Please, Sin #27

Watching the smoke dance out of a cigarette is like watching a girl dance out of her dress. ~D.H. Mondfleur

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since. ~Arturo Toscanini


(Artist: William M. Rittase, recalling the Félicien Ropps' crucifix)

There's something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that. ~Harold Robbins


Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast. ~Woody Allen

Smoke your pipe and be silent; there's only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb

(lifted from 'heroin-chic')

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray


Nonetheless, I was born to smoke opium. More precisely, I was born to smoke opium in an opium den.
Why opium? Thomas De Quincey’s description of it as “the celestial drug” is not far from perfect: “Here,” said he, “was a panacea, a φάρμ˘ακον νηπενθές, for all human woes; here was the secret of happiness about which the philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered.” This celestial drug, this panacea, “communicates serenity and equipoise to all the faculties, active or passive,” and “introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation, and harmony.” No one, “having once tasted the divine luxuries of opium, will afterwards descend to the gross and mortal enjoyments of alcohol.” Nick Toshes - Confessions of an Opium-Seeker

Epiphany is hard Labour too #22

Artist: Françoise Nielly.

Please, Sin #26

Christmas is coming. Looking forward the ceremony of the gift...
(Artist: labmassiv )

I put light in my paintings that does not exist in my country #26

Bruxelles, Gare du nord (nearby the welcoming angel over the peepshow)

I put light in my paintings that does not exist in my country #25

Bruxelles, Atomium.

Please, Sin #25

And remember that intelligent men have better sperm.
(Artist connoisseur of shades: Andrei Liankevich, Belarus, 2007 - Click on the shadowiness' power to be raised)

I put light in my paintings that does not exist in my country #24

Bruxelles, Jardin Botanique.

Please, Sin #24 (provided you share my political rules)

Posted by Julie-Jeanne: We knew that marketing is a natural child (a love child?) of psychoanalysis, notably thanks to Edward Louis Bernays who developped the former in applying the latter; Phoenix Corp - creator of the above-mentioned site - enjoys to cope with it and proposes in France a miracle hammer to smash up your timeless single status: pretend that sex has political ideas and that sex is better once you share the same votes.
For now the phantasy is for free.
This phantasy implies that ideas supersedes everything (Marx and Plato support this) and that ideas may purify everything (the Khmer Rouge second also this): Improving the species through selection was called in XXth century 'eugenics'. It is so much funnier in the XXIst century. Let us pray for the holy comeback on Earth of the libertine Messia along with his whip:


(Coat of arms of Marquis de Sade)

Les psychotiques sont des animistes comme les autres #19

Posted by Camille : The Sprinkle Brigade 's team has commited into a WAR AGAINST EVIL (bis repetita placet): the faecal barriers to reverie, the biological weapons of anti-diligent mines, i.e. the nasty revenge of dogs on humans.
Watch your feet.
Hazard is massive.
Collateral damages on happy morning and tired evening are countless.
Sprinkle Brigade is without fear.

Epiphany is hard Labour too #21

FORMERLY


NOWADAYS


Knight with flowers in the end of XIXth century's imagination (Le chevalier aux fleurs, Rochegrosse, 1894) and in the end of XX century's (Bansky). Being at (floral) peace is not an apparent modern option.

Les psychotiques sont des animistes comme les autres #18

Artist: poet Banski

I put light in my paintings that does not exist in my country #24

Shaerbeek. Noisy freezing crows - corvus frugilegus - ready to fly everywhere once they spot some potential food on our roofs (Click on the midst to be enlighted). Like my tax inspector.

Epiphany is hard Labour too #20

Artist: Varial.

Please, Sin #23 (but with a condom for the sake of Earth's climate)

A CLIMAX FOR THE CLIMATE

The world needs innovative ideas on how to bring both high-emitting and low-emitting countries to an agreement that can reduce gas-emissions. Here is a good one.

UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, has an anti-catholic idea: safe-sex (in its technocratic terms it refers to "environmentally sustainable population dynamics" & "population control").

The statement is as follows: "There are strong linkages and correlation between population growth and emission of greenhouse gases that cause climate change, and ... communities experiencing high population growth are also most vulnerable to the negative effects of climate change, such as water scarcity, failed crops, rise in sea level, and the spread of infectious diseases.".

