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Aurélie Desmas AKA Aurélism

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About Me




Pictures ©Aurélie Desmas
www.aureliedesmas.com

My Interests


Photography ( www.aureliedesmas.com ) Give me a book to read, a boat to travel, a pen to write and draw, an ipod to go everywhere and have sounds in my ears, either a story or some music.
Give me a unicorn to ride and I'll be happy...

Music:

RADIOHEAD, Boards of Canada, Casino vs Japan, GRAVENHURST, Candie Payne, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, AIR, The Clash, TOM WAITS, Royksopp, THOM YORKE, Jeff Buckley, LJ Kruzer, BJORK, Pest, BAT FOR LASHES, Aphex Twin, PJ HARVEY, Max Richter, DAVID BOWIE, General Elektriks, SERGE GAINSBOURG, Vector Lovers, Mogwai, M83, Sigur Ros, DJ Krush, THE CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA, Archive, COCO ROSIE, Arcade Fire, THE CURE, Portishead, The Pixies, INTERPOL, Port-Royal, Tigs, ULAN BATOR, Piano Magic, De Vics, Hooverphonic, JOY DIVISION, Immune, Blonde Redhead, SONIC YOUTH, The Shadow Orchestra, CHOPIN, Saint-Saëns, Beethoven, ERIK SATIE...




Movies:

BIG FISH by TIM BURTON
ETERNAL Sunshine of the Spotless MIND by Michel Gondry
DONNIE Darko by Richard Kelly
The AMERICAN Beauty by SAM MENDES
The Wings of DESIRE by WIM WENDERS
Se SOUVERNIR des BELLES Choses by Zabou Breitman
Les Invasions BARBARES by Denys Arcand
A Bout de SOUFFLE by Jean-Luc GODDARD
Todo SOBRE Mi Madre by PEDRO ALMODOVAR
La JETEE by Chris Marker
Les vacances de MONSIEUR Hulot by JACQUES TATI

Clever animation things as well such as these ones below by Laurent Gorgiard:



L'homme aux bras ballants (The Man with the swinging arms) by Laurent Gorgiard

Television:

6 Feet Under
Curb Your Enthusiasm

Books:

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Kundera
House of Sleeping Beauties by Kawabata
The Trial by Kafka

Extremely Loud And Incredibely Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski

Anything by Romain Gary (favourites being Les cerfs-volants and Europa)
L'étranger by Albert Camus
Ecrire by Marguerite Duras
Le trésor des humbles by Maurice Maeterlinck
Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Heroes:

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Corto Maltese, Mark Rothko, The Cheshire Cat, Francis Bacon, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Dora Maar, Man Ray, Grand dad and all those people who never give up their dreams




My Blog

Portrait chinois

Si j'étais un poisson : je serai une murène (glamour et vérité ne font pas toujours bon ménage) Si j'étais un type de paysage : un reg Si j'étais un arbre : un aulne Si j'étais une peinture célè...
Posted by Aurélie Desmas AKA Aurélism on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:47:00 PST

Where I end and you begin

How come I end up where I started? ///  There are two colours in my head ///   I'll laugh until my head comes off   ///   Watch me fall like dominos ///   ...
Posted by Aurélie Desmas AKA Aurélism on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:07:00 PST

Hide and Sick

Look... Look... Look... Watch out where it might be now... Maybe here or there, anywhere and everywhere......
Posted by Aurélie Desmas AKA Aurélism on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:23:00 PST

Le vent nous portera

June, 2ndIt was Mother's Day last year in France. The sun was high in the sky when I heard his voice on the phone. I knew it would be him who would call. Even though we hardly ever speaki s; we are to...
Posted by Aurélie Desmas AKA Aurélism on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:20:00 PST

Drawning

Le petit Prince a dit : « Dessine-moi un mouton... - Je suis en retard, en retard, j'ai rendez-vous quelque part, lui répondit le lapin blanc. Va te faire foutre avec ton mouton, tu n'as qu'à demande...
Posted by Aurélie Desmas AKA Aurélism on Tue, 27 May 2008 09:35:00 PST

Recipe

Pupa Puppet (serves 1)Ingredients:1 self-doubting young lady1 cup of lassitude1 tin of chopped disillusionTiming: a few days to prepare, then from a couple of months to a life-long to get readyHow to:...
Posted by Aurélie Desmas AKA Aurélism on Wed, 21 May 2008 09:32:00 PST

Cherry Blossom Girl

Because it is the 3rd month | Because it has been 3 years | Because you are number 3 | And because so am I | Because of the cherry blossoms | Mon troisième est un poisson | The Russian dolls’...
Posted by Aurélie Desmas AKA Aurélism on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:16:00 PST

The way I see

About photography, as you might guess.Everyone agree to give credit to the old print photography technique saying that back in the days, photographers really had talents and were real artists. I am no...
Posted by Aurélie Desmas AKA Aurélism on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:27:00 PST

Les cerfs-volants (Litt. Flying Deer AKA Kites)

I hardly ever write things about books I have read as most of the time, I would not be able to do any better anyway. And writing about books is just reducing them to a miserable/badly written pitch n...
Posted by Aurélie Desmas AKA Aurélism on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:55:00 PST

Xmas time

 Over Christmas time, we all put to the test our wrapping skills... I have to confess I am pretty bad at it. I just hate doing this even though I like the glimpse of curiosity in one's eye when y...
Posted by Aurélie Desmas AKA Aurélism on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:31:00 PST