Can you believe this picture? Yes? No? Well, this shot is a rare view of Kabukicho’s night entertainment and sextrade center (well, one of its numerous streets). It was shot at 5:00AM and the streets are almost empty! This never happens in the “floating world”, except… in December! As the weather gets a bit colder, there is much less partying in the streets at dawn. Now you know.
On November 11th, 30 SECONDS TO MARS were supposed to play a soldout gig at la Cigale in Paris. The gig was cancelled and postponed to November 18th at another venue, l’Elysee Montmartre. It was quite a surprise a band that does arenas in the US, and did le Zenith in Paris a while ago would play such a small club (capacity about 1200). They are actually doing Bercy next march (capacity 17,000!), it’s going to be huge! Sorry for the cheap iphone photo, it’s all I got. Great performance, the new songs are promising. Can’t wait for the new album “THIS IS WAR” to come out. Their latest single “Kings & Queens“, a fixed-ride extravaganza, is a must see. Directed by Jared Leto as usual.
Coffee time this afternoon, at a terrace near the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Tricky just walked by. He was on the phone, thick accent I tell ya.
This season, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac is everywhere in Paris! Not only he decorated BHV (Hotel de Ville) but the Drugstore Publicis (Champs Elysees) as well! Once again, it’s a pop colors invasion, gorgeous. Bravo JC/DC!
The other day, I was invited to the “Prix BMV” photo exhibition @ Paris Photo. The photo contest’s purpose wasn’t to promote new and upcoming talents, it was a “gallery’s competition” for which only photographers who are already established and exhibiting at Paris Photo could get in and win some 12,000€. A way for the galleries to get some money back off their investment (renting space at Paris Photo, damn I hate business). In other words, not likely to see anything new and exciting, which was the case. The theme was so vague that you could exhibit pretty much anything from your collection. It just had to be “a unique moment in your life”. To prove my point, a couple pictures were shot… in the 80′s! Talk about giving the contestants a theme… Anyway, I shot this photo of Tonie Marshall staring at this dog, or the dark skies? She’s like, one of my heroes, from back in the days when she used to be in “Ca c’est Palace”.
An afternoon in the black hole, the CERN , that is. Large Hadron Collider beauty experience. Thanks to W.
On our road to Aokigahara forest (suicide sweep!), april 2001 with Koji, Bovier, Tatsumi and Sebastien. That’s the day I shot “Deathmap“, a four minute short movie clip for the track “Zoetrope apartment” by Loveform (yes, that’s me). Boy we had fun!