Obviously, one of the leading and self-depressing idea of the UNFPA's report is that humans' activities pollute per se its biotope.

We know now how to limit intrinsic cow's emissions (a new garlic-based feed additive cuts the methane gas produced by the animals in half); let us hope the same requirement will not be applied to our threaten species, though we all agree to say that garlic is lovely.

But in the meantime, the UNFPA's message is clear-cut and i.a. shares Claude Lévi-Strauss' views: the current growth of the world population is unbearable.

Quotes: "Greenhouse gases would not be accumulating so hazardously had the number of earth's inhabitants not increased so rapidly "; "The importance of the speed and magnitude of recent population growth in boosting future greenhouse-gas emissions is well recognized among scientists, including the authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's reports. Slower population growth in both developed and developing countries may help ease the task of bringing global emissions into balance with the atmosphere in the long run and enabling more immediate adaptation to change already under way."

It is not sure the news will be correctly reported to the interested parties in newspapers and in the coverage of Copenhagen's summit (" The connection between population growth and the accumulation of greenhouse gases has barely featured in the scientific and diplomatic discussions so far.").

Lévi-Strauss' views in his time already upseted UNESCO's civil-servants regarding the harmful impact of demographic inflation.

Nevertheless it is worth shouting at it with the United-Nations' blessing: "Go, go, go ahead: coitus interuptus, sodomy, pill, intrauterine device, condom fight against climate-change. Let us climax for the climate.".

No Time yet for Serenity, even for a Brestoise #14

(Exhaling artist: Rita Barros , Last cigarette #5, 2005)

"There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper".

Camille Paglia.

Les psychotiques sont des animistes comme les autres #17

(Living wall: the Spanish Agency of the Urban Subconscious)

I put light in my paintings that does not exist in my country #23

(Bruxelles. Italian fashion-victim trying second-hand fancy shoes in Place du Jeu de Balle's market)

Please, Sin #22

(Bruxelles, Les Marolles. Click on the umbrella to note that Martine, in tiny red, is just under the motto...)

I put light in my paintings that does not exist in my country #22

Bruxelles, petit Sablon.

Belgium is mainly a two-languages country: one speaks French and one speaks Flemish.

«Brol» is a common word used in both idioms; it designates the sweat chaos you may meet or create in Brussels. It does not refer to a threat (‘brol’ is is not an overwhelming chaos) but to a fate (it is everywhere: in your room, in the pavement’s alignment and, overall, in the daily administration of Belgium). It is a state of (Belgian) things.

Because of that state of (Belgian) things, Brussels cannot bear the usual postmodern critics made to capitals of postmodern Occident in London, Paris, Pragues, etc, regarding the commodity fetichism, the reification of the living, the sovereignty of perpetual present and the fact that the Real is not only what can be reproduced but that which is always already reproduced.

Brussels cannot shoulder them as it cannot aspire to become London, Paris or Pragues: the ‘brol’ sooner or later erupts. It then brings impurity to any holistic approach of urban life (anxiety for cleaning, aligning, golding & for town museification).

Besides, there is a strong habit in Brussels for sticking on one’s -professional or private- window some posters, poems or slogans. Nevertheless, regarding the hereabove picture, to display so bluntly death in the windows of the town is unique. Death is part of the 'brol'.

Nobody knows to whom this skull belongs but it reigns in liberty among buterflies in Brussels’ appearances.

Epiphany is hard Labour too #19

(Artist: ljlife - pictures taken in Los Angeles, U.S.- & remember: "Burning ashes and smokes is good for your mental health")

2008 / ..., Credit-crunch got me #25

(Artist: Rob Sheridan)

I put light in my paintings that does not exist in my country #21

"Brussels: a welcoming angel over a peep-show."

I.Kipbustin, Andy Warhol & the e-Factory

(Click on the black borders to get access to the welcoming wings)

Please, Sin #21

"Je conquis ses piques

Effeuillai ses rosées

Et, la main verte bien que leste,

Je lui rempotai le pot-aux-roses"

I.Kipbustin, Andy Warhol & the e-Factory

Please, Sin #20 (but in French)

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Epiphany is hard Labour too #18

... and remember that "the days run away like wild horses over the hills". Or like exhausted unicorn. Click on the blue for details on the fatigue.

