physics in Blaise Pascal University. Spending lots of time hanging out in cinemas and most notably in the Short movie festival.

1994
Location: Hauterive, France / Lycee Presles, Cusset
Failing the Baccalauréat

1989
Location: Hauterive, France / College Victor Hugo, Saint Yorre
I was not in Berlin for the wall fall.

1984
Location: Hauterive, France / Ecole primaire
France is winning the UEFA Euro_1984, and guess what everybody playing soccer, in the recreational area.
My parents now owns the local shop in the village.

1979
I am no longer the only kid in the house, as my brother just born in March, we're still living in my grand father house in Hauterive, Allier, France.
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Sunday, December 13, 2009

Xmas ... playmol time

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Les Arts Deco proposent actuellement une exposition sur Playmobil

www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr il etait une fois playmobil/

Je vous recommande de jeter un oeil sur les vieilles pubs Playmo....

Brickmania

Lego Smurf castle ??   Eva.... massive build Swimming in bricks ?