(Artist: Jean-Yves Lemoigne, series of Urban Legends)

Please, Sin #19

THICK LIPS OF MRS 'FATE'

"Like in Star Wars, Los Angeles DJ Matthew Roberts discovered recently his biological father was serial killer Charles Manson". DJ Matthew Roberts, "who was adopted, found his biological mother who said she got pregnant after she was raped by Manson". Details: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1230439/Charles-Mansons-long-lost-son-Matthew-Roberts-tells-story-Its-like-finding-Adolf-Hitler-father.html

Take your globalisation's guitar, remember the world-wide lyrics

(" Born under a bad sign.

I've been down since I began to crawl.

If it wasn't for bad luck,

I wouldn't have no luck at all.") and just swallow the beautifully thick lips of Mrs Fate.

2008 / ..., Credit-crunch got me #24

In a Madoff-mood 'cause your credit-crunched bank-account is vanishing quicker than your last love? Feel happy as NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 21, 2009 captured this unprocessed image of Saturn's moon Enceladus: "It shows the moon's south polar region, where jets of water vapor and other particles spew from fissures on the credit-crunched surface".

No other choice than to Tango with you or over you #8

Cette fois-ci, c'est net: en France, ce sera "over you".

L'Exécutif n'a jamais goûté le poil à gratter que constitue la Commission nationale de déontologie de la sécurité (C.N.D.S.).

Depuis sa création en 2000, cette autorité indépendante du pouvoir judiciaire, du pouvoir exécutif et du pouvoir législatif n'a cessé d'être saisi - alors que sa saisine n'est même pas des plus facile - et de rapporter les cas de pratiques abusives développés par les forces de l'ordre (police, gendarmerie, gardien de prison, douane, etc).

En d'autres termes, les cas d'abus de l'autorité publique se multiplient en France - Amnesty nationale ne manque pas de s'appuyer sur les rapports annuels publics de cette Commission - et la C.N.D.S. en a de plus en plus connaissance et de plus en plus en détail.

Or l'efficacité du maintien de l'ordre est un objectif qui ne justifie pas tout aux yeux de la Commission. Aussi regrette-t-elle, sur pièces, les durées trop longues de garde à vue, les contrôles d'identité au faciès, l'emploi disproportionné de la force, etc, dans une série de cas précis rapportés par des plaintes de citoyens.

Ces plaintes mènent la Commission à demander des explications auprès des forces de l'ordre mises en cause. Le souci d'efficacité doit alors rendre des comptes, ce que par nature il n'aime pas.

La C.N.D.S., impartiale, rend ensuite un avis sur la plainte et n'hésite alors pas à la déclarer infondée ou bien à constater les abus et même, s'il le faut, à faire des recommandations aux forces de l'ordre mises en cause.

Cet avis de 2006 en matière de garde à vue fait état par exemple de "l’existence de multiples dysfonctionnements qui traduisent une instrumentalisation regrettable des règles du droit pénal et de la procédure pénale au profit d’une pure logique de maintien de l’ordre public " et vaut son pesant de cacahuètes:

http://www.cnds.fr/avis/avis_2009_4/Avis_2006-54.pdf

Aussi dans un premier temps, le président de la république a demandé la réduction du budget de fonctionnement de cette autorité administrative indépendante.

Dans un second temps, un refus de collaboration avec la C.N.D.S. par les forces de l'ordre en cause a pu se manifester - avec le soutien du ministère de l'Intérieur: "la Commission constate la volonté délibérée de la part de fonctionnaires relevant du ministère de l’Intérieur, nécessairement informés de la démarche de la Commission, de s’opposer à l’accomplissement par l’un de ses membres, de vérifications sur place (...). L’explication opposée par la suite à la CNDS par le ministre de l’Intérieur (...) ne saurait être retenue"( ):

http://www.cnds.fr/avis/avis_2009_3/Avis_2009-23_complet.pdf

Maintenant, il s'agit sans détour de dissoudre la Commission et de transférer ses pouvoirs d'investigation auprès d'un futur autre organe présentant de plus faibles garanties d'indépendance.

La réforme est un cache-misère, celui d'un recul en France des garanties démocratiques offertes jusque-là aux citoyens pour le respect de leurs droits fondamentaux.

Il est important de rappeler que les rapports de cette Commission encore une fois sont publics et que l'information sur les abus est accessible à tous; cette information nourrit les plaidoiries des avocats et les décision des juges. Elle peut même nourrir des réformes de procédure. En outre, l'existence et la qualité de l'action de la Commission ont été saluées par les institutions internationales – notamment le commissaire européen aux droits de l'homme.

Il s'agit donc d'une vieille astuce (substituer un organe gênant pour l'Etat par un autre mieux vendu mais moins efficacement indépendant) que le gouvernement essaye de faire passer en douce. Comptons sur la vie politique nationale pour que ceci se réalise sans trop de gêne.

Communiqué de presse de la C.N.D.S. sur la réforme:

http://www.cnds.fr/pages/Communique_presse_21_09_2009.pdf

Rapport de 2009 présentant les huit années d'activité:

http://www.cnds.fr/rapports/Brochure_LA_CNDS_EN_2009.pdf

Epiphany is hard Labour too #17

"These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.

To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world's most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent. ".

(Artist: Chris Jordan). See also 'Running the numbers II' in the Elsewhere's list.

In tribute to Doc 40, one could even add: secret word is "Illusion".

Les psychotiques sont des animistes comme les autres #16

(Artist: Marc Johns)

Others: http://www.marcjohns.com/blog/2009/10/drawings-on-paper-towels.html

Epiphany is hard Labour too #16

At last the truth

(Artist: Agan Harahap)

Style is what remains once chaos put you down #4 (Kriss)

Vous survivez, certes, mais pas longtemps. A ceux qui vous manquent, ceux qui vous ennuient et peut-être même à ce qui vous habite.

Autant survivre bien accompagné et quoi de plus galante compagnie que le grésillement radiophonique?

Que, précisément, la voix sans le dérangement du visage?

La promesse d'une tessiture? La bouffée d'air pur un dimanche matin d'une articulation agile mais claire, la langue dans votre oreille? La rougeur d'une gorge abandonnée? Le souci de l'ironie dans l'intonation ondée? La palette de nuances infinie comme le souvenir des débuts?

Unique voix de Krisstale qui onda les réveils, les idées pas claires, calma les cafés trop fort, sucra les clopes trop matinales, qui remplit le vide des cuisines ou les absences des tables à manger, qui satura les sangs esseulés gonflant le ciboulot et ce que les hommes aiment y mettre.

Kriss (ou Kriss Graffiti, ou la Kriss), productrice-animatrice de radio à France-Inter, actrice, scénariste, (1948 / 19 novembre 2009).

2008 / ..., Credit-crunch got me #23

In a Madoff-mood 'cause your own rate of unemployment has boringly been stabilizing for a too long time? Take a rope or take a break with Ed, as OECD is not your friend today: "The economic recovery now spreading across OECD countries is still too timid to halt the continuing rise in unemployment, according to the OECD’s latest Economic Outlook". Need a clearer picture? "The jobless rate is expected to peak in the first half of 2010 in the US, but it may not be until 2011 that unemployment begins to fall in the Euro area".

http://www.oecd.org/document/9/0,3343,en_2649_34487_44083593_1_1_1_1,00.html

No Time yet for Serenity, even for a Brestoise #13

...

I put light in my paintings that does not exist in my country #20

("L'amertume papillonne au-dessus du café et éveille l'esprit du matin" I.Kipbustin, Andy Warhol & the e-Factory)

Click on the circle to vanish into the sober darkness.

Les psychotiques sont des animistes comme les autres #15

Artist: Posterchild, NYC, November 2009. Click on the S for assessing how the room fits your size.

Art in NY's subway: http://www.publicadcampaign.com/completedprojects/

Epiphany is hard Labour too #15

Yossef's Buck

(artist: Olivier Laude)

"(...) car peindre est-il autre chose qu'embrasser par les moyens de l'art la surface d'une nappe d'eau?"Leon Battista Albert, De Pictura, 1441